Hroth Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 11 hours ago, PhilJ W said: Actors care home second left... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Dunsignalling Posted December 8, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 8, 2022 (edited) 20 hours ago, boxbrownie said: Do drivers normally stop at glittering reindeer with huge smiles? Only for Rudolph! Edited December 8, 2022 by Dunsignalling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted December 8, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 8, 2022 1 hour ago, Dunsignalling said: Only Rudolph! I didn’t know Rudolph passed his drivers exam. 😄 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hroth Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 32 minutes ago, KeithMacdonald said: One does not "change" toilet paper, apart from the mass switch from Izal to modern soft multi-ply papers. It's merely a matter of stockkeeping! Though I do miss Izal, as children we went through a lot, using it for tracing paper and for paper&comb instruments, rather than for its intended purpose... 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2022 9 minutes ago, Hroth said: as children we went through a lot 'sfunny, but I remember it mainly as the one we very seldom "went through" 😄 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2022 I miss Izal about as much as I miss endemic pneumonia, especially since we used it at home so I had no respite from the school supply! Medicated or not, it didn't work, simply moving the 'load' along rather than absorbing and retaining it; unmedicated newspaper worked much better! And I suspect it would clog most modern u-bends. A wonderful combination of pointless, useless, and unpleasant! 4 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, The Johnster said: it didn't work, simply moving the 'load' along rather than absorbing and retaining it Even it's memory is difficult to wipe away😏 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 (edited) 10 minutes ago, The Johnster said: I miss Izal about as much as I miss endemic pneumonia, especially since we used it at home so I had no respite from the school supply! Medicated or not, it didn't work, simply moving the 'load' along rather than absorbing and retaining it; unmedicated newspaper worked much better! And I suspect it would clog most modern u-bends. A wonderful combination of pointless, useless, and unpleasant! The trick was to use two or three sheets at a time, crumpling them up, thus eliminating the sliding properties and providing some protection for the fingers. It was not for nothing that one was admonished to wash your hands afterwards... Edited December 9, 2022 by Hroth Spelin and stuff... 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2022 Izal Still sold in huge amounts in the sub Continent. Branded as 'John Wayne' Ad Strapline, "Its Rough & Tough & takes no sh!t from Indians" (Sorry, not very PC) Regards Ian 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 8 minutes ago, Ian Smeeton said: Izal Still sold in huge amounts in the sub Continent. Branded as 'John Wayne' Ad Strapline, "Its Rough & Tough & takes no sh!t from Indians" (Sorry, not very PC) Regards Ian Its not been improved then.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2E Sub Shed Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 (edited) 54 minutes ago, The Johnster said: I miss Izal about as much as I miss endemic pneumonia, especially since we used it at home so I had no respite from the school supply! Medicated or not, it didn't work, simply moving the 'load' along rather than absorbing and retaining it; unmedicated newspaper worked much better! And I suspect it would clog most modern u-bends. A wonderful combination of pointless, useless, and unpleasant! Until the mid 80's Izal was still the only toilet paper in the Government Supplies Catalogue, with "Government Property" printed on every sheet. When it was decreed that Civil Servants could use a "soft" toilet tissue, we had vast stock of the hard stuff (about a pallet load) which had to be disposed of without a charge of "willful destruction of Government Property" being laid. Edited December 9, 2022 by 2E Sub Shed punctuation 1 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2022 41 minutes ago, The Johnster said: I miss Izal about as much as I miss endemic pneumonia, especially since we used it at home so I had no respite from the school supply! Medicated or not, it didn't work, simply moving the 'load' along rather than absorbing and retaining it; unmedicated newspaper worked much better! And I suspect it would clog most modern u-bends. A wonderful combination of pointless, useless, and unpleasant! Much like your post 🤢 🤣 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PeterStiles Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2022 (edited) 18 minutes ago, 2E Sub Shed said: a "soft" toilet tissue In my mind the unsung hero of civilisation is the man, or woman, who invented soft toilet tissue. I wish there was a statue somewhere or a monument to that defining moment when barbarism was oh so simply wiped away. This must have been a greater moment than the design of The Wheel, more heartowarming than the discover of Fire and a greater step then Coming Out Of The Trees. I like to think it was a woman called "Anne" who has been feted as the king of the soft-on-the-sphincter policy. Whomever it was, I bow to them. Edited December 9, 2022 by PeterStiles funnier 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2022 4 minutes ago, PeterStiles said: Whomever it was, I bow to them. And because of them you can bow lower. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, Ian Smeeton said: Izal Still sold in huge amounts in the sub Continent. Branded as 'John Wayne' Ad Strapline, "Its Rough & Tough & takes no sh!t from Indians" (Sorry, not very PC) Regards Ian Trouble was, it took no sh*t from anyone else either… Edited December 9, 2022 by The Johnster 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2022 1 hour ago, boxbrownie said: And because of them you can bow lower. And with more confidence. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Johnster Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 9, 2022 2 hours ago, boxbrownie said: Much like your post 🤢 🤣 Sorry, tried to make it as inoffensive as I could, but one had to attempt to encapsulate the problem. It was awful stuff, and proof that not everything was better in the good (allegedly) old days! 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastglosmog Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 2 hours ago, PeterStiles said: In my mind the unsung hero of civilisation is the man, or woman, who invented soft toilet tissue. I wish there was a statue somewhere or a monument to that defining moment when barbarism was oh so simply wiped away. This must have been a greater moment than the design of The Wheel, more heartowarming than the discover of Fire and a greater step then Coming Out Of The Trees. I like to think it was a woman called "Anne" who has been feted as the king of the soft-on-the-sphincter policy. Whomever it was, I bow to them. In days of old, when knights were bold, and bog paper not yet invented, they wiped their a**e, withn tufts of grass, and went away contented. (as recited by primary school children in the 1950s) 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Jeremy Cumberland Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2022 Well, Izal medicated certainly got me to more places than any other brand of toilet paper. In my younger days, I used to hitchhike a lot, and found that a sign was often useful. So I got a bit of hardboard the longest that woud fit in my rucksack, painted it white and then painted LEAMINGTON on one side and COVENTRY on the other in black, these being my most usual destinations at the time, with a rather smaller "PLEASE" below each, but I sized them both so they were exactly covered by the width of a loo roll. It took three layers of Izal sellotaped to the board to provide enough opacity to hide the writing underneath, and then with a Jumbo marker I could write wherever I wanted to go that day. I could even build up layers, with the top layer saying something generic such as WEST, and successive layers beneath moving on to NORTH WALES and BANGOR, for example. Izal was indestructable, standing up to rain and wind, as well as being shoved down the back of my rucksack and being pulled out again. I didn't see anyone else with a similar board, and I did occasionally muse, during long waits at motorway service station exits, what kept Izal in business. Someone else must have been buying the stuff, and it was bloody useless for wiping your arse, after all. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Saunders Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 There was no problem with theft as there definitely no black market for the stuff! 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 2 hours ago, eastglosmog said: In days of old, when knights were bold, and bog paper not yet invented, they wiped their a**e, withn tufts of grass, and went away contented. (as recited by primary school children in the 1950s) Our version was In days of old When knights were bold And toilets not invented They dug a hole in the middle of the road And sat there quite contented 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted December 9, 2022 RMweb Premium Share Posted December 9, 2022 And there'd be no stockpiling either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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