Toilet paper

Bird · Mar 15, 2020

When I went to Peru, I was surprised to learn that they had signs on every toilet to put the paper in a garbage can and NOT to flush it down the toilet.

I know I've posted it before, but I went fishing once out of Seward, AK with one of my brothers on a cabin cruiser owned by a friend of his and in the head was a sign "Don't put anything in the toilet unless you've eaten it first."

shooterdon · Mar 15, 2020

grsthegreat said:
The other company was probably recycling sandpaper to make their tp.

On the real note, we have always....for many years... kept at least 3-4 Costco packages of tp, paper towels and napkins in the store room. This is because the trip to town takes some time and we always want to be prepared. We have not been to market for prepper stuff, only for normal perishables. Seeing to occasional nutter wearing face mask and rubber gloves is truly funny.

Yep!!

We do the same. Not that complicated or difficult to be prepared.

/pine · Mar 15, 2020

Since this has slipped into bathroom humor...I have an anecdote...

In a toilet stall at a major college known for its engineering department...on the back of the stall door is series of short paragraphs citing an amusing poem about angles...the paragraphs get progressively smaller and lower on the door...finally the very bottom line of verse states: You are now sh!tting at a 45* degree angle....!

jjp8182 · Mar 15, 2020

If it wasn't for the tornadoes that ripped through this area I'd be wondering about this TP rush, but given that experience taught me how few people in the local urban areas even keep a day or two supply of food in the house ... I can imagine there were/are a fair number who don't keep much TP in the house either.

Personally access to nice soft & strong TP is one of the few things I'd miss if society ever collapsed (refrigeration, and easy energy being a second & third) .... using the "half-ply" see-through kind that's in the stalls at work is bad enough -- it's just about death by paper-cut at times (which almost makes the OP's suggestion seem preferable compared so some other options -- like paying some of the exhorbant prices some individuals are trying to re-sell it for online).

turnkey4099 · Mar 15, 2020

GeneV said:
The o/p's method is not very sanitary, but hey whatever. Might I suggest doing a rough pass with tp and finishing up with wet wipes.

As a kid in a provincial town in soviet ukraine, we hardly ever had actual toilet paper. The go-to option was the newspaper, laced with soviet propaganda and ironically called "pravda" (truth). The going joke was that pravda newspaper was only good for one thing.

Pravda = truth in English. Novosti = News. Saying was there is no truth in pravda, no news in noviosti.

ruffdog · Mar 15, 2020

If a person runs out of TP, they can always do the butt-scoot on some nice carpet.

Peter 315 · Mar 15, 2020

ruffdog said:
If a person runs out of TP, they can always do the butt-scoot on some nice carpet.

After all these years yelling at the dog to stop ........:confused3:

MoMower · Mar 15, 2020

Ha, when this started I ordered a add on style bidet from Amazon, hooked it up the other night and I must say it is nice.

Pro tip: start with the lowest setting, or your sinuses will be clear and you won’t be thirsty anymore....lol

RalphVa · Mar 15, 2020

One thing that'll work is to just buy a supply Tee and one of those sink sprays and put a place to hang it. Saw a picture of this on Facebook.

People are funny. One of my coworkers in packing for his assignment in Singapore (now this was back in 1975ish but Singapore was well civilized by then even though their rivers were black and stunk) he packed 2 or 3 huge boxes of TP. When we went for 9 months in 1977 the first time, we did not pack any. Plenty of TP in the stores and all, maybe not in public toilets.

I wash my hands well after toileting. Never have had a problem. The muslims use their hand (left one) like this all the time. Never asked a non muslim Singaporean what they did. I'm sure they would have told me. Such things are quite openly talked about there.

Public TP around here is crap: very very thin. Never lots of it just to dry the bum off. The wife buys some nice soft, thick stuff like Charmin or the like. She uses tons of it. I get lots of TP spools for my garden work from hers left in the trash can.

Ralph