Hi! You can call me Mint, or Geek, or Miss Science Lady. I’m a fanfiction writer, grad student, science teacher, quilter and cook. I bake a lot, craft even more, and live with a very dumb cat, a pair of gay budgies, and 24,000 or so honeybees . Welcome to my little corner of the web.
Hi! You can call me Mint, or Geek, or Miss Science Lady. I’m a fanfiction writer, grad student, science teacher, quilter and cook. I bake a lot, craft even more, and live with a very dumb cat, a pair of gay budgies, and 24,000 or so honeybees . Welcome to my little corner of the web.
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I just went on a rant about plungers, how’s your day going?
“go off bestie”? Okay, I will.
This is a plunger.
Classic red cup with a wooden stick. We all know it, love it, and have seen a cartoon character using it to unclog a toilet. Right?
WRONG.
The image above is actually a drain plunger, used on sinks, showers, and baths. Not on toilets.
These are a toilet plungers.
Take note of the variations. Each of them have a flange of sorts at the bottom, either connected via a cup or more accordion-like tube. These are designed to actually get down into the toilet bowl where it flushes down, giving it more space and leverage to unclog blockages. See the example below:
Notice how the flange allows it to go deeper into the toilet to provide more power to the plunge. Sink/drain plungers are far less efficient and effective at the task.
Sink plungers can also have an accordion shape to help with power in plunging, but crucially do not have or need the flange that toilet plungers do.
To recap: cup plungers are for sinks, showers, bathtubs, and other drains. Flange and accordion plungers are for toilets. Notably, accordion plungers are slightly harder to use, but are more powerful when used correctly than their flange counterparts.
So the next time you see a cartoon, video game, or stock art depicting a cup plunger being used on a toilet, you can feel the same levels of anger and emotion that I do!
why does this have nearly 100 notes
Because with this level of passion, containment is futile 
The real question is why does this not have a million notes? This is information that will very likely, at some point, be incredibly useful to anyone who has indoor plumbing. Which is, you know, probably, 99.99% of this website’s user base. (I’m sure there’s someone out there using Tumblr who lives in a house built in 1850 which never got upgraded and they still have an outhouse rather than toilet.)
Twelve i swear to fucking god that this post had like. 3k last week . what happened
And here I am, just pitching a quiet fit about the CRAYONS IN THE CUTAWAY!
Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”
(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)
[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]
YES PLEASE THIS! I’m of the belief that some things become a problem for young adults/teens/tweens/whatever because they’re made illicit.
When we make anything ‘forbidden’, it attracts people who want it just because they’re not supposed to have it. They’ll go to ridiculous lengths to get it, sometimes, and nearly always consume it (drugs, alcohol, porn, whatever) in excess in case they can’t get at it again. Policing this is made out to be the responsibility of the community at large, and not only does that lead to family problems, it leads to finger pointing and feuding when bad things happen.
Conversely, making a supposedly 'illicit’ subject or substance accessible with a firm, clear warning and requiring consent places responsibility on the person or their responsible adult. If you walk past three signs and sign a consent form saying you understand that a biology exhibit will feature naked, preserved bodies with sexual organs on display and a variety of dissections available for view, it’s no one’s fault but yours if you are upset by this. You can throw all the fits you want, but the onus is on YOU.
Short version: I need a brain MRI due to ongoing and unexplained problems. My out of pocket is going to be at least $750. I don’t have steady income in the summer (teacher!) and don’t have that much extra in my budget. I need help.
I have no masses, no bleeds, no midline shift or anything worrying.
What I do have is mild to moderate maxillary and ethmoid sinusitis, with some additional, much milder frontal sinusitis. It makes sense that the course of antibiotics helped with the migraine part of the problem, but the yech remains. I’m on a program of nasal rinses and sprays, and we’ll come back to look at it again in August.
Thank you thank you thank you to the people who donated. My fees were 100% covered, and I have enough overage to cover replacing my sinus rinse bottle (every three month’s, y'all), get a supply of the solution mix, and to pick up 2 bottle of nasal spray and more painkillers.
My hope is to get things at least under control when school picks up again, but in the very least, I’m not having migraines anymore.
Thank you again, everyone who reached out with donations, support and/or reblogs. Everything helped and I appreciate you all!
How DARE Tolkien omit in the final draft the information that the traditional hobbit marriage custom is to have unspoken vibes for years and then disappear without explanation for an indeterminate length of time!?
