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Cold Plus??

Plus what, exactly? Is it colder than the tap? 😂🤔

So is this **“a quarter to ten”** or **“nine forty-five”**?

I feel like this may say a lot about a person. 🕘😂

From a distance, my hopes were raised.

Only to be cruelly dashed once I got close enough to read the details. 😔

We’ve had a lovely weekend in Scarborough, but this has been driving me absolutely mad.

There is simply no need for it. None at all. 😅

Greetings, dullicious friends.

I found this presumably cast iron object in my father’s backyard after he passed away. He was a hoarder and regularly encouraged people to leave all sorts of random things on his property, so there’s a good chance he didn’t know what it was either.

I currently use it for the very dull and practical purpose of holding this door open.

It appears to say **R4** on the top, although the letter could also be a **K**. I think the top of the R may have worn off over time. It is far too heavy for me to lift and carry any real distance, and even my partner, who is basically a human meat brick, agrees that it is extremely heavy.

I posted it in a “what is this thing?” group years ago, but never got a definitive answer. Suggestions included something related to trains or gantries, but nothing certain.

Have any of you seen one of these before or know what it may have been used for?

I was cleaning out my car today and found all of this down the side of the driver’s seat.

Anyone want to guess what I do for a living based purely on the contents? 😂

* £14.32 in loose change
* 6 x 2-inch No. 10 wood screws
* 4 x 1.5-inch No. 8 wood screws
* 5 red wall plugs
* 1 brown wall plug
* 2 pens — 1 blue, 1 black
* 1 x 6mm roofer
* 1 x PZ2 impact bit
* 1 x T30 Torx bit
* 17 x 2-way Wagos
* 1 x MK emergency key switch
* 2 unknown keys 🤷‍♂️
* 2 x Eaton MEM 3 keys
* 1 x 20mm grommet
* 2 x 12mm all band pieces cut to 10 holes
* 1 x 3.5mm pin
* 1 x Gripple clutch

I’m not sure whether this counts as cleaning the car or conducting an archaeological dig.

Hello! Today my husband shoveled a bunch of soil off what we thought was an old patio, and we were very surprised by what he uncovered.

There’s a manhole-sized lid, two smaller lids, and two half-circle anchor points between the large cover and the smaller ones.

Our house is connected to city sewer, but I’m wondering if this could be an old septic tank, gray water tank access, or something similar.

What do you think this might be?

Sorry, no banana for scale — I ate it for breakfast! 🍌😅

**Edit:** Hello, Dullsters. I’d like to introduce you to someone I’ve become far too intimately familiar with: **Urethra Franklin**.

Urethra is the nearly 1cm kidney stone that has been all up in my business for the past two weeks, and today she finally decided to make her grand debut.

If you’ve ever had one, mad **Respect** to you, because it truly **hurts like hell**. See what I did there? 😅

I didn’t think a banana was necessary since there’s a measuring tape in the picture. Measuring tape for scale. 🍌

**Update:** Thank you all so much for the love, well wishes, and laughs.

To answer a few questions: about ten years ago, I passed my first kidney stone, and that one was also around 1cm. It was much more jagged, and at the time I was told I had six stones total between both kidneys. This was the last of the six.

The urologist I “saw” called me once after a stone had already passed, basically said there wasn’t much to do about it now, and then charged me for the call. He didn’t think it was worth breaking up the remaining stones.

Apparently stress can make them active, and I’ve had a very stressful year.

Drink your water, and if you get a fever or can’t p*e, please don’t try to tough it out. Kidney stones can turn into kidney infections and cause permanent damage.

Thank you again for all the laughs. Also, in a pinch, aquarium fish nets make surprisingly great stone catchers. 😂

Last week I was unloading the dishwasher and noticed that my wife has somehow accumulated more stainless steel insulated beverage containers than we have actual drinking glasses.

Each one has its own special lid. Some have straws. Almost none of the parts are interchangeable. And every single one is far too tall to fit sensibly in the dedicated glass section of the dishwasher.

As I stood there trying to match 23 separate pieces from the four different dishwasher locations required to properly clean, yet somehow not properly dry, these overengineered cryogenic beverage storage vessels, my frustration began to rise. I started forming the argument I would later lose to my wife, again.

That was when it occurred to me: I don’t actually know what to call these things.

Surely there must be a commonly accepted term. A normal word. Something everyone knows and uses. A word I have probably said many times before and simply forgotten, like the name of someone you unexpectedly run into at the supermarket.

So I asked my wife, “What are these things called?”

She looked like she had also just unexpectedly run into one of them at the supermarket. My daughter had the same reaction.

So now I’m asking here: is there a well-established, generic, rolls-off-the-tongue name for this type of stainless steel insulated drink container? Or is everyone just out here saying “stainless steel insulated drink container”?

I tried “Thermos,” but that doesn’t feel right. I would never put soup in one. “Yeti” feels too elitist. Stanley doesn’t call them Yetis. And I refuse to call each one by its brand name, because that feels just as absurd as needing four separate dishwasher zones for one cup and its accessories.

An incredibly un-dull thing happened to me today while I was cleaning up the garage after two days of lawn mower repair.

Something hit the back of my neck, and assuming it was a fly, spider, or possibly something caught in what remains of my hair, I quickly brushed it away. Imagine my surprise when this enormous insect landed on the ground in front of me.

I believe it is a European mantis, *Mantis religiosa*. Since I live in western Washington, it is not native here and is considered invasive, so the remainder of its days will now be spent in a bug enclosure as the neighbor kid’s new pet.

M37, US size 12. Briggs & Stratton blower shield for scale. No banana, as I prefer peaches. 🍑