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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
Ireland, 60s, primary school -
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. It was called Izal. But I'm not that bothered: in my Grandma's toilet it was pieces of the Radio Times. But I'm not that bothered: they were FLUSHING TOILETS ffs. In a lot of the world they still don't have flush toilets or any kind of toilet paper -
@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).
@microblogc @bodhipaksa
Same here.
I can clearly remerber using it while visiting relatives at the counteyside in Spain. -
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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That stuff was awful. After that I now only use the finest swan necks.
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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 the Izal brand, 'medicated' toilet paper...
How the hell did it ever get onto the shelves for distribution?
How is it fit for either well-understood purpose of bogroll?
What have I missed?
I have to know!
Edit: just found this:
https://uk.nakedpaper.com/blogs/news/what-happened-to-izal-toilet-paper -
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, France, Netherlands, Belgium.
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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 Australia in the 50s and 60s.
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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 my grandparents had this, I never understood why anyone would deliberately choose to buy 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 Itchy arse bog roll!
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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 my Russian roommates had stories of Soviet 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 Izal…
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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 @bodhipaksa @purplepadma yeah I was trying to figure out if they were talking about the half ply stuff from school.
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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 having visible fragments of print letters in ours (probably recycled newspapers?) in socialist Hungary, but nothing nearly as horrible as you describe this one. What is/was wrong with the UK?!
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@jwi I always thought that was one of the reasons institutions bought 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 wrote letters home and to friends back in the states on IZAL the brand of tracing paper favoured at St Andrews. My mum saved every letter, and I found one in her geneology and family memorabilia after she passed. Still have it.
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It was like grease proof paper!
I'm sure it was plausible for sewage farms to retrieve it, clean it and resell it!
Horrible stuff!
@monkeyben That's hilarious!
Evil. But hilarious!
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@bodhipaksa in the 1970s USA, when I was elementary school age, that paper was at school and lots of public bathrooms.
@relache Wow! I didn't think Americans would have stood for that. Or sat, or whatever.
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@bodhipaksa
Wales. We had it right through primary and secondary. I would like you to imagine menstruating and having only sharp, shiny, non-absorbent toilet paper.@linguacelta I'm so sorry!
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@bodhipaksa I remember having visible fragments of print letters in ours (probably recycled newspapers?) in socialist Hungary, but nothing nearly as horrible as you describe this one. What is/was wrong with the UK?!
@phl Unnecessary suffering is Britain's national obsession. I mean ... Brexit?
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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.@Clutha Dear god! Everything about that is awful!
