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All the Ways We’ve Wiped: The History of Toilet Paper and What Came Before Among tools people used in the past were moss, sponge on a stick, ceramic pieces and bamboo 'spatulas.'
https://www.history.com ^ | APR 15, 2020 | CRYSTAL PONTI

Posted on 06/25/2021 9:48:45 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 06/25/2021 9:48:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: SunkenCiv

PinGGG!...........................


2 posted on 06/25/2021 9:49:52 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

I knew a girl who had a bidet in her bedroom bathroom.


3 posted on 06/25/2021 9:50:17 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Red Badger

Bamboo...

OUCH !!!


4 posted on 06/25/2021 9:50:30 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Red Badger; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; mylife
“Take toilet paper, for example. Do you realize that toilet paper has not changed in my lifetime? It's just paper on a cardboard roll, that's it. And in ten thousand years, it will still be exactly the same because really, what else can they do?”


5 posted on 06/25/2021 9:51:25 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Red Badger

But what about the 3 seashells?!


6 posted on 06/25/2021 9:52:29 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: ifinnegan

$$$$$......................


7 posted on 06/25/2021 9:52:35 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Skywise

Sheryl Crow says only ONE seashell is enough..................


8 posted on 06/25/2021 9:53:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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9 posted on 06/25/2021 9:53:13 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Red Badger

In the 1960s, in Korea, at a Korean friend’s family house outside of Seoul, there was no indoor toilet. There was a sort of out house and for toilet paper there was a stack of old pages from newspapers and magazines.


10 posted on 06/25/2021 9:53:34 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Red Badger

Don’t forget the Three Seashells.


11 posted on 06/25/2021 9:53:55 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Tennessee Nana

People were tougher back then......................


12 posted on 06/25/2021 9:54:24 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

What about corn cobs?


13 posted on 06/25/2021 9:54:30 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("The problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher )
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To: Army Air Corps

Sheryl Crow says only one is sufficient...................


14 posted on 06/25/2021 9:55:17 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger
Finally a story with some substance! So to speak...

Two words: belt sander.

15 posted on 06/25/2021 9:55:42 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Red Badger

01-06-2021 was an unarmed peaceful mistake.
That’s all I have to say about this.


16 posted on 06/25/2021 9:56:13 AM PDT by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: Tennessee Nana

Seashells?! People were indeed tougher in those olden days.


17 posted on 06/25/2021 9:56:28 AM PDT by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: ReleaseTheHounds

Corn is a New World vegetable. It was not known in the rest of the world until the Spanish conquests......................


18 posted on 06/25/2021 9:56:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

And we complain about too-rough toilet paper.


19 posted on 06/25/2021 9:58:59 AM PDT by fwdude (“I do think at a certain point you've paid enough taxes.” — Not Obama)
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20 posted on 06/25/2021 10:01:21 AM PDT by Pollard
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