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How did it happen that many people (Americans???) flush fish down the toilet?

Just bury it, like you would any other dead pet.

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It might be a Simpsons did it thing. Then finding Nemo probably popularized it further with the “all drains lead to the ocean” scene.

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It’s older than the Simpsons for sure. Flushing your (mostly/presumed) dead pets down the toilet was how the urban legends of alligators in the NYC sewers came about…

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5 points

It’s all pipes Jerry!

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5 points

Just _____ it, like you would any other dead pet.

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8 points

ಠ_ಠ

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(Oh, I’m so happy this is still a thing.)

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6 points

Maybe it’s an apartment thing?

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2 points

It’s cultural but I don’t know why. Probably to avoid smells from dead fish.

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21 points

Uhh, my roommate fed his dead fish to my tarantula.

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17 points

The ciiiirrrrrcle of lifffffeeeee

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8 points

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2 points

X-Factor?

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15 points

Continuous ecosystem, why not

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11 points

I was surprised she actually ate it to be honest. I was expecting to have to dig it out.

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17 points

I don’t know. I tried it with a salmon once, but I had to call the plumber.

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3 points

So that’s why the chinook are struggling.

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Buried a fish under a tree once, fuckin dog had that shit dug up in 5 minutes and was rolling around in it.

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Maybe I’m alone on this, but my family used to put dead birds, squirrels,… found on our terrain in the trash… I really got furious and said that those were living beings and they deserve proper burial even if it’s some random animal found in the backyard…

The only way to make them understand what It means was to say: “Don’t worry, I will also put your dead body in a trash bin”.

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Don’t worry, I will also put your dead body in a trash bin

I’ve seen it done in rural areas. Though it was less a trash bin, and more a trash pile in the back yard.

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6 points

The ground is clay here. You dig that hole.

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That’s fine, put me in the trash. Reverence for dead bodies is weird. They aren’t living, they will never be living again, they are empty husks of meat. The only reason to bury them or do anything else with them is to avoid the spreading of rot and disease. Putting them in the trash is just as acceptable as throwing out that 2 month old cooked beef you forgot about in the back of the fridge.

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Waste Management here doesn’t particularly like dead animals going into the garbage. There’s a separate service for that

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Do you want Gul Dukat to hide the existence of the half-Bajoran love child he intends to murder out of personal ambition?

Because that attitude is exactly how you get Gul Dukat trying to hide the existence of the half-Bajoran love child he intends to murder out of personal ambition.

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That’s your point of view. And I won’t give you any counter-arguments… I’m not even religious by any mean, but showing some respect is the minimum due to every living being on earth.

Sure I put my own vision to other family members, but In most people believe system being thrown away like trash is not the way you want to be remembered of.

Putting them in the trash is just as acceptable as throwing out that 2 month old cooked beef

I do not eat any meat but I won’t push that specific regime to anyone, because that’s not how it works. However, I’m not sure this comparison is right… You wouldn’t eat your cat/dog, pet bird, bunny?

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30 points

I used to bury my pets until my family got mad

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102 points

You’re supposed to wait until the pets are dead.

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14 points

Did you wait for them to die before ?

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It’s time to flush my 5-ton (11.000-pound) pet elephant down the toilet 😢

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