Mardi Gras Audrey
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Jun 10, 2014 17:45:43 GMT -5
When I lived in the dorm in college back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, there was a weird girl on our floor who believed (or at least claimed) she was a vampire. Fortunately, she was rather stupid, so she was not so much sinister as she was just ... odd and a little baffling. She used to wear a long black cloak and hide in the utility closet, then leap out at people. Her timing was bad, though, or she got tangled up in the cloak or something, so her "victim" was generally several steps past the closet but the time she managed to pounce. It wasn't long before people started surreptitiously watching the utility closet to see when she went into it because apparently she was the only one who had not noticed that the door locked from the outside. LOL!!!
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Post by mmhmm on Jun 10, 2014 17:48:17 GMT -5
Color me speechless!
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Post by Anne_in_VA on Jun 10, 2014 19:02:31 GMT -5
I can never keep these entertainers around. I get too irritated and either distance myself - or say something - and then they distance themselves So much this! I'm not on Facebook a lot, but I tend to say something which causes them to drop me.
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Post by flamingo on Jun 10, 2014 20:04:50 GMT -5
The train wrecks on my Facebook feed don't usually appreciate me. I make snarky comments, or say things like, "Really?! Did you really expect a different result?" For example: FB friend posted a story of how she was so proud of herself for going to an all cash system, and how it was saving her money, but how expensive it was to eat lunch out everyday by paying cash. (which deserves it's own comment, but alas, there is more to her post). She goes on to say, she now doesn't have bus fair since she spent all her cash on her lunches for the week so she'd have to make an exception to her new rule and use a credit card to take a cab home. She then complained cab fare was $40!!!! WHAT?!?! Really?!?! Mostly I wanted to comment "How am I still friends with you?!" But I didn't. And, all of her other FB friends were saying how terrible this was, and what a rip off cab fare is. But all I can think is how you easily spent more than $40 on lunches this week, one way bus fare is $2.25, and you could have just skipped a lunch out and been fine. Or, you know, eaten somewhere cheaper!
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Post by suesinfl on Jun 10, 2014 21:06:57 GMT -5
Ass towel <<Snicker>><<Snort>> No, more like ass wipe. These stories are making my day, thanks.
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Post by Sunnyday on Jun 10, 2014 22:19:18 GMT -5
There's a lady on extreme cheapskates that lives near us actually and uses the "family cloth" as well as reusable feminine products. No worse than washing cloth diapers, honestly, and a lot less waste, but I can't get over the ick factor. I find no problem with this. I don't do it. But I do use cloth hygienic pads and also cloth diapered. I wanted to do cloth wipes for number 1, but I think the look that my husband gave me was clear enough. He didn't mind the cloth diapers, and he doesn't mind my glad rags. But the man had his limits. Edited to add: And "family" cloth is a misnomer. All it is is cloth washcloths that you use to wipe once and then throw in the hamper. It is not re-used by anyone until everything is washed and dried again. Many people in the world, use water and their hand to wipe their ass. What do you guys think that your great grand parents did (depending on how old you are) did? No Charmin then, and even when they invented tp. It wasn't used by every one for a long time.
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Post by Sunnyday on Jun 10, 2014 23:47:07 GMT -5
I find no problem with this. I don't do it. But I do use cloth hygienic pads and also cloth diapered. I wanted to do cloth wipes for number 1, but I think the look that my husband gave me was clear enough. He didn't mind the cloth diapers, and he doesn't mind my glad rags. But the man had his limits. Edited to add: And "family" cloth is a misnomer. All it is is cloth washcloths that you use to wipe once and then throw in the hamper. It is not re-used by anyone until everything is washed and dried again. Many people in the world, use water and their hand to wipe their ass. What do you guys think that your great grand parents did (depending on how old you are) did? No Charmin then, and even when they invented tp. It wasn't used by every one for a long time. But as someone else mentioned, thats a lot of water and detergent you're going to go through. And it's just nasty! Um, do you know how much water it takes to make toilet paper and detergent? You can feel that it's nasty, but thinking that it would require more water and resources than the production of toilet paper is completely false. Have you thought how much water and energy it takes to make the paper? How much water and energy it takes to run the factory, create the packaging, get it to the stores? It's always that uneducated argument about it not being ecological because it takes water and soap to clean that is just mind boggling. I cloth diapered both my children and it irked me to no end. But yeah, you are entitled to your other opinion.
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Post by steff on Jun 11, 2014 0:04:51 GMT -5
Oh my god! I am so grossed out right now! family towel I won't even let anyone else use my bathroom... let alone share an ass towel! ACK!!!!!!!!!!!!! The greatest moment of my married life was declaring that NO ass but MY ass touches my toilet seat. I literally had a hissy fit when I found hubby in my shower one day. His response was "it was closer". OH HELL NO! GET OUT OF MY SHOWER NOW! I seriously made him get out of my shower & go upstairs to his own bathroom. He still thinks I'm crazy over it. I love watching the trainwrecks on FB. Watching my bitch aunt put all my cousins business right out in the middle of FB comments will never not be fun. A good friends wife uses her FB to cover her tracks & document her innocence/sobriety (LMAO!) I'm no longer allowed to comment on her page. hehehehehe The great spider meme war my youngest brother and I had was sadly stopped by our mom who we inherited our paralyzing fear of spiders from. Her words "WTF you too, why spiders? stop it!". but I'm sure the daily exchange of terror was entertaining for some folks on our friends list. I also get a kick out of following a girl from HS who is a professional dominatrix. She's a hoot!
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Post by formerroomate99 on Jun 11, 2014 1:01:39 GMT -5
I dunno. I guess I don't see a huge difference between some paper product (maxi pad or TP) you throw away and a freshly cleaned cloth, assuming that the cloth was properly cleaned.
When my kids have accidents, I always just put the clothes in a bucket of water with Oxy Clean, and when it filled up put them through the wash by themselves. I agree that washing your clothes with poopy things is pretty gross. And since I lived in the land of mold, I put my mostly mildewed dishcloths in by themselves and then wash them again with the towels.
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Post by quince on Jun 11, 2014 2:17:17 GMT -5
I'm with rainyday on this...nothing wrong with family cloth as long as I am not expected to use it. I did try reusable pads...not for me, nor are moon cups, but I cloth diapered for the first six months of my son's life.
I don't discard towels or washcloths that have touched ass, I have not thrown away sheets that my son has peed on. And considering that many women accept penii into their bodies it is hard to see how a reusable menstrual cup should be considered disgusting.
I admit to participating in our disposable society but do not pretend that it is a virtue.
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Post by Sunnyday on Jun 11, 2014 7:03:59 GMT -5
Um, do you know how much water it takes to make toilet paper and detergent? You can feel that it's nasty, but thinking that it would require more water and resources than the production of toilet paper is completely false. Have you thought how much water and energy it takes to make the paper? How much water and energy it takes to run the factory, create the packaging, get it to the stores? It's always that uneducated argument about it not being ecological because it takes water and soap to clean that is just mind boggling. I cloth diapered both my children and it irked me to no end. But yeah, you are entitled to your other opinion. My "other" opinion? You mean the one that disagrees with reusing feminine products for the sake of the planet and wiping my ass with a cloth towel,and then washing it? My ick factor honestly outweighs that... But you're entitled to your " other" ideas about " feminine hygiene" because that's not hygienic at all... It's disgusting! I said that you are entitled (of course) to think that it's disgusting. There is nothing that I can say that could change your mind about that. But saying that having to use water and energy to wash reusable products negates their ecological value is straight-out wrong! period. end of discussion.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jun 11, 2014 7:22:38 GMT -5
Maybe it doesn't negate all of their value but they do have to be washed. And unless you want to contaminate all of your other items, you are either making a ton of wipes or you are washing small loads frequently which isn't environmentally friendly.
I couldn't get my mind around the ick factor either so I'd be running an empty wash load of hot water and lots of bleach.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 11, 2014 7:33:35 GMT -5
reusable feminine products . I have honestly never heard of this before I think I ran across it in a history book. Thank God for modern manufacturing is all I can say.
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Post by wvugurl26 on Jun 11, 2014 7:41:00 GMT -5
reusable feminine products . I have honestly never heard of this before I think I ran across it in a history book. Thank God for modern manufacturing is all I can say. Amen to that!
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 11, 2014 7:53:06 GMT -5
My Mom cloth diapered 5 of us and it wasn't unusual when I was a kid to find a poopy diaper in the toilet. Or accidentally flush it.
My Mom still does whites in hot water and with bleach which as I recall is how she did diapers. So cleaniness isn't an issue for me. I'm just tired of wiping butts and rinsing underwear/wash cloths pre washing. And hollering at DH for NOT pre rinsing.
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Post by Sunnyday on Jun 11, 2014 7:59:38 GMT -5
Maybe it doesn't negate all of their value but they do have to be washed. And unless you want to contaminate all of your other items, you are either making a ton of wipes or you are washing small loads frequently which isn't environmentally friendly. I couldn't get my mind around the ick factor either so I'd be running an empty wash load of hot water and lots of bleach. I'm plenty wasteful for things that bother me. I don't understand how people think that wiping away shit makes your butt clean. So I hand you a big piece of stinking turd and place it in your hand. You freak out and throw it at me, and then you go off and wipe it with paper and then call it a day? No, you wash your hands with loads of hot water and soap to get it clean. Yet, most people walk around with their asses dirty and lint covered. How gross is that? that grosses me out. But cloth wipes for the butt just doesn't gross me out that much. I guess it's a question of perspective. And again, the amount of water used to wash stuff is nominal compared to the amount of water and resources used to make stuff. If you have any idea how much water and resources industrial plants used..... If that logic flew, you would buy new clothes every day instead of re-washing them.
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Post by Sunnyday on Jun 11, 2014 8:10:51 GMT -5
I don't think any one is trying to get you to not use toilet paper. I certainly am not. You can use all the toilet paper that you want. I know I do, and then I follow up with soap and water. I don't walk around with a dirty ass all day. And let's be frank, wiping shit off of you with paper does not leave you clean.
My only point is don't say something like factually wrong like having to wash them with water and soap is as wasteful or more so than the water and energy used to make those disposable products.
I don't have the energy to preach to people who don't care about the environment. That is not my job to convert, but I don't like it when facts are just wrong.
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Post by yogiii on Jun 11, 2014 8:21:52 GMT -5
Ok, I have to comment...
I use cloth diapers. They are washed on a sanitary cycle that is 2.5 hours long. It takes in hot water and the washer heats it to an even higher temperature. My washing machine has never smelled like poop and I've heard people on this board who don't even have kids or use cloth diapers complain about their HE washers having funky smells so I must be doing something right. I also have a clean cycle that I can run with bleach to clean the washer and I do that every so often, even when I wasn't washing diapers.
That said, I use TP and would never use a cloth rag instead of TP, though I don't really care what other people do. If my son had ever had a poop accident in underwear, I would have just thrown the underwear out. I don't put poop in with regular laundry, that's gross.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 11, 2014 8:22:39 GMT -5
Um ok- this thread got a little too gross I'm good not talking about and/or thinking about people's bathroom habits.
I think that facebook gives you these strange glimpses into people's lives. It's going to be interesting at our hs reunion this summer. Typically you literally don't see most of your classmates for years between these reunions. Since I'm fb friends with so many of them it's like getting daily updates on their lives. What is going to be left to talk about at the reunion?
Can we pool our money together to make a PSA telling people to edit their pictures? Just because you had a BBQ doesn't mean you have to post 80 pictures from it. Especially when 20 of them are out of focus and another 40 are duplicates. Seriously people! Post two or three good pics and move on with your lives!
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 11, 2014 8:24:56 GMT -5
deleted out of deference to sheila.
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Post by Sunnyday on Jun 11, 2014 8:34:52 GMT -5
why delete?!
I always consider a thread very successful when we start talking about bowel movements by the second page.
It takes talent to do that!
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 11, 2014 8:41:28 GMT -5
Beth- It's all good. Given this is YMOT I pretty much assumed that, like most threads, this one would start talking about poop soon. I did accidently help that along by posting about my classmate's "Family Towel"
I'm a Minnesotan and we tend to be pretty passive aggressive people. So if you are FB friends with me you'll notice a lot of shares from time to time about being an atheist, science, etc. Those are usually in response to all the religious shares that pop up on my feed.
I'm usually that bitchy person that posts the link to snopes debunking whatever gossip you are trying to spread. It really makes me think people just randomly share or like things without doing any independent research on their own.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jun 11, 2014 8:44:26 GMT -5
Sheila - I do the snopes thing too. Or tell people that there's no way in hell they are "winning" an ipad for sharing a picture. Or all the people who think someone hacked into their FB to post those dirty videos - um, no, you clicked on the link for them which gave it permission to blast them out to your whole friends list. Changing your password won't stop that. Google Chrome has an add-on that lets you filter your newsfeed by certain words. Very helpful during political/holiday seasons.
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Post by sheilaincali on Jun 11, 2014 8:51:13 GMT -5
Do they really think Bill Gates is going to give them a free iPad for sharing his photo? Or that Zuckerberg really wants their comments on how to run facebook? Or that by sharing a photo of Mickey Mouse they will get a free trip to Disneyworld?
I think facebook just keeps reminding us how many morons we all have in our lives.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 11, 2014 9:00:01 GMT -5
OMG, I was having such a bad day until I read this thread. You people are priceless! It sounds like some of you are FB "friends" with people who literally just crawled out of the primordial ooze, skipped the normal process of evolution and morphed into the Honey BooBoo/Swamp People species.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jun 11, 2014 9:00:15 GMT -5
Or that "likes" translate into money somehow to help sick kids/puppies/soldiers/whatever? My favorite are the random vague statuses to "raise awareness" for some cause.
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jun 11, 2014 9:57:46 GMT -5
OMG, I was having such a bad day until I read this thread. You people are priceless! It sounds like some of you are FB "friends" with people who literally just crawled out of the primordial ooze, skipped the normal process of evolution and morphed into the Honey BooBoo/Swamp People species.Also known as my mother's siblings and their children. I only wish I was joking. I don't need the subtitles on those TV shows because I've learned to interpret what they are saying from being around my family! I really don't know where the hell my mom came from because she's not like them at all.
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Post by muttleynfelix on Jun 11, 2014 10:19:53 GMT -5
Maybe it doesn't negate all of their value but they do have to be washed. And unless you want to contaminate all of your other items, you are either making a ton of wipes or you are washing small loads frequently which isn't environmentally friendly. I couldn't get my mind around the ick factor either so I'd be running an empty wash load of hot water and lots of bleach. Why? We cloth diapered DS for 2 years. We used cloth wipes (wash clothes) on DS for 3.5 years (until he potty trained). We use cloth wipes on DD. We have ~40 wash cloths or so. It lasts most of the week. Anyway, we have NEVER had poop residue in the washing machine. Not once did I look in and say gross. Now we do 2 rinses, but really you guys act like everything is contaminated and all of your clothes have poop residue on them afterwards. ETA: Sorry Sheila.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 11, 2014 10:22:25 GMT -5
OMG, I was having such a bad day until I read this thread. You people are priceless! It sounds like some of you are FB "friends" with people who literally just crawled out of the primordial ooze, skipped the normal process of evolution and morphed into the Honey BooBoo/Swamp People species. and I want some cool FB friends too. Mine are all reasonable and boring
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jun 11, 2014 10:31:07 GMT -5
OMG, I was having such a bad day until I read this thread. You people are priceless! It sounds like some of you are FB "friends" with people who literally just crawled out of the primordial ooze, skipped the normal process of evolution and morphed into the Honey BooBoo/Swamp People species. and I want some cool FB friends too. Mine are all reasonable and boring Mine too. Heck, after this, even the folks from this board who are also on FB seem disgustingly normal.
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