Do you throw anything besides the three P's into your toilet?
I am often diagusted with the things people throw in the toilet. Tampons, condoms, menstrual pads, baby diapers, colostomy bag seals, underwear...
Walk into a public access bathroom and the filth is just waiting to be witnessed. And the bigger the venue, the higher the chance.
Aren't people aware of what they are doing? The clogs they build in the pipes? Because if they do this outside, then have to do it at home.
p.s
I feel the need to add a clarification of what the three P's are, being:
- pee
- poo
- paper (toilet)
This list is being slowly added to, in real time, and more P's are entering it. Namely:
- puke
- period
- pilosity
I'll update this as I stumble into new P's but I doubt the original mnemonic will recognize updates.
Pfeces, purine, and ptoilet ptissue
Poo, pee and paper, if you insist.
I thought the third was puke so I guess add that to the list for me.
You've discovered the fourth P!
What about pubes? They do fall in sometimes, you know.
Used to be the fourth p was porn. Now it's phone.
We used to be a country.
I'm sure there's someone out there who needs to be explicitly told that this is toilet paper, not printer paper or newspaper or graphing paper or any other kind. Just toilet paper.
And not any kind of wet wipes either. So-called "flushable" wipes are false advertising, do NOT flush them. They WILL clog the pipes.
I'm probably preaching to the choir, but there's a chance someone learns this for the first time from this comment.
There are wet wipes specifically made to be flushable and safe for such end, being isent of plastic, but most people think baby wipes are the same. Which they are not.
Except there are products marketed as "flushable" that are only flushable in the sense they are able to be flushed. They will clog up your pipes and not break down.
I've remembered vaguely reading some evidence that "flushable" wipes are partially responsible for fatbergs.
So do not flush flushable wipes
I don't know where you are talking from but in my country that falls under false advertising and is punishable with hefty fines, especially because cloggings of sewer systems by such products are charged to the origin, which is becoming easier to do. The dumbest person on the land would start thinking if they got charged for a sewer clean-up more than once.
Good ole U S of A. State to state can vary a bit but it's unlikely any states have the ability to go after the manufacturer. They are likely headquartered in a very "business friendly" state.
Knowing the US we probably have some bullshit legalese that defines "flushable" as "able to be flushed, but not held responsible for clogging."
We do so much to allow corporations to get away with whatever they want while appearing to make laws for people... Food laws are similar. Can't name synthetic chocolate as chocolate, but you can call your product chocolatey... How does a consumer actually know what that means?
They're lying. Ask anyone that works in wastewater treatment and they will tell you the same. Do not flush those supposedly "flushable" wipes.
Yup, they're lying. As the other person said, these wipes marketed as "flushable" are directly responsible for a lot of blockages.
Purine
Q: Why don't you ever hear a pterodactyl go to the bathroom?
A: Because the P is silent.
I wish the p was silent.
My hopes and dreams…
Absolutely not. I have a septic system and my hopes and dreams would plug up the drainage field. That's a very expensive repair.
People do this all the time, all across the planet. People are just stupid. My brother works in sewage waste management in Norway, and it's a clusterfuck of literally anything you can think of.
His most surreal find was a ripped up wedding dress.
Don't forget about boogers and cum.
Phlegm and prostate fluid.
Please don't try to flush Portugal.
What about Paraguay?
I'm not sure. Southern hemisphere countries might flush differently. Better not risk it, though.
Pears, peets, pattlestar palactica
pattlestar palactica - I just found my new FetLife name.
Expired milk
I haven't seen bugs mentioned.
If there's a creepy crawly that is better off dead (ie invasive species), then that thing is being grabbed with a wad of tissue and thrown in the toilet.
I do this with ticks so they don't go latch onto someone else in the house. Or me.
I'd be so irrationally worried that some super-tick would survive the flush and crawl back up the pipe for a revenge bite to the ass or balls.
Fuck, I'm glad I don't live where ticks are a problem.
The "Super Ticks" have to do battle with the chickens.
Anyone with body hair is going to lose a handful down there every year. This is not to say that you should deliberately throw full mats of hair (or beard) trimmings down there, but the system has to be able to cope with the occasional H along with the Ps. And so stray hairs I see on the floor or my clothing when I'm in there for a while might find their way into the pot.
My biggest recurrent crime is probably nail trimmings.
ETA: Vomit. Not a regular occurrence, for which both my plumbing and myself are thankful.
Isn't puke the third P?
Pee, poo, paper (toilet).
I was confused what the three p's were. You say pee, poop, and (toilet) paper.
I think it needs also puke and blood. Does blood have a word that works in that? Cause I add blood every single month and I'm not going to start dumping that anywhere but the toilet lol
"Period" works
Oh no no, it's not my blood!
Woohoo sacrifice! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
You should be donating that blood so others can benefit.
I've tried, but they ask all sorts of inappropriate questions like "whose blood is this" or "why do you have so many gallon zipper bags of blood"
Tell them you have hippo rights and it's none of their business
EXACTLY! It's just easier this way.
Ah yes
Pee
Poo
Petunias
Golf balls, of course.
To the spirit of your question, no.
But to be pedantic, yes. Sometimes I pick up a random small piece of filth off the floor or whatever and the toilet is just right there. And when I mop my floor (once every 1000 years or so), you bet I pour the bucket of dirty water down the toilet, and that's not technically one of the 3 P's.
And very rarely, I have a strand of hair that fell from my head (I have long hair) and I just can't be bothered to fight with the physics of making it fit into the trash bin, so I drop it into the toilet and leave it there until the next flush. It's probably bad, but it's a very rare occurrence.
Yes, it's bad, and it doesn't matter if it's a rare occurence. Really, how many hairs will build up in your toilets drain after a thousand years of "rare" occurences? It'll build up, and my guess is you'd have to clear that out every two thousand years. It would honestly be such a pain... just throw it in the trash yo.
Free tip: every now and then, dump some bleach down your drains. It dissolves hair and the fat from soaps and creams.
Unless you're on septic
Sometimes, a little bit of beard hair.
Yes, I throw in other things besides pee, poop, and Pepsi: Toilet paper
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I might throw a spoiled bowl of soup or cereal down the toilet. Really any liquid/suspension that was once food but is now being digested by tiny, invisible, bastard thieves.
You’re feeding the rats in the canals, which alas do Not stay in the canals.
I do not advise it. Dump the liquid in your kitchen sink and the solids into your bin.
Snus/nicotine pouches. Used, obviously
Aquarium water, but that's also the same thing.
Put it into the toilet flush tank and you save a few liters for the next sit at the White Throne.
I would but I would also like to stay married.
Ah, the details. I understand. If you have a yard, use it to water the plants. Flowers like the organically enriched water.
This I do. My gardens love it and so will the greenhouse plants when that is done.
Also puke...
But I find a lot of people flush paper towels in public restrooms because there are a lot of seat pissers out there and they use paper towels instead of toilet paper to clean them.
Unless the paper towels are of a reinforced type of paper, usually, every paper present at a bathroom is water soluble.
That is not true. I've dealt with several clogged toilets due to people using paper towels and there are a lot of signs in a lot of rest rooms telling people not to flush paper towels.
As I read the thread again I was on the verge of thinking I was thinking about kitchen paper towels.
I have to insist on my original stance. The zig-zag paper towels commonly found in public bathrooms, where I live, almost melt when in contact with water. I buy them to my own house, to use as tissues, as the paper is soft enough for such use. I use them in my workplace. I find them at cafes, supermarkets and shopping centers. Every single time, so fragile it requires several towels for one to dry their hands and it makes no difference how much you ball it up, as the paper starts to fray and dissolve has it soaks.
I do not doubt you but the nearly indestructible paper towels were a thing some ten years ago, here, not anymore.
None of the ones I've used melt in water. If anything, the newer ones I've seen have become more durable to water.
Maybe where you live uses special paper towels, but I'm reasonably well traveled and I have yet to encounter paper towels that could be flushed. Whenever I see a sign to not flush something, it includes paper towels.
not intentionally. I live in a complex though and they always mention finding things. I do wonder though since we have around 100 units there are bound to be things that get dropped in over the course of a year.
Ashes from cigarettes expired, or just particularly greasy, foods
Don't. That grease sticks to the pipes inner walls. It builds up a crust that has the capacity to trap other things in it.
Tmyk, thanks
Dustbunnies and lint
gum
Please, don't. Those have the power of sticking to everywhere and anything.
well now that a rando on the Internet has warned me I may never do it again
Hmm, perhaps you should upscale the venues or countries that you visit? I never see things like that in (public) toilets.
This is mostly a factor in how often the public toilets are cleaned. I've been in charge of public toilets before, and if I'm not on top of them things get bad fast.
I'm also in charge of my personal toilets. They get bad fast too if I don't keep up, and we are not putting bad things down intentionally. However accidents happen more often than you would expect.
Good for you! I wish I was that fortunate.