I just went on a rant about plungers, how’s your day going?

“go off bestie”? Okay, I will.

This is a plunger.

Classic red cup with a wooden stick. We all know it, love it, and have seen a cartoon character using it to unclog a toilet. Right?

WRONG.

The image above is actually a drain plunger, used on sinks, showers, and baths. Not on toilets.

These are a toilet plungers.

Take note of the variations. Each of them have a flange of sorts at the bottom, either connected via a cup or more accordion-like tube. These are designed to actually get down into the toilet bowl where it flushes down, giving it more space and leverage to unclog blockages. See the example below:

Notice how the flange allows it to go deeper into the toilet to provide more power to the plunge. Sink/drain plungers are far less efficient and effective at the task.

Sink plungers can also have an accordion shape to help with power in plunging, but crucially do not have or need the flange that toilet plungers do.

To recap: cup plungers are for sinks, showers, bathtubs, and other drains. Flange and accordion plungers are for toilets. Notably, accordion plungers are slightly harder to use, but are more powerful when used correctly than their flange counterparts.

So the next time you see a cartoon, video game, or stock art depicting a cup plunger being used on a toilet, you can feel the same levels of anger and emotion that I do!

why does this have nearly 100 notes

Because with this level of passion, containment is futile 

The real question is why does this not have a million notes? This is information that will very likely, at some point, be incredibly useful to anyone who has indoor plumbing. Which is, you know, probably, 99.99% of this website's user base. (I'm sure there's someone out there using Tumblr who lives in a house built in 1850 which never got upgraded and they still have an outhouse rather than toilet.)

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I know the deets of twitter and I quote the news historical From pandemic to impeachment in order categorical

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This is...even worse than I initially thought.

i needed to read this today so im sharing it to all of you!!

Important tags from @parsio

Went outside my fandom bubble and saw people being cancelled for shipping two characters who tried to kill each other once damn is this the limit nowadays

Trying to kill each other is a reason to START shipping characters

fandoms really need to have a think about how they treat (learning)disabled and autistic characters, in canon and headcanon. the eagerness to infantalise these characters, and especially to strip them of their sexuality, is alarming. why do you see this adult character and instantly make them a weak, childlike, sexless being? is it because you don’t see disabled and autistic people as adult people? is it because disabled and autistic people are incapable of autonomous thought including sexuality? because disabled and autistic people are weak and helpless subhumans?

it’s also not a coincidence that these characters are also usually headcanoned as transmasc. so you see a male character as soft, weak, in need of protection, virginal and sexless? feminine, right? there is a whole thing on the internet of infantalising trans men just like this. because trans men are really just women. like that’s what you’re saying. (life hack: you can be misogynistic to trans men if you don’t see them as real men!)

you have been brainwashed by society’s views of disabled people and the palletable online ideal about trans men. you are subconciously playing into ableism, transphobia, and sexism. please rethink this. you will meet disabled and autistic people in real life with autonomy and sexuality. you will meet trans men who are big manly guys who fuck and have never heard of dan and phil. it shouldn’t shock you. real people exist.

watching people on tiktok consume borax is uh. something.

having to say “don’t eat borax” was not on my 2023 bingo

@the-puffinry

Can’t believe in the year 2023 we have to say: do not consume borax. It will not provide a “parasite cleanse”, it does not combat the “evil fluoride” in your water, and it is not a super mineral. It will damage your organs. Also, it’s not rated for human consumption so frankly, who knows what it’s cross-contaminated with (my personal bet would be arsenic).

Absolutely love when I Google something I've never heard of and find the reason I've never heard of it is because it's been banned in the EU for safety concerns

Part of me is like, good riddance?

Part of me is like, what of they have kiddos?

Ugh

Just think of how much fun the funeral procession will be with a twenty mule team!

I know this is a real place but you sound like a skyrim NPC hinting at a quest.

the comment section on this meme is KILLING ME

Summer colours.