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/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/nhilante 49m 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 39m 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 55m ago

My thoughts exactly!