“What Did You Learn At An Embarrassingly Late Age?” (40 New Answers)

They're marketed as the unicorns of the sea, so I can see why people would think this.

"When I put the glasses on, everything was in 4K Ultra" We all who wear glasses felt that

The best workers are the most overworked ones too.

I pronounce it as "pa-ra-dime", but that's just an accent thing.

My mum's name is not 'Mum' That broke my heart when I was 2 yo 💔

It's called oral allergy syndrome. It really sucks, at least it's only bananas for you. My list of fruit and veg that affects me gets longer every year.

Never seen or read Hamlet so I am none the wiser.

Basketball dodged.

The same thing holds for wearing white panties under white slacks. You need to wear nude coloured ones under those.

I never even pondered about that name.

This is standard in Greece too.

I don't even want to imagine what their bathroom smelled like.

same thing in brasil

Yesssss this!! My mom is from South America and so i grew up the same way op did, and in grade school my teacher (1st grade) pulled me aside and asked me if it was me who kept putting tp in the class's restroom trashcan. In front of the whole class. I know it wasn't ill-intentioned, she was genuinely confused and asking because i think the custodian had mentioned it to her. But goddamn was that humiliating, especially as i realized my eight-year-old self didn't actually know why my family did that 😅

In a small town in Egypt it has been the same.

This is true in many rural areas where the tree roots bust through the pipes underground and clog them up.

thos is standard at my f1 riends house. her pipes r really old, and jer parents cant afford to replace them.

I traveled to non-touristy part of Mexico and they didn't flush toilet paper either. I honestly had never heard of it. I gather it is quite common around the world.

I lived in SE Asia. A lot of toilets there don't even have toilet paper. The have a hose with a hand held held squirter (like the kind on some kitchen sinks). If there's no running water for a flush type toilet there's a cistern and scoop and a floor level toilet that you squat over.

Yeah, in South America it's also a no no to through the paper in the toilet

Some countries don't have sewer systems to handle toilet paper, so toss it.

….even when you…poop?

Standard in turkey too

It is still this way in many countries, and if you don't know the local customs, you will jam up the toilet.

My son in law's family came from Mexico. He literally grew up in a hut with a dirt floor & it took my daughter FOREVER to get him to understand that you could flush TP here. I was thoroughly grossed out when I went to their house and saw "shitty" TP in the garbage can.

Most of Egypt either use water jets to clean and not paper. You cannot put paper into the toilet the sewage system cannot cope with it.

Or maybe they had a septic tank? I wouldn't want people to flush paper, in a house with a septic tank.

Still happens in horrible housing in Los Angeles. This house isn't even this old and we get scolded (cuz we are female) when a toilet backs up... not because their son uses half a roll to sh*t... so my daughter grew up learning this too

Same for my grandparents

True! Toilet paper will back up the toilet! In Mexico too!

I know some people will take this wrong, but I just think it's gross and unsanitary to put used tissue in a can...

And because of that shitty plumbing, they became accustomed to shitty trashcans as well. Gross.

I hope their house didn't smell like s**t.

What about the poop ones? Doesn't it make the bathroom stinky or is everyone just accustomed to this?

As the wife of a licensed plumber you should not flush it or sanitary napkins(it says on the package not to but we get sooo many calls to cable lines because woman don't listen your ignorance is my paycheck) it is best for you to throw it in trashcan even if your plumbing is new and NEVER use draino

Standard in Costa Rica, if memory serves. They had some of the purest water coming out of the tap because they didn't have chemicals that dissolve paper in them.

I've seen bathrooms with shitblenders attached to the thin pipes, but I never imagined throwing used paper in the trash...

If you have septic tank you generally don't throw it in the toilet. Otherwise it can clog up the septic tank.

It was the norm in Israel until about 20 years ago

I'm almost afraid to ask, but what were you doing with the used toilet paper?

I worked with a chick that didn't flush tp either Its just gross and it smells up the bathroom!😫

In Brazil we throw it in the trash can too, and I assume it's the same reason

Um wtf

Small boats too .