More marketing babywipes to adults. This product is seriously evil as it clogs sewer systems, toilet paper works just fine.

Problem with those is they don't break down quick enough and end up clogging sewer systems if used daily. It's why your parents probably told you never to flush kitchen towel down the toilet either, same problem - just doesn't break down quick enough to prevent blockage.

Toilet paper is designed to avoid this problem (except that waxy shiny toilet paper found in public toilets that probably costs 2 quid for a hundred rolls since nobody wants to buy it).

This boring bit of trivia was brought to you by your local water reprocessing plant!

I wonder how good their sewer system is. Can their toilet's handle this?

So because of the sewer system they have in place, the canals are effectively large toilet bowls, waiting to be flushed twice a day.

Sounds sanitary.

>> ^dannym3141:
Yeah, but are you really gonna place a bet against the odds that between now and 14 billion years ago, any hydrogen atom in your body was NEVER part of a star? Like it just floated around for 14 billion years avoiding all contact with all other material, landed on earth perhaps in a science lesson, went into a test tube thanks to a series of freak localised winds, they did the burning hydrogen trick showing that it made water as a result, which then worked its way around the sewer system which you one day drunk and it's still in you now?
Or were you just trying to show how clever you were(n't)?Yes in that way it is true. It is very likely that most hydrogen atoms were part of a star at one time or another. I misinterpreted that statement as all atoms were made in a star.
However there must still be a lot of primordial hydrogen in the interstellar medium which will be incorporated into molecular clouds out of which stars form.

>> ^cybrbeast:
"every atom in your body came from a star that exploded"
I'm not too sure about that one. We have a lot of hydrogen in our bodies. And hydrogen was formed by the big bang.


Yeah, but are you really gonna place a bet against the odds that between now and 14 billion years ago, any hydrogen atom in your body was NEVER part of a star? Like it just floated around for 14 billion years avoiding all contact with all other material, landed on earth perhaps in a science lesson, went into a test tube thanks to a series of freak localised winds, they did the burning hydrogen trick showing that it made water as a result, which then worked its way around the sewer system which you one day drunk and it's still in you now?

Or were you just trying to show how clever you were(n't)?

>> ^deathcow:
These people have lost all touch with reality now in Alaska. They still want to live in their remote villages, but they dont want to live the lifestyle that goes with it. So they bitch and moan that they pay $6 for a gallon of gas, $9 for a gallon of milk, etc. They want roads and infrastructure and airports and sewer systems, and regular flights to support their microscopic communities. I say if their historical lifestyle is dead, and their diet is now white bread and pepsi, they need to get the hell out of the arctic desolation and move to a city.


Sounds very similar to where I come from, except that I would be the one bitching about $9 milk (more like $14 where I come from).

Are they not deserving of the same infrastructure as you? Do they not pay taxes the same as you do?

How very thoughtful of you, I presume of European descent, to bitch about the folks whose land you now live on. Something must be wrong with THEM, right? Inuit were living quite happily before your ancestors moved in. It's kinda like you crashing my party and then complaining I don't stock the type of Gin you like.

'Lost all touch with reality'? That's a bold statement - so bold in fact I think it's worth pointing out to you that the city you want them to move to was built in the very Arctic 'desolation' they call home.

These people have lost all touch with reality now in Alaska. They still want to live in their remote villages, but they dont want to live the lifestyle that goes with it. So they bitch and moan that they pay $6 for a gallon of gas, $9 for a gallon of milk, etc. They want roads and infrastructure and airports and sewer systems, and regular flights to support their microscopic communities. I say if their historical lifestyle is dead, and their diet is now white bread and pepsi, they need to get the hell out of the arctic desolation and move to a city.

My flavor of Christianity(tm) is better than yours! DIE INFIDEL!
No! My flavor of Christianity(tm) is better than yours! DIE HEATHEN!

Well... secular science/medicine helps those dudes live beyond 25. So there. Who has magical powers now?

Get over it. Magic is not real. You can't walk on water. Some dude did NOT turn water into wine. Snakes cannot talk. The flood NEVER happened (where the frack did all the water drain to if the entire earth was inundated?). The Dinosaurs lived millions of years ago, not a few thousand. Your book of god was written by a various politically repressed guys wearing burlap sacks for clothing with nothing more to hope for than making their wild fairytales come true.

Rivers don't run with blood. First born males were not taken by a magical dark cloud. Some idiot did not part the waters and summon forth a column of fire to single handedly drive away the infidel from the 'saved people'.

Magic is not real. Get over it. My shit stinks just as bad as yours.

If you were intelligently designed, would your happy fun play-place be the very same place as your sewer system? Yeah. Good job designing that one turd for brains.

>> ^oinkinstein:
all ice cream parlors including Oberweis, dairy queen and baskin robbins do the same exact things for their scoop holders



Yeah. It is difficult to comply with certain health and safety laws while being environmentally friendly. They could use a different spoon each time, but that would dramatically increase the time they're running a dishwasher. Which means they're using a lot more electricity and water while putting detergent into the sewer system. Or they could use disposable spoons, which has obvious drawbacks.

Hep me! This sewer system's *engineering has failed me!

^ Poo fairy?

Pythons are so gorgeous. It's weird that this story seems to keep happening -- are vast numbers of snakes breeding in the Manhattan sewer system?

Nothing new but here's my attempt at a direct translation for anyone interested:

"A huge hole in the ground over 100 meters deep, consumed a few houses and a truck in a couple of seconds. The tragedy happened in the morning in the capital city of Guatemala. 2 people have died and almost 1000 residents have been evacuated due to fears that the sinkhole may expand further. Authorities suspect that a damageg sewer system is to blame, leaking water could have washed away a large volume of earth. According to residents, strange sounds could be heard from underground for the the past month and underground tremors had also been felt."

Right off the bat averaging from 1925 to 1965 seems strange... great depression and war and what-not... "golden years (4 decades?) of immigration," yeah well, I guess thats a matter of opinion (interned Japanese probably would disagree, for example). He then proceeds to comment that immigrants were "never so welcome" and "never did so well" as in this 40 year period, which is the polar opposite of something anyone giving a talk about numbers and statistics would say. He avoids any citation and, importantly, doesn't present any statements within the context of the times (US industrial age expansion, beginning of the corporation, etc.).

So at one minute in I'm already questioning everything this guy has to say because of his sweeping, unsubstantiated, 'those were the days...and those days were obviously only great become we had just a few immigrants' comments.

He then proceeds to show growth charts illustrating immigration (which is 0 at 1965?) doubling the birth rate of American children, and somehow doubling the strain on hopitals and sewer systems, despite being maybe 5-10% more people... at which point I called bullshit and stopped writing this comment.