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Re: "Toilets: Good, Bad, and Exploding"
This has a distinctive George Constanza feel to it
2023-12-26 · 8 months ago
🐝 Addison · 2023-12-26 at 17:02:
I'm sorry I'm getting caught-up on your ten-bedroom house 😂 As a chronic renter, that's so much!
🚀 stack [OP] · 2023-12-26 at 17:58:
@Addison: it is by no means a luxurious mansion. From the 70s it was a facility for low IQ adults, and it was trashed. During the open house a resident took a dump on the stairs, and no one wanted it. I've rewired and replumbed and refloored a big chunk of it, but it is still no McMansion (thank god). It was filled with kids and sometimes long-term houseguests, cats and a dog...
🐝 Addison · 2023-12-27 at 17:28:
@stack it sounds like a fascinating place with lots of history. I'd bet it keeps you busy, for better or worse.
🚀 stack [OP] · 2023-12-27 at 17:44:
I promise to write some more about the things I found...
Toilets: Good, Bad, and Exploding — Americans are obsessed with bathrooms, and my house has four. To be fair, it has (conservatively) 10 bedrooms, so it's not really excessive. I think it was a whorehouse in the early 1900's. One of the toilets, my favorite, had a jet-engine flusher. Sequestered on the top floor and used mainly by me, it was incredibly powerful: nothing was ever unflushed as a blast of water blew through it with tremendous force. It was truly awesome, and I became a butt...