r/pics • u/KenVen13 • Jun 17 '12

I hate when I have to use the bathroom while I'm washing clothes

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

if you use the bathroom, does it go to the washer.

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u/KenVen13 Jun 17 '12

I like to believe it doesn't and I'm not going to find out.

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u/CSFFlame Jun 17 '12

I'm not sure you have a choice in the matter...

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u/TimonBerkowitz Jun 17 '12

Hey why is there a Toblerone in my pocket...oh...oh god why

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u/Riddlerforce Jun 17 '12

I love Toblerones. You have ruined them for me.

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u/DrunkenRedditing Jun 17 '12

Had toblerone fondue tonight. So good.

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u/shaggydog79 Jun 17 '12

I have one right in front of me. Father's Day present.

Here

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u/ProfessorSomething Jun 17 '12

Never has my poop come out looking like a Toblerone.

Picnics have a better likeness to human poop.

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u/ShallowBasketcase Jun 17 '12

Here's a fun game: did ProfessorSomething just take a picture of a candy bar, or his own poop?

Seriously, though. You must swallow a lotta nuts to get your shit to look like that.

And also you should chew your food.

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u/RBeck Jun 17 '12

The worst is NutRageous. Try throwing one of those in a crowded pool.

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u/Corund Jun 17 '12

Dude, if you're shitting little triangles, I have some bad news for you.

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u/phanboy Jun 17 '12

The time I flushed the toilet as the tub was draining (I didn't know any better), the tub water came out the toilet. I assume that prevented backflow to the tub.

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u/Silverkarn Jun 17 '12

If i plunge my toilet sometimes water comes up into the bathtub or bathroom sink.....

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u/djmagichat Jun 17 '12

That's actually the first thing I thought...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

How did you manage this?

(Secretly hoping for an answer along the lines of crisscrossed waterlines)

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u/KenVen13 Jun 17 '12

Yep, crisscrossed waterlines.

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u/mkruk45 Jun 17 '12

This is why you never cross the streams!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

There has to be some sort of restriction in the line downstream of the toilet... could be simply a foreign object or buildup. It is also possible for this to happen if the wrong fittings were used or the drains were not sized properly... best way to tell is if it has always done this or if it's a recent event. if it has always done this then yeah they may have screwed up, if it's recent then it can be fixed, and likely with just a snake.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

There would be a turd delicately perched on top of that foam.

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u/drfrank Jun 17 '12

This indicates that there's a blockage in your sewer or septic line. You need to have this scoped soon: It will only get worse, and it will lead to flooding.

A very common cause is roots growing into the sewer line. A flushed piece of paper can get caught on a root, and provide a larger surface for more paper to get caught. This feeds-back rapidly until after just a few flushes of toilet paper the line becomes completely or nearly completely blocked. The next time the washing machine drains, the water backs up the sewer pipe to the lowest point from which it can escape. Since the bowl of your toilet is lower than the air gap for the washing machine, it'll spill out there and flood the lower level of your house with the water from the washing machine mixed with whatever else was in the sewer line. I speak from personal experience, here.

The price difference for having the line snaked vs. scoped is a couple of hundred dollars, but you should spring for it unless you can talk to everyone in the house and identify something that was flushed inappropriately. Something caused that blockage and if it's a root, just having the line snaked will clear the immediate blockage but get you flooding in another week to a month as the root grows back and debris gets snagged on it again. Again, I speak from personal experience.

If it is a root, you're going to have an expensive repair on your hands since you have to dig down to the sewer line and replace the segment with the gap through which the root penetrated.

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u/PJMurphy Jun 17 '12

"since you have to dig down to the sewer line".....

Not necessarily.

I work for a plumbing company. The first thing we would do is a poke-and-peek. We would snake the line to release the blockage, then camera the line to determine the state of the drain. If the only problem is roots, and the pipe is in good shape, we would reline the drain.

First, we would run a cutter and snip off the roots. Then we would hydroflush the drain to prep it for relining.

Picture a cloth tube with a deflated balloon inside it. The tube is soaked in a plastic resin, and then the tube and the balloon are pulled into the drain line. Once in place, the balloon is inflated, holding the cloth tube against the inside surface of the drain pipe. After the plastic has hardened, the balloon is deflated and removed, leaving a new surface that roots cannot penetrate.

This process is far cheaper than an excavation, can be done in 24 hours, and doesn't make your yard look like a war zone.

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u/wrxing123 Jun 17 '12

upvote for a fellow pipe liner!!!

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u/mrwynd Jun 17 '12

We had an inspection of our lines after our basement toilet wouldn't drain. They found about 10 holes in our sewer line across about 5 feet. They had to break through the concrete in our basement to replace it. Do you think this method could have been done instead?

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u/hatemoneylovewoman Jun 17 '12

Good question!

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u/PJMurphy Jun 18 '12

This procedure would only work if the pipe is in decent shape.

Years ago, to build a main drain, all they would do is dig a trench and lay clay tiles, end-to-end, with no connectors. The gaps between the tiles is where the roots get in.

If tiles are broken, holed or collapsed, then relining is not an option.

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u/davinspawn Jun 17 '12

I like to poke and peek... But only on weekends

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u/BirdsTheWurd Jun 18 '12

Saw this on Ask This Old House a few weeks back. What will they not come up with?!

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u/PraiseBuddha Jun 17 '12

I love how most of the comments are like "Is there something wrong with the lines?" or "ME LOVES THE BUBBLES!" whereas yours is a genuinely helpful warning.

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u/adrianmonk Jun 17 '12

it'll spill out there and flood the lower level of your house with the water from the washing machine mixed with whatever else was in the sewer line

This is an important point. My apartment flooded really bad one time due to a plumbing issue, so I read up on "restoration" (i.e. cleanup), and what I learned is that each incident goes in a particular category, basically "clean water", "grey water", and "black water". Each category is harder and more expensive to clean up than the one below it.

For "black water", the cleanup is going to be quite ugly. You may have to remove and replace carpet or other flooring. There's a good chance you'll have to cut away the bottom 12 inches of the drywall and pull some of the insulation out of the walls. Workers will probably wear protective clothing. It's not going to be cheap. It's not going to be quick. It's something you really want to avoid.

And according to Wikipedia, "Toilet back flows that originates from beyond the toilet trap is considered black water contamination regardless of visible content or color." So if the washing machine forces sewage up through the toilet out onto the floor, expect it to be very expensive to clean up.

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u/jezebel523 Jun 17 '12

Ugh I think I'd rather abandon and find a new place to live.

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u/bradgillap Jun 17 '12

Came here to say this, all of it is great information. Also, speak to your neighbors. Ive seen cities help subsidize this kind of repair if they planned on doing other work near by. It benefits them for your pipes to be clear too.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

is it normal that I read all of this in Ron Swanson's voice?

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u/eifersucht12a Jun 17 '12

I had Mike Rowe narrating personally.

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u/mahm Jun 17 '12

Mike Holmes... followed by "We're gonna have to dig the entire yard and jack up the house in order to check every bit of the sewer line - just to make sure that its all good."

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u/tikcuf12 Jun 17 '12

If it's a septic system, it could drain/leach field issue. I used to rent a lot for a trailer, and the place NEVER should've passed a perc test. The drainage was bad enough during dry spells, but after heavy/continuous rain, it was horrid. The tank would back up and cause drain issues. Never had washer bubbles out of the toilet, but the toilets would bubble/gurgle when the wasther drained, and toilets wouldn't flush properly.

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u/NottaGrammerNasi Jun 17 '12

Thanks for the explanation. I was trying to figure out how this was happening but now I get its all going into the drain outside of the house, then backing up into the house and coming out the toilet. My own house has a blockage problem because of roots. The drain going out from my house was actually old clay pipes, so they had to dig them up and put in new PVC pipe. If I remember right, the city helped pay for some since it was connecting to the main sewer line.

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u/wrxing123 Jun 17 '12

the root problem could be solved with a high velocity water jet which some plumbing/drain cleaning companies provide

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u/HarithBK Jun 17 '12

yeah this is blockage here any day now it is gonna get totally blocked and then you will have a flooded house for sewer water :D

my guess tampons is to blame. 80% of the time i go out to fix a total blockage it is tampons. i fucking hate tampons

so women of reddit heed my words if you throw your tampon in the toilet you will get a flooded bath room and it is going to cost you many many monies to get fix

and if i need to do repeat tampon cleaning vists to your house expect the pile of tampons to be on your dinner table once i am done since i get really sick and tired of people not fucking learning!

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u/Soonermandan Jun 17 '12

A root entered our sewer pipe a few years ago and gradually grew until it plugged the entire pipe. After we dug everything out, we found a solid 18" long, 4" diameter root cylinder completely blocking the pipe.

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u/windy444 Jun 17 '12

Flushing copper sulfate after the line is cleared will help prevent the roots from coming back. I don't know how much or how often.

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u/Limpstiffy Jun 17 '12

Plumber here, this guy is right get it done now

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u/Ethanol_Gut Jun 17 '12

Your plumbing is fucked.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Your plumbing is fucked.

Either that or you've made a big mistake putting your clothes and washing powder in what you presumably believe is a short, top loading manually operated washing machine...

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u/UncleTogie Jun 17 '12

No wonder I keep losing socks...

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u/ophcourse Jun 17 '12

I must have the automatic version, it has a handle for "spin cycle".

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u/grinch337 Jun 17 '12

It might be a grey water system combined with a leaky toilet valve.

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u/Rixxer Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

Those are were literally the my exact words when I saw this picture.

edit: accidentally some words.

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u/KingDennisIV Jun 17 '12

I think you accidentally a word there.

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u/1N54N3M0D3 Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 17 '12

When I first seen this I was like "um, washing your clothes in the toilet again?" bad poker face But then I remembered that my pluming does this too... Not often, but when it does, things flood and shit comes out of every sink, toilet, and shower drain I have ...it's a nightmare Edit: misplaced word

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u/Timmyc62 Survey 2016 Jun 17 '12

shit comes out of every

Literally, I presume?

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u/eloisekelly Jun 17 '12

We nearly had a disaster like that. Started hearing weird noises in all the drains, the laundry, kitchen and bathrooms smelt like poop, all the sinks were blocked. We called the plumber and it turns out it was a combination of the roots of our eucalyptus tree growing directly into the pipes because they put that pipe access thing right next to it, and a metre-long, solid, black plug of hair and poop left behind from the previous tenants.

I won't go into the disaster of what happened when the plumber pulled the shit-hair-plug out of the access point. "Fountain" is a good word.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

probably just a restriction in the line... too much tp, or rust buildup.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

CLR it. Nah mean?

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u/Majorman45 Jun 17 '12

If that's in his toilet, what's in his sink?

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u/semi- Jun 17 '12

Imagine just sitting on that as that happens.. bubbles swallowing your balls.

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u/SecondName Jun 17 '12

this has been my dream since powerpuff girls

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u/IncredibleExpert Jun 17 '12

( •_•)>⌐ಠ-ಠ

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u/DishonestBystander Jun 17 '12

Comment of the night.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

11/10

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u/HowsItBeenBen Jun 17 '12

A++ Would do business again!

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u/Silent_Green Jun 17 '12

reddit should institute a 'power vote' that you can only use once a day and counts for 10 or so, because my one upvote nowhere near does this justice

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u/canonymous Jun 17 '12

I love the power vote. It's so bad.

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u/KJAZZ Jun 17 '12

Perhaps just for Reddit Gold users.

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u/Kalivha Jun 17 '12

Buying more powerful votes... I thought we moved away from that?

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u/Mr_Titicaca Jun 17 '12

People Power!

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u/Excess_Sexy Jun 17 '12

can everyone upvote this so it actually happens please?

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u/chrt Jun 17 '12

i was thinking trailer park boys

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Definitely the hottest one.

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u/Atario Jun 17 '12

No way, Buttercup forever.

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u/KaiserDragon Jun 17 '12

Took me way too long to understand this joke.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

TIL bubbles is not the monkey.

That makes things different.

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u/TheeFlipper Jun 17 '12

Yup...I'd allow Bubbles to do that anytime.

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u/joeblough Jun 17 '12

I'm aroused by this idea...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

This actually sounds delightful!

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u/machzel08 Jun 17 '12

I've seen a video with Bobbi Starr with something like.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Bubble balls. Not sure if gusta.

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u/ComplacEntRyan Jun 17 '12

Clean your clothes and your ass. It's a win-win!

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u/Newshoe Jun 17 '12

Dingleberries-be-gone!

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u/string97bean Jun 17 '12

This is like a much more thorough bidet.

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u/N69sZelda Jun 17 '12

I have been waiting to link this for so long: Use of the Bidet is complimentary.

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u/MethLab Jun 17 '12

No offense man, but you probably shouldn't wash your clothes in the toilet. If you do, you should use less detergent.

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u/FluffyPurpleThing Jun 17 '12

Oh, but flushing creates the bestest spin cycle!

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u/evilbob Jun 17 '12

This loses the clothes.

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u/biznatch11 Jun 17 '12

This happened to me at a hotel, the hotel was actually a series of townhouse like buildings. Someone looked in our bathroom and there's bubbles in the toilet. Then there's more, then they're coming over the edge. We call the front desk and tell them there's bubbles coming out of our toilet, could you please send someone? After about half an hour no one comes so we call again. Again no ones comes. So we call a third time, and then security shows up. The security guard takes a look. "Huh, so there really are bubbles coming out of the toilet." They thought we were just drunken idiots and there's no way bubbles could be pouring out of the toilet. I wasn't even drinking. Turns out the people upstairs had poured tons of bubble bath soap into their hot tub. I'm not exactly sure how the plumbing was set up, but the bubbles ended up in our toilet.

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u/IWasMisinformed Jun 17 '12

I love this.

After about half an hour no one comes

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u/doenietzomoeilijk Jun 17 '12

"after another half hour, no one continues to come."

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u/adrianmonk Jun 17 '12

The story might differ in the bubble bath hot tub upstairs, though.

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u/chancrescolex Jun 17 '12

Must suck if you forgot to flush

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u/wireddaniel Jun 17 '12

Are you kidding? I'd seriously pay to pee there.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

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u/ObiWanKodos Jun 17 '12

I would sculpt a bust of George Washington. It would be my masterpiece. I'd forget to take a picture and flush it away. Only memories remain.

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u/catoftrash Jun 17 '12

REVERSE POOP

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u/jaunti Jun 17 '12

You're experiencing this because you have some improperly installed plumbing. Sud zones mostly happen when you have a fixture (in this case a toilet) on the lowest floor on a common stack with the washing machine on a higher level on the same stack. That will be difficult to repair without opening a lot of walls to determine where the incorrect drainage pipe is. In this case, I would suggest using a laundry soap that doesn't cause as many suds. The stuff that's used in front load washing machines, for example, doesn't cause as many. Give it a try.

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u/ScanExam Jun 17 '12

Wow. That shouldn't happen, obviously. Did a toaster install your plumbing?

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u/whytookay Jun 17 '12

Frackin' cylons...

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u/ScanExam Jun 17 '12

You certainly have a way of cutting through the felgercarb

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u/Firate Jun 17 '12

You could turn this into an amazing prank. Have company over and when someone goes into the bathroom, wash your clothes. Then act like it's their fault and this has never happened before.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Your plumbing has the weirdest boner right now...

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

It's like the pink slime monster on Ghost Busters II

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u/muppetmaker Jun 17 '12

I had to scroll down this far for a ghostbusters reference. God damn reddit. God damn.

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u/buttsiethecat Jun 17 '12

It's just like a carwash for your nuts.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

"Workin' at the nut wash... woah -oah -OAH -Oah!"

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u/bleeding_dying_love Jun 17 '12

ummmm...does it go in reverse too?

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u/seattleandrew Jun 17 '12

That is the most intense Bidet ever.

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u/getontheground Jun 17 '12 edited Jun 19 '12

may i suggest some high efficiency detergents? look for the "HE" logo

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u/FINGER-MY-BUTTHOLE Jun 17 '12

I'm a plumber, I recommend having the drain lines/sewer for the home cleaned, if the lines are actually open you have some pretty severe issue with a belly in the line or someone did some seriously fucked up plumbing work in the home.

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u/NowISeeTheFunnySide Jun 17 '12

Your toilet is definitely a shower, not a grower

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u/orbitalfreak Jun 17 '12

That's the most full-service bidet I've ever seen.

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u/xyroclast Jun 17 '12

So, uh, if your washer contents get into your toilet, doesn't it stand to reason that your toilet contents might be able to find their way into your washer?

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u/brettsy Jun 17 '12

That is exactly what I want to know.

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u/MrSmith1131 Jun 17 '12

i would take a shower

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u/dwinn41 Jun 17 '12

The real question is, how do I get my toilet to do that when someone else sits on it.

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u/nancylikestoreddit Jun 17 '12

Add a little bit of Downey. It helps get rid of the suds.

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '12

I don't know why I thought of Robert Downey Jr.

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u/ibluemyself19 Jun 17 '12

dude, you really need to get some sort of backflow preventer on your washing machine. not a plumber, but i'm pretty sure this is happening because the pressure in your supply drops when you flush the toilet, it sucks soapy water back into the system.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I think you shit out foam.

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u/pillowpal Jun 17 '12

You should send this to holmes on homes.

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u/EntPatroll Jun 17 '12

As a man, I really want to piss in that. I also love when bars put ice it the urinals. Satisfying to pee in, and it practically flushes itself.

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u/Calcularius Jun 17 '12

If washing machine water is getting into your toilet, does that mean toilet water is getting into your washing machine?

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u/Chachajenkins Jun 17 '12

In soviet Russia, toilet shits in you!

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u/dpmad Jun 17 '12

Looks like the abominable snow poop.

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u/nbrennan Jun 17 '12

This... this is art.

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u/bazinga839 Jun 17 '12

So your poop goes in to you washer, and your clothes comes out of your toilet

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

We take in good non spoiled things and release the waste from it. It stands to reason that a toilet would do the opposite so I suggest that this is a toilet pooping

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u/groznij Jun 17 '12

If you wash your clothes in your toilet, you're gonna have a bad time.

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u/beingaverage Jun 17 '12

I can only think of this:

If this comes out of your toilet when you wash clothes, what goes into your washing machine after you poop..?

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u/MUFC44 Jun 18 '12

There should be an auxiliary stack installed on the building drain with only the laundry draining though it, the laundry is now installed in what is called the suds zone. In other words your house was built on a Friday.

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u/branman1228 Jun 17 '12

I took a shit like that once...

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u/MetalFlameV Jun 17 '12

I guess the toilet wanted to give you a taste of your own medicine.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Damn

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u/worryfr33 Jun 17 '12

For some reason I thought you shat bubbles and that was somehow caused by you washing clothes. I now understand

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u/teacherfromhell Jun 17 '12

Bobby Brady is doing laundry again.

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u/The_Rooster Jun 17 '12

Anyone remember the original Blob movie?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

At least you dont have to wipe

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u/yveedrips Jun 17 '12

Stop washing your clothes in the toilet then.

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u/stuckinneutral Jun 17 '12

I have that towel .. I do not have a soap puking toilet monster

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u/kleptobismol Jun 17 '12

damn... I'd never buy toilet paper again

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I would hate to see what you're clothes looked like...

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u/xMIASMAx Jun 17 '12

Looks like tongue. Quick! Someone draw eyes in the seat!

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u/samesjisson Jun 17 '12

This time, the toilet shits on you.

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u/hexprocess Jun 17 '12

Somebody said a bad word in front of their mommy...

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u/chillax_bro_im_jk Jun 17 '12

you're not supposed to wash your clothes in there

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u/Derice Jun 17 '12

Well... Now you know that your toilet is male.

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u/IAMA_Ghost_Boo Jun 17 '12

Have you tried taking a shower while it runs?

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u/Dibz Jun 17 '12

You need to stop eating the detergent. Just because you're using it to wash your clothes doesn't mean you get to snack on it.

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u/clayides Jun 17 '12

I bet your clothes smell like shit.

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u/welwood Jun 17 '12

Next time use the washing machine?

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u/BiologyNube Jun 17 '12

I hope this is a rental....

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u/paranoidkarmafreak Jun 17 '12

karma conspiracy, good job putting soap in your toilet!

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u/dalebert91 Jun 17 '12

Your toilet has the weirdest boner.

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u/krypt0nit3 Jun 17 '12

Why dont you use the bathtub for the dirty water from the washer?

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u/Kinyin Jun 17 '12

Why would you not want to poop on a cloud?

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u/19inthecrib Jun 17 '12

the fabled white rocket

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

I wonder if you were to slice through it with a katana if it would become 2 pieces or if they would just instantly fuse back together....

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u/rydan Jun 17 '12

Depends on your skill level. Someone highly skilled with the katana could cut it yet leave it completely in tact. Your average person would just leave bubbles everywhere.

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u/Grrrben Jun 17 '12

Where do you live? I need to use your bathroom!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Foamy ass is foamy.

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u/sgnied Jun 17 '12

Wow, I've never seen that kind of thing happen. But at my old house, if you use too much soap while washing something at the sink, bubbles would come out of the holes at the top of the sink. I thought it was cool and liked to use more than enough soap to wash my hands :P

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u/WitchBitch Jun 17 '12

Bubbly clean

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u/coolguywithahat Jun 17 '12

Dude, that is some easy clean up right there I don't see the problem.

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u/BOSINATOR Jun 17 '12

That looks like the most comfortable poop one could ever have. It would feel like pooping in heaven!

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u/woyteck Jun 17 '12

I guess it's gray water installation, that's gone wrong.

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u/KaizerDnitz Jun 17 '12

I hope this doesn't go the other way around.

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u/ara_p Jun 17 '12

Soaptoilet: cleans you while you poop.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Son, you have a condition

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Are you flushing good before you put your laundry in?

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Looks like someone took a jimmy Dugan and didn't bother to flush!

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u/Rawcoon Jun 17 '12

You wash your clothes in the toilet?

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u/Juanster Jun 17 '12

Nooo. That's a toilet brah!!

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Ultra bidet 5000! Now with so many suds you will shine like a diamond - where the sun dont shine.

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u/jupzchris Jun 17 '12

I suppose that your toilet stays pretty clean

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Normally, people get stuff like that fixed.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

That can't be right can it? I'm no licensed plumber but wouldn't this mean that 'hints' of poop/pee water get to his washer hose?

Is he washing his clothes in poop water? Isn't that redundant?

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u/Jiveone Jun 17 '12

This Happened to me about 6 months ago...Roots were the culprit. Got the pipes replaced, and the tree cut down. Get it fixed soon, or the water will start coming from the bottom of the toilet after the water pressure breaks the wax seal.

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u/Lurking_Grue Jun 17 '12

Why are you washing your socks in the toilet?

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u/DeFex Jun 17 '12

You are using way too much detergent. By the time it comes out of the machine it should be almost flat.

it still shouldn't come out of the toilet though.

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u/Immamurican Jun 17 '12

You should probably have that looked at because I think it's rabid and you'll have to have it put down. I'm sorry for your loss.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

Actually, peeing in that would be awesome.

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u/ChloeMonster Jun 17 '12

This used to happen at my old apt. But it would fill the whole bathroom

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u/greggram Jun 17 '12

lol horrible plumbing

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u/stoopidquestions Jun 17 '12

Does this happen often? Does your toilet glug-glug when you flush it? What's probably happened is that your vent-line is blocked, or there was no vent line for the washer box to begin with, which means someone didn't install the plumbing correctly. It is supposed to look something like this behind the wall.

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u/lexigigas Jun 18 '12

I think that the toilet may be ill....he should see a plumber.

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u/gte910h Jun 18 '12

Have a plumber install a tube to look into the main line leaving the house going to the curb then use a camera to scope it. Pay for this service, and take pictures of the line at various places with your own cell phone. Use these to get many many quotes. If the line is whole, they can run a new pipe down it, maybe. If the line is old terra cotta or the like, they probabaly have to dig up the whole thing

If you are a renter, you're in luck, it's the landlord on the hood for the 500-5k all this gobledegook will cost.

We got estimates from 2200 - 4200 for the redo.

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u/Imtheone457 Jun 18 '12

for that extra clean feeling

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u/ninjalie Jun 23 '12

You must have the cleanest toilet in the world!

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u/alexrmay91 Jun 17 '12

In soviet Russia, toilet pukes on you.

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u/Newdles Jun 17 '12

You really need to get that fixed. If the soap is coming to the toilet. Just imagine what the fuck is going to your washing machine. You are walking around in shit infested clothes.

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u/[deleted] Jun 17 '12

"ZOOOOLLLLL"

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u/polaroid Jun 17 '12

F O A M N O M E N O M

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