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[Sweet Baby Roy]

Troll thread. HAHA GET IT BECAUSE YOU POOP IN THERE?

 

[mattp]

 

[UpperCaseN]

My buddy works at a PC repair shop. While he was training a new hire, he told him to do this as a joke. The kid did it and then the disc worked! Shocked, he went on to explain that it was a joke but I got mad at him, he should've let the kid grow up to believe this

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

My buddy works at a PC repair shop. While he was training a new hire, he told him to do this as a joke. The kid did it and then the disc worked! Shocked, he went on to explain that it was a joke but I got mad at him, he should've let the kid grow up to believe this

It does work I tells yah.

 

[xJavonta]

Years ago, my brother told me to do this. I thought he was bullshitting me


It worked.

 

[Link1110]

Toothpaste. That shit works.

Method in the OP sounds like a way to trick someone into flushing their game down the toilet.

I have a Mario Kart GC disc I can't get to work
If I try flushing THAT, it'll just go down

 

[Terrell]

The "toilet trick" is actually well-documented. Here's a Yahoo link.

http://voices.yahoo.com/5-home-methods-cleaning-scratched-dvds-cds-5299037.html

1. Toilet Cleaning

This remedy may seem insane, but if you're desperate enough then you might want to try it. Place your DVD into a clean toilet, using rubber gloves if you don't want to touch toilet water, and flush the toilet. The DVD will be too big to go down your toilet, but the rushing of the water past it will clean smudges instantly. Of course, then you might have to deal with a DVD that smells like your toilet.

The basic principle is you're doing a gentle pressure wash using the magic of suction. The reason it works is because it can get out tough hard-to-see smudging that could be interrupting playback. Slathering toothpaste on the disc with such a smudge on it could potentially make the situation worse.

 

[IceDoesntHelp]

I have a Mario Kart GC disc I can't get to work
If I try flushing THAT, it'll just go down

It will not. I've done 4 Gamecube games in the past.

Unless (refer to)

Unless you have a toilet hole the size of a planet it won't go down it.

 

[Complistic]

Toothpaste. That shit works.

That shit has sand in it. It'll scratch it.

 

[deviljho]

It does work I tells yah.

 

[BeerSnob]

The scrubbing bubbles are just tiny repair drones. It says so on the bottle, in really little print.

 

[Zia]

Is fear of the toilet an American thing?

Flushing is, as evidenced above, a well-documented method. Once, my keys became badly tarnished with soot. I put a spot of Brasso on a dessert plate, and laid my keys on top of it, inside the toilet. One flush later, and they looked brand new.

Maybe experiment or do some light reading before you condemn it.

 

[DocSeuss]

Is fear of the toilet an American thing?

Flushing is, as evidenced above, a well-documented method. Once, my keys became badly tarnished with soot. I put a spot of Brasso on a dessert plate, and laid my keys on top of it, inside the toilet. One flush later, and they looked brand new.

Maybe experiment or do some light reading before you condemn it.

We tend not to enjoy doing unsanitary things.

 

[TheSpoiler]

1. Put disc in freezer overnight.
2. They come out clean.
3. Win.

 

[DeuceGamer]

Is fear of the toilet an American thing?

Flushing is, as evidenced above, a well-documented method. Once, my keys became badly tarnished with soot. I put a spot of Brasso on a dessert plate, and laid my keys on top of it, inside the toilet. One flush later, and they looked brand new.

Maybe experiment or do some light reading before you condemn it.

Guess I'm.....proud to be an American????

Think I'd just buy a new game.

 

[DJ88]

Do you guys like never clean your toilet? Is it just a rotting, shit smeared, stink bowl all the time? A toilet has way less bacteria in it than the keyboards your using to type right now. And the water isn't recycled shit water, it's just fucking water.

 

[The Lamp]

Serious question.
I don't understand it, what is so special about flushing a game disc down a toilet to get it to work.
I try to clean it with something else, it doesn't work, but NOPE TOILET WORKS!

This whole time, until about halfway through the thread, I thought you were talking about cleaning your toilet by flushing discs down instead.

Since my toilet isn't flushing like it used to, I was briefly considering it...

 

[Oyashrio-Sama]

... Why the toilet? Why not just run it under a tap?

 

[Amagon]

Do you guys like never clean your toilet? Is it just a rotting, shit smeared, stink bowl all the time? A toilet has way less bacteria in it than the keyboards your using to type right now. And the water isn't recycled shit water, it's just fucking water.

I shit in a hole in the ground.

 

[FUNKNOWN iXi]

Actually I've heard that flushing trick before too, but that was only during the PS1 days lol

I guess people didn't know shit about gaming CD's at that time so they threw it in with other shit they knew about when shit got shitty.

 

[MIMIC]

LMAO. Best reply

 

[PigSpeakers]

Op, have you tried using a green marker around the edge of the disc? This improves the graphics ten-fold.

 

[Kiryu]

Black girl in that gif is I know there's something wrong with her...

 

[bodyboarder]

DD only future suddenly sounds appealing.

 

[yn-neko hates a cat]

Ya'll gett'in trolled :lol

 

[DJMicLuv]

I shit in a hole in the ground.

And so the cycle of life continues.

 

[w00tkins]

Anybody got any tips on how to get bubblegum out of your hair?

 

[Daigoro]

Is fear of the toilet an American thing?

Flushing is, as evidenced above, a well-documented method. Once, my keys became badly tarnished with soot. I put a spot of Brasso on a dessert plate, and laid my keys on top of it, inside the toilet. One flush later, and they looked brand new.

Maybe experiment or do some light reading before you condemn it.

your keys were soiled, so the first thing you though of was putting them in the toilet?

come on America, experiment! lol. or you know, a little light reading about cleaning shit in your toilet.

 

[yn-neko hates a cat]

Anybody got any tips on how to get bubblegum out of your hair?

Cat shit works. Technically human shit works but people are to disgusted by the idea of smearing human shit in there hair. It washes right out with shampoo. Top minds in the scientific community have a high opinion about this method and is perfectly safe when done properly.

 

[Daigoro]

Anybody got any tips on how to get bubblegum out of your hair?

stick your head in the toilet. a little light reading would have told you that.

 

[Pachterballs]

Note to self: never borrow games from IceDoesntHelp.

this

 

[InfiniteNine]

This is disgusting. D:

 

[Kyzon]

I really wanna try now, but i'm not sure if i'm being trolled D:

 

[jerd]

Do you guys like never clean your toilet? Is it just a rotting, shit smeared, stink bowl all the time? A toilet has way less bacteria in it than the keyboards your using to type right now. And the water isn't recycled shit water, it's just fucking water.

I think you may need to consider some sani wipes for your keyboard.

 

[Version 3.0]

Maybe experiment or do some light reading before you condemn it.

Oh, I've no doubt it works. What's completely asinine is the idea that flushing a disc will work, but cleaning it via any other method won't. That's like saying dishes can only be cleaned in a dishwasher, but not by hand.

If you clean a disc, and it doesn't work, but flushing fixes it, then you didn't clean it well enough. Period.

 

[Concept17]

I think you may need to consider some sani wipes for your keyboard.

Well when you consider every square inch of your skin contains 6 million bacteria and you're constantly touching your keyboard rather than sitting on it or peeing into the water every now and again, hes got a point.

 

[Demoskinos]

Well this is sure weird.....

 

[Version 3.0]

Well when you consider every square inch of your skin contains 6 million bacteria and you're constantly touching your keyboard rather than sitting on it or peeing into the water every now and again, hes got a point.

Maybe so, but let's rephrase, shall we? Most bacteria are harmless, if not beneficial. Your keyboard may have a lot of bacteria on it, but it's still healthier to have your hands on a keyboard than in a toilet. Urine (from a healthy person) is sterile, but it doesn't get much dirtier than human feces. I'm all for keeping it away from everything else I touch.

 

[Partition]

It has always worked with the DVDs i've tried

 

[Boss Doggie]

This is one of those placebo things, right guys?

Guys?

 

[D23]

lol wut, never heard of this until now

 

[Terrell]

We tend not to enjoy doing unsanitary things.

So you're Howard Hughes, then? Sorry dude, life is unsanitary. "ewwww, toilet water"? Rinse it off when it's over and wash your damn hands, DONE.

... Why the toilet? Why not just run it under a tap?

Suction and pressure. Too much pressure (such as a pressure washer) will likely damage the disc, not enough will not remove the cause of the playback issue.

While I don't dispute that it works, I really have to wonder about the genesis of such a concept, I do admit that it wouldn't be my first thought.

 

[mugoldeneagle03]

Oddly enough I heard about this years ago, but only attempted it once since, well, I don't want to stick my hand where shit & piss has been, clean or not. I worked at a rental store and there were actually a few customers that told me about this. Weird that so many people on here haven't heard of this?

That said the reason why I think it works is because of the pressure on both the top and bottom of the disc.

 

[televator]

So when I find stuff at goodwill that is in such terrible shape that I think to myself "Did someone shove this up their ass?" I may not be too far off... huh... eeeeeeeeeeewwwwww

 

[Deleted member 125677]

OP must be trolling..

But seriously: Why does putting the connection cable up your arse make it work?

 

[pants]

 

[TriGen]

What in the hell? I've never heard this before.

Me neither.

 

[Kokonoe]

I'm more curious as to why you did this in the first place, what thought inside of you said "I'll take this disc and drop it in the toilet and it'll fix itself"?

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

We deserve extinction.

LMAO. thread delivers!

Someone needs to make a gif of that Sims disc getting flushed down the toilet.

I'll see what I can do!

Is fear of the toilet an American thing?

Flushing is, as evidenced above, a well-documented method. Once, my keys became badly tarnished with soot. I put a spot of Brasso on a dessert plate, and laid my keys on top of it, inside the toilet. One flush later, and they looked brand new.

Maybe experiment or do some light reading before you condemn it.

I think the real story here is what happened to the dessert plate afterwards?

 

[kaleii]

This whole time, until about halfway through the thread, I thought you were talking about cleaning your toilet by flushing discs down instead.

Since my toilet isn't flushing like it used to, I was briefly considering it...

Haha, that's brilliant.

Oh, Lamp!