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That's just wrong on oh so many levels. (first! edit sorry!)
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Fist!
I always get dopey suggestions like that
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People who think Google is some kind of natural-language parser make baby robo-Jesus cry.
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note: the search with 'hose' yeilds 259k results, while with 'horse' it yeilds 517k..
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Now if it suggested "How to hook up a whore to a kitchen sink" I would be all over that.
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Actually, being the dirty old man that I am, I just HAD to try this in google image search.
I was quite disappointed.
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should've quoted.
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My mom had a lot of horses. The property had a lot of mango trees. The two didn't always mix. Horses will eat stuff which gives them the bloat or stomach cramps, and then lay down and start rolling. When they do this, they can twist their intestines around and get a blockage. This is fatal in a relatively short time. The solution to this is sometimes to jam a big needle into their side, all the way into their gut, to release the gas. Sometimes you have to irrigate their colon to try to help unblock something.
My mom had to do this and I remember her inserting a garden hose, sans metal end, into the horses rectum. That's pretty close to hooking one up to the kitchen sink.
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Funny, when I tried it, google suggested:
how to hook a house to a kitchen sink
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Maybe Nitro was Christian K's horse and he had all that part figured out and now, since he had no spigots, needed to figure out how to hook the hose up to the kitchen sink.
In this scenario, Google made the correct suggestion.
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Those of us who had a non-sissified up-bringing (:P) know that if you unscrew the aerator cap on the faucet, there is threading that you can screw the hose onto. Of course, most faucets these days use the tighter threading found on bathroom faucets, so you need to go to the hardware store and get a simple adapter to convert from the aerator threading to the hose threading.
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I really don't see the WTF, or the error at all.
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That's interesting, what country (or part of) are you from? I grew up on farms in Kentucky, living in 3 different generations of farm houses, and I've done plumbing, electrical, and construction on the side for 25 years and I've never seen a kitchen faucet that you could directly screw a hose to.
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If I told you that the apposite captcha was 'stinky' would I die in flames?
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Shame on you! Colonel Sherman Potter would have a word with you for placing the insignificant pollution of water source above the stomach problems of those noble animals!
By the way, my c4ptch4 was ,,tastey"
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Damn, you just beat me to this horse name suggestion. But Nitro seems to be too short for horse name. What about ,,Cornwall Nitro"? Or "Lucky Number Nitro"?
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No, horse-shit in your water is just disgusting. Sheep-shit in your water is baaaaaaaaad! :-)
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I used to do carpet cleaning in my off-time during college and we would often have to hook the water up to the kitchen sink if they did not have an outside water source. Many sinks have a part on the bottom you just unscrew and plug in a universal part that has threads for a hose. I dont know if sinks today have that anymore - plus most have the pullout faucets
I'm from New England if that matters.
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...but if you want to make it drink, hooking it up to the mains water supply should do the job.
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Two words....Duct Tape! Of course you will have that nasty adhesive residue left behind on your kitchen faucet, but at least you will have a clean car.
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No, not directly to, you have to get an adapter. here I used to see this often in trailers when I used to install kitchen appliances.
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You can hook up a horse to the kitchen sink, you just can't make it drink the soapy water.
captcha: tastey (not!!)
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Certainly, that would quiet the neigh-sayers.
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Guess no one here has ever filled a waterbed..
Any place that sells waterbed stuff (Walmart, target included) will also carry the adapters to hook up a standard garden hose to your normal house facets.
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Agreed. I've never seen a kitchen faucet threaded such that a hose can be directly attached. Hose bibs are typically 3/4" hose thread, whereas a faucet can be any of a number of sizes. For example, it could be 13/16", 15/16", or even the mind-numbing 55/64".
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I believe there is an instructional video out there called "Black Snake Moan".
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That's not really that big a wtf.
Horse IS close to hose in spelling and automated services knows nothing about reality. :P
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Heh, that's funny. Suppose I have a word, and I'm not sure which one of two ways it's spelled... whichever wins a GoogleFight is probably right. I call it "collaborative spellcheck".
Apparently not so good for whole sentences, though.
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IIRC, building codes in most parts of the US mandate non-return valves be installed inline with any outdoor spigots.
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Worse than failure!? Now that's strange...
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Remind me to never get horses....
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On the other hand, you can get aerators for hose bibs. I have a set tub in my basement with a hose bib for a faucet, and it has such an aerator, as the overly-enthusiastic unaerated stream tended to splash out of the tub.
If your kitchen sink were supplied with hose bibs rather than proper kitchen faucets, then you could unscrew an aerator and attach a hose. And I imagine that if you had that sort of kitchen sink, you'd probably have plenty of reasons for doing so. [Insert Jeff Foxworthy-style "humorous" reference to the doings of the unsophisticated classes here.]
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Sheep puns are baaaaaaaaad. ;)
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but have you ever seen a kitchen faucet that can be directly attached to a horse?
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Hey hey, here's a delight from German Google:
[image]Conclusion? A horse, that's nothing ...
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FWIW, a solution to the hose/sink interface: T junction, toilet pigtail, 1/4 turn faucet, another pigtail, a hose adapter, a hose, and a few zip ties. http://bronson.rinspin.com/gallery/v/boston/bostuff/garden/IMG_2808.JPG.html
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http://bronson.rinspin.com/gallery/v/boston/bostuff/garden/IMG_2808.JPG.html
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I grew up in upstate New York. Just to make sure I wasn't crazy, I talked to a couple of my siblings, and they also remember the kitchen sinks (and the set tub in the garage, though that's probably less surprising) in all of our houses (we moved a lot) being hose-ready.
It's probably one of those regional things. Certainly down here in Texas I've never seen a kitchen faucet like that. Again, though, you can get an adaptor.
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Solving the age-old problem of how to get the horse to drink.
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Years ago I used a water bed sink adapter to hookup a hose to the sink.
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Funny thing, I read the original search saying "horse" without having a glance to the google suggestion. Maybe I should go to sleep already...
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Reminds me of some other google search results or suggested alternatives.
"French Military Victories"
used to return with a suggestion
Did you mean " French Military Defeats"
A search for "weapons of massdestruction" (yes without the space. Has been archived on a site to display what originally came up, what looked like an error page, but with some interesting text replaced.
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Yeah, I tried something like that once. It didn't exactly work that well. Turns out tape isn't very waterproof. And it doesn't hold up to water pressure. It did help me mop the kitchen floor though...
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Sometimes it just seems like Google's mind's in the gutter.
A friend of mine did a search on Google Finland for the swedish word "lövsågning" = "jigsawing". Apparently bored by the subject, Google merrily suggested "avsugning" = "blowjob".
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In the swiss google it sugests "house" as a replacement.
http://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&q=how+to+hook+up+a+hose+to+a+kitchen+sink&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=