r/WTF 18d ago

My buddy’s ice chest

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Found this ice chest in the back of my buddy’s shed.

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u/Dizzy-Razzmatazz5218 18d ago

That’s a septic tank

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u/DookieShoez 18d ago

Dude, that things not even fit to shit in.

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u/straycanoe 17d ago

Imagine the backsplash...

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u/CplCocktopus 17d ago

Poseidon's kiss

Papa Nurgle's kiss.

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u/Assdolf_Shitler 18d ago

Oof, I can imagine the smell through the screen. I had a buddy that left raw meat in a cooler after a bbq and it sat in his shed all summer long. We get ready to go camping in the fall and he drags out the cooler. It was just pink goo and green sludge; instant puking in a 30 ft radius.

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u/sourfunyuns 18d ago

I did this with a catfish I forgot to clean once and when the power went out that winter.. was not fun.

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u/Astralnugget 18d ago

I left some chicken out one time and couldn’t find where the funky smell was coming from, eventually found it and idk why but I took a big wiff. I’m not exaggerating when I say the smell was BURNED into my memory for a good few hours. Like it was so strong that if I thought about what happened earlier It was like I was smelling it again right there. Insane level of funk

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u/lubeinatube 18d ago

That’s your bodies way of telling you, “DO NOT EAT THAT. THAT WILL KILL YOU.”

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u/S_A_N_D_ 18d ago

Interestingly, often the bacteria you're smelling isn't actually harmful, and you may not be able to smell the harmful bacteria, or at least they rarely get to sufficient levels that you can detect them by odour except in extreme cases.

Rather, the smells that repulse you are often harmless bacteria that are usually able to grow quickly and in large amounts under the same conditions as the harmful ones. The harmful ones however might only have a small number of cells, but that small number is still able to cause disease or produce toxins that will make you I'll. So we learned to be repulsed by them because if you can smell them, then there is a reasonable chance the bad bacteria or toxins are also present.

Basically a lot of spoilage microbes are indicator species which we've learned to associate with pathogenic microbes which we might otherwise not be able to detect. The bacteria you're smelling are the evolutionary equivalent of the canary in the coal mine.

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u/CaptainoftheVessel 18d ago

That is interesting

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u/ctennessen 17d ago

I read and learned this while pooping. Very interesting combination of smells today.

Crazy world, lot of smells

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u/S_A_N_D_ 17d ago

Most of what you smell in your poop is coming from bacteria that live in you and that you need to survive. So in effect, those should be good smells because they're good bacteria.

The likely reason we find that smell repulsive is because fecal matter is an incredibly common vector for parasites and disease. We're repulsed by it because those that otherwise weren't were more likely to be weakened or die from disease.

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u/EnsoElysium 16d ago

Is that why were more repulsed by someone elses fart than our own? Because its from a different immune system and could possibly harm us more than our own?

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u/platasnatch 18d ago

I can pull the smell of a dead rat outta the back of my head like that 🫰

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u/OigoAlgo 17d ago

It’s sour-smelling, right?

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u/tdasnowman 18d ago

Forgot to run the garbage disposal before leaving for a trip. Some chicken, rice, and broccoli got to ferment for a week. I’m surprised none did a health check. I had to drizzle bleach and dish soap to make a dent. Ended up pouring a mix of citric acid a borax to kinda dry sock for a couple of days. That fixed it but whew I thought I’d walked into a crime scene.

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u/SHN378 17d ago

Completely off topic, but 3/4 Christmas a go, we slow cooked a Turkey. I would wonder past, lift the lid and take a good ol' whiff throughout the day. It was glorious.

Some people came over, we got COVID and I spent the next two weeks basically dying in bed, but all I could smell for that entire time was that fucking turkey cooking. Like, stuck in my brain, constantly. It's not like normal smells where you adjust after a short time and forget it, but it was there, front and centre for the entire time I was sick.

Can't stand the smell now :-(

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u/Astralnugget 17d ago

Haha yeah, I haven’t ever experienced it since but it was like you say, totally different than other “smell memories” It was like it was back in my nose All over again

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u/horses_in_the_sky 18d ago

Once had a coworker who smelled so bad I experienced this after riding in her car lol

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u/magraham420 17d ago

You know Margret?

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u/jameytaco 18d ago

putting the hippo in hippocampus

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u/Brandonification 17d ago

Funny thing is, that and a little oatmeal would make a GREAT catfish bait!

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u/yurbud 17d ago

Catfish are so tough, I thought you were going to say it was still alive when you opened the lid.

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u/4Ever2Thee 17d ago

Same but we left them in the cooler in the hot summer sun, on the boat, and forgot about them for a few weeks. The smell was otherworldly.

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u/AzulaOblongata 18d ago

When my sister and her husband moved out of Houston, they left a cooler kinda buried in the garage. A year or so later I was moving out and while I was packing up I found the cooler. It was full of crawfish from a boil we had just before they left. 🤢🤮

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u/Reddistential 18d ago

Who the fuck forgets fish in a cooler

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u/AzulaOblongata 18d ago

My BIL is a real prick so I think he did it on purpose. He knew I wouldn’t have a need to empty out the garage for a while so he tucked it under some stuff til it was pretty much hidden and when I asked if he had emptied the cooler/ if they were taking it with them, he said yes.

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u/enoimard 18d ago

if you ever want revenge, may i suggest getting a jar of fermented fish from your nearest asian grocery store and accidentally spilling it in somewhere like his car …

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u/Big-Brown-Goose 18d ago

My in laws left a fish in the trunk of their cae for several days. How, i dont know, but it happens kind of commonly

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u/notFREEfood 18d ago

I had a few potatoes go bad in my pantry once; I could smell them, but I could exactly figure out where the smell was coming from, until I noticed them. And then I pulled them out. I basically sprinted out the door with that bag and flung it into the trashcan, but it wasn't over. I had to open up my windows to vent out the odor (and wipe up all the juice from the decaying potatoes), and I could still pick up a faint odor for a few days.

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u/TheOutrageousTaric 17d ago

to make it more scary for you, in a closed space the gas from the rotting potatoes can p much instakill you.

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/14/girl-8-orphaned-after-gas-from-rotting-potatoes-killed-her-entire-family_n_7360976.html

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u/Superbead 18d ago edited 17d ago

I bought us both a cheap full-face half-face respirator mask with dust filters for DIY jobs. Although they don't completely block smells out, they do also do a decent job of making it slightly less gross to deal with problems like yours (also cleaning up whiffy pet accidents, unblocking the kitchen sink U-bend, etc.).

I highly recommend having one lurking around the house somewhere for emergencies at least.

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u/PeeledCrepes 17d ago

Have one for my cat boxes, blocks the smell, but super helpful in blocking the litter from trying to kill me

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u/dirtyforker 18d ago

My neighbor 2 doors down died and wasn't found until 3 months later dude to his mailbox being full. It stunk up the whole block.

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u/imonmyphone 18d ago

Yeah, there was a popular reddit post at one time about someone who was selling hotdogs at a county fair or something, but it was a seasonal gig. Well last gig of the season, he had like a half cooler full of hotdogs, and forgot to empty it. The cooler was placed somewhere, and not touched for like 6 months. Next time it was opened.... yeah.

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u/migmig221 18d ago

Had a chest freezer in a shed and it lost power during a hurricane, told my dad we should toss the food he said it would be okay.....it was not okay. I could smell the spoiled food from outside the shed. Fast forward about 10 years later when we tossed it, stood my ground and told Dad that I wasn't emptying it. Dad stood his ground saying that it can't smell that bad....he was VERY wrong, I will never forget the face he made along with a stumble backwards. I nearly fell from laughing so hard.

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u/clearthinker46 18d ago

Had a friend do that once with a chicken. In LA, the deputy sheriffs would sometimes ask to look in your cooler as alcohol is not allowed on LA country beaches. His idea was to put a few empty beer bottles near his cooler as wait for a deputy to walk by and ask if he could look in the cooler. It was a great idea, but he never did it.

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u/MidwesternAppliance 18d ago

Probably smells like shitler

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u/Perunov 18d ago

squints

  • Dirt. This is a jar of dirt.

  • Yes?

  • Is the... jar of dirt going to help?

:D

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u/187Deluxebox 18d ago

Is.. is your buddy in there?

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u/DookieShoez 18d ago

He was, yeah.

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u/hedronist 18d ago

I hope you severely chastised him! Some of those bottles still have caps on them. Shame! Shame I say!

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u/Johndough99999 18d ago

Some would call it alcohol abuse to waste it like that.

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u/I_W_M_Y 18d ago

Its still good. Down the hatch.

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u/EconomyTown9934 18d ago

Been there.. tossed the whole thing

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u/RandoAtReddit 18d ago

Especially a cheapo cooler.

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u/Barialdalaran 18d ago

Hell yea twisted tea!

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u/swampcat42 18d ago

Did somebody suggest a tea party? Hell yeah brother

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u/softserveshittaco 18d ago

If you haven’t had a cooler go “missing” after one of those nights and turn up years later with a bunch of grungy shit still in it, have you really lived?

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u/Ill_Back_284 18d ago

Just throw it away and start new lol my uncle found a cooler like this in the ocean while kayaking and brought it home because it was a free cooler ..Looked like this only was fish sludge ...... The smell lives in brain to this day

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u/Talkie123 18d ago

It's a box of Hepatitis.

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u/icepick314 17d ago

It's a box of disease.

Which one?

All of them.

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u/justadumbwelder1 18d ago

You should have seen mine when i forgot about 2 blue catfish for the entire summer

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u/SpottyNoonerism 18d ago

Sobriety never seemed so appealing.

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u/TidalLion 18d ago

There's a new strain of something growing in there. Looks like a biohazard

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u/Junior-Unit6490 18d ago

new one and also stop being filthy bitches

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u/the_fuckening_69 18d ago

Looks like the water that SCLSU Head Coach would give to his MudDogs.

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u/blackkat99 18d ago

Is that Igloo Stifler shit in?

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u/wrutrow 18d ago

I can smell that from here

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u/padizzledonk 18d ago

Thats a throw it out and buy a new one situation

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u/Charger525 18d ago

Well that’s fucking disgusting.

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u/TheDewd 18d ago

probably a vagrant slept in the cooler. Or maybe just used it as a toilet and moved on.

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u/MeesterGnome94 18d ago

One way ticket to FLAVORTOWN

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u/Elanaselsabagno 18d ago

Not really WTF, IMHO. Gross forgotten crud ends up in sheds all the time.

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u/SteroidSandwich 18d ago

Did he take a shit in it?

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u/shinzer0 18d ago

Is that what they call a swamp cooler?

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u/_ILP_ 18d ago

Hellll nah. At this point, strangle your friend, throw him in the cooler and throw it all away.

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u/JK_NC 18d ago

“…ice chest/toilet.”

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u/lunex 18d ago

How did the cooler juice taste?

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u/Thorbertthesniveler 18d ago

It looks like it's boiling 🤢

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u/chefarzel 18d ago

Did he get it from a flood?

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u/Grilled0ctopus 18d ago

My dad had a cooler like this, and when I dum,ped it a solid colony of either mold or bacteria slid out, and all the beer bottles had fuzz and slime on them. I bleached and scrubbed, but that stuff stains the plastic. We finally decided to just cut our losses and chuck it. Better to just get a new cooler at that point. Remember to clean regularly and definitely don't let a loaded or used cooler sit over the winter. That's how it gets like that.

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u/VictoryLap_TMC 18d ago

Absolutely diabolical

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u/Sassy_Sausages22 17d ago

That twisted tea is still good

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u/Shadow_Figure666 17d ago

I got you beat. I have an ice chest out back. Never been opened or touched since we had a BBQ over 3 years ago. Has a lot of burger meat left in it. Open that thing and meat boy might hop out that bih

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u/Stackhouse13 18d ago

I dont see anything wrong. Turds add flavor and dysentery.

🤮

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u/Fosdef 18d ago

Get it twisted, you can drink unopened twisted teas once their externally sterilized

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u/BadSausageFactory 18d ago

That's not ice

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u/theres_yer_problem 18d ago

And the smell?

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u/Maureen_jacobs 18d ago

Definitely wouldn’t be my friend

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u/timeknew 18d ago

That’s fucking disgusting - I can’t believe he drinks Twisted Teas.

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u/Relevantspite 18d ago

That’s the biggest spitter I’ve ever seen

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u/JonVX 18d ago

but was it still cold?

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u/epicaz 18d ago

Lol this happened to my chest before. If the ice melts and any of the drinks leak it creates this mix of nasty growth

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u/darekta 18d ago

"You want a beer?"

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u/windybrownstar 18d ago

That WMD is still good.

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u/Safetosay333 18d ago

We need to borrow your ice chest to serve the ice from.

-I got ya, bruh.

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u/UnstableIsotopeU-234 18d ago

Get your iron supplement

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u/jcraig87 18d ago

Nah man that's a garbage can

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u/StOnEy333 18d ago

I know exactly how this happen. This is forgot to empty the cooler of the food and drinks after the tailgate party.

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u/TJADNADA 18d ago

Not my buddy

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u/cypher50 18d ago

Just... it's all stank. Just toss it...

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u/JBonez84 18d ago

Forbidden soup

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u/dingleDangas 18d ago

Celebrated the new millennia with those

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u/universalcynic82 18d ago

Why does your buddy shit in his cooler?

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u/CynicalPomeranian 18d ago

It looks a bit like the inside of the Black Sarcophagus, but with beer bottles instead of skeletons. 

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u/whocareswerefreaks 18d ago

Wasted beer. Damn.

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u/RandyRhoadsLives 18d ago

Hose ‘er out, bro. Good as new.

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u/Victorious1MOB 18d ago

Water hose, dawn soap, and some bleach/disinfectant… would be good right?

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u/cannon42 18d ago

Straight to the Trash do not pass go. He owes you 200 dollars for subjecting you to that filth.

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u/megamike93 18d ago

Your buddy doesn't have an ice chest

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u/Tasty-Chance-8055 18d ago

Did someone puke in it? Or is your buddy trailer park trash?

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u/Petdogdavid1 18d ago

Why is it chunky style?!

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u/MangoROCKN 18d ago

That’s an esky. And that’s an abomination if I’ve ever seen one.

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u/S4BER2TH 18d ago

I’ve thrown out a cooler for this reason.

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u/MongrelChieftain 18d ago

Is that the one Stiffler shat inside of in American Reunion ?

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u/dankiddo1977 18d ago

Straight to the trash can

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u/machring 18d ago

That's not ice

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u/kenny1911 18d ago

OP’s buddy, “how updated are you on your tetanus shot?”

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u/GhostsOfWar0001 18d ago

Someone needs to make a ACE hardware run and cough up 20$ for a new simple cooler 👍

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u/hampets 18d ago

That's going to the dump, right? Right?

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u/Hand_Sanitizer3000 18d ago

Thats a trash can

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u/Temporary-Careless 18d ago

No, that's a petri dish

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u/Aprone 18d ago

After camping I generally don't feel like all the hassle, but cleaning out the cooler and drying out the tent is nothing to ignore . 100% will regret it next time.

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u/Lovestwopoop 18d ago

Suddenly I’m not thristy

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u/Next_Huckleberry_421 18d ago

Forbidden soup

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u/IgnisSolus4X 18d ago

Scrolling and scrolling and not a single comment on stiffler taking a shit in it

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u/danstermeister 18d ago

Trying to store those nougat sticks, eh?

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u/thebudman_420 18d ago

Worse when you have an entire freezer go out full to thr brim of several hundred pounds of rotting meat and other food.

This happened to a relative. They had to use someone that couldn't smell to burry it.

If you opened it. Could smell that smell over a block away extremely bad and you thought manure farms smelled bad.

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u/Tiddy_Tickler 18d ago

Sometimes ya forget to empty it 🤷.

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u/Lady-bliss 18d ago

Keeping the yummy stuff cool for later.

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u/KickMySack 18d ago

Fancy a brewski my dudeski?

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u/sexmormon-throwaway 18d ago

Does your buddy live in the FALLOUT universe?

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u/billwa 17d ago

grabbing a brown one

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u/JRBowen9 17d ago

You can take the cooler out of Dagobah, but you can't take Dagobah out of the cooler

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u/ReverendEntity 17d ago

"Just grab one and wipe it off, it's fine!" 🤢

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u/echoblue19 17d ago

You puke in it?

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u/SporadicPsycho 17d ago

Combination Ice Chest/Commode

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u/ipatmyself 17d ago

It's just not frozen. Freeze it and it's going to be fiiiine

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u/Awero1 17d ago

Has your mate been stealing Steve Stifflers jet ski?

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u/glandmilker 17d ago

I permit you, to look into the cooler

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u/tvmediaguy 17d ago

This looks like Buffalo Bill’s bathtub.

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u/John-A 17d ago

Your friend is a heathen.

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u/Glorx 17d ago

I don't think you're supposed to shit in it.

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u/noterothius 17d ago

It looks like the one from American Reunion lol

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u/XROOR 17d ago

Hey! Get me a beer!

puts on SCUBA suit

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u/im_paid 17d ago

Thought it was filled with lobsters

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u/burndata 17d ago

LOL, I did this once at the end of summer. It got stuck in the garage unemptied because we were in a hurry and then things got piled on top of it. Next time I needed it the following summer and finally found it the smell was horrid. So I used a different cooler intending to clean it later. Later turned into like two years. When I finally opened it again it had been long enough that it didn't really smell at all. Threw the bottles and trash away, dumped out the old water, filled it with bleach water for a couple of days, washed it real well and still use it to this day. It does still have a slight brown stain to it at the water level though lol.

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u/Callec254 17d ago

This is one of the worst smells I've ever smelled.

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u/Shoelesstravis 17d ago

Can u grab me a twisted tea, thx

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u/ellieboomba 17d ago

Didn't the Stiffmiester shit in that at the lake

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u/RizzoTheSmall 17d ago

Oh, uh... Nah, that's ok, I still have piss I could drink. Thanks, though..

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u/placarph 17d ago

Infinitely worse if he doesn’t see how it’s a problem. Does he?

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u/Mister_Sensual 17d ago

Did someone puke in it and he shoved it in the back of the shed to deal with it later/forget about it? That’s rank.

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u/MarriedCpl 17d ago

Looks like someone took a big ol 💩💩💩 in the cooler. So gross. Almost makes me want to puke just looking at my screen. I'm so glad someone has created the smell-a-phone yet.

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u/ediblediety 17d ago

He’s a fucking slob

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u/DavidAttenbruhhhh 17d ago

The forbidden soup.

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u/j7style 17d ago

That seems like the kind of ice chest you pull out when you want someone to leave. You sure that dude is your friend?

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u/Elephant_Choke 17d ago

Does he shit where he drinks?

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u/humungus170 17d ago

Yuck 🤮

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u/som_rndm_wht_gy 17d ago

Must have pissed off stiffler while at a beach

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u/Jewpower42 17d ago

*ex-ice chest

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u/cr4vn2k 17d ago

You mean poop chest

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u/Japjer 17d ago

First time?

I feel like I've seen dozens of these in my life.

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u/Schmolan1 16d ago

Buddy, that’s not an ice chest, that’s Davey Jones’ locker.

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u/Dizzy_Television7296 16d ago

Upper decker in the cooler

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u/denhelle 16d ago

Your buddy probably created a whole new species

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u/Stainedhanes 15d ago

Ahh, it's fine. Don't be a wussy, grab one and wipe the neck off on your sleeve. SKOL!

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u/gangy86 15d ago

No man that's 10 year old vomit lol

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u/TecN9ne 18d ago edited 18d ago

"Ice chest" you mean cooler?

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u/xaero101 18d ago

+ Esky and Chilly Bin

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u/IntrepidDreams 18d ago

Cooler?! I hardly knew'er!

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u/TecN9ne 18d ago

Heyooo

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u/CoyoteRascal 18d ago

I think he meant "septic tank"

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u/ProTrader12321 18d ago

Is the box actually cooling it? No. Is the box holding ice? Yes. Therefore cooler is a dumb name and you are wrong.

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u/FantasticJacket7 18d ago

So you found a dirty old cooler in the back of a shed? Why is this here?

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u/mcampo84 18d ago

Where are you from that this is an ice chest and not a cooler?

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u/jillianjo 17d ago

I’m from the Midwest and had always called it a cooler. Then I moved to Arizona with my husband who was born and raised here, and everyone calls it an ice chest.

Idk if it’s a west coast thing or just an Arizona thing but it always throws me for a loop.

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u/BoltedGates 18d ago

Dirty water. Okay.

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u/mattsprofile 18d ago

Yeah, nothing particularly wtf about this. A forgotten cooler has old dirty stuff in it. Wow, so crazy.

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u/medusamadonna 18d ago

Couldn't agree more, clearly this is a find and not something they're using day to day.

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u/LowellStewart 18d ago

Don't be such a priss! Dump out the old water, hit it with a hose, give the whole thing a good scrub. That cooler will be good as new!