I am often diagusted with the things people throw in the toilet. Tampons, condoms, menstrual pads, baby diapers, colostomy bag seals, underwear...
Walk into a public access bathroom and the filth is just waiting to be witnessed. And the bigger the venue, the higher the chance.
Aren't people aware of what they are doing? The clogs they build in the pipes? Because if they do this outside, then have to do it at home.
p.s
I feel the need to add a clarification of what the three P's are, being:
- pee
- poo
- paper (toilet)
This list is being slowly added to, in real time, and more P's are entering it. Namely:
- puke
- period
- pilosity
I'll update this as I stumble into new P's but I doubt the original mnemonic will recognize updates.
19 Jun 2026 11:52
Pfeces, purine, and ptoilet ptissue
19 Jun 2026 12:57
Poo, pee and paper, if you insist.
19 Jun 2026 12:59
People do this all the time, all across the planet. People are just stupid. My brother works in sewage waste management in Norway, and it's a clusterfuck of literally anything you can think of.
His most surreal find was a ripped up wedding dress.
19 Jun 2026 13:00
I thought the third was puke so I guess add that to the list for me.
19 Jun 2026 13:02
Absolutely not. I have a septic system and my hopes and dreams would plug up the drainage field. That's a very expensive repair.
19 Jun 2026 13:08
To the spirit of your question, no.
But to be pedantic, yes. Sometimes I pick up a random small piece of filth off the floor or whatever and the toilet is just right there. And when I mop my floor (once every 1000 years or so), you bet I pour the bucket of dirty water down the toilet, and that's not technically one of the 3 P's.
And very rarely, I have a strand of hair that fell from my head (I have long hair) and I just can't be bothered to fight with the physics of making it fit into the trash bin, so I drop it into the toilet and leave it there until the next flush. It's probably bad, but it's a very rare occurrence.
19 Jun 2026 13:10
You've discovered the fourth P!
19 Jun 2026 13:13
I'm sure there's someone out there who needs to be explicitly told that this is
toilet paper, not printer paper or newspaper or graphing paper or any other kind. Just toilet paper.
And not any kind of wet wipes either. So-called "flushable" wipes are false advertising, do NOT flush them. They WILL clog the pipes.
I'm probably preaching to the choir, but there's a chance someone learns this for the first time from this comment.
19 Jun 2026 13:28
What about pubes? They do fall in sometimes, you know.
19 Jun 2026 13:29
Free tip: every now and then, dump some bleach down your drains. It dissolves hair and the fat from soaps and creams.
19 Jun 2026 13:30
Yes, it's bad, and it doesn't matter if it's a rare occurence. Really, how many hairs will build up in your toilets drain after a thousand years of "rare" occurences? It'll build up, and my guess is you'd have to clear that out every two thousand years. It would honestly be such a pain... just throw it in the trash yo.
19 Jun 2026 13:37
Used to be the fourth p was porn. Now it's phone.
19 Jun 2026 13:40
Except there are products marketed as "flushable" that are only flushable in the sense they are able to be flushed. They will clog up your pipes and not break down.
19 Jun 2026 13:43
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