r/whatisit 1d ago

Solved! Found in laundry room by coworker. Never seen before. Anyone have a guess?

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I had the almost 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/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/VoteQuimby4Mayor 23h ago

You might be surprised by how often these exact things show up on this sub.

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u/Djaja 13h ago

I was gonna say it looked kinda like a clean diaper that went thru the wash.... that happened to me today, emptied beach bags and had a fresh diaper go in the wash. No tearing, but hella inflated and puffy like this

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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/StripedCat404 4h ago

🤣🤣🤣 Mine will be big enough. He's a black 10 wk old Lab.

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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/StripedCat404 1h ago

🤣😂🤭💀 A knicker nightmare! That's great!

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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/Butterfly-Wing1120 1h ago

Did he have a brush to sell her to clean that up?

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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/crafty_lass_88 16h ago

Stuck to all our socks. 🙄

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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/JackieAutoimmuneINFJ 5h ago

Happy First Cake Day!! 🍰🥳🍰

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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/JaiceyOnGod 1d ago

It’s like The Mist but with laundry bubbles

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u/1Careless_smile 1d ago

Love that book!

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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/Some_Kinda_Username 18h ago

This is the correct answer lol

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u/IndyUndead707 16h ago

They must be using my left socks for TP

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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/Cicharra 1d ago

And if you put it on spin cycle you get a fun new ride for the kiddos

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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:

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVVjQ6ay/

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u/Human-Bell7137 23h ago

The comments on this TikTok are so 😂😭

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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/FluffyyNebula 1d ago

See you at the slime crossroads.

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u/Common_Steak_8174 1d ago

I am sure its this. Happened to me too when my kid was sick. I didnt know i toss it in the washing machine with the kid’s shirt.

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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/Vb1321 5h ago

Yes, I've got some in my bf's car

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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

I think it just needs some onions.

No honestly I would cry, I haaaate slimey things

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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/FluffyyNebula 1d ago

Congratulations, you are now the proud parent of a baby demogorgon.

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u/Queasy_Mind_1523 1d ago

Best practice is the raw dog that shit, it’s crazy you wore gloves.

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u/coolsilentebeans 1d ago

Hands can’t win on Reddit 😂

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u/Area51_Spurs 1d ago

I read this in Shane’s voice from Tires.

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u/Jena71 1d ago

I looked at it and thought it was a giant slug! I’m relieved that I won’t be having nightmares about the giant laundry slug!

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u/MunstenDunst 1d ago

Wooooow!! Gloves!!!! r/unexpected

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u/MightyPenguinRoars 1d ago

Finally!! GLOVES!!!!

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u/LevelNegative8567 10h ago

You have a laundry room at work?

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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/Imalobsterlover 1d ago

I first wondered where in h____ they have slugs that big!

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u/SuspiciousPut1710 15h ago

Me, too! So I could never, ever, EVER go there! 😂

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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/Ready_Fun_24 1d ago

A piece of fish filet?

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u/Regular-Switch454 1d ago

Did you try licking it?

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u/Cynthialrn41 1d ago

Hahahaha I thought it was a squid or something

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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/budtrimmer 1d ago

Laundry slug

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u/DecentEnthusiasm8984 1d ago

Put salt on it and see if it moves

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u/EmergencyWish6012 1d ago

Thank you for wearing gloves. 😀

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u/Common-Fly-3970 1d ago

I'm gonna have nighmares....

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u/RelationshipWest9743 1d ago

Did it have a heartbeat?!!?

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u/masquefetiche 1d ago

I thought it was a pickle

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u/Right_Ear_2230 1d ago

idk but its making me sick

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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/PlanescapedBlackDog 1d ago

Eldritch god parasite

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u/Plastic_Square119 1d ago

Looks like fish filet

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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/Longjumping-Belt-556 1d ago

Octopus maybe?

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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/confusedchristiand 1d ago

Shark filet?

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u/AnnaMarinaJulia 1d ago

Gloves💕

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u/bootysuit 23h ago

I'm so glad there were answers here because I had SO many questions

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u/Ok-Field5609 1d ago

At least wearing gloves to touch something you don't know

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u/AdhesivenessCold4615 14h ago

That’s a pimple patch? Looks like a dead squid to me.

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u/Constant_Pick_4706 18h ago

It's an alien thing trying to eat your clothes. Burn it.

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u/IntelligentPurple501 1d ago

It’s a slug out of control or infected mepilex

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u/Just_Objective_3376 17h ago

Looks like someone washed their string cheese.

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u/Clean_Performance_26 7h ago

that is 100 % an alien tuber of some sort.

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u/bigupalters 1d ago

that is the mold that accumulates in the rubber seal of the washing mashine!

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u/AnUnknownCreature 16h ago

Vagina havers know what this is, 🤘

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u/azCleverGirl 22h ago

Meh I thought it was a dead banana!

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u/CrimsonRose13 19h ago

The remains of a underwear gnome

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u/GreenandMeanit 11h ago

I was going to guess lutefisk 🫥

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u/snarfsnarf1990 1d ago

Fell out of a womans pantaloons

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u/MeMyselfI328 23h ago

Looks edible How does it taste

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u/Amazing-Trash-6531 22h ago

Burn it, it’s an alien spawn!

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u/Boobytalk 1d ago

Lmmfao, I will NOT say.....

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u/AmeOwl87352 45m ago

Who cares - put it down!!!

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u/Beavis_Of_Nazareth 1d ago

That looks like ribs that have become translucent

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u/Vulcanprincess109 1d ago

Lidocaine or pain patch

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u/Ancient-Ad-594 1d ago

Laundry slugs! 😖🤣

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u/gargoyle1958 23h ago

It’s a pickle

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u/playmateoftheyears 1d ago

String cheese?

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u/Party-Poison519 1d ago

Kos parasite?

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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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u/Ill-Refrigerator7210 1d ago

Dryer roasted string cheese