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seahorse [Ohio]MA to MemesEnglish · 3 months ago

Lol the random toilet

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Lol the random toilet

seahorse [Ohio]MA to MemesEnglish · 3 months ago
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  • rem26_art@fedia.io
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    3 months ago

    those random toilets are real and absolutely wild to see if you’re not from the midwest

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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      My grandpa’s open air basement toilet had a brick on the lid to keep rats from getting in. The rare times I had to use it I was always so scared of a rat showing up and half the time I couldn’t even go because of it

      • Golden Lox@lemmy.world
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        this is me but spiders

      • satans_methpipe@lemmy.world
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        To keep rats from entering the house via sewer lines or to keep rats from climbing in the toilet and drowning? I really need to know more about this open air basement

        • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip
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          Keep them from entering the house from the sewer. That’s what I was always told at any rate; the house and town were old enough it seems plausible. The house’s driveway side door opened to the kitchen and on the right was a wood staircase. Right near the base of the staircase barely out of direct sight when entering the side door is where the toilet was just hanging out near a support beam not even against a wall. There wasn’t a sink down there you had to go back up the stairs to the kitchen to wash your hands.

    • clucose@lemmy.ml
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      Maybe those basements are tornado shelters. Than you need a toilet at some point.

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_toilet

    • troybot [he/him]
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      My grandma had one in the basement along with a “shower” which was just a spray nozzle and a curtain ring above the floor drain.

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        I have that! But mine is fancy because it has a poorly laid concrete “basin” around it.

    • plz1@lemmy.world
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      That’s an interesting piece of rust belt Americana, there.

    • Mak'@pawb.social
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      https://youtu.be/nXUmUyKk0Uw

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    I’ve had a Busch in this exact basement.

    • stinerman
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      Farmer water.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.net
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    I once went to a cousin’s house in the midwest, and we went to find something in the basement. Fam, it was like the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark: stacks and stacks of Stuff as far as the eye could see… To their credit, it was all in bins and shelves with aisle space and fairly well organized…

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    Great uncle had the toilet but also an overhead shower directly above a drain. Right next to the toilet, of course. The floor wasn’t even angled to the drain. He used a mop to push the water to the drain.

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    I mean the random toilet yes, but those red metal poles…

    Am in Midwest, have unfinished basement, have 2 red metal poles down there.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
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    sigh damn near got my basement down to a T. Minus the exercise equipment, obviously.

  • LastoftheDinosaurs@walledgarden.xyz
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    Every basement I’ve ever smoked weed in has looked like this

  • chetradley@lemm.ee
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    Add a CRT with a GameCube and a couple of madcatz controllers.

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    I wanna play sega genesis down there so bad

  • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world
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    Never truly finish a basement in the midwest. Bare concrete is a lot cheaper to repair when it floods.

  • chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    Could be from the Pacific North West if that ceiling were 3 foot lower.

    • lars@lemmy.sdf.org
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      And if you could photoshop in the smell of damp dust and darkness

  • propter_hog [mirror/your pronouns]@hexbear.net
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    Accurate

  • Scary le Poo@beehaw.org
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    Fuck me this is accurate.

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    @seahorse too much empty space

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