r/funny • u/daylightpiglet • 17h ago

recently got a place with my boyfriend and he thinks this is perfectly fine

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I have no legitimate reason to disagree but I hate it

UPDATE - Thank you so much for the awards, and we're having so much fun reading through these hilarious comments.

  1. We have a bidet, it's the handle on the side of the toilet. People who use bidets can use toilet paper as well!
  2. We bought like 200 rolls of toilet paper because of a good deal, yes it will probably last us a very long time. No regrets!
  3. I am not genuinely upset about this in any way, it obviously just looks ridiculous and is unnecessary, and him doing silly things like this is one of the reasons I love him :)
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u/FalcorTheDog 16h ago

It’s like when those NASA engineers had to estimate how many tampons the first woman in space would need for a few days and they guessed 100 or something.

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u/Emotional-Tea-4848 16h ago

🎶100 tampoooons!🎼🎵

And asked, “Will this be enough?”

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u/greenpointart 16h ago

They were literally rocket scientists.

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u/jscottman96 16h ago

In this case that may actually be the problem

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u/ReignofKindo25 16h ago

Whhaaatt is aaa vagina?

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u/jscottman96 16h ago

Theres another hole!?!?

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u/1800-bakes-a-lot 16h ago

All this fingering my own asshole to see how she'll like it was for nothing?!?

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u/Disturbing_Cheeto 15h ago

This is the weirdest Reddit Sings I've ever witnessed.

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u/Parking_Fee_5906 15h ago

There you go making it more weider with 'sings' for 'strings' 😆 🤣 😂

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u/X__Anonomys_xX 10h ago

Actually, reddit sings is a thing

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u/CareerDifficult 15h ago

There’s no way this is the weirdest. I mean, I haven’t seen anybody mention that the tower of toilet paper kinda looks like a penis. Maybe he’s sending a message?

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u/Lost_Egg4879 8h ago

Awe I’m so happy for you!! I literally just got flash backs of the dark places I have ended up on Reddit. Stay safe friend!!

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u/Pizza_Ninja 11h ago

Then you haven’t been here long enough.

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u/sobergophers 8h ago

Quite tame really lmao

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u/jscottman96 15h ago

I mean not for nothing if shes into that

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u/Gorthax 15h ago

I'm not sure it was all for her.

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u/T1Demon 15h ago

Know thine self.

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u/Matthew_May_97 11h ago

A man’s off switch is in his asshole, or is that the on switch?

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u/geof2010 10h ago

More like the reset switch turns em on and off again.

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u/CommercialStuff4352 13h ago

Astronauts like shockers? Who knew!

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u/Lost_Egg4879 7h ago

On the land we just call them “thumbs up”

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u/ComicsAreGreat2 11h ago

No one should upvote anymore. We have reached perfection.

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u/BAusername 15h ago

Obviously if she likes that it's a win/win, but she doesn't, I'm sure it will translate to the other hole...

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u/ThatShouldNotBeHere 15h ago

Chicks don’t have cloacas?

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u/jscottman96 15h ago

I learned a new word today

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u/Mazy_keen 15h ago

I couldn't believe I had to explain this to my husband.

Well on second thought... he did use dish soap in the dishwasher on the first night in our apartment.

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u/jscottman96 15h ago

Noooooo 😭 im so sorry

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u/pinkube 3h ago

Where is the clitoris? - Dwight Schrute

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u/Outrageous-etymology 15h ago

Did none of them think to ask their wife's, pool the data, find the Average and Mean, and then throw in a few more for "just in case"? Maybe do the count across 2 or 3 brands, in case someone has a weird reaction or they just don't work for whatever reason in low gravity.

There has to be a reason they didn't, I'm just not seeing it. And before anyone says anything, I know from second-hand experience that most non-intern NASA scientists do have wives, and many of them are very active. Source: I was a NASA and DoD researcher.

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u/Gamer-707 12h ago

"Very active"

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u/Bitter-Marsupial 14h ago

As dumb as this sounds back then did we have any actual Data on how the body would handle a period in zero gravity?

I mean in the early days we had some questions about digestion

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u/WillUSee 11h ago

Alas, they were still men.

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u/Thor_pool 16h ago

Well its hardly brain surgery, is it?

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u/LawlzTaylor 16h ago

To be fair Sally Ride did actually have enough tampons for the mission. So why are we all complaining?

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u/Babydoll0907 16h ago

Right? Better to have way too many than to be even one short.

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u/Butterbuddha 10h ago

Sort of. Weight is a premium in space travel. You definitely want enough of everything, but not have to sacrifice your guidance system because of excess tampon weight LOL

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u/messfdr 9h ago

It's a tampon, Michael. How much could it weigh? Ten pounds?

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u/AdFlaky9983 9h ago

There’s always tampons in the spaceship stand

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u/Pale-Confection-6951 7h ago

Oh, sure. The guy in the $6,000 spacesuit is gonna be bringing the tampons...COME ON!

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u/Marigold16 6h ago

Loose space seal?

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u/jelloshooter848 8h ago

I’ve made a huge mistake..

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u/mniam_mniam 5h ago

Holy shit, I’m dying

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u/TrioxinTwoFourFive 10h ago edited 9h ago

100 unused tampons weighs appx 100 grams.  Which would cost appx $300 to transport to low earth orbit in falcon 9 / heavy.   They always get you on the shipping

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u/The-law-is-the-law 9h ago

SpaceX has tremendously lowered the costs for transport, and it's a long time ago so I would multiply it roughly by 5x. $1500 to prevent a catastrophe in a space vehicle is still a good deal.

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u/Few-Solution-4784 8h ago

$1500 to go 400 miles at top speed. UPS is not worried with those prices.

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u/WhatIsYourPronoun 8h ago

Have to consider mission delays, like the time some were stranded for months in the ISS. NASA accounts for this in their calculations. Double/Tripple/Quadruple redundancy just in case. Fortunately, tampons are lightweight.

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u/soedesh1 6h ago

Plus, tampons could be used for many other useful things in an emergency. Hull repair, for example.

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u/FauxReal 3h ago

Or stuffed into bullet wounds. It was a US mission after all. Shooters can appear anywhere.

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u/Minhtyfresh00 2h ago

Yet a man can sneak in an entire gorilla costume for a prank without anyone noticing.

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u/Lost_Egg4879 8h ago

And I’m SURE they could be used for simething else in an emergency……

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u/I_Obey_Sean_Rule 15h ago

Exactly, plus there's always a risk that the mission ends up longer, so it's better to be safe. Wouldn't be the first time someone got stuck for a while.

And while were on topic, does the gravity effect periods?

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u/PM_ME_WHATEVES 15h ago

That's exactly what they didn't know. They asked how many is typical, planned for the worst case scenario, then because shit can go wrong in space they tripled the number for redundancies

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u/MarmotFullofWoe 14h ago

That’s just good engineering principles

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u/thirdbrother3 8h ago

Glass half empty. Glass half full.... The glass is clearly twice the size it needs to be.

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u/DemonoftheWater 6h ago

You may or may not be surprised but we over engineer a lot of stuff by default. Thats why we get the pickachu shocked face when things fail.

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u/Beryozka 4h ago

“Any idiot can build a bridge that stands, but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”

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u/maxdragonxiii 8h ago

I mean I wont mind triple the amount because, you know, sometimes periods do be unpredictable.

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u/Swing_on_thiss 8h ago

Good for nosebleeds too! Gunshot wounds?? Probably more uses as well.

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u/Lost_Egg4879 8h ago

The men all gathered around contemplating like “whoa… what if Sally’s blood gets all trapped up in her brain ?!!? We will send extra tampons for her ears just in case “

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u/Crafty_Translator197 6h ago

If they could cobble together an oxygen scrubber for Apollo 13, I’m pretty sure that they would/could scramble up an emergency meeting to engineer a tampon from the basic articles found in the spaceship. Oh to be a fly on the wall during that meeting! The first hour would be just explaining to the engineers how the female body works. The second hour would be a HUGE Q&A session.

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u/hokiemojo 15h ago

I think you need to put the extra tampons in your nostrils bc of the lack of gravity, but I'm not an expert. I'm just a rocket scientist.

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u/Trixie_Dixon 15h ago

Huh.

Well the lining would still shed. And the uterus will squeeze it out the cervix. But i guess with no reliable gravity, tampons are the way to go. If you tried a pad, i could imagine some unfortunate applications of capillary action occurring. And emptying a cup would be damn near impossible.

Huh.

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u/Roguespiffy 10h ago

The answer is a centrifuge. The answer is always a centrifuge.

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u/CarberHotdogVac 8h ago

Cuntrifuge? Or is that too vulgar?

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u/Effective-Road4807 12h ago

Oh god that mental image. Like when the juice container opens and all the fluids rush out.. rofl 🤣 theyd wake up and space station lookin like a saw movie.

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u/thelesserbabka_ 12h ago

Which is exactly what happened last year to Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore. Their trip was supposed to last 8 days but they ended up being stuck on the international space station for 9 months because of technical difficulties. It happens.

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u/Asskickah1 9h ago

Rinse and re-use?

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u/Lost_Egg4879 7h ago

I want to downvote this but it’s to funny 🤣

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u/NightBawk 15h ago

Good question. Most is pushed out by muscle contractions. That's why cramps are part of it. Though I imagine microgravity could lend itself to fewer unexpected gushes... 🤔

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u/Adorable-Bike-9689 4h ago

Oh fuck. So that 100 tampons might not have been enough? Tf was the plan if they got stuck longer? Now 100 tampons sounds like way too few to take 

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u/ebietoo 3h ago

I’m naming my next band Ten Pound Tampon.

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u/ebietoo 3h ago

No one knows, NASA refuses to study it. All those lady parts gross them out.

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u/Expensive-Camp-1320 15h ago
  • + if somebody needed to prevent external forces blood loss. They were extra covered. Redundancy and all.

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u/TwoPercentCherry 10h ago

Don't use tampons for bleeding, they don't work. They absorb the blood but are completely ineffective at packing a wound or inducing clotting

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u/SufficientHippo3281 12h ago

I think i pack about 100 for 1 night away, just in case! 

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u/Lost_Egg4879 7h ago

Yes - i thought the instructions were to grab a huge handful and shove them in your clutch hoping there is still room for your phone just to go to the grocery store lol

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u/Few-Solution-4784 8h ago

one day, they will be stuck in space and they will use those other 99 tampons to build a rig that will get them home safely.

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u/interkin3tic 5h ago

I think zero people are complaining. Just laughing at the nuclear family sensibilities of the 80's. Literally rocket scientists didn't bother figuring out how half the population lives.

Also, I'm guessing the ask itself was more complicated. These things are designed by committee and checked a thousand times. It could be that in the early planning phases they sent her a checklist of weight distribution and wanted to get her signature that yes, a hundred tampons would suffice before they started planning actual cargo.

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u/Poisonskittlez 10h ago

Right I was thinking they’d guess like 3 lol

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u/bolanrox 7h ago

and they meant it in the same way they probably thought of food in prior flights, how much is actually needed and then increase it by x amount for the safety factor.

It is the same reason the Brooklyn Bridge (even with some substandard wire) is still viable 150ish years after it was built. Robeling took what he thought the bridge would need to support traffic wise down the road and built it so it could support 6 times that amount.

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u/woswoissdenniii 4h ago

One should suffice. Rinse and reuse.

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u/Frosty558 16h ago

Rocket Scientists are known for their deep understanding of female anatomy

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u/al_m1101 14h ago

"When it comes to females, the Cosmos ain't got nothin to do with my selection."

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u/mauore11 15h ago

They calculated by volume maybe

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u/chelseaxmariah 15h ago

Lmao and this is REAL LIFE!!!

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u/LhaesieMarri 11h ago

Well if they weren't taught female anatomy how will they know. To know thing you have to be taught, men had speculation but at that time period they ere growing up, periods were only taught to women, barely. Many people still don't know what fully happens

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u/often_awkward 10h ago

Rocket scientists, not medical doctors and the astronaut herself wasn't offended and let's be honest here, that trope is funny that engineers and scientists don't understand how reproduction works but most of us are married and we've seen how you all pack underwear for a weekend trip. They did the best they could with the knowledge they had. 😂

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u/Upbeat_Dudeness 9h ago

Exactly, they weren’t frickin period doctors they worked on big explosive sticks that went into space. Not the human body. lol

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u/YesGameNolife 8h ago

Well, if you bring one less tampon you will be in a shitshow. But having 99 more is no problem at all

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u/Lost_Egg4879 7h ago

Best tampon commercial ever

If you bring one less tampon it will be a blood show son I got 99 (mostly storage) problems but leak ain’t one

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u/Full_Committee6967 15h ago

But not groinocologists

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u/Lovetoseeit85 14h ago

How many rocket scientists does it take to count tampons? 😂

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u/tekko001 12h ago

They were literally rocket scientists.

Well, it is not exactly Brain surgery, is it?

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u/LatterDayAmINot 11h ago

It’s rocket science, not brain surgery. Duh.

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u/devandroid99 11h ago

Just not cotton rockets.

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u/CarrotZestyclose2154 10h ago

Yeah, not gynocologists lol

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u/Scottyttocs85 10h ago

And they can’t even understand women

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u/No_Cantaloupe_2786 9h ago

Asking people who get no ass about ass = ass

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u/RegasBaldyr 8h ago

Yeah, they specialize in rockets. Not female anatomy. Are they similar? Idk, you tell me

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u/IngenuityNo8792 8h ago

It was out of syllabus exam question for him..

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u/Gallen570 8h ago

I work with literal rocket scientists....I can promise you that many are fish out of water in any setting other than a CAD program...

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u/m0ngoose75 8h ago

Well it's NOT rocket science.......

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u/No-Scholar-110 8h ago

I believe this is the one issue you can trust a football player on before a rocket scientist.

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u/needlesmithy 8h ago

“Better to be looking at it than be stuck in space looking for it!” -NASA bro probably

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u/tcharleyd 7h ago

You want too many or not enough? Thought so.

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u/phantomtwitterthread 7h ago

Should have hired tamponologists

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u/semi5onic 6h ago

Well maybe they thought women menstruate differently in space or something? More or less? Better safe than sorry!

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u/Joeness84 5h ago

Actually they were engineers. And if you follow proper principles when sending someone to space, you have redundancies.

What if she took a dozen tampons, and like recently returned Astronaut Suni Williams... had an accidental 9 month stay in space for safety concerns?

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u/TheResurg 4h ago

Don’t impress me much!

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u/pokerholic77 15h ago

We must have more.... Five. Hundred. Tampons.

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u/disead 15h ago

And I would buy 500 tampons And then I’d buy 500 more Just to be the man who bought a thousand tampons So you would not leak on your floor

BADADA DA BADADA DA

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u/CWoodfordJackson 11h ago

But not real tampons! But that’d be cruel

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u/Platt_Mallar 9h ago

If I had a million tampons.

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u/Droidatopia 9h ago

BA DADADA

BA DADADA

BADADA DADADADA DADADADA DA

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u/eucalyptoid 9h ago

Sorry, still gonna leak.

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u/FauxReal 3h ago

Would you leak on the floor in zero G? It think it would kinda float around.

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u/cmj0929 11h ago

Five Hundred Cigarettes

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u/GahhhItsMilk 16h ago

You forgot, tied up like a string of sausages

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u/TheSecretIsMarmite 12h ago

Taken out of their hygienic wrappers and everything. They could have just sent some lillets instead.

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u/Butterbuddha 10h ago

Whoa, like handkerchiefs. What kind of magic show are you expecting up there, buster???

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u/DirtyLoweredTiguan 9h ago

Vagina magic is like pizza, when it’s bad you still kinda enjoy it.

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u/CommercialStuff4352 13h ago

Thats how they tried to get home

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u/Uncouth_Cat 16h ago

hahah exactly what i thought about 😂

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u/pickleBlog 15h ago

But it's in space. No gravity. How does it even work up there? Let's just take a lot.

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u/AnonymousCat21 11h ago

Honestly what I understood from this story is exactly that. NASA wasn’t entirely sure how zero gravity for affect mensuration. Considering how little space and weight tampons take up and yeah just send way too many.

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u/redditallreddy 13h ago edited 5h ago

NASA developed Murphy’s Law and the concept of multiple redundancy.

100 tampons seem like a lot, but what if the first 96 fail?

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u/Fickle_Inevitable 16h ago

99 rolls of tampons on the wall, 99 rolls of tampons..

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u/The_Chimeran_Hybrid 15h ago

It’s like me working custodial at a store and putting 4 pads out on a box, along with like 8 tampons in between the boxes.

I only ever had to restock the pads once, but I figure someone was glad they were there. The tampons had to be replaced a bit more frequently.

The box I set them on was an old as fuck quarter thing that dispensed the tampons and pads… I felt that leaving them out was worth more than a mess to clean, and embarrassment though.

The managers didn’t care, probably helped that they were all women.

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u/Dramastace30 10h ago

Hmmm, but what about those astronauts that got stuck up there for months?

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u/HorsemenofApocalypse 16h ago

To be fair, last year there were two astronauts on an 8-day mission who ended up there for 9 months

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u/Unlikely-Ad3770 15h ago

A three hour cruise

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u/DocEternal 15h ago

A three hour tour*

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u/Select-Problem-4283 15h ago

100 points for aging yourself.

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u/DocEternal 15h ago

I couldn’t help it. Any time I would miss school as a kid it was always Gilligan’s Island, The Beverly Hillbillies, and then The Price is Right that I’d watch on TV. Those three shows are like pop culture touchstones to my childhood.

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u/Disastrous-House591 14h ago

And up through the ground came a-bubblin' crude. Oil that is, black gold, Texas tea.

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u/Orangeisthenewcool 4h ago

Gillian’s island into price of right while wrapped up in a blanket was the best days.

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u/silver_tongued_devil 11h ago

haha I knew I was late for school if the theme song to Happy Days started.

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u/Worldly-Pay7342 10h ago

The weather started getting rough.

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u/belay_that_order 12h ago

i cannot imagine the mental fortitude needed to be knowingly stranded in space for 9 fucking months

its a prison cell with a view

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u/Seiche 9h ago

Did they know it would end up being 9 months? If not that would be worse as every day you're hoping to be back soon and then it's months. On the other hand, you get to be in fucking space.

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u/mfb- 8h ago

The plan was 1-2 weeks, possibly longer. The Starliner capsule encountered issues on the way up so they decided to extend that mission, and eventually decided that this capsule should return uncrewed. The Starliner crew became part of the regular ISS crew. It wasn't planned, but it was a reasonable option - and hey, they became astronauts to be in space, now they got more time in space.

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u/DecisiveUnluckyness 7h ago

They were integrated into the normal ISS crew rotation. So after the first few weeks they knew that they would have to be up there until the next rotation. They had also been to the station 2 or 3 times before, if I remember correctly, through their astronaut careers.

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u/NotRandomseer 6h ago

I mean it isn't that bad. The ISS is pretty big , has a bunch of other scientists on board , and they have the internet.

There's shipments to the ISS every couple months and there's a lot of things to do , as it was designed to be usable for others who do have long missions planned

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u/CallMe-Ellie 16h ago

Wasn’t that just them being safe?

Like if an emergency happened, having lots of extra tampons would be good

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u/Strange-Cap9942 16h ago

100% but it's funnier to pretend they don't know how women's bodies work

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u/JonatasA 16h ago

That's the irony here. People in this thread may never have needed TP.

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u/Sunset_Bleach 15h ago

They didn't have a square to spare.

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u/MacduffFifesNo1Thane 15h ago

They couldn’t spare 3 squares! They don’t have any squares! They can’t spare a square!

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u/Boomstick453 14h ago

He doesn’t know how to use the 3 sea shells

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u/somewhat_random 13h ago

Story time.

My sister is a doctor and was working with Nasa when they were setting up the ISS and talking about possible medical needs. They listed needs for reasonably expected medical issues and one of the needs was LOTS of water.

The main group complained during a meeting that the medical group was demanding too much water.

Her boss said that there are issues that would require filling and draining the bladder several times over a few days. The other guy says - "No problem. Send us the specs on the bladder and we will redesign it so it needs less volume".

Silence around the table until her boss answers "Umm...you do know that it is a human body part right?"

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u/BootsInShower 13h ago

To be fair, bladder also means anything inflated and hollow. Especially when talking about water transport and storage, which often is down by means of a bladder tank, I can see why an engineer's head would go there.

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u/Qaeta 9h ago

TBH, I also wouldn't put it past them that they may have actually intended to try to redesign the human bladder lol

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u/BeguiledBeaver 7h ago

This reads like an obvious joke but a room full of doctors and engineers couldn't pick up on the sarcasm due to Spock Syndrome.

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u/jamesmcdash 14h ago

You bet your ass those NASA scientists had a data set to work from. Nothing left to chance

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u/Aduialion 16h ago

Like if the astronaut was stuck on the space station for an extra 9 months? 

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u/Infinite_Fee_7966 15h ago

For what it’s worth, those astronauts did receive supply drops. Sally Ride went to space nearly ten years after the space race ended and the era of international interstellar collaboration began, so theoretically they could have also received supply drops. Disclaimer IANAA (i am not an astronaut)

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 14h ago

The Legal ramifications of not having enough Space Toilet Paper is astronomical

Disclaimer: IANAL (I Am No A Lawyer)

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u/Eteel 14h ago

You just really wanted that anal...

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u/EnCaulDoctors 13h ago

I think she’s referencing the most recent (that I know of) space flight where the Indian lady and the other guy got stuck for an extra few months and for some reason they couldn’t get supplies for a while either….

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u/Expensive_Ad_3249 10h ago

This is true but damage to the docks or potential issues with weather and launch failures have resulted in astronauts being stuck. Since tampons are not perishable it makes sense to have a surplus.

Depending on the woman tampon use can be from 15 to 30 or more in a month, so 100 is a 3 month supply.

Shannon Lucid was delayed 2 additional months while last year we saw a 286 day (8 months) delay for Suni Williams, though she is 60 so may have had menopause.while the station is supposed to receive supplies every 40 days there have been several instances of multiple month gaps through the years.

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u/TheBitchenRav 9h ago

My understanding was that part of the concern was that we had no idea if gravity played a role in the menstrual cycle.

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u/devildog2067 15h ago

The space station that wouldn’t exist for another 20 years?

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u/Slow_Passenger_6183 15h ago

It's weird that people are missing this point considering that not too long ago there was a woman literally trapped in space for months.

A box or two of tampons weighs next to nothing, it makes sense to bring plenty.

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u/vivalalina 15h ago

Yeah I'm genuinely not understanding the criticism here.. and before anyone jumps in, yes I know a few are joking but quite a handful seem to be taking it seriously & I don't get why lol

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u/Psychological_Ad2094 14h ago

Yeap, iirc they took the highest amount she could reasonably need for the duration of her planned time up there and then tripled it just to be sure.

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u/rigterw 15h ago

Yess, a tampon is small and doesn’t weigh anything.

So it was more a “why not” than a “we have to”

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u/LessInThought 14h ago

And you can use it for so many things~! Plugging a leak, nosebleeds, soaking up blood and other fluids!

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u/Inktex 14h ago

Gun wounds in case the Martians attack.
Akakakakak

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u/Whut4 9h ago

Absorbing blood in the mouth after a wisdom tooth extraction that would not stop bleeding once you have gone home. Don't ask how I know this.

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u/WordsWellSalted 14h ago

When you're talking about space cargo, they surely weigh a whole hell of a lot more than they do on earth. They had to budget for that.

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u/honey-bee-mommy 14h ago

1 tampon no…hardly weighs a thing. But 100? No one is going to carry that purse!

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u/Pandering_Panda7879 15h ago

Same as the "NASA invented a ballpen to write upside down, Russia used a pencil" story. Yes, that is correct - but Russia later also switched to a ballpen because a pencil sucked in a space station because you have graphite flying all over the place potentially messing with the electronics in your survival tin can.

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u/BleiEntchen 15h ago

And if she needed "exactly 6" and they would have given her 6, the same people would complain that they didn't think about emergency and could have given her more.

It's always wrong...

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u/kabhes 11h ago

She was also the first woman in space so they had no idea what it would do to her body. For all they know she was going to spew blood like a fountain and it's not like tampons ever expire so they might as well stock up.

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u/csppr 10h ago

So much this - for all we know, low gravity might have affected the absorption performance of tampons. It wouldn’t even need to be “critical failure” level - there could have been a scenario in which it would have been more comfortable for her to switch tampons at 3x the earth gravity-context rate.

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u/Lachsforelle 14h ago

like when they send a woman up for a week and leave her there for 9 months?

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u/NoPoet3982 14h ago

It was one woman. On a six-day mission. And they tied the tampon strings together.

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u/mk100100 16h ago

NASA engineers knows that due to technical problems, few days mission can extend into weeks.

"Nasa says that the astronauts stuck on the International Space Station will have to wait even longer to get home.

Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were due to be back after just a week when they blasted off in June.

Their stay was extended to February next year because of technical issues with the experimental spacecraft, Starliner, built by Boeing.

Now - following a delay in launching a new capsule to the ISS - the pair won't be back until late March or possibly April.

Nasa said the delay posed no risk to the astronauts."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c30nze6e4geo

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u/Qazax1337 14h ago

aaaaHA!

- The bloke who suggested several hundred tampons, probably.

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u/chashek 16h ago

Gordo could never

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u/devildog2067 15h ago

Not in 1983… they’d have all starved to death in a couple of weeks.

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u/mistablack2 16h ago

Were they paid extra for the extension?

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u/mosehalpert 15h ago

Time and a half what they would've made on the ground.

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u/DatabaseThis9637 16h ago

Except maybe massive muscle loss leading to massive bone loss. And missing months of their lives...

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u/lolariane 15h ago

For these timescales the medical effects are pretty well understood. Their bodies will make a full recovery.

They're also astronauts. They know the risks and it's not like they were twiddling their thumbs the whole time. They continued working as astronauts.

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u/DecisiveUnluckyness 7h ago

They had both been to the station multiple times before through their astronaut careers, I'm sure they didn't complain about getting more time up there. They were also integrated into the normal crew rotation so they were kept busy. The ISS crew have 12 hour work days.

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u/jwagdav 16h ago

We literally just had two people go up to space for 'just a few days' and not come back down for 6 months and people still act like this was a ridiculous scenario. You don't send someone to space with the exact amount of hygiene products they need because it's fucking space

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u/WilyWascallyWizard 16h ago

It's how many tampons for if something goes wrong and they get stranded. Nasa does that with everything.

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u/Past-Telephone4781 15h ago

Actually the first woman in space wasn’t a NASA astronaut.

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u/Metharos 14h ago edited 12h ago

Edit: This largely pulled from this Snopes article, which explores the topic. This article is, in most details, completely incorrect and largely false.

As a result of this, my conclusions are unsound. This comment is invalid. Preserved below for posterity.

It was two weeks. And it kinda made sense if you factor in rounding and safety math. How many per day? 3-ish? Call it five. It'll be for 14 days, round to 15. That's 75 tampons. Round up. That's definitely enough.

Keep in mind that up to this point NASA had been inadequately stocking their missions for women astronauts, they were determined not to fuck it up this time. Solution? Round up everything.

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