Imagine if someone came to your house to fix your pipes , then stumbled around your thou blindly with a dyad of sticks . Now envisage if you visit the company they worked for whose repp said “ yep , sometimes that ’s how we look for pipe . ”
The Guardianreportsthat ten of twelve United Kingdom water companies take on to using water soak rod to receive wetting and pipe . Some angered folks are calling for regulative superintendence and penalty for practicing companies . I am cry for a giant meteor , since that might be a more cost effective direction to locate underground pipe .
If you do n’t know what dowsing is , you ’re in for a genuine treat : It ’s the human action of using witchery to locate something with reefer . When you ’re in the correct daub , legerdemain makes the sticks cross or wobble . It is a game of pretend .
I have tried to apply drench pole . They scotch . Because I moved them . With my hand .
The find was the twitter work of science blogger and University of Oxford Ph . D student Sally Le Page , whose parents observed a Severn Trent employee using a couplet of “ collapsible shelter pegs ” as if they were divining rods , reports The Guardian . I would n’t call Severn Trent ’s response to her tweet an admission—“admitting ” implies that you be intimate you ’ve done something wrong .
We ’ve found that some of the older methods are just as effective than the unexampled ones , but we do employ drones as well , and now satellites . you could notice more information here : https://t.co / zQKlQGl6no
— Severn Trent ( @stwater)November 20 , 2017
Other companies excitedly owned up to it , too .
Hi@domneill , although few and far between , some of our tech still use them ! But they are only used to detect pipework and voids that may be because of explosion or collapses!pic.twitter.com / UueOG3zj9U
— Yorkshire Water 💧 ( @YorkshireWater)November 20 , 2017
Only one company , Wessex Water , said they did n’t , while a northerly Irish company did n’t react to Le Page ’s questioning .
This has to be a gag . It ca n’t not be a joke .
How would you feel if your electrician tried to fix your conducting wire with a crystal ball ? How would you experience if a valet parker used a pendulum to find your car ? How would you find if your doctor tried to locate a tumor in your eubstance with a ouija board ? How would you feel if they hand you a bill for these service ?
I am not calling an expert to explicate how holding a pair of sticks , then interbreed them when you palpate like it , is an ineffective means to find water system .
It ’s not like the United States is any better — here , mass seek to heal their energy withstickers , put butterin their coffee tree to lose weight unit , and do like arsehole because , uh , stars and planets .
But wow . Just , ugh . Wow . Mnfgh .
[ via The Guardian ]
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