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[Joyce]

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.

[CLKD]

They will need to use the daily papers torn into squares like we did in the 1960s 

[Joyce]

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. 

[honeybun]

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 

Honeyb
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[Joyce]

3 squares only works for certain things though.  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. 

[Blue]

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.

[honeybun]

Poorer with tougher bums.


I like it Soft Soft Soft

 

Honeyb
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[Joyce]

DD stopped buying a certain make after it started its ad for scrunching or folding.    She was appalled by the campaign. 

[Elena]

Scrunching and folding??   

That horrible shiny paper we had at school was called Izal.  I can smell it still just thinking about it..

[Joyce]

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.

[Scampi]

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!!!