Fit plumber here now.

[ThanksMsMay]

Would it be bad form to ask him to snake my drain?

(Although ds has already shown him "daddy's tool box")

Bloody traitor. It's not even my ex's tool box. It's my bloody tool box.

Ask him if you can drain his snake.

Ask him to open a window;

m.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ1H6Nsups

You definitely need to offer him a nice cold drink to help him cool down.

Then tell him you need your Chimney swept and does he know anyone who's man enough able to do it...

Hot burglar alarm engineer here now. Can't think of any smutty double entendres though ..

Niles!

Drain his snake feels slightly too forward.

Do plumbers do chimneys?

I'm sure there's one in it nearlyfree.

yeuch. Imagine if it was a woman being leched at while she's doing her job.

He's not being "leched" at though is he? I've said something silly on MN from the safety of my living room where I can't blush at him in the kitchen. He's not being sexually harassed unlike many women actually do at work. They lose jobs and friends but yes go ahead and make ignorant comparisons.

Christ, you really can't say anything around here without rustling someone's jimmies!

It is leching though. I wouldn't like to think that a bloke was making sexual comments about me online; would you?

So if the plumber is at the moment posting on facebook that he's with a customer and she seems to have a sticky flange fnarr fnarr; that would be fine?

I wouldn't need to think about it as I wouldn't know.

My ex is a very hot plumber

One women genuinely asked him to "check her pipes" wink wink

I had a fling with my plumber a many years ago, he was hot

Annie

Ah right. So it's OK to make sexual comments about people as long as they don't see them themselves. Weird as I thought the days of making such comments about people were kind of stuck in the 70@s. hey ho, must have been a revival

Did it start by asking him to snake your drain brillo?

Tell him since your ex moved out, your pipes may have been neglected and could he perhaps give them a once over?

• re the 'letching' comment. Yes, I know, if men were saying it about a woman then yes it could be letchy. But it's online, anonymous, he literally will never know. Get over yeself!

I want a hot plumber, I am very jealous!

There must be a way you can get "ball-cock" into the conversation....

He's gone now and I didn't even think to say ball cock. I am useless

Ungoogleable I couldnt tell the man that my pipes have basically now gone rusty and I've probably got bats living inside them!

There's quite a difference between leching over someone (making comments to them; staring; touching etc) and posting light hearted totally anonymous silly innuendoes about snakes and drains, strawberry. This is on the right side of that line.

Did you see the one about poppies Dan?