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[–] [email protected] 8 points 20 hours ago

Every basement I've ever smoked weed in has looked like this

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

I wanna play sega genesis down there so bad

[–] DM_Me_Boobs 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Don't forget the weed bong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

Add a CRT with a GameCube and a couple of madcatz controllers.

[–] KoalaUnknown 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Never truly finish a basement in the midwest. Bare concrete is a lot cheaper to repair when it floods.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (2 children)

those random toilets are real and absolutely wild to see if you're not from the midwest

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] satans_methpipe 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

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.

[–] Gold_E_Lox 6 points 1 day ago

this is me but spiders

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Maybe those basements are tornado shelters. Than you need a toilet at some point.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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 7 points 1 day ago

I have that! But mine is fancy because it has a poorly laid concrete "basin" around it.

[–] plz1 10 points 1 day ago

That's an interesting piece of rust belt Americana, there.

[–] normalexit 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've had a Busch in this exact basement.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Farmer water.

[–] P00ptart 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

sigh damn near got my basement down to a T. Minus the exercise equipment, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

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...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I mean the random toilet yes, but those red metal poles...

Am in Midwest, have unfinished basement, have 2 red metal poles down there.

[–] chemical_cutthroat 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Could be from the Pacific North West if that ceiling were 3 foot lower.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

And if you could photoshop in the smell of damp dust and darkness

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

@seahorse too much empty space