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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: GnuThere

LOL The people doing this have probably never seen one, let alone used one.


61 posted on 03/22/2020 4:33:35 PM PDT by madison10
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To: CheshireTheCat
People are so effing stupid. Can we shoot them?
62 posted on 03/22/2020 4:34:00 PM PDT by Chgogal (Wuhan Virus, Chinese Virus, Kung Fu Virus - Wuhan Chinese Kung Fu Virus)
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To: PIF

When I worked at the shipyard in the 60s we worked on a Greek ship that had what looked like a 2x12 about 20 feet long with holes cut in it on each side of the ship. They said that when at sea, when one of the crew had to take a crap that is where the did it.


63 posted on 03/22/2020 4:34:40 PM PDT by sport
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To: CheshireTheCat
I was concerned we would have issues like this. Also, many people are genuinely stupid enough to flush material like shredded cotton shirts or towels down the toilet. They figure once it's flushed, it's somebody else's problem. These are the same people who pour used motor oil on the ground in their backyards or dump bacon grease down the kitchen sink drain.

Nobody should have more than 20 rolls per household member at any given time. People are bragging about having hundreds of rolls in their houses. This is what is causing the problem. Toilet paper is still being manufactured at the same rate and people are using it at the same rate. But the supply cannot keep up if people keep clearing the shelves when they already have enough rolls at home that they won't even get to using until well into Trump's second term.

64 posted on 03/22/2020 4:35:18 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Trump (859); Slow Joe (527); Commie (476); Fake Indian (48); Drunken Weld (1))
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To: CheshireTheCat

I had a summer job right after college with the sanitation dept. and most of the calls was to ream out clogged sewer lines from disposed pampers.


65 posted on 03/22/2020 4:37:18 PM PDT by AU72
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To: CheshireTheCat

I know someone using small pieces of old underwear, but she is bleaching them in the laundry to reuse. Like cloth diapers.


66 posted on 03/22/2020 4:37:25 PM PDT by madison10
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To: Old Yeller

Half the country is below average intelligence. Bound to happen.


67 posted on 03/22/2020 4:42:54 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Piss on China. They nuked US and Europe with a bio weapon. Payback time.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Things they don’t teach in school, plumbing for dummies.


68 posted on 03/22/2020 4:43:58 PM PDT by This I Wonder32460 (Stay Calm & MAGA On!)
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To: napscoordinator

Don’t tell me that people ran out of toilet paper in less then a week.”

Why not? I am out. Well-stocked on most other things.

We have options, but nothing silly is getting flushed.

In fact, I sewed up some cloth napkins yesterday out of old material to conserve the stock of paper products we do have.

I don’t expect to see another roll of Scott Tissue for at least a month, and I’ll be damned if I’m paying jacked-up prices from gougers.

They can choke on their hoard before I deign to take any off their hands.


69 posted on 03/22/2020 4:46:07 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: CheshireTheCat

How in the world did Humanity survive when mothers had to use cloth diapers...?


70 posted on 03/22/2020 4:47:22 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: CaptainPhilFan

Do you live in central Florida? I bring you some rolls.


71 posted on 03/22/2020 4:47:50 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: headstamp 2

Lol. A little hyperbole thrown in the mix.


72 posted on 03/22/2020 4:49:21 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Eek. That’s the comment I have to offer. Lol


73 posted on 03/22/2020 4:50:06 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: entropy12

Yep. Common sense is your middle name. Not shocked your a FREEPER.


74 posted on 03/22/2020 4:51:24 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: forgotten man

When we visited Mexico in 2000, we were told we HAD to buy toilet paper from a vendor at the public restroom, and we BETTER BUY, even if we had our own.

Yep. There he was, at a table selling two or three sheets, with an armed burly policeman backing him up.


75 posted on 03/22/2020 4:54:22 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: CheshireTheCat

Dollar Tree baby wipes 40 for 1$, no tp here either. We got 4 packs- Dollar Tree had boxes and boxes of them, and no crazy people trying to stab you over them.


76 posted on 03/22/2020 4:57:29 PM PDT by Ponyexpress9790
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To: Thank You Rush

We used real cloth diapers on our kids between 1975 and 1981.

Still have no problem using old clean rags if I need to.


77 posted on 03/22/2020 4:57:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Tax-chick

We refer to that apocalypse as ‘rag on a stick’.

We’ve never experienced it but we have a plan, just in case.

Also rags, sticks and a bucket each for everyone.


78 posted on 03/22/2020 5:00:58 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Ponyexpress9790

Please tell us more. Are they adequate substitute for TP rolls?


79 posted on 03/22/2020 5:01:32 PM PDT by entropy12 (You are either for free enterprise or want gov't to guarantee your wages.)
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To: forgotten man

Rag, soap, water. Wash, rinse, reuse.


80 posted on 03/22/2020 5:05:17 PM PDT by Exit148
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