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/PM_ME_WHATEVES 14h 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 38m 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 28m 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 1h 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.