• BreadOven@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Had a really bad nose bleed once in the shower.

    I thought it was fine and sort of blew my nose a bit, and a huge clot came out. I had to waffle stomp it.

    Any device to help would have been appreciated.

  • rmuk@feddit.uk
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    18 hours ago

    They should make a device that removes the need for waffle stomping. Like, maybe a separate fixture without a grille and with an aperture large enough to allow the solid loaf to pass straight through. Maybe integrate some kind of support to allow the user to comfortably assume and hold a squatting position. Oh, and a cleaning feature to wash the contents away.

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      12 hours ago

      Away with your snowflake wokery. Your dad waffle stomped. Your grandfather waffle stomped. What makes you so special??

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      They could even put a little shower inside that seperate fixture to wash away stubborn contents that refuse to evacuate from the host.

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    When two completely separate sources collide to form a coherent end result I find myself amazed.

    Essentially, 90% of what is being said in the text comes from a reddit thread where a user tells how his wife once scared him shitless by blurting out, while watching television, laughing histerically, she would regularly take a dump in the shower, then proceed to stomp the result down the drain. The user had been noticing the drains had been somewhat clogged lately and had made a passing remark about it to his wife.

    The “waffle stomping” came from another user replying to the thread and I’m sincerely amazed how no references to “hot boxing” or “power bombing” are sprinkled in, as many users made references to how steam/moisture intensifies scents and smell, the reason which the wife had picked up the taste for scented candles.

    I came into contact with this story through a podcast that extracts posts from various reddit subs.

    To find a direct reference to it, here, through an AI allucination… I’m baffled.

    Turning off the internet for today, folks.

    I’ll see myself out.

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      16 hours ago

      To be fair this is kind of an interesting example of how something that is obviously wrong can actually work and also make long-term damage so nice

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    Really really bad idea plumbing systems for sewage and for wastewater are different in some countries and this could cause a lot of issues not to talk about the fact that the pipes for your shower are most likely way smaller than the pipes for your bathroom making them more likely to get clogged even if you waffle stomp it.

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      The real issue is that the drain trap is much smaller for a shower than that in a toilet even if the pipes are the same diameter.

      The waffle grid is for the exact purpose of stopping things that are too large for the drain trap, so theoretically it should be fine. If it passes the grid, it can pass the trap. However, the drain trap doesn’t clean out entirely every time. If you stomp shit into the drain, then the trap will contain shit until it is cleaned out. It will also smell like shit, which defeats the purpose of having the trap in the first place.

      Drain traps are disgusting enough without the addition of shit. Even in best case, it will accumulate hair mixed with shampoo and conditioner. I doubt that mixing it with shit will generate any kind of water savings, because it will require a thorough cleaning more often. Also, the main pipes actually needs a lot of water to drain. If by saving on water you eventually have to call a plumber to blast out the fat-bergs it will require a whole lot of more water.

    • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.worldOP
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      16 hours ago

      Well Belgium obviously developed their system for it from the ground up, while the rest of us are stuck with bad design decisions that result in the clogs.

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    Is it weird, that I knew what a waffle stomp is before reading the post? Have I done too much internet?

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    I literally cant tell if this is edited, if Google is being dumb, or if people 200 years ago really used the term.

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      Given the “how to use a Belgian waffle maker” vid, I think this is a plausible hallucination - I bet the waffle was invented (or the word waffle started being used) in Belgium 200 years ago. Or maybe the Belgian waffle maker was invented 200 years ago?

      From Wikipedia:

      Florian Dacher formalized a recipe for the Brussels Waffle, the predecessor to American “Belgian” waffles, recording the recipe in 1842/43

      Maybe that? Now I want waffles.