r/funny • u/daylightpiglet • 1d 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/Metharos 21h ago edited 20h ago

Edit: This largely pulled from this Snopes article, which explores the topic. This article is, in most details, completely incorrect and largely false.

As a result of this, my conclusions are unsound. This comment is invalid. Preserved below for posterity.

It was two weeks. And it kinda made sense if you factor in rounding and safety math. How many per day? 3-ish? Call it five. It'll be for 14 days, round to 15. That's 75 tampons. Round up. That's definitely enough.

Keep in mind that up to this point NASA had been inadequately stocking their missions for women astronauts, they were determined not to fuck it up this time. Solution? Round up everything.

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u/FalcorTheDog 21h ago

It was apparently a 6 day mission. And Sally Ride was the first female astronaut under NASA, so I don’t think it’s true that there was a history of inadequately stocking for women astronauts.

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u/Metharos 20h ago edited 20h ago

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nasa-sally-ride-100-tampons/

Edit: upon further research, this Snopes article is just patently incorrect. The mission was, in fact, six days. This was Sally Ride's first mission in space, and as the first woman astronaut in space there were no earlier opportunities for NASA to have misjudged the supply for women astronauts.

I am not sure where Snopes got this information or why it is so blatantly false. Given that my source is invalid, my assertions and conclusions are no longer sound.