Post #3813571

2026-07-14 15:12 UTC

LONG MOPS for GANGLY MEN are indeed a thing that exists because caretakers, they're made out of stronger stuff, there's wooden handles connected to fibre via steel so you can bicep your morque into the grime and fuck it properly without snapping the damn thing in half, but they're sold with certain Assumptions, they're COMMERCIAL mops, their wringing is all in the bucket mechanism, the bucket will have castors and be huge and heavy and ugly, you will keep it in the caretaker's special cupboard, you will move it between floors in a lift rather than trying to huff it up the stairs, you will not fill it with a kitchen tap, these devices have no business being in a domestic setting I simply wish for an extra 20cm of length and for reinforcement on the interface between rod and head, this is not very much to ask

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@ifixcoinops@retro.social 2026-07-14 15:16

Americans don't say "caretaker" they say "janitor" except they don't anymore, they say "custodian" now as a euphemism for "janitor," they should say "caretaker" instead because it's a more beautiful and descriptive word for the people who take care of places and by extension the people who spend time in those places I want a caretaker-length, caretaker-strength mop with the spinny gimmick in a bucket that isn't bright yellow with the comedy banana-peel-slip picture please

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@bujold@dice.camp 2026-07-14 15:23

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I was half seriously going to suggest replacing the handle with one of those extendable 8' paint roller handles for painting the ceiling, but then I remembered those things snap in half if you paint even just slightly too vigorously, and also I wouldn't be surprised if their respective threads are made to be incompatible like some sort of DRM But For Mops

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