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Flushable wipes are not flushable! These companies should pay to remove them, it was completely false advertising

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Well, they are flushable, they just don’t decompose. But they flush! But so does my sock.

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Decomposition is irrelevant. Nothing you flush decomposes by the time it gets to treatment (or the ocean / fuck the environment amirite). The main problem with these wipes is they don’t even break apart. Their little sabotage trojan horses that corporations injected into out sanitization systems, and we continue to let them falsely advertise, instead of fining them for ALL the damages they cause.

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Just the one sock?

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Depends on his nutrition how many socks he needs.

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Here’s how you fix this. We’re going to dig up the streets and replace the sewers. The new sewers will be all steel. There’s going to be flame throwers, and spiders inside.

Then, whenever one of these fatbergs exists, we’ll just blast the flame throwers, and it’ll burn it to nothing.

Problem solved.

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So what are the spiders there for?

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To eat the flies.

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Are you serious? If these spiders can survive everyghkng becoming fire, I’d rather they be IN the steel enclosure, then out.

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Eating flies. We’ve also planned ahead for lizards to eat the spiders, snakes to eat the lizards, gorillas to eat the snakes, and winter to kill off the gorillas.

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Along with all of the oxygen, with the sewer gasses probably exploding and sending other manhole covers sky high.

Also sewers are made of concrete, you can already play with fire in them.

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Notable fatbergs

I didn’t expect that.

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I’m so sorry

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Put officers Minogue and O’Leary on it

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