• @[email protected]
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    262 months ago

    Why would you flush them? Do people not look forward to eating the cardboard tube whenever they finish a roll?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      42 months ago

      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

  • @[email protected]
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    72 months ago

    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.

  • Baggins
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    52 months ago

    Some thin bubblewrap and vaseline will see you all right.

  • lurch (he/him)
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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.

  • snaprails
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    112 months ago

    Don’t flush it down the loo. Keep it for your felching hamster.

  • @[email protected]
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    172 months ago

    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

    • @[email protected]OP
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      32 months ago

      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

        • @[email protected]OP
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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

          • @[email protected]
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            52 months ago

            And taxes paid for this to be removed because people are lazy and put things that dont belong. Down the drain…

            • @[email protected]OP
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              32 months ago

              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?

    • Mex
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      62 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        12 months ago

        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.