Menopause Matters Forum
General Discussion => This 'n' That => Topic started by: Joyce on May 17, 2013, 07:52:54 PM
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/venezuela/10062640/Venezuela-running-out-of-toilet-paper.html
Just seen this on the news.
I seem to remember UK ran out of loo paper way back 60s/70s or was that just my house? ;) My mum had to buy the most awful beige coloured stuff which was like newspaper.
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They will need to use the daily papers torn into squares like we did in the 1960s ;D
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Ah so wasn't just my house then. ;)
Why was there no loo paper in the 60's does anyone remember?
I remember having to queue for bread at Safeway for hours with my mum. That was the 60's too.
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There was the shiny stuff you got in school. It was like wiping your bum with greaseproof paper....it just slid off.
I think my family must eat loo paper. It goes so quickly it's unnatural.
I really don't know what they do with it....well I do but why so much.
I would like to enforce a three square rule ;D
Honeyb
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3 squares only works for certain things though. ;D Eldest granddaughter blocked our loo last time she was here with about 50% of a roll. Think I may have to enforce that rule too when they arrive in a weeks time. ;D ;D
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I have to use ASDA cheapy T/R or my septic tank, or the pipes to it, block. No fancy soft stuff I'm afraid. Can't even use Morrison's or TESCO cheap!!!!
Think the newspaper T/R in the 60s was just fact soft stuff was dear so people tore up newspaper.
People were a lot poorer then.
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Poorer with tougher bums.
I like it Soft Soft Soft
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Honeyb
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DD stopped buying a certain make after it started its ad for scrunching or folding. ;D She was appalled by the campaign. ???
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Scrunching and folding?? :-\
That horrible shiny paper we had at school was called Izal. I can smell it still just thinking about it..
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Paper cuts? Whoever thought that Izal would be effective? Must have blocked pipes like no other. I certainly don't remember putting it anywhere else.
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Izal won't have blocked pipes - it did disintegrate when it got wet!! No good for anything except using as tracing paper, but my Grandma insisted on buying it - took years to persuade her soft toilet paper is hygenic!!!