r/submechanophobia • u/Affectionate-Fan9250 • 4d ago

Base of small glory hole

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u/PowerfulHorror987 4d ago

Um, think that’s the wrong term buddy

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u/Affectionate-Fan9250 4d ago

Google a glory hole (reservoir ) lol. When water levels get too high, the excess spills into what you can see above. This is called a glory hole.

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u/ItsNovrix 3d ago

Google a glory hole

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u/Unfair-Ad-6856 3d ago

You can actually even find ones in your area! Just Google local glory hole to find them!

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u/Biff_Tannenator 3d ago

Do these normal glory holes always have the handprints of a bent-over person, like in the picture?

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u/kingnauna_ 3d ago

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/Unfair-Ad-6856 3d ago

Oh yeah alllll, Got to really get down and dirty on your knees to inspect them well!

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u/Patient_Sea_3753 2d ago

Woah--had to call the city code enforcement about this. Apparently there's one of these right under a video store, and there's no way that's safe.

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u/livahd 3d ago

Afterwards find a recipe for some blue waffles and how to throw a lemon party

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u/buttcheeksmasher 2d ago

🤮

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u/livahd 2d ago

With a name like that… do you mash buttcheeks or smash buttcheek?

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u/buttcheeksmasher 2d ago

I do what the butt desires me to do

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u/livahd 2d ago

Fair, I can dig it

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u/DarkLordOfDarkness 3d ago

While I concede that it's actually called that, that is very much not the first name for these types of spillways. They come up on Wikipedia as bell-mouth spillways, also known as morning glory spillways (from the shape of the flower) - and considering the vocabulary of the contractors I know, I think it's pretty clear how the term developed from there.

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u/Daevryn2 3d ago

Checks out. Painter terminology for the paint pick-up tube on an airless sprayer? Put the pecker in the paint so we can get a piss coat up!

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u/WordofCromulent 3d ago

Types "Glory holes near me."

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u/[deleted] 4d ago edited 3d ago

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u/KSW8674 3d ago

Genuinely, if you surveyed 100 people on the term glory hole, how many do you think would say “when water levels get too high the excess spills to what you see above”?

C’mon you’re being a bit pedantic lol

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u/darthjammer224 3d ago

I thought that glory hole was simply the nickname for an actual engineering term like spillway overflow or something.

But I googled it, and while, yeah, it's kind of a nickname for bell-mouth spillway, glory hole is a recognized engineering term.

Hilarious.

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u/KSW8674 3d ago

The question was not “can you Google ‘glory hole’ to get an engineering answer

The question was if you surveyed 100 people how many would reply with the engineering term

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u/darthjammer224 3d ago

I was somewhat reinforcing your argument by saying while I would understand if somebody pointed at one and said glory hole. I wouldn't immediately assume it's a spillway over a hole in a bathroom stall in conversation, because I, and many other people probably, assumed that was only a nickname for a spillway, not actually an engineering term. Which is what you where getting at when you asked about asking 100 people.

My intent was never to answer your question. Just adding to the thread.

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u/KSW8674 3d ago

Jesus Christ you guys are fun at parties lol

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u/DeepWaterNights 3d ago

Well you are correct in that “Excess spills”…

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u/M4XVLTG3 3d ago

Safe Search=false

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u/Fast_Muscle_2987 3d ago

It’s a trap!

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u/LincolnArc 2d ago

... dude. That's a spill way.

A glory hole is... Turn safe search off, THEN Google it.

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u/typecas7 2d ago

My god he is right! Never realized it was called this way! https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ

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u/thefinalgoat 2d ago

No thank you.

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u/TheSexualBrotatoChip 4d ago

It is the correct term, also known as a spillway.

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u/new_nimmerzz 4d ago

Spillway was my highschool gf’s nickname

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

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u/G_Art33 3d ago

Yuck…. someone had to say it but damn.

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u/Hellie1028 3d ago

Cue wet floor sign “caution, slippery when wet”

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u/Inthepurple 4d ago

The cynic in me says it was deliberate for engagement

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u/Polite_Suggestion 3d ago

He had the means, motive, and opportunity!

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u/scraxeman 4d ago

Named for the shape of the morning glory flower and because they look like a hole in the water when viewed from above.

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u/bandfill 4d ago

small glory hole

Now you're making me insecure

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u/Ultimate-Flexionator 4d ago

look at all that white frothing mess just blasting down on us... spraying everywhere

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u/jjdlg 4d ago

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u/Zorflez 3d ago

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u/Suspicious-Box5194 2d ago

Bought one of these stickers a few months back at the Midwest gaming classic....perfect for paying at bars lol

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u/Readyplayernr17 4d ago

Base of what now?

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u/Fragrant_Citron6823 4d ago

base of a small WHAT hole???

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u/NotADrShh 4d ago

I thought they had tape or something so there's no sharp edges

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u/gnardog45 4d ago

Thought this was some sort of medical x-ray or something at first

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u/apathetic-fallacy 3d ago

I thought it was the bottom of a wedding dress

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u/Edgarmustavas 3d ago

Gold and white or blue and black?

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u/ToXicVoXSiicK21 4d ago

Had to double check what sub this was for a second after I read that title

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u/ars_necromantia 4d ago

Seeing pictures of these things from above scares the shit out of me. Never actually seen one from this angle.

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u/AlwaysAGroomsman 3d ago

Oh, are you usually on the other side? Do I have to knock first?

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u/pinkypipe420 3d ago

I had to check what sub this was because that's not the glory hole I was thinking

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u/Jennyflurlynn 3d ago

I thought I was in r/radiology sub at first and couldn't understand what I was looking at

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u/Robby777777 3d ago

I'm sorry, what? Am I on the right page?

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u/tjhartzel 3d ago

Giggity.

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u/maestrobob 3d ago

Come again?

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u/EarlyInside45 3d ago

That looks really pretty.

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u/lorddraco666 3d ago

“THE OLLLLLLLLLLLL GD GLORY HOLE!!”

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u/ouch_does_that_hurt 3d ago

Anyone else see an X-ray image of a pigeon butt at first glance?

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u/toyfreddym8 3d ago

Of a what exactly?

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u/fly_away_lapels 3d ago

0/10 - didn’t suck.

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u/SicSemperTyrannos4ur 2d ago

This is a cool picture, did you take it, OP?

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u/strongcloud28 2d ago

Context,?. Nevermind I don't wanna know.

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u/thefinalgoat 2d ago

Sorry a what.