My grandpa's open air basement toilet had a brick on the lid to keep rats from getting in. The rare times I had to use it I was always so scared of a rat showing up and half the time I couldn't even go because of it
To keep rats from entering the house via sewer lines or to keep rats from climbing in the toilet and drowning? I really need to know more about this open air basement
Keep them from entering the house from the sewer. That's what I was always told at any rate; the house and town were old enough it seems plausible. The house's driveway side door opened to the kitchen and on the right was a wood staircase. Right near the base of the staircase barely out of direct sight when entering the side door is where the toilet was just hanging out near a support beam not even against a wall. There wasn't a sink down there you had to go back up the stairs to the kitchen to wash your hands.
I once went to a cousin's house in the midwest, and we went to find something in the basement. Fam, it was like the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark: stacks and stacks of Stuff as far as the eye could see... To their credit, it was all in bins and shelves with aisle space and fairly well organized...
Great uncle had the toilet but also an overhead shower directly above a drain. Right next to the toilet, of course. The floor wasn't even angled to the drain. He used a mop to push the water to the drain.
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rem26_art@fedia.io · 43 pts · 1y
those random toilets are real and absolutely wild to see if you're not from the midwest
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 25 pts · 1y
My grandpa's open air basement toilet had a brick on the lid to keep rats from getting in. The rare times I had to use it I was always so scared of a rat showing up and half the time I couldn't even go because of it
Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
this is me but spiders
satans_methpipe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
To keep rats from entering the house via sewer lines or to keep rats from climbing in the toilet and drowning? I really need to know more about this open air basement
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
Keep them from entering the house from the sewer. That's what I was always told at any rate; the house and town were old enough it seems plausible. The house's driveway side door opened to the kitchen and on the right was a wood staircase. Right near the base of the staircase barely out of direct sight when entering the side door is where the toilet was just hanging out near a support beam not even against a wall. There wasn't a sink down there you had to go back up the stairs to the kitchen to wash your hands.
clucose@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 1y
Maybe those basements are tornado shelters. Than you need a toilet at some point.
Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 40 pts · 1y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_toilet
troybot@midwest.social · 19 pts · 1y
My grandma had one in the basement along with a "shower" which was just a spray nozzle and a curtain ring above the floor drain.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
I have that! But mine is fancy because it has a poorly laid concrete "basin" around it.
plz1@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
That's an interesting piece of rust belt Americana, there.
makuus@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
https://youtu.be/nXUmUyKk0Uw
normalexit@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
I've had a Busch in this exact basement.
stinerman@midwest.social · 8 pts · 1y
Farmer water.
Sergio@slrpnk.net · 17 pts · 1y
I once went to a cousin's house in the midwest, and we went to find something in the basement. Fam, it was like the last scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark: stacks and stacks of Stuff as far as the eye could see... To their credit, it was all in bins and shelves with aisle space and fairly well organized...
stinerman@midwest.social · 10 pts · 1y
Great uncle had the toilet but also an overhead shower directly above a drain. Right next to the toilet, of course. The floor wasn't even angled to the drain. He used a mop to push the water to the drain.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
sigh damn near got my basement down to a T. Minus the exercise equipment, obviously.
LastoftheDinosaurs@walledgarden.xyz · 8 pts · 1y
Every basement I've ever smoked weed in has looked like this
dmention7@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
I mean the random toilet yes, but those red metal poles...
Am in Midwest, have unfinished basement, have 2 red metal poles down there.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 5 pts · 1y
I wanna play sega genesis down there so bad
chetradley@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Add a CRT with a GameCube and a couple of madcatz controllers.
McCrankyface@beige.party · 4 pts · 1y
@seahorse too much empty space
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Never truly finish a basement in the midwest. Bare concrete is a lot cheaper to repair when it floods.
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Could be from the Pacific North West if that ceiling were 3 foot lower.
lars@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 1y
And if you could photoshop in the smell of damp dust and darkness
DM_Me_Boobs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Don't forget the weed bong.
seahorse@midwest.social · 2 pts · 1y
water pipe
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 1y
Laughable Photoshop job lol
0ops@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Nothing gets passed you