On 1/1/21 10:56 PM, Clare Snyder wrote:
On Fri, 1 Jan 2021 06:14:46 -0600, Dean Hoffman
wrote:

On 1/1/21 7:17 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Fri, 01 Jan 2021 01:01:47 -0500, Clare Snyder
wrote:
It's a "ghetto fix"

That's an obnoxious remark.

And especially here where lots of people are suggesting or using all
kinds of contrived, tossed-together repairs.

So what should people call an area where a lot of poor people
live? It's based
on an Italian word. It used to refer to Jewish areas.
This is one definition of ghetto.

"n, pl -tos or -toes
1. (Sociology) sociol a densely populated slum area of a city inhabited
by a socially and economically deprived minority
2. (Sociology) an area in a European city in which Jews were formerly
required to live
3. (Sociology) a group or class of people that is segregated in some way
[C17: from Italian, perhaps shortened from borghetto, diminutive of
borgo settlement outside a walled city; or from the Venetian ghetto the
medieval iron-founding district, largely inhabited by Jews]
Collins English Dictionary €“ Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014
© HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007,
2009, 2011, 2014"

By the way, there are a lot of improvised fixes he
https://www.jdjournal.com/2014/09/17/pics-ghetto-fixes/


" I taught McGyver everything he knows"

A BBC show, Weird Wonders, had a good example. Elephants were
raiding
farmers' crops. Most solutions failed. Even electric fencing had mixed
results.
Keeping mice on a field was impractical.
Someone noticed that bees will scare elephants. So people mounted
bee hives
around the fields. The hives were tied to each other by a wire to
wake the bees if
an elephant touched it. Side benefits included cross pollination,
honey, and
being able to sleep at night.
https://returntonow.net/2019/07/24/beehive-fences-protect-farms-from-elephants-and-elephants-from-farmers/