I kinda want my tuckus to smell like eucalyptus now. I don’t flush any wipes, so I’m not worried about that. I do know that I’ve used eucalyptus foot soap on my nether regions, and boy is that invigorating!
@aSquirrel@poopyfist I think flushable wipes implies only flushable somewhere that the plumbing isn’t your problem, like a hotel or your one annoying cousin’s house.
@goldnectar Bidets are very nice, but I guess depending on the kind you have, it really does NOT get every little crumb. Or maybe it depends on how vigorous your sphincter muscles eject those crumbs. It’s nice to have a little soothing cloth to finish it all off, not every time, butt sometimes.
@cfg83 I looked em up before buying, and it says that discount stores like TJMax etc sells the 30pck for like 10$. I grabbed em because we are always going to concerts or events in the sweltering southern summer so I figured theyd be perfect to freshen up here and there while out and about at those kind of things. If wherever we go allows you to bring in a small cooler I imagine these would feel AMAZING chilled, especially the eucalyptus ones.
@cfg83 oh and the mint! Those would feel amazing chilled on the face neck chest and back especially if we end up at a concert like last year. It was 104° no clue what the heat index was, but the wind wasnt stirring even the smallest bit. People were passing out left and right. It was absolutely miserable till the sun went down. I wanna say it was worth it bc I got to see some of my favorite musicians but im not so sure.
Nothing was said about these being butt wipes!! These wipes are for your body & face, but the garbage is the best place for All wipes. BTW, try using hand wipes on your ass that contain alcohol & see what happens!!
@1DisabledWarVet been there done that. …NEVER AGAIN UNLESS ITS AN EMERGENCY!!!(I think I saw that these are alcohol free, though I could be wrong bc its past my bedtime and my meds are starting to hit hard lol)
Hi! I love Meh. I also have other personality traits, such as being a Wastewater Operator. I feel inclined to say, we just had to break apart a 180 pound island of flushable wipes, and it sucked. Do what you want, but these things are no good down the line. Often they hide needles and can be very hazardous.
@user41443355 holy shit(literally) thats crazy! I cant and dont want to imagine the work you had to do on that mess!!! There’s a reason that its said no wipes are truly flushable!!! All i can say is ty for ur service kind sir!
@user41443355 forgot to ask about the needle thing bc im curious…r u saying that people wrap their dirties in wipes n flush em in hopes of them going down and not being seen???WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
@PurrpetualNap Not necessarily. Oftentimes it is just broken tips from when people flush needles after using drugs that have splintered in the system. The metal tips end up dispersed throughout and can slide between our screens. It’s not super common but sometimes you see where these flushable wipes have picked one up and they are essentially hidden in a ball of sloppy cloth. If you aren’t careful you can stick yourself while pulling these rags off of probes and such. Anything that can be flushed ends up here. Fish, money, drugs, etc. I actually love the job though. I would do it for free if we weren’t a capitalist society. Not as much smell as you would expect.
@user41443355 iagree… i love meh but love it a little less today…i don’t think you should sell these products, or even give them away, and you should not advertise them as flushable… we all know that is a falsehood…
@user41443355 gah! Dangerous and scary, but Im so glad you like your job. Its difficult for those that dont to get oit of bed and they become miserable old farts REALLY fast!!(my daddy was a prime example×
Hey @carl669 you have been given the ultimate honor on meh. You’ve been mentioned in the item of the day write up in the homepage story. The only flaw in the story is they left out if people did what they suggested the fuck count would rise. And of course then the story would have had the ultimate honor - increasing the fuck count. Fucking stupid they didn’t fucking do fucking that. WTF? Why fucking not?
In case meh hasn’t heard they invented this thing called water. It works well. It’s flushable. Further you can litter with it - so no trash to have to carry around - and the evidence of the littering vanishes into the dirt so you won’t be fined. What’s not to like about that? Not only that but the amount you’d need to use is dirt cheap or free depending on your source. I like free.
Fine. I bought some scented wipes. A little more expensive than aldi, but good to have in the truck. The smaller size packs are less likely to dry out, and the packs less likely to get ripped apart before use.
@Bumplepimp i want a bidet for multiple reasons but #1 is that my husband uses an ENTIRE ROLL of tp every day/day n half. And yes its the good kind!!! The insane part about this is he is gone for work 16-18hrs a day 5ish days a week. Ive never saw anyone wrap tp ar their hand like he does and when i try and show him the rt way to fold it n explain that by wrapping he is wasting the ungodly amount on the top of his hand he says either im scolding him,(well yeah ,kinda) and he has to do it tht way so poo doesnt get on top of his hand. Idk how tf he could wipe and end up w shit on top his hand. Annnnyway the bidet… he says it wouldnt get him clean and when i follow with doesnt running water in the shower get u clean we r already at a bad place so i just drop it.
@Bumplepimp@PurrpetualNap Maybe tell your husband that he will never be able to retire as the toilet paper bill will eat up half of his social security?
I have elevated myself to heated bidet status but other family members are still using wipes so I’m in on this one for them. Plus they’ll be good for my gym bag in the smaller packages.
I appreciate the problem but the thing is, it is reasonable for people to see “flushable wipes”, assume there is some kinda regulation defining what that means and that it’s okay to flush them, so that’s what people do. If every single person visiting meh orders all the flushables, buying them out then refusing to flush them, that’s not going to put the slightest dent in the problem.
If flushable wipes shouldn’t be flushed, fixing that is going to require appropriate legislation on defining what “flushable” means or other top-down action to address the problem. This like many “don’t buy/use/do X!!” issues that people (legitimately!) scream about, need to be fixed from the top-down, they are never going to be meaningfully addressed from the… ahem bottom up.
@smelltastic Hi! Nobody is mad at you for flushing flushable wipes. Yes, the industry is perpetuating the problem. This comment of yours however, is a lapse in logic. It WOULD make a dent, even if it was slight. By your logic, we shouldn’t do things like help do our part for global warming either. Yes, you are part of the problem. While it’s justifiable, the justification here is a fallacy.
@user41443355 People should know about these problems because addressing them requires the public to be on-board with instilling the rules that will do that.
But “not going to put the slightest dent” in the problem is a common expression used to imply that there is no point in taking action that isn’t going to meaningfully address the issue. You could argue where the line is between meaningful impact and pointless exercise, but that is a value judgement. It is very much not a “lapse in logic” or a fallacy, and you should probably go look up what a logical fallacy is before throwing that term around.
And yeah, the global warming issue is the same but different; individual environmental choices in terms of products you consume, reuse and recycling and such, similarly hardly matter, but it’s different in that if everyone did stop flushing flushables that would solve that problem, but if everyone did their individual actions for a cleaner environment that wouldn’t actually fix essentially anything. I mean, it’s up to you whether lifetimes of effort is worth it to shave 5 minutes off the Apocalypse Clock, but either way that’s a value judgement, not a fallacy.
None of that is saying people shouldn’t know about the issues and do what they can about them, but doing what you can means trying to push for top-down change, sorting your aluminum cans and suchlike really isn’t doing much.
@smelltastic You’re an adult and can do what you want, but knowing something has harm and then still doing it because of bad advertising doesn’t absolve you. Sorry.
@smelltastic@user41443355 describing nihilism doesn’t absolve you from the consequences of your actions. And a nihilist who expects legislation to solve a problem before the consequences is straight up cognitive dissonance
@Superllama7@user41443355 You’re blaming the people around you for a problem that is not your or our fault, which neither of us can fix, while taking performative action that is meaningless unless you can get nearly everyone else to do the same thing, which will not happen without enforced collective action.
Action could, in fact, be taken to enact legislation to, say, get flushable wipes off the shelves in your town. I’m sure your local water treatment facility staff would love your support in that.
I don’t know what on earth you think that has to do with “bad advertising”, that’s just a non sequitur I don’t even know how to respond to.
And Superllama7 you really should avoid using misusing terminology you don’t actually understand, that does not make you sound as smart as you think it does.
@smelltastic@user41443355 sorry, thought nihilists didn’t care about values or consequences of personal actions. I’ll have to look that up and educate my stupid self. I hope that your blind obedience to legislation and its capacity to fix societal problems works out for everyone!
Similar subject PSA - Don’t flush dental floss down the toilet. My better half does her best for dental hygiene, including flossing every day. Unfortunately she used to toss the used floss into the toilet. Years going on like this, we had a major plumbing backup. Turns out the floss was getting stuck on root tips that had broken through the main drain pipes over 50 feet from our house. The plumbers who routed out the mess showed me a giant ball of floss that they recovered (tangled with tiny roots).
According to them, floss was in the same ballpark as disposable wipes because it never breaks down.
In the world of network troubleshooting, where we have a 7-layer model of all the parts of the network stack, a “layer 8 issue” is a problem with the human using the device.
Which is to say, flushing these would be a layer 8 issue.
Specs
Product: 800 or 960-Pack: Layer 8 Unscented Flushable or Scented Body & Face Wipes
Model: TG-L8WFlsh, TG-L8W4PK
Condition: New
What’s Included?
OR
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Tuesday, May 26
I kinda want my tuckus to smell like eucalyptus now. I don’t flush any wipes, so I’m not worried about that. I do know that I’ve used eucalyptus foot soap on my nether regions, and boy is that invigorating!
Please don’t flush any of these down a toilet.
@aSquirrel I agree - plumbers always say that none of those wipes are really “flushable.”
@aSquirrel Yeah, came here to say the same thing, risking plumbing problems flushing these
@aSquirrel @poopyfist I think flushable wipes implies only flushable somewhere that the plumbing isn’t your problem, like a hotel or your one annoying cousin’s house.
Apologies to @user41443355. I’m only kidding.
Mfs, you don’t have a bidet yet? Meh is selling ice to Eskimos. I’d say this was funny if y’all didn’t have such dirty butts.
@goldnectar Tell it to the frog('s butt) …
@goldnectar Unfortunately, it’s hard to bring a bidet camping. In for the scented wipes.
@cinoclav $10 on Amazon says otherwise.
@goldnectar Bidets are very nice, but I guess depending on the kind you have, it really does NOT get every little crumb. Or maybe it depends on how vigorous your sphincter muscles eject those crumbs. It’s nice to have a little soothing cloth to finish it all off, not every time, butt sometimes.
@cinoclav @goldnectar
I could make showme for this, but I think I will pass.
@goldnectar A water bottle with a nozzle is NOT a bidet, no matter what they want to call it.
@goldnectar So you use a bidet on your hands when you’re on a picnic?
Layer 8 makes (gym?) clothes …
https://layer8.com/
… so the wipes are probably repackaged form something else.
What are the dimensions of the wipes?
What is the retail cost for comparison? Did Layer 8 just throw them in free with an order?
@cfg83 I looked em up before buying, and it says that discount stores like TJMax etc sells the 30pck for like 10$. I grabbed em because we are always going to concerts or events in the sweltering southern summer so I figured theyd be perfect to freshen up here and there while out and about at those kind of things. If wherever we go allows you to bring in a small cooler I imagine these would feel AMAZING chilled, especially the eucalyptus ones.
@cfg83 oh and the mint! Those would feel amazing chilled on the face neck chest and back especially if we end up at a concert like last year. It was 104° no clue what the heat index was, but the wind wasnt stirring even the smallest bit. People were passing out left and right. It was absolutely miserable till the sun went down. I wanna say it was worth it bc I got to see some of my favorite musicians but im not so sure.
@cfg83 These are 15x20cm (5.9" x 7.9")
@PurrpetualNap I agree with having them with you for dealing with the summer heat.
@cfg83 @PurrpetualNap that’s a great idea! but i don’t need 800 lol. I will take the advice with the small pack I currently own, thank you!
@catthegreat @PurrpetualNap I would get them if they had Huggies dimensions. But the day is still young, so maybe I will pull the trigger.
Nothing was said about these being butt wipes!! These wipes are for your body & face, but the garbage is the best place for All wipes. BTW, try using hand wipes on your ass that contain alcohol & see what happens!!
@1DisabledWarVet been there done that. …NEVER AGAIN UNLESS ITS AN EMERGENCY!!!(I think I saw that these are alcohol free, though I could be wrong bc its past my bedtime and my meds are starting to hit hard lol)
Hi! I love Meh. I also have other personality traits, such as being a Wastewater Operator. I feel inclined to say, we just had to break apart a 180 pound island of flushable wipes, and it sucked. Do what you want, but these things are no good down the line. Often they hide needles and can be very hazardous.
@user41443355 holy shit(literally) thats crazy! I cant and dont want to imagine the work you had to do on that mess!!! There’s a reason that its said no wipes are truly flushable!!! All i can say is ty for ur service kind sir!
@user41443355 forgot to ask about the needle thing bc im curious…r u saying that people wrap their dirties in wipes n flush em in hopes of them going down and not being seen???WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE
@PurrpetualNap Not necessarily. Oftentimes it is just broken tips from when people flush needles after using drugs that have splintered in the system. The metal tips end up dispersed throughout and can slide between our screens. It’s not super common but sometimes you see where these flushable wipes have picked one up and they are essentially hidden in a ball of sloppy cloth. If you aren’t careful you can stick yourself while pulling these rags off of probes and such. Anything that can be flushed ends up here. Fish, money, drugs, etc. I actually love the job though. I would do it for free if we weren’t a capitalist society. Not as much smell as you would expect.
@PurrpetualNap @user41443355 Well if you get money when cleaning up the mess I hope you get to keep it.
@user41443355 Where is this island? I want to be sure not to vacation there.
@user41443355 iagree… i love meh but love it a little less today…i don’t think you should sell these products, or even give them away, and you should not advertise them as flushable… we all know that is a falsehood…
@user41443355 gah! Dangerous and scary, but Im so glad you like your job. Its difficult for those that dont to get oit of bed and they become miserable old farts REALLY fast!!(my daddy was a prime example×
I do appreciate the writeup. Carl needs to stop being so damn smug already.
@djslack
Hey @carl669 you have been given the ultimate honor on meh. You’ve been mentioned in the item of the day write up in the homepage story. The only flaw in the story is they left out if people did what they suggested the fuck count would rise. And of course then the story would have had the ultimate honor - increasing the fuck count. Fucking stupid they didn’t fucking do fucking that. WTF? Why fucking not?
@djslack @Kidsandliz i accept the honor and say unto you all, “fuck off”
Really glad the entire community already pleaded not to flush these wipes so I don’t have to. Meh pedants undefeated.
@highonpez do they pop up one sheet at a time like kleenex?
In case meh hasn’t heard they invented this thing called water. It works well. It’s flushable. Further you can litter with it - so no trash to have to carry around - and the evidence of the littering vanishes into the dirt so you won’t be fined. What’s not to like about that? Not only that but the amount you’d need to use is dirt cheap or free depending on your source. I like free.
Fine. I bought some scented wipes. A little more expensive than aldi, but good to have in the truck. The smaller size packs are less likely to dry out, and the packs less likely to get ripped apart before use.
Thank God they moved up to layer 8! I was using layer
7 and my fingers kept breaking through while wiping…
@Bumplepimp i want a bidet for multiple reasons but #1 is that my husband uses an ENTIRE ROLL of tp every day/day n half. And yes its the good kind!!! The insane part about this is he is gone for work 16-18hrs a day 5ish days a week. Ive never saw anyone wrap tp ar their hand like he does and when i try and show him the rt way to fold it n explain that by wrapping he is wasting the ungodly amount on the top of his hand he says either im scolding him,(well yeah ,kinda) and he has to do it tht way so poo doesnt get on top of his hand. Idk how tf he could wipe and end up w shit on top his hand. Annnnyway the bidet… he says it wouldnt get him clean and when i follow with doesnt running water in the shower get u clean we r already at a bad place so i just drop it.
@PurrpetualNap I have to tell my kids to use one square at a time…BOTH sides!
@Bumplepimp @PurrpetualNap Maybe tell your husband that he will never be able to retire as the toilet paper bill will eat up half of his social security?
I have elevated myself to heated bidet status but other family members are still using wipes so I’m in on this one for them. Plus they’ll be good for my gym bag in the smaller packages.
/showme obese-occasional-income
@actionjacksn04 Here’s the image you requested for “obese-occasional-income”
I guess these will show up in the next IRK.
PLEASE DO NOT FLUSH – they wreak havoc on water treatment.
Is this the “flushable” dogpile? I thought I missed it.
These “are” “flushable” in the sense that you don’t need to panic if you happen to flush one or two. They should not be flushed routinely.
Ordered both, gonna flush them flushables.
I appreciate the problem but the thing is, it is reasonable for people to see “flushable wipes”, assume there is some kinda regulation defining what that means and that it’s okay to flush them, so that’s what people do. If every single person visiting meh orders all the flushables, buying them out then refusing to flush them, that’s not going to put the slightest dent in the problem.
If flushable wipes shouldn’t be flushed, fixing that is going to require appropriate legislation on defining what “flushable” means or other top-down action to address the problem. This like many “don’t buy/use/do X!!” issues that people (legitimately!) scream about, need to be fixed from the top-down, they are never going to be meaningfully addressed from the… ahem bottom up.
@smelltastic Hi! Nobody is mad at you for flushing flushable wipes. Yes, the industry is perpetuating the problem. This comment of yours however, is a lapse in logic. It WOULD make a dent, even if it was slight. By your logic, we shouldn’t do things like help do our part for global warming either. Yes, you are part of the problem. While it’s justifiable, the justification here is a fallacy.
@user41443355 People should know about these problems because addressing them requires the public to be on-board with instilling the rules that will do that.
But “not going to put the slightest dent” in the problem is a common expression used to imply that there is no point in taking action that isn’t going to meaningfully address the issue. You could argue where the line is between meaningful impact and pointless exercise, but that is a value judgement. It is very much not a “lapse in logic” or a fallacy, and you should probably go look up what a logical fallacy is before throwing that term around.
And yeah, the global warming issue is the same but different; individual environmental choices in terms of products you consume, reuse and recycling and such, similarly hardly matter, but it’s different in that if everyone did stop flushing flushables that would solve that problem, but if everyone did their individual actions for a cleaner environment that wouldn’t actually fix essentially anything. I mean, it’s up to you whether lifetimes of effort is worth it to shave 5 minutes off the Apocalypse Clock, but either way that’s a value judgement, not a fallacy.
None of that is saying people shouldn’t know about the issues and do what they can about them, but doing what you can means trying to push for top-down change, sorting your aluminum cans and suchlike really isn’t doing much.
@smelltastic You’re an adult and can do what you want, but knowing something has harm and then still doing it because of bad advertising doesn’t absolve you. Sorry.
@smelltastic @user41443355 describing nihilism doesn’t absolve you from the consequences of your actions. And a nihilist who expects legislation to solve a problem before the consequences is straight up cognitive dissonance
@Superllama7 @user41443355 You’re blaming the people around you for a problem that is not your or our fault, which neither of us can fix, while taking performative action that is meaningless unless you can get nearly everyone else to do the same thing, which will not happen without enforced collective action.
Action could, in fact, be taken to enact legislation to, say, get flushable wipes off the shelves in your town. I’m sure your local water treatment facility staff would love your support in that.
I don’t know what on earth you think that has to do with “bad advertising”, that’s just a non sequitur I don’t even know how to respond to.
And Superllama7 you really should avoid using misusing terminology you don’t actually understand, that does not make you sound as smart as you think it does.
@smelltastic @user41443355 sorry, thought nihilists didn’t care about values or consequences of personal actions. I’ll have to look that up and educate my stupid self. I hope that your blind obedience to legislation and its capacity to fix societal problems works out for everyone!
Similar subject PSA - Don’t flush dental floss down the toilet. My better half does her best for dental hygiene, including flossing every day. Unfortunately she used to toss the used floss into the toilet. Years going on like this, we had a major plumbing backup. Turns out the floss was getting stuck on root tips that had broken through the main drain pipes over 50 feet from our house. The plumbers who routed out the mess showed me a giant ball of floss that they recovered (tangled with tiny roots).
According to them, floss was in the same ballpark as disposable wipes because it never breaks down.
In the world of network troubleshooting, where we have a 7-layer model of all the parts of the network stack, a “layer 8 issue” is a problem with the human using the device.
Which is to say, flushing these would be a layer 8 issue.
Thank you, Meh, for doing your part to help keep our troops from being quite so stinky… I got some drill sergeants to chuck these at