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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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It doesn't bother me, I'm of the opinion you should wipe until you see blood either way.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

The only real solution is to just poop more. Keep wiping. Clog those johns. Make them pay to fix the busted pipes from our collectively massive BMs.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unpopular opinion: I prefer single ply.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I also like to touch my own asshole

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

https://culoclean.com/

single ply is perfectly fine for drying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Bring your own toilet paper.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

I've worked for very large organizations (30k+ employees) that didn't use crappy paper.

All depends on the company.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They use one's made for large office buildings in large office buildings. It breaks down in the plumbing system. You can use the luxury ones at home because you're only flushing a few times a day and it's a generally short trip out of the house into the sewers. Office buildings see much heavier flushing and that good good might create expensive clogs in their complicated plumbing systems.

Now if we are talking small office and not a whole building then yeah your boss is just cheap.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Explain high rise apartments/condos.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I suggest the infrastructure. A high rise apartment block will have much better plumbing and capacity as it is designed to handle every apartment having at least one bathroom and toilet. And realistic expectations would be many of those are in use at the same time as people get ready around the same time in the morning for work.

An office block has to fit minimum requirements so that is enough toilets per floor to meet regulations and unlikely many or any showers / baths. And not every bathroom is going to be in use at the same time - there will peak times of course but not every employee on the toilet at the same time.

When building an office block they're not going to have anywhere near the same infrastructure as an apartment block. It's one of the reasons it's expensive to convert an office block to apartments.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OP wants you to believe Trump uses single ply in Trump Tower.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

One place I worked for I asked about this and they said it was because thicker toilet paper was more likely to clog the plumbing

No clue if that’s true. I use a bidet with a built in dryer bc I’m a baller

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I mean it's true, in the same sense that in some countries you don't flush the toilet paper as it will cause plumbing issues. It's all about design of the plumbing at that point, and in places where you flush toilet paper it shouldn't be that big of a concern unless they skimped on the plumbing.

Also as my grandma taught me, there is such a thing as a courtesy flush before ya wipe.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

If the office doesn't have a bidet I'm not going!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a hanlons razor kind of thing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I never watched Battlestar Galactica.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Hanlon was an exceptionally clumsy Gold who had a habit of murdering lowColors with his razor by mistake.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Maybe this also ..

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Eh, probably not imo. Most companies are just cheap, especially if they're using those commercial dispensers designed to reduce excess use.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

the cheap af tp and the dispensers that lock up the oh, so precious supplies, is also to prevent theft.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Most company leadership just isn't that deep. They go through the supply catalog, order whatever's cheap or whatever they've always ordered and then go about their day.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's why I treat it like a Chuck E. Cheese ticket machine and use about 50 tiles a wipe.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

a couple clogged toilets a day costs a bit more than a charmin upgrade.

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