So, there are places in the world where you can't put used TP in the toilet?!

Feb 28, 2021
6:14:52pm

Goliath All-American

Stayed at a "Forest Eco Lodge" last night where they said the toilets can't handle TP and to put it in the trash. Now, our lodging in Cahuita, Costa Rica, has the same signs up. Goodness sakes! Seems so incredibly unhygienic

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So, there are places in the world where you can't put used TP in the toilet?!

Goliath

2/28/21 6:14pm

Every toilet in Brazil during my mission

mudpupper

2/28/21 6:17pm

I mean today! Not fifty years ago...😀

Goliath

2/28/21 6:19pm

I just did the math and I’m getting to be old

mudpupper

2/28/21 6:22pm

I thought missionaries were just messing with me about that

KingDave

2/28/21 6:43pm

Most all of latin america

zonacougar

2/28/21 6:20pm

The only place in the Dominican Republic we could flush TP was the CCM (MTC)

Pedant

2/28/21 6:36pm

I was also in the DR but pre CCM. Man I used to have to wipe with church news because we had a hard time finding TP in

Slim

2/28/21 6:54pm

Never wanted my picture in the church news.

Y-Zag

2/28/21 7:00pm

In San Juan? Really? That's a random place to have something fancy like that

Pedant

2/28/21 7:24pm

Back in the dark ages, we flushed in the DR. Even my Dominican greenie.

Parker Schnabel

2/28/21 9:03pm

I mean people didn’t even have toilets in the last country I served in.

Windward_Coug

2/28/21 6:21pm

That’s how most of Guatemala is. They have signs all over the temple

cougarfann888

2/28/21 6:22pm

Yep. My mission. Ecuador.

cougstyle

2/28/21 6:26pm

And then....coming back to the states remembering not to throw it in the garbage

WJCougar

2/28/21 6:40pm

Chile on my mission...then the family would take the used TP and start a fire in

Don_Juan_El_Guapo

2/28/21 6:28pm

RE: Chile on my mission...then the family would take the used TP and start a

KingDave

2/28/21 6:36pm

Well, in the last place I lived in Chile, we used the paper squares used to wrap

Y-Zag

2/28/21 6:39pm

RE: Chile on my mission...then the family would take the used TP and start a

Bin01015

3/1/21 10:18am

Missionary chips

Cougar8Duck

3/1/21 3:08pm

On that note, in some places the church has built sewage capabilities at some of

zonacougar

2/28/21 6:28pm

Welcome to most of the rest of the world. America is part of a small group of tp

LaserCoug

2/28/21 6:42pm

I've lived in Italy, United Kingdom Germany, Guam, Iraq, Kuwait

Goliath

2/28/21 8:07pm

For several of those places, you weren't asked because they thought you knew.

Gentleman Stan

3/1/21 6:04am

I don't think that's right

Goliath

3/1/21 6:38am

Here’s a good map

LaserCoug

3/1/21 9:00am

It's a semi-helpful map, but not a particularly great one.

Goliath

3/1/21 10:58am

That's how most of China is.

Supercoug

2/28/21 6:43pm

We've had exchange students from China we had a hard time convincing to flush it.

Soupie

2/28/21 8:19pm

Every once in a while I toss a used clump of paper in the trash

lefty

2/28/21 6:45pm

Of all the "habits" to break that was the easiest

A_blue_car

2/28/21 7:24pm

On my mission, I had to balance myself over a 3 inch hole one fine morning.

MrClark

2/28/21 6:48pm

Me when I turn back to make sure I nailed it:

Probable Sacko

2/28/21 6:58pm

Most parts of the world actually

runnincoug

2/28/21 6:53pm

I don't care if you talk with your mission accent, the thing that really got me

fattycoug

2/28/21 8:01pm

In Paraguay, most places I lived you could flush it no problem. But I’m one area, we lived behind some members in a

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