That sounds unnecessarily exciting.

@narfcake I installed the bidet that I bought from meh but still use a minimum amount of paper to dry and to do a final test to see if it’s clean. If not clean, then rinse and repeat.

The bidet alone cannot always get the job done and I cannot handle the pressure past two clicks. Any more pressure and it could strip the paint off the walls and pressure wash the driveway.

@cengland0 Correct – TP still has to be used, but it’s much less of it. And when the roll is 1000’ long, it’s a long time without having to change it.

@cengland0 @narfcake Every time I have persuaded a friend to try a bidet, it has come with the warning: “Do NOT start higher than 2!”

@werehatrack
True dat! When I saw the ‘deforestation’ comment, I thought… hmmm, pretty sure they had to deforest the plot they put the bamboo on…
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@chienfou

Mehdown Slash Commands says to just use: “/shrug” (without quotations).

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@IndifferentDude I tried that but couldn’t get it to work. /shrug
see?

@chienfou @IndifferentDude
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needs to be on a separate line I believe.

@chienfou @IndifferentDude @LJeAYsy4LoqxEC

Correct, slash commands need to be at the beginning of a new line.

Without the slash command you would need to type ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯

@chienfou @Ignorant @IndifferentDude @LJeAYsy4LoqxEC

I had to see for myself, I’m like that!
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@chienfou @Ignorant @IndifferentDude @LJeAYsy4LoqxEC
Oh wow 2 arms! Woohoo!
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@stolicat If (some elements of) this country could get over its rabid fear of cannabis, hemp paper might be a great alternative. I mean, hemp is already legal, but growers have a lot of hassle proving that there’s no THC in their crop.

@Kyeh local market has hemp paper towels, I haven’t tried them yet, but maybe someone has figured out how to get hemp paper products to market.
Maybe there’s an extra restriction considering the “personal use” aspect of TP.

@stolicat But the TP says quick dissolve and septic safe. I wonder which it is. Now that I have a septic system I consider things I never did when I lived in town… the types of cleaners I use, the TP we buy.

I used to worry about the amount of water I used because of the cost per gallon in my old town. Now i consider how much we’re putting down the drain because I know my septic tank is “only so big” and it costs money to drain it.

@mbersiam @stolicat Septic tanks have an outlet at the other end into a “drain field” that disperses the treated (but nutrient-rich) runoff into the soil across its area. Trees and other vegetation planted there will tend to be healthy and lush. As long as you don’t flush so much material-laden water down that the solids carry across and coat the interior of the drain field, you’re good. OBTW, septic tanks don’t respond well to grease any more than sewers do.

@stolicat @werehatrack I have never put grease down the drain since it’s terrible for pipes in general. We drain grease into a bowl and then dump once it’s cooled down. (I hate the aluminum foil “hack” that is circulating, such a waste of foil).

I also don’t have a garbage disposal here, which are questionable at best for the health of a septic tank anyway. So I have those mesh drain covers in the sink. I have taught the family to be very careful of putting anything down the drains. Maybe more so than necessary, but I’m cautious.

@mbersiam @werehatrack Our septic drain field is laid out in 5 parallel lines across a grassy slope. It is more pasture (although we don’t keep any animals there) than lawn - I mow it about once a month with my tractor. In the summer, the areas above the buried drain lines are marked by lush green rows of nettles (nettles like rich soil).

@mbersiam @stolicat @werehatrack
Can you come to my fathers house and teach my brothers. Every time I go there I’m cleaning out the mesh drain. Just bc it’s there doesn’t mean dump your plate full of pasta in the sink. Also it drives me crazy that they never, ever, clean the freaking mesh drain.

@stolicat
/image what were they thinking

@pmarin @stolicat
It’s the sauce packets.

@stolicat
I have no doubt that this is yet another example of an artificial stupidity software mistranslation. The word in the source language probably is the same for “staining” as for “defacing”, “damaging” or “scarring”, and tightly-packed bog rolls can scar the surface of adjacent ones when the first of a layer is pried out.

@stolicat I read it as "straining and thought THAT was an unexpected benefit…