I had used it the other night and had to pull it out from the other bathroom in order to make it work. It was dirty and she putit in the dishwasher with almost nothing else, but I’m a little fucking skeeveed by it.
Edit: thanks all. I’ll run it again with vinegar at the hottest and feel better about it. No divorce. Thanks for your help.
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Make her watch something absolutely disgusting that no one should ever watch without knowing what they are getting themselves into >!2 girls 1 cup!< and ask her if she would ever use that glass again to eat out of.
And that now that’s all you can’t think about when you use anything that comes out if the dishwasher
A few years ago I discovered that my girlfriend takes monster shits. She only poops once every 3 or 4 days. When I say “horse turd”, I’m not kidding, just looking at one of these makes my ass hurt. Anyway, apparently this sort of thing isn’t unheard of. I stumbled on a Reddit post about something called a “poop knife”. I repurposed my shittiest chef’s knife (pun intended) for this task, which has cut down on the number of times I have to plunge the toilet. We wash it off every time with tile cleaner, so it never goes in the dish washer. I’ve blunted the edge since it doesn’t need to be sharp, and my girlfriend is a complete klutz. I can easily imagine her dropping it and cutting off a toe. Imagine having to explain to an ER doc cutting your toe off with a poop knife.
Wow, after all those years, poop knife is still a thing, huh?
dishwashers are fireproof, right? you know what, only one way to find out
Well… my former roommate put the hair sieve from the shower into the full dishwasher. Like wtf. Sterilised anything by liquid fire afterwards.
I mean, of all the things, a hair sieve really isn’t that dirty.
Your dishwasher uses soap and hot water to clean everything in it and the washer itself.
This is no big deal.
Trust me chances are nastier stuff than your plunger has been in the washer.
Well sometimes stuff gets trapped in behind the door seal, and mold will grow etc. You could harbour bacteria in the door seal. It needs a sanitize cycle and a good wipe around the seals … Probably needs that anyway, mist people don’t bother until the dishwasher starts smelling must after it has finishes a wash and dry
Yea… but that is something that should be happening cyclically not something triggered by the OPs situation.
I would have used the opportunity to clean my toothbrush
Divorce her
I tried to imagine loving someone enough to forgive this and failed.
It’s called a plunger. I’m sure you likely know that but I assume nothing anymore when it comes to the stupidity of other humans.
OP writes a funny title that make people laugh
You write a mean comment that makes people sad
- why call it a shit pusher? It doesn’t push shit
- why post online instead of just talking to her? Unless you’re doing both
- why did she not just rinse it off? What’s the point in deep cleaning a plunger when it’s going back into a toilet eventually anyways?
I’m a little fucking skeevee to buy it
- maybe it’s just me, but I can’t figure out what this means. You’re too skeeved out to buy the fact that it was ok to do?
Skeeved by the idea that the plunger that had poop in/on it was in his dish washer, where his dishes go, where his food goes before its in his mouth.
Skeeved by it, got it, thanks! My pedantry for spelling was overriding my reading comprehension skills 😆
What exactly is it that you are Asking Lemmy?
Lol came to say the same thing
Um. What would you do? Sorry if it seemed like I was bragging.
Fake your death
Grow a beard
Change your name
Move to Brazil
Etc
Buy a new dishwasher
I’d look at her like she were an idiot and tell her to use the faucet in the tub.
Note that none of the words in the above sentence include posting this on the internet or asking what I should do because I’m a grown adult that can manage handling minor annoyances on my own. I acknowledge that this concept may seem foreign to people under the age of 25.
Good lord, they shared an amusing situation and made more than a few people’s day with a laugh I’m sure … chill.
I’m sure there are appropriate places for that. In this case, an “amusing situation” was posted in a forum called “Ask Lemmy” without a question. Could we also start posting pornography here? Can we post recipes? How to guides to perform magic tricks? When questions are no longer relevant to the Ask Lemmy forum, when the first rule of the forum is no longer enforced, does any line exist?
This is the shit that forced me to leave reddit. I guess I should just stop using the internet though since everyone just gets to post amusing situations (in your opinion - I fail to find minor annoyances amusing) anywhere and everywhere.
Where’s my Lemmy Gold when I need it
It’s important that you know this: That’s a shit puller, not a shit pusher.
I mean, it always seems like it is pulling water into the cup and pushing it down the pipe at great speed to unclog it, but maybe I’ve been using a plunger wrong. I don’t really get enough of a seal around the edge to create a pulling force.
I see a lot of people having sink plungers next to their toilets. That might work for some things, but they might as well be using any other object.
When a pipe is clogged it’s basically impossible to push anything through. It’s stuck for a reason. The pushing motion might compress the clog somewhat, but it’s really the pulling which causes it to move backwards and hopefully unclog it. This usually requires a plunger that actually seals the opening, or you’ll have to push and pull until the water itself gets in motion to pull back the clog.
Another trick for unclogging toilets is to fill a bucket of water and pour it in a steady stream from as high as you can reach. Obviously start pouring from the seat and then lift the bucket while pouring. The gravity from the height will create a very strong narrow stream with enough force to pierce through or wash back the clog.
You don’t have to get a seal. You just push it in. Then quickly pull it out, push it in, pull it out, push it in, … until the water drains freely again. The pushing-pulling iteration creates enough negative pressure to get the job done quickly without a seal. But don’t wear your best clothes.
I always did it wrong, until a plumber showed me how to do it.
(Side note, this is for a european/german toilet. Might be different in the US, US toilets are just insane.)
Interesting. I usually do a hard push in, but release it more slowly so that the water doesn’t slosh back and get on the floor. The primary force is applied through the down push.
Is it really doing it wrong if it still works though?
If it works, it works, I guess. It didn’t at our case (clogged too badly, the previous inhabitant did some, weird shit), hence the plumber.
I did it like you did and then the shit water came up the bathtub several cms high. Later attempts changed nothing. Was a disaster. But the plumber went wild and it worked.
That is pretty odd that your black water and grey water pipes are connected. I thought they were usually separate so that your shower didn’t smell like shit.
That is completly normal in Germany (and most of the rest of this world). Only very few buildings have separate grey water lines.
A"siphon" or “trap” is why this doesn’t cause a smell problem.
Normally a seprate grey water line is only used, if the grey water can be used on the property. A separate public grey water collection system is almost unheard of, except in some scientific project related developments (there have been some research into this, but it hasn’t proven to be a reasonable solution, for now at least).
I might have to add that I am a civil engineer specialiced in urban water management. :)
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Great title.
It’s actually not a big deal.
Run it with vinegar. Full a bowl with vinegar and place it on the top rack and run it with the hottest steam setting. 100% sterile inside afterward.
If she ran it with a very hot heated dry setting with the plunger, it’s possible it’s all disinfected anyway. Lots of people used the dish washer to sterilize jars for canning. The steam from the drying cycle is hot enough and last long enough to pasteurize everything.
dish washer to sterilize jars for canning
Household Dishwashers do not sterilise, they only sanitise at best (with a 65° (150°F)). For sterilisation of all microorganisms including spores they would need to heat up to 120°C (250°F) for several minutes.
That being said you most likely breath in your own poop particles all the time, so sanitation may be enough.
Some sex toys are dishwasher safe, it’s not a big deal.
(I’m talking about the shitpusher, not about the croc. No idea why you included a dirty toilet in the pic tho.)
I don’t think that’s equivalent.
Many people happily lick the areas where sex toys are used.
Far less people would do so where toilet plungers tend to be applied.
areas where sex toys are used
where toilet plungers tend to be applied
I’m implying those are the same areas.
I’ve never ever used a plunger on a toilet.Fair enough.
I’ve never used one anywhere but a toilet or sink, that I can remember. How does one use it in the boudoir?
I clogged the toilet while visiting a friend’s house at 11 years old. Didn’t know what to do, tried to ignore the problem. When his mum noticed, she fetched me a plunger and sent me back in there to sort it out.
