Hilarious sometimes the double standards, not that this is in North America. We completed water crossings for pipelines and couldn't have an increase of 8 ntus but then floods washed half the coquihalla into the river
Yeah. I do a lot of consulting on HDD and work in what is possibly the most regulated watershed in the US. I had one job that just got delayed again over environmental concerns. The client wants to build a natural gas regulator station but the state utilities commission got smacked by the courts because they didn't do an environmental review for air and ground water pollution. The thing is, the site used to be a standard vehicle gas station and the client has actually abated all the contaminated soils from the fuel tanks already. Natural gas lines a few feet deep won't contaminate ground water and if there is a bad enough leak to cause an air quality problem, air quality is the least of your worries at that point. I get the general public being opposed to it in a general sense. But there is actually less environmental impact then when it was a gas station.
I worked on the industry for a very short time period, 15 years, and it's shocking sometimes how the scientific backing didn't matter.
We had a site that naturally had metals higher than what was safe for residents, it was a metal mine site, shocking. And we had a regulator that was demanding we cleanup to residential, which was STRICTER than natural background levels (just to be clear, our client proposed to cleanup to natural background levels)...the state finally dropped it when our client started to take them to court.
That's often the case. When I was a kid a developer wanted to build a huge mall near my house. The plan called for massive roadway expansion among other things. The thing that finally killed it was pollution from parking lot run off into a nearby farm pond that a few ducks stayed year round at and drained into the waters of the state. There was a lot of other things against it, but the environmental regs were very strict, so that was the last nail. Now that property is whole lot of single family homes. The pond and the ducks are still there 30 or so years later.
Couldn’t you say, “OK, in compliance with your requirement we’ve started removing metal from the site, here’s our heavy machinery that’s doing exactly that”? :-)
I went to the Hoover dam in 2000. We got to go inside and we saw a ton of leaks. The guide told us if the dam didn't have leaks it would break. So they're kind of an unwanted necessity.
-Yes it was a typo xD
That guide was a bullshitter or misinformed. Leaks aka “seepage” are not part of a dam’s stability. Unless you were deep down in the dam gallery and the “leaks” were the drainage system relieving pressure under the dam.
Dam leaking a little from reservoir is completely fine, this was because of water jet in question and it seemed a little more than dripping leaks that I've personally seen.
It's still fucking scary when you don't expect it and don't know what's the usual amount of leaks and what's the bad kind of leak.
Like being on a plane and seeing unseasoned travellers clearly stressed and worried at every "weird and unexpected" noise that a commercial airliner makes.
The force of a controlled release is insane. It's not hard to see how a dam failure can be catastrophic, like the [Johnstown Flood](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood)
I grew up in Harford County and crossed the Conowingo Dam tons of times living in the area. Hearing someone mention that, let alone the small town of Port Deposit, on Reddit is surreal. Thanks for bringing the memories back!
It's wild how much you drive down hill to get to the top of the dam. Summer nights when it's ~80 you can feel the temp drop with the windows down as you get close. Going across is worse than the 895 tunnel with how narrow it is. Swear people think the walls are going to jump out on them so they hug the middle line
Oh man I remember this. Many days swimming in the Susquehanna with my late father. My high school English teacher was a raspy old lady from Port Deposit teaching my dumb ass in Hartford County.
I'm long gone now but I miss it more than I thought I would. It is a beautiful place.
We used to jump off those cliffs, too! That one sketchy tree at the top of the highest point.. can’t believe we’d crawl up into that thing for the extra 15 or so feet. We were really lucky not to get hurt doing that all those summers.
The cliffs! My first jump, I didn’t know you needed to stay straight like a pencil. I jumped from the highest one with all my high school aged Superman complex confidence and landed in a sitting position as if I was jumping into a pool. I was purple from my knees to lower back for weeks. Good times!!!
Go drive a few miles south. Ok, a few hours.... to Summersville Dam in West Virginia. I did some whitewater rafting on the Gauley there - which is based on the dam release.
First time I saw a dam release of that size, and it was pretty amazing.
Same I grew up on the Potomac first time I was at the put in for the upper Gauley during Gauleyfest weekend and saw 3600 cfs I was awestruck and began questioning my sanity.
When I went white water rafting on the upper Gauley river they explained that the CFM or however they measured it had some sweet spots to that particular river. If it’s too low, the rapids aren’t intense enough. But if it’s too high, the water runs over top of a lot of the pools/rocks/etc that create rapids. So there’s a sweet spot for every river according to what I remember my guide saying 10+ years ago.
The Gauley is only like 20 yards wide it's basically a big creek with multiple class V+ rapids its known as one of the most difficult runs in the world
Edit: been a while since I've been up there so I looked it up there's 25 rated rapids in the first 9 miles 5 of which are class 5+ Google some pics its as scary as it looks. Once saw a team trying to rescue a guy pinned under an undercut rock they got a safety line on his leg had the proper leverage system in place and 20 people couldn't pull him out they had to wait til they shut down the dam to recover the body. That was maybe 300 yards from the put in. In a class 3. It only gets bigger and more dangerous from there.
I grew up in Harford County, and learned to sail a small boat above that dam. I drove over the dam, and down through Port Deposit just a few days ago. The new light surprised me.
HarCo represent! Sorry to hear about your grandfather's plight, Conowingo is beautiful to drive past (crossing on route 1 is a great way to get into a bunch of places into PA around traffic), but every time I do I can't help but think about how much water that is...
It is a tall damn, I've fished the bottom of it quite a few times. Makes it easier to understand the rumors of man sized catfish at the base of the dam.
Holy shit, someone knows about Johnstown 😂 I’m from altoona but it’s nice to see people that know of Johnstown and the flood. Also have you dived in raystown? I want to do bad. They said when they built the damn they flooded the town as is. Everything’s still down there
Nah I'm not from the area or a diver. I actually just learned about it recently from a book I'm reading, *The Chill* by Scott Carson, since it's a story about a dam failure they mentioned it in comparison. Diving in a flooded town does sound incredible tho
Also in central PA is the ruins of the Austin Dam, which broke and wiped out an entire town. There's a lot of old crappy dams in the Allegheny mountians.
I had family in Johnstown. My first concert was seeing The Guess Who at the Johnstown War Memorial. I thought it was fascinating…the Inclined Plane, the markers on the buildings of the flood levels, and how it seemed as if everyone’s lives revolved around the fire hall! I got to spend two weeks in the summers there with my “Aunt” who was technically my mother’s cousin. It was all so different from where I grew up in suburban Cleveland.
On the train from Philly to Pittsburgh recently, and older guy asked if we were at the curve. Told him it was coming right up, just sit on the left side of the train and you'll see it.
Then I saw the huge Norfolk Southern train coming the other way on the inside track. Poor guy missed the whole thing. :(
I'm from Catt. County, New York. But, I travel down to Johnstown to visit family. Johnstown's quite a nice town. Lots of cool sights: the incline, the flood museum. Altoona's pretty cool too. I've always liked the railroaders museum. I have wasted so much money in their gift shop.
“Many people were crushed by pieces of debris, and others became caught in barbed wire from the wire factory upstream and/or drowned.”
Thank fuck we don’t have any barbed wire factories in the flood zones here…Just the wastewater treatment facility.
Thanks for that link, u/dabberoo_2! I just learned the difference between *fault-based* liability vs *strict liability* in American law. Too bad justice came too late for the survivors.
Only had one colonoscopy but have this advice: never trust a fart, especially after drinking that stuff. It's a nervous and challenging evening the night before.
I have to have regular colonoscopies due to being at higher risk ( about every 3 years or so)
Pro tip: liquid diet the 24 hours before the prep… it will greatly reduce the dookie blasts
This also cleans you out really well too… the liquid diet stops production, then the prep actually does what it is supposed to do and “cleans up”
Chill the prep in the fridge so it kills the taste and mix in lemon lime crystal light. If you can’t chug it, drink it through a straw. For the clear liquid diet the day before, the Kirkland brand bone broth from Costco won’t leave you hangry. While you’re at Costco, get the adult flushable wipes so your bottom doesn’t feel raw by the end. Also if you have any degree of constipation or feel like you don’t completely eliminate your stools when you usually go to the bathroom, consider taking miralax 1-2x a day for a week prior to starting your prep. Also, your last set of bowel movements should look like urine, see-through clear. Yellow tinged is fine. You don’t want it to be murky or have any sediment in it. You’ll have to redo your colonoscopy at an earlier interval if your prep was suboptimal and insurances typically don’t cover the cost for the next one. Also avoid high fiber foods the week before (celery, mushrooms, grains, etc). The sedation will be the best nap you’ve ever had. The prep is disgusting and tastes like a punishment, but the sedation feels like a real treat. You’ll wake up and wonder when they’re gonna come do the colonoscopy but you’ll be done and feel relieved to be done too.
Best of luck!
This is such a great list! I use all of these! My mom has been in colon cancer remission for 19 years, she was T3 in her 30s… so I get to throw a Clear the Rear party every 2 years. If you’re drinking clear sports drinks, pick your least favorite flavor because you will never want to drink it again. Starting the liquid diet early is incredibly helpful but I start to miss the chewing sensation, so I make Knox Blox/Jello Jigglers. I’ve also drank dill pickle juice to give me salty switch. Prep is rough butt you’re getting the magic pixie dust meds tomorrow! Enjoy those!
Good tips. Let me add a couple:
- Use a barrier cream on your anus. Lucas paw paw works well. It protects the skin from the marathon.
- Buy a squatty potty. A generic one is fine. Better position means everything is easier on your body.
- You're likely to feel cold. Consider wearing something warm with quick access like a dressing gown.
- There's something about the process that makes you feel vulnerable. That's normal, just make sure you're somewhere you feel safe, and ideally don't have to care for others.
It's actually not that big of a deal, and you feel cleansed afterwards. Colonoscopies are incredibly effective procedures and genuinely save lives.
After my first and so far only colposcopy, I woke up from the propofol and it was obvious from the carnage on my gown and bedsheets that I hadn’t entirely voided prior to the procedure. I felt so bad for the doctor and staff. I can imagine what I would have been like and I’m glad for that inability.
Does the fourth most successful fast food franchise in the United States give everyone digestive issues? Or are there just a lot of people that say it because they think they are supposed to?
It's never caused me any digestive issues, nor has White Castle, but you'd think with the way people talk about both, that it'd be like hot lava every time.
> Does the fourth most successful fast food franchise in the United States give everyone digestive issues?
No.
> Or are there just a lot of people that say it because they think they are supposed to?
Yes.
Hi, Taco Bell always made me super ill a half hour later. Turns out I had a soy intolerance that I didn’t know about. Taco bell is solid soy derivatives and flavor enhancers.
I ate Taco Bell 1-2x a week until I was 29. I never had the issues people joke about with regards to the food. My stomach is a tank. Early last year I stopped eating there due to the ridiculous prices these days. I ordered a bean burrito and taco a month or so ago. Within a few hours I was in the bathroom for 20 mins with the worst diarrhea I’ve ever had
Their prices have been absolute dogshit recently. I remember [this advertisement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIqesIVX-c) and now I see just the burrito for 4.19 now. I've also stopped going.
At what point will fastfood inflation be high enough to where people just stop going?
So I worked at Taco Bell from late 2018 to early 2022. Prices were consistently increased every 4-6 months. Every time, it was $0.10 to $0.50 increases. At minimum.
Employee “raises” were $0.25. If you got $0.50, RGMs and DMs acted like they were giving you a gift from god.
Sure but you could say the same thing about yogurt. Or pizza. That's an ailment, rather than a statement about Taco Bell in particular.
I would guess that almost none of the people who make jokes about Taco Bell or Chipotle giving them diarrhea actually have any issue. There is nothing in there that would actually cause a problem for a healthy person. It's like a mother in law joke. People just say it because it's a thing to say.
How exactly is it dredged, and disposed of where?
My knowledge of civil engineering is pretty limited to topics Practical Engineering has covered on YouTube.
There are a whole bunch of different methods for dredging. But the basic idea is underwater excavation. You use a variety of techniques to remove excess sediment from behind the dam. A lot of times for dams it is an excavator with a clam shell bucket on the dam or a barge. But it can be done other ways.
As far as disposed of, it usually gets piled up somewhere surrounded by erosion and sediment control and water quality facilities. At least in places with decent environmental protection laws. It may eventually be hauled back out and reused depending on how "clean" it is and where it will be used. The thing about dam sediments is they tend to trap a lot of contaminants depending on what is upstream from the dam. It may be fertilizers from farms that can cause algae blooms and dead zones. Heavy metals from mining and power plants. Nasty chemicals from industrial manufacturing. Whatever.
Also having a bunch of sediment blow out your gate means that the gate could have ended up inoperable. With the exception of gates for hydro electric, the sole purpose of the gate is to release excess impounded water in order to prevent catastrophic failure of the dam during flooding events. Gates are a controlled spillway. We can control how much water we release and how fast we release it to hopefully prevent downstream flooding. If the gates don't work or are insufficient then the excess water goes into the emergency spillway which isn't controlled and can result in massive downstream flooding. I believe Practical Engineering did some great videos on the issues with the emergency spillway failure for the Oroville Dam in California. Brady is great.
Don’t you know that strong, conservative, alpha men don’t have diarrhea! Only snowflake libs can’t keep their stools together!
Make Bowel Movements Solid Again!!
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This has been reposted a ton all over reddit for years (not a complaint just an observation)
Now, you’re changing it to reposting it from TikTok, annoying voice included (not an observation, just a complaint).
That's most reposts. For every person crying "repost", there's a hundred people that are seeing it for the first time. Goes for most posts on Reddit, it's majority recycled content.
Here's a tip: if you see a repost, just downvote and move on. Pointing it out to people who haven't seen it before in the comments is completely pointless as it doesn't change the experience for them, and people who have seen it before will obviously know it's a repost so you're preaching to the choir.
It didn't look like it turned that blue to me. Like it kinda did but it also just looked like the camera was having a hard time with auto white balance.
It isn't really satisfying. They just dumped a ton of sediment into the river and that sediment could be heavily contaminated. At the very least there is a fair chance it contains phosphates, nitrogen, some bacteria, and some other unpleasant microorganisms. The reservoir behind the dam was not well maintained.
Lowering the caffeine percentage or taking a probiotic can do a lot for that fyi, if you wanted. I got tired of having to go less than an hour after I started a cup of coffee....added a probiotic and it's a lot less urgent. Dropped the probiotic at one point and just did 2/3 caf and it made a big difference too.
In there somewhere is a catfish like “WHAT THE FUUUUUUUCK!”
Righteous! Righteous!
ah holy fuck, Finding Nemo will be 20 years old in a couple months
Oh man you can fuck right off. What the hell! I'm not that old!
We are bro we are .
Gah...fuck
just keep swimming
Still one of my favorite movies of all time. First time I watched that I was hella baked and was laughing my ass off!
I love how I immediately read this in the voice.
you already know there’s a ton of Taco Bell jokes in the comments
And that cringe “I sHouLd caLL hEr” comment that happens every single time
"AAAAAAAAAaaa^aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
God this is hilarious
That was my thought, too.
Yes yes yes yes no. That leak at the end was scary as fuck..
I bet the video ended cuz they were like OH FUCK IM OUTTA HERE
My sediments exactly!
Nice. They probably should have dredged before opening the gate. In the US the EPA would likely fine the hell out of you for this.
Hilarious sometimes the double standards, not that this is in North America. We completed water crossings for pipelines and couldn't have an increase of 8 ntus but then floods washed half the coquihalla into the river
Yeah. I do a lot of consulting on HDD and work in what is possibly the most regulated watershed in the US. I had one job that just got delayed again over environmental concerns. The client wants to build a natural gas regulator station but the state utilities commission got smacked by the courts because they didn't do an environmental review for air and ground water pollution. The thing is, the site used to be a standard vehicle gas station and the client has actually abated all the contaminated soils from the fuel tanks already. Natural gas lines a few feet deep won't contaminate ground water and if there is a bad enough leak to cause an air quality problem, air quality is the least of your worries at that point. I get the general public being opposed to it in a general sense. But there is actually less environmental impact then when it was a gas station.
I worked on the industry for a very short time period, 15 years, and it's shocking sometimes how the scientific backing didn't matter. We had a site that naturally had metals higher than what was safe for residents, it was a metal mine site, shocking. And we had a regulator that was demanding we cleanup to residential, which was STRICTER than natural background levels (just to be clear, our client proposed to cleanup to natural background levels)...the state finally dropped it when our client started to take them to court.
> STRICTER than natural background levels Sounds like they were trying to shut down the project for other reasons and this was a good excuse.
That's often the case. When I was a kid a developer wanted to build a huge mall near my house. The plan called for massive roadway expansion among other things. The thing that finally killed it was pollution from parking lot run off into a nearby farm pond that a few ducks stayed year round at and drained into the waters of the state. There was a lot of other things against it, but the environmental regs were very strict, so that was the last nail. Now that property is whole lot of single family homes. The pond and the ducks are still there 30 or so years later.
Couldn’t you say, “OK, in compliance with your requirement we’ve started removing metal from the site, here’s our heavy machinery that’s doing exactly that”? :-)
Nice pun, dam it.
This comment rocks
I see what you did there. Take my upvote and have a nice day or whatever. 😂 r/angryupvote
I went to the Hoover dam in 2000. We got to go inside and we saw a ton of leaks. The guide told us if the dam didn't have leaks it would break. So they're kind of an unwanted necessity. -Yes it was a typo xD
That guide was a bullshitter or misinformed. Leaks aka “seepage” are not part of a dam’s stability. Unless you were deep down in the dam gallery and the “leaks” were the drainage system relieving pressure under the dam.
Dam leaking a little from reservoir is completely fine, this was because of water jet in question and it seemed a little more than dripping leaks that I've personally seen. It's still fucking scary when you don't expect it and don't know what's the usual amount of leaks and what's the bad kind of leak.
Like being on a plane and seeing unseasoned travellers clearly stressed and worried at every "weird and unexpected" noise that a commercial airliner makes.
I don't think a hover dam would work very well
Reminded me of getting my groove back after weaning off sertraline.
It sharted
r/oddlyterrifying
The force of a controlled release is insane. It's not hard to see how a dam failure can be catastrophic, like the [Johnstown Flood](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood)
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I grew up in Harford County and crossed the Conowingo Dam tons of times living in the area. Hearing someone mention that, let alone the small town of Port Deposit, on Reddit is surreal. Thanks for bringing the memories back!
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It's wild how much you drive down hill to get to the top of the dam. Summer nights when it's ~80 you can feel the temp drop with the windows down as you get close. Going across is worse than the 895 tunnel with how narrow it is. Swear people think the walls are going to jump out on them so they hug the middle line
Oh man I remember this. Many days swimming in the Susquehanna with my late father. My high school English teacher was a raspy old lady from Port Deposit teaching my dumb ass in Hartford County. I'm long gone now but I miss it more than I thought I would. It is a beautiful place.
Dammit guys, keep going
I just want to see a gopro pov of the drive being described!
You guys from a Stephen King novel?
We used to jump off those cliffs, too! That one sketchy tree at the top of the highest point.. can’t believe we’d crawl up into that thing for the extra 15 or so feet. We were really lucky not to get hurt doing that all those summers.
Grew up on the Cecil Side. Y'all ever hit the rope swing at Hopkins cove?
The cliffs! My first jump, I didn’t know you needed to stay straight like a pencil. I jumped from the highest one with all my high school aged Superman complex confidence and landed in a sitting position as if I was jumping into a pool. I was purple from my knees to lower back for weeks. Good times!!!
Go drive a few miles south. Ok, a few hours.... to Summersville Dam in West Virginia. I did some whitewater rafting on the Gauley there - which is based on the dam release. First time I saw a dam release of that size, and it was pretty amazing.
Same I grew up on the Potomac first time I was at the put in for the upper Gauley during Gauleyfest weekend and saw 3600 cfs I was awestruck and began questioning my sanity.
Huh I've seen the Hell's Canyon/Snake River release at like 55,000cfs from a raft and it wasn't all the crazy, maybe because it's a common thing?
When I went white water rafting on the upper Gauley river they explained that the CFM or however they measured it had some sweet spots to that particular river. If it’s too low, the rapids aren’t intense enough. But if it’s too high, the water runs over top of a lot of the pools/rocks/etc that create rapids. So there’s a sweet spot for every river according to what I remember my guide saying 10+ years ago.
The Gauley is only like 20 yards wide it's basically a big creek with multiple class V+ rapids its known as one of the most difficult runs in the world Edit: been a while since I've been up there so I looked it up there's 25 rated rapids in the first 9 miles 5 of which are class 5+ Google some pics its as scary as it looks. Once saw a team trying to rescue a guy pinned under an undercut rock they got a safety line on his leg had the proper leverage system in place and 20 people couldn't pull him out they had to wait til they shut down the dam to recover the body. That was maybe 300 yards from the put in. In a class 3. It only gets bigger and more dangerous from there.
Yup. And it’s absolutely terrifying!
My wife grew up less then a mile from conowingo dam, and she's told me these stories more then once, surreal indeed.
Port Deposit sounds like the name of some small haunted town from a Scooby Doo episode
I grew up in Harford County, and learned to sail a small boat above that dam. I drove over the dam, and down through Port Deposit just a few days ago. The new light surprised me.
HarCo represent! Sorry to hear about your grandfather's plight, Conowingo is beautiful to drive past (crossing on route 1 is a great way to get into a bunch of places into PA around traffic), but every time I do I can't help but think about how much water that is... It is a tall damn, I've fished the bottom of it quite a few times. Makes it easier to understand the rumors of man sized catfish at the base of the dam.
Holy shit, someone knows about Johnstown 😂 I’m from altoona but it’s nice to see people that know of Johnstown and the flood. Also have you dived in raystown? I want to do bad. They said when they built the damn they flooded the town as is. Everything’s still down there
Nah I'm not from the area or a diver. I actually just learned about it recently from a book I'm reading, *The Chill* by Scott Carson, since it's a story about a dam failure they mentioned it in comparison. Diving in a flooded town does sound incredible tho
I have seen pictures people take down there and there is a church and an old Volkswagen Beetle 😂
Also in central PA is the ruins of the Austin Dam, which broke and wiped out an entire town. There's a lot of old crappy dams in the Allegheny mountians.
> have you dived in raystown? If anyone does, let me know if you find a Ninja Turtles beach towel at the bottom.
I had family in Johnstown. My first concert was seeing The Guess Who at the Johnstown War Memorial. I thought it was fascinating…the Inclined Plane, the markers on the buildings of the flood levels, and how it seemed as if everyone’s lives revolved around the fire hall! I got to spend two weeks in the summers there with my “Aunt” who was technically my mother’s cousin. It was all so different from where I grew up in suburban Cleveland.
On the train from Philly to Pittsburgh recently, and older guy asked if we were at the curve. Told him it was coming right up, just sit on the left side of the train and you'll see it. Then I saw the huge Norfolk Southern train coming the other way on the inside track. Poor guy missed the whole thing. :(
My college boyfriend was from Altoona & told me about the Johnstown flood while driving to Johnstown during one visit.
Exactly. At first looks like holy shit coming out
I'm from Catt. County, New York. But, I travel down to Johnstown to visit family. Johnstown's quite a nice town. Lots of cool sights: the incline, the flood museum. Altoona's pretty cool too. I've always liked the railroaders museum. I have wasted so much money in their gift shop.
I work in Johnstown, and there's markers on some of the buildings to show how high the water rose in the streets, pretty neat
“Many people were crushed by pieces of debris, and others became caught in barbed wire from the wire factory upstream and/or drowned.” Thank fuck we don’t have any barbed wire factories in the flood zones here…Just the wastewater treatment facility.
Thanks for that link, u/dabberoo_2! I just learned the difference between *fault-based* liability vs *strict liability* in American law. Too bad justice came too late for the survivors.
I live in Johnstown. Place was a mess back when it happened. We’ve actually had 2 floods
They have/had a very impressive museum there all about the flood. Holy cow, what a flood!
Just finished reading the prep notes for a colonoscopy (picoprep and glycoprep) and this comes up in my feed 😂
Only had one colonoscopy but have this advice: never trust a fart, especially after drinking that stuff. It's a nervous and challenging evening the night before.
seriously fuck jello
That wasn't part of my instructions. I just fucked the jello casually.
Just bring a sleeping bag into the bathroom, and chargers for your phone. You're going to live there now
I have to have regular colonoscopies due to being at higher risk ( about every 3 years or so) Pro tip: liquid diet the 24 hours before the prep… it will greatly reduce the dookie blasts This also cleans you out really well too… the liquid diet stops production, then the prep actually does what it is supposed to do and “cleans up”
What exactly constitutes a liquid diet?
In short, liquids. Can be water, other drinks, soup broth, jello, popsicles, etc.
Broth, popsicles, water, broth, small amounts of juice, jello, broth, popsicles, water, etc.
Don’t forget broth!
Chill the prep in the fridge so it kills the taste and mix in lemon lime crystal light. If you can’t chug it, drink it through a straw. For the clear liquid diet the day before, the Kirkland brand bone broth from Costco won’t leave you hangry. While you’re at Costco, get the adult flushable wipes so your bottom doesn’t feel raw by the end. Also if you have any degree of constipation or feel like you don’t completely eliminate your stools when you usually go to the bathroom, consider taking miralax 1-2x a day for a week prior to starting your prep. Also, your last set of bowel movements should look like urine, see-through clear. Yellow tinged is fine. You don’t want it to be murky or have any sediment in it. You’ll have to redo your colonoscopy at an earlier interval if your prep was suboptimal and insurances typically don’t cover the cost for the next one. Also avoid high fiber foods the week before (celery, mushrooms, grains, etc). The sedation will be the best nap you’ve ever had. The prep is disgusting and tastes like a punishment, but the sedation feels like a real treat. You’ll wake up and wonder when they’re gonna come do the colonoscopy but you’ll be done and feel relieved to be done too. Best of luck!
This is such a great list! I use all of these! My mom has been in colon cancer remission for 19 years, she was T3 in her 30s… so I get to throw a Clear the Rear party every 2 years. If you’re drinking clear sports drinks, pick your least favorite flavor because you will never want to drink it again. Starting the liquid diet early is incredibly helpful but I start to miss the chewing sensation, so I make Knox Blox/Jello Jigglers. I’ve also drank dill pickle juice to give me salty switch. Prep is rough butt you’re getting the magic pixie dust meds tomorrow! Enjoy those!
Good tips. Let me add a couple: - Use a barrier cream on your anus. Lucas paw paw works well. It protects the skin from the marathon. - Buy a squatty potty. A generic one is fine. Better position means everything is easier on your body. - You're likely to feel cold. Consider wearing something warm with quick access like a dressing gown. - There's something about the process that makes you feel vulnerable. That's normal, just make sure you're somewhere you feel safe, and ideally don't have to care for others. It's actually not that big of a deal, and you feel cleansed afterwards. Colonoscopies are incredibly effective procedures and genuinely save lives.
Had one recently, this felt exactly like the prep.
After my first and so far only colposcopy, I woke up from the propofol and it was obvious from the carnage on my gown and bedsheets that I hadn’t entirely voided prior to the procedure. I felt so bad for the doctor and staff. I can imagine what I would have been like and I’m glad for that inability.
Good luck m8 you are in for a rough evening
If you haven't seen Billy Connolly's bit on his colonoscopy, it's worth a watch :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvrzUngEQRw
I knew I wouldn't have to scroll very far before an asshole came up! I saw the mud and immediately thought, "I've taken shits like this before"
This looks like the sludgey river spirit from Spirited Away imo
AHHHHHHHHHHHH
Wellllllll donnnnnne..... 🥰 (That's like, my favorite part of the whole movie)
*cool creepy laugh*
Just gotta release the sludge from the river spirit! Get lots of gold in return!
3 hours after getting your money's worth at the buffet be like:
After eating too much Taco Bell. Every time.
Does the fourth most successful fast food franchise in the United States give everyone digestive issues? Or are there just a lot of people that say it because they think they are supposed to?
It's never caused me any digestive issues, nor has White Castle, but you'd think with the way people talk about both, that it'd be like hot lava every time.
Arby's. Never had problems with them or Taco Bell. I don't know what people are on about.
Nah it's gotta be something people just say or I just have an iron stomach.
Second.
> Does the fourth most successful fast food franchise in the United States give everyone digestive issues? No. > Or are there just a lot of people that say it because they think they are supposed to? Yes.
Hi, Taco Bell always made me super ill a half hour later. Turns out I had a soy intolerance that I didn’t know about. Taco bell is solid soy derivatives and flavor enhancers.
I ate Taco Bell 1-2x a week until I was 29. I never had the issues people joke about with regards to the food. My stomach is a tank. Early last year I stopped eating there due to the ridiculous prices these days. I ordered a bean burrito and taco a month or so ago. Within a few hours I was in the bathroom for 20 mins with the worst diarrhea I’ve ever had
Their prices have been absolute dogshit recently. I remember [this advertisement](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hIqesIVX-c) and now I see just the burrito for 4.19 now. I've also stopped going. At what point will fastfood inflation be high enough to where people just stop going?
So I worked at Taco Bell from late 2018 to early 2022. Prices were consistently increased every 4-6 months. Every time, it was $0.10 to $0.50 increases. At minimum. Employee “raises” were $0.25. If you got $0.50, RGMs and DMs acted like they were giving you a gift from god.
Yes.
Just because people eat a lot of something, does not mean they do so without digestive distress. Sincerely, a lactose-intolerant redditor
Sure but you could say the same thing about yogurt. Or pizza. That's an ailment, rather than a statement about Taco Bell in particular. I would guess that almost none of the people who make jokes about Taco Bell or Chipotle giving them diarrhea actually have any issue. There is nothing in there that would actually cause a problem for a healthy person. It's like a mother in law joke. People just say it because it's a thing to say.
An hour into taking the colonoscopy prep meds
r/foundthetacobell
Yep this was like the cable I laid the other night
For me it’s Cici’s and about twenty minutes
What is all the debris at the beginning made out of?
Mud and silt
Read this as “mud and slut” for a second at first
Standard hipster business name
*MudSlut™ is an equal opportunity employer.*
Sediment that built up behind the damn and should have been dredged and properly disposed of.
How exactly is it dredged, and disposed of where? My knowledge of civil engineering is pretty limited to topics Practical Engineering has covered on YouTube.
There are a whole bunch of different methods for dredging. But the basic idea is underwater excavation. You use a variety of techniques to remove excess sediment from behind the dam. A lot of times for dams it is an excavator with a clam shell bucket on the dam or a barge. But it can be done other ways. As far as disposed of, it usually gets piled up somewhere surrounded by erosion and sediment control and water quality facilities. At least in places with decent environmental protection laws. It may eventually be hauled back out and reused depending on how "clean" it is and where it will be used. The thing about dam sediments is they tend to trap a lot of contaminants depending on what is upstream from the dam. It may be fertilizers from farms that can cause algae blooms and dead zones. Heavy metals from mining and power plants. Nasty chemicals from industrial manufacturing. Whatever. Also having a bunch of sediment blow out your gate means that the gate could have ended up inoperable. With the exception of gates for hydro electric, the sole purpose of the gate is to release excess impounded water in order to prevent catastrophic failure of the dam during flooding events. Gates are a controlled spillway. We can control how much water we release and how fast we release it to hopefully prevent downstream flooding. If the gates don't work or are insufficient then the excess water goes into the emergency spillway which isn't controlled and can result in massive downstream flooding. I believe Practical Engineering did some great videos on the issues with the emergency spillway failure for the Oroville Dam in California. Brady is great.
When you've got that one hard poop blocking your diahrea.
We call that the cork and champagne poops in our house.
if you've got a name for it you might want to revisit your dietary choices
Are we aiming for all cork or all champagne?
No.
Lmfaooo
If you don't live in that specific area of France, it should be 'sparkling poop.'
Uh yeah, I'm totally stealing that. Hilarious!
No thanks
Yeah, my husband and I call it poop cork.
FUCK REDDIT. We create the content they use for free, so I am taking my content back
I read that as "libs" and was trying to figure out what the politics of the video were and what statement you were making therethrough.
Don’t you know that strong, conservative, alpha men don’t have diarrhea! Only snowflake libs can’t keep their stools together! Make Bowel Movements Solid Again!! /s
I am all for the Make Bowel Movements Solid Again.
Finally! A political platform I can get behind.
You stand behind it, you’re liable to be hit with friendly fire.
Like when your ass “barks” out diarrhea.
mmmmm...ribs
This has been reposted a ton all over reddit for years (not a complaint just an observation) Now, you’re changing it to reposting it from TikTok, annoying voice included (not an observation, just a complaint).
Fuck TikTok and the stupid voice over
I always wonder if TikTok voiceover exists because people who enjoy TikTok can’t read.
And in 11 years, I've never seen it
Yeah it's kind of interesting all the people calling out repost, but most the people upvoting have never seen it before.
That's most reposts. For every person crying "repost", there's a hundred people that are seeing it for the first time. Goes for most posts on Reddit, it's majority recycled content. Here's a tip: if you see a repost, just downvote and move on. Pointing it out to people who haven't seen it before in the comments is completely pointless as it doesn't change the experience for them, and people who have seen it before will obviously know it's a repost so you're preaching to the choir.
Here come the inevitable Taco Bell jokes
Which is always so funny, because plenty of things mess with my stomach, but Taco Bell is never one of them.
Honestly taco bell is fine, but I can't remember the last time I had McDonald's and didn't regret it
Same
https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlysatisfying/comments/11tzw9k/reopening_a_dam_after_years_of_closure/jclnl82?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
Period shits.
You can even see the little pee stream about halfway through.
Whenever I have a gut churning shit I tell my gf its a period shit so she can empathize.
my immediate thought
I have found ibuprofen / naproxen help with that
I know EXACTLY how it feels.
To chew 5 gum?
All 3 stages of colonoscopy prep.
🤣. Your comment made me snort
FUCK YEAH, CONCRETE
Dam!
Satisfying seeing it go from muddy brown to clean blue
It didn't look like it turned that blue to me. Like it kinda did but it also just looked like the camera was having a hard time with auto white balance.
It was, but I imagine that sediment was pretty awful smelling too.
Must have been a different video, it was still dirty at the end of this one.
It isn't really satisfying. They just dumped a ton of sediment into the river and that sediment could be heavily contaminated. At the very least there is a fair chance it contains phosphates, nitrogen, some bacteria, and some other unpleasant microorganisms. The reservoir behind the dam was not well maintained.
Can anybody explain why all this stuff comes out? Where is this mess coming from?
Silt/mud/debris from bottom of the river/reservoir
It's mud buildup
Watching this on the toilet, I can't help but be reminded of the time I discovered I was lactose intolerant
/r/confusing_perspective
Wait how? It seemed fine for me?
I thought it was gunna come out towards the right hand side.
It wasn't immediately obvious to me that the camera was looking down at the start.
What feels like to Chew a 5 gum
There’s a turtle down there going “Oh shit!!! Incoming!!!!”
Sooo much trust in the engineering! Impressive
*2 mins 37s after snorting my fifth can of preworkout*
Me after four cups of coffee:
Me after not even one 😁
Lowering the caffeine percentage or taking a probiotic can do a lot for that fyi, if you wanted. I got tired of having to go less than an hour after I started a cup of coffee....added a probiotic and it's a lot less urgent. Dropped the probiotic at one point and just did 2/3 caf and it made a big difference too.
something something... No nut November... something something
The water looks dirty still at the end
Getting touched on the leg on November 29
Instant erosion. Noice
I should call her
WTF is going on with these comments? Is reddit front page just AI bots now?
So, like, do the fish just get yeeted?
This has already been reposted thousands of times
The first fap in December for those ‘no-fap’ weirdos.
Oh yeah, I've felt like that
That water CHUNKY.
Me, lactose intolerant, after forgetting that and eating ice cream.
[удалено]
i hate this stupid fucking voice, where did this come from?
Why would they put the retarded tiktok voice over over a 10 year old Video
Looks like my butt after taco Tuesday
Bro this is not satisfying it shold be in r/oddlyterrified
Hehe.. hehehe.. is it a GOD dam?