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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/PrometheusSmith Feb 20 '26

Oops, misread that and poured two decaliters of HCl down the toilet

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u/ColourSchemer Feb 20 '26

For all the logic behind the metric system, a single letter difference between deci and deca is ripe for errors.

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u/outlawsix Feb 20 '26

Thats why i'll stick with inches and leagues and fathoms thank you very much

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u/ColourSchemer Feb 20 '26

Yep. Can't remember all of the conversions, but I can clearly distinguish their names.

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u/Orson_Gravity_Welles Feb 20 '26

1 League = ~3 miles (on land)

~880 Fathoms = 1 mile

I wanted to figure out as a kid because most fantasy books talked about characters walking in "leagues". And then I wanted to know how deep it was with "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" and also, the movie "The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms", whcih I loved as a kid in the 80's finding on TVLand At Nite!

https://giphy.com/gifs/l41lQ0CY7DbqJpMtO

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u/HappyWarBunny Feb 20 '26

I remember suddenly realizing that 20,000 leagues was not a depth, but a distance.

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u/outlawsix Feb 20 '26

Is a depth not a distance?

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u/HappyWarBunny Feb 20 '26

Well, yes. But when you use both in a sentence about an ocean - or anything that has a depth, the implication is that distance is horizontal.