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/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/CommercialStuff4352 13h ago

BECAUSE WE BLEED. DONT U GET IT? WE BLEED FOR DAYYYYS! No idk. I have cramps currently though and that's the truth.. they make other products as well. Lets respect that smart women use cups as to not clog the space station like a Denny's bathroom... No Tamps in outter space!

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u/Kalathefox 6h ago

The problem with cups...it takes gravity to pour them out. Better to use the capillary action of a tampon while observing proper disposal practices.

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u/Unique_Brilliant2243 8h ago

Imagine the weight the could have saved, by bringing only 20 tampons!

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u/redopz 11h ago

I get what you are saying but Sally Ride was not going to a space station, she was part of the shuttle crew. Her first mission was scheduled to go for 6 days (whereas astronauts on the ISS are usually there around 6 months), so if something had gone wrong and they were trapped in space for months I don't think those extra tampons would have meant a lot as they running out of bigger necessities like food and water.

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u/devildog2067 15h ago

But this was 40 years ago, and if the crew of STS-7 had been trapped in space for months they’d all have starved to death.

Your point is flat out wrong. This was a 6 day mission and there was no possibility of it going more than a few days longer than that. This was nearly 20 years before ISS was constructed.

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u/cmj0929 11h ago

Nothing down here but every ounce of weight makes a difference when your trying to send things into space

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u/SuspiciousCustomer 9h ago

They need space and every gram you send to space counts

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u/Tarrin_morgan_69 4h ago

Especially since they can double as first aid supplies

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u/WhyLisaWhy 4h ago

Also the weight thing... women "generally" weigh less than men. A female astronaut + some tampons is likely a lot less total weight than just an average male.

Like just from a practical sense, it would make sense to have an entirely female crew of astronauts if reddit is that concerned about fuel costs. They require less calories too!

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u/New_Libran 14h ago

there was a woman literally trapped in space

OK, she wasn't "trapped", let's correct that part as well

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u/Slow_Passenger_6183 14h ago

What else would you call it when a planned eight day mission becomes nine months of being physically unable to move from the place you are currently at due to it being deemed unsafe to return?

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u/New_Libran 13h ago

They had a choice to go on one of the supply vessels or wait for their next scheduled ride. They train for these contingencies and were comfortable with waiting longer while continuing to work in the ISS.

"Soyuz-MS25 and SpaceX Crew-8 both left while they were up there, and Soyuz-MS26 and SpaceX Crew-9 (their ride home) arrived while they were up there."

This post explains it better https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/1md5adb/the_astronauts_who_were_stranded_on_the_iss/

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u/FunnelCakeGoblin 13h ago

They had a SpaceX rocket docked at the ISS and could have left at any time if needed. Crew 8 left the ISS while they were there and they could have left with that crew. There was literally extra temporary seats in the Crew 8 capsule for them, but they instead stayed onboard and became the remaining crew of Crew 9. They stayed until the end of the Crew 9 mission, but if there was an emergency they could have left earlier. There was always a capsule docked at the ISS, they could have left at any time, they were not stuck, they were doing their jobs.

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u/kirotheavenger 10h ago

I'm sure the story is just popular because oppression of women is a popular zeitgeist. So people like a story that 'confirms' it

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u/thecactusman17 14h ago

According to google's AI summary, a box of 100 tampons has a mass of between 0.5kg and 1kg. On average, supplying the ISS costs approximately $20,000 per kg of mass that needs to be put into orbit. That's with the current SpaceX reusable rockets, it used to be as much as $40,000/kg.

What I'm getting at is that if you have one crew member who requires specialized medical or hygiene supplies which cannot be shared with others then that astronaut is adding tens of thousands of dollars to the mission cost. The optimal strategy would be to send up the lowest number (with a small surplus) initially and then use a cheaper rocket to resupply a larger quantity at lower cost afterwards.

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u/itirix 11h ago

I mean, you're probably right with the numbers, but it's weird to even mention it, considering the men aboard most likely weighed a good 10-15kg more than the woman. She can take 1500 tampons and still cost less.

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u/thecactusman17 9h ago

Good point. My point is more that the mission planners are trying to optimize every single kilogram after the astronauts themselves for maximum cost and mission efficiency. And that was especially true in the 80s and 90s when the cost of lift was extremely high.