Toilet Paper

Scott Horowitz | November 3, 2004
Do you prefer one-ply or two-ply?

Todd Brotsch | November 3, 2004
Not a square to spare.

Mike Eberhart | November 3, 2004
I can't spare a square.


Good Seinfeld reference.... :)

Amy Austin | November 3, 2004
Hahahaha... now *this* qualifies as a "fluffy topic" -- you're funny, Ho...

Two-ply, of course. Only the military and really cheap hotels can spare the square... who else?

Scott Horowitz | November 3, 2004
I try. I prefer ultra-soft 2 ply. The crap they give us here at work is really uncomfortable.

Todd Brotsch | November 3, 2004
Sensitive ass ho? You should get that looked at.

Citizen Kane style.

Lori Lancaster | November 3, 2004
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John E Gunter | November 3, 2004
Why not hoe the tool? Course, get to work Ho, would be true for either reference!

Two ply.

John

Lori Lancaster | November 3, 2004
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John E Gunter | November 3, 2004
Glad you liked it. :-D

Or should I say, glad to be of service? ;-)

John

Scott Hardie | November 4, 2004
Why do I get a crappy feeling just posting in this discussion?

One-ply in my own home, usually. For most of my life, any bathroom I have called my own has been cursed with a toilet that clogs every time it is used, no matter how much or how little toilet paper is used. The guest bathroom at my mother's house, where I have stayed on occasion, will clog with approximately three squares in it. So I stick to one-ply and keep the plunger in the closet where it belongs.

Amy Austin | November 4, 2004
That's crappy all right, Scott!

Lori Lancaster | November 4, 2004
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John E Gunter | November 4, 2004
I'd say something about the last few posts, but common decency causes me not to! It's painful, but sometimes pain is good. :-D

John

Anna Gregoline | November 4, 2004
That used to happen when I lived with my parents - stupid low-flow toilets. I was literally scared to take a shit.

Kris Weberg | November 4, 2004
I now have a lo-flo toilet as well, and had to buy a plunger for the first time. But I still use two-ply.

I guess I'm just a decadent.

John E Gunter | November 4, 2004
But low-flow toilets and faucets are saving us water and therefore money!

John

Todd Brotsch | November 4, 2004
Not if you need to flush 2-3 time more than you would with a 'normal' toilet.

Scott Horowitz | November 4, 2004
I'm all for industrial strength shitters!

Todd Brotsch | November 4, 2004
Never had a flushing problem with the hole in the ground.

Scott Horowitz | November 4, 2004
It's not the flushing that is the problem there, Todd. The squatting will kill you.

Todd Brotsch | November 4, 2004
How so?

Kris Weberg | November 4, 2004
Burst blood vessel. Seriously. Squatting engorges blood vessles due to the muscular effort required, and so does defecating. People with high blood pressure have literally died of aneurysms while constipated on a normal toilet.

Imagine the look on the coroner's face.

Lori Lancaster | November 4, 2004
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John E Gunter | November 4, 2004
You did catch the sarcasm in my statement or should I have used the [sarcasm] tag?

John

Todd Brotsch | November 4, 2004
oooo....sorry ;)

John E Gunter | November 4, 2004
Yeah, our city is pushing low flow toilets with the excuse that we need to save money, and yet they are allowing all kinds of new construction. So let me see...

I live in a city with no fresh water, so we have to pump all of our water from nearby lakes. You tell me that I need to conserve water so I need to install a low flow toilet and water fixtures from showers to faucets in my house.

Then you turn around and approve all this new construction! Yeah, makes plenty of sense to me! NOT!

Might be why I really dislike our city council. That and the fact that they are making drastic changes to bring in more business to the city, but yet don't want bars to stay open late, hate adult entertainment, include night clubs, not just strip clubs and they don't allow package liquor to be sold after midnight.

Sorry but that all sounds like small town mentality when they want to be a big city. The two just don't work together, can't have a big city if you're thinking small town.

So being the good citizen that I am I installed the low flow toilets and now flush them at least twice as much as I did for the normal toilets. Which if I remember the sizes of the toilet water tank means I am using about 1 1/2 times more water! :-)

John

Amy Austin | November 4, 2004
hahahahaha -- what a thread you've started here, Ho!

Yep, I agree -- the low-flows aren't helping anything... the most satisfying flushes come from toilets that suck it out NASA-style... WHOOOOSH!!!

And speaking of squatting! I had always heard the stories from people who'd been to other countries where the "toilet" consisted of a hole in the ground, and I was horrified, with great difficulty believing them! Of course, I was imagining some sort of dirt "stall" out in the open somewhere... and it isn't really like that -- but I was still scared shitless (haha -- literally) of using the "toilets" in Singapore, Japan, & Hong Kong when I saw that they really are a hole in the floor! It's just like any other public bathroom you've been in -- ceramic tile everywhere -- except that there is no toilet... just an elevated platform (about 6"), with little treads on either side of... a hole in the ground! So startling.

Fortunately, though, there always seemed to be a side with these stalls, oppositely faced by a selection of "Western" stalls!!! (Which *really* puzzled me, because why would you have the others at all, if toilets are available... are there really some people who *prefer* the squatting experience???!!!) So, if I stumbled into someplace that didn't have the western commodities ;>, I would just hold it until I found one that did. But then, one day, I finally got stuck. I was going to get a body massage in HK, and having to go first, I asked the ladies (who spoke nary a word of English) where to find their toilets -- not at all worried that there wouldn't be a commode in a massage parlor across from a string of 4/5 star hotels in Hong Kong -- and was led to the little room... with a hole in the floor. Oh, agony -- there was no holding it this time! But -- thanks to my great luck, once again -- there was also a tiny shower right there (not something you usually see in the bathrooms, either) for my complete peace of mind (I'm sure I'm not alone in my causes for concern about squatting being more than just an aneurism or two...;>). So that was my one (and hopefully only) non-camping squat experience. Amen.

Anthony Lewis | November 4, 2004
Sensitive ass ho.

You know...someone could get beat up for saying that to someone. LOL

Amy's comment reminds me of the classic "Married...with Children episode where Al built his own bathroom.

The Ferguson was the name of the bowl.

"BAROOOOOOSSHH!!! Now that a man's flush."