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OK here's a dumb one. You know how the label on EVERY toilet bowl cleaner bottle always says "Step 1: flush toilet"? I always dutifully followed those instructi
by exogen 4y ago
OK here's a dumb one. You know how the label on EVERY toilet bowl cleaner bottle always says "Step 1: flush toilet"? I always dutifully followed those instructions, thinking "hmm, the extra splashing water must be pretty important and help it mix or something."
But no. One day I realized it's just that my toilet always started from a flushed state... like a normal person. But they knew somewhere out there, someone would try to clean their toilet still full of piss and shit.
- adrianmonk 4y agoStep 1: Don't not flush toilet.
- aussieshibe 4y agoOoooooohhhhhhhhhh. I often thought: It seems like flushing first makes much of the cleaning product run right into the water rather than sticking to the bowl, but there must be a reason they say to do it.
- ixak 4y agoNo it's because urine contains ammonia, and if you mix bleach and ammonia you get a highly toxic chloramine gas that can literally kill you.
- raldi 4y agoIsn't it about moistening the surface of the bowl above the waterline, which would probably otherwise be dry hours after the last flush?
- eastbound 4y agoEuropeans often keep shit in their toilets for two reasons: Living in a multistory building and not annoying the neighbors downstairs during the night; and saving water. It’s absolutely disgusting, but such people also don’t usually wash their hair (and I mean, engineer-type people, not necessarily unemployed kind).
- rngname22 4y agoThe saying is 'if it's yellow let it mellow" (aka don't flush), "if it's brown, flush it down". And I haven't heard that as a European thing.
- ornornor 4y agoWhat? I’ve lived in Europe most of my life and have never seen any of that. People flush toilets and wash their hair here too. Besides “Europe” is a big place, how can you generalize.