How to cope when coronavirus wipes out toilet paper supplies

New York Post ^ | March 6, 2020 | Yaron Steinbuch

[jonrick46]

With toilet paper not yet invented, an ancient Roman would often grab a tersorium (or, in English terms, a “toilet brush for your butt”). A tersorium is an ingenious little device made by attaching a natural sponge (from the Mediterranean Sea, of course) to the end of a stick. Our ancient Roman would simply wipe him- or herself, rinse the tersorium in whatever was available (running water and/or a bucket of vinegar or salt water), and leave it for the next person to use.

[Secret Agent Man]

If you are married you don’t have enough tp. your wife is gonna use it up 6x faster than you will.

[trebb]

Get bidets before they’re sold out...

[Georgia Girl 2]

Or just hoard up TP.

[bgill]

When you’re in quarantine a few weeks, you might begin to understand.

[bgill]

Years ago, I researched and decided let our cannas grow as much as they wanted.

[mplsconservative]

Thank you Jane. I will update if anything changes.

[Leep]

A relative, that lives near a Krogers, told me they had a sale on 24 rolls of paper towels for $3.99!

[The Duke]

I read somewhere that the ancient Romans used (and re-used) sponges. Also, you can purchase dehydrated packages containing a good number of sponges that take up very little storage space.

I do believe I feel another run for provisions coming on.

[Pollard]

If you look at youtube vids of middle easterners cooking, they only touch the food items with their right hand. Most of them are filming from nice looking houses so I would assume they have toilets but maybe old habit’s die hard.

[Svartalfiar]

There is a plant in Australia (naturally, you knew this was coming) called Gimpy Gimpy, whose leaves when touched has been described as a combination of electric shock and burning acid. It’s so bad suicides have been reported more than once because of it, when someone mistakenly uses it as TP.

Dendrocnide moroides ... is a plant common to rainforest areas in the northeast of Australia. It is also found in Indonesia. It has stinging hairs which cover the whole plant and deliver a potent neurotoxin when touched, by the small bulb that is found on the tip of the stinging hairs being broken off and penetrating the skin to inject the toxin. It is the most toxic of the Australian species of stinging trees. The fruit is edible to humans if the stinging hairs that cover it are removed.
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The hairs cause an extremely painful stinging sensation that could last from several hours to 1–2 days, recurring to a lessening degree for several months or more whenever the area is touched, exposed to water, or subjected to temperature change. The injured area becomes covered with small, red spots joining together to form a red, swollen welt.


So sure doesn't sound like much fun, though they certainly look like a nice soft butt-wiper!

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[BulletBobCo]

[familyop]

LOL! Good one!