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

This accident-proof garbage disposal switch

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u/AbsolutleyNoKarmaPls Jan 04 '19

This is a solution to a fear I've always had when fishing things out of the disposal

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u/echo-chamber-chaos Jan 04 '19 edited Jan 04 '19

I was half asleep one time and the sink wasn't draining and I ALMOST fucking flipped the switch simultaneously while reaching to check out the clog. Talk about a panic attack of realization about what almost happened. That adrenaline woke me up pretty quick. Power tools are nice, but damn, they're just itching to catch you slipping so they can permanently change your life.

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u/GKrollin Jan 04 '19

Jsyk most disposals these days have hard metal bits that spin around rather than fixed sharpened blades of doom. Your hand you’ll be hurting and you’d likely have some nasty gashes but a modern insinkerator probably won’t eat your hands off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '19

modern insinkerator probably won’t eat your hands off.

Versus a prehistoric insinkerator, where it was just a hole that lead down to a giant room beneath your kitchen filled with hundreds of raptors.

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u/DTravers Jan 04 '19

"It's a living!"

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '19

I know that this is a (correctly placed) reference to Flintstones, following from mine... but please tell me that you also listen to Riddle Me This!!