• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    TBH I don’t know what that smell is but if it’s related to sweat and ass fluid then cleaning should be fairly simple:

    1. Start with a 70% rubbing alcohol, set the chair on its side and soak then compress / scrub, this step should ensure no bacteria remains and that it dries very quickly for the next steps. You don’t have to rinse alcohol, it evaporates quickly.

    2. Next we’re going to try to counteract gastric and/or uric acids, which is to say hydrochloric acid, by scrubbing with washing soda. If you don’t have access to washing soda then you can either use baking soda directly or turn the baking soda into washing soda by dehydrating it in the oven. Scrub with and rinse out the soda with water.

    3. Final step, to counter any other contaminants, rinse with some amount of acidic cleaner such as vinegar. This will also help remove any soda from the previous step. Rinse out all of the vinegar with water, it does not evaporate.

    4. Dry in a very warm place with lots of airflow.

    5. Wash your ass with soap.

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      12 hours ago

      I suggest a small alteration:

      Start with 70% rubbing alcohol, set the chair on its side and soak then compress / scrub… fire.

      Buy a new chair.

      Wash your ass with soap.

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          11 hours ago

          No, that would be telling you that the chair stinks because you haven’t rubbed ENOUGH shit into it and big clean is just trying to swindle you out of your money.

          What I’ve described is the revolution solution.

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            10 hours ago

            You sure about that? Burning the chair and buying a new one checks the GOP boxes:

            • More consumerism
            • Less environmentally friendly
            • Pointlessly destructive

            The only thing missing is the big chair company going to your fundraisers and paying you to make people burn their chairs.

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              2 hours ago

              Ah I see. You weren’t making an allegory, you were being direct.

              Sorry I didn’t mean to pique your ideological perspectives by suggesting to burn a chair from a totally different thread as a joke.

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      1 day ago

      Worked at vet office, anything like urine or feces must be rinsed off thoroughly or it will smell. Obviously soap is needed too. Enough water and soap will get rid of it, although other cleaners incl enzymatic ones will work faster. No matter what, all that cleaner and soap has to be fully rinsed or it’ll still smell.

      He should powerwash it outside or at a carwash. Or, if in an apartment he could rinse it for a while in the shower.

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        22 hours ago

        It was implied that alongside cleaners would be rinsing, except for the alcohol, but I guess expecting the readers to have ever cleaned in their lives was too much.