I couldn't agree more. OP needs to grow the hell up, take responsibility, and get her bf's brother off the hook for her screw up. This is a YDI if I ever saw one.

What I'm more confused by is why anyone would be grounded for clogging the toilet

If you reread it, he wasn't grounded for clogging the toilet, but grounded for "lying" about clogging the toilet.

OP said she couldn't unclog it and she must have walked away and the family thought it was the brother.

It said she sat there quietly whilst he got told off, so I assume she was still there. I reckon someone (probably the parents or the boyfriend) found the toilet, asked who had done it, and when no one stepped up they assumed it was a younger person as it's an immature thing to dodge responsibility like that. Sucks for the younger brother who was actually innocent.

I dont get how you can't unclog a toilet. If you can't why not see if your boyfriend can help you unclog it?

My guess is that clogged toilets usually occur when the toilet is a bit smaller and has a weak/low volume flush. Combine that with a person who's just finished processing a few big meals... well, you get situations like OP's. Luckily, it seems like lots of porcelain thrones these days are marketed as being able to flush down a load of golf balls without clogging. If OP managed to clog something of that nature... that's beyond both what I am able to and desire to comprehend.

Fair enough! Thanks for the response! It's always baffled me, but it also amazes me that a toilet can't handle what it was designed for. Must just be older toilets or something, I don't know. Do you have to turbo shit like a tyrannosaur to clog a toilet or what?

My understanding is that US law (Federal Regulations) at one stage decided to 'conserve their precious water resources'. They mandated that toilets could only hold half as much water in the tank as they used to. All toilets built during those few years of insanity have unusually low pressure and water volume. Of course they often end up needing to be flushed three or four times.

Yep, todays toilets have low gallons per flush in order to"not waste water"

I think it's to do with the pressure of the flush but also maybe like a poop that is a funny shape, cos my little sister's have done bog stoppers before and one of them was 4 when she managed it xD

Yes large-girth and long-length output is a thing, especially for people with stretchy colons and/or digestive troubles. After my neck dislocated, my GI never worked the same and I had to modify my diet to avoid the runs. Now I learned to eat bready-stoppy stuff along with liquid-flowy stuff and it comes out pretty much normal. Except it used to regularly clog up the plumbing. My landlord finally got sick of clearing it every week and installed a new toidy. One flush of only 2.5 gallons clears it every time, as long as I hold the handle down to release the entire tank, and no guests screw it up by trying to flush too much toilet paper.

There is a toilet plumbing research facility in my state, and they developed a substance to simulate various consistencies of output. The pipes are clear plastic so as to see what happens with various designs. The bowl shape uses fluid dynamics to generate more flow with less water.

Maybe the brother clogs the toilet a lot and the parent finally lost their rag about it?

Not grounded for clogging it, I'd think, but grounded for 'lying' to his parents about it

Maybe it appeared that the brother clogged the toilet and walked away from it, so the next person had to deal with it. That's pretty disrespectful behaviour, and to me that's worthy of being grounded. Maybe he does it a lot and this was the final straw. Maybe he's known for lying about things. It's not about the action itself, but the significance of that action. Who knows though!

Now that's a wall of TMI

Well there goes my lunch

I bet you tell the most charming stories at parties.