Originally posted by Gringo.Floripa Originally posted by Esprit [ Hmm, the quilted, perfumed and lavished with lanoline type; on the whole, quite agreeable. Sem perfume...  Anyway, mine don't stink!

Originally posted by TarkInBrazil I'm supposed to put this in the bin beside the toilet?  Are you kidding me?  There must be a way around this.

I just say, be glad that you're not a woman and don't have to see what we see in the garbage. And now that I'm 8 months pregnant I have to flush and flush and flush. Lucky me.

I can flush at my house and at friends' houses, but I sure wouldn't try at work for most other places.

I remember in Central African Republic between the capital and the Sudan border one guy collected used paper from tourist camp sites to make mattresses.

Originally posted by Gringo.Floripa have septic tanks (fossa/sumidouro) at my house, and we flush everything but condoms and sanitary napkins.  Never had a problem.  Flush away!

It's not the septic tanks, it's the fact that they:
1) don't use the correct declive/slope in the drain, making the water go way faster than the paper, combined with
2) 90 degree corners in the drain, as 2 45 degree corners are 100% more expensive than 1 90 degree corner. Water easily navigates these corners, as does pis, paper and poo however have way more dificultiy to sucessfuly make these turns and
3) 2 inch piping is cheaper than 4 inch. Poo + paper gets more easilly stuck in 2 inch pipes, especially if the declive is wrong and the corners are 90 degrees.
4) Homes don't generally have crawl spaces, so if sh*t hits the fan, or in this case, the sh*t and paper hit a dry 90 degree corner, and get stuck, one needs to break open the floor untill one finds which 90 degree corner is the problem. It's just a question of economics.

Originally posted by sven 1) You always have toilet paper at hand to write your habeas corpus on.

awesome.