This thread is really making me nostalgic for 1972, when I last read Pruzy’s Pot by Theodore Sturgeon.
Always use extra tp to prevent splash back when pooping.
Actually, it does: five-minute explanation here with props and slow-motion footage. Apart from that video, I’ve seen the same advice offered as a tip in a compendium of useful advice. They referred to making a “life raft” out of toilet paper. Doesn’t take much, just a single layer, enough so that it makes the projectile push extra water down on all sides, providing extra braking to decelerate it and reduce splashback.
Never heard of it, never done it, never thought to worry about splashback, maybe it’s happened, but certainly not often. I do use a lot of toilet paper though, just in wiping. ESPECIALLY if I have my period. It surprises my husband. We deal with it by my usually buying the TP.
Well, most household issues are minor. You live with someone, you talk about minor issues sometimes.
A better reason not to discuss it would have been to avoid a possibly icky answer (for which blocking splashback is on the lighter end of the spectrum), but it’s too late for that now.
I think you’d either have to use heaps of toilet paper for it to make a difference (hence wasting a lot of paper and risk blocking the toilet), or she is just using a little and basically it’s just for psychological benefit; drop a brick down there and you’d still get splashback.
My personal take is I’d leave the issue unless and until there’s a day when the toilet gets blocked by paper.
I have, on occasion, received splashback and have, on occasion, used t.p. to prevent this but, overall, I try not to worry about it and don’t panic if it should happen.
Nowadays, I do it it at home (if I remember before I sit down, which isn’t that often, really) when I’m about to drop a solid one, not because of splashback reasons but because the throne in this apartment is a wimpy low-flow jobby that jams at the drop of a hat, or, well, you know what. I’ve found that t.p. beforehand helps solid waste slide through the bendy bits of the toilet better, and helps leave little mess above the 2-inch water line, as well.
And a reply to **Mijin–**You only need a layer of t.p. on the surface of water because the downward force of the liquid is deadened when it hits the t.p., thus can’t make as high a leap on the way back up.
I had a friend years ago who said she’d float a piece of toilet paper to stop the noise. She didn’t want anyone to hear her peeing.
The splashback thing - nope, never thought of doing that - it’s not something that happens very often.
This thread reminds me of something that I’ve been wondering about, but that doesn’t seem worth starting a whole new thread over. Should I jump in here with a quick hijack? I think I’ll risk it:
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A while back, I shared a bathroom for a brief time with a lady person who was blowing through an absolutely ridiculous amount of toilet paper. However, it wasn’t being flushed, or at least most of it wasn’t. Instead, it was being wadded up and then transferred to the waste bin.
It didn’t appear to have been used for any kind of icky purpose, although I’ll admit that I didn’t investigate it closely. And, no, I also didn’t ask her.
So, what was up with that? Make-up removal? But she wasn’t wearing a lot of make-up, as far as I could tell.
Any input is appreciated.
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Where was she from? Putting paper in a basket as opposed to the bowl is how it works in some locations, due to plumbing that can’t handle paper.
She was a local Scandiwegian. Our plumbing is awesome. And, no, that wasn’t what she was doing with it, I’m pretty certain of that. There was no smell or obvious visual signs of anything nasty.
Also, she went through a lot of paper in this manner. More than you would need for any kind of reasonable wiping purpose.
A broken or not working sphincter or two will show you why a lot of
TP can be gone through.
Gives you a few seconds or a few more feet you can use to get to the restroom before you and your clothes all have to go in the shower — a few times a day.
Clean up of you trail is a whole nuther discussion.
Indeed. Sometimes you wonder if the folks here just find all sorts of esoteric philosophy to discuss in their relationships which makes mundane questions seem as if it needs an apology.
And yes, tbh, I asked my gf when she moved in why the TP was disappearing as if it was being eaten (I mean 2 rolls a week seemed ridiculously quick to me). I think it’s more of a shock thing, esp when told the TP was out when there was 4 full rolls in the cabinet in there a less than a couple weeks ago.
I have been a contract computer programmer for nearly the last decade, and been in different cities. Usually, I will rent a room in a house, which can be iffy, since you do not know your roommates in advance.
During one contract, a woman moved into the house that was a friend of the owner, a Peruvian lady IIRC, also from the owner’s homeland. Both were affluent women in the United States, so surely they had been back at home as well. We shared the same bathroom.
Whenever I went to use the toilet, I would see a single sheet of TP floating on the water. I felt that this was some sort of non-subtle message to me, but I’d never received this particular message, if such it actually was, before. The closest I could come to deciphering this was as some kind of protest against my remaining on the throne “until I finish this chapter.”
I never learned the answer, since the owner wanted her daughter to live in the house, so she no longer wanted a man (me) to live there. That was not a hardship, though, as my contract ended at about the same time.
My guess is improvised ass-gasket.
OK, thanks. I feel better now. LOL! It might help to try another brand. I find that the premium brands run out like crazy, but if I get the Basic, crappy Scott brand it lasts forever. And mine is not one of those delicate hineys which chafe at anything declasse. 
The “tongue” part of the gasket hangs along the top of the water and stops the return splash. It also protects from the really nastiest part of the toilet, that little dent between the two arms of the seat.
Yeah, women get a lot of flak about using too much toilet paper, but do men ever stop to think about the mess they leave behind after sexy times? It generally requires an extra wad or two, guys. Show some gratitude!
The only thing I can think of is maybe she was paranoid about you peeing on the seat? IOW, she was giving you something to aim at.
Tangent: When my friend was potty training her son, she kept a little bowl of fruit loops next to the toilet so he could throw one in and try to sink it. This lead to me overhearing what I still consider to be the ultimate “things I never thought I’d say” Mommy quote:
“No! We do not eat the toilet cereal!”
I sat in the living room trying to figure out what that could possibly mean. It was absolutely hilarious. Every idea I came up with was more surreal than the last, and I was laughing hysterically. By the time she came back out I was literally on the floor with tears streaming from my eyes and struggling to breathe. She nearly called 911.
Yeah this. My gf insisted on me putting a bin in my bathroom (I’d never really had cause to do that previously), and then whenever she comes round it’s full of paper.
Since this is China, and this culture remains (even with bathrooms that are very modern and could clearly take toilet paper) I dare not look or ask what all that paper has been used for.
She may have papered the seat, then thrown that paper away rather than flushing it.
This actually sounds like it could be a plausible scenario in my case (I won’t make the call for Mijin’s).
I mean, I think she would have to be triple- or quadruple-folding it for the amount she was using. But I guess that it’s not beyond belief that someone would get it into their heads to do that.
Unless someone else has a more likely explanation, I’m going with this for peace of mind.
Going once… going twice…
Sold! For “improvised ass-gasket (papered seat)” to the lovely couple on the front row.
A single sheet of TP in the toilet (on a regular basis), to me, would be someone that was using it to flush the toilet* and then tossing it in afterwards.
I can think of other reasons, but if it was one sheet and every time, that’s the most logical thing I can come up with.
*And/or raise/lower the seat when they were done
JpnGal does place paper inside the toilet before doing her thing. She also says that it’s common among Japanese women. For the record, many Japanese toilets have options for light and heavy flushing.
Hovering over the seat was common before but most public stalls now have disinfectant sprays to clean up the seats.
As for me, I love me my washlet! 