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Venezuela hopes to wipe out toilet paper shortage by importing 50m rolls
Guardian ^ | May 16, 2013

Posted on 05/16/2013 6:11:14 AM PDT by grundle

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To: stuartcr

50m roll - sorry


61 posted on 05/16/2013 8:16:02 AM PDT by stuartcr ("I have habits that are older than the people telling me they're bad for me.")
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To: C210N
TP is interesting stuff because it is the ultimate recycled paper product. Almost any wood pulp or paper product can be made into TP.

When we lived in Japan, there was even a truck which came around to give away TP as an incentive for saving your newspapers and magazines.

Your typical stack which could be carried out to the truck in one hand would garner you a roll. A large bundle which required both hands to carry would get you two or more.

My brother worked one winter vacation in India helping build houses for Habitat for Humanity. The local shop sold single rolls for about US$0.50 which, coincidentally, was the typical take home pay for a day laborer then. So I suppose they would use it very sparingly.

62 posted on 05/16/2013 8:22:10 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Kind of makes sense. Our government has been blowing smoke up our ass*s for the last five and a half years, too.


63 posted on 05/16/2013 8:24:18 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: memyselfandi59
I was in college when the Toilet Paper Shortage of 1973 hit.

Don't recall that one, but, then again, my mom was a major TP hoarder as far back as I can remember. She used to pack a bunch in their car when they would make the Snowbird run from Mass. to Fla. in November.

64 posted on 05/16/2013 8:26:21 AM PDT by ssaftler (It's Obama's fault)
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65 posted on 05/16/2013 8:35:29 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: C210N

Well I won’t say where I have been, but I heard there is a country that still has a TP problem. Every where you go there is a person sitting at a card table inside the bathroom with a roll of TP selling squares off it. You give them $1 and they give you 2 squares. No rolls at all in any stalls. People on planes going in from other countries carry large black trash bags full of partially used rolls home.


66 posted on 05/16/2013 9:02:43 AM PDT by sheana
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To: grundle

If Venezuela were run by real liberals, like we have in NYC, they would ban eating and eliminate the need for toilet paper.


67 posted on 05/16/2013 9:18:22 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: Vigilanteman

I saw a documentary once about one of our AWOL defectors who decided to stay in Red China at the end of the Korean War. The ChiComs put him to work in a toilet paper recycling plant. The fool was from someplace around here....Vandergrift, PA, I think.


68 posted on 05/16/2013 9:26:31 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ssaftler
my mom was a major TP hoarder as far back as I can remember.

My experience living in Michigan taught me that the five most popular State Sports, in no particular order, were...

Deer Hunting
Ice Fishing
Hockey
Football
TP Hoarding

I guess you never know when 2 ft. of snow are going to dump on ya and you ain't making it back into town for about a week.


69 posted on 05/16/2013 9:29:47 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ssaftler

Here you go, info on the Toilet Paper Shortage of ‘73

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/trivia74.html


70 posted on 05/16/2013 9:32:29 AM PDT by memyselfandi59
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To: grundle

Sorry. I don’t have a square to spare.


71 posted on 05/16/2013 9:58:25 AM PDT by Alex in chains
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To: grundle

Heck! I think I used 50 million rolls last week while prepping for Endo!


72 posted on 05/16/2013 10:12:59 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: grundle

Venezuela ... send us all your 5.56, .223 Rem, 9mm, and .22LR ammo and we will send toilet paper right away.


73 posted on 05/16/2013 10:14:05 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: grundle
This guy knows how NOT to get toilet paper......


74 posted on 05/16/2013 10:24:30 AM PDT by fredhead (Never slap a man who is chewing tobacco.)
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To: Bender2
I'd like to join Commander Riker in applauding your most excellent post:


75 posted on 05/16/2013 11:26:18 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: Buckeye McFrog
. . . a toilet paper recycling plant . . .

As in used toilet paper? Not used paper to be recycled into toilet paper?

If so, he must have been Patricia Bin Murray dumb x 10.

76 posted on 05/16/2013 12:13:31 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Marcella

I ordered gobs of adult potty wipes from Walmart....I do not know what they are, but I bet you could throw them at JBT’s and escape! Maybe?


77 posted on 05/16/2013 1:21:25 PM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: Safetgiver

“I ordered gobs of adult potty wipes from Walmart....I do not know what they are,...”

If you don’t know what they are but ordered them anyway, you are really, really, dumb.


78 posted on 05/16/2013 1:52:03 PM PDT by Marcella (Prepping can save your life today. Going Galt is freedom.)
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To: grundle

Have they run out of Chavez posters, too?


79 posted on 05/16/2013 2:01:34 PM PDT by Cooter
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To: grundle

Couldn’t they just use old Chavez speeches? They are already full of crap.


80 posted on 05/16/2013 5:22:24 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (All those who were appointed to eternal life believed. Acts 13:48)
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