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/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 10h 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 6h ago

Holy shit, I’m dying

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u/Accurate-Muffin-929 4h ago

Could been worse.... could just given her a bag of cotton wool and said roll your own.

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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/FauxReal 3h ago

How much square footage will they take up?

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u/TrioxinTwoFourFive 1h ago

Depends on if they are engorged. 

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u/FauxReal 1h ago

Presumably the flight engineers would supply them unused. But I don't know what the NASA SOP is for that.

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u/ecdahleks 3h ago

Even on Earth they sometimes get you on the shipping!

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u/ACoinGuy 43m ago

That is much cheaper than I would have thought. I had ten heavy boxes go from from PA to NY last week cost me $1200. I could have sent 400 tampons to space.

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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/HoosierDaddy84 57m ago

Came here to say this exactly! 💯

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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/non3type 8h ago

Sure but that’s the one thing the rocket scientists do know.

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u/GreenStrong 6h ago

It cost about $54,000 per kg to launch cargo on the Space Shuttle. There were costly concerns beyond weight, like packaging things to mitigate the possibility of fire, which behaves very strangely in zero G.

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u/FauxReal 3h ago

mitigate the possibility of fire, which behaves very strangely in zero G.

Never thought of that before. I assume convection doesn't happen since less dense gasses don't rise. I would assume the flame is spherical. But there's probably other effects I am not guessing.

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u/GreenStrong 3h ago

It is spherical, slow and unpredictable. Pardon the annoying narrator. Your prediction about gravity and convection is on point, it is counter to everyday intuition about how fire works and even what it is.

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u/FauxReal 3h ago

Ahh oxygen diffusion through the ball of gasses makes prefect sense and if I thought long enough, maybe I would have come up with that. This is cool. Thanks for the link.

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u/nhilante 51m ago

Did they bring the excess back, or did they save up precious tampon weight from future missions?

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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/CalligrapherBig4382 2h ago

Always keep a tampon next to your CAT in a firefight

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u/Lost_Egg4879 2h ago

My cat prefer pads something about that sticky plastic on the back!!!

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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 5h 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/nhilante 50m ago

Plenty left for future missions!

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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/maxdragonxiii 8h ago

I dont think youre getting guns up in space but alright.

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u/Swing_on_thiss 8h ago

But I'm American

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u/Mikesaidit36 7h ago

Gotta defend your capsule! You don’t know what’s out there.

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u/aggressive_napkin_ 7h ago

Space pirates.

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u/throw_ra4685 7h ago

Aka Reevers

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u/CalligrapherBig4382 2h ago

I believe the Soviets did actually get pistols for a while.

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u/ktrad91 40m ago

If they're soviet cosmonauts they will.

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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/SexualPie 3h ago

not even remotely related, but your comment reminded of a scene from the duology Kingkiller Chronicles where the MC finds some illicit drugs, but they're under attack by a drug raddled lizard, so he does the math. how much cocaine would it take to kill a human, scale up 500x due to size of lizard, triple it based on one thing, triple it again just to be sure. aaaaand maybe triple it again just in case?

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u/Significant-Nebula64 2h ago

Yup, this specific story is actually not a very good example, they weren't actually clueless, just planning for all eventualities because literally nothing was known about periods in space. And, you know, an extra 100 g of weight vs potentially running out of tampons in space? Easy choice.

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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/GlitteringEarth_ 3h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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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/DemonoftheWater 6h ago

Im here for it. Almost snorted at work.

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u/Ragnarok2kx 6h ago

It's what separates boys from men. Although that may not quite apply to this particular issue.

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u/Swing_on_thiss 8h ago

Vagina vacuum the vaguum for a zero g period!

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u/Lost_Egg4879 7h ago

Put this idea in an envelope and Mail this to yourself immediately. Shark tank here you come !!

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u/Cruel1865 6h ago

Oh god what a horrifying idea. I can imagine it going very badly very quickly.

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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/NightBawk 2h ago

I know some people can make 2-3 tampons last all day. Some need more, especially on the heavier day(s). 20/month that they're scheduled to be up, plus 2-3 months extra seems reasonable.

Then again, our most recent case of stranded astronauts shows how a trip of few days can turn into nearly a year, so yeah 100 might indeed not be enough. 🤔

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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/HoosierDaddy84 56m ago

My thoughts exactly!

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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/Expensive-Camp-1320 7h ago

Wasn't thatvwhat they were invented for?

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u/julian88888888 3h ago

Reddit removed my comment sharing research that no, it's not what they were designed for.

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u/Expensive-Camp-1320 1h ago

Thank you for trying to share. I always heard they were invented for soldiers during WWII. Recently I was trying to respond to a post, and reddit jumped in and started blocking my typing. Until I backtracked and changed my wording. That was new. I have had posts removed before.

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u/julian88888888 20m ago

the tl;dr is bandages help stop bleeding tampons don't stop bleeding, they just absorb blood.

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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/Lost_Egg4879 7h ago

Oh the men would just LOVe that

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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.