I’ll share mine first.
I had a psych patient one night pile shitty toilet paper next to his toilet overnight. Normally my psych nurse brain would consider this a symptom of disorganized psychosis, EXCEPT!
I remembered an aita post about a conflict between a western OP and his middle eastern roomate trying to figure out why their roommate put their shitty toilet paper in the trash. Turns out many middle eastern toilets can’t handle toilet paper.
Oh and inpatient psychiatry doesn’t provide freestanding hard plastic trashcans (turns out they make great clubs). We gave him one of our freestanding paper bag trashcans and problem solved.
TL;DR; Reddit expanded my cultural knowledge enough to differentiate disorganized psychotic behaviors from a genuine cultural difference. Thanks reddit!
Anyone have any similar examples of positive exchanges of knowledge or culture using reddit?
scratch Reddit. TIL that this is not a European thing but rather an exception for some countries only. We’re not supposed to throw toilet paper in the toilet in Greece either, oh well
As I know it it’s usually if you’re not connected to the city sewage system and use a septic tank. You can throw TP in there but it might end up blocking some anti-return valves (and cause bad smells to float up the plumbing, potentially bypassing the water trap or just saturating it and then diffusing out) and would also warrant more frequent drainings of the tank due to the added bulk. The easy way is to just bin them. While TP is made to dissolve into a gooey mess, it depends on the ratio of water:TP and if the water is moving or not. A simple flush might leave bits stuck in said valves.
If you’re bored, you can put some TP in water in different ratios and move it around or not and see what happens.
Or if you have very old plumbing that would be more prone to clogging.