• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    6 hours ago

    I once worked at a place where we had to put signs up telling people not to put paper towels in the urinals. Three of us had a coordinated investigation going on to figure out who was doing it, we were down to only two or three suspects before the signs went up.

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    11 hours ago

    Excuse me, WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT THE BIN IS FOR TRASH AND THE TOILET IS FOR POOP‽

    I’ve lived completely deceived, swindled, scammed… I won’t believe in anything again…

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      9 hours ago

      Recent immigrants from countries with bad plumbing sometimes continue to throw out toilet paper. The pipes in some countries can’t handle it

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        I suspect that’s why my wife pats after using the bidet and throws it in the trash can. No, there’s no smell or poop or anything gross in the slightest, but it’s a bit odd.

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    12 hours ago

    To be fair I’ve blundered across some toilet atrocities over the years that would’ve made me wish they’d just used the trash can instead.

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    Tbf, they’re incorrect that flooding poop helps plumbing do anything. This is obvious propaganda from Big Clog.

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      I love that this is clearly ChatGPT, too.

      Can you imagine writing that prompt? On a work computer?

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        Sometimes class elitism is called cultural differences.

        Often times people (or towns, or cities) who use bins for toilet paper is because their plumbing can’t handle the toilet paper being thrown into it, and upgrading it is just prohibitively expensive.

        And then they get called gross, or weird, or outdated culture, when it really is just “I didn’t choose where I was born.”

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      13 hours ago

      Except if it was just generated by a sloperator for a dumb joke, which is almost certainly the case here :/

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          10 hours ago

          The photo may well be real, but the poster itself is definitely made with ai.

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    Right, got it, so I pee in the bins? I mean I must do, or else what are they there for?

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      I mean you still don’t put the whole dump in the bin though, just the paper you used. Pretty common in a lot of countries.

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        Saw a sign saying “dont throw toilet paper into the toilet” in a middle eastern country last summer and was very confused.

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            10 hours ago

            it is more about the disgrace it makes water treatment, it clogs the treatment system, making the costs of treating the water much higher

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            Toilet paper also requires specific processing of the waste water. It’s normally screened off and sent to landfill when it reaches the treatment plant, but I imagine many countries wouldn’t have this infrastructure.

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              In the USA anyway toilet paper is legally required to dissolve in water within a certain time frame. Maybe this is not the case in other countries

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                It’s still screened off and sent to landfil. “dissolve” isn’t really possible with paper, just breaking into smaller parts.

                I’m no expert, but I’m guessing the rules are about the pipes between flushing and treatment, as I can imagine a slurry of toilet paper bits is a lot less likely to create blockages than a mountain of wet wipes.

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                  Yes, that makes sense. Not dissolve in the technical sense of form a solution in water, but more of the layperson sense of “disintegrate” into that paper slurrey and not cause blockages in pipes.

                  We all know that if you have too much paper and not enough water, it will block a pipe. But given typical usage, it should be safe for USA-code pipes since it disintegrates into that “slurrey.”

                  TIL that the water treatment plant screens it out and disposes of it! I imagine this is part of the process where they screen out other solids as well

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                ask any water treatment plant worker and they will tell you, that is a dream, toilet paper shouldnt be flushed at any situation

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    I’ve heard of places where they have you put the used tp in a trash can because the plumbing can’t handle it.

    But aside from that, and from tossing a dirty diaper in the trash can, I can’t imagine how else you might wind up putting the poop anywhere other than the toilet.