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macfantn · Oct 18, 2007, 04:16 PM

do any of those drop in things really clean your toilet? the blue things that show up when you flush. do they cause any harm? i hate cleaning my toilet and would love not to do it anymore.

analogika · Oct 18, 2007, 04:31 PM

They are not a substitute for cleaning your toilet.

They are also in most cases environmentally...questionable.

(I hear paper plates and plastic forks are a great substitute for doing the dishes!

)

turtle777 · Oct 18, 2007, 04:36 PM

If you want a always clean toilet, just don't use it

-t

Doofy · Oct 18, 2007, 04:39 PM

Since one of my old companies sold those little blue thingies which make the water green when you pee into it, I can say that:

Originally Posted by analogika

They are not a substitute for cleaning your toilet.

This statement is entirely correct.

Solution: Get a girlfriend. If you leave the cleaning long enough, she'll get teed off with all the filth and do it herself.

RAILhead · Oct 18, 2007, 04:50 PM

Word.

macfantn · Oct 18, 2007, 05:00 PM

wouldn't I be better with a maid? cheaper than a gf and they don't talk back.

Doofy · Oct 18, 2007, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by macfantn

wouldn't I be better with a maid? cheaper than a gf and they don't talk back.

You let your girlfriend talk back? What kind of man are you?

Very good point dude.

RAILhead · Oct 18, 2007, 05:44 PM

No kidding. You need to man-up, kiddo.

paul w · Oct 18, 2007, 06:00 PM

Just don't start sleeping with the maid or you'll gain a gf and lose a maid.

Shaddim · Oct 18, 2007, 06:01 PM

Get an attractive, single maid. I did that back in college. You have crazy sex, then she cleans the house while you sleep.

shifuimam · Oct 18, 2007, 06:23 PM

They help some. The 1000 Flushes tablets put chlorine in the water to keep the bowl from staining. Use those in combination with actual cleaning with clorox cleaner and a brush every few months, and you'll be fine.

Rumor · Oct 18, 2007, 06:30 PM

Easy fix.

Go outside.

starman · Oct 18, 2007, 07:25 PM

Oh, God. I thought this was going to be another "look what I found" thread.

residentEvil · Oct 18, 2007, 07:30 PM

those drop in things in the tank actually ruin the new flush contraptions (the ones that are all plastic and rubber) . as for the bowl hangers, those simply keep the water in the bowl clean and smelling good. won't clean under bowl or where sediment can gather.

turtle777 · Oct 19, 2007, 01:48 AM

I have had good experience with Kaboom NeverScrub.

Not the cheapest, but keeps the bowl clean from stains.

-t

- - e r i k - - · Oct 19, 2007, 03:25 AM

The trick is to clean properly up under the edge with some grease-remover. That's where most of the filth sits and trickles down.

analogika · Oct 19, 2007, 04:25 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

They help some. The 1000 Flushes tablets put chlorine in the water to keep the bowl from staining. Use those in combination with actual cleaning with clorox cleaner and a brush every few months, and you'll be fine.

Chlorine. Yay!

Better living through chemistry.

FireWire · Oct 19, 2007, 05:17 AM

What's so bad about cleaning the toilet?

MacosNerd · Oct 19, 2007, 07:06 AM

Its not that had or bad, Its not like your hand picking the poo off

At least I don't have the issue

As others have stated nothing beats hand cleaning, those self cleaning tablets or systems don't come close to really keeping the toilet bowel clean

Mastrap · Oct 19, 2007, 07:23 AM

Originally Posted by shifuimam

The 1000 Flushes tablets put chlorine in the water

Which then goes into the water table and back into our drinking water. Yum.

shifuimam · Oct 19, 2007, 07:41 AM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Which then goes into the water table and back into our drinking water. Yum.

Since they don't treat sewer water at all...

Considering that the cholrine (and bleach in normal toilet bowl cleaner, mind you) is in the same water that has piss and sh!t in it, I'd be more worried about the fecal material in your water than the trace amounts of chlorine.

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Speaking of drinking (or eating) poo...

The guy's got a point...
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paul w · Oct 19, 2007, 02:32 PM

New York's water is already chlorinated. But not poopinated. That we do ourselves.

My gf insists that we have blue water in our toilet. She's also big on fabric softener. Whaddya gonna do...

Rev-O · Oct 19, 2007, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Which then goes into the water table and back into our drinking water. Yum.

Please learn more about chlorine and how it reacts chemically with water and the processes involved with treating wastewater and then repost. This may keep you from sounding like such a dolt.

nonhuman · Oct 19, 2007, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by paul w

New York's water is already chlorinated. But not poopinated. That we do ourselves.

My gf insists that we have blue water in our toilet. She's also big on fabric softener. Whaddya gonna do...

Yeah, what's with the fabric softener? And drier sheets too. I don't notice anything different about my clothes when she does the laundry and uses them than when I do and don't.

Also, what's with separating whites and colors? I never once did that when I lived on my own, and I never had any problem at all. In fact I think my whites, on the whole, looked better than they do now.

Rumor · Oct 19, 2007, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by nonhuman

Also, what's with separating whites and colors? I never once did that when I lived on my own, and I never had any problem at all. In fact I think my whites, on the whole, looked better than they do now.

I don't separate whites from colors cause it would be a really small load of socks.

analogika · Oct 19, 2007, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by nonhuman

Yeah, what's with the fabric softener? And drier sheets too. I don't notice anything different about my clothes when she does the laundry and uses them than when I do and don't.

Drier sheets have been linked to pancreatic cancer.

Fabric softener is great for creating allergies.

macforray · Oct 19, 2007, 09:20 PM

As I've always said:

"If you can't pee off your back porch, you live in the wrong neighborhood"

FireWire · Oct 19, 2007, 09:44 PM

Cleaning my toilet.. that could be the name of a future Eminem song

KeriVit · Oct 19, 2007, 11:52 PM

Nothing replaces cleaning and boy i hate it. But, just an FYI, to others, don't use toilet additives if you have pets, even if you SWEAR they don't drink from the toilet.

my kitty died from that once.

IceEnclosure · Oct 20, 2007, 01:34 AM

Twice a month a maid comes and cleans our townhouse. She gets the up in the nitty gritty, does laundry, dishes, everything.

If it were my own place I'd clean it myself, I'm okay with cleaning. My roommate however(whose house it is) is a bit untidy and I'm not into cleaning up after others.

nonhuman · Oct 20, 2007, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by analogika

Drier sheets have been linked to pancreatic cancer.

Fabric softener is great for creating allergies.

Good to know.

Now we'll just see if Jessi prefers cancer and allergies to not having whatever apparently imaginary result she gets from using those products.