“Actually, thanks to you poisoning the water, we discovered that city pipe infrastructure is really severly outdated, and your poison, while giving mild diarrhea, is easily killing cancer cells”
Classic,
I just went on a rant about plungers, how’s your day going?
“go off bestie”? Okay, I will.
This is a plunger.
Classic red cup with a wooden stick. We all know it, love it, and have seen a cartoon character using it to unclog a toilet. Right?
WRONG.
The image above is actually a drain plunger, used on sinks, showers, and baths. Not on toilets.
These are a toilet plungers.
Take note of the variations. Each of them have a flange of sorts at the bottom, either connected via a cup or more accordion-like tube. These are designed to actually get down into the toilet bowl where it flushes down, giving it more space and leverage to unclog blockages. See the example below:
Notice how the flange allows it to go deeper into the toilet to provide more power to the plunge. Sink/drain plungers are far less efficient and effective at the task.
Sink plungers can also have an accordion shape to help with power in plunging, but crucially do not have or need the flange that toilet plungers do.
To recap: cup plungers are for sinks, showers, bathtubs, and other drains. Flange and accordion plungers are for toilets. Notably, accordion plungers are slightly harder to use, but are more powerful when used correctly than their flange counterparts.
So the next time you see a cartoon, video game, or stock art depicting a cup plunger being used on a toilet, you can feel the same levels of anger and emotion that I do!
why does this have nearly 100 notes
Because with this level of passion, containment is futile 
The real question is why does this not have a million notes? This is information that will very likely, at some point, be incredibly useful to anyone who has indoor plumbing. Which is, you know, probably, 99.99% of this website’s user base. (I’m sure there’s someone out there using Tumblr who lives in a house built in 1850 which never got upgraded and they still have an outhouse rather than toilet.)
current note count: 4,970
Seriously, a toilet plunger will save you so much money. Get one.
that third flange plunger in the pic above? AMAZING!
Job postings these days are like
Wanted: Virgin, with 3 years of sexual experience
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Re-blogging again because that comment fucking killed me
reminds me of that one story where a person ran across an add asking for five years experience in a particular code language. This person had helped create this particular code language, three years ago.
Whole swarms of companies are using “entry level” to mean “this is the lowest-level job in our company” rather than “you don’t need any particular job experience or licensed skills to do this.”
(Of course, they lie about that, too, because they will fucking put “entry level” on a divisional manger job; no, I don’t know what the internal logic for that is.)
The good news for job seekers is: 90% of those “requirements” are bogus. They are listing the experience that they think fits “what this job needs, AFTER you learn how to do it.”
Also it’s illegal to require a degree for a job that doesn’t specifically need it - turns out a lot of places were using “must have a 4-year degree” as a roundabout way of saying “we only want to hire white people” and that went to court and got slammed down. So now most of them say “Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.”
Most job listings are made by copying last year’s job listing from a related department and editing the details as little as possible. Repeat for three generations of job openings and you wind up with a list of “requirements” that relate to six different departments.
The “skills/experience required” section is often used as “our fantasy hire has these” rather than “we won’t speak to applicants who don’t have these.”
Ignore ALL of the experience/education required. Look over the list of actual job duties (if, sigh, you can figure them out… “grow revenue via enhanced customer service” tells you fuck-all about what you actually do on the job) and if you think you can do those - apply for the job. Don’t lie about your experience, but be ready to answer questions with “no, I haven’t worked as a [job title] before BUT I have done X in my job as a [different job title].”
Some of the requirement listings are legit. If they’re looking for data analysts who are specialists in Tableau, you can’t fake that with “I have poked around in spreadsheets and a bit of mysql.” But if you can figure out what the job actually needs, and you have those skills - apply, regardless of whether you meet the checklist.
Maybe they’ll learn to edit their job listings.
st-pam
Oh my gods they’re adorable! Have a nice day at work, Employment Jelly
But what if the job you deserve is not a job you’ll love??
Its very simple. You intrinsically deserve to be content with your work.
Whatever your job right now, you deserve better.
The Blues Brothers (1980) // Dir. John Landis
Always reblog Jake and Elwood taking care of business.
the “god DAMNIT” kills me Every Time
Zac’s hesitation does it for me.
i think about this one so fucking often i had to clip it
that was like watching someone very skillfully assembling a stained-glass window just to watch someone else dropkick it
In Miles Universe
Its Decembruary
Sorry to disappoint but
This however means that Miles just deadass wrote “Decembruary” on his test.
wildcardarcana
He was fucking dedicated to that F
Spider-Man Heritage Post
big day today
queued for the next wednesday the 12th
Creating a marble sculpture Joey Marcella Link to full vid in comments
WOW
What happens to all the unused marble chunks?
chess sets?
Actually…if you want to know historically, I can supply an answer.
During the Renaissance, if it was quality marble, it was ground up into a coarse dust that was used as a pigment, a textural additive for paintings and reliefs. Some pressed it into chalk and crayon-like pastels. It’s the main ingredient in gesso canvas preparatory gloss and both Marmorino and Venetian plaster. If a poorer quality marble, it was used a composite stone (grout, mortar, early concrete) or paving additive. Stucco treatments were even made with it. It even had some medicinal applications, due to the fact that it contain calcium carbonate and other minerals.
Now it can be used to make carbon dioxide for carbonated beverages.
I was not prepared for that last line.
Every 21st century piece of writing advice: Make us CARE about the character from page 1! Make us empathize with them! Make them interesting and different but still relatable and likable!
Every piece of classic literature: Hi. It's me. The bland everyman whose only purpose is to tell you this story. I have no actual personality. Here's the story of the time I encountered the worst people I ever met in my life. But first, ten pages of description about the place in which I met them.
Modern writing advice: Yes your protagonist should have flaws but ultimately we should root for them and like them from the beginning :)
Charles Dickens: Here is the worst ugliest rudest meanest nastiest bitch you’ve ever met in your life.
Modern writing advice: Make sure your POV character goes through a significant arc! Make sure they are changed by the narrative! Make sure they learn a lesson!
Narrators of every book of the 19th century: the lesson I learned is these people fucking suck, sayonara you freaks
Modern writing advice: It’s all about the character overcoming obstacles and learning! They learn their lesson so they can fix their mistakes and make good choices in the future! It’s a character arc! It’s called growth! Readers love it!
Everyone from ancient times through the 19th century: would you like to watch a Guy fuck up twenty times in a row
the MOST iconic 20 seconds of any anime dub i’ve ever experienced
EVEN THE FUCKING MUSIC OH MY LORD
So is the Obviously A Vampire guy, flirting with the other guy?
The fact that this joke is from the very first episode (which aired in January 1997) is messing with me.
Also nothing will ever be funnier than the whole Leverage crew spending the first episode whining about how they work alone and this is a one-time thing ONLY and they DON’T work in a team EVER and then like two days later Nate tries to get rid of them and every single one of them is like “why are you trying to tear this family apart :(”
Hang on the season 2 premiere might have it beat
Nate: Why the fuck are you all in my house?
The entire rest of the crew: Our house :)
This isn’t even an exaggeration, they straight up just break into his house and start remodeling
The Leverage crew: *disperses at the end of The Nigerian Job*
[literally 5 seconds after they all walk offscreen]
Hey remember how Noir is an anti-fascist from 1933
breakdown of why moon’s haunted is the tweet of all time
- the implication that the nasa spaceship got back to earth, from the moon, without nasa knowing
- nasa employee is super chill about it
- theres just a gun lying around
- the astronaut is taking a gun and nothing else to fight ghosts
- moon’s haunted