Posted on 12/17/2009 12:27:42 PM PST by smokingfrog
"They'll take my Ultra Soft Charmin only when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-smelling hands."
Highly doubtful it will come to that. Please, sit.
We're talking about toilet paper. Charlton Heston's famous vow was of guns.
The issue over tissue in the bathroom — the really super-soft stuff — is more like the fight about the big SUVs loved by many Americans.
Anti-green, environmentalists say. Politically incorrect. Why should Americans use luxurious toilet paper made from old-growth trees when much of the world gets by with a far more basic and often recycled product?
Why should we flush redwoods, so to speak?
So Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environmental groups have pushed manufacturers such as Kimberly-Clark (Cottonelle) and Procter & Gamble (Charmin) to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products.
Mountains of paper are dumped every day into recycling bins in homes, offices, factories and schools. Use that to make toilet paper, the activists say.
Time to roll off the big number: If each American family would buy one recycled roll just one time, it would save 400,000 trees, allegedly.
The problem, though, is that each time paper is shredded during the recycling process, its fibers get shorter. The shorter the fiber, the less soft the tissue. And Americans, though saying in surveys that they embrace green initiatives, also say they don't want to sacrifice comfort.
"The truth is that other parts of the world are further along in using recycled content," said Kay Jackson, spokeswoman for Kimberly-Clark. "The American consumer still wants softness, and they are speaking with their pocketbooks."
Pulling back in a competitive market is asking a lot, manufacturers say. They also point out that only 5 percent of forest-industry production goes toward toilet paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at kentucky.com ...
Google ‘Bidet’ and hit ‘images’....you will laugh your butt off.....LOL! ;)
“...They wipe their a__
with broken glass,
those hearty sons of bitches.”
Algore chaps my ass.
They're even coming for our a-holes now.Assholes coming for our assholes.
It's been happening for years. Now, however, it's just a little more literal.
Is nothing holy to these people?
The real plush girly soft stuff can form dingleberries under certain conditions. I like the Kirkland brand also. It is just the right strength, and economical.
Exactly how to live in a communist society.
Recycled Toilet Paper"???Those yellow chunks are the corn.
Now I understand why Al Gore looks so uncomfortable like something stuck - it’s the toilet paper he uses
**I am sure the greenies all use sponges.**
I would love to use a corn cob dipped in turpentine on them!
You need to suffer for your sins against the evironment.
Buck up!
(Little did I know when I posted what a “sensitive issue” this is.) Laughing My Chapped A$$ Off!
***I saw a sample of Russian TP long ago, it reminded me of wax paper.****
Sounds like what we used in the military in 1966-69!
“They can pry me soft toilet tissue from my cold dead ass.”
What a visual image!
lefties can STFU, i am sick and tired of them forcing their views on me!
...if they don’t want to buy a gun, don’t buy one!...if they wan’t to use incandescent bulbs, don’t buy them!...if they don’t want to use 2 or 3 ply toilet paper, then don’t buy it!...BUT DO NOT TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN’T BUY!!
...they don’t have to use toilet paper whatsoever for all i care, or they can just use their hand and wipe it on their shirt...BUT STAY THE HELL OUT OF MY LIFE!!
I’m dying. :)
thats hands al baby hands....ROFLOL
The other problem is when your wife/husband wants to read the paper, you have to moon them for the sports/fashion section..
The worst toilet paper I ever saw was in Kuwait. It must have been the recycled kind. It disintegrated upon touching, sticking in places you never knew you had.
What a visual image!
Used toilet paper being pried from a cold dead ass.
I agree; as far as visual images go, that's hard to beat.
Works for me.
If sparrows don't pee, people shouldn't pee.
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