Folks with vaginas, I’m conducting some family comparative analysis and I’d like to know how many standard pieces of toilet paper do you use when wiping after a pee. I posted some comments with options to upvote if you like.
1 Roll
4 rolls. Amateurs
Penis owner here. Occasionally I’ll use 1-2, or part of a paper towel (or whatever else I can find first).
In 30+ years of peeing, I still can’t figure out why it sometimes stays under my foreskin, then makes a wet spot on my pants two minutes later. Guess I’m just bad at peeing.
Gotta pump the gooch my dude.
There’s a bit of a u-bend in the urethra right about where the scrotum meets the taint. Use a finger to push up and slightly forward to pump that last bit of pee out.
Gotta pump the gooch my dude.
I have nothing to add. I just like this as a saying.
Tip: “–”, en dash, is used for ranges like 2–3—not “-”, hyphen
whoever invented all those dashes… I just wanna talk
Where on a standard keyboard is this
What is a “standard” keyboard? No such thing as every region has different keyboards & variants inside those regions. I can use AltGr on my desktop keyboard & holding the hyphen key on mobile allows easy selection of em dash & en dash.
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Edit your XKB config 😎
I work for a multi-national IT department. I just happen to have a UK, FR and DE laptop on the workbench. I don’t see the em-dash on any of them. AltGr + hyphen does nothing on Windows (Google search says Mac supports this). None of these laptops have a numpad, but Google search says maybe CTRL+MINUS(numpad) may give an em-dash. Can’t test though.
In any case, it seems the world has left behind em-dash, so correcting users on a public forum seems pointless.
They were invented long ago—long before keyboards, but the terminally-online folks here forgot that pen & paper also happened before & folks writing English used all sorts of symbols, such as þͤ for “the”. But I guess if it doesn’t fit on ANSI keyboards invented for typewriters 100 years ago with 100-year-ago limitation, these symbols cannot possible exist in contemporary times lol.
Just google the character and copy paste it as needed. /s
How ridiculous. I’ll just use the one on the keyboard.
I had some doubts people would get the joke. I should go add an /s
To answer your question it depends on the keyboard but i don’t actually care, the difference between - and – is just semantics to me.
Okay yea sorry, the sarcasm was whooshed on me.
I was literally about to write that, beat me to it.
Edit: write
Write*
But it’s okay; I protect
I like that you snuck an em dash in there 😉
How on earth did English typography get so weird with mdash, ndash, dash, hyphen, etcetera while most of the readers have no clue about the the differences. IMHO, just use dash.
Can you explain me how the different lengths of dash add to the understanding of the text, when I usually don’t even see the difference on my mobile phone screen?
They have different meanings where the lengths help at a glance such as using en dash for a compound adjective or em dash for a longer pause for a clause. This aides in reading even if you only pick up on it subconsciously.
How was this handled in the age of typewriters?
Using multiple consecutive hyphens. Some schools used – for em-dash, others — (still used today in latex), and then – for en-dash.
Two or three, more if my uterine lining is shedding.
1, sometimes 2.
Does anyone else have the problem where sometimes a bit of TP sticks to your labia? especially the 1-ply
We do.
augh it’s annoying
And then there’s the toilet paper lint that sticks to various parts…
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Three shares, folded in half, then in half again. Maybe two squares if it’s quilted.
Oh this is smart, you’re getting the required thickness by folding instead of using more pieces. When using an unfolded stack of squares you could end up utilizing just a small spot while the rest remains dry.
Yeah, about the same.
I don’t know the physics behind it, or if it’s even true (could just be a placebo effect), but if you scrunch the paper there is less streaking on the clean up.
I wash like civilized human.
Do you dry yourself afterwards? If so, how?
When I shit, I bidet and use three squares.
Water dries quickly. No need to overthink.
3
Usually 2
Well, before I had terrible digestive problems, I would typically use four. Three for the initial wipe, and one to make sure everything is dry. Sometimes two to make sure everything is dry.
Now that I have terrible digestive problems, I think it’s more like 10. I should buy stock in Cottonelle.
I’m guessing you misread the post. If not, how do digestive problems affect peeing?
My digestive problems are so bad that, these days, almost every single time I pee, I also have to poop at least a little bit. It’s just super.
Can I suggest a bidet wand? Super easy to install and great for the messy poo.
I appreciate it, but I have tried bidets a couple of times and not liked them. I’ll probably try one again at some point.
Hope you get well
Appreciated, but learning to live with it is the saner course.
I think an important metric is a bidet.
I obviously wash, but when I’m home I use washcloths to dry my vagina, and they’re just the best. If I can’t use washcloths to dry, I use those interfold tissues. They’re amazing, they don’t rip and you don’t find tiny rolled pieces all over the place.
If I’m not in the house, in public places I use the interfold tissues if they have them, otherwise, depending on the quality of the tp, a minimum of 3 up to 6 or 7.
What do you do with the washcloth after use? Hang to dry and reuse, throw in a basket for laundry?
Not OP, but we have a bidet and a basket of cut up t-shirt cloths next to the toilet that are single-use and then go in the wash every week. I wouldn’t personally reuse washcloths for wiping out of fear of UTIs, but I’m extra paranoid.
I hang it to dry and use it for the rest of the day, and then with the laundry it goes.
Do you have a square to spare? All I need is a square
I don’t have a square to spare!
You can’t spare a square?!
