Right!
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@bodhipaksa @purplepadma We still have a similar variety of paper in the states but ours doesn’t sound quite as bad as you describe. Mostly used in schools, hospitals, etc. We used to joke, calling it John Wayne toilet paper - rough and tough.
@FeloniousPunk @purplepadma I've never come across anything in the US that's similar. This stuff literally was like wiping your a-hole with tracing paper. It was insanity!
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@FeloniousPunk @purplepadma I've never come across anything in the US that's similar. This stuff literally was like wiping your a-hole with tracing paper. It was insanity!
@bodhipaksa @purplepadma {{{ shudder }}}
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@bodhipaksa It's probably worth investigating - obviously there's some scandal behind it where some Head of School Governor Board or other did a shady deal with Bacofoil or something - otherwise how in the hecking heck did this pass the most cursory of checks
@rich One story was that Izal gave it away to institutions that bought their cleaning products. I imagine that free toilet paper would hard to turn down — especially if other people were going to use it.
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@nowster @BenCotterill @purplepadma
OMG! I had forgotten that entirely!
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa IZAL medicated.
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa England. Boarding school. The 1980s.
Half the kids had piles.
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa totally was a thing in ultra basic places in France (like rest stop areas, summer camp, schools, etc....) in the end 70s 80s
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa I never had the pleasure, but I did find yesterday's Le Monde torn into squares and jammed over a nail on the wall in a communal toilet at a cheap hotel overlooking the Seine on my first visit to France
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa North of England, 70s and 80s. Anyone who objected was called soft and made to move to the South.
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@bodhipaksa
Spanish here.
In the city I only enjoyed the common soft toilet paper, but the game changed when we went to the country and stayed at my aunt's home (well, my father's aunt's really). She had that hard paper in the WC. She lived just below my grandma, so I tried going to gradmas' WC instead.When I was 30, a drugstore under my home closed, leaving some of these rolls in their backroom.
(Edit: something you have to take into consideration is that common soft toilet paper of the era was 2-foiled or even 1-foiled, so hard paper meet the requirement of not allowing poo to trespass the paper, and not breaking -- but it did it at a big cost).
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa Something similar in the U.S. although you couldn't use it for tracing paper--it was called John Wayne toilet paper because it was rough, tough, and wouldn't take shit offa nobody. -
Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa London, summer of 2002. My wife and I were so amused we brought some back home and put it in our scrapbook!
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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"So hear me out here team: Glossy toilet paper!"
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa the midlands of uk. Glad to see izal stopped making it in 2010
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@luddchem It was Izal. I've never heard of the other one. Where was that?
“Bronco, for the bigger wipe”,
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
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@bodhipaksa England and NZ; public toilets and school toilets. As a girl at the time, I can confirm it was totally unsuitable for any toiletary use.
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
[Boost for larger sample, please!]
@bodhipaksa in Great Yarmouth! I’d moved to Norfolk, UK from New Zealand and was horrified to discover this instrument of torture that was of no usd at all as toilet paper and only caused pain. Wasn’t it labelled as medicated? What on earth was the point of it?
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
[Boost for larger sample, please!]
@bodhipaksa Yes, I remember it well. I used to prefer the squares of newspaper on a hook if there was the luxury of a choice.
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
[Boost for larger sample, please!]
@bodhipaksa While my government spends about $100 million per fighter jet, I am stuck using very similar TP because the government is too cheap to buy anything better for its employees.
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Right! Hard toilet paper!
People of a certain age from Britain (and maybe elsewhere) will remember with horror having to use toilet paper that resembled tracing paper. It was hard and crinkly, not at all absorbent, and you could literally use it for tracing.
I'm curious how many people remember the trauma of using this appalling invention.
If you did encounter it, please state the offending country in the comments.
[Boost for larger sample, please!]
@bodhipaksa my grandad's house was opposite the Izal factory in Chapel town, Sheffield.
Only recently did I have the revelation that there was a reason (beyond spreading poo & suffering around) behind the application of Izal in UK toilets.
Namely that if you keep a roll of Andrex in an outside brick privy it tends to not survive well in the damp. Ending up bloated, fluffy & not fit for purpose.
lzal solves this problem by being impregnable to damp. Alas this rather degrades its usefulness for the job in hand (so to speak).
