Posted on 01/29/2014 8:16:21 AM PST by C19fan
For most Americans, toilet paper is an absolutely necessary grocery list item, but some women are opting out for both economic and environmental purposes. In a HuffPost Live discussion, bloggers Angela Davis, Kathleen Quiring and Makala Earley explain why they've decided to go paperless, revealing that it's not as messy or unhygienic as it may sound. 'It is definitely possible,' insists Mikala, who says she and her husband stopped using toilet paper about a year ago. 'It is almost seen as a necessity [and] it doesn't have to be, and it's been a lot of fun to learn how to do it this way.'
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careful there, ecoli can cause diarrhea
Bigman, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 4 hours ago
On my way to work this morning I thought to myself " I wonder if there is anyone in America who uses cloth to wipe their backside instead of toilet paper "...............Then to my complete surprise, I discover you have an article on precisely that subject. I don't know how you do it DM, I really don't.
Why the hell would we want to go backwards in sanitary practices?
I bet they turn their noses up at red meat because of E. coli, not realizing they’re growing their own cultures of it on their fingers.
Sounds like they should turn over a new leaf.
Become mentally ill - save a tree.
mmmkay
When we went to the wilds of Canada...them big oak leaves worked just fine.
I’ve used my left hand for 6 months in Nepal.
I actually saw one interesting SHTF article about using a pump yard sprayer with a nozzle bent back as a makeshift bidet for TEOTWAWKI.
Personally, I would store it right next to the wood burning stove so the water was at least warm!
But good idea nonetheless.
Unsurprisingly, Angela Davis appears to be a dirty hippie.
“Gee, these poop rags don’t make a full load.”
“Just throw in those dish towels with them.”
The poison oak, not so much.
Just think how environmental responsible it would be to use your hand. Then dont even wash it and you’ll save like 3 gallons of water each year.
Chapter 13 is entitled: "How Gargantua’s wonderful understanding became known to his father Grangousier, by the invention of a torchecul or wipebreech."
Here is a brief excerpt:
Afterwards, in dunging behind a bush, I found a March-cat, and with it I wiped my breech, but her claws were so sharp that they scratched and exulcerated all my perinee. Of this I recovered the next morning thereafter, by wiping myself with my mother’s gloves, of a most excellent perfume and scent of the Arabian Benin. After that I wiped me with sage, with fennel, with anet, with marjoram, with roses, with gourd-leaves, with beets, with colewort, with leaves of the vine-tree, with mallows, wool-blade, which is a tail-scarlet, with lettuce, and with spinach leaves. All this did very great good to my leg. Then with mercury, with parsley, with nettles, with comfrey, but that gave me the bloody flux of Lombardy, which I healed by wiping me with my braguette. Then I wiped my tail in the sheets, in the coverlet, in the curtains, with a cushion, with arras hangings, with a green carpet, with a table-cloth, with a napkin, with a handkerchief, with a combing-cloth; in all which I found more pleasure than do the mangy dogs when you rub them. Yea, but, said Grangousier, which torchecul did you find to be the best? I was coming to it, said Gargantua, and by-and-by shall you hear the tu autem, and know the whole mystery and knot of the matter. I wiped myself with hay, with straw, with thatch-rushes, with flax, with wool, with paper, but,
Who his foul tail with paper wipes,
Shall at his ballocks leave some chips.
You can see the rest of this scatalogical dissertation here.
The things you learn in college.
So how messy or unhygienic is it? 50% as messy or unhygienic as it sounds? 75%?
What a load of crap.
I'm sure that someone makes a brand that is unbleached and has a few cockle burrs in it, just to make the Greens feel good when they scratch themselves. But to give up TP altogether “for the environment” is just plain stupid.
They are nothing but Luddites.
Well played.
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