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60 buck monthly phone budget is something that will sound reasonable to the policymakers. "Food budget", however, is completely abstract and negotiable. People who never had to count what they spend on food will argue that everyone can permanently live on the cheapest food items they've ever heard of. Don't forget that according to Fox News, you can eat a whole Thanksgiving dinner for $10. It's dumb, but that's how they think, so you have to meet them there if you want to try and get through to them and make a difference.

As long as you live somewhere plum trees can grow! (Cries in taiga)

I'm not even sure he's funny anymore. I've looked at his official channel a few months back and it was... painful. Like he was going through stuff. I've never particularly liked his shock humour, but even that was gone, he was just kinda boring at best.

This sort of thinking makes doing nothing the only winning move. Can we just be happy for a minute?

Yeah, I'm saying they made it code because the doorless showers are the standard, not that putting door there would somehow invalidate the code.

I come from another European country and the law only requires waterproofing the floor + wet areas (shower, around the bath etc.)

I'm not saying it's not code, I know it's code. And it's code because they're all doing the open shower thing. Why else would they want the whole room waterproofed if not because the whole room routinely gets wet?

What if I like the taste of shampoo?

But seriously, doorless doesn't have to mean completely open, for example I have a glass divider wall in my bathroom, towels and toothbrushes stay safely behind the wall.

Dude, why do you think this is the code in Northern Europe?

Shower doors are difficult to clean well, shower curtains stick to the body, space is limited (problem if you're bigger), steam can make it harder to breathe...

Finns have figured out doorleess showers: they waterproof the whole room and equip it with a squeegee on a long stick. The floor is flat with a slight slope towards the drain. After you're done you just wipe the floor with the squeegee (takes 10 seconds) and that's it.

That's some seriously bad design. Taking out the stopper for cleaning is normal maintenance and shouldn't require specific skill to put back. Still, you reported it to your landlord, everything that resulted from it further is on the landlord. If you really broke it (doubtful) the landlord should have fixed it and maybe send you a bill (debatable). Leaving it broken is what caused this mess.

It's not possible to break the sink and make it leak by pulling out the stopper. The only thing you could break is the stopper itself. How long ago did it start? Mold takes time to develop. Most likely the sink was improperly installed and slowly leaking this whole time, developing mold underneath. Your stopper shenanigans probably just opened up some sediment keeping it all vaguely together. Make your landlord fix the whole thing, sink, cabinet, and especially mold. It's a serious health hazard.

Edit: rereading this, do you mean the P trap? Still, they aren't complicated, if three people couldn't put it back together it is fucked and probably already was fucked. Landlord problem.

Oh no.