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We used to call that school toilet paper Clint Eastwood paper - rough, tough and takes no s**t!! Although it is good for playing the paper and comb thing.
My Dad talks about the Army method too - eugh
I do have a friend who allegedly only uses two sheets tho. (Chris suggeste that she could be using kitchen roll!! lol)
Does using those disposable wet wipe thingys count?

Milims wrote:We used to call that school toilet paper Clint Eastwood paper - rough, tough and takes no s**t!!

I seem to have missed something by not growing up in Britain... The first time I went to England ('72, I think), I just couldn't believe that loo paper.

Just think of all the years we had to suffer - maybe this is the answer to all our hangups! Anyone got a going to the toilet phobia? It's got to be caused by that bog roll!

I think the stuff at school was made by Izal. Even newspaper would have been preferable. It's not just that it wasn't absorbant, if you scrunched it it formed corners and became sharp!

If you do have someone in the house who thinks they are the Andrex puppy, squash the loo roll before you put it on the holder, that way it won't spin so freely when tugged.

Wassail

Someone once explained that when he was in the army he was instructed that he only needed three sheets to do the job - one up, one down, and one to polish. It wouldn't do the job for me, I can tell ya.

I remember the hard paper - available in flat packs as well as on rolls. In fact, when we started using the soft stuff I actually complained about it - thought it was most inadequate. Not sure I would feel that way these days.

Hmmm ... remember the dreadful wax paper days -ugh!
Also remember "tracing paper" bog roll - I started a trend in 'O' level biology of raiding 'diagrams' for use in 'tracing' the diagrams from text books into my exercise books. I'm sure I told the teacher what I was doing.

BTW, does the army thing still involve vaseline?

All I can say is bleugh!!! I have a son who seems to think it's the way to go but I'm still trying to convince the little tinker that it's not! Long live loo-roll!!
My nan used to have the horrible shiney stuff when I was little aswell as it being in schools! My memories of that are ouch!
mithril.

If i remember my roman history correctly they had mixed sex communal public toilets in benches all in a row and a bucket in the corner with sponges on sticks to wipe clean makes shiney loo roll seem like heaven doesnt it!

Of all the ways to cut down on paper use, the toilet paper roll would be the last thing of all! Wonder what else Sheryl Crow is doing that she has come down to rationing the TP, she must have covered everything else already?

Millymollymandy wrote:Who is old enough to remember that waxy stuff we had at school? It didn't work for either no. ones or twos so what exactly was the point of it? Moss would be better!

Izal medicated toilet paper, the cruelist invention known to man and bottom!

Mum used to tell me to scruch it up and rub it together to make it softer. I thank the gods for the soft stuff!