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Advice you’d never share in real life …

437 replies

Spink · 18/06/2023 18:38

because it would be TMI, or shows a side of you that you prefer not to be seen, etc.

I’ll start 😊

Never let out a large fart while pant-less after applying haemorrhoid cream. Especially when a internal application has been required.

With pants I imagine it’s also pretty bad but more .. contained.

thank me later x

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MortgageConundrum · 19/06/2023 18:23

Never eat more than three Quorn sausages per day.

Pipsquiggle · 19/06/2023 18:27

Don't marry for money but be clear on what your minimum is and then add 20%

NoisyBrain · 19/06/2023 18:28

GooseyDiLoosey · 19/06/2023 15:16

But…. Why??? (Feeling v innocent here, genuinely drawing a blank 😅)

As another poster has mentioned, grapes & coffee together are an excellent laxative. Add an all-butter croissant into the mix with all its delicious greasiness and it makes for an extremely uncomfortable and whiffy car journey.

HotelNotPortofino · 19/06/2023 18:41

Since we are on the subject of farts

Avoid Jerusalem artichoke soup
DH had to take the NEXT day off work

The smell and frequency was indescribable
if it hadn’t stopped by day 3 we’d be divorced

Hardtime · 19/06/2023 18:43

Wasley · 19/06/2023 01:39

Do a loud fart when an emergency vehicle on sirens passes by 😂

Never got rumbled for the real reason I liked having Casualty on.

Archieforever · 19/06/2023 18:47

Never, ever trust a fart after greedily consuming two full packets of dried apricots. Sore arsed dumb arsed dh came across this helpful nugget of information a bit late whilst waiting in the queue at the cinema.

JudgeJ · 19/06/2023 18:57

sueelleker · 19/06/2023 17:21

I once used roll-on deodorant just after removing underarm hair with veet. Ouch!

I had no deodorant left so a splashed a bit of OH's aftershave on, think I enjoyed childbirth more!

JudgeJ · 19/06/2023 18:59

WiddlinDiddlin · 19/06/2023 14:52

If 2 sugar free sweets have a laxative effect, 5 is a spectacularly bad idea.

No matter how desperate you are to be unbunged, no one needs to eject that amount, that rapidly.

What I call pebble dashing the bowl!

Loafbeginsat60 · 19/06/2023 19:18

WhatFlavourIsIt · 18/06/2023 19:29

Give your husband/ partner a few slices of pineapple a few days a week. It will improve the taste of his cum 100%.

Is this really true??

CharlotteStreetW1 · 19/06/2023 19:19

I was going to say the orgasm one ⁰for period pains one. Use a shower if it's powerful enough 😉

This one's slightly maudlin and for the future: (unless he's an only child) do NOT let your middle aged son live with you - for the sake of his sibling/s when the time comes...

LulooLemon · 19/06/2023 19:28

" I always carry one of those little nets you get at the petshop for scooping out goldfish for this very purpose. "

I can't stop giggling at this 😂😂

Lucia1234 · 19/06/2023 19:29

Spink · 18/06/2023 19:19

Oh yes, this is me too. Hello friends.

Me too....I kind of use it like blotting paper 🤣🤣

Gwenhwyfar · 19/06/2023 19:30

Mosaic123 · 19/06/2023 13:03

It's not true that you can do any job you want to do. I couldn't, for example, be an opera singer as I can't sing

Don't tell children they can be anything they want to.

Oh yes, such bullshit.

TrexTeeth · 19/06/2023 19:33

To my colleague. Maybe if you moved more and didn't live off takeaway your life would be better.

BigFloppa · 19/06/2023 19:34

quitezen · 19/06/2023 11:36

They're emptied and cleaned by a machine- my husband was a caretaker and once asked the guy who collected the full one's who had to clean them.

Small businesses might not. We didn't have anyone to clean ours in our last business. The costs might be prohibitive there also. You really shouldn't be putting anything in them other than sanitary products.

I'm glad I didn't have to clean them.

A lovely lady comes and cleans ours and takes the full bags away with her, so definitely not always emptied by a machine.

Gwenhwyfar · 19/06/2023 19:36

Seasonofthewitch83 · 19/06/2023 14:04

Buy a mouse wiggler from Amazon if you have a micromanager who obsesses how long you have been inactive.

Better to get a job somewhere else if you're monitored to such an extent.

Balloonhearts · 19/06/2023 19:40

If you’re in the one office toilet and the toilet won’t flush away your big turd and you know there’s someone waiting and you’ve already flushed twice but it’s very floaty, the sanitary disposal unit is a quick fix solution. You’re welcome. Wash your hands extra well.

And if you have the opposite problem where its far too heavy to float, turn the brush upside down and push it with the handle while flushing until it makes it round the u bend. Wash handle extra well and then hands extra extra well.

IsThisReallyPC · 19/06/2023 19:41

Rightnowstraightaway · 19/06/2023 17:25

If you are caught short in the woods, check for nettles before crouching.

And doc leaves to wipe

IsThisReallyPC · 19/06/2023 19:44

HotelNotPortofino · 19/06/2023 18:41

Since we are on the subject of farts

Avoid Jerusalem artichoke soup
DH had to take the NEXT day off work

The smell and frequency was indescribable
if it hadn’t stopped by day 3 we’d be divorced

🤣🤣🤣🤣
my dh held it in through a morning meeting then farted all the way from Tottenham Court Road to Oxford Circus.
Think he made it in record time

Valour · 19/06/2023 19:47

Tiddlypomtiddlypom · 19/06/2023 13:06

They don’t do it by hand. Its done by licensed waste management companies.

It’s already full of bloodied sanitary products. Biohazard precautions are taken! What’s a little cheeky poo between the poorly wrapped pads and unwrapped tampons?

"What's a little cheeky poo" has me howling with laughter!

Paulisexcluded · 19/06/2023 19:47

Surely you can take a bowl when you go to the toilet and vomit into that?

I feel that a lit of overthinking is happening here.

DemonicCaveMaggot · 19/06/2023 19:48

If you have an allergy (causing faintness and nausea) due to an unknown spice in Indian food do not select the Asian Vegetarian option as your meal choice on a 7 hour flight from the US to UK. Although you may find you have to put some serious effort into throwing up when on land, when you are 40,000 feet up your gag reflex is apparently much stronger and what you thought would be a few drops of acid in the back of your mouth is actually a horrifying fountain of vomit trampolining out of your stomach like the Old Faithful geyser, only more odorous.

Bananabedhead · 19/06/2023 19:48

Jemandthehologramsunite · 19/06/2023 13:05

🤣🤣🤣

I do this when DH is drifting off to sleep and I have horrible period wind that could blow him out of bed if I just let rip. Oh the relief and it doesn't wake him. It's good advice for the right time!

Paulisexcluded · 19/06/2023 19:50

My advice about avoiding taking a crap at festivals is to do it in the privacy of your tent, into a toddler nappy. Place in bin. Job done.

Gross but better than witnessing a Knebworth '80 situation. Wee into a jar, bit harder to dispose of than the poo though.

Dustybarn · 19/06/2023 19:53

For an emergency vomit on public transport where you can’t get off, fold a newspaper in half then half again. Open it up like a cone. Fold it closed at the top politely after use and pretend it never happened.