• thorbot@lemmy.world
    80·
    6 months ago

    Dude wipes are the most toxic masculine bullshit product I’ve ever seen. Honestly who the fuck buys that shit except the most fragile male ego in the universe

      • Clent@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        Yes, Real Men™️ fall for toxic masculinity marketing tactics. Real Men™️! Also, just your average mindless consumer regardless of gender but Real Men™️, too! Especially, Real Men™️!

        Be Real Men™️

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      21·
      6 months ago

      Agreed. Stop flushing wipes, none of them are “flushable”. If it doesn’t dissolve from light manipulation when wet, it’s not flushable.

      Bidet. Just get one. They’re like $30 and take 10min to install. Clean buttholes forever.

          • ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee
            5·
            6 months ago

            Guess I was wrong about price… it’s $850 but it’s the Toto S550e. Bought it two years ago and haven’t regretted it at all. I’m actually going to have an electrician come out to install plugs in the other bathrooms to put bidets in all of them.

            The one I have now also sprays the front area for the ladies to I can’t comment on that but might be why it’s so expensive.

            The seat heats, the water is warm that sprays, auto open… pretty much all you need. I will say that as a dude on the taller side (6’ 2”), I really have to scoot my ass forward quite a bit so I’d probably find something else for my next bidet.

            TOTO SW3056#01 S550E Electronic Bidet Toilet Seat with Cleansing Warm, Nightlight, Auto Open and Close Lid, Instantaneous Water Heating, and EWATER+

            https://a.co/d/8Xao9AX

            • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
              4·
              6 months ago

              Ah that’s a lot more features then even the nice hotel in Korea had. The instant heat and all the automatic stuff is probably why it’s so expensive.

              The second nozzle for vulvas is standard on even cheap models.

            • akakunai@lemmy.ca
              4·
              6 months ago

              Ah man, you’ve got a Cadillac.

              I had me an old Panasonic model at my old apartment that wasn’t as nice but goddamn if you set that MF to the strongest setting 🫨🫨. The thing would clean your ass, rectum and colon lol.

    • downpunxx@fedia.io
      15·
      6 months ago

      when you have large hands and a large asshole that takes large messy shits, you need a larger than normal ass wipe. dude wipes is the largest asswipe on the market. no cap.

      • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
        28·
        6 months ago

        I’m a caregiver for a man who needs coaching through the entire bathroom hygiene process and I can say that in my professional opinion, Dude Wipes are terrible. They pull apart just getting them out of the package (see below), let alone when someone with dexterity issues tries to clean their butthole with them. He ended up with a poop covered hand after pulling the bits of pulled apart dude wipe out from his butt.

        They are the largest “flushable” wipes, but are smaller than a normal baby wipe. Flushable wipes shouldn’t be flushed anyway, they’re terrible for every type of sewage system.

      • Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
        14·
        6 months ago

        Fine, but now big gals with same need to buy “dude wipes.” Just call it heavy duty, or industrial strength.

        • akakunai@lemmy.ca
          3·
          6 months ago

          I know a guy that said he doesn’t wash around his ass when he showers because “that’s gay as hell”. I don’t even wanna know what kind of biome he’s got flourishing down there.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      I buy them because they smell like mint. I prefer them over normal wet wipes. I didn’t think this was such a passionate issue for people.

        • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          I buy the product, the comment attacks people who buy the product. I’m quite literally the target group. “For some reason”

      • Classy@sh.itjust.works
        3·
        6 months ago

        Yeah same, I got ones that smell like Shea butter, they’re pretty nice. I mean if the store had other ones branded differently with the same wipes I would just buy those lol. I feel like the only ones triggered by the imagery are ironically the guys who are insecure in their masculinity and feel threatened by a literal moist toilette.

      • fogstormberry
        5·
        6 months ago

        they’re probably doing better with cleaner buttholes than if these didnt exist

    • bbuez@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      Anything other than a bidet, bonus points for charging more for having more ‘masculine’ advertising

    • glitchdx@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 months ago

      They’re larger than regular wipes, and the chemicals are less irritating. Compare to cottonelle wipes which make my down there burn, and the choice is easy. These days I prefer crocodile wipes though.

    • Clent@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      Not to go political but have you paid any attention to the number of supporters of the king of fragile male egos, their king? It’s a huuuge market segment.

  • son_named_bort@lemmy.world
    62·
    6 months ago

    Liquid Death? It’s just fucking water. There’s already water in your house you don’t need a fucking can with a threatening name for it.

    • 2ugly2live@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 months ago

      I heard the branding was to help recovering alcoholics, so they don’t feel like they’re “missing out,” and won’t stand out so much with a scary can instead of a water bottle/glass. So they can still crack a cold one with the boys and such.

      • Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
        13·
        6 months ago

        I’d believe this with how much I see Steve-O drinking it on his YouTube channel. The dude made a point to drive a whole ass vending machine of Liquid Death across the country to his new home lol. At his previous home in California, it was apparently up against the coping of the half pipe in his backyard so you could do trick off of it.

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
      30·
      6 months ago

      eh I find their tall boys of sparking water have made it so I hardly drink alcohol at all now.

      It’s worth $1.57 to fool my brain, and certainly cheaper than the same amount of beer.

      • PLAVAT🧿S@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        19·
        6 months ago

        I had heard that’s the point, to a degree, or at least to help people with a drinking problem not feel ostracized while out with friends.

    • otacon239@feddit.de
      20·
      6 months ago

      Okay, but their teas are actually pretty darn good and not loaded with sugar. I agree about the water though.

      (Although, aluminum is essentially infinitely recyclable compared to plastic, so is probably a better alternative to bottled water)

      • ZorsithEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        Hate to break it to you, the inside of cans are still lined with plastic. Still marginally better than plastic bottles though.

      • Baguette@lemm.ee
        3·
        6 months ago

        If you have a local filtered water supplier you can bring a large reusable container and refill water from there. That way you still get the filtered water taste but cut out shipping

        • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          6 months ago

          My local filtered water supplier is the fucking city I pay taxes to and it’s just fine. I don’t understand why so many people are afraid of tap water. I can download fifty fucking years of water testing data. I can get my home water tested for free every year. And you still have these assholes out here who drink nothing but plastic bottled water because it’s $5 per case from Aldi. That shit should have at least $5 of taxes added to it which go straight to the municipal supply.

          • Baguette@lemm.ee
            5·
            6 months ago

            Nothing wrong with tap, it’s the best choice if your city has proper mechanisms to ensure tap water quality. Unfortunately not all cities invested in good infrastructure. Theres still a couple of US cities with either bad pipes or local water pollution

          • TheLowestStone@lemmy.world
            1·
            5 months ago

            I’m not afraid of tap water but, in the city I live in, it tastes like pool water and I find that highly unpleasant.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      12·
      6 months ago

      I’ve heard of kids who have been too corrupted by drink marketing to drink water drinking liquid death. If it gets demographics who wouldn’t otherwise drink water to drink water I can’t get upset about it

    • Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip
      4·
      6 months ago

      while i am a proponent that different brands of water is different and there is a difference in taste, ill never defend overpriced water.

      like you arent going to give me a bottle of arrowhead water.

    • RealFknNito@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      I hope you guys are memeing because getting passionately mad over guy branded stuff that we just find kinda neat is a new level of stupid I haven’t been exposed to yet. I want my asshole to smell like mint, so I buy dude wipes. I want canned water to cut down on plastic usage, so I buy liquid death. I want a burger that’s not made of animals so I buy a beyond burger. Beyond what? I don’t fucking know I just want a burger.

      It’s not that deep.

  • letsgo@lemm.ee
    45·
    6 months ago

    Oi I’m not wiping my manly butthole with those pink girly wipes. That’d be GAY or probably something equally incoherent.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      6 months ago

      I’d never heard of Dude Wipes, and I don’t get the point of them at all. I’d probably buy Gendered Butthole Wipes, though, I love the name!

      • areyouevenreal@lemm.ee
        2·
        5 months ago

        I remember reading somewhere that men’s buttholes are tougher than women’s and therefore more resilient to anal sex. It was in a thread though where feminists were complaining about anal sex being degrading and potentially injurious for women, so take it with a grain of salt.

      • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
        2·
        5 months ago

        Lol at the idea of gendered buttholes… like a dude burning down a California town celebrating his butthole’s gender reveal.

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          5 months ago

          I mentioned Dude Wipes to my wife, and she said that they were popular with the young teens she works with. Apparently they’re not for your butthole specifically, but just general cleanliness wherever.

  • paultimate14@lemmy.world
    36·
    6 months ago

    A few years ago my friend’s father passed away. My friend’s mother continued to live in the house for another year or so. She never worked and had to eventually sell the house and downsize.

    My friend had referred to her mother as a hoarder before. I’ve seen the reality TV shows about hoarders. But you don’t really understand just how bad the problem is until you spend several days helping your friend clean out their childhood home for sale, filling up several dumpster bags worth of… Stuff. Apparently the mother has always had some mental health problems and a shopping addiction, but spending over a year alone in that house drove her off the deep end.

    We could have opened an entire new Harbor Freight store. There were clothes in sizes I didn’t know existed. My wife casually found a pistol just shoved in a random box. It was madness.

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 months ago

      My MIL once brought a trash bag full of clothes for my wife, from friend who didn’t want them. Most of them were brand new with tags still on them. We thought it was strange, but they mostly fit and we didn’t think too much about it. Next visit she brings two more big garbage bags of new clothes, and one of the bags had dirt (like actual earth/dirt) on the outside. It turned out that the friend was a shopaholic and had been stashing the bags of clothes under the house so her husband didn’t see, but she was running out of room, and was trying to make space.

      We stopped taking the clothes. It felt like taking advantage of someone’s mental illness. Never met the lady, but seemed sad.

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      I grew up in this kind of house. My spouse retrained me. I didn’t know that it was weird for your living space to smell like urine.

    • Hobo@lemmy.world
      29·
      6 months ago

      Just to reiterate, even the ones that claim to be “flushable” DO NOT FLUSH THEM. It’s a damn lie and I don’t know how they keep getting away with it.

      • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 months ago

        It feels like a part of that deregulation politicians keep going on about. Deregulation ruined the airlines and now they’re ruining our buttholes… when is enough enough?

    • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
      15·
      6 months ago

      What? But they’re flushable*, it says so right on the package.

      * if your municipality allows it. No municipality does.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 months ago

        they raped and murdered too. I’d like to think we made at least some progress in the last couple of millenia.

  • TTH4P@lemm.ee
    22·
    6 months ago

    I was given that exact red quesadilla maker for a work anniversary. I used it to make quesadillas, ngl.

  • MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    5 months ago

    Reading this on my Apple Watch, while riding my Hoverboard, watching Bio-Dome in the background, and eating a wet-ass Arby’s sandwich I smashed into a quesadilla in my Quesadilla Maker… I can’t wait until it rockets through my intestines so I can use my Dude Wipes! 😎

    • Smoogs@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      Eating wet asses and smashing Dillas and cleaning up with wipes after? That’s quite the sex party you got going on there.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netEnglish
    22·
    6 months ago

    I don’t get the hate for Arby’s. The brisket sandwich and their sauce are good as fuck. Maybe it would have made a difference back when they first started and were like 5x more expensive than the competition (their signature sandwich was $0.69 when the next most expensive fast food was $0.10) 🤔

      • SoleInvictus
        3·
        6 months ago

        I had an ex who was so excited to take me to Arby’s for the first time. It was gross. I held my tongue as she went on about how much she loved their horsy sauce and cheese stuff, but it was nasty. She had terrible taste in food.

    • thirteene@lemmy.world
      6·
      6 months ago

      I have a standing theory that people that hate Arby’s used too much horsey sauce, or gets older dry meat repeatedly. I don’t love the place, but they don’t deserve that much hate.

      • the_doktor@lemmy.zip
        2·
        6 months ago

        1. Go to Arby’s

        2. Get their roast beef sandwich

        3. Stop by the grocery store

        4. Get REAL horseradish sauce

        5. Go home or wherever, put the real horseradish sauce on your roast beef sandwiches, enjoy.

        Arby sauce and their “horsey” sauce are garbage. Their actual foods are mostly fine.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Is it wrong that I think the Arby’s sauce is kinda good?

          It’s not something you can really buy as a condiment, but it’s good.

            • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
              1·
              5 months ago

              Thanks!

              With this info, maybe I can make my own beef & cheddar. Cook up don’t shaved beef, get some onion rolls for the bun, and use queso style cheese, plus some of this mystery BBQ sauce and it should be pretty close.

              There’s not many Arby’s near me, so if I really want Arby’s, I basically have to make my own.

    • nomous@lemmy.world
      5·
      6 months ago

      Yeah I fuck with Arbys, that sauce is dope and the Jamocha shake is pretty good too.

      I have a thing for bad gas station food too though so I might not be the best judge.

      • ZorsithEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        I dunno, some gas stations have good shit. Had a pre-packed Italian sub from a Loves truckstop that blew most sandwich chains out of the water. Loves is kinda cheating as far as “gas station food” goes tho.

          • ZorsithEnglish
            2·
            6 months ago

            Ive heard of Krispy Krunchy chicken in a shell gas station before, i dont remember it being very good tho.

            There’s a chain called Huey Magoos that is pretty good. Zaxbys is great too but the nearest one is like, a 2 hour drive from me

          • nomous@lemmy.world
            2·
            6 months ago

            Chicken strips are exactly what I was thinking! We have a “Chesters Chicken” attached to some of the gas stations here that have these big battered potato slices, they’re almost a meal by themselves!

    • VeganCheesecake
      4·
      6 months ago

      Well, I don’t go there for two reasons -

      • Their vegan options don’t seem that interesting.
      • They don’t seem to have a presence in the continent I’m on.
      • awwwyissss@lemm.ee
        4·
        6 months ago

        If you’re not willing to travel to another continent to get your food are you a Real Vegan?

        • VeganCheesecake
          1·
          6 months ago

          It was more supposed to be a joke about the second reason being much more significant.

          Edit: I think this was the first time I missed a black on white sarcasm flag. Oh well, it’s early in the morning, and there’s a first for everything.

    • ZorsithEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      The curly fries are good if you can get them hot and, y’know, cooked all the way through. Arby’s is very consistently disappointing as an experience.

    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 months ago

      It’s all just salty processed meat block. It’s absolute shit compared to the real thing. It’s like they are advertising fancy German brats and then serve you a hotdog.

    • brygphilomena@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 months ago

      It’s not top notch, but depending on what you get they have some gems. The buffalo chicken sandwich is super simple and good.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        6 months ago

        No, it’s not top notch. Is anyone else?

        Does McDonald’s or burger king make the best burgers? No! Not even close.

        You buy that shit because it’s there, not because it’s good. It’s just there and not something you hate. Good enough for Tuesday night I guess.

    • YaDownWitCPP@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      6 months ago

      It used to feel gay when my finger would punch through the butt wipe and enter my anus. Thankfully I don’t have to feel that way when I’m using Dude Wipes.

    • Lupus108@feddit.de
      11·
      6 months ago

      My former roommate had gastrointestinal issues and used wet wipes because they were less irritating to his skin. But he just bought regular wet wipes not this gendered nonsense.

      • Ephera@lemmy.ml
        5·
        6 months ago

        I see you’re also from Germany, so I understand your roommate not knowing this is an option, but bidets are cheaper and do a better job cleaning.

        Like, I bought a dumb travel bidet a while ago and even that’s a solid upgrade from scrubbing with toilet paper.

        • Lupus108@feddit.de
          3·
          6 months ago

          Yeah, he had one of those, but he used it in addition to. I don’t know the exacts of his condition, but he was using the bidet irregularly but the wet wipes all the time.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      6 months ago

      the big selling point i saw is that they are designed to be flushable. not sure if thats actually a good idea for your plumbing.

  • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
    19·
    6 months ago

    Jumping on the “don’t use flushable wipes” bandwagon. Seriously, they can screw your home’s plumbing up.

    For anyone doubting this is even possible for a product that is mass-marketed and available everywhere, look back a little over a decade. For a hot minute we had scrubs and soaps that had tiny little plastic beads in suspension to provide some grit. All those microbeads got flushed down the drain and wound up who knows where. That is until it was made illegal.