The Lemon Fool

What has happened to toilet paper. Trying to find decent 4ply loo paper is like looking for the Yeti, I'm sure it exists but I'm damned if I can find it. Not only that but the rolls are shrinking. I don't know where the supermarkets get their supplies from put even the makes that could be relied on seem to produce nothing but tissue paper. At this rate I shall have to go back to the tried and tested Ty Bach supply - squares of newspaper!!

R6

Rhyd6 wrote:What has happened to toilet paper. Trying to find decent 4ply loo paper is like looking for the Yeti, I'm sure it exists but I'm damned if I can find it. Not only that but the rolls are shrinking. I don't know where the supermarkets get their supplies from put even the makes that could be relied on seem to produce nothing but tissue paper. At this rate I shall have to go back to the tried and tested Ty Bach supply - squares of newspaper!!

R6

4 ply where's the jeopardy in that.

You don't need toilet paper if you have one of these,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcHCT04ceKs


Julian F. G. W.

jfgw wrote:You don't need toilet paper if you have one of these,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcHCT04ceKs

I hope that's warm water

V8

and double

Don't tell me you miss the Izal stuff?

Buying the cheapest that looks acceptable, I once found myself with something fractionally narrower than standard. It wasn't really adequate for my fat [expletive deleted]. So since then I've always compared the width of any own-brand to the big-name brands on the shelf alongside it before buying.

[edit] Good to know the entirely correct use of part of my anatomy is an expletive in Fooldom!

jfgw wrote:You don't need toilet paper if you have one of these,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcHCT04ceKs

the power that's coming out at, you'd better keep your mouth open

I have to admit that 10 years working in France made me a great admirer of the bidet.

People spend a lot of time cleaning one end of their alimentary canal, while casually giving the other end a little wipe?

Steve

PS I am NOT suggesting electric toothbrushes!

UncleEbenezer wrote:Don't tell me you miss the Izal stuff?

Buying the cheapest that looks acceptable, I once found myself with something fractionally narrower than standard. It wasn't really adequate for my fat [expletive deleted]. So since then I've always compared the width of any own-brand to the big-name brands on the shelf alongside it before buying.

[edit] Good to know the entirely correct use of part of my anatomy is an expletive in Fooldom!

Kitchen roll??!!

What a difference a hundred years makes. Filmmaker Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old” colourised WW1 film recounts that the other ranks’ field latrines were not equipped with lavatory paper. After a Number 2, young squaddie just walked away; use of the hand was optional. It would make anyone today who is faint of nose long for universal mild constipation.
Officers had their own latrines and presumably their own supply, even if in extremis it were torn-up squares of The Times threaded on a string by their batmen. Since newsprint ink was notoriously smudgy, it does perhaps explain the popularity of dancing the Black Bottom.

Rhyd6’s lament for usable 4-ply paper in her Ty Bach reminds me of the astonishingly non-absorbent Bronco of my youth; it was advertised as “Bronco, for the bigger wipe” – something that would now go down well in the US where mountainous meals and barrage-balloon buttocks are commonplace.

Rhyd6 wrote:What has happened to toilet paper. Trying to find decent 4ply loo paper is like looking for the Yeti, I'm sure it exists but I'm damned if I can find it. Not only that but the rolls are shrinking. I don't know where the supermarkets get their supplies from put even the makes that could be relied on seem to produce nothing but tissue paper. At this rate I shall have to go back to the tried and tested Ty Bach supply - squares of newspaper!!

R6

Amazon and most of the online office suppliers have Kleenex 4-ply, e.g.,

https://www.viking-direct.co.uk/en/klee ... -p-2084508

...and the Iceland website indicates they stock a brand of 4-ply.

Isnt cheap 2-ply, folded over, now 4-ply ?

didds wrote:Isnt cheap 2-ply, folded over, now 4-ply ?

That reminds me of what my dad told me when I was a kid
Toilet paper comes in three thicknesses

Thick
Medium and
urgghhhh

didds wrote:Isnt cheap 2-ply, folded over, now 4-ply ?

Indeed.
And you can get a 6 ply more easily than starting with 4 should you want.

servodude wrote:

didds wrote:Isnt cheap 2-ply, folded over, now 4-ply ?

Indeed.
And you can get a 6 ply more easily than starting with 4 should you want.

and 3ply

If you keep folding in order to get a piece of reasonable thickness, you only need around 42 folds to have a thickness of the distance from your lavatory to the Moon.

If you find that a bit odd, did you know that - theoretically - a tennis ball can be turned inside out (everted) without cutting or creasing it?

Interesting facts Stewamax - sometimes this board reminds me of a book or magazine called "Ripley's Believe It Or Not". I find odd facts like that fascinating and whatsmore it'll give the know it alls something to argue about during the break in the pub quiz. Win win.

R6

stewamax wrote:If you keep folding in order to get a piece of reasonable thickness, you only need around 42 folds to have a thickness of the distance from your lavatory to the Moon.

If you find that a bit odd, did you know that - theoretically - a tennis ball can be turned inside out (everted) without cutting or creasing it?

Obviously the 42 folds is the same principle as doubling up on grains of rice on a chess board but I am not sure I understand about a tennis ball.

Dod

Dod101 wrote: ... I am not sure I understand about a tennis ball.
Dod

seems this explains (?!) it all...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_eversion

didds wrote:

Dod101 wrote: ... I am not sure I understand about a tennis ball.
Dod

seems this explains (?!) it all...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphere_eversion

Many thanks for that but I have to say that I did not understand a word of it. It looks convincing though, so I will accept it.

Dod