Temporary. Provisional. Precarious. "Low Tech". Call it whatever you want. Homes, offices, warehouses, halls, vehicles… if something needs fixing and there's a lack of will, parts, time, or knowledge, someone will try to improvise and do a job of… dubious quality. From a technical standpoint, these patches are likely to work for longer than you'd imagine, and they quickly become addictive. Today we're sharing a selection of the best/worst cases.
They say nothing lasts forever, right? So why would I break the wall to run new cables when I can do the same on the outside with wall plugs and hooks? The same happens with plumbing. Old pipe sprung a leak and you have that damp stain on the wall? All you need is to bypass the broken section using heat-fusion pipes. Ordinary people call this "solving problems". Professionals, on the other hand, are on the verge of a heart attack. Granted: not all of us can afford their services, and across the pond they're particularly brutal in that regard (120 dollars an hour? Keep dreaming), so improvisation becomes law.
The real worry comes when that… philosophy is taken to the extreme, and applied even when it's not an emergency. We end up surrounded by strange experiments, everything works more or less, and creative hacking gives way to a horrible "patch on patch" mechanic. That said, I invite you to laugh and suffer with these images, found in dark corners of the web, and on the "There, I fixed it" subreddit.
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