This is a classic case of: I find this pretty funny, but some people will take it seriously if it gets upvoted enough.
One one hand, I don’t like how easily people attach to validation for destructive or harmful behavior.
On the other hand, landlords.
On the other hand, it clogs the city drain pipes as well. It’s your tax dollars it takes, not just the landlord’s $.
I’ve always been curious how it does. Does it coagulate back into a fat like state?
Yes. And unless your sewer systems use incinerators, people have to do manual removal.
According to one of my buddies who works in municipal waste, the incinerators are completely self-sustaining once lit, due to the fat content in our waste. We spent five hours talking about his job and all the insane stuff that happens down there. (People getting high on shrooms and scaling the walls to jump into cesspools, serial clothing flushers who clog the sewer lines, hospitals illegally dumping radioactive waste through incinerators, the benefits of incinerators over landfills, but the optics of incinerators looking worse politically, the NIMBYS blocking new sewer infrastructure from being built and funded, despite it saving their own toilets from backing up during storms, climate change affecting and causing pump stations to flood, etc.)
Yes and also kind of glues other remains together into entities dubbed fatbergs
Yeah, this is the greater problem, fatbergs as they call them. It just destroys infrastructure.
Not every apartment in the building might be a rental unit. If it’s a single-family home, however…
Yes we are
And this is why being a landlord is not a good thing for you. I used to rent a house that I had purchased with all my savings from my first 10 years of work. Just imagine doing that…here bank, here’s 10 years of my hard earned cash! Give me a piece of shit runned down house, I’ll fix it for an asshole to destroy that and my investment.
I rented it for exactly the mortgage, taxes and such.
Now the question is, who fucks who? Did I screw the tenants over because they were paying rent to me and I made a profit when I sold the house? Or did they screw me over because I was basically enslaved by their constant broken this broken that attitude?
Was I providing a house that they couldn’t afford to buy (clearly they could pay for the mortgage) or was I abusing my exclusive advantage by reportedly giving up a shit ton of my money for over a decade the the bank so that someone else could actually get into a house they could afford?
The fix? Let people buy the god dammed houses! Why the need for 20% down? Why not just let them live in the house and get your mortgage? How about some sort of mortgage thing where part of it goes to the principle and part of it is held for repairs as the 20% insurance? Basically the house is really never owned by anyone other than the bank and they are the ones making a shit ton of profit while the rest of us go broke due to the ever increasing prices…inflation. And remember, once you retire the economy keeps it’s inflation. You’ll become poor in no time without an income. That is why some people become landlords, just for keeping up with inflation …but on someone else’s back. The problem is mostly the banks and the housing prospectors… Hmmm I could make a ton of money from this building! Individual landlords like I was just get screwed with bad renters who want to damage your investment on purpose because they want to get back at the system. Those people should go burn banks. That’s where the problem is. And if the banks don’t like it, hey then don’t profitize from everyone’s life so much. Like make enough for a living so all the employees get paid (that’s us too) but don’t make billionaires from our money.
You’re not a slum landlord and you’re not a corporate landlord. When people say they hate landlords, it’s usually the corporations that everyone hates. At least, that’s who it should be.
Having 1 or 2 properties isn’t really the problem and not causing a housing crisis. It’s the landlords that price fix and keep them empty to keep the “riff raff” out that should be banned. It’s the landlords that buy up all of the housing in an area and then convert them to airbnbs that are a problem. I agree with you that it’s also the banks that are taking on loans that the homeowners can’t afford so they can sell these properties to the corporations (see above). The banks might even be a part of the corporations buying up all of the housing.
I think most just hate landlords without using any higher level thinking.
Why didn’t you rent to own then?
The 20% is there because we had the financial crisis due to people buying houses that they couldn’t afford.
Using the bank in order to get money for a purchase is a good idea, as long as you invest the money.
Even if you can buy the house outright, it’s better to borrow money with the house as collateral and invest the rest in market weighted ETFs.
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I made a lovely mint garden as well. I ordered some exotic kudzu to spice the garden up as well.
Plumbers gotta eat too
No it fucks up public infrastructure and sewer mains
If I’m in an Airbnb I pour it in the lawn.
Stop being reasonable and making sense!
How does this happen? Is it more for things like bacon grease rather than cooking oil? Because cooking oils are usually (not always, coconut oil for example) liquid to lower temperatures than water.
the person responsible to clean this is not a happy person.
My sister moved house and noticed a weird smell from the kitchen sink. Plumber found a mini fatberg down the drain. The old bloke they bought the house from had been tipping everything down the plughole. For years.
Also if you stay in the same place too long, you’ll have explain what the fuck happened to the sink to your landlord
that implies you get a functioning sink when you move in and it doesnt already have issues they just covered up temporarily
how do you cover up a plugged sink?
And the next places you move will bless you with clogged sinks. Contact the previous renter of each and thank them.
And every other renter after you will curse your anonymous name.
No, they’ll just tell the landlord. You don’t rent, do you?
It’s the landlords responsibly to repair the sink. A place being rented full-time to different people can’t be blamed on any one tenant even if this wasn’t the case.
I live in an area without public sewerage though. All our sewage goes into a series of septic tanks underground in our backyard.
It’s a bit of a pain really because in summer when all the grass is brown the septic tank area still requires attention.
You see industrial devastation.
I see job creation.
People always say this but I don’t know what the fuck else to do with my used cooking oil. Can’t put it in the trash or it’ll melt the bag. And I’ve never lived in a place that has a proper waste oil container available.
Someone please tell me what I’m supposed to do. Just save it and bring it to an auto parts store? Is there some obvious disposal method that I’m just not aware being made aware of? What does everyone else do with it?
I just let it cool and then double-bag it. I get a ton of extra plastic bags from stores, so I hold on to them to reuse as garbage bags.
Or put it in another container you’re going to throw out anyway.
Everyone says put it in a container and throw the container away, but I don’t have a bunch of empty containers around that I can just throw away. My best method is to, while the oil is still warm and liquid, use a paper towel or two to soak up all the oil. Usually it’s safe to toss this into the garbage as is, as it will cool down considerably, but if not, give it a few minutes before tossing in the garbage. I never wait for it to harden, and I’ve never melted a garbage bag before. Once there’s only a little bit of oil left on the pan, an excessive amount of dawn and a good bit of scrubbing will trap the oil and make it safe to dump down the drain. If you aren’t using that much cooking oils, you can also compost the oily paper towels, but I’d check with your local compost folks first to make sure they allow it, as too much cooking oil can ruin a compost pile.
It sounds like you’re just browning the occasional cut of meat. If that’s the case, use the fat to make a roux and thus gravy.
Depends on the meal, I do use the fats for gravy and sauces when the meal allows, but most of the time it’s my morning bacon and eggs, where I’ll fry the bacon, mop up half of the bacon grease, fry the eggs in the remaining grease, then mop up what’s left with a paper towel.
Good point, I do the same thing. You just made me think about frying up some bacon, making a béchamel sauce with the grease, then doing a bacon Mac and cheese with it. That’s on the menu for next week now. Thanks!
Put in container, let cool, place container in trash. Empty jars or bottles are common options.
Sauce/pickle/salsa jars are pretty good with wide mouths, but old cans work too.
You should start filtering and stockpiling it for the eventual decline of society to the point that it’s the only fuel source left to run diesel engines on our Mad Maxmobiles.
Good point. Gasoline engines are going to be useless in the apocalypse once all the gas goes bad. The wife is going to be upset about all the 55 gallon drums piling up on the balcony in the condo, but hey, what can you do?
There are are things you out in the cooking oil to make it harden here in Japan. It’s like these flakes that look like shredded soap we can buy in the 100 yen shop. Maybe there’s something like that where you live?
I use mine as a firelighter for my wood heater.
People also use it to make diesel if it’s not solidified animal fat.
If it‘s not a shitton of oil, I put some napkins in th pan and let them soak. Then put the Napkins in the trash. I do that once everything’s cold, of coursey
Soap! (Just kidding go for the other replier suggestion)
The public has voted for fascism and hate. Not my problem.
Less than 50% of voters voted for fascism so I’m gonna clog all the drains in my area (???)
This is a popular myth. It’s only a problem if public infra wasn’t properly designed
Public infrastructure can be built to handle it but it is significantly more expensive, and since a lot of public infrastructure is incredibly old you are damaging pipes and causing bills to go up for everyone in your area
Well, it’s not like a lot of public infra was properly designed, is it?
I think “properly designed public infrastructure” is the myth.
Bazelgette wants to fight you in a cage match and my money’s on him.
If you clog your drain, you have to call maintenance to unclog it.
Ya I don’t know about other people’s maintenance teams but I avoid calling mine whenever possible. They always get mud and dirt on the carpet after they enter, but more importantly I don’t like people I don’t know entering my apartment while I’m not there.
Yeah, my brother was having some work done in his apartment, and had an envelope of cash (8000 dollars, was saving up to buy a car in cash) in a drawer. Turns out one of the workers went through all his stuff, and took all the money. He’s been fighting this for months, and has gotten 6000 back, but the guy says that’s all he took. He’s now going the route of legal action against the company that hired the guy. Will likely get the rest paid out by the company’s insurance, but still. When I was renting I wouldn’t get work done unless it was at a time I knew someone would be home.
A plumber over on Reddit once said that they always know if you’ve been dumping grease. They always know which house it is.
There’s usually a trail leading back. Grease and fats solidify very quickly in a cold sewer line.
Who the fuck puts wet wipes down the drain?
They used to market them as “flushable” even though every municipality and environmental agency said they aren’t. Advertising and capitalism rarely let science get in the way of selling you more stuff though.
used to market
As in, they had to stop because they fell into regulatory troubles?
Technically they do flush.
Out of sight, out of mind
Can fuck up a septic system real quick. Surfacing sewage draining down the yard and into the street is a bad time.
