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@JackTheCat School. Public toilets. Right? I read somewhere that IZAL gave it away to local authorities as a perk when they bought cleaning supplies.
We had a family friend who bought several boxes of it for next to nothing and USED IT AT HOME. He had children, dammit! Social workers should have been called in!
@bodhipaksa Ooft! Wicked 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 as a young child (born '74) that stuff was nightmare fuel as you just smeared your own shit around your bum like you were buttering the inside of a cake tin to stop the cake mix from sticking to the tin
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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 West England. We ran out of tracing paper in class once and the teacher told us to nip to the loo and get some! It worked!
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@bodhipaksa Scotland. Izal. Bum brutal.
@JackTheCat @bodhipaksa Ditto. Early 80s primary school(s) and public buildings.
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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
@bodhipaksa having read more, it seems a company convinced corporations that IZAL was unstealable and actually didn't clog Britain's narrow sewage system, and convinced everyone scraping was more hygenic
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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 we had evil tracing paper, then it got changed to pink sandpaper.
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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 @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.
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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 @purplepadma IZAL!
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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 yes, remembered with horror from my junior school in southern England, where the toilets were in a mouldy outside block. It was so damp in there that hard 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 I remember its name, but I shall not say its name, for fear of summoning 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.
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@bodhipaksa oh God, the memories of terrible cheap British institutional toilet paper in the 1970s and 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 Yes, I remember it. UK. I once roomed next to an Israeli guy who'd been a tank commander in the 66 war. He said, "That toilet paper!!! It wounds you!!!!"
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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 remember it from my primary school in the south east of England
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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 Ah yes, I remember it well. Bronco Toilet Roll was the only toilet paper available at the time. When the soft fluffy sort appeared we cried for joy. I grew up in Ireland.
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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 @drmikepj I encountered it at my grandparents’ place in England. It was terrifying
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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 when I did my PhD fieldwork on the island of Rum in the 1980s, the island was still owned by the Nature Conservancy Council, part of the UK civil service. The bothy we stayed in for many months was equipped with an infinite supply of this toilet paper (with wee government arrows on it, as I recall). This must have been one of the last places where it was the only option....
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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, can't be more specific (I've moved around a lot).
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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 primary school in the 80s. The memory haunts me still, even after decades of soft paper and bidets.
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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
England. It was one way to keep me from using the bogs or loo as tiny me used to call them. -
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
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).
