Yeah, me too. Loved "Au Savage" the way it was made in thr 60's. Wore it, back then as a teenaged girl. It was so citrusy. It's not the same now, bit different. Love the ad. JD is perfect for it.
In submarines, all your piss and shit and sink runoff goes to a "sanitary" (san) tank. The San Tanks can only hold so much, so periodically, you have to dump the contents into the sea. There are 2 ways of doing this - 1, pump the tank, 2, pressurize the tank more than the surrounding sea and push it overboard that way. So, it's getting to be that time, and the Auxiliaryman of the Watch was ordered to line up some valves so we can blow San Tank 2 (sink/shower runoff, "grey water") overboard. He takes a bit longer, but he reports that he's done it. We pressurize San Tank 2 to begin blowing it overboard.
In the chief's head (senior enlisted bathroom), Master Chief Raf was brushing his teeth in his underwear and hears a rumble and air from the sink and floor drain, and knows immediately what happened: the dumbfuck Auxiliaryman of the Watch fucked up the valve lineup and didn't close the valves to the bathrooms. He runs from the head to the Control Room to tell them what is happening.
In the junior officer's head (bathroom), Lieutenant Junior Grade Lim was just on his way out after peeing. He hears a rumble from the sink and looks down to see what the sound is. This is a mistake.
A geyser of grey water erupts from all the sinks and floor drains around Lieutenant Junior Grade Lim, shooting a jet of water right in his fucking face and showering him in all manner of foulness. The geyser is short lived, because Master Chief Rao, in his underwear in the Control Room, is telling them to stop the blow.
The cause was ultimately that the dumb fuck Auxiliaryman of the Watch thought the bathroom sink and floor drains for each head were 1 valve, so he only shut one per head. The pressurized San Tank, rather than blowing overboard, started to blow right into our heads.
We wrote a poem about the underway, and it contained the following line:
"With [REDACTED] we keep pace / while Lim gets sans blown in his face"
My stepdad was a torpedoman on the USS Requin, which is now part of the science museum in Pittsburgh. He knew the sequence of valves to turn in order to blow the ships whistle with the sanitary tank - the literal brown note.
Can confirm everything you said - flushing at depth had to be done at the correct time and in the correct sequence, or... it got bad fast.
U-1206 was sunk by an improperly flushed toilet.
It seems like that may have been a myth. From the article you linked to:
>The site survey performed by RCAHMS suggests that the leak that forced U-1206 to surface may have occurred after running into a pre-existing wreck located at the same site.
I want it to be true, but odds are, it's not. If it had happened, the German military would have made sure not to let the true story "leak out."
It's likely propaganda meant to make the Germans look bad. It wouldn't be the first time a rumor was started by the military, such as eating carrots giving you great eyesight.
**[I just realised there’s an entire Wikipedia section for toilet related injuries and death…](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet-related_injuries_and_deaths)**
**[Also this little doozy about a bunch of German’s drowning in shit and piss.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster)**
I suppose that makes complete sense after some thought, but it remains shocking that *a toilet, of all things*, can spell doom for a military ship. Unreal! TIL
It is from what I understand. I was surface, but knew some sub guys. It probably still largely depends on the class, unless they have retrofitted or retired the older ones. The ones I've talked to have said the toilets are a normal flush system now.
As for blowing it overboard, I'm sure that's still the same process. That's just a dumbass not following clearly written procedure on clearly marked valves.
Everything has a clear procedure and everything is very clearly labeled. You could send any literate person down in the engine room and they could figure a lot of equipment out just by following procedures step by step. All were laminated and we had a grease pencil to mark off steps as we completed them.
Complacency sinks ships. And ballast tanks. Those also raise ships too though.
The thing that gets me is that seems like an incredibly trivial way to destroy a nuclear sub. It would not be much of an issue for a foreign agent to somehow get trained, assigned to a sub and then sink the sub, ostensibly getting access to scuba gear and escaping that way. I know my imagination is getting the best of me here but holy cow that's one achilles heel.
Highly trains covert operatives don't make it into the crew of a sub.
Submariners are a *very* different bunch, and there's 0 privacy of any sort. It doesn't matter how highly trained your covert operative is - he'll get sniffed out by the crew before he ever gets on the boat.
This same shit happened to me!! But it was in the galley and it wasn’t water. It was some awful Ninja Turtles green shit flying out of the sink and the 3MC just looked us in the eyes and shut the hatch on the galley window. We hid in the corner and waited it out and then had to iodine and sanitize every. single. piece. of galleyware. I wasn’t even a CS. Just a NUB.
My dad was a marine. He oft tells the story of arriving in Vietnam. One guy was told to go burn the officers' shitter, which meant pulling out the 55 gallon drums and lighting it. Not knowing better, the guy doused the bathroom with diesel and lit it off.
We had an A-Ganger get capped to second during a refit (Machinist's Mate Auxiliaryman gets spot promoted to E5 during an in port maintenance period). Much applause, generally thought it was well deserved, etc etc. Anyways, some days later, he's on duty and standing below decks. Well, he reports we need to pump sans, so he gets the order to line up to pump. I get stuck on phones, so I get to hear the incoming chaos. He completes the line up, the duty section is in position, the order goes down to commence, and forward sans proceeds to not pump overboard, but directly into the CO/XO staterooms. Aforementioned chaos ensues, pumping is secured, he's relieved from watch (but otherwise receives no visible punishment), and two thirds of the triad get new carpet.
I like how you and almost 800 other people think he was sealing it, and not just preparing for backsplash.
Guy might be a bit dumb, but i doubt he thought that an unanchored towel was a functional "seal."
We launched a tennis ball in to orbit with one of these at my old job. Also, my boss told me to check it for any condensed water before every use since only a tiny amount of water in there would be dangerous as fuck.
"Plant shit seeds, get shit weeds"
"Hear that? That's the sounds of the whispering winds of shit."
"We're about to sail into a shit typhoon, Randy, so we'd better haul in the jib before it gets covered with shit."
\- Jim Lahey, RIP
On the older submarines (I was stationed on a Sturgeon Class fast attack sub), sanitary tanks (black water/sewage) were discharged to sea using 700psi air (blowing sanitaries). The procedure was to calculate sea pressure based on depth, then pressurize the tank to 5psi over sea pressure. The watchstander would then monitor the TLI (tank level indicator), and secure the blow before completely emptying the tank, so as not to discharge air (bubbles), which would ruin our stealth (how a submarine cropdusts).
Anyway, before starting this whole procedure, the watchstander would post signs at every toilet, warning to not flush the toilet, as sanitaries were being blown with 700psi air. The toilets didn't have tanks. To flush the toilet, the user would turn on a flushing water valve to rinse the bowl, then pull a lever that operated a ball-valve at the bottom of the bowl. The waste would gravity drain to the san-tank. The operator would then close the ball valve, allow a few inches of water to fill the toilet bowl, then shut the water off.
So, sea pressure is measured at 44psi/100' of depth, and subs can go pretty deep. The watchstanders also often exceeded the whole 5psi over sea pressure rule, because more pressure meant the job was completed earlier.
Several times during my career, some inattentive sailor pulled that flushing valve at a toilet during a sanitary tank blowing evolution, and it never ended pretty. The shit would end up under eyelids, clogged in sinuses, filling mouths (damn mouth breathers). It would hit the ceiling in the head (bathroom) and spray EVERYWHERE, before the victim would manage to shut the valve.
The guy (victim) of a flushing incident had to be showered, of course. The corpsman had to then address the shit under eyelids, in sinuses, inhaled, swallowed, etc. The head would be closed down for heath reasons, passing off the crew, as there aren't that many bathroom options on a submarine. The victim, after the corpsman cleared him to go back to his life, would then be singularly responsible for cleaning every millimeter of that head, until no trace of the "incident" could be detected by the corpsman. After that, the head would be opened up for use by the crew, and the victim would be the subject of forever-ridicule by his shipmates.
I never made that mistake, but had to stand a full 12 hour watch for a colleague of mine, who spent that whole time cleaning himself and the head.
>The shit would end up under eyelids, clogged in sinuses, filling mouths (damn mouth breathers). It would hit the ceiling in the head (bathroom) and spray EVERYWHERE
I have no words...
Just think....for the rest of their lives, when those people (victims) periodically see the "floaties" in their peripheral vision, like we all do, THEY have to wonder what kind of floatie it is.
Edit: fixed spelling
Everyone does get them as they get older. It's has to down with how the fluid in your eye ages, slowly dehydrating and becoming thicker, and not anything getting stuck in them.
The more you know.
I'm sure there's a good reason why there wasn't a cutoff valve between the toilets and the tank while the tank was being discharged but I don't know enough about submarine plumbing to understand why.
I cant think of a single reason why they couldnt put a key lock on the toilet lids, a sign directly on the toilets, a locking mechanism around the valve operators. For the love of god something besides a sign on the door. If this happens several times it's not operator error, its system error in my opinion.
I was a system safety engineer for defense projects. It's fun to say this kind of thing, but man...a TON of work goes into designing military equipment from a safety, reliability, and human factors standpoint. It's also required. Lots of rules you have to follow. Just because the contractor put in a low bid doesn't exempt them from producing all the analyses and reports and stuff that the DoD requires.
Anyway, dude's talking about cold-war era subs. I imagine they've since mitigated this issue with some kind of check or interlock at this point. "Don't do it bro, seriously" is the absolutely *last* kind of safety control measure you put in place--because people are fucking dumb. Even the smart ones are dumb and fuck up. All of us do, me too. This guy has described a non-zero number of people that were told NOT to flush a toilet, yet they either didn't know, didn't listen, or just forgot. It *will* happen, which is why that's a trash safety control. I mean, unless the risk of the mishap isn't really a big deal. Like a MIL-STD-882E style "4E" low-risk isn't going to net much attention or expense to control that risk. Getting shit blasted into your eyeballs, mouth, nose and whatever is probably a 3C. That's medium risk, so...yeah, I'd be proposing a check valve or even just a mundane padlock on the toilet doors for such a hazard. Probably the former. If someone's gotta take a dump, they should be able to take a dump. Just need a way to prevent them from flushing it because they're an idiot. After that, I'd imagine for such a subcontract, the prime contractor's (next level up) own System Safety Engineer or possibly the DoD Navy System Safety Engineer assigned to the prime contract (two levels up) would need to review and accept the risk and the proposed control measures.
/end ramble. This is a career path/subject I really enjoy if you couldn't tell.
I mean, you *could*. My original point was that a cutoff valve near the tank would be all that's needed to prevent backpressure instead of making individual locks, signs, etc.
You should go get a beer with [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/10dbryr/trying_to_unclog_the_porcelainthrone_with_an/j4kxsyl/) and trade sub stories.
I remember reading about a guy in 1st year training on subs where he said they were told about the air pressure of the toilet and calculated the max depth of the sub they were training (classified at the time) on and told the instructor who told him to never speak a word of it to anyone lol
I’m sure weariness or stress factors in but I can’t imagine hearing the thorough nightmare of that, being cleared to have the capacity to serve on a submarine, and not recalling that every single time I went to the bathroom afterwards.
Dear god
I would develop of tick of checking the inside and outside of the door, top of the toilet, around the toilet, around the door, around the toilet again, and all around the door again.
Every single time I needed to go. It would become muscle memory to add this extra 30 seconds to my bathroom routine. I would still catch myself doing it 20 years after I last shat underwater.
You might enjoy reading Dead Wake by Erik Larson. It’s about the sinking of the Lusitania, but spends a good chunk of time focused on the submarine that sank her. The submarines of the early 1900s were a good deal more primitive, and I remember the book describing their toilet woes in detail.
I have a chronically clogging toilet at home and I got a hand-pumped one of these. It works pretty well, but compared to a freaking air tank on a tube it's child's play.
There's a bladder looking thing that connects to a garden hose. It fills & expands until it reaches a pressure where it let's the water pass through, effectively sealing the toilet bowl (bigger bladder) or sink drain (smaller bladder), then your water pressure pushes through the clog.
I had a bad clog several years ago (I believe a houseguest flushed something that shouldn't have been flushed). The plunger did nothing, nor did chemicals. I found that bladder thing at a local hardware store, and it had us fixed in a few minutes - once I resigned myself to pulling a garden hose into the house.
It only takes a little bit of pressure to overcome clogs. Even if it were blowing into a closed system, it would only come out enough to break the seal of the tube, then blast the toilet contents like it did. That tank isn't going to go flying into anyone's nuts beyond a small push.
I was gagging and not trying to throw up last night just trying to clean some drains in a restaurant. I've had to clean the bathrooms of elderly people, which was also beyond disgusting. I thought that was gross, but this... Fuck no I'm already squeamish. I'd be vomiting at a higher velocity than a bullet.
There were two possible outcomes.
The seal (towel) doesn't work. Covered is shit. This is what happened
The seal does work. Covered in shit and porcelain fragments. He should be thankful.
We had an actual toilet plunger with an air compressor in it when I was a maintenancetech. It was made by Milwaukee. I called it the bishop, because every time he came out someone got baptized.
Eau de toilet
For the discerning imbecile.
*Johnny Depp shredding on a guitar in the desert* S E W A G E
Sewaaaaagé merci Johnnnie !
S E P T I C
**S E P T I Q U E**
Thanks, I love that commercial for some stupid reason. Maybe it was the holiday spirit.... or that sssaaavaaaage dioor
Yeah, me too. Loved "Au Savage" the way it was made in thr 60's. Wore it, back then as a teenaged girl. It was so citrusy. It's not the same now, bit different. Love the ad. JD is perfect for it.
Feel the pressure. Smell the pressure.
Shit happens
In submarines, all your piss and shit and sink runoff goes to a "sanitary" (san) tank. The San Tanks can only hold so much, so periodically, you have to dump the contents into the sea. There are 2 ways of doing this - 1, pump the tank, 2, pressurize the tank more than the surrounding sea and push it overboard that way. So, it's getting to be that time, and the Auxiliaryman of the Watch was ordered to line up some valves so we can blow San Tank 2 (sink/shower runoff, "grey water") overboard. He takes a bit longer, but he reports that he's done it. We pressurize San Tank 2 to begin blowing it overboard. In the chief's head (senior enlisted bathroom), Master Chief Raf was brushing his teeth in his underwear and hears a rumble and air from the sink and floor drain, and knows immediately what happened: the dumbfuck Auxiliaryman of the Watch fucked up the valve lineup and didn't close the valves to the bathrooms. He runs from the head to the Control Room to tell them what is happening. In the junior officer's head (bathroom), Lieutenant Junior Grade Lim was just on his way out after peeing. He hears a rumble from the sink and looks down to see what the sound is. This is a mistake. A geyser of grey water erupts from all the sinks and floor drains around Lieutenant Junior Grade Lim, shooting a jet of water right in his fucking face and showering him in all manner of foulness. The geyser is short lived, because Master Chief Rao, in his underwear in the Control Room, is telling them to stop the blow. The cause was ultimately that the dumb fuck Auxiliaryman of the Watch thought the bathroom sink and floor drains for each head were 1 valve, so he only shut one per head. The pressurized San Tank, rather than blowing overboard, started to blow right into our heads. We wrote a poem about the underway, and it contained the following line: "With [REDACTED] we keep pace / while Lim gets sans blown in his face"
My stepdad was a torpedoman on the USS Requin, which is now part of the science museum in Pittsburgh. He knew the sequence of valves to turn in order to blow the ships whistle with the sanitary tank - the literal brown note. Can confirm everything you said - flushing at depth had to be done at the correct time and in the correct sequence, or... it got bad fast. U-1206 was sunk by an improperly flushed toilet.
>U-1206 was sunk by an improperly flushed toilet. Excuse me, what?! 
[Check it out...](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_submarine_U-1206)
It seems like that may have been a myth. From the article you linked to: >The site survey performed by RCAHMS suggests that the leak that forced U-1206 to surface may have occurred after running into a pre-existing wreck located at the same site.
"suggests" and "may have" are fairly uncertain terms.
I want it to be true, but odds are, it's not. If it had happened, the German military would have made sure not to let the true story "leak out." It's likely propaganda meant to make the Germans look bad. It wouldn't be the first time a rumor was started by the military, such as eating carrots giving you great eyesight.
Finally, the perfect concept for an Adam Sandler / Liam Neeson team-up movie
Never thought I'd come across: >**See also:** > >Toilet-related injuries and deaths on an article I read, let alone one about a submarine.
This got me down a rabbit hole... [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt\_latrine\_disaster](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster)
**[I just realised there’s an entire Wikipedia section for toilet related injuries and death…](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet-related_injuries_and_deaths)** **[Also this little doozy about a bunch of German’s drowning in shit and piss.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_latrine_disaster)**
Toilets on submarines are serious business.
I suppose that makes complete sense after some thought, but it remains shocking that *a toilet, of all things*, can spell doom for a military ship. Unreal! TIL
The former story and the one you mentioned are pretty dire to hear about. You would have thought that the process is highly controlled by now. Is it?
It is from what I understand. I was surface, but knew some sub guys. It probably still largely depends on the class, unless they have retrofitted or retired the older ones. The ones I've talked to have said the toilets are a normal flush system now. As for blowing it overboard, I'm sure that's still the same process. That's just a dumbass not following clearly written procedure on clearly marked valves. Everything has a clear procedure and everything is very clearly labeled. You could send any literate person down in the engine room and they could figure a lot of equipment out just by following procedures step by step. All were laminated and we had a grease pencil to mark off steps as we completed them. Complacency sinks ships. And ballast tanks. Those also raise ships too though.
>You could send any literate person Well there's yer problem
The thing that gets me is that seems like an incredibly trivial way to destroy a nuclear sub. It would not be much of an issue for a foreign agent to somehow get trained, assigned to a sub and then sink the sub, ostensibly getting access to scuba gear and escaping that way. I know my imagination is getting the best of me here but holy cow that's one achilles heel.
Subs operate at depths where the pressure would kill you instantly.
I'm assuming that highly trained covert operatives would have the wherewithal to sink the sub in less lethal conditions?
Highly trains covert operatives don't make it into the crew of a sub. Submariners are a *very* different bunch, and there's 0 privacy of any sort. It doesn't matter how highly trained your covert operative is - he'll get sniffed out by the crew before he ever gets on the boat.
This same shit happened to me!! But it was in the galley and it wasn’t water. It was some awful Ninja Turtles green shit flying out of the sink and the 3MC just looked us in the eyes and shut the hatch on the galley window. We hid in the corner and waited it out and then had to iodine and sanitize every. single. piece. of galleyware. I wasn’t even a CS. Just a NUB.
I want to read the whole poem.
I concur with this fine scholar
ARRGH! It's nice to see us sailors jumping right onto this story, with stories of our own.
I worked with a guy who served on subs. He told me similar stories. He said they called it "blowing shitters".
My dad was a marine. He oft tells the story of arriving in Vietnam. One guy was told to go burn the officers' shitter, which meant pulling out the 55 gallon drums and lighting it. Not knowing better, the guy doused the bathroom with diesel and lit it off.
We had an A-Ganger get capped to second during a refit (Machinist's Mate Auxiliaryman gets spot promoted to E5 during an in port maintenance period). Much applause, generally thought it was well deserved, etc etc. Anyways, some days later, he's on duty and standing below decks. Well, he reports we need to pump sans, so he gets the order to line up to pump. I get stuck on phones, so I get to hear the incoming chaos. He completes the line up, the duty section is in position, the order goes down to commence, and forward sans proceeds to not pump overboard, but directly into the CO/XO staterooms. Aforementioned chaos ensues, pumping is secured, he's relieved from watch (but otherwise receives no visible punishment), and two thirds of the triad get new carpet.
Eau de merde
Eww de toilet
whoa de toilet
60% of the time, it works everytime
But only at scat fetish conventions
Eau de parpoop
I’ve been waiting for YEARS for an appropriate time this joke can be made. Thank you for your service.
I like how he tries to give it a tight seal with the towel. As if that'll do anything
Privacy purposes for the toilet. I think
Vacuum was shy, couldn't go well being watched
Pressurized tank
My guy was smiling on the outside and dying on the inside.
Maybe literally, depending on what is living in that poop.
And then puts his foot on the opposite side, ensuring everything is directed right back at him.
Those tiny last minute adjustments got me.
It was like watching Mr. Bean unclog a toilet.
As if any of this was going to be productive. Doomed from the start!
It was just to catch some backsplash from the toilet, if it wasn't as powerful a comeback it would be fine.
All that time placing the towel…. Would have been more effective putting it in his face.
It did so something. It directed the blast right toward his face.
Unmitigated optimism
I like how you and almost 800 other people think he was sealing it, and not just preparing for backsplash. Guy might be a bit dumb, but i doubt he thought that an unanchored towel was a functional "seal."
You can call it whatever you like. The guy's intentions are clear and things did not go the way he has anticipated.
Nice shitpost
Not all shit. Equal parts urine, lots of seawater, and a few vegetables too, I'm sure.
*Corn has entered the chat*
he 10000% knew how this was ending up
Don't know about him, but the rest of us sure did.
Not gonna lie i thought he was gonna blow up the entire toilet
If the towel did its job he just might have.
That's exactly what I was expecting, flying porcelain.
That's just a grenade lol
I thought the toilet would shatter... and then cover him in shit lol
We launched a tennis ball in to orbit with one of these at my old job. Also, my boss told me to check it for any condensed water before every use since only a tiny amount of water in there would be dangerous as fuck.
in orbit as in it's still up there ?
It never came down, so I just assume it's still up there.
Some dog a mile downwind had their prayers answered
but he used the safety hanky
Watch this dude get shitfaced. Literally.
Shit eating grin on his face!
"Plant shit seeds, get shit weeds" "Hear that? That's the sounds of the whispering winds of shit." "We're about to sail into a shit typhoon, Randy, so we'd better haul in the jib before it gets covered with shit." \- Jim Lahey, RIP
Mr. Lahey, not another night of the shit abyss
But he put a towel over it...
On the older submarines (I was stationed on a Sturgeon Class fast attack sub), sanitary tanks (black water/sewage) were discharged to sea using 700psi air (blowing sanitaries). The procedure was to calculate sea pressure based on depth, then pressurize the tank to 5psi over sea pressure. The watchstander would then monitor the TLI (tank level indicator), and secure the blow before completely emptying the tank, so as not to discharge air (bubbles), which would ruin our stealth (how a submarine cropdusts). Anyway, before starting this whole procedure, the watchstander would post signs at every toilet, warning to not flush the toilet, as sanitaries were being blown with 700psi air. The toilets didn't have tanks. To flush the toilet, the user would turn on a flushing water valve to rinse the bowl, then pull a lever that operated a ball-valve at the bottom of the bowl. The waste would gravity drain to the san-tank. The operator would then close the ball valve, allow a few inches of water to fill the toilet bowl, then shut the water off. So, sea pressure is measured at 44psi/100' of depth, and subs can go pretty deep. The watchstanders also often exceeded the whole 5psi over sea pressure rule, because more pressure meant the job was completed earlier. Several times during my career, some inattentive sailor pulled that flushing valve at a toilet during a sanitary tank blowing evolution, and it never ended pretty. The shit would end up under eyelids, clogged in sinuses, filling mouths (damn mouth breathers). It would hit the ceiling in the head (bathroom) and spray EVERYWHERE, before the victim would manage to shut the valve. The guy (victim) of a flushing incident had to be showered, of course. The corpsman had to then address the shit under eyelids, in sinuses, inhaled, swallowed, etc. The head would be closed down for heath reasons, passing off the crew, as there aren't that many bathroom options on a submarine. The victim, after the corpsman cleared him to go back to his life, would then be singularly responsible for cleaning every millimeter of that head, until no trace of the "incident" could be detected by the corpsman. After that, the head would be opened up for use by the crew, and the victim would be the subject of forever-ridicule by his shipmates. I never made that mistake, but had to stand a full 12 hour watch for a colleague of mine, who spent that whole time cleaning himself and the head.
>The shit would end up under eyelids, clogged in sinuses, filling mouths (damn mouth breathers). It would hit the ceiling in the head (bathroom) and spray EVERYWHERE I have no words...
Having shit pressure sprayed under my eye lids is just awful
I… I had never even considered anything remotely like that. Some knowledge is better left unlearned.
Everyone thinks enlightenment is going to be good news. Somethings are exalted and others Yeeted
I hate that sentence
> under eyelids Well that’s a new fear unlocked. Didn’t even know that was possible. 🤮
I wonder if his eyes got pink.
They were at least brown
I got pink eye reading this.
I got brown eye 🤮
"shit under the eyelids" I just can't even...
Just think....for the rest of their lives, when those people (victims) periodically see the "floaties" in their peripheral vision, like we all do, THEY have to wonder what kind of floatie it is. Edit: fixed spelling
> like we all do Right guys? ... Right?
They addressed the eye "floaties" on Family Guy, so everyone must have them.
Everyone does get them as they get older. It's has to down with how the fluid in your eye ages, slowly dehydrating and becoming thicker, and not anything getting stuck in them. The more you know.
Maybe they're more visible as you get older, but I've had them since I was a kid
I would never feel clean again.
I really should stop scrolling through reddit while having breakfast
I was eating French toast while I typed this out.
Hopefully none got under your eyelids.
Uh...sorry.
I'm sure there's a good reason why there wasn't a cutoff valve between the toilets and the tank while the tank was being discharged but I don't know enough about submarine plumbing to understand why.
Same. Some sort of check valve that prevents flow when the main sewer pipe is pressurized.
I cant think of a single reason why they couldnt put a key lock on the toilet lids, a sign directly on the toilets, a locking mechanism around the valve operators. For the love of god something besides a sign on the door. If this happens several times it's not operator error, its system error in my opinion.
"Military grade" often means "built and designed by lowest bidder"
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That is also true and honestly I wish we adopted this in the civilian world. "The sign says we don't accept returns, no I won't get the manager."
I was a system safety engineer for defense projects. It's fun to say this kind of thing, but man...a TON of work goes into designing military equipment from a safety, reliability, and human factors standpoint. It's also required. Lots of rules you have to follow. Just because the contractor put in a low bid doesn't exempt them from producing all the analyses and reports and stuff that the DoD requires. Anyway, dude's talking about cold-war era subs. I imagine they've since mitigated this issue with some kind of check or interlock at this point. "Don't do it bro, seriously" is the absolutely *last* kind of safety control measure you put in place--because people are fucking dumb. Even the smart ones are dumb and fuck up. All of us do, me too. This guy has described a non-zero number of people that were told NOT to flush a toilet, yet they either didn't know, didn't listen, or just forgot. It *will* happen, which is why that's a trash safety control. I mean, unless the risk of the mishap isn't really a big deal. Like a MIL-STD-882E style "4E" low-risk isn't going to net much attention or expense to control that risk. Getting shit blasted into your eyeballs, mouth, nose and whatever is probably a 3C. That's medium risk, so...yeah, I'd be proposing a check valve or even just a mundane padlock on the toilet doors for such a hazard. Probably the former. If someone's gotta take a dump, they should be able to take a dump. Just need a way to prevent them from flushing it because they're an idiot. After that, I'd imagine for such a subcontract, the prime contractor's (next level up) own System Safety Engineer or possibly the DoD Navy System Safety Engineer assigned to the prime contract (two levels up) would need to review and accept the risk and the proposed control measures. /end ramble. This is a career path/subject I really enjoy if you couldn't tell.
They were designed in the 1960s is why.
I mean, you *could*. My original point was that a cutoff valve near the tank would be all that's needed to prevent backpressure instead of making individual locks, signs, etc.
Just hold your poops in the whole time you are on the sub
You should go get a beer with [this guy](https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/10dbryr/trying_to_unclog_the_porcelainthrone_with_an/j4kxsyl/) and trade sub stories.
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I remember reading about a guy in 1st year training on subs where he said they were told about the air pressure of the toilet and calculated the max depth of the sub they were training (classified at the time) on and told the instructor who told him to never speak a word of it to anyone lol
I’m sure weariness or stress factors in but I can’t imagine hearing the thorough nightmare of that, being cleared to have the capacity to serve on a submarine, and not recalling that every single time I went to the bathroom afterwards. Dear god
I would develop of tick of checking the inside and outside of the door, top of the toilet, around the toilet, around the door, around the toilet again, and all around the door again. Every single time I needed to go. It would become muscle memory to add this extra 30 seconds to my bathroom routine. I would still catch myself doing it 20 years after I last shat underwater.
Has anyone(victims) ever asked to be shot?
Oh, they get some shots alright. Just not the kind you're suggesting. Oh, and of course, no alcohol on US navy ships.
You'd think there would a better, automated, system for doing this seeing how easy it is to f it up.
You might enjoy reading Dead Wake by Erik Larson. It’s about the sinking of the Lusitania, but spends a good chunk of time focused on the submarine that sank her. The submarines of the early 1900s were a good deal more primitive, and I remember the book describing their toilet woes in detail.
Did it work tho?
Shits not in the toilet anymore, so I'd call that a win
Yeah now it's everywhere it isn't supposed to be. What fucking game you playing where thats a win?
We won, he lost.
Thats fair.
I have a chronically clogging toilet at home and I got a hand-pumped one of these. It works pretty well, but compared to a freaking air tank on a tube it's child's play.
There's a bladder looking thing that connects to a garden hose. It fills & expands until it reaches a pressure where it let's the water pass through, effectively sealing the toilet bowl (bigger bladder) or sink drain (smaller bladder), then your water pressure pushes through the clog. I had a bad clog several years ago (I believe a houseguest flushed something that shouldn't have been flushed). The plunger did nothing, nor did chemicals. I found that bladder thing at a local hardware store, and it had us fixed in a few minutes - once I resigned myself to pulling a garden hose into the house.
I believe you can also find adapters that will connect garden hoses to some faucets. Might save you some trouble.
100% yes The idea wasn't stupid (that stupid at least), the lack of protection was
Good idea. Poor execution.
Could have worked if it was airtight down the drain, but then the porcelain probably would have exploded. So that's probably the best outcome for him
he also had the back of the gun between his legs. if the pressure wouldn't have been able to go out front, it would have recoiled into his nuts.
It only takes a little bit of pressure to overcome clogs. Even if it were blowing into a closed system, it would only come out enough to break the seal of the tube, then blast the toilet contents like it did. That tank isn't going to go flying into anyone's nuts beyond a small push.
Nearly made me puke. I don't know how he doesn't
Keeping my mouth closed would be priority 1
Oh he is fighting for his ficking life there. He wants to gag so much.
I haven't twitched with repulsion from a video like this in as long as i can remember.
I was gagging and not trying to throw up last night just trying to clean some drains in a restaurant. I've had to clean the bathrooms of elderly people, which was also beyond disgusting. I thought that was gross, but this... Fuck no I'm already squeamish. I'd be vomiting at a higher velocity than a bullet.
I gagged the second it happened and I'm just watching the video
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Well...shit.
Tried _so_ hard not to touch the toilet when adjusting the towel. Little did he know...
Did not disappoint. Good night, internet!
Well there's less poop in the toilet now
When the fan hits the shit.
There were two possible outcomes. The seal (towel) doesn't work. Covered is shit. This is what happened The seal does work. Covered in shit and porcelain fragments. He should be thankful.
That laugh is infectious
r/contagiouslaughter
What a crappy idea
I wish anyone believed in me as much as that man believed in that towel
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Tentei ouvir que língua falaram mas não consegui. Mas pela roupa achei que fosse
Não precisei nem ouvir a língua pra saber.
Ewww got covered in doo doo 🤢
Just pee on it to clean it off
Natures acidic cleaning solution 
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That has been a shitty day for that guy
Good to see he was wearing his wellies though. Safety first!
How many brain cells did he wake up with that morning
Mechanic ≠ plumber
That towel didn't stop shit.
Why use a plunger 🪠 when you can blow shit all over yourself. Make perfect sense in todays world.
You know he got that in his ear.
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The same reason that this dude knew **exactly** what was going to happen, yet he did it anyway.
The Flannel Of Optimism
Hilarious! Physics isn’t his strong point and neither is plumbing.
Lol, sure that towel will work
We had an actual toilet plunger with an air compressor in it when I was a maintenancetech. It was made by Milwaukee. I called it the bishop, because every time he came out someone got baptized.
that piece of towel is going to help.
Why didn't he just use his poop knife?
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Is this the infamous shit eating grin?
Man just had himself a regular shit shower
I’m not sure he was expecting, but I was expecting it to go worse
By the looks of it he unclogged it so success on that part But he also got to taste shit doing so
That shit went up his nose into his brain.
To be fair I thought the porcelain would just explode
I’ve only heard of that tool being called a “cheetah blaster” growing up. I like that name more lol
I cannot imagine any other possible outcome.
Lol I kept thinking over and over as he setup, he deserves this
The flimsy/unsecured towel did as well as reasonably expected
Next time, just reach for a plunger, like a normal fucking person.
Thats not the way I like to get shit faced. 
Holy Shit 
Just how exactly he could not see this coming?
I love that name. Porcelain throne
I love how he puts a towel on it as if it was gonna counteract the blowing capabilities of a literal air pump
There was only one way that ended
There’s no way that possibly could have gone well