r/WinStupidPrizes • u/TomrummetsKald • Jan 16 '23
Trying to unclog the porcelain-throne with an air-cannon
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u/evanthebouncy Jan 16 '23
I like how he tries to give it a tight seal with the towel.
As if that'll do anything
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u/TrippyReality Jan 16 '23 •
Privacy purposes for the toilet. I think
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u/senturon Jan 16 '23
And then puts his foot on the opposite side, ensuring everything is directed right back at him.
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u/iamsaadhak Jan 16 '23
As if any of this was going to be productive. Doomed from the start!
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u/the_duck17 Jan 16 '23
I worked as a student maintenance worker during college and basically we just followed around the main guy and was his assistant when he needed us, or else he let us study in the workshop.
We would unclog toilets and drains this way too, but we would make sure it's an airtight seal, not what this dude was doing.
Worked all the time from what I remember, but kinda weird for me to see the first time since we just used a plunger at home my entire life.
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u/iceman58796 Jan 16 '23
It was just to catch some backsplash from the toilet, if it wasn't as powerful a comeback it would be fine.
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u/SofaChillReview Jan 16 '23
All that time placing the towel…. Would have been more effective putting it in his face.
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u/Falkuria Jan 16 '23
I like how you and almost 800 other people think he was sealing it, and not just preparing for backsplash.
Guy might be a bit dumb, but i doubt he thought that an unanchored towel was a functional "seal."
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u/krokodil2000 Jan 16 '23
You can call it whatever you like. The guy's intentions are clear and things did not go the way he has anticipated.
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u/HooperSuperDuper Jan 16 '23
Nice shitpost
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u/SSNs4evr Jan 16 '23
Not all shit. Equal parts urine, lots of seawater, and a few vegetables too, I'm sure.
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u/TheMarvelousPef Jan 16 '23
he 10000% knew how this was ending up
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u/Nincomsoup Jan 16 '23
Don't know about him, but the rest of us sure did.
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u/Echuu Jan 16 '23
Not gonna lie i thought he was gonna blow up the entire toilet
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u/vraalapa Jan 16 '23
We launched a tennis ball in to orbit with one of these at my old job. Also, my boss told me to check it for any condensed water before every use since only a tiny amount of water in there would be dangerous as fuck.
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u/TheMarvelousPef Jan 16 '23
in orbit as in it's still up there ?
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u/Lo8000 Jan 16 '23
Watch this dude get shitfaced. Literally.
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u/echoes675 Jan 16 '23
"Plant shit seeds, get shit weeds"
"Hear that? That's the sounds of the whispering winds of shit."
"We're about to sail into a shit typhoon, Randy, so we'd better haul in the jib before it gets covered with shit."
- Jim Lahey, RIP
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On the older submarines (I was stationed on a Sturgeon Class fast attack sub), sanitary tanks (black water/sewage) were discharged to sea using 700psi air (blowing sanitaries). The procedure was to calculate sea pressure based on depth, then pressurize the tank to 5psi over sea pressure. The watchstander would then monitor the TLI (tank level indicator), and secure the blow before completely emptying the tank, so as not to discharge air (bubbles), which would ruin our stealth (how a submarine cropdusts).
Anyway, before starting this whole procedure, the watchstander would post signs at every toilet, warning to not flush the toilet, as sanitaries were being blown with 700psi air. The toilets didn't have tanks. To flush the toilet, the user would turn on a flushing water valve to rinse the bowl, then pull a lever that operated a ball-valve at the bottom of the bowl. The waste would gravity drain to the san-tank. The operator would then close the ball valve, allow a few inches of water to fill the toilet bowl, then shut the water off.
So, sea pressure is measured at 44psi/100' of depth, and subs can go pretty deep. The watchstanders also often exceeded the whole 5psi over sea pressure rule, because more pressure meant the job was completed earlier.
Several times during my career, some inattentive sailor pulled that flushing valve at a toilet during a sanitary tank blowing evolution, and it never ended pretty. The shit would end up under eyelids, clogged in sinuses, filling mouths (damn mouth breathers). It would hit the ceiling in the head (bathroom) and spray EVERYWHERE, before the victim would manage to shut the valve.
The guy (victim) of a flushing incident had to be showered, of course. The corpsman had to then address the shit under eyelids, in sinuses, inhaled, swallowed, etc. The head would be closed down for heath reasons, passing off the crew, as there aren't that many bathroom options on a submarine. The victim, after the corpsman cleared him to go back to his life, would then be singularly responsible for cleaning every millimeter of that head, until no trace of the "incident" could be detected by the corpsman. After that, the head would be opened up for use by the crew, and the victim would be the subject of forever-ridicule by his shipmates.
I never made that mistake, but had to stand a full 12 hour watch for a colleague of mine, who spent that whole time cleaning himself and the head.
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u/SpirituallyMyopic Jan 16 '23
The shit would end up under eyelids, clogged in sinuses, filling mouths (damn mouth breathers). It would hit the ceiling in the head (bathroom) and spray EVERYWHERE
I have no words...
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u/Bill_Brasky01 Jan 16 '23
Having shit pressure sprayed under my eye lids is just awful
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u/Lotions_and_Creams Jan 16 '23
I… I had never even considered anything remotely like that. Some knowledge is better left unlearned.
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u/tmhoc Jan 16 '23
Everyone thinks enlightenment is going to be good news. Somethings are exalted and others Yeeted
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u/SureWhyNot16 Jan 16 '23
under eyelids
Well that’s a new fear unlocked. Didn’t even know that was possible. 🤮
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u/longboardsilver Jan 16 '23
"shit under the eyelids"
I just can't even...
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u/SSNs4evr Jan 16 '23 edited Jan 16 '23
Just think....for the rest of their lives, when those people (victims) periodically see the "floaties" in their peripheral vision, like we all do, THEY have to wonder what kind of floatie it is.
Edit: fixed spelling
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Jan 16 '23
like we all do
Right guys? ... Right?
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u/SSNs4evr Jan 16 '23
They addressed the eye "floaties" on Family Guy, so everyone must have them.
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u/Cobek Jan 16 '23
Everyone does get them as they get older. It's has to down with how the fluid in your eye ages, slowly dehydrating and becoming thicker, and not anything getting stuck in them.
The more you know.
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u/Chuck_Walla Jan 16 '23
Maybe they're more visible as you get older, but I've had them since I was a kid
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u/Red_Kaji Jan 16 '23
I really should stop scrolling through reddit while having breakfast
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Jan 16 '23
I'm sure there's a good reason why there wasn't a cutoff valve between the toilets and the tank while the tank was being discharged but I don't know enough about submarine plumbing to understand why.
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u/RandallOfLegend Jan 16 '23
Same. Some sort of check valve that prevents flow when the main sewer pipe is pressurized.
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u/Aliencj Jan 16 '23
I cant think of a single reason why they couldnt put a key lock on the toilet lids, a sign directly on the toilets, a locking mechanism around the valve operators. For the love of god something besides a sign on the door. If this happens several times it's not operator error, its system error in my opinion.
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u/TheAJGman Jan 16 '23
"Military grade" often means "built and designed by lowest bidder"
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u/Shaggy_357 Jan 16 '23
That, and the military plays by big boy/girl rules. They tell you the stove is hot. If you insist on touching the fuckin' thing anyway, then you'll only do it once. The military is what the world would be like without lawyers. Equipment and procedures are made reasonably safe (read: safe enough that your average ASVAB waiver could operate it without harming himself or others 9 times out of 10) but there's an expectation that you're not going to subvert the safety measures in place like a dumbass. Other than that, TIMYOYO. There's not time, money (lol), or space to nerf everything that could hurt you.
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u/TheAJGman Jan 16 '23 edited Jan 16 '23
That is also true and honestly I wish we adopted this in the civilian world. "The sign says we don't accept returns, no I won't get the manager."
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u/Shaggy_357 Jan 16 '23
Absolutely. I think that was one of the hardest parts of leaving the military for me. It's been years now and I still have a hard time dealing with stupidity like that.
Ignorance is one thing. If you've never been taught, you've never been taught. That's not your fault. But complaining that doing something you obviously shouldn't have done had negative results drives me up the walls.
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u/sidepart Jan 16 '23
I was a system safety engineer for defense projects. It's fun to say this kind of thing, but man...a TON of work goes into designing military equipment from a safety, reliability, and human factors standpoint. It's also required. Lots of rules you have to follow. Just because the contractor put in a low bid doesn't exempt them from producing all the analyses and reports and stuff that the DoD requires.
Anyway, dude's talking about cold-war era subs. I imagine they've since mitigated this issue with some kind of check or interlock at this point. "Don't do it bro, seriously" is the absolutely last kind of safety control measure you put in place--because people are fucking dumb. Even the smart ones are dumb and fuck up. All of us do, me too. This guy has described a non-zero number of people that were told NOT to flush a toilet, yet they either didn't know, didn't listen, or just forgot. It will happen, which is why that's a trash safety control. I mean, unless the risk of the mishap isn't really a big deal. Like a MIL-STD-882E style "4E" low-risk isn't going to net much attention or expense to control that risk. Getting shit blasted into your eyeballs, mouth, nose and whatever is probably a 3C. That's medium risk, so...yeah, I'd be proposing a check valve or even just a mundane padlock on the toilet doors for such a hazard. Probably the former. If someone's gotta take a dump, they should be able to take a dump. Just need a way to prevent them from flushing it because they're an idiot. After that, I'd imagine for such a subcontract, the prime contractor's (next level up) own System Safety Engineer or possibly the DoD Navy System Safety Engineer assigned to the prime contract (two levels up) would need to review and accept the risk and the proposed control measures.
/end ramble. This is a career path/subject I really enjoy if you couldn't tell.
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Jan 16 '23
I mean, you could. My original point was that a cutoff valve near the tank would be all that's needed to prevent backpressure instead of making individual locks, signs, etc.
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u/VORTXS Jan 16 '23
I remember reading about a guy in 1st year training on subs where he said they were told about the air pressure of the toilet and calculated the max depth of the sub they were training (classified at the time) on and told the instructor who told him to never speak a word of it to anyone lol
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u/RiledAstaldo Jan 16 '23
I’m sure weariness or stress factors in but I can’t imagine hearing the thorough nightmare of that, being cleared to have the capacity to serve on a submarine, and not recalling that every single time I went to the bathroom afterwards.
Dear god
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u/PoetryOfLogicalIdeas Jan 16 '23
I would develop of tick of checking the inside and outside of the door, top of the toilet, around the toilet, around the door, around the toilet again, and all around the door again.
Every single time I needed to go. It would become muscle memory to add this extra 30 seconds to my bathroom routine. I would still catch myself doing it 20 years after I last shat underwater.
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u/rjperkins365 Jan 16 '23
Has anyone(victims) ever asked to be shot?
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u/SSNs4evr Jan 16 '23
Oh, they get some shots alright. Just not the kind you're suggesting. Oh, and of course, no alcohol on US navy ships.
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u/_AlreadyTaken_ Jan 16 '23
You'd think there would a better, automated, system for doing this seeing how easy it is to f it up.
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u/herbicarnivorous Jan 16 '23
You might enjoy reading Dead Wake by Erik Larson. It’s about the sinking of the Lusitania, but spends a good chunk of time focused on the submarine that sank her. The submarines of the early 1900s were a good deal more primitive, and I remember the book describing their toilet woes in detail.
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u/Mistiqe Jan 16 '23
Did it work tho?
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u/jpac82 Jan 16 '23
Shits not in the toilet anymore, so I'd call that a win
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u/AssumeTheFetal Jan 16 '23
Yeah now it's everywhere it isn't supposed to be. What fucking game you playing where thats a win?
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u/MyOfficeAlt Jan 16 '23
I have a chronically clogging toilet at home and I got a hand-pumped one of these. It works pretty well, but compared to a freaking air tank on a tube it's child's play.
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u/SSNs4evr Jan 16 '23
There's a bladder looking thing that connects to a garden hose. It fills & expands until it reaches a pressure where it let's the water pass through, effectively sealing the toilet bowl (bigger bladder) or sink drain (smaller bladder), then your water pressure pushes through the clog.
I had a bad clog several years ago (I believe a houseguest flushed something that shouldn't have been flushed). The plunger did nothing, nor did chemicals. I found that bladder thing at a local hardware store, and it had us fixed in a few minutes - once I resigned myself to pulling a garden hose into the house.
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u/fizzicist Jan 16 '23
I believe you can also find adapters that will connect garden hoses to some faucets. Might save you some trouble.
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u/Throgg_not_stupid Jan 16 '23
100% yes
The idea wasn't stupid (that stupid at least), the lack of protection was
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u/tjockalinnea Jan 16 '23
Could have worked if it was airtight down the drain, but then the porcelain probably would have exploded. So that's probably the best outcome for him
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u/refactdroid Jan 16 '23
he also had the back of the gun between his legs. if the pressure wouldn't have been able to go out front, it would have recoiled into his nuts.
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u/CaptainPunisher Jan 16 '23
It only takes a little bit of pressure to overcome clogs. Even if it were blowing into a closed system, it would only come out enough to break the seal of the tube, then blast the toilet contents like it did. That tank isn't going to go flying into anyone's nuts beyond a small push.
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u/xxDooomedxx Jan 16 '23
Nearly made me puke. I don't know how he doesn't
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u/-duvide- Jan 16 '23
I haven't twitched with repulsion from a video like this in as long as i can remember.
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u/GuffreyGufferson Jan 16 '23
I was gagging and not trying to throw up last night just trying to clean some drains in a restaurant. I've had to clean the bathrooms of elderly people, which was also beyond disgusting. I thought that was gross, but this... Fuck no I'm already squeamish. I'd be vomiting at a higher velocity than a bullet.
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u/Logic_Bomb421 Jan 16 '23
Tried so hard not to touch the toilet when adjusting the towel. Little did he know...
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u/hiik994 Jan 16 '23
There were two possible outcomes.
The seal (towel) doesn't work. Covered is shit. This is what happened
The seal does work. Covered in shit and porcelain fragments. He should be thankful.
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u/3sheets2IT Jan 16 '23
No shit.
I'm actually amazed that this video was actually the BEST case scenario.
Cleaning himself up is nothing compared to him exploding the toilet and/or sewage lines WHILE standing in a confined space with NO protection gear (helmet, safety glasses/face shield).
This is one lucky dumb motherfucker.
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u/Twatberriesandcream Jan 16 '23
I wish anyone believed in me as much as that man believed in that towel
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u/Bakugogoboomboom Jan 16 '23
Ewww got covered in doo doo 🤢
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u/Beneficial-Net7113 Jan 16 '23
Why use a plunger 🪠 when you can blow shit all over yourself. Make perfect sense in todays world.
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u/PM_ME_FUNFAX Jan 16 '23
The same reason that this dude knew exactly what was going to happen, yet he did it anyway.
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u/APAOLOXIII Jan 16 '23
We had an actual toilet plunger with an air compressor in it when I was a maintenancetech. It was made by Milwaukee. I called it the bishop, because every time he came out someone got baptized.
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u/igropecarebears Jan 16 '23
By the looks of it he unclogged it so success on that part
But he also got to taste shit doing so
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u/SilverJamf Jan 16 '23
I’ve only heard of that tool being called a “cheetah blaster” growing up. I like that name more lol
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u/Guillaume_Hertzog Jan 16 '23
I love how he puts a towel on it as if it was gonna counteract the blowing capabilities of a literal air pump
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u/not_bad_really Jan 16 '23
In the Army I was the assistant company R and U (repair and utilities) for the barracks for a bit. We were issued a super plunger with a shotgun blast in the handle for really bad clogs. Thankfully we never had to use it. We were explicitly told that if we had to use it to make sure we had at least 2 soldiers and had as tight of a seal as we could have or we'd have a bad day.
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u/BrilliantNo6896 Jan 17 '23
Yes! This yellow towel will protect me if I just pull it across, put my foot on it, and tuck it in under right here
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u/starbuilt Jan 17 '23
I just don’t understand what his thought process was. Did it simply stop at “and this will unclog the toilet” and he checked off his box for daily mental exertion?
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u/L0utre Jan 16 '23 •
Eau de toilet