Plumbing with lead solder

[brass monkey]

with -

[Nightjar]

???????? according to Babelfish

Colin Bignell

[Andy Burns]

????????? according to google translate (though it translates either of the above to plastic in English)

[R D S]

"Great novelty or gag gift item that others will talk about for years to come"

Mmmh.

[R D S]

I might rarely have a chug from the bathroom tap if i'm feeling less than my best in the middle of the night. But I let it run till it's cool anyway.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Apart from thee and me and thee's looking a bit ropey...

[Dave Plowman (News)]

If you have a storage system, the bathroom basin tap should be off the mains - same as the kitchen - since it is often a source of water to be drunk or for cleaning teeth etc.

[Nightjar]

My knowledge of Greek is limited to a few polite phrases and an ability to read it phonetically - which is quite useful when driving and you need to know which places are shown on the road signs. However, I suspect one of them has translated it as a noun and the other as an adjective.

Colin Bignell

[John Rumm]

When I initially saw that, I thought he was just having a laugh by literal substitution of the nearest Greek letter sound for "plastic"... ;-)

[Nightjar]

either of

I suspect he was, but it got me curious.

Colin Bignell