I don’t mean what you use to chop down your feces, but an object that you realized only your family has and people would raise their eyebrows at. Best if said object has a sole purpose.
We have fully furnished poop cutlery
We had an “automobile hairdryer.” On school mornings after I took a shower and was being driven to school, I would lean my head up towards the dashboard and have the A/C blowing full blast to finish drying my hair. I would do this every morning in elementary school. Probably not very safe now that I think back on it.
Wait I thought this was normal???
My school bus driver would yell at me to get back to my seat
I used to do a very similar thing on my way to work. I got out of the shower, combed my hair back and drove to work with the heat cranked to max and the air duct pointed directly at my face. When I arrived I just ruffled my hair with my hand and had a perfect and indestructible style for the day. I never managed to get a good result with an actual hairdrier lol
I used to use a 500 cc hairdryer. My motorcycle.
Ayyyy same but then comes the dusty season
We have a suite of kitchen tools because sometimes walking downstairs to the garage is to far when all you want to do is measure something real quick or quickly tighten or loosen a screw.
Haha we have a kitchen hammer and screwdriver! Our family found a similar drawer in a vacation home and laughed about it; then we got home and realized how often you just need one of those and it’s great to have one right there!
Yep, the kitchen “junk drawer”, filled with a few hand tools, rubber bands and zip ties, batteries, graphite lubricant, matches and lighters, screws and buttons, other miscellaneous bits and bobs.
Not to be mistaken for the kitchen “miscellaneous drawer”, filled with condiment packets, wrapped plastic utensils, other large kitchen utensils you rarely use but won’t fit in the regular drawer, maybe an extra meat thermometer that you’re not sure if it even works.
If only I had that many drawers
Two? One for flatware and cooking utensils, one for “junk”.
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For a while we had the kitchen shovel.
It was a garden trowel that we had washed and used as a very large spoon when we first moved in, because we hadn’t found the silverware yet.
Sir/Madam do you live in a mansion?
No, just lazy
I think a small kitchen tool set is pretty common.
I also have a small kitchen toolbox under my sink. Tape measure, screwdrivers, an adjustable wrench, pliers, and a small hammer.
It’s so I don’t have to pull my large toolbox out from the closet in the other room, when I just need to tighten one loose screw. It’s trivial, but a necessity for me now
I have an internet pencil.
Getting reliable internet through the house while renting crappy houses means I end up using ethernet over power bricks.
Every couple of months they will fail and need to be power cycled but the switches on the power point are occluded by the EoP brick without enough room for my fat fingers.
I would just grab any pen or pencil to use as my switch flicking tool but they are constantly purloined by my children so I keep a special internet pencil on my desk.
Check out a short power plug cable, been a lifesaver for those bulky power blocks.
I have a car clock pencil, it lives in my car sunscreen pocket and it’s used twice a year when the clocks go forward or back.
Maybe not for every room but I have been using moca over coax and it is way faster and more reliable than Ethernet over power.
As long as your house has decent rg6 coax, I had a place with rg59 and those moca adapters worked like shit. Also make sure that filter is in the right place!
I’m just finding out now that we had a poop knife…
A snake poop knife, for the stuck snake poop in the snake box.
I have nothing else to say about it.
We had a poop spork for similar purposes involving a lizard cage. It was good for fishing lizard poops out of the water dish.
We’ve got a frog tong. Every time a frog gets in the house catch it with a tong and toss it in the garden.
How often are frogs getting in?
Very often during the monsoon season. Like twice a week or so. The rest of the year, barely. Summers is for lizards.
This might be a dialect thing, but I’m intrigued at what one tong is? I’m in Australia and we only have pairs of tongs - like we only have pairs of pants - and I’ve never heard them referred to in the singular.
I don’t like to use ‘pair of’ for things like tongs or spectacles spectacles which are one physical item. I do it for stuff like shoes tho. I think pair of tongs is technically correct tho
Well you did write tong before and not tongs which is what was being asked. It should still be plural, even without the “pair of” bit.
The frog tong is one half of a pair of tongs yes. You lure the frog on it and catapult the fucker outside.
The fact that this is a common enough occurrence to warrant a special tool for the occasion makes me so jealous of your life
I have a set of tongs at home with frogs for the silicone grips. Living at the beach it’s not uncommon for green tree frogs to make their way inside the doggie door.
Oh pls i’d trade my position with you instantly, I hate frogs
QLD? Toilet frogs?
This is a common occurrence at my home as well. When there’s heavy rain frogs get caught in our window wells, some make it inside, some get caught between the windows and screen. I just put on a pair of gloves, fish em out and set them free on higher ground.
Once my cat frantically came yowling up the stairs with a frog in her mouth. Set it down gently, unharmed and stared at me loudly meowing as if to say “look what I found, WTF is this? Do something about it.”
You have one badass cat.
Pickle fork
Works great for those pesky stuck ball joints
This one is a real thing and it’s pretty convenient.
I’m so confused by the poop knife. What in the hell is a poop knife?! WHY?!
My family is NORMAL and we have NORMAL things in the house!!! WHAT THE FUCK IS A POOP KNIFE OR THE FUCKING FROG TONGS YOU PEOPLE ARE INSANE
I want to believe this is all /s but I haven’t gotten the feel of Lenny quite yet.
You ever drive down a rural road, and out the window you suddenly come across an old shuttered up house? The kind of house with five cars parked on the front lawn in various states of disrepair? With overgrown bushes pushing into the peeling paint of the wooden siding alongside a giant novelty bigfoot that seems to stare at you as you zip by down the road? The one with the chain link fence that’s torn in five places and yellowed trailer up on blocks? The one with a dog tied to a post, barking it’s head off outside, so you know someone actually lives there?
I imagine these threads are like a window into the lives of the people in those houses. It’s like they’re living in a whole different society, with their weird quirks and vaguely unsettling rituals.
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Funny this is pretty close to the truth when it comes to the things described in this thread.
Poop Knife - Bad diet, large BM’s = financially poor diet = trailer Frog Tongs - trailers tend to have bad gaps in windows Etc
Hahaha no it’s just the monsoon.
It’s a reference to an old reddit post. In the post, the OP explained they had a knife at their toilet for poop that got stuck, hence the poopknife. It was only later in life when they asked a friend for their “poop knife”, when they discovered that nobody else has a knife like that and how weird it is.
In case you are unaware, “poop knife” was a reddit r/confession post from a few years back that went viral, where someone admitted their family has a knife kept in the house specifically for when big ‘movements’ wouldn’t flush, and he had just discovered that wasn’t a normal thing everyone just has at home when he needed flush assistance at a friends house.
I may know the poop knife family, unless there are 2 of them.
I am aware of a poop knife being used in north Houston.
Oh boy, why does this make me uncomfortable to know there are more than one poop knife families.
The original story may have created some copycats?
Ancient story on my part, I forgot about it since I was a kid. A huge family and the most of the family was not petite which I thought was hilarious at the time. I think they had 10 kids with one bathroom, it was probably a necessity.
Ahhh right!! A penis beaker!!
You ever read the cumbox guy’s piece? That guy was understated comedy gold.
The coconut was the best
I shall take that as a compliment
Toeknife
Yes but have you tried a toe spoon?
You’re saying this because of the IASIP episode, right?
Botched toe!
Give me some trash to plug the wound.
We have the expression “look to the freshness of the shit you eat” in our native tongue. Its used to express disbelief at a situation. As far as I know, only our family has it.
Love that this is all you have on your profile. The only comment/ post.
I tried joining a while back but it didn’t let me in. Today, to my surprise, it just worked. Been prowling a whukd
The toaster bottle opener.
A metal combination bottle opener/can tapper which is kept by the toaster oven and used to pull the hot rack out to get your food.
That’s not weird, that’s just smarter than the rest of us.
Ours has a magnet and is stuck to the toaster. Long since abandoned since most cants with ridges don’t like to open well without just using a can opener and removing the whole can lid.
It gets too hot if if I leave it attached, so I use a non-magnetic one which sits loosely nearby.
I had a (well, several) toasters that didn’t pop so well in my early travels through life and people would go crazy if I did this without unplugging it. Lol. I’m not raking the fork across the elements and the element is off, so…
Anyway, one of those disposable, wooden chop sticks works well for this and keeps people from thinking you either have never heard of electricity or have a death wish.
You can carve a little notch on the end if we’re talking about a toaster oven (like a crochet hook).
Christmas Tree knife
I have a few of these.
Most fitting of these is a tabo. No need for a bidet when water just needs motion. The last time a stranger saw it, they were a child who I had to stop from drinking from it.
A Wii U. The most underrated console of all time because it was only successful enough to make a dozen games on it, yet here I am using it everyday. Hijackers never gonna seize a Wii U.
A hammock. People will always ask me why I have one just lying around in the home, but the truth is at times it’s more comfortable than a bed.
A garage. You might be thinking “that’s not so bad”, that is, until you learn I don’t drive (or rather I took lessons but was like nope) and wouldn’t put a vehicle in there anyways (add to that I witnessed a house catch on fire because a car caught fire because of badly mass produced batteries). It’s mostly for other peoples’ vehicles, but it’s only been used for a handful of nights. For the majority of the time, it’s for storage, especially as it has a second attic.
The biggest poop knife equivalent of all though? A Lemmy account. People discover my Lemmy account from DeviantArt (when they finally decide to look up the username) and they ask “what do you do on there when you got Reddit too”. And to them I say this. But seriously, one does not hold the world record for the most websites having signed up for (provable but it takes a long time) and not expand one’s horizons.
Wii U rules, hammocks rule, can we be friends?
Of course. The only big regret is a Wii U can’t load my Discord server where one may find me and where all are invited (recently added a Lemmy lounge).
Thanks Pipey.
My grandfather used to run a fauna park with kookaburras. We had a meat grinder, like what’s used to make filling for pies and pasties, which was used to grind up baby chickens and mice into a paste for the kookaburras.
They also had a meat grind to use for pies and pasties so I hope they never mixed the two.
But…but I thought they ate gumdrops…
No need to look at your user name to know you’re from australia
I have a under bed retrieving stick. My bed has a gap close to the wall, so object sometime fall in. Since the bed is to heavy to be easily moved. I leave a retriving stick. I could upgrade to a hook. But I like the challenge of using a stick.
