I have to figure out what's wrong with my ass. For my entire life, I have been spending 5+ minutes on every toilet visit just wiping gooseberry fool off my asshole. Even with wet wipes. And even when my ass is clean shaven. There is nothing the gooseberry fool can cling onto and I still have to wipe and wipe. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong or if my ass is anatomically different from other humans but I can just keep wiping and wiping for minutes, from multiple directions and there's still some brown on the paper. It takes a long ass time till my ass is completely clean. And before the bidet crowd comes chiming in, it doesn't even matter if I use a bidet or clean my asshole in the shower. When I step in the shower and wash my ass, I still have to wipe a ton afterwards. I have always envied people who can just hop in and out of the toilet in like 5 min max. I'm spending 15 minutes on the toilet minimum and the ratio of shitting to wiping is like 50/50.
Very rarely I have gooseberry fools where magically I barely have to wipe at all. But on the other hand I also have gooseberry fools where I spend upwards of 10 minutes just wiping my ass clean.
I am almost 100% sure that I am the human being with the highest wet wipe consumption in the world. A pack with 50 wet wipes is gone in 4 visits to the toilet. Max. And I'm not wasting any of them.
On top of having to spend lots of time on the toilet just wiping, I also gooseberry fool a lot. Rarely if ever just one or two pieces of turd come out and I'm done. And it's usually on the liquidy side rather than like a solid piece of turd. So spending 15-20 minutes on the toilet without wasting any time is the norm for me.
Whenever I see shows or documentaries about old times my first thought is "Are these people just walking around with dirty asses the whole time" Cause I know I would be back then
This is a serious thread btw
Last week South Park did an excellent conspiracy-laden episode on the politics of toilet paper in the US. I've been thinking about it a lot since! Apparently 70% of the world doesn't use toilet paper
I don't know (or care) how accurate this is, but apparently the toilet paper used just by China each year would stretch almost all the way to Pluto.
Concerning that the second most populous country on earth doesn’t even rank on this list. Some people in my office had to go on a trip to our Indian base and the key takeaway from the entire trip was “the toilets are horrific”.
Qikz, I mostly try to avoid this kind of discussion these days, but here's a serious response for you to think about. I haven't played the game, but I think it's difficult to say "the ending isn't a harem, it's polyamory, which is actually progressive" if the game doesn't actually engage with polyamory as a theme. Are Nia and Mythra bisexual, for example? Are they in love with each other, as well as other people? Does the game's story firmly establish and explore that?
I don't want to assume anything -- you'll have to let me know. But usually in anime and related media, when the protagonist ends up romancing all his companions (it's hardly uncommon!), it's not framed as particularly queer or progressive. It's just intended to fulfil a fantasy for the viewer. And the harem fantasy is rooted in objectification.
People might roll their eyes, but it doesn't make you a bad person if you enjoy a story with that element. I like lots of anime romcom nonsense. You have to be honest about what it is though -- a lot of anime stories that I think are fun, because they have entertaining comedy or a cute romance or whatever, have some misogynistic plot beats. It doesn't do anyone any good to pretend that's not the case.
I think there's also an interesting discussion to be had about people who are poly and might claim this as a kind of representation despite the faults. I think that's OK! You can have a positive interpretation of something even if it's written poorly or is even actively adverserial in some ways. I see it a lot with queer people finding something to enjoy in mangas which are perhaps less than stellar on their own terms - maybe written from a fetishistic perspective - in the yuri, BL, or otokonoko genres.
You aren't obligated to engage in any of this media analysis stuff at all, Qikz, but at the end of the day it's a good skill to be able to spot things that are a bit misogynistic (or racist, homophobic, etc.) and resist the urge to reflexively defend them because you like the overall story. I think it's worth thinking about whether, in this case, you might have given too much weight to an argument which doesn't really hold up, or is at least a fairly esoteric interpretation of the source material.