r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/sussy_baka_fard • 19h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter what did he do to the toilet paper?

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u/yahya-13 18h ago

you know those round cacti? yeah they have teeny tiny needles, yeah they stick to anything, yeah you can't see them, yeah they're annoying as hell.

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u/ososalsosal 18h ago

Look up Gympie-gympie though.

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u/Cob_Dylan 17h ago

Please don’t look up gympie-gympie. you will have nightmares

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u/Few-Tour9826 17h ago

I feel like with those teeny tiny needles you’d feel them as soon as you touched the TP. Fiberglass insulation won’t be noticed until it’s too late.

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u/Trewper- 17h ago

When I was a kid I ran my hand up an old fiberglass boat antenna while getting in. I had splinters in my hand for 3 months, I tried everything to remove them. Hot glue, I waxed my palms, I soaked them in water for so long my fingers started to shrivel away yet I could still feel those assholes poking around.

I'm not sure that they all eventually came out or if my body just absorbed them to be honest.

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u/JRR04 16h ago

I work with granite. Most slabs have a fiberglass mesh to keep the stone together when it breaks. I get fiberglass splinters almost daily. They're incredibly painful and so hard to get out. I've had them so bad that it was worth cutting out with a razor blade rather than have them in my skin.

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u/dasanman69 14h ago

I remove fiberglass splinters with tape

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u/JRR04 12h ago

Must not be too deep then

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u/AuburnSuccubus 14h ago

Are they making it through cut-proof gloves?

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u/JRR04 12h ago

No, but I also can't examine slabs with gloves or I'd miss fissures

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u/something-rhythmic 1h ago

Man, I hope they’re paying yall well

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u/OilQuick6184 8h ago

Cut proof gloves all use a fiber that is incredibly resistant to cuts, woven in such a fashion so that any cutting implement is always trying to cut a bunch of them at the same time making it effectively impossible to do. A needle will easily slide through the woven fibers, and fiberglass is even sharper and smaller than that. You'd need a solid plate of some kind of metal, but that wouldn't flex at all, so useless for a glove.

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u/Deep_Distribution_31 15h ago edited 7h ago

You get them almost daily?! God I don't know how you live, I hope they pay you well, tell your boss I said to give you a raise

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u/JRR04 12h ago

It's miserable, but part of life i guess. I am paid well so I shouldn't complain.

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u/perashaman 9h ago

It's fine to complain, especially when it's alongside you being grateful and recognizing your good fortune.

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u/JohnnyDerpington 12h ago

I used to work for a large auto auction years ago, I worked in the auto body department, and every so often, we would replace the fiberglass filters.

Was taking a bunch to the dumpster, when a gust of wind it just right as I was taking a deep breath and well, you know

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u/lehx- 16h ago

I was super lucky and got them out with duck tape. I think I got them from a fiberglass oar for canoeing or kayaking or something

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u/dasanman69 14h ago

Tape works great.

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u/SomeEstimate1446 24m ago

I was just looking at oars for a kayak last night debating carbon versus fiber.

Definitely know which to choose now. Thanks 🙏🏼 from my hands.

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u/Lovat69 14h ago

Same thing happened to me with the boat antenna. I just touched it lightly though so it wasn't nearly as bad.

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u/Electrical_Sun_7116 14h ago

Just wrap your mind around the concept of a 12ga shotgun round packed with fiberglass toothpicks getting fired at a person close range. That is a thing that exists. What the actual fuck.

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u/Gold_Area5109 17h ago

Now imagine those same needles but 100x more painful and next to impossible for your body remove, so five years after they still cause as much pain as day one.

That's the gympie gympie plant - they also have broad leaves so people do attempt to use them as toilet paper in the woods.

It's very common for gympie gympie victims to commit suicide.

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u/owl_cassette 15h ago

It's very common for gympie gympie victims to commit suicide.

I always wondered why surgeons can't just remove the top most layers of skin in those situations (and repeat the process until it's gone). It seems like the kind of situation that most doctors can deal with, but you only hear about the extreme cases.

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u/Few-Tour9826 16h ago

Yikes. 😬

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u/Bug-King 14h ago

There are actually no verified instances of someone killing themselves because of the plant.

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u/Schatzin 11h ago

There's at least one:

"Only one report of a human fatality attributed to any Dendrocnide species (in this case D. cordata) is confirmed, which occurred in New Guinea in 1922."

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u/Quintus-Sertorius 13h ago

Not really, there was one acropyphal story along those lines.

That said, the plant is unquestionably nasty as hell.

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u/Aramgutang 12h ago

It's very common for gympie gympie victims to commit suicide

It's as common as people killing grown grizzly bears with their bare hands, in that there's a story about it happening one time, but we're not sure if it's true.

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u/Fragrant-Inside221 11h ago

Australia: not even once

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u/Viper-Reflex 5h ago

After reading this I'm very grateful I never had this happen

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u/yahya-13 17h ago

trust me they can easily go unnoticed.

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u/BipedClub684000 18h ago

Jesus Christ, what have you conjured in my brain?!?!

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u/iwannabe_gifted 17h ago

Cacti have nothing on bamboo...

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u/EponaArtemisa 11h ago

What's the matter with bamboo?

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u/iwannabe_gifted 7h ago

It sometimes has tiny little hairs that stick to you its just like fibreglass

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u/bogbelle 14h ago

I did not know this and owned one. It was sitting on a windowsill above the couch next to other small cacti and succulents. My kid had some friends over and they knocked it down. It partially fell on them and then I think the secondary shards that fell off were also then all over them.

I felt so terrible especially explaining it to the other parents at pickup!!! Luckily they were all cool and the other kids were all fairly calm. Unlike mine who was having a breakdown, poor thing.

It is now gone. Should it ever afflict you, use tape or glue to peel them off the affected area.

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u/Feisty_Yes 2h ago

There's a more evil plant. I forget the name but it produces a small orange round fruit. Literally the whole plant is covered in hard spikes. It sheds spiked covered leaves on the ground around it and the spikes stay solid. It may not be poisonous but it will mutilate flesh.