Their plumber doubles as a detective.
Was there a receptacle?
Since this is a thread about tampons, I’ll share this one: I prefer Playtex “sport” tampons for their non-crinkly wrappers. This product is apparently marketed at young athletes; the wrappers have little slogans on them like “If at first you don’t succeed, try again!” and “Celebrate a bold attitude!” One in particular has caught my attention: “Stretch yourself”. :eek:
Ouchie mcgouchie.
Is it any different than regular Playtex? That’s what I use. No cool motivational methods for us couch potatoes. 
I checked the website and it looks like about the same tampon I use.
Oh dear God.
Not that I can tell…of course, the box touts some kind of “layer” system that’s supposed to prevent leaks.
Count me as another reader startled by the cavalier flushers out there. Back when I had a period (every form of birth control I’ve ever been on has eliminated mine, so that’s a long time ago now), I was taught not to flush, and I both live and vacation in places with less-than-modern plumbing, so I never would. Like others, I’m also surprised that the box instructions don’t at least hint that flushing can be a problem.
It would be interesting to know the ages and locations of the flushers v. tossers.
I have several vaction rentals in Key West. It seems like everytime we have a large group of women they clog up the sewer. Bacheloret parties are the worse. We call the plumber and he always snakes out a bunch of tampons. We now have signs across from where you sit saying do not flush anything but human waste and toilet paper. It is also in the lease. We do give them nice sented bags to do their bussiness with. If they do flush tampons and it does clog the sewer we take it right out of their security deposit. Please do not flush tampons at someone elses property. Do what ever you want at yours. But no one wants to clean up a bunch of crap. Well there maybe a few weirdos who do.
Regards,
Captain Nole Karcher
Tori Amos is awesome; but don’t you think it would be just as awesome, to get a menstrual cup that plays Sleater-Kinney when you hold it to your ear.
What about one of these incinerators?
Not that I use ladies’ toilets myself, but I believe they are quite common in toilets in the antipodes. There was certainly one in the ladies’ toilet at Scott Base in 1986.
During winter as there were only 12 of us staff, we used the smaller bathroom to make it easier for us to clean.
Heh. In the bathroom of a bar I used to frequent (USED to), on at least four different times I saw bloody pads stuck to the wall of the stall. :::BARF:::
Wow, I haven’t seen one of those things since primary school, I think. I’m sure I’ve never seen one in commercial premises. I suppose people might not like to wrap up the thing and take it to the incinerator, preferring to get the whole business done and death with in the privacy of the toilet stall.
(I’m amused that Kiwi Fruit obviously knew that someone was going to ask what he was doing in a ladies’ toilet, and quickly found a good explanation. 
Really? Because I’ve been taught all my life that they are NOT!
As one of the assumed minority of women on the Dope who actually has snaked out a pipe, I don’t think I am EVER going to drop anything other than shit, piss, and toilet paper into the toilet ever again. Granted, I haven’t had to snake due to tampons (the culprit was actually a half century of grease and coffee grounds, if you can believe it) but it was a nasty, unpleasant job. Well, OK, I’ll puke in the toilet, too, but I try to minimize how often that happens.
My landlord is a saint - I remember when a tenant’s toddler took to flushing towels down the toilet and he had to not only get them out of the plumping but the septic tank as well. And Mr. Landlord didn’t kill anyone involved! {{{shudder}}}
Tampons can be entirely soaked through with fluids, etc. Pads tend to only have such on one side. Thus, I can sort of roll a pad around itself, then use some TP to secure the roll. Tampons are just little bloody bundles.
That said, back when I used tampons I never seemed to have a problem wrapping the damn things up without making the stall look like an abattoir. Even when drunk. Use fingertips for handling, move slowly, extract over toilet to catch drips, wrap securely, use TP to wipe fingertips, toss tampon in trash, wash hands like you’re supposed to do anyway!
I am sure that once all women were persuaded to wrap and pitch their tampons, we would have another thread complaining about the prodigious use of TP in the ladies room and the expense it imposes on struggling small businesses.
I kind of doubt that, since we have to wrap up pads and no one’s complained about that.
Some things are not meant to be read before morning coffee.
Well, I hold the tampon by the string, put a little TP on, then just start wrapping. Somehow I’ve thrown mine away without stinking up the joint, attracting the scent of bears, or abattoir-izing the room in question.
I definitely prefer throwing it out to having to worry about toilet clogs down the line. Even if I am at a business establishment or someone’s house. Someone’s going to have to unclog it at some point if I flush so I never do.
The box also says that you should change them every 4-8 hours and if you need to change them more often than that upgrade to a higher absorbancy.
So …either change them before you go out drinking or think about why you spend so much time at a bar.
Seriously though, even though they say “flushable” common sense must prevail here.
All plumbing is prone to clogging at some point so depositing materials such as tampons which include materials that expand as they absorb liquids, a string, and plastic packaging contributes to the problem.
You can flush them all you want and it may take 7+ years but eventually you will learn that maybe it wasn’t such a good idea.
Also, flushing them into your septic system is idiotic and will cost you a fortune in getting your tanks pumped out, clog you leaching field, and seriously impair the anaerobic bacteria ability to mineralize and decompose waste.
Thank god for menopause.