To ask my wife to stop using blue cistern blocks?

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Which are absolutely unnecessary and environmentally unsound.

But apart from this, I've been following the 'If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down' dictum for some years now. (The lid of the toilet is always kept down.) If my wife doesn't use cistern blocks (these things appear intermittently), everything is fine. However, when she puts the blocks in, there is a reaction between the urine in the bowl and the chemicals in the blocks resulting in a crust forming around the sides of the bowl.

This can't just be wiped or brushed away. The best way I've found to get rid of it is to use a (dedicated) pan scrubber. But it's a pain in the arse, to coin a phrase.

I think the Daily Fail will pick this up. Just a feeling I have.

Gosh, it's all glamour on the boards today, isn't it, OP?
Now. snaps Marigolds to hands What you need for that 'crust' is caustic soda. But I'm afraid you really will have to put your foot down with your DW about the blue cistern blocks. Caustic soda cannot be mixed with any form of bleach. You'll blow the whole throne sky high. On the other hand, that would be a radical but thorough solution to the whole issue.
HTH.

Get a dual flush on the bog.. Indeed you should have one...a small flush for yellow and a big one for brown...

When we had to have the drains unblocked we were told the half flush is one of the worst inventions. Yes it saves water but, if you have old drains like ours, not enough water is being flushed through. We flush every time (apart from during the night) and always use the full flush.

You know when people say MN has made them think about things? I have been asked to think so much about toilets in the last 5 years since I found MN. But it hasn't changed my thinking any.

People seem very worried about bleach/loo brushes and toilet germs. In fact all things toilet.

We need a Toilet Topic.

BalloonSlayer I love you.

I was SO HOPING this would be a Rupert Campbell-Black spoof post.

AIBU to ask my wife to stop using blue cistern blocks?
She's American and thinks that they are necessary for hygiene.
I think it poisons the dogs.
She says the dogs shouldn't drink out of the toilet bowl, but they lived here before she did so why should they change to suit her?

just an interesting point on the loo coloured flush blocks. the national be clear on cancer campaign asks that people be aware of the symptoms and signs of cancer and one of these is blood in you poo or wee. if you are colouring your loo water you might miss them, so just have a think and be aware.

It would only entice the Poo Troll back Sparkling

True Well and the loo cleaning troll.

Ah yes, as opposed to the well-reasoned and cited posts on here.

Nuh-uh, darling-warling. The point went that-a-way, I think... Not "opposed to", exactly equivalent to. Can you see it yet? Yes, that was the point.

Member of mumsnet: x is disgusting
You: well, this poster on another forum says it's normal so there!

^Here's the NHS page on smelly wee, which doesn't state that men and women should be treated differently:www.nhs.uk/conditions/smelly-urine/Pages/Introduction.aspx^

Your move,Tara. And to be honest, even if you do find a source [...]

Beef, with the greatest good will in the world, check yourself before you wreck yourself. I haven't stated my position on urine pungency. Our little tangent isn't about urine. It's all about your shoddy debate technique. Referencing a discussion thread as a source is as good as the posts therein, so please read whatever you're linking first next time. For your own sake if no-one else's.

TL;DR: just own up to hasty posting and resolve to do better next tim

I can only apologise, beef. Had I but known 'heavyweight intellectual opinions' were required on a thread about smelly wee, I would have exerted myself far harder :)

Oh, Tara, you're trying so hard.

I haven't stated my opinion either, just that I've looked - honestly - to find out whether there's a difference, and have come up blank so far. I'm willing to accept that there's a difference, but require a bit of proof.

Until that proof is forthcoming (and you seem to want to argue around everything but the central point, here), then the only conclusion to draw is that utter dimwits like November... are making it up. Making something up about an entire gender is somewhere between disingenuous and misandristic. Feel free to be as charitable as you like.

Oh, November, you're back. Can you please back up your assertion about smelly wee, or admit that you made it up? Ta.

I promise not to start any more posts with "Oh".

If you're worried about the water go vegan, if you're not already. That'll save LOADS more water than leaving pee to sit. Then you can FLUSH THE TOILET with a clear(er) conscience.

I'm a bit of a hippy (vegan, environmentally friendly blinking everything, composting, bike riding) but I absolutely drew the line at my boys not flushing the loo as they had been told it saved water at school. I said I thought that getting rid of the smelly pee and saving my sanity was worth the water.

NB if the toilet is flushed you don't need to use bleach etc (though sometimes I do I can't help it I'm Irish it's in my blood). Ecover stuff and a good scrub with the brush leaves no stains/tide marks even in hard water areas.

Beef, are you a Creationist by any chance?

No, I'm agnostic. Although the relevance to this thread eludes me, except that I like proof before accepting blind assertions. I can only assume that your repeated dance-around-the-point posts are because you can't find any evidence either, yet refuse to condemn November as a misandrist. I wonder why.

Can you please back up your assertion about smelly wee

Wee smells. Don't need a RCT to prove it!

Nobody is disputing that wee smells, I'm disputing November and their assertion that male wee smells worse than female wee. It's certainly not based on a single fact that has been made available in this thread.

Wow, does it really matter?

Not especially, but sexism should be called out in all forms.

Right-o. You keep fighting the good fight

You disagree?

Oh no not at all. Those poor poor marginalized men with their exactly the same level of scent as women smelly wee.
I think we should call out sexism when we see it. But fucks sake, about the smelliness of wee.

I'm calling out sexism when I see it, yet you're saying "fucks sake" at me. Charming.

I'm disputing November and their assertion that male wee smells worse than female wee.

It does.

In ALL mammals male urine is stronger smelling than female. Of course humans are the same.

No one's fault, just fact.