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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Run the dishwasher in sanitize with like nothing else in it? Might at least make it acceptable in your mind
I think you’re right. I’ll do that thank you. Maybe extra detergent.
You can get dishwasher cleaner, to be used monthly on a hot cycle while empty.
Also, your wife should not do disgusting things. My dad put sandals in once and we shamed him for years.
Also take the filter out and wash it in the sink (unless yours is the filter-less kind)
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.
that I can remember
Well that doesn’t sound sussy at all.
Lol at all the people who want to throw out the whole appliance. Wait until they find out how much former piss is in all sources of water, what allowances there are for gross things in prepared food, and what’s on every surface in human environments. Earth is one big mixing pot.
Give it a steralise cycle and it’ll be cleaner than the counters around it, by any objective measure.
I am curious about the almost nothing else bit. What got put in the poo-poo cycle?
Edit: Psychology is another thing, and that’s valid I guess, but man I can’t imagine having disposable dishwasher kind of money.
what’s on every surface in human environments. Earth is one big mixing pot.
Of poop. It’s gonna be poop.
Human, other vertebrates and insect. Secretions and shed tissues from humans, other vertebrates and insects. Fungal spores and natural surface bacteria, mostly harmless unless you’re immune-compromised, both dead and alive. Other microorganisms, dead and alive. Mineral dust and microplastics, if you find either gross. Pathogens carried with the human secretions, hopefully all dead.
Unless you work in semiconductor manufacturing, there’s no such thing as perfectly clean. Even if you do it’s mostly theoretical. For most practical purposes the standard used is something like:
The contaminants are too small and too few to be visible. All pathogenic contaminants are dead.
And I think that’s entirely reasonable. We don’t really have a choice, right?
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.
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.
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.)
No, that’s how we do it over here, too, except the bowls are usually shaped in such a way that water doesn’t splash out.
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 separate 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 has 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. :)
Wrong isn’t the word ide use use, but it’s good to understand how everything works for when you can’t get by with just a push.
The suction force is noticeably stronger when you get the knack of it. If you start with a push you are more likely to compact the clog and make it more difficult to unstick. Try starting with a good strong pull. My rule of thumb is is it’s slowly draining, I be very careful not to send a push down when first putting the plunger in sand getting the air out of the cup
It’s again not wrong, and depending on what went down there, it might need that push to break it free, but best practices makes your life easier when it matters, not when it doesn’t.
Prepare for the worst type thing.
Other note, a common problem people have seems to be not having enough water in the bowl for the plunger to be doing much good. You can just add it from a sink if you don’t want to risk a full flush(or just don’t know the toilets flush quantities) and don’t want to risk overflow
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.
Similar to the blood-brain barrier, we have a kitchen-bathroom barrier policy. Tools for each space should never cross, even cleaning tools. So even brushes for the sinks are separate.
See, this is one of those inconvenient situations where us Atheists really lack appropriate and proportional ways to express our feelings about things.
“oh your fucking god” works wonders
…That’s genius. Thanks!
yeah, after a while i just started worshiping an obviously made up joke god just so’s i could get good blasphemy back in my life
For all that it is in truth far more terrifying, I freely admit that expressions like “Oh, in the name of False Vacuum Decay” just doesn’t land the same. It’s s shame, really. Modern scientific curses like “may all your Li-Ion batteries grow centimeter long dendrites in seconds” are much more fearsome than they immediately appear.
I mean, “may your tap water turn to dioxygen difluoride while you’re taking a shower” would make even Satan go, “okay, stop, just… Jesus, stop.”
Yeah if I start cursing people with foof showers I’ll get put on worse lists
What exactly is it that you are Asking Lemmy?
Um. What would you do? Sorry if it seemed like I was bragging.
Where’s my Lemmy Gold when I need it
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.
Lol came to say the same thing
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.
it’s part of our microflora that floats around us.
It’s just a social convention.
A mere faux pas.
- 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 😆
almost nothing else…? Cmon OP, you’ve gotta elaborate there. What ended up taking a swim with the turd stick?
For me personally it’s the “almost nothing else” that went into the dishwasher with the plunger that truly pushed the narrative into holy shit territory.
What, you’re going to run the dishwasher with only one item in it?
the bathroom dishwasher, yeah.
Thank you for my morning laugh (literally out loud at that)
Great title.
I would have used the opportunity to clean my toothbrush
