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Have You Ever Had Something Dry Cleaned?

Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
Dry cleaning…I hear it talked about a lot, it’s on tv a lot…I’m watching Seinfeld and I swear they mention it every episode.

It’s basically a complete enigma to me

I’ve never been to a dry cleaner
I’ve never had something dry cleaned
I’ve never owned a dry clean only garment
Hell I don’t think I’ve ever SEEN a dry cleaning place in person.


I don’t even know how dry cleaning works. For some reason I’ve never bothered to even google it.

That’s weird.

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  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Maybe they use dry ice

    I dunno

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Maybe they use dry ice

    I dunno

    This is now canon

  • ChicoBlueChicoBlue Registered User regular
    Back in the day they would do dry cleaning with kerosene.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Back in the day they would do dry cleaning with kerosene.

    This is now canon

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Back in the day they would do dry cleaning with kerosene.

    This is now canon

    This is Nick Cannon

  • milskimilski Poyo! Registered User regular
    Dry cleaning is using a non water solvent, usually perchloroethylene.

    I ate an engineer
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    milski wrote: »
    Dry cleaning is using a non water solvent, usually perchloroethylene.

    This is made up

  • DeansDeans Registered User regular
    Dry cleaning is when they examine the garment with an old timey magnifying monocle and pick off every grain of dirt and hair with tweezers.

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    edited May 24
    I have never had something dry cleaned but my parents did pretty regularly back in the day so I've been to a dry cleaning place a few times

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  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Back in the day they would do dry cleaning with kerosene.

    This is now canon

    This is Nick Cannon

    Stop having babies!

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    milski wrote: »
    Dry cleaning is using a non water solvent, usually perchloroethylene.

    This is made up

    Don’t worry. I won’t be fooled.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    I've had various coats that were dry clean only.

    Also dry cleaning is great for when you quit smoking and realize how much your stuff reeks.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    I don’t even know where I could go in this town to get something dry cleaned.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    probably at the strip-mall between the nail salon and out of business Subway with the FOR LEASE sign in the window, which makes you wonder if the chemicals were getting into the subway

  • chromdomchromdom Who? Where?Registered User regular
    I don’t even know where I could go in this town to get something dry cleaned.

    Mr. Tubbs on 8th Ave, just down from the Cub. 4 stars, absolutely.

  • WeaverWeaver Breakfast Witch Hashus BrowniusRegistered User regular
    You know it's the best dry-cleaner when their garment conveyor is longer than anyone else's and has the most double-backs.

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    chromdom wrote: »
    I don’t even know where I could go in this town to get something dry cleaned.

    Mr. Tubbs on 8th Ave, just down from the Cub. 4 stars, absolutely.

    Oh yeah. Forgot about that place.

  • JokermanJokerman Registered User regular
    Dry cleaning…I hear it talked about a lot, it’s on tv a lot…I’m watching Seinfeld and I swear they mention it every episode.

    It’s basically a complete enigma to me

    I’ve never been to a dry cleaner
    I’ve never had something dry cleaned
    I’ve never owned a dry clean only garment
    Hell I don’t think I’ve ever SEEN a dry cleaning place in person.


    I don’t even know how dry cleaning works. For some reason I’ve never bothered to even google it.

    That’s weird.

    I have to wear a suit so yeah. I've been to a dry cleaner sonce.

    It sucked.

  • LucedesLucedes Registered User regular
    Weaver wrote: »
    probably at the strip-mall between the nail salon and out of business Subway with the FOR LEASE sign in the window, which makes you wonder if the chemicals were getting into the subway

    it's a papa john's actually and they're in business, but this is literally where my local dry cleaners is.

    we had thrift store wedding outfits cleaned there once, and it worked fairly well? got the funk out, cheaper than new and less wasteful (maybe).

  • GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    I used to work at a dry cleaner’s, when I was 15, maybe 16?

    Except I worked out back where they did steam cleaning. Imagine basically a mannequin that you’d put a jacket on, then it would blast it with steam from the inside.

    The owner would order shitty leather jackets from somewhere, they’d arrive all moldy, we’d steam them up real good, and they’d end up in surprisingly expensive stores.

    It was crazy hot work, and with a fair risk of getting scolded, but it was kind of fun. Decent pay, high risk, easy going boss, and his wife would constantly suggest that we take our clothes off to deal with the heat better.

    But anyway, I didn’t see Jerry Seinfeld there ever.

    This post was sponsored by Tom Cruise.
  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    I inherited a moderately fancy overcoat from a great uncle, and I get it dry cleaned every few years. Mostly when the marks from the bottom edge getting slammed in the car door start to get too noticeable.

    In my opinion, the main advantage of dry cleaning is that the Mexican restaurant next door does a really good beef flautas platter. And since it takes a few days between dropping your coat off and picking it up, you get double flautas excuses!

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  • HoukHouk Nipples The EchidnaRegistered User regular
    I've had suits and nicer dress shirts drycleaned a few times because I mainly wear them for weddings, where I become a massive sweat monster on the dance floor and they get super grodyed-up, and once because I made the mistake of leaving my suit on my bed while I took a shower and came out to find that one of my lovely new kittens had decided to take a nice big wee all over it

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    All these new threads for some reason I'm reading in Jonathan Frakes' Beyond Belief voice.

  • KadithKadith Registered User regular
    The local dry cleaner was improperly disposing of chemicals for decades

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  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    I dated a girl who lived above a dry cleaner

    it smelled weird and the entrance was literally in the back of the store, she had a key to the store.

  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    Have you ever taken someone to the cleaners

  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    ChicoBlue wrote: »
    Back in the day they would do dry cleaning with kerosene.

    https://youtu.be/JirQCaZ_6Xg?si=gbqLSqVRMu6XdLE9

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    well guess I'm watching rifftrax shorts for the evening

  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Kadith wrote: »
    The local dry cleaner was improperly disposing of chemicals for decades

    So we have something like that here! The dry cleaner that was across the street like 20-30 years ago was just dumping shit in the ground so now we have a ventilation system in our basement (and everyone else on the block). It's pretty rad.

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    My grandfather was a dry cleaner.

  • #pipe#pipe Cocky Stride, Musky odours Pope of Chili TownRegistered User regular
  • UrielUriel Registered User regular
    When you wash your clothes in the tears of your foes

    That's cry cleaning

  • DepressperadoDepressperado I just wanted to see you laughing in the pizza rainRegistered User regular
    "I play sports. no I don't, what the fuck?"

  • Raijin QuickfootRaijin Quickfoot I'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    tynic wrote: »
    My grandfather was a dry cleaner.

    I wanted to make a clever joke about him being a building or something but I couldn’t think of anything.

    I’m getting old.

  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    I've had my tux and suits dry cleaned and I'm high school and college we also had to get our band uniforms dry cleaned at the end of every season.

  • ChallChall Registered User regular
    I was in theater in high school and a local dry cleaner went out of business and donated all of their unclaimed garments to us for use as costumes. There were 5-6 full racks of clothes that people never picked up

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