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tetris11@feddit.uk to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago

Can an empty toilet roll be flushed down too?

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Can an empty toilet roll be flushed down too?

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tetris11@feddit.uk to Casual UK@feddit.ukEnglish · 1 year ago
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  • OmegaMouse@pawb.social
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    Why would you flush them? Do people not look forward to eating the cardboard tube whenever they finish a roll?

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      Are you a rabbit by chance?

      Nevermind, looked at the name.

  • NKBTN@feddit.uk
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    Nope. The three P’s; Poo, Piss and Paper are the only things that should be flushed.

    And even then, only bog paper. Not tissues or magazines or owt

    • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukM
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      What about puke and periods

      • NKBTN@feddit.uk
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        Fine. The 5 P’s

        • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukM
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          😎

    • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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      Puke is also permitted.

  • Coldcell@sh.itjust.works
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    Not really, they won’t break down quickly and won’t go around the pipes intact.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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      what if I leave it in there for an hour or two, and then flush?

      • entwine413@lemm.ee
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        No. Toilet paper is specifically designed to rapidly break down.

        • Wahots@pawb.social
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          It’s the PFAS, makes it a lot more water soluble.

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    deleted by creator

    • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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      well sure, I just thought if the roll is wet already (e.g. it fell in, or some other liquid mishap), would flushing it down be the worst

      • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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        https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatberg

        • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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          Fatbergs have been considered as a source of fuel,[12] specifically biogas.[13] Most of the fatberg discovered in Whitechapel in London in 2017, weighing 130 tonnes (128 long tons; 143 short tons) and stretching more than 250 metres (820 ft), was destroyed, but some of it was converted into biodiesel.[7][14]

          I’d be helping renewables! (joke)

          Still, what a big boy that bastard must have been to behold

          • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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            And taxes paid for this to be removed because people are lazy and put things that dont belong. Down the drain…

            • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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              well if we just allowed Thames Water to dump more toxic chemicals, it would have easily eroded fatberg before it became a problem

              why can’t we just let people make their own uninformed choices for their own short-sighted personal gain?

  • snaprails @feddit.ukdeleted by creator
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    Don’t flush it down the loo. Keep it for your felching hamster.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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      that’s your cock in disguise, isn’t it

    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world
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      I was told to use a gerbil.

  • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukM
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    No

  • sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    I have an acquaintance who works as a plumber. The only things to go into the toilet are human excrement and toilet paper, literally nothing else.

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    Even better, save them up and build a castle in your living room!

    • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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      I did this for 2 years, planned to make some wall sound proofing. Instead I binned the lot in the paper bin the day I moved out

  • Baggins@beehaw.org
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    Some thin bubblewrap and vaseline will see you all right.

  • Dicska@lemmy.world
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    Not normally, but then I ran into one of these

    It says you can flush me.

    • Mex@feddit.uk
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      don’t trust things that say they are flushable, lots of “wet wipes” say they are, but they still clog up our sewers.

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
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        I was thinking, and that’s the reason I could take a photo of it: I hesitated to flush it. It still felt rather hard to the touch, but again, I haven’t even tried leaving it in a bowl of water or something.

    • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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      Finally, my dreams have been answered!

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
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        Now let’s find a flushable burger box.

        • tetris11@feddit.ukOP
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          yes please 🥲

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    Only if you pull the layers apart and tear it to really small pieces. Also better not flush it at once, but trifle the pieces in while the water flushes, so it can’t form a lump.

    In the US toilets have tiny pipes, but in regions in the EU, where they have like 11cm diameter pipes, you don’t have to tear it as small.

    • n3m37h@sh.itjust.works
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      Dont put things that dont belong in the drains down a fucking toilet you idiot

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