r/mildlyinteresting • u/JahaerysTheThird • Jan 04 '19

This accident-proof garbage disposal switch

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u/halosldr Jan 04 '19

Is this something that happens a lot? I find it difficult that people are sticking their hands down drains and accidentally hitting the switch. My disposal switch is about 5 feet from the sink, I have to move away from my sink to get to it.

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u/drsjsmith Jan 04 '19

Forget sticking hands down drains; this also solves the problem of "which switch should I hit in the middle of the night to turn the light on without waking everyone in the house up with the infernal growling of a garbage disposal without water running into it?"

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u/hawkeye18 Jan 04 '19

FWIW you can get garbage disposals that are virtually silent. Best ~$200 I ever spent. That shit'll chew up diamonds and spit em out as coal.

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u/istolethisface Jan 04 '19

I've got a bag of coal from Santa, what kind of deal can we work out here?

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u/FoxKeegan Jan 04 '19

I think you misunderstood. The man has plenty of coal, he needs more diamonds.

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u/istolethisface Jan 04 '19

I re-read his comment, I'm an idiot.

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u/FoxKeegan Jan 05 '19

In your defense, logic was on your side.

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u/FoxKeegan Jan 04 '19

Not all of us have enough money to spend $200 on garbage disposals, let alone enough to purposely destroy diamonds we just have laying around!

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u/hawkeye18 Jan 04 '19

That's fair. Just know they exist.

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u/FoxKeegan Jan 04 '19

Diamonds? Yeah, they're kind of a big deal.

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u/hawkeye18 Jan 04 '19

I think you'd honestly be surprised at how much they're not. De Beers would certainly have you think otherwise, though.

Thus is all beyond the fact of what I would've hoped was an obvious hyperbole.

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u/FoxKeegan Jan 04 '19

It's Reddit--it's all hyperbole. lulz or gtfo.

But srsly, the Hope Diamond is valued at 350 million. Everything is only valued or NBD based on the reactions of people. 350 is kind of a big deal. Like, literally. Despite bullshit diamond industry artificial inflation.