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Shredded T-Shirts Used as Toilet Paper Are Backing Up Sewer Systems
PJ Media ^ | March 22, 2020 | Rick Moran

Posted on 03/22/2020 3:44:14 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

Thanks to all of you numbskulls who bought a million rolls of toilet paper in the last few weeks, some California towns are experiencing sewer problems because people are using disinfectant wipes, paper towels, and even shredded T-shirts and then flushing them.

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To: CheshireTheCat
"My friend back in my home state said he spent 5 hours a week ago going to ten different stores before he found any TP."

Many who did that were also spreading the disease to many others. Wow. Profound.

21 posted on 03/22/2020 3:55:30 PM PDT by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: CheshireTheCat

“Five percent of the people think. Ten percent of the people think they think. The other eighty-five percent of the people would rather die than think.” - Thomas Edison

Seems like an awful lot of 85 percenters are causing plumbing problems.


22 posted on 03/22/2020 3:58:26 PM PDT by BuffaloJack ("Security does not exist in nature. Everything has risk." Henry Savage)
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To: napscoordinator

You are wise to fake news. This smells of click bait.

When I run out of TP, it will be bath-tub with long hose shower head. I am not going to flush anything other than TP.


23 posted on 03/22/2020 3:59:31 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to guarantee your wages.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Don’t these idiots know what a trashcan is?


24 posted on 03/22/2020 4:00:22 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: Old Yeller

No problem more poo poo in the streets


25 posted on 03/22/2020 4:00:30 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (nicdip.com)
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To: napscoordinator

“I call this fake news. Don’t tell me that people ran out of toilet paper in less then a week.”
They ran out because Chicken Little bought all the toilet paper two or three weeks ago and even brags about it. Chicken Little also bought all the lysol wipes and hand sanitizer to store in his pantry for five years, preventing everyone else from using it to slow the spread of the virus he’s so terrified of.


26 posted on 03/22/2020 4:00:53 PM PDT by JoeRed
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To: CheshireTheCat
Think of the endangered Tiger Salamander!!!
Oh the huge manatee... Trump's FaultTm
27 posted on 03/22/2020 4:02:05 PM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Newspapers are pretty good. Although I don’t know how well they dissolve I assume its much better than tshirts. The NYT works well enough although its a bit pricey.


28 posted on 03/22/2020 4:05:34 PM PDT by jarwulf
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To: Old Yeller

At least half the country consists of absolute idiots.

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they hit critical mass during the Clinton regime


29 posted on 03/22/2020 4:05:47 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: forgotten man

That’s how it is done on fishing boats and in Mexico.

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Mexico yes but not on any fishing boat I eve worked on or heard about.


30 posted on 03/22/2020 4:07:05 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: napscoordinator

“I call this fake news. Don’t tell me that people ran out of toilet paper in less then a week.”

Long before this virus, I have had more than one person tell me, proudly, that he uses an entire roll when he goes. I didn’t ask for details. It was always a he.


31 posted on 03/22/2020 4:08:13 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat ("Forgetting pain is convenient.Remembering it agonizing.But recovering truth is worth the suffering")
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To: Tax-chick

Cheaper yet - use coffee can, place 1/4 full of gravel or small stones on inside bottom, fill 1/2 way with water, use left hand to clean and dip. Empty and repeat when water becomes foggy.

Benefit: you will not go into culture shock when you visit a muslim country


32 posted on 03/22/2020 4:11:11 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: napscoordinator

[[[I’d just jump in the shower. Most people only take a dump a day.]]]

That sounds very scientific.


33 posted on 03/22/2020 4:14:08 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's also a highway to hell.)
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To: Old Yeller

“...At least half the country consists of absolute idiots....”

Without a doubt...LOL
One can tell just by their low-IQ voting patterns.


34 posted on 03/22/2020 4:14:19 PM PDT by lgjhn23 (Libs are a virus.....the DemoVirus!!)
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To: GnuThere

“”For Petes sake people, whatever happened to a diaper pail?””

Same thing that happened to cloth diapers - GONE! I’m
probably the last mother to use cloth diapers in 1973....

What would ever give anyone the idea that even if they have run out of toilet paper, NOTHING else should be flushed regardless of what they used!

They could install either of these for the next time:

https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/articles/11-heroic-tips-for-using-southeast-asias-bum-guns/

https://www.tripsavvy.com/squat-toilets-in-asia-1458304

I decided I would never go the Asia after seeing these.


35 posted on 03/22/2020 4:16:31 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: forgotten man

In Canada, we used leaves. The outhouse had a whole basket of them.


36 posted on 03/22/2020 4:16:33 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Old Yeller

Your hand + water works in a pinch. (No pun intended)


37 posted on 03/22/2020 4:17:04 PM PDT by Smellin Salt
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To: napscoordinator

I call this fake news. Don’t tell me that people ran out of toilet paper in less then a week.


It probably took them a good bit longer. Could have been 2-3 months if they last bought in December.

Also, a lot of people don’t realize baby and toilet wipes don’t break down well in the sewer system.


38 posted on 03/22/2020 4:18:10 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: CheshireTheCat

how about all the morons who bought wipes and flush them down the toilets?

these are the same dumb asses who hoarded toilet paper and I’m sure some FReepers are among them.


39 posted on 03/22/2020 4:19:57 PM PDT by Coleus
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To: PIF

I wasn’t planning on visiting a Muslim country.


40 posted on 03/22/2020 4:20:13 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("The mark of a decent society is that it resists the temptation to spurn the defenseless.")
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