r/interestingasfuck • u/CreditorOP • 1d ago
The village's communal washing machine.
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u/mertozzzus 1d ago
Indeed it's genius. Simple but genius. By the way, why do you think one of the biggest washing machine producers is called "Whirlpool"? Guess what, this is a whirlpool :) I'm a tour guide in Romania and I took many tourists to see these proto-washing machines.
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u/load_more_comets 1d ago
How good does it clean? They don't seem to be using detergent.
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u/mertozzzus 1d ago
My friend, they have been using these whirlpools for centuries. Long before detergent was invented. They cleam as good as a washing machine without detergent. Now, frankly, I wouldn't wash my white underwear in there, but still, for rugs, it does a great job.
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u/philipp2310 22h ago
they clean better than a washing machine without detergent. A washing machine is not using hundreds of liters fresh water.
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u/PastaPalace 21h ago
My washing machine doesn't have algae or animal debris in it.
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u/philipp2310 21h ago
depending on the exact position, the water can have drinking water standards as well.
On top rapidly moving water as seen here seldom has algae. About animal debris, lets just not talk about animal fat that is used for soap, right?
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u/Throwaway7262628273 10h ago
Check the ingredients in soaps and fabric softener and get back to us on the animal debris 🤡
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u/PastaPalace 8h ago
We were specifically talking about without using any sort of soap, but I can buy vegan soap. I know my soap and water doesn't have any animal debris in it I can't speak for those less fortunate.
Also I can set my water to hot and even without soap it will clean better than that cold ass river. Rivers naturally accumulate animal bits and that thing was full of algie. The boards also look gross, they at least should give it a scrub down after a few centurys.
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u/Filthiest_Tleilaxu 1d ago
Gossip mill.
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u/Pausenhofgefluester 1d ago edited 1d ago
"No one knows who invented it" aka "Lets create a strong sentence at the first seconds so people stay till the end".
Strange that all around the world people had kind of the same problems and some had the same solution, wow!
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u/ChrisMcNelly 1d ago
Simplicity is the essence of genius
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u/No_Cheesecake_192 1d ago
Yeah, but try finding a replacement part and having to deal with customer service
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u/TheSandMan208 1d ago
Plot twist. You have to call a service line and the representatives are all from America.
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u/Careful_Baker_8064 1d ago
“Can you believe Piszǐc is fucking Svetlana already??”
washes clothes
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u/MathematicianNo7842 1d ago
Why would people in Romania be discussing what some random girls in Poland and Russia are doing?
Seriously now, those are both slavic names and Romania is not slavic.
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u/TheDukeofArgyll 1d ago
Give us some trashy Romanian names then
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u/RoM_Axion 1d ago
Maria was fucking Ion
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u/throwawaybyefelicia 10h ago
This is my mother and my Romanian stepdad’s name and I hate this hahaha
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u/afireintheforest 1d ago
“Little John wanting to move into the communal washing machine with his wife and 10 children. First he installed square galvanised steel…”
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u/petahthehorseisheah 1d ago
This was/is also seen in other mountainous regions all across the Balkans.
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u/Wolfman8k 1d ago
I love it. I hope they are using earth friendly detergents. Seems like a happy community.
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u/Heavy-Excuse4218 1d ago
Police: “we have recovered trace amount of the victim’s blood from the community washing machine. So we have narrowed our persons of interest list to….everyone in the village.”
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u/theangrymurse 1d ago
I saw something similar in baños, ecuador. Not the bucket, but a communal cloth washing area.
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u/HedgehogOutrageous36 1d ago
To be clear , humans are communal social creatures they need a sense of belonging and a society to live/survive , even through all the drama and village survives through solidarity and this is a instinct or innate sense of survival for mankind and no tools weren’t built to bring solidarity but rather solidarity is what brought upon them to invent tools and inventions were made by groups for the beneficence for the people ;
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u/Novel-Weight-2427 1d ago
This is what civilized society needs
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u/Owww_My_Ovaries 1d ago
Yes. A giant community laundry machine that people will wash their soiled underwear in. Exactly what a civilized society needs.
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u/brihamedit 1d ago
Is this real or larping for tourists. The view in the area is very good but not worth using the washer with algae all over it.
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u/Decent_Law_9119 1d ago
Poor river
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u/Adrian4lyf 1d ago edited 1d ago
I understand the concern, but if done like in the 'old days', this is as natural as washing sheep.
No chemicals, soaps or detergents are used. Just water and physics.
The materials washed are mostly made from natural fibers. The regions where these are used profit heavily from sheep raising and wool using.
People wont wash their clothes in there. Just things that dont fit in a washing machine or are too big to be hand washed in the yard.
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u/Decent_Law_9119 1d ago
No soap? Then it is great, but does it wash?
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u/Adrian4lyf 23h ago
Honestly, no idea how well they wash. I never experienced such an event or fabric washed this way. I can assume that it does a good job though since people have been using it for so long.
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u/Alortania 1d ago
They're not adding detergents.
Rivers are the toilets and bathtubs of countless animals, movers of dirt and soil, decomposers of dead plants and animals, etc.
This does nothing to "dirty" it more, esp in the historical context.
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u/Decent_Law_9119 1d ago
I really thought all that foam was soap
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u/Educational_Juice293 1d ago
Lol, they do. They add shitloads of chemicals. I am romanian myself and know how they are treating the environment. It gets better, but still there is polution everywhere
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u/Alortania 1d ago
To the river washie machine?
It's not spinning the water, it's pouring it through in a whirlpool. Any soap you dump in there is gone the next moment, and pre-infusing it into the fabric doesn’t seem like it'll do much more than the water and wood scrubbers, esp vs the kind of thick stuff they're mostly using it for.
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u/Educational_Juice293 1d ago
They wash the carpets nearby on the ground with brushes and chemicals and then throw them in there to rinse them. They dont Just throw the carpets in and thats it.
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u/Alortania 1d ago
IDK... that kinda defeats the purpose, and at least in the vid, all the carpets are tossed in dry.
The power of water is crazy; it's a waste of money to pre wash with detergents at that point, unless you're washing a carpet for the first time in a century ~
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u/TheSandMan208 1d ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't see any cleaning agents used. So they're just using water to clean off dirt and grime?
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u/fdalv 1d ago
People don't drink water from rivers, they drink from wells.
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u/The_Blendernaut 1d ago
Wells and storage tanks filled with rainwater. My GF's parents live in Romania in a village with a population of roughly 800. Their main water source is two storage tanks fed by rainwater. The water is treated with chlorine, but she says they often use too much and it tastes terrible. In the summer, they have to ration the water, and the authorities turn it off every other day, forcing them to go to a neighboring village for water. In case anyone is wondering, no, there is no indoor bathroom or shower. There is a kitchen sink and faucet. They have an outhouse, as most of the villagers do. 30% of Romania uses outhouses and the percentage gets even higher as you move into the rural areas.
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u/wojtekpolska 1d ago
bro thats some outdated info nobody lives like this anymore
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u/The_Blendernaut 1d ago
Not outdated in her parent's village of Bustenari. I have seen photos of their outhouse. She recently told me of how the summer heat pretty much dried up their two water tanks and her parents had to go to a neighboring village to fetch water for their animals - pigs, chickens, and cats. She explains to me in detail how it works with the "authorities" that ration the water.
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u/Wilbizzle 1d ago
Just imagine an entire village with one washing machine. This makes a 6 tenement with shared laundry look good somehow.
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u/ZealousidealBread948 1d ago
I'm sorry if you think the washing machine was created in the USA
In the old continent things existed and were created long before, including this washing machine in Romania
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u/afireintheforest 1d ago
“Little John wanted to move into the communal washing machine with his wife and 10 children. First he installed galvanised square steel…”
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u/varegab 1d ago
This sentence: "women were sitting there all day exchanging information." Yeah, sure.
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u/Excellent-Cap-7931 1d ago
Mate, believe it or not, village woman gossip a fuck ton about everything from the single most useless shit possible to the "current" politics.
Source: me, I had to sit around my grandma gossip with the local group of other grandmas and aunties for a long time.
So yeah, "woman were sitting around there all day exchanging info" is accurate
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u/SghnDubh 1d ago
AI voices are kinda annoying.