To not understand how you can be so ignorant and unaware of the world around you that you still flush wet wipes and tampons down the toilet?

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How is it even possible in the information age?

I reckon a huge number of people know they shouldn't do it but flush anyway in the hope they will get away with it and they won't be the one having to dig out any resulting blockage.

Much like the hundreds of thousands of cunts who chuck their litter out of car windows - out of sight out of mind.

Gets me down, it does.

People saying that tampons don't fall out because it's never happened to them - if you've never had a splinter does that mean they don't exist? If you've never seen an elephant does that mean they don't exist? If you've never been constipated does that mean constipation doesn't exist?

Can't believe the ignorance!!

they had this on news loo roll in jar and flushable wipe. Shake for few minutes. Loo paper goes in to tiny flakes that can be caught but not big enough to make blockages. Wipes remained exactly the same. I know when wet wipes have gone through wash spin they are still perfectly in one piece.

And every home needs to have a bin next to the toilet so these type of things can be discreetly disposed of.

Not on mumsnet where apparently many think bathroom bins are unnecessary and minging, and the thing to do as a guest is to discreetly put all your soiled protection in your handbag for you to dispose of at the end of your stay (that, apparently, is not minging).

The oddest thing about this thread is that there are women who can't get their heads around other women having heavier periods than them.
We are not 'putting them in wrong' or have weak pelvic floors.
I have been on medication before for heavy periods. I've had clots the size of golf balls. Yes, a tampon can bloody well fall out.

Putting your own used tampon in a bin is not 'gross'. Grow up.
Someone having to deal with a pipe blocked by it is nasty. Don't make work.

We need an awareness campaign on TV, reminding people not to flush and asking people to think of having a bathroom bin for when women of child bearing age visit. One of the tampon/ST companies could do it possibly as a way of making themselves seem socially responsible.