Posted on 09/15/2007 2:42:50 PM PDT by Mamzelle
May I ask how much that cost you?, sounds $$$
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Yes, 6,000 worth of $$$
None of my posts were intended to offend. I’m sorry if I came across as rude.
I was joking and I thought you were too.
Please tell me that this was a joke -
“Put a trash can next to the toilet and tell all females to depost their toilet paper there after use”
....that bit about a trash can for toilet paper used by females after wiping themselves after urination
pardon me,
You didn’t specify whether it was paper used after urination or defecation. Perhaps if some idiots were a bit more clear the rest of us idiots would experience fewer misunderstandings!
Too be perfectly honest, your post looked a lot like what some folk on FR have posted as humor...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897165/posts?page=5#5
As for me, I grew up in a city and never dealt with a septic system. At least my ignorance can be cured with education. I think your’s is beyond help!
Then I must offer an apology as well. I did misunderstand.
This is one of those kinds of posts where I must leave because I am much too wise and too much fun to waste my insightful wit on those who want to argue and act like children.
Let me leave with this: The saying is “If’s it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down.”
This is a true folkism, I did not invent it, it’s been around for a long time and it is practiced by those with limited toilet facilities.
So if you “let it mellow”, which is the yellow stuff, again we apply common sense. We all have it. Females generally, unless I’m the only one, take a couple of swirls of toilet paper and wipe themselves.
Now we do not want to put this toilet paper into the toilet, keep in mind the common sense thing, to sit and mellow with the yellow stuff. Because, say, you need to add some more yellow to the mellow later and still no brown so no need to flush, well you don’t want to put even more toilet paper in the toilet. Soon, depending on how much yellow you’re mellowing in a day, if all the toilet paper was sitting and soaking in a toilet bowl, well that alone might clog up the septic system.
I have a small rather inconspicuous flip top trash can that sits next to the toilet. One can take their foot and flip it open quickly to deposit those few swirls of toilet paper now wet with maybe two to three drops of the urine that sometimes, not always but at times and it’s why we wipe ourselves, might drip off when we think we’re done with our stream. Men can generally just shake it off so to speak.
So we’re not talking a major smell thing here, use your common sense. Sorry if you , whoever you may be, don’t have any.
I’d rather have those little wads of toilet paper in that discrete trash can which nobody knows what it is for except members of the family than a toilet full of soaking toilet paper. Which is what you get if you yellow it, mellow it, and throw toilet paper in to soak along with it.
That saying...the yellow and the mellow, the brown and the down....it’s been around for a long time. It’s one of those old witticisms that folks used to live by.
So I’m done and I will not respond to any more posts because I must, move on and entertain other folk who are not so small and mean.
You sound an awful lot like John Kerry.
If you dislike the “swamp” you live in so much, why bother continuing to live there?
I’ve had problems with Delaware for years, it’s a reason I moved, but even I never disparaged it as much as you do.
I’m guessing she’s angry at Delaware for the same reason I really didn’t enjoy Manus, Kyrgyzstan when I passed through the area on my way to and from Afghanistan.
You see, if you needed a bathroom and didn’t know where to look you simply waited for the wind to change direction. I’m guessing the “atmosphere” in her house is similar.
It’s a common trait amongst self important, arrogant elitists.
You've got that right.
I've posted my fair share of diatribes about Delaware on FR, but at least I had been living there more than 15 years, not just 15 minutes..........
Her elistist mindset about the rednecks of Delaware is part of the reason we moved.........too many of those kind moved in to get away from the cesspools they lived in, just to turn around and work to turn their new location into the same.
What annoyed me is she expected me to understand the purpose behind her bathroom antics.
I grew up with city plumbing! Previously, I had only heard about people throwing toilet paper in a garbage can in Mexico!
Small minded people can seldom understand that people from different backgrounds won’t necessarily understand the odd practices of others.
I really shouldn’t be having this much fun but I have no doubt she’s watching this thread. She must be fuming because she swore she wouldn’t respond to any posts.
;-)
Not exactly an "Energy Star" rated appliance, either. Those heating coils suck some kilowatt-hours.
The upside, though, is the potential for mischief after emptying the ash bin. Bring some to work mixed into one of those "International Delight" coffee flavorings - and offer some to your liberal co-workers or employees. :-)
RID X ping
I'm friends with two local plumbers (and we have a sizeable hispanic population)...they say this is true and one of the more disgusting things they see in homes.
It's a cultural thing - in rural Mexico, everything's pretty much just a pit system.
The local WalMart, by the way, has bilingual signs in the bathroom stalls requesting that used paper be flushed...but you still see lots of wads on the floor. Wifey now "holds it" until we get home.
Add celery, eggshells, potato peelings, and the like. Being on septic, we run as little as we can down the disposal.
Cool! I'm pretty unhappy with how long the local ant mounds have been taking to dispose of my enemies bodies.
Save yourself some money and pour a few packages of yeast and a few Tablespoons of sugar down the drain each month.
But William Donald Schaefer said there’s no indoor plumbing on the Shore!
FWIW, I used it and when I sold my house with a forty year old spetic system, it passed the Massachusetts Title V inspection, probably the strictest inspection in the country. (Especially since it was within 300 feet of a stream, which ups the standard.)
The inspector (a private contractor), who was hoping for a lucrative remediation job, looked crestfallen as he mumbled, “I can’t fail it just because it’s old.”
I also had it pumped annually, and about ten years before, had inlet baffles installed. (Inlet baffles prevent churning, which allows solids to remain suspended and get into the leaching field.
I would suggest annual pumping, ensuring that your inlet and outlet baffles are in good repair are more important.
As to Rid-X, “can’t hurt”.
Paging Mike Rowe!
“but you still see lots of wads on the floor. Wifey now “holds it” until we get home.”
The toilet paper?
Sorry, I couldn’t resist!
Don’t miss the deer head story...
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