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"We're people just like you. We deserve to know!"

posted 3 years ago by esshor (119)
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While as a member of the public, I'd certainly like to be alerted and informed of any similar events/disasters/catastrophes heading to planet earth. However, I do somewhat see the rationality and understand why those in power/leadership may not want to do so.
Just as moments in this movie pointed out, when faced with soon certain death, many will engage in behaviours or activities or make decisions that they would not have done if their life remained constant/consistent/continuing. A seemingly innocent mention, but when you allow it to develop further to be a choice enacted on by each and every living human being on this planet... it's a scary thought. Just imagine the horrific acts some would do during their last time on earth.
Kill their boss. Murder their ex's. Rape people they've fancied.
And I don't think there'd be law enforcement to stop them. Cause cops are people too. If they knew they only had a few more days or hours alive, they'd probably wanna spend it either with family and loved ones, or indulging likewise in criminal behaviour.
Those last few days and hours would be absolutely horrific.

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[–] asom (6864) 3 years ago

People flocked to buy TP when nothing was happening …

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[–] esshor (119) 3 years ago

I've never understood the frenzied crazed obsession with the hoarding of toilet paper due to an emergency.
Do people not fucking know that you don't actually need toilet paper to use the toilet. Just wash yourself. It's a pretty simple process. All embodied in the use and application of bidets and japanese washlets. Infact, wiping your backside with TP is the least hygienic way any society has chosen to use as a means of cleaning themselves up after defecation.

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[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1962) 2 years ago

So what do you personally do in a situation where there is no shower, bidet or japanese washlet for you to wash your ass after you shit?

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[–] SolarisPatchwork (281) 2 years ago

Why would you be taking a shit somewhere with no sink?

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[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1962) 2 years ago

You'd wash the shit out of your ass in the sink of a public toilet?

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[–] SolarisPatchwork (281) 2 years ago

Why would a public toilet not have toilet paper?

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[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1962) 2 years ago

OK.

My reply was to a dude that said ass wiping was unhygienic and the ass should be washed.

Also, in response to you, not the ass-washing dude, you've never seen a toilet cubicle with no paper in it? You are aware that toilet paper is not infinite and it can run out?

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[–] SolarisPatchwork (281) 2 years ago

The argument wasn't about the fringe example of entering a public bathroom and finding a lack of toilet paper. The argument was about hoarding toilet paper during an emergency and questioning why you can't just use your own shower.

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[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1962) 2 years ago

"Do people not fucking know that you don't actually need toilet paper to use the toilet. Just wash yourself"

This is the central statement.

Then:

"Infact, wiping your backside with TP is the least hygienic way any society has chosen to use as a means of cleaning themselves up after defecation."

There are entire cultures that share this view.

I never said anything about there being no toilet paper in the scenario I proposed until you brought it up.

What I wanted to know was, in a situation where you shit, in a normal Western public toilet, being of this opinion or culture (not you if this doesn't apply), and there is no facility at that location available for you to wash your ass afterwards (but there is an abundance of TP), what do you do?

...or, were you seriously proposing that there is no room for other discussion after a post that you yourself didn't even make?

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[–] SolarisPatchwork (281) 2 years ago

No it's not. It was this:

>I've never understood the frenzied crazed obsession with the hoarding of toilet paper due to an emergency.
Do people not fucking know that you don't actually need toilet paper to use the toilet.

You removed critical context from your quote. Surely now you can understand why I was asking why you'd be taking a shit somewhere with no sink **in a situation where you previously could've been hoarding TP**, i.e. your home.

You really want to ask what people do when they have a bunch of toilet paper, in a public restroom, but no bidet or sink?

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[–] LoveCatsHateDogs (1962) 2 years ago

Not "people", the ass-washing crowd.

If this doesn't apply to you, then have a nice day.

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[–] UncleRuckis (2627) 3 years ago

Telling the general public that they are 100% doomed would pretty much unleash the worst parts of every apocalyptic movie on society. I'd say give everyone a week heads up if an asteroid was coming. That small time frame should limit the death cults and mass rioting.

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[–] asom (6864) 3 years ago

you know, I agree with your assessment. Telling people that they will 100% die in one month WILL unleash hell.

But in the end ... does it even matter??? I mean it would 100% end in one month anyway, right? Does it even matter if you get shot now or die in one month along with the rest?

The only thing that would still matter would be torture and painful deaths - and that assuming that the apocalypse kills you fast, if the apocalypse is a slow death as well ... fuck it, better a bullet to the head. Although a lot of people would hope until the last second.

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