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    From poindexter FORTRAN@9:91/4 to All on Sat Mar 14 09:27:00 2020
    Why is it whenever there's any disaster (biological, natural, or man-made)
    to people stock up on toilet paper? The scenes of people 12-deep in WalMart lines with 128+ rolls of toilet paper leave me aghast.

    I suppose if we psychoanalyze the situations, people are looking to control some aspect of times filled with uncertainty, but I'd stockpile whisky
    before I stockpiled paper products.


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  • From Mickey@9:91/31 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Mar 15 20:49:43 2020
    On 14 Mar 2020, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I suppose if we psychoanalyze the situations, people are looking to control some aspect of times filled with uncertainty, but I'd stockpile whisky before I stockpiled paper products.

    Ahemm... YUP! :-)

    Mickey

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  • From Nigel Reed@endofthelinebbs.com.nospan (Nigel Reed) to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Mar 20 11:17:39 2020
    poindexter wrote:
    Why is it whenever there's any disaster (biological, natural, or man-made) to people stock up on toilet paper? The scenes of people 12-deep in WalMart lines with 128+ rolls of toilet paper leave me aghast.

    I suppose if we psychoanalyze the situations, people are looking to control some aspect of times filled with uncertainty, but I'd stockpile whisky before I stockpiled paper products.


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    You can't wipe your arse with empty whisky bottles.
  • From Hellbender@9:91/38 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sun Oct 18 15:44:31 2020
    On 14 Mar 2020, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...
    Why is it whenever there's any disaster (biological, natural, or
    man-made) to people stock up on toilet paper? The scenes of people
    12-deep in WalMart lines with 128+ rolls of toilet paper leave me aghast.

    The way I had it explained to me on IRC was that toilet paper is one of those things that people just never have enough of to start with, while everyone
    does tend to use it daily.

    Additionally the machines that *make* the TP aren't really things that can be ramped up to suit extra demand that easily, nor do they have much commonality with commercial TP machines. TP is also bulky and hard to move and store in large quantities.

    Basically, it is something that everyone needs and dearly doesn't want to run out of.

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  • From multiplemiggs@9:91/38 to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 16 23:00:04 2021
    And if you lived out in the boonies back during the depression and WW2 times the Sears Catalog was toilet paper after it expired. And the tissue paper off the Mandarin oranges at Christmas time was considered a premium.
    I don't get the toilet paper hording when I think of all the other things
    that you can run out of.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@9:91/4 to multiplemiggs on Sat Apr 16 09:53:24 2022
    Re: Re: Toilet Paper?
    By: multiplemiggs to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Jan 16 2021 11:00 pm

    And if you lived out in the boonies back during the depression and WW2 times the Sears Catalog was toilet paper after it expired. And the tissue paper off the Mandarin oranges at Christmas time was considered a premium. I don't get the toilet paper hording when I think of all the other things that you can run out of.

    During WWII, a Dutch newspaper printed a blank page or two in each issue to be used as toilet paper.
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