It feels wrong

Looks like a good harvest this year.

So we live on top of a hydrant hydra?
- Hydrants are the fruiting bodies of the water-supply mycelium.
It’s basically a mushroom. The hydrants are the fruit of the water network.
So what happens if we open all fire hydrants at the same time

Now, consider Diglet.

I learned this fighting the giant super mutants in Fallout 3 that used them as clubs.

Woah that's incredible
I remember this guy! First fallout game I played, my friend introduced it to me and let me borrow his disk for the PS3.
This is probably the first boss I've fought and in my memory it'll always be an intense battle.

And yet the phrase, "That's just the tip of the fire hydrant," never really caught on :(

The fire hydrant stops at the red paint. You can see where it bolts to the water main. The rest of the piping is the city water system.

Sorry, but that is wrong, the hydrant is that long so the valve can be below the frost line, otherwise it would freeze in the winter. The length depends on how deep the frost line is in your area. Here are some for https://www.muellercompany.com/water-works/hydrants/fire-hydrants
- It looks like you're right for at least a couple of those examples. That's cool, I learned something today. So what's up with the bolts at the base? I guess the valve part slides into the main pipe so they can easily replace it when needed?

They're the Digletts of civil engineering.

I can't believe they amputated that diglets fingers

Grower not a shower.

You think water pipes run twelve inches underground? Wtf.

You'd be surprised how many of us simply never consider even the bare minimum of the mechanisms behind how things work.
I don't entirely blame them, because the areas outside my knowledge you could wave your hands and I'd probably believe you if it's too detailed or advanced for me to understand deeply, and things closer to my area I understand and question more.
Quantum physics is basically magic to me (I'm trying to think of another area where I've never considered how something works, I'm sure there are many areas where I'm a dunce, but alas, it's hard to know the things you don't know you don't know). I'm totally happy with the physicists telling me: there's some wibbily-wobbly magic happening down there, and thus, in most cases you're going to come across, discrete electron energy levels 👍.
Thanks, I like your funny words magic man.
Though, in some cases, I think people's lack of curiosity disturbing. I had someone once seriously tell me they thought we had sent spacecraft to other star systems 😬. because they heard been able to measure compositions of atmospheres. That was a formative experience for me at the age of 19. That despite someone going to 13 years of school, and getting into a decently competitive university, they didn't know we haven't sent spacecraft that far.

They gotta reach the mains, which need to be well below the frost line. Watermain breaks are common enough from tree root and age damage, they gotta prevent them freezing as much as possible too.

It depends if you live where the ground freezes or not.

Southern hydrants are normal length.

Would you prefer it if all those high pressure water pumps were directly underneath the ground, one shovel away?

The fire hydrants are bolted on to the pipes.

The mechanism I actually the whole thing. These ones are designed for cold climates where the pipes are buried deep so they don't freeze. The valve is at the bottom so the vertical section can drain to prevent freezing

Then you probably don’t want to learn about Easter Island either.

Wait until you see a British fire hydrant...

Can you time travel in them?

Why are they blocking someone's sidewalk

Note: I realize the tone of my writing could sound judgemental, but I'm just trying to be informative and answer the question above ♥️
Major utility/roadwork is being done. It's not just the sidewalk that's affected but also at least a lane of roadway. Likely the driveway to the road has a temporary gravel apron. Since this sidewalk has steps there's no need for temporary ADA accommodations, which the homeowner would have negotiated with the local governing body before construction began. So if they need to walk somewhere they either walk in the grass or cross the road to walk in that sidewalk, if it exists. You can see the sidewalk has been torn up along with the asphalt
There should be more and better pedestrian access in the burbs. That being said, improvements happen in public easement, and it's not always convenient. For anyone
- It's nice you took it so earnestly to be helpful, but I think you got wooshed.
- No idea if you were wooshed but personally, I always appreciate an informative answer like yours. Thank you.
- Oh. I wasn't giving you a hard time. I was just thinking stepping out in the morning to walk my dog and seeing that. WTF?
Revenge.

they must be in a place with a very deep frost depth.

My guess is the area is pretty sloped. It's probably near the same depth as sewage, and sewage always has to run downhill (until it reaches a lift). This can cause some pipes to be pretty deep.
- Probably both, like maybe in Colorado or Appalachia.

Like that bugger that you thought was small then suddenly you’re both super impressed and disgusted

The one you felt behind your eyeball

Uh, what's wrong with long hydrants? I don't know about you, but I appreciate that my hydrant keeps working in the winter and doesn't get punctured when I'm digging to replace my sprinkler piping.

emmy is not so very bright but she made an effort with her profile picture. Someone teach her to read so she can enjoy all those sweet books she's missing out from

What tells you she can’t read? Just because she says she can tread?
I instinctively ignore usernames for some reason. It took me way too long to understand your comment...

Can someone give a better link

https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_meme_70/video/7184676846405963009?lang=en

What did they think, that hydrants just sat atop their own private little geysers, or some shit? Maybe the hydrants just teleport water to their location when activated? What do they think the water coming out of the faucets go through? Fucking baffling.

What in the dog dickety fuck?