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And the best bit is, we made it ourselves

See that happy, fluffy cloud in the upper right corner? That, my friends, is several years’ accumulation of piddle and wet toilet paper. Why yes, it did stink.

When our gardener hacked back the hedge yesterday, she found a drain cover. All the soil around was soaking wet. We got our friendly neighborhood drains man around and he found that, between the first drain cover and the next was this giant toilet roll boulder.

Between the two inspection ports is, like, thirty feet of straight pipe. No gravity feed + low flow toilet = what you see here.

That particular pipe only handles the upstairs toilet, sink and shower, so there wasn’t enough stuff to push it through. We’ve apparently been peeing on the ground outside our bedroom window for years.

We have instructions to pour a bucket of water down it from time to time.

This is probably a good time to promote one of my favorite YouTube channels again: Drain Cleaning AUSTRALIA.

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Comment from ExpressoBold Pureblood
Time: February 13, 2025, 9:01 pm

WHAT? No tree roots clogging up the flow between inspection points?

That is unheard of amongst civilized users of water closet facilities!

RFK, Jr. sworn as Secretary of DHS. Called PDJT “a hero” and a President of Great Consequence or some such sobriquet. MAHA, Mr. Secretary.


Comment from Some Vegetable
Time: February 13, 2025, 10:08 pm

Trump just set our toilets loose, so to speak!

Low flow no more? Trump to roll back rules on toilets, showers and lightbulbs

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/11/trump-to-roll-back-green-standards-for-toilets-lightbulbs/78415921007/


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: February 14, 2025, 12:02 am

I’ll have to check out Drain Cleaning AUSTRALIA.

I’m already a happy subscriber to another Australian channel Drain Addict at https://www.youtube.com/@DrainAddict . I’m particularly fond of Ratty. He had more active roles in early DA videos but is still around.

I don’t know how to describe it, but watching fountains of other people’s, uh, stuff, can be quite entertaining and relaxing.


Comment from Uncle Al
Time: February 14, 2025, 12:06 am

@Stoaty — techie note. I normally use ExpressVPN for general browsing. It rarely causes any difficulty but tonight when I tried to post the above comment, I went partway through the Verification step and then got a 404 for a URL made up of one of those extremely long hex strings. I disabled the VPN and all’s well. I don’t know if this is something you have control over, or even have any interest in controlling, but I thought you ought to know. I’m not griping. These things happen, just like clogged drains, and are simple but smelly to deal with.


Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: February 14, 2025, 12:07 am

Uh uh you guys!

Trump is going to let Putin conquer Europe.
And Putin’s right there!, leaning over the border, touching his toes on the Polish side and taunting them.
“Nyah! Nyah! Trump likes me best! Nyah Nyah!”

Former Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt actually took time out from giving Swedish Massage to tell everyone that Trump betrayed Ukraine even though we had no treaty with them, and even though they’re not part of NATO and we’re not part of Europe!

And he practically handed Europe over to Putin in 2030!
The biggest betrayal being we’re not going to provide Europe with an Army labeled “American Tax Dollars at work” anymore, and they’re now going to have to cut Swedish Massage spending, and spend money on their own defense!

HORRORS!

So, y’all need to write your Congressman, and demand we go and die to defend Europe from Russia in 5 years, as soon as possible.
And send more USAID cash for foreign alphabet studies, because it’s not LGBT in German or Swedish or French, etc.
It turns out these people have different words for this than we do, and we need to spend a couple billion to make sure we don’t offend anyone by using the wrong initials for this stuff.


Comment from Anonymous
Time: February 14, 2025, 12:24 am

@Durnedyankee — It was Barky Obama who betrayed Ukraine. That was in 2014. More lately it has been Zelenskyyyy doing the betraying.

p.s. In case anyone is interested, here’s the 404 URL that comes up when I try to post through my VPN:
http://sweasel.com/z0f76a1d14fd21a8fb5fd0d03e0fdc3d3cedae52f?wsidchk=13002394&pdata=sfwT9DVHo5SVxS-0Ccd8RTrir0aronFE8-BiYLC-DH090lWimLtBHYkZNTdxFsCRUOVsrReCdxJ2Oi3Yn_gLQNVkzyF5f3VmYWn_9zI_BM45A_2aWcH7CiJDJ1a252fAty7fmA_RlGsMLdEYatWq5nSOQRYkEBzw3DufBVFdB2qTkB4u1K5GLFFHWGhmil-tIBzeLvo-2AVhcMXPfZoTSeTrDrcgsnZC-fZfNA==&id=7fa3b767c460b54a2be4d49030b349c7

edit: Uncle Al here


Comment from Durnedyankee
Time: February 14, 2025, 1:47 am

Uncle Al – say it ain’t so!

Speaking of Barky, have you seen the latest pictures of Obama’s Flakturm Chicago?
Real attractive slab that.


Comment from S. Weasel
Time: February 14, 2025, 12:27 pm

We’ve been having some flaky issues with my server lately. May be related.

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