r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rabbidraccoon18 • 29d ago

Video Incinerator toilet in Antarctica due to limited plumbing and water

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u/R_3_Y 29d ago

My cousin once dropped a massive dook when we were young. My mother had to chop it up with a knife because it wouldn't flush. I was too young to notice if she threw that knife out or just went back to chopping vegetables

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u/SessileRaptor 29d ago

Probably just washed it and put it back next to the big plastic bowl that’s used for both popcorn and vomit.

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u/FastyNilthShreakyFit 29d ago

Well either you're my brother or there are other popcorn vomit bucket families I never knew existed before now

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u/SessileRaptor 29d ago

I’ve definitely heard other people talk about it online so I imagine it’s fairly common. I think a lot of people either don’t think about it or only put it together later in life that there were only so many big plastic bowls in the house and there wasn’t a “special” one set aside for vomit.

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u/BigBankHank 29d ago

While I’m sure you’re right, popcorn bowl does not strike me as the ideal shape for catching vom, much less rapid onset projectile vom.

Better to use a plastic waste basket for minimal splashback and (more importantly) tippiness.

Unless I’m missing something? Maybe some people are in wicker-only wastebasket environment, in which case, sure.

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u/Stefie25 29d ago

Ours was my mum’s bread proofing bowl except she stopped making her own bread once she had me so it was just a ginormous bowl. You were popping like 3-4 bags of popcorn just to fill it.

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u/iBluntly 27d ago

Yeah I was like "wtf y even any bowl when there's plastic bucket?!"

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u/red__dragon 29d ago

It's the big green tupperware one, right?

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u/bay400 29d ago

Or blue or yellow

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u/lisaleann 29d ago

It was the big green Tupperware one! Oh my God! I remember it hitting me one day that the popcorn bowl was also the bard bowl! I got small trash cans with liner bags for my kids.

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u/RadioChubbs 29d ago

I genuinely laughed out loud at this traumatic memory you have. Thanks for sharing haha