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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Willy@sh.itjust.works to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 75 points 2 months ago

Run the dishwasher in sanitize with like nothing else in it? Might at least make it acceptable in your mind

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 months ago

I think you’re right. I’ll do that thank you. Maybe extra detergent.

[-] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 17 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Also take the filter out and wash it in the sink (unless yours is the filter-less kind)

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.)

[-] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] IWW4@lemmy.zip 37 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 32 points 2 months ago

It's important that you know this: That's a shit puller, not a shit pusher.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] menemen@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.)

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[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 30 points 2 months ago

See, this is one of those inconvenient situations where us Atheists really lack appropriate and proportional ways to express our feelings about things.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

"oh your fucking god" works wonders

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 3 points 2 months ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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."

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah if I start cursing people with foof showers I'll get put on worse lists

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 28 points 2 months ago

What exactly is it that you are Asking Lemmy?

[-] Willy@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago

Um. What would you do? Sorry if it seemed like I was bragging.

[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] hyacin@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Good lord, they shared an amusing situation and made more than a few people's day with a laugh I'm sure ... chill.

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[-] snek_boi@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Where’s my Lemmy Gold when I need it

[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Fake your death

Grow a beard

Change your name

Move to Brazil

Etc

[-] HurlingDurling@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Buy a new dishwasher

[-] 0_0j@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Lol came to say the same thing

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 28 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] hansolo@lemmy.today 25 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Mora@pawb.social 28 points 2 months ago

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.

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[-] junkthief 24 points 2 months ago
  • 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?
[-] Sc00ter@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] junkthief 10 points 2 months ago

Skeeved by it, got it, thanks! My pedantry for spelling was overriding my reading comprehension skills 😆

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

almost nothing else...? Cmon OP, you've gotta elaborate there. What ended up taking a swim with the turd stick?

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago
[-] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

What, you're going to run the dishwasher with only one item in it?

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[-] hyacin@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Thank you for my morning laugh (literally out loud at that)

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 12 points 2 months ago

Great title.

[-] timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago
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[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

I would have used the opportunity to clean my toothbrush

[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 8 points 2 months ago

Forever unclean!

[-] Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 8 points 2 months ago

A few years ago I discovered that my girlfriend takes monster shits. She only poops once every 3 or 4 days. When I say "horse turd", I'm not kidding, just looking at one of these makes my ass hurt. Anyway, apparently this sort of thing isn't unheard of. I stumbled on a Reddit post about something called a "poop knife". I repurposed my shittiest chef's knife (pun intended) for this task, which has cut down on the number of times I have to plunge the toilet. We wash it off every time with tile cleaner, so it never goes in the dish washer. I've blunted the edge since it doesn't need to be sharp, and my girlfriend is a complete klutz. I can easily imagine her dropping it and cutting off a toe. Imagine having to explain to an ER doc cutting your toe off with a poop knife.

[-] sefra1@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 months ago

I personally would throw the dishwasher away, and before that, permanently damage it to make sure no poor soul picks it up from the trash thinking they scored a free dishwasher without knowing it was once used to wash literal shit.

I would never be able to ever eat anything from any dish every washed on that machine, but again, that's me and my personal emotional reaction to it. I understand that if it reaches 90C it technically kills all bacteria or something. But I would still refuse.

For that same reason I never buy used kitchen utensils, because I have no way to know what has be used for before.

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[-] Tracaine@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

It's called a plunger. I'm sure you likely know that but I assume nothing anymore when it comes to the stupidity of other humans.

[-] StrixUralensis@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 26 points 2 months ago

OP writes a funny title that make people laugh

You write a mean comment that makes people sad

[-] SugarCatDestroyer@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Wow, what a funny incident, I guess I'll keep quiet about mine because I'm so damn ashamed.

[-] VoxAliorum@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Well... my former roommate put the hair sieve from the shower into the full dishwasher. Like wtf. Sterilised anything by liquid fire afterwards.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

dishwashers are fireproof, right? you know what, only one way to find out

[-] Jarix@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Make her watch something absolutely disgusting that no one should ever watch without knowing what they are getting themselves into >!2 girls 1 cup!< and ask her if she would ever use that glass again to eat out of.

And that now that's all you can't think about when you use anything that comes out if the dishwasher

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