Speaking of toilet paper ...

[Terry Sampson]

My brother just told me this little factoid: Northern Tissue began producing "splinter-free" toilet paper in 1935.

p://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2017/07/splinter-free-toilet-paper-became.html

 

[ChristineM]

My brother just told me this little factoid: Northern Tissue began producing "splinter-free" toilet paper in 1935.

p://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2017/07/splinter-free-toilet-paper-became.html

Splinter free??? What was used before 1935... logs?

 

[Sunstone]

Splinter free??? What was used before 1935... logs?

Before 1935, the mortality rate associated with using toilet paper was much, much higher than it has been since.

 

[ChristineM]

Before 1935, the mortality rate associated with using toilet paper was much, much higher than it has been since.

I can understand that, i recently got a splinter in my finger that became i infected, quite swollen and painful...

A sphincter infection does not bare thinking about

P.S. i was undecided between a (i) a win or a funny frube

 

[Revoltingest]

My brother just told me this little factoid: Northern Tissue began producing "splinter-free" toilet paper in 1935.

p://industrialscenery.blogspot.com/2017/07/splinter-free-toilet-paper-became.html

I wonder.....
It's possible the claim of being "splinter free" was a ruse.
(Contrary to rumor, I wasn't around in 1935.)
Consider how companies will advertise that water is
GMO free. It doesn't matter that everyone's water
is so, people will still feel positively disposed towards
water advertised as GMO free.

 

[Terry Sampson]

I wonder.....

Now that you mention it...
Were newspapers splinter-free?

 

[Revoltingest]

Now that you mention it...
Were newspapers splinter-free?

Yes, they were.

 

[Trailblazer]

Speaking of toilet paper...

Forgive me if I am naïve, but I do not understand why people need MORE toilet paper than they usually use? Are they eating and drinking more because they are at home more because of the coronavirus restrictions? What are they DOING with all this toilet paper that they do not ordinarily do with it? Or are they stockpiling it “just in case?”

I heard some strange things on the radio the other morning. They said that restaurants that have been shut down have stockpiles of toilet paper so they are telling people they can drive by and they will throw a few rolls in their car. I also heard that when policemen are pulling people over and giving them warnings for a traffic violation, as they leave that are handing out toilet paper.

Last night I heard on the news that there is now a black market for toilet paper.

This whole thing with toilet paper is completely out of control.

Finally, I heard the pastor on the radio say that if people were going after Jesus the way they are going after toilet paper, the world would be a better place. I had to agree with that!

 

[Thief]

This whole thing with toilet paper is completely out of control

one of the guys at work said he was down to his last roll and a half

we all laughed

what?....you waited until now?.....to worry about it

 

[Milton Platt]

Splinter free??? What was used before 1935... logs?

Maybe it was just marketing, like everything is peri

one of the guys at work said he was down to his last roll and a half

we all laughed

what?....you waited until now?.....to worry about it

I read that companies said "don't worry, it's in the pipeline". Evidently, the pipeline does not run through my local supermarket.

 

[Trailblazer]

one of the guys at work said he was down to his last roll and a half

we all laughed

what?....you waited until now?.....to worry about it

He'd better run to the store in the morning after they have stocked the shelves at night.

 

[Thief]

He'd better run to the store in the morning after they have stocked the shelves at night.

where I am....the shelves have been empty of paper for more than a week
any paper

 

[Trailblazer]

where I am....the shelves have been empty of paper for more than a week
any paper

Oh goodness! I have not been checking the shelves here because I already had a stockpile of paper goods long before this crisis hit. I just assumed the stores would restock.

Maybe it is time for me to post a thread I wrote a couple of days ago entitled 'Hoarding and the Coronavirus.'

 

[Valjean]

Splinter free??? What was used before 1935... logs?

Last year's Sears catalogues.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Last year's Sears catalogues.

That's pretty advanced... a 2019 Sears catalog in 1934.

 

[Valjean]

Speaking of toilet paper...

Forgive me if I am naïve, but I do not understand why people need MORE toilet paper than they usually use? Are they eating and drinking more because they are at home more because of the coronavirus restrictions? What are they DOING with all this toilet paper that they do not ordinarily do with it? Or are they stockpiling it “just in case?”

I heard some strange things on the radio the other morning. They said that restaurants that have been shut down have stockpiles of toilet paper so they are telling people they can drive by and they will throw a few rolls in their car. I also heard that when policemen are pulling people over and giving them warnings for a traffic violation, as they leave that are handing out toilet paper.

Last night I heard on the news that there is now a black market for toilet paper.

This whole thing with toilet paper is completely out of control.

Finally, I heard the pastor on the radio say that if people were going after Jesus the way they are going after toilet paper, the world would be a better place. I had to agree with that!

I find it perplexing, as well.
How much toilet paper do people usually use? How long does a roll last?
What would happen if you ran out -- would survival be possible?

You'd have to be pretty dim to be unable to figure out some way to keep your bum clean without TP. It seems to me there are a lot of more important things to concern oneself with.

Should I stock up on razors? Toothpaste? Sriracha?

 

[Valjean]

That's pretty advanced... a 2019 Sears catalog in 1934.

LOL -- OK, the previous year's catalogue, then.

 

[Trailblazer]

I find it perplexing, as well.
How much toilet paper do people usually use? How long does a roll last?
What would happen if you ran out -- would survival be possible?

You'd have to be pretty dim to be unable to figure out some way to keep your bum clean without TP. It seems to me there are a lot of more important things to concern oneself with.

Should I stock up on razors? Toothpaste? Sriracha?

It just goes to show how many Americans cannot think rationally and how fear-based they are.
It also shows how selfish they are when the hoard paper goods that other people need.

Yes, there are certainly a lot more important things to be concerned about right now.

 

[Thief]

and consider.....all the junk mail you've been throwing away

 

[Trailblazer]

and consider.....all the junk mail you've been throwing away

I do not throw it ALL away.