nerv

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[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, the details. I understand. If you have a yard, use it to water the plants. Flowers like the organically enriched water.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 2 points 8 hours ago

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.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 2 points 8 hours ago

Pee, poo, paper (toilet).

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 0 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Put it into the toilet flush tank and you save a few liters for the next sit at the White Throne.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 0 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

Unless the paper towels are of a reinforced type of paper, usually, every paper present at a bathroom is water soluble.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Please, don't. Those have the power of sticking to everywhere and anything.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 1 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 2 points 10 hours ago

I do not advise it. Dump the liquid in your kitchen sink and the solids into your bin.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 1 points 10 hours ago

Good for you! I wish I was that fortunate.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app -2 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

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.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 4 points 10 hours ago

Free tip: every now and then, dump some bleach down your drains. It dissolves hair and the fat from soaps and creams.

 

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.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by nerv@fedinsfw.app to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

I have a coworker travelling there in July. Unwillingly, I've been more or less been kept in the loop what preparing the trip implies and I'm pretty horrified.

Up until now, these are some of demands made (and accepted):

  • full disclosure and acess to social networks
  • criminal record
  • recent photo, perfectly groomed and in the attire to be used to travel there. No deviations will be tolerated from the supplied photo.
  • complete list of possible identifying marks on the body, with pictures (tattoos, moles, melanistic spots, scars, etc)
  • name and social networks of parents, siblings and other close relatives, including children.

The person is separated with two children; this is causing a lot of friction.

  • has already been warned an interview of up to two hours will be held upon arrival.

The person speaks broken english at best.

  • disclosure of place of employment and other connections to public organizations

They are connected to a local soccer club and a youth sports association.

To add to all of this, this isn't a standard caucasian human but someone who has looks that can be taken for someone from the middle east, slightly darker shade of skin included.

Flying from southern europe straight to Florida.

I'm concerned. I would not go, full stop. They have people waiting there for them but nonetheless. Considering the heated state of affairs, it is something I consider of not easily to overlook risk.

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