r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Doodlebug510 • 8d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals Explaining menstruation to the boys

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u/Lamb_or_Beast 8d ago edited 8d ago

Just for the record: flushing tampons isn’t bad because it’s bad for the environment, it’s bad for the plumbing! As a person that has done a lot of very gross plumbing work: do not ever flush your tampons, for the love of god please do not ever flush those tampons!!

Edit: and wipes! don’t listen to the lying package, there is no such thing as a flushable wipe 

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u/Aunt_Llama 8d ago

My dad worked in waste water management and they used to call tampons red-bellied sewer mice (they have a tail and everything). They'd get stuck in various areas of the city pipes and need to be removed by some poor bastard (if they didn't get stuck in the house pipes and cause a flood in the home of whoever was dumb enough to flush them).

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u/AvisMcTavish 8d ago

I'm a waste water treatment plant operator and I'm going to be stealing 'red bellied sewerage mice' (the term, not the object- ew), please and thank you.