Yes, it does mean tampons.
Signed,
Works In a Building With Antique Plumbing
I just think you're freakin' out 'cause you have to fight someone prettier than you.
Dawn ,'The Killer In Me'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Scrappy - Mar 28, 2012 6:43:18 am PDT #10529 of 30001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Zenkitty - Mar 28, 2012 7:06:04 am PDT #10530 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
You're really not supposed to flush anything that won't dissolve, like toilet paper does. I have learned this because I have finicky toilets that think they shouldn't have to work with anything that isn't liquid.
Disclaimer: I flush tampons and Kleenex anyway. So there, toilets.
Nora Deirdre - Mar 28, 2012 7:28:59 am PDT #10531 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
I thought tampons in the toilet were verboten always.
smonster - Mar 28, 2012 7:36:46 am PDT #10532 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I could use a quick beta on an application for a career fair thingy. Anyone up for it? It's 4 questions and short answers (under 100 words each).
le nubian - Mar 28, 2012 7:44:08 am PDT #10533 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Nora,
no! tampons are just fine in most toilets. applicators may not be (plastic ones especially), but tampons, yes.
Pix - Mar 28, 2012 8:01:44 am PDT #10534 of 30001
The status is NOT quo.
Unless you have a septic system rather than city sewers, in which case they are a very bad idea.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2012 8:17:04 am PDT #10535 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
At the car dealership where I have spent my morning there is a sign in the bathroom "please do not flush any feminine products". So.
Does this mean tampons? WTF?
That's a pretty common sign in the public toilets I use. We have it at the office, and I keep meaning to scrawl on it that anything that comes out of my nethers is a "feminine product". Well, "meaning" in the sense that it's never ever going to happen, but the semantic urges are strong in this one.
Then again, the idea that flushing tampons is bad seems to be more widespread than I'd thought it was, no matter what the tampon box actually says. I had no idea so many people thought that it officially was a Bad Thing.
Kate P. - Mar 28, 2012 8:17:31 am PDT #10536 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I thought tampons in the toilet were verboten always.
I thought that their flushability was the main advantage to using tampons! (Apart from their supposed comfort, but I've never found them very comfortable.)
le nubian - Mar 28, 2012 8:22:09 am PDT #10537 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yeah because I cannot imagine taking a tampon out and...putting it somewhere other than the toilet.
25 years of tossing tampons in toilets would be a hard habit to break.
§ ita § - Mar 28, 2012 8:29:52 am PDT #10538 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Flushability is a big reason I use tampons, but then I learnt that not everyone considers them flushable, so really, I should just stay home on my period, in case I fuck up someone's toilet.
Because *that* would be embarassing.