To LTB over this....(semi light-hearted)

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So my 5 year old just used the toilet and called me to ask "mummy, that's this?". Pointed to bottom of toilet bowl where what looked like a wad of chewing gum was at the bottom.
Only one person chews gum in this house. I message said person (out at present) with a request for a decent explanation. Turns out there isn't one - this is just something he does, despite a perfectly functioning bin positioned right beside the fucking toilet.

AIBU to be absolutely disgusted at my 40 year old intelligent (or at least previously believed to be intelligent) DH thinking this was an acceptable thing to do?!

"Mummy what's this?" obviously!

Seriously????? Surely this is a wind up. If this is a genuine complaint then I think you need to get a grip and thank the lucky stars that you have nothing else to get uptight about! Or am I missing something and this is not about chewing gum in the toilet at all?

I did say it was (semi) lighthearted....of course I'm not really going to ltb but who puts chewing gum down the loo?!

Oh I don’t think that would really bother me, sorry!

So does everyone put other stuff down their loo?! I thought most knew the rule about pee, poo and toilet paper only or do most know but just ignore anyway (what I suspect my DH has done). I just can't get over that the bin was right there.

It would annoy me. I've finally stopped DH putting his used contact lenses down the toilet. It's laziness usually.

It must be @Fourmagpies - there couldn't be any other logical reason for it!

Ooh chewing gum down the loo is a TERRIBLE idea. DH puts his dental floss down there, drives me bananas.

Spits it in there to give the useless bloke something to aim his dingaling at instead of pissing all over the bathroom floor. Could be SO MUCH WORSE for yo OP

Well when you are the victims of a massive house flood thanks to blockage by a giant GUMBERG you'll know who to blame.

Can I quote you fizzy as I yell through the door at him whilst getting the lock changed?!

Ooh, I do put food down there sometimes. Not chewing gum though, that's,not food and wouldn't break up in the same way

Nooooo tot, why food?!?

We scrape remainders of things like cereal down the loo, too lumpy for the sink and too wet for the bin so it goes down the loo

Well, I don't put whole platefuls of leftovers down. But if I'm in the bathroom and notice a raisin/wedge of satsuma/crumbled biscuit on my hair or clothes, which my daughter has put there, I'll drop it in. I feel its not much different from how it looks coming out in her nappy, really.

No people stop! The only things that are meant to go down the toilet are things that come out of your body and toilet paper. It will wreck your plumbing, if not it causes issues further down the system which cost a fortune to fix and affects the price of your water as the recycling costs are then much higher. It's also bad for the environment. Food goes in the bin. Once it's processed into poo by your body the system is set up to remove it from the water, it's not designed for pre digested food. I think you're probably ok with a sultana Tot, but in general this is a bad thing. I shall stop preaching now, but please look up the impacts of this, it's really rather bad.