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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
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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@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.
@bodhipaksa @purplepadma @FeloniousPunk Having experience with both types mentioned, the waxy UK tracing paper was WAY worse. Not that children should ever be exposed to either.
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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 or Bronco?
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@bodhipaksa I remember its name, but I shall not say its name, for fear of summoning it.
@pigworker @bodhipaksa I remember it from Edinburgh Uni in the 80s
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@bodhipaksa Izal or Bronco?
@bodhipaksa Luxury! Apparently in the Army it was labelled "use both sides".
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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 UK primary school in the 80s.
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@pigworker @bodhipaksa I remember it from Edinburgh Uni in the 80s
@fullyabstract I remember it from Queen's University Belfast in the 1970s. And from peculiar corners of the University of Cambridge as late as 1994. Nobody wants that stuff when they're about to sit anything, let alone their finals. @bodhipaksa
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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 It was a thing in New Zealand too. Fortunately I haven't encountered it in recent decades!
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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 Scotland in the 70's I guess, various locations , mainly institutional but also camping , youth hostels n such. Hideous stuff.
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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
Shipyard toilets had attendant who issued 4 sheets of Izal non absorbant hard paper and you were allowed 4 mins to do your business. -
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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When I was little I lived with my Nana who used to purchase Izal, but my Uncle lived next door and my Aunt bought Andrex. I don’t know how many times she reprimanded me for using their lavatory, which was inside the house. Nana’s was across the yard and had no electric light. I was terrified in winter - of the dark and spiders!
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@bodhipaksa UK primary school in the 80s.
@bodhipaksa @avatastic same but 90s
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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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Danish schools had this atrocity in some toilets back around 1976 at least - never realized that other countries had the same . ahem...pleasure.
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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 UK school system. <shudder>
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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 used it in Australia, it was the staple toilet paper for public toilets. I most vividly remember it at the beach toilet block, where it was rigged to dispense half a sheet at a time.
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@bodhipaksa I got Very cross when Lidl stopped doing their 4-ply toilet paper because that's what I'm used to from Germany, and 3-ply is barely acceptable
2ply isn't a hygiene product, it's a war crime
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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 only very occasionally encountered it, in toilets further away from main buildings in places like schools and University buildings.
It had mostly gone by late 1970s when I was a kid, replaced by slightly less worse stuff (but not as good quality as bogroll you would buy for home).
This was in London and SE England, so maybe we were slightly more affluent in this region.
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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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Came across it in NZ
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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 Soft toilet paper was a novelty bought by posh rich people.
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@bodhipaksa @drmikepj I encountered it at my grandparents’ place in England. It was terrifying
@moof@cupoftea.social @bodhipaksa@mastodon.scot @drmikepj@mastodon.social +1. My grandmother had two toilet paper dispensers: Tracing paper on one side because she "preferred it" and a normal one on the other side for everyone else.
I should complete the mental image by explaining that her toilet featured an old-fashioned high-level cistern with a flushing power that terrified small me. Standard Flushing Procedure involved closing the lid, holding the chain with an outstretched arm while standing as far into the doorway as possible, then delivering a swift tug before launching into an emergency high-speed sprint of the kind that was usually reserved for being pursued by school bullies or Scary Dogs. It probably smelled of Ajax.
