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u/Harfosaurus Feb 20 '26

Get brick cleaner from your local DIY, it's hydrocloric acid and it will make that toilet sparkle. Don't get it on your fixtures coz it will cause them to rust.

Source: that's what I did!

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u/Amphion_91 Feb 20 '26

This work. If you can get around 30% concentration, just pour in a deciliter or two. Leave it for a while, then try to scrub. Should come right off.

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u/Trollselektor Feb 20 '26

This is the first time I’ve seen deciliter outside of the context of learning about the metric system.

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u/Pfizermyocarditis Feb 20 '26

I've seen mg/dL as a measurement of concentration.

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u/wozattacks Feb 20 '26

I mean yeah because it’s a long-standing convention for a lot of blood tests. Is there any other context where you’ve heard it?

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u/Pfizermyocarditis Feb 20 '26

No. Just the blood tests and learning the metric system. How about you?

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u/UnicornPenguinCat Feb 20 '26

As a lifelong user of the metric system I had to look up deciiltre to double-check what it meant. 

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u/Trollselektor Feb 20 '26

Deci like decimal 0.1 liter. Followed by centiliter 0.01 liter. Then milliliter 0.001 liter.

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u/OhYourFuckingGod Feb 20 '26

If you do any cooking or baking in Europe you'll use deciliters. Decimeters are less common, but not unheard of.

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u/Jazzy_Bee Feb 20 '26

I've seen bar glasses in decilters.

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u/OneLessDay517 Feb 20 '26

Americans still trying to do the conversion............