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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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To: Farmerbob; dforest

It’s just weird for me.

On the toilet paper note we had hundreds of rolls in the garage because every time we’d go to Costco we’d forgot we bought toilet paper before and bought another one.


41 posted on 06/25/2021 10:24:12 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Red Badger

Tools people used in the past were moss, sponge on a stick, ceramic pieces, bamboo ‘spatulas’, and if you’re the Puppetdent of the United States, Dr. Jill.


42 posted on 06/25/2021 10:25:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: Red Badger

The ocean is a good one

When you live on the beach. Be like da fish !


43 posted on 06/25/2021 10:26:54 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: SunkenCiv

one thing bitcoin will never be good for


44 posted on 06/25/2021 10:31:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity.)
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To: Red Badger

> and by 1930 toilet paper was finally manufactured “splinter free.”

LOL


45 posted on 06/25/2021 10:32:31 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Red Badger
Now you know what made Sears & Roebuck such a success in the late 1800s.....................

That and the bra ads.

Aww, memories.


46 posted on 06/25/2021 10:33:31 AM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Red Badger

Our golden retriever with 5 inch thick hair around his butt does not have to wipe.

Defective design in humans.


47 posted on 06/25/2021 10:33:59 AM PDT by setter
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To: Red Badger

Leave it to you to find a crappy topic lol


48 posted on 06/25/2021 10:37:45 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Red Badger

Yes pastel pink blue yellow and green. We had pink at home.

One can still obtain it in France.


49 posted on 06/25/2021 10:38:58 AM PDT by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: Red Badger

If you squat as our ancestors did 10,000 years ago you need little to no toilet paper.

Sitting on a toilet puts you in the wrong position and causes you to have to wipe. The sit down toilet was a defective design since day 1.


50 posted on 06/25/2021 10:40:44 AM PDT by setter
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To: Red Badger

Why are the 2 Romans on the left sitting so close to each other with so many available spots to drop the chalupa?


51 posted on 06/25/2021 10:40:50 AM PDT by mellow velo
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To: Red Badger

“Now you know what made Sears & Roebuck such a success in the late 1800s.....................”

LOL, Yes, I am sure S & R catalogue pages came in handy when there was not near universal toilet paper.

But, S & R’s real success was they were like a combination of Walmart plus Amazon at one time, and sold many things not sold by either one, including houses and farm equipment like tractors.

But back to Korea.

Yes some places had indoor toilets, even some houses, and of course modern hotels and offices.

But in all the large public toilets in Korea I ever experienced, like at large Korean movie theaters, the stench as so bad I on occasion just skipped the opportunity.

And in our U.S. Army quarters, the toilet part of the “bathroom” quonset hut was much like the picture of the old Roman latrine - a bunch of toilets in a row with no partitions around or in front of them, and our company had just that one toilet area near the quonset huts that were our barracks. The shower was a shower room; just a large totally open square room with showers along the walls and a kerosene heater in the middle of the room.


52 posted on 06/25/2021 10:40:58 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: Wuli

USMC was the same, even in the US....................


53 posted on 06/25/2021 10:43:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: ifinnegan

I know it sounds weird, but once you try it you like it.


54 posted on 06/25/2021 10:43:29 AM PDT by dforest (huh?)
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To: mellow velo

Maybe they were Greek conscripts......................


55 posted on 06/25/2021 10:44:18 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: setter

Yeah, he just licks his poopy rump and then gives ya a big old kiss.


56 posted on 06/25/2021 10:44:33 AM PDT by dforest (huh?)
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To: dforest

Probably.


57 posted on 06/25/2021 10:45:22 AM PDT by ifinnegan ( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: dforest

“Yeah, he just licks his poopy rump and then gives ya a big old kiss.”

Nope, clean as a pin after pooping. I rarely see our dogs lick their butts.


58 posted on 06/25/2021 10:46:04 AM PDT by setter
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To: ifinnegan; dforest; knarf

“It’s just weird for me.”

Think about it this way...If you accidentally stuck your hand in dog poop, would you wash it with water or smear it around with a tissue?

Honestly, I can’t stand pooping anywhere but home now because of the bidet. Well, except for at work. I like the idea of being paid to poop.


59 posted on 06/25/2021 10:46:34 AM PDT by Farmerbob
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To: Chickensoup

And perfumed!.....................


60 posted on 06/25/2021 10:47:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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