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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by graeme on Friday March 13, 2015 @09:31PM (#9201177)
The new york times article wasn't very clear about how people are using them. So I'll spell it out: adults are using these wet wipes instead of toilet paper. That's why so many are entering sewage systems.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by walterbell on Friday March 13, 2015 @09:44PM (#9201210)
NYT put their writing skills to work on wet wipe awareness

  demon snowballs
  industry representatives chafe 
  scraping the bottom clean
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by yen223 on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:54PM (#9201378)
Growing up as a kid, my dream job was to be the guy who wrote those cheesy headlines, like "Man Attacked By Crows, Fowl Play Suspected" and such. I didn't realize it is still a viable career option.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by dankohn1 on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:45PM (#9201474)
The `most celebrated Post wood [0] of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."`[1]

[0] Wood is a banner headline, because the largest handset letters were made of wood to save costs.

[1] http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/01/5137028/...

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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by yen223 on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:23AM (#9201548)
There's a similar one, possibly apocryphal. When Michael Foot led a nuclear disarmament organization, a newspaper ran with

  "Foot Heads Arms Body"
My personal favourite: A while back, tight-rope walkers crossed the Han river in Korea. The Washington Post chose to run with

  "Skywalkers in Korea Crossed Han Solo"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by gadders on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:05AM (#9201615)
I prefer "Book Lack in Onger".

"When I asked colleagues around the office to nominate a favourite, the one that came up most frequently was (not from the Guardian), Book lack in Ongar - on a report about a crisis in the library service in Essex. (For the benefit of English language students at the international school in Frankfurt, whose teacher asked for a glossary of headline puns, this one is a play - no pun intended - on the title of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger)."

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardianr...

Or possibly "How do you solve a problem like Korea?" from the Sun: http://btoe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/things/large/how-do-you-...

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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by shostack on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:29AM (#9201640)
My favorite from the Chicago Tribute[1] re: the infamous chocolate factory...

"EPA not cuckoo for cocoa powder"

[1]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-11-04/news/051104011...

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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by Evolved on Saturday March 14, 2015 @02:04AM (#9201693)
My favorite is when Jaime Sin (a Cardinal) visited Rome and the headline was, "Cardinal Sin in Rome!"
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by colechristensen on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:10PM (#9201416)
"Murder: Man Attacked by Group of Crows"
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by prostoalex on Friday March 13, 2015 @10:14PM (#9201289)
Correct, obligatory link to a startup offering a subscription on this https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/one-wipe-charlies
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by graeme on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:10PM (#9201415)
Do those contain alcohol? I can't imagine it's a good idea to repeatedly apply that to the anus.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by baddox on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:27PM (#9201446)
They don't contain alcohol. Why in the world would they contain alcohol?
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by 001sky on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:36PM (#9201463)
Wet wipes are produced as air-laid paper where the fibres are carried and formed to the structure of paper by air. They are moistened with water or other liquids like isopropyl alcohol depending on the applications.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by yen223 on Saturday March 14, 2015 @02:29AM (#9201730)
It's not uncommon for wet wipes to contain a bit of rubbing alcohol for anti-microbial purposes.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by WizzleKake on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:09PM (#9201412)
Regular toilet paper seems absolutely barbaric after one has become accustomed to wet wipes. Try them and you will understand.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by 001sky on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:44PM (#9201473)
Wet wipes are terrible for the environment. There are plenty of other alternatives. Please look into them. The real luxury is clear, warm running water.

Wet wipes do not biodegrade, no matter what the package says.

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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by debaserab2 on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:20PM (#9201439)
Wait until you try a bidet. Any form of wiping will seem like savagery afterwards.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by yawaramin on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:14AM (#9201525)
I've lived in three different countries in Asia. Have always had a mini-shower or at least a piped jet of water beside the toilet to help clean up. North America has the most bass-ackwards wiping convention I've ever seen.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by tzs on Saturday March 14, 2015 @01:24AM (#9201637)
This is the 21st century. We should be able to do a lot better. We should be able to have our sphinctors replaced with an artificial valve. This should be a standard size (or one of several standard sizes if one size does not fit all) and standard mechanism.

When you have to go, you sit down at a waste collection station, and a computer guided arm would connect a hose to your valve and open it. This can be designed so that at no time in this process is anything on the outside of the valve, the hose, or your body exposed to feces. All the feces goes into the hose. When you have been emptied, the valve is closed, the hose retracts, and its interior is cleaned.

That is how civilized people would take a crap (until we reach Star Trek levels of technology...then we'd just beam our feces out).

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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by burnte on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:11AM (#9201522)
I had my gallbladder removed at the end of 06. TP became less effective. I switched to wetwipes in 09, and got a bidet two years ago. Dear lord my life is genuinely SO much better now. It was an inexpensive $100 stainless steel addon for a regular toilet, and so incredibly worth it.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by bidetsprayerman on Sunday March 15, 2015 @04:02AM (#9205781)
Better than a Bidet = the Hand Bidet Sprayer. It requires no new plumbing and can go in any bathroom including a rental. See www.bathroomsprayers.com.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by cgag on Friday March 13, 2015 @11:51PM (#9201485)
A bidet attachment for your toilet is only ~40 dollars and will make wet wipes seem barbaric as well.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by HelloMcFly on Saturday March 14, 2015 @02:16AM (#9201709)
And if that sounds like too much, Amazon has super well-rated bidets for around $25-$30 that have served me well.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by codinghorror on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:35AM (#9201566)
You know you can put a bit of water on toilet paper to make it wet, right?
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by CodeMage on Saturday March 14, 2015 @02:12AM (#9201704)
Unless you're at work, where you usually don't get the luxury of having a sink inside the stall.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by inyourtenement on Saturday March 14, 2015 @07:36AM (#9202263)
I never understood this suggestion. I've tried it, the toilet paper shreds and gets stuck everywhere, including my hands. It's a huge mess.
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Re:Wet Wipes Box Says Flush, New York’s Sewer System Says Don’t by philwelch on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:06AM (#9201513)
I'd rather remain in ignorance, then. Lots of things are hard to go without once you've tried them, like heroin or scraping the inside of your ear canal with q-tips, but that doesn't mean those things enhance your life any.
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