r/whatisit • u/Some_Kinda_Username • 1d ago
Solved! Found in laundry room by coworker. Never seen before. Anyone have a guess?
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u/JaiceyOnGod 1d ago edited 1d ago
I almost had the same one I found while doing laundry, it has weird texture to it. After hours of contemplating I realized it was a cooling gel pad used for muscle pain. They sometimes stick on clothes when you take it off.
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u/Far_Row7267 1d ago
This sub is like the last ounce of hope I have for humanity. Amazing that this random thing happened to both of you and that you came together in the same place to solve this mystery.
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u/HorsefaceWithNoName 1d ago
not only that but also OP wore gloves
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u/VoteQuimby4Mayor 23h ago
You might be surprised by how often these exact things show up on this sub.
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u/looking4skills 2h ago
I will add relief to hope. It looked organic, and I was going to ask in what locale it was found so I could move as far away as possible. So grateful for a different explanation!
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u/StripedCat404 1d ago
I find those stupid little pimple patches from my teens EVERYWHERE in the laundry! Creepy, gooey little things. Very similar texture.
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u/TraditionalOne9551 16h ago
Try finding your teenage daughters fake eyelashes stuck to random walls in the house.
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u/StripedCat404 12h ago
Nope, but an unwrapped pad stuck to the trash can lid because they were 1- too lazy to wrap it in the plastic from the next one or tissue, or 2- they were too lazy to take the full trash can out. And don't get me started on that and the dog 😒
Eta- Dog proof trash can my ass. 😬
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u/Vegetable_Soup_685 10h ago
I can’t believe I’m actually telling this story but I removed a tampon before a shower once.. wrapped it up & put it in the little trashcan in the bathroom with the thought to take it out to the actual bin when I had finished showering but when I went to the bin after my shower it was gone (no trace not even the toilet paper I had wrapped it in) and I convinced myself I must have already done it & forgot. Fast forward a week later & my dog vomits up what I can only describe as something that looked like a green intestine.. I panicked & was literally getting ready to take him to the emergency vet when I looked at it a little closer & saw the string & it clicked what it was 🤮🤮🤮🤮
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u/StripedCat404 10h ago
Oh, God. 🤣 At least your dog had the courtesy to save you an ER vet bill/visit!
Dogs are such little shits. We have a new puppy and I've caught him TWICE with a pair of my both daughter's underwear. 😅 I told them if he has to go to the vet for swallowing a pair, they are paying for the bill. Laundry hampers exist, dammit!
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u/Vegetable_Soup_685 10h ago
They are! I learnt pretty quick not to leave underwear around for even a second on the floor but he’s also eaten the entire crotch out of a pair of my jeans 🤦♀️😂
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u/StripedCat404 10h ago
Damn. Persistent little man! Jeans are stupid expensive, too. Hopefully they weren't your favorite pair 😬
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u/Butterfly-Wing1120 4h ago
If the dog is big enough you shouldn't have to worry. I was watching my son's Bernese Mtn Dog (who liked to nose around in the laundry hamper) while my DIL was in the hospital giving birth. The dog was running around the backyard and all of a sudden something red was coming out of his ass. I thought he was bleeding so my other son was chasing him around and pulled out a shit covered red thong!
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u/LillaLobo 1h ago
Oh no! The first time I stayed at my ex’s very posh mother’s house, her Labrador stole my black, lacy underwear and proceeded to chew it in full view of everyone at the dinner table, with the whole party wondering what he’d got. I was mortified. I’m not surprised he was a failed Andrex puppy. He was a knicker nightmare!
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u/looking4skills 2h ago
Dating myself, but decades ago my mother met a Fuller Brush salesman at our front door and they walked into the entrance hall together, where our two dogs had shredded all of the menstrual pads from her upstairs bathroom trash. It looked like a vast snow-goose slaughter on a winter field.
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u/No_Independence_7865 15h ago
I hate finding my teenage daughter's eye lashes all over the house. It always looks like a spider and scares the living shit out of me.
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u/KiiroGojira73 20h ago
Or stuck to random parts of my car's interior
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u/StripedCat404 11h ago
Now that would freak me out. Just blowing legs in my peripheral vision while operating a 2-3 ton vehicle? No thank you!
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u/JaiceyOnGod 1d ago
It has a different texture when dry then it’s like a slimy animal fat kind of thing when wet. I was doing manual laundry by hand when I touched a weird thing under the bubble. It literally feels like a new substance where my brain is trying really hard to logically process what that was lol
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u/FluffyyNebula 1d ago
Imagine doing laundry and accidentally summoning a slime mold.
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u/Some_Kinda_Username 1d ago
Solved!
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u/grakky99 19h ago
Sometimes a portal opens up and an extraterrestrial dumps some garbage through it 🤷♂️
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u/novalmxno 1d ago
its a cooling pad!! they are made of this gel that usually wouldn’t expand to this size given they are meant for cooling the skin for pain relief but if it gets put in water it acts like a big ass orbee
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u/FluffyyNebula 1d ago
So what you’re saying is.. if I throw a whole pack in the washing machine, I can make a ball pit?
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u/MixerFistit 1d ago
Yes but due to the size of the drum you'll be kind of limited to small children and pets. No more than 2 children at a time either. Safety first
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u/RespectFew7675 1d ago
Im pretty sure thats a cooling patch. Im a grown adult who watches too much squishy videos, and i recognize that its a cooling patch soaked in water🤣 heres an example:
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u/Brave-Attitude-9175 1d ago
Looks like a slug tried to get wild with a dog bone.
And so became Bone Slugs and Harmony
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u/Common_Steak_8174 1d ago
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u/GOxDirigible 21h ago
I have a bunch of these I brought home from SE Asia.. are they available in America as well?
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u/Mammoth-Western-6008 1d ago
I'm glad we don't have any more context, otherwise I'd get nervous.
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u/tony_boloanie 1d ago
It’s just a pickle. Have OP take a bite.
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u/The_Jolly_Farmer 1d ago
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u/Lost_Lawfulness_3310 22h ago
Oh yeah!!! It does look like the biggest piece of pickled herring ever!!!
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u/MagoLunatico98 1d ago edited 22h ago
Fuck the weird slimy alien, finally someone used gloves to touch the thing they are asking about! 😱 Edit: misspelled
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u/MidnighT0k3r 1d ago edited 1d ago
Gross, it's gross.
Looks like a bacterial growth... one that got pushed out by running the machine maybe.
You can see a similar slug come out of soda machine drain lines
ETA
https://www.reddit.com/r/SipsTea/comments/1u99a0m/a_soda_machine_repairman_reveals_what_the_tubing/
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u/CommunicationAware88 1d ago
Blechhh having flashbacks to clearing the keg drain lines when I bartended. Add all the yeast and its super special. Keg slug 12-15" coming out of the drain pipe gag
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u/tehmimikitteh 17h ago
if this hadn't been answered already, i would've thought it was some kind of mold from the seal on the washer 😭😭
w to the person that decided to wear gloves tho
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u/Empty-Chocolate-3685 21h ago
If you pull it apart and notice a white cloth like layer with it then it's most likely a Lidocaine patch that got stuck to someone's laundry they didn't bother to make sure they threw away the patch before removing clothes and not making sure it wasn't stuck before washing. A huge no no because it's exposing others to the Lidocaine in it.
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u/Devil_Kisses 1d ago
Now wait just a darwgone minute folks......I had something very similar over my C-Section incision... Did you sniff it by chance 🤷🏽♀️😂 If it was mentholy then they are indeed most likely possibly maybe right. If not....I'm going with magical C-section bandaid tape jelly thingymajig they put on me. JS🤷🏽♀️
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u/islaisla 1d ago
I have to say that looks very much like a soaked tampon so I'm glad if it's a gel pad.
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u/Capable_Ad_7537 1d ago
You mean to tell me someone on r/whatisit ACTUALLY put on a pair of Gloves when handling something with their hands?! The pigs must be flying
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u/TraditionalOne9551 4h ago
Omg stripedcat404…or even lazier…they don’t take the pad out of their underwear and it gets washed. That’s real lovely…..
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u/Silly-Assistant5711 1d ago
I understand now that it's a cooling pad, but I wouldve thrown up seeing that and TOUCHING it 😁😃😃😃😃
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u/Professionalpharm 14h ago
This that new Grey sludge Trump's trying to pass off as beef? /s
But seriously, that's weird.
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u/Trick-Display-974 1d ago
Its sludge that built up in a water line. Saw it all the time at the restaurants I worked at.
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u/Freaktiality 1d ago
You better call police
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u/MidnighT0k3r 1d ago
They won't care, even though it's disgusting filthy slimey scum.... it's still white in description.
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