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Lol the random toilet (midwest.social)
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[-] rem26_art@fedia.io 45 points 1 month ago

those random toilets are real and absolutely wild to see if you're not from the midwest

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 27 points 1 month ago

My grandpa's open air basement toilet had a brick on the lid to keep rats from getting in. The rare times I had to use it I was always so scared of a rat showing up and half the time I couldn't even go because of it

[-] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

this is me but spiders

[-] satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

To keep rats from entering the house via sewer lines or to keep rats from climbing in the toilet and drowning? I really need to know more about this open air basement

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

Keep them from entering the house from the sewer. That's what I was always told at any rate; the house and town were old enough it seems plausible. The house's driveway side door opened to the kitchen and on the right was a wood staircase. Right near the base of the staircase barely out of direct sight when entering the side door is where the toilet was just hanging out near a support beam not even against a wall. There wasn't a sink down there you had to go back up the stairs to the kitchen to wash your hands.

[-] clucose@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 month ago

Maybe those basements are tornado shelters. Than you need a toilet at some point.

[-] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 month ago
[-] troybot@midwest.social 20 points 1 month ago

My grandma had one in the basement along with a "shower" which was just a spray nozzle and a curtain ring above the floor drain.

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I have that! But mine is fancy because it has a poorly laid concrete "basin" around it.

[-] plz1@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

That's an interesting piece of rust belt Americana, there.

[-] normalexit@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

I've had a Busch in this exact basement.

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 8 points 1 month ago

Farmer water.

[-] Sergio@slrpnk.net 18 points 1 month ago

I once went to a cousin's house in the midwest, and we went to find something in the basement. Fam, it was like the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark: stacks and stacks of Stuff as far as the eye could see... To their credit, it was all in bins and shelves with aisle space and fairly well organized...

[-] stinerman@midwest.social 12 points 1 month ago

Great uncle had the toilet but also an overhead shower directly above a drain. Right next to the toilet, of course. The floor wasn't even angled to the drain. He used a mop to push the water to the drain.

[-] dmention7@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago

I mean the random toilet yes, but those red metal poles...

Am in Midwest, have unfinished basement, have 2 red metal poles down there.

Every basement I've ever smoked weed in has looked like this

[-] P00ptart@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

sigh damn near got my basement down to a T. Minus the exercise equipment, obviously.

[-] chetradley@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Add a CRT with a GameCube and a couple of madcatz controllers.

[-] noxypaws@pawb.social 6 points 1 month ago

I wanna play sega genesis down there so bad

[-] McCrankyface@beige.party 4 points 1 month ago

@seahorse too much empty space

[-] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Could be from the Pacific North West if that ceiling were 3 foot lower.

[-] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 month ago

And if you could photoshop in the smell of damp dust and darkness

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago
[-] Scary_le_Poo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 month ago

Fuck me this is accurate.

[-] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Never truly finish a basement in the midwest. Bare concrete is a lot cheaper to repair when it floods.

[-] DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Don't forget the weed bong.

[-] seahorse@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago
this post was submitted on 31 Jan 2025
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