Folks with vaginas, I’m conducting some family comparative analysis and I’d like to know how many standard pieces of toilet paper do you use when wiping after a pee. I posted some comments with options to upvote if you like.

  • Head@lemmings.world
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    9 months ago

    Is anyone else infuriated by the number of ‘I don’t have a vagina BUT’ posts?

    Like let me speak for the woman in my life. Let me provide my opinion. I know I wasn’t asked BUT…

    Jesus just go die in a hole. Let women speak for themselves.

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I can answer for my wife! She said three folded, when it’s our normal tp, Charmin. Two extra for other brands.

    That’s all it takes with her configuration to be dry. I’ll vote on the comments, but since she gave more than a number, and it was variable, figured that might help too.

    Fwiw, I make sure to give things an extra squeeze with a few pieces myself. Not a fan of late drips in my drawers. Pee, shake, paper & gentle squeeze. Then wash hands.

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      9 months ago

      Cottonelle is really good, too. In my opinion, better and more absorbent, but personal preference will play a part.

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    9 months ago

    I do not have a vagina, but I have noticed that by myself 1 roll of tp will last 2-4 weeks, but when I have feminine company it becomes more like 1+ roll a week.

    It’s mind boggling how you need so much more tp than us guys do, not that I blame you cos it’s different down there.

    Maybe I’m more concerned that in 10,000 years of civilization no one has developed a better way. We have “spray with water” and “copious amounts of absorbent material”.

    Where’s the 3 shells at, people?

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          9 months ago

          It’s been a long day and I may be a little punchy, but I have tears in my eyes laughing at I write this reply.

        • DNOS@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          I used tooo … Now I have discovered that I can just shove it in the blow drier works better 😉

        • mub@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          What an image. But explains the penis level dents I see in toilet door frames sometimes.

          • Today@lemmy.world
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            9 months ago

            Wow! Congrats on the door frame denter. You could probably make some money with tae kwon do style board breaking videos.

      • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        You gotta press that spot behind ur balls, kinda moving back to front, and it comes out. This secret arcane knowledge was lost for millenia in my lineage, no longer passed down man to man. A kind stranger on the internet shared it with me.

      • tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works
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        9 months ago

        They exist. I think primarily a Japan thing (no surprise…). I havent seen one in person, but seen them for sale or some weird bidet article about all the options you can get. Hot/cold water, his/her’s, blow dry, lights, music, multiple user pre-sets, etc. usually it’s sold as the entire toilet, not an “add-on” option.

        • Iunnrais@lemm.ee
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          9 months ago

          I will say that the blow dry option doesn’t really help sufficiently after using the bidet to avoid me wanting to use TP to dry off, but it might be sufficient for lady parts after peeing. Don’t have a vagina personally, so can’t say for sure.

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        9 months ago

        Yeah, the Toto C2 or whatever micro revision it is this year. Same toilet lid, about $330 ish dollars. Lifechanging for men and women, especially once you realize it has an oscillating mode for washing.

        I don’t use TP at all anymore, it’s just there for guests who feel uncomfortable.

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    9 months ago

    I stick my tip in the toilet water and swish it around. Unrelated but it stings when I pee.

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    9 months ago

    Well, before I had terrible digestive problems, I would typically use four. Three for the initial wipe, and one to make sure everything is dry. Sometimes two to make sure everything is dry.

    Now that I have terrible digestive problems, I think it’s more like 10. I should buy stock in Cottonelle.

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    9 months ago

    2 or 3 squares, often folded. If the paper is cheap single ply it might be two or three times the amount.

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    9 months ago

    Feeling wasteful in the between 4 and 6 category. That is, if I am away from home and there is no bidet. That is just what I feel adequately safe/dry with

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      9 months ago

      How on earth did English typography get so weird with mdash, ndash, dash, hyphen, etcetera while most of the readers have no clue about the the differences. IMHO, just use dash.

      Can you explain me how the different lengths of dash add to the understanding of the text, when I usually don’t even see the difference on my mobile phone screen?

      • apostrofail@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        They have different meanings where the lengths help at a glance such as using en dash for a compound adjective or em dash for a longer pause for a clause. This aides in reading even if you only pick up on it subconsciously.

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            9 months ago

            I had some doubts people would get the joke. I should go add an /s

            To answer your question it depends on the keyboard but i don’t actually care, the difference between - and – is just semantics to me.

      • apostrofail@lemmy.world
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        9 months ago

        What is a “standard” keyboard? No such thing as every region has different keyboards & variants inside those regions. I can use AltGr on my desktop keyboard & holding the hyphen key on mobile allows easy selection of em dash & en dash.

        • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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          9 months ago

          I don’t think this is possible without alt codes on standard Windows configurations. MacOS has shortcuts for them and Linux has them too (if you have compose enabled, which is disabled by default).

          Works on phones through the special character input. Sometimes. Depends on your language, location, and keyboard of choice.

          Seems rather unnecessary and pedantic to tell others to use it, though. This is a forum, not a thesis.

        • lazynooblet@lazysoci.al
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          9 months ago

          I work for a multi-national IT department. I just happen to have a UK, FR and DE laptop on the workbench. I don’t see the em-dash on any of them. AltGr + hyphen does nothing on Windows (Google search says Mac supports this). None of these laptops have a numpad, but Google search says maybe CTRL+MINUS(numpad) may give an em-dash. Can’t test though.

          In any case, it seems the world has left behind em-dash, so correcting users on a public forum seems pointless.