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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: Mozzafiato

Come on - I would say a significant % of FReepers are of the generation you’re speaking about...and others are just plain immature no matter the age! As to the country as a whole - another large % - we are living to a ripe old age...so don’t mess with us!


41 posted on 03/22/2020 4:20:17 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: CheshireTheCat

42 posted on 03/22/2020 4:20:51 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Black Agnes

And, here we’ve been concerned about the treatment chemicals. LOL.


43 posted on 03/22/2020 4:21:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Rio

Is that from the CA Sanitary Dept?


44 posted on 03/22/2020 4:22:20 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Well you can’t blame the illegals for this, they don’t know what the hell a toilet is let alone toilet paper!


45 posted on 03/22/2020 4:22:26 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I’ve heard if they run out of TP, they use a cat. just sayin’.


46 posted on 03/22/2020 4:22:49 PM PDT by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
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To: familyop

Agree and ditto.


47 posted on 03/22/2020 4:23:14 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Yeah, because the south side of Chicago is cleaner than anyplace in CA.

Right?


48 posted on 03/22/2020 4:23:55 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: ifinnegan
I doubt it.

Sorry, but he's right. As a 15 year veteran of "County Drink and Stink" (Water and Sewer), fats/rags/oil/grease (frog) are the biggest ongoing problems with municipal sewer systems.

49 posted on 03/22/2020 4:24:07 PM PDT by Traveler59 ( Truth is a journey, not a destination.)
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To: Sacajaweau

Hopefully none of them were hairy trefoil compound leaves.


50 posted on 03/22/2020 4:24:24 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: Tax-chick

Yeah but if you did ...


51 posted on 03/22/2020 4:25:49 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Sacajaweau

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

On the farm in Upstate NY, we used Sears catalogs. My mother saved all calendar pictures and there wasn’t a bare spot on the outhouse interior walls - all walls were covered with beautiful pictures. She saved the left over starch from wash day (Mondays) to paste them to the wall or I should say delegated that job to my sister and myself.

I guess that’s why some of the family or hired hands spent longer than usual in there - dreaming of far away places! Or probably of an inside john some day!!


52 posted on 03/22/2020 4:26:06 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: CheshireTheCat

How can we idiot-proof America? Is it even possible?


53 posted on 03/22/2020 4:27:12 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: forgotten man

Xactly. What a bunch of morons some folks are.


54 posted on 03/22/2020 4:27:56 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

I think any small insecticide/lawn food sprayer (a pressurized one with the long handled sprayer) could function as a portable bidet ... awkward perhaps, requiring some interesting gyrations to position it suitably, but it would serve the purpose. A lot of us have these in the garage or basement somewhere ... just clean it out thoroughly first and there ya go!


55 posted on 03/22/2020 4:27:59 PM PDT by RightField
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To: Jane Long

Redding, CA or maybe Shasta County.


56 posted on 03/22/2020 4:29:06 PM PDT by Rio
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To: Mariner

Of course not, but I don’t feel the need to defend it either. I didn’t make it that way.

Just a joke. I wasn’t commenting on all Californians. Only those who defecate in the streets and flush t-shirts down the toilet.


57 posted on 03/22/2020 4:31:36 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.)
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To: CheshireTheCat

Someone we know is using paper towels. Talk about clogging the lines!


58 posted on 03/22/2020 4:32:07 PM PDT by EnquiringMind (')
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To: Cvengr

If you got money...dollar bills.


59 posted on 03/22/2020 4:32:26 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Thank You Rush

Great memory.

How long ago was this (if you don’t mind saying).

Sounds like stories my dad’s older siblings told.


60 posted on 03/22/2020 4:33:09 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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