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▲ 16 r/Microfiction+1 crossposts

Centipede Coffee

Every morning I make coffee for my wife and I with a standard coffee maker.

Later in the morning, when I clean the filter holder and carafe, I prop open the lid of the water reservoir and the compartment where the coffee filter goes so that the condensation can dry out.

On the kitchen counter, near the coffee maker, there's also a tissue box. Yesterday, when I pulled out a tissue, a centipede was startled out from behind the box and ran across the wall and into a hole between bricks somewhere.

Now, it occurred to me that for the years that we've had this coffee maker, I've never actually cleaned out the water reservoir or even looked inside it (it's not particularly easy due to its depth and the weight of the coffee maker). This information connected in my mind to the knowledge of a centipede having been nearby, and the fact that they prefer damp, dark places.

I didn't want to look, but I decided to finally check the coffee maker's water reservoir. I haven't told my wife this, but for some unknown length of time we've been drinking centipede-infused coffee daily. We haven't noticed any difference in taste, so I guess it's fine?

>!Except that I changed the time frame to "yesterday" when this happened months ago, and, actually, I still haven't checked the water reservoir. I prefer to assume that there is no centipede in there and everything is perfectly fine. So this is the horror story of what could be. Was this a waste of time, or an original micro-fiction? I dunno. It's what went through my mind in any case.!<

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u/Linkums — 8 days ago
▲ 45 r/TrueAskReddit

Why is content designed to elicit sexual gratification "bad", but not content made for any other feeling/emotion?

I can somewhat understand restricting it from children because maybe they'd try to imitate it and increase young pregnancies. But otherwise, the majority of the population is adults, and sexual gratification is a normal part of most adults' life.

Does it really just come down to how society developed, generally in connection with religion, or is there a secular reasoning for why content made for sexual gratification has a negative perception?

(Or am I mistaken in my assumption that it's seen as "bad" in the first place?)

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u/Linkums — 3 months ago
▲ 299 r/DonkeyKongBananza+2 crossposts

You know you've been playing too much DK Bananza when you see a random shadow and think "Is that a banana?"

u/Linkums — 3 months ago
▲ 6 r/christianmemes

Them: "What church do you go to?"

Me: "It's a little hard to pronounce. You say it in tongues."

(A true exchange I had. Joking of course. Sorry for the text post and not actual meme.)

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u/Linkums — 3 months ago
▲ 2 r/anime

Question about The Promised Neverland to people who have seen it

I'm currently watching Season 1 (8 episodes in) and don't want any spoilers, but I want to know:

  1. Does the series conclude at the end of Season 2, or is it still ongoing?

  2. If it has concluded with Season 2, does it have a "happy" ending? I don't need a save the world ending necessarily, but at least a "some people safely escaped" ending with some feeling of catharsis rather than continuing despair and doom. Don't tell me what the ending is; just the general mood of it, I guess.

On the one hand, it's giving me fun cleverness vibes I haven't had since Death Note, plus exciting interesting mysteries. On the other hand, I'm depressed enough as it is irl, and the feeling of unescapable doom is a bit overwhelming.

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u/Linkums — 3 months ago
▲ 24 r/dadjokes

You know how people dealt with excess humidity before they had electricity?

People had to use dehumidifires back then.

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u/Linkums — 4 months ago
▲ 11 r/kirbyairriders

Surely this custom has been done before? (Plus one other original design)

Haruko's Vespa from FLCL

And also an original "mystical" Swerve Star inspired by Noita's unsolved eye puzzle.

u/Linkums — 4 months ago
▲ 4 r/basement

What's happening and what should I do? Basement flooded, mud along wall, hole in road funneling down water, possible sinkhole forming in road.

Here's a video as well to demonstrate how fast the water was flowing in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DJRTo0wWOA

Facts

  • House is an old rowhome.
  • Basement flooded for the first time in 3 1/2 years, after several days of on and off rain.
  • After cleanup and drywall removal, we found that the water had come in from the front basement wall and wrapped around the edge of the room on the raised concrete behind the drywall before entering through the drywall in the corner of the room and adjacent room.
  • There was mud and dirt, 2" deep at its deepest, totaling ~115lbs., between the front-facing brick wall and drywall / wood studs, and in a gradient down to the water's final entry point through the drywall in the adjacent bathroom.
  • Our road has had multiple sinkholes patched over the years. Our neighbor reported that she believed one to be forming in front of our home back in February. There is also evidence that our sidewalk has dropped 3/4" over some amount of time (due to the gap from where it was previously sealed beneath the basement window).
  • About 4 weeks ago, our neighbor noticed a small hole open up in the road along the curb. (Now patched with quikrete.)
  • When water flowed into the hole in the road, it also flowed into our basement (see video). The waterproofing panels and mud was still there at this point, so we could not see the precise entry point.
  • We haven't noticed any water entry after patching the hole in the street, even after heavy rain.

Here's what I want to know:

  • How'd all that mud (and water) get in? One guy says its from the drainage system under the house being clogged, and the water and mud pushing up from below, between the brick wall and concrete floor. He suggested digging up the perimeter of the basement and installing their better drainage system. Or, maybe he's wrong and it somehow came through the brick wall somewhere?
  • Would it be worth somehow poking through the patched hole in the road to pour water in again and try to deduce if it's coming through the wall or up from below? How might I do penetrate the quikrete patch?
  • What should we do about it? Is it necessary to replace the drainage system as "the guy" recommends? Or are we good as long as the road is patched to not funnel half the block's water right at our basement wall?
u/Linkums — 5 months ago