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| nctnico:
--- Quote from: coppice on March 14, 2020, 04:56:43 pm --- --- Quote from: HobGoblyn on March 14, 2020, 04:42:28 pm ---A friend was telling me what his dad taught him when he was a youngster (early 1950s) and they had an outside loo. They used old newspapers as toilet roll and his dad said "if you turn up the corners, you can use them to get the crap put of your fingernails" --- End quote --- An outside loo and no bath or shower was still very common in UK homes of the 1950s. Using newspapers as toilet paper was also very common, partly because it was actually nicer to use than the sandpaper they sold as toilet rolls back then. This was before the availability of cheap tissue strong enough not to disintegrate while wiping. --- End quote --- I have a fallback for toilet paper (the pictured one is not mine but similar): |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: bd139 on March 14, 2020, 04:58:53 pm ---Oh joy the crazy fuckers are turning up now. I've just had death threats from someone after agreeing with the government handling of things now containment has failed. They accused me of being a shill, that this entire thing is a government plot to kill the vulnerable and disabled and that I was going to get stabbed up. I hope they don't run out of meds for these folk :palm:. Another forum for ref, not this one. --- End quote --- These days some people think you're a Nazi and need to die if you don't agree with them what to have for dinner. |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: nctnico on March 14, 2020, 05:02:02 pm --- --- Quote from: coppice on March 14, 2020, 04:56:43 pm --- --- Quote from: HobGoblyn on March 14, 2020, 04:42:28 pm ---A friend was telling me what his dad taught him when he was a youngster (early 1950s) and they had an outside loo. They used old newspapers as toilet roll and his dad said "if you turn up the corners, you can use them to get the crap put of your fingernails" --- End quote --- An outside loo and no bath or shower was still very common in UK homes of the 1950s. Using newspapers as toilet paper was also very common, partly because it was actually nicer to use than the sandpaper they sold as toilet rolls back then. This was before the availability of cheap tissue strong enough not to disintegrate while wiping. --- End quote --- I have a fallback for toilet paper (the pictured one is not mine but similar): --- End quote --- Your hose arrangement is very common in India. You still need something to dry with. I use a Japanese style bidet toilet, which will both wash and dry, so I have no need for toilet paper. |
| PlainName:
--- Quote ---Of all the things to care about, what I wipe my arse with comes bottom of the list. --- End quote --- Toilet paper may be preferable to tissues for dealing with a snotty nose, and it's kinder to the plumbing when flushed. Try blowing your nose on newspaper. |
| james_s:
--- Quote from: coppice on March 14, 2020, 05:03:36 pm ---These days some people think you're a Nazi and need to die if you don't agree with them what to have for dinner. --- End quote --- Authoritarianism has never gone away. It's amplified by the way the online world makes it so easy for people to exist in their own echo chamber filled with like-minded people, shielding them from any opinions differing from their own to the point that they start to believe that the vast majority of people are on the same page as they are and anyone who does not is a rare outlier and nut job. |
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