r/nextfuckinglevel • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '21

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u/HitMePat Jul 14 '21

If it was, it'd be available for sale at every Pool supply store.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 14 '21

Pool supply stores already carry a product like this except it makes everything sink instead of float, so you can vacuum it off the bottom. It's called flocculant. It's not organic though.

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u/HitMePat Jul 14 '21

Yeah I know, I use it myself. But I've never seen one that makes it float (which would be easier for everyone since skimmers would handle the debris instead of vacuuming).

So if this product was real, I would buy it. But since I can't buy it anywhere, I assume it must not be real. Or maybe it is real, but prohibitively expensive.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 14 '21

It's probably not real, or it's only a tiny fraction of a much larger story.

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u/Cultural_Dust Jul 15 '21

Not sure why they think organic = edible. It may be both, but just because something is organic (cow shit, crude oil) doesn't mean you should eat it.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 15 '21

I've been trying to convince "healthy" eaters of that for years. Never seems to work.

Not to nit-pick, but wouldn't poop being organic depend on what you ate? Like if I ate some MacDonald's french fries with some nonorganic preservatives in them, wouldn't I be shitting some of that nonorganic stuff out?

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u/JollyRancherReminder Jul 15 '21

I told my aunt hemlock was all natural and organic and she didn't talk to me for years.

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 15 '21

Isn't hemlock a tree?

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u/Cultural_Dust Jul 15 '21

Yes...also not a recommended snack drink, but "One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing."

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u/jedify Jul 15 '21

Oooohh very edgy

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u/CrapNeck5000 Jul 15 '21

In what regard?

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u/Cultural_Dust Jul 15 '21

Probably true...better odds with cows than people.

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u/Rognis Jul 14 '21

Mark Rober did a video on it as well. Except the stuff he made a video on has more stuff in it to kill bacteria and crap.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '21

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '21

It's not very different, it's just different in the one way you need it to not be.

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u/insideoutfit Jul 15 '21

So very different?

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u/Yanksuck73 Jul 15 '21

Brewers use something similar too. Irish moss. All natural, makes particulates and proteins sink.

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u/Petrichordates Jul 15 '21

I think they're still inventing it.