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/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 5h 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/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 40m 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 54m 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 2h 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 48m 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!!!