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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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[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Pfeces, purine, and ptoilet ptissue

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Poo, pee and paper, if you insist.

[–] EbenezerScrew@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I thought the third was puke so I guess add that to the list for me.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You've discovered the fourth P!

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What about pubes? They do fall in sometimes, you know.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Used to be the fourth p was porn. Now it's phone.

[–] redhorsejacket@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

We used to be a country.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] Starik@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I wish the p was silent.

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[–] gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Absolutely not. I have a septic system and my hopes and dreams would plug up the drainage field. That's a very expensive repair.

[–] P1nkman@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Elting@piefed.social 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget about boogers and cum.

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Phlegm and prostate fluid.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@piefed.social 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Please don't try to flush Portugal.

[–] python@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Starik@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Expired milk

[–] Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I do this with ticks so they don't go latch onto someone else in the house. Or me.

[–] Apeman42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The "Super Ticks" have to do battle with the chickens.

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pears, peets, pattlestar palactica

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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] mrunicornman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Oh no no, it's not my blood!

[–] mrunicornman@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Woohoo sacrifice! ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

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[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] nerv@fedinsfw.app 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

Ah yes
Pee
Poo
Petunias

[–] n0p1lls@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

Sometimes, a little bit of beard hair.

[–] AstroLightz@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, I throw in other things besides pee, poop, and Pepsi: Toilet paper

/s

[–] snoons@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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