Posted on 05/27/2005 8:16:51 AM PDT by Red Badger
BEIJING, May 27 -- Shoppers in Finland raided shelves for toilet paper Wednesday in fear of it running out as a lockout of workers kept the Nordic country's paper mills shut.
¡°As soon as we get a delivery, the packages vanish off the shelves. The big bags go first,¡± said Hille Laine, manager of a central Helsinki shop, which had no tissue paper products left.
Paper makers enforced a four-week lockout May 18 following a two-day strike by workers.
The dispute in the key export sector is mainly over industry's plans to scrap mill shutdowns during some holidays and on the use of outside labor.
The latest round of talks between workers and employers ended without a deal Wednesday, meaning that the lockout will continue at least until Monday when they are due to meet again.
(Source: Shenzhen Daily/Agencies)
Sounds like a snowstorm in DC area....
Now there's something we take for granted but would miss if suddenly unavailable!
But sales of the Koran are up.
Watch out for a run on Korans ...
Usually in our area when there is a run on TP you can't find milk, eggs or bread either.
The old snowstorm preparation.
When someone is done with the toilet they stick their head out of the door and yell "I'm Finnish!"
Hey! We're out of TP! Got a Finn?......
On line catalogs just don't work the same.
Hehe. Isn't 'Fin' old slang for Five Dollars?
YEP!!!!
Find a quran as a substitute. Great way to show what the world thinks.
All those speculating on the TP companies there were wiped out when the stocks touched a new bottom.
They could always recycle corncobs.
I would like to suggest to the Finns what we do up here in Canada, that is, grab a few Maple Leafs of the nearest tree. However, lately I've been resorting to using the Maple Leaf on my country's flag. Yeah, I know, I'm bitter.
I doubt they grow much corn in Finland!.......
That's a crappy thing to do, if you ask me.
This thread is rapidly going down the toilet!
Not to worry. Why don't they simply learn how to "pinch it off" like the "rag heads" do?
Be a man! use your hand!.......
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