Flushable wipes are not flushable! These companies should pay to remove them, it was completely false advertising
Well, they are flushable, they just don’t decompose. But they flush! But so does my sock.
Decomposition is irrelevant. Nothing you flush decomposes by the time it gets to treatment (or the ocean / fuck the environment amirite). The main problem with these wipes is they don't even break apart. Their little sabotage trojan horses that corporations injected into out sanitization systems, and we continue to let them falsely advertise, instead of fining them for ALL the damages they cause.
Just the one sock?
Depends on his nutrition how many socks he needs.
Socks are very rich in fiber.
I guess I never considered the nutritional values of dress socks vs crew either.
I've got this great hiking wool sock. It's strangely soft for being wool. I bet it's pretty nutritious compared to that poly-cotton blend.
Here's how you fix this. We're going to dig up the streets and replace the sewers. The new sewers will be all steel. There's going to be flame throwers, and spiders inside.
Then, whenever one of these fatbergs exists, we'll just blast the flame throwers, and it'll burn it to nothing.
Problem solved.
So what are the spiders there for?
To eat the flies.
Are you serious? If these spiders can survive everyghkng becoming fire, I'd rather they be IN the steel enclosure, then out.
Eating flies. We've also planned ahead for lizards to eat the spiders, snakes to eat the lizards, gorillas to eat the snakes, and winter to kill off the gorillas.
Notable fatbergs
I didn't expect that.
How are fats, oils, and grease getting into the sewer system, though? Are there enough of those materials left in our poop to conglomerate like that? Or are those from industrial users on the sewer system?
Lots of restaurants and cafes pouring their waste cooking oil down the sink instead of paying a collection service.
That seems like a great way to plug your own drains.
Also, I was under the impression that restaurants could sell their frying oil for recycling? This is a weakly held impression to be sure but I want to remember reading something about it.
From doing dishes and stuff like that.
They come from your sink, not your toilet
Man, I'm an idiot. I dunno why I forgot for a moment that other drains exist lol. That makes sense, thanks!
Maybe you have a drain phobia? Mr. Rogers had a song one day on his show called "you can never go down the drain" which was supposed to stop kids who were scared of that happening... but until he sang that song, the concept of me going down a drain was not something I had considered, so I was terrified of it for years and had to jump out of the bath the minute my mom pulled the plug.
On the other hand, you're probably not as weird as I am, so you probably just forgot.
Huh, I know I used to watch Mr Rogers when I was real little, but I have few memories from that far back. But I also, to this day, get uncomfortable putting my fingers or toes near drains.
I need to hear this song. Maybe it'll trigger some latent memory and unlock some long-forgotten trauma.
Edit: Found it, no memories unlocked. :(
Put officers Minogue and O'Leary on it
I'm so sorry
Sadly this is pretty common. Here are some nasty pictures from a recent one in greater Vancouver.
Wow lovely! Who’s hungry?
Double fatberger with cheese, please.
I watched a video years ago where poor street cooks in SE Asia were "mining" cooking oil out of the sewer. They would refine it and use it to cook food.
Edit: It was China. I think I found the exact video, but it turns out there are a lot of similar videos!
Fun fact from the video: it's estimated that 10% of cooking oil in China is "gutter oil".
Hey, we said no fatberg shaming!
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