fat, condoms, pets, nappies, body parts, cotton buds, paint, food, syringes and half a mini

[dellzeqq]

....should not be put down the toilet.

I must own up. I once cut a mini in half lengthwise and I've no idea what happened to one of the halves. And condoms...........I've done that. Sorry, Thames Water. But no pets. Honest.

Have you flushed what you didn't oughta?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/shortcuts/2012/oct/26/10-things-you-should-never-flush

 

[coffeejo]

Sweetcorn collects in large quantities in the sewers, as yellow as it was in the field.

...even after it's been eaten and passed through the digestive system...

 

[bof]

...even after it's been eaten and passed through the digestive system...

Apparently pathologists' least favourite food

 

[ColinJ]

Have you been following Kevin McCloud down the sewers?

 

[GBC]

My friend asked what you're supposed to do with the body parts then, when there's no room left under the patio??

 

[thom]

Oh, I thought this was the contents of Stu's rucksack being revealed

 

[jonny jeez]

I must own up. I once cut a mini in half lengthwise

Oooo look at you coming over all hirsty

 

[vernon]

I once worked at a huge sewage works during a summer break and other items that turned up quite frequently were lego bricks and ten and twenty pound notes. We studiously washed the notes, hung them out to dry and injected them back into the economy.

Occasionally a foetus would turn up and things would grind to a halt while the police and forensics dealt with the situation. It would traumatise the unfortunate worker who was unlucky enough to be working on the filter grids at the time.

 

[bicyclos]

I once worked at a huge sewage works during a summer break and other items that turned up quite frequently were lego bricks and ten and twenty pound notes.

That must have been expensive toilet paper......

 

[Fnaar]

heh heh, one of my grandads spent his whole working adulthood unblocking the sewers of Dublin

 

[TheDoctor]

Is it just me, or does that sound like a shopping list?

 

[smokeysmoo]

I've just counted all my body parts and I can confirm that I've not flushed any down the loo

I've often felt I might have done, especially after a cracking ruby

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I had a neighbour years ago who flushed nappies down the toilet and you always knew when she'd blocked the system up as she chuck them out the top floor window instead. Filthy wee cow that she was.

The worst thing I chuck down my pan is coffee grounds that are rinsed from the cafetiere. Everything else goes in the bin, compost or recycling.

 

[AnythingButVanilla]

I do compost what I can scoop out and rinse the rest down the loo. The pipes in this flat are so narrow that we have to be really careful what goes down the sink as it reappears in the shower tray whenever we run the washing machine. Honestly, you'd think I lived in a bloody hovel.

 

[vernon]

That must have been expensive toilet paper......

We speculated that it was, more often than not, the attempts to destroy evidence during a drugs bust.