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Loo rolls

Sorry everyone but I need to say this- people fighting for loo rolls- if you run out just wash!!!

Helen Bamberger ● 2423d26 Comments

I stocked up with the Guardian

Julian Pavey ● 2423d

Love it Julian !

Helen Bamberger ● 2423d

You'll never find another love like mine - Lou Rawls

David Marles ● 2423d

Most newspapers OK but you  must not flush it - also remember the essential STRING.

Jennifer Selig ● 2422d

Is the lack of loo rolls an ongoing supply problem.

Janice Evans ● 2422d

I don't think it's an ongoing supply problem, Janice, so much as an ongoing hoarder problem.

Colin Jordan ● 2422d

Apparently the panic buying of loo rolls is also prevalent in the Australian outback at the moment. Can anyone explain why people feel a need to stock up on them during this pandemic ?

Richard Greenhough ● 2422d

I'm assuming some folk can barely get in their front doors with the pasta mountains they surely have behind them. Still, as long as they're OK, sod everyone else.

Gordon McDonald ● 2422d

I have yet to hear of anyone admitting to panic buying; this being the case, who the h**l is doing it?

Bob Guyett ● 2422d

There was an explanation from a psychiatrist in one of the weekend papers - valid or not I don't know. Two factors. First, they're bulky, so it feels as if you've achieved something if you have a big pile of toilet rolls. Secondly, flush toilets and toilet paper are 'civilised' so if you want to hang on to the last vestiges of civilisation despite the sturm und drang of the plague going on around you, wiping your bottom clean with triple quilted, aloe vera impregnated, rose scented bog roll is a reassurance that your world has not yet ended.Also possible, maybe, that they have become trophies 'I've got more than you'.

Ken Munn ● 2422d

There's also the scarcity angle.Once people know something is running out (because the first wave has panic bought) they think they better get some in case there aren't any when they do need them.

Will Watson ● 2422d

There's also the IQ quotient: Panic buyers are invariably stupid and selfish.

Carl Wynne ● 2422d

My Nan always went for candles, mouse traps tea & izal.

Tessa Russell ● 2422d

Back in the 50s it was sugar.

Viv Griffiths ● 2422d

My friend in Queensland told me that the origins of the loo roll buying madness in Australia started after some berk stated on the internet that 90%of Aus. toilet rolls were imported from China and that soon the supply would dry up. Hence the pandemonium. Whether this story is true or just another internet myth, who knows?In fact, most of Australia's bog paper is produced in Australia.

Keith Iddon ● 2422d

Oh Viv I totally forgot the sugar mountain under the stairs !

Tessa Russell ● 2422d

Think we have a supplier in the North, could understand if they refuse to send them😉

Janice Evans ● 2422d

Panic buyers stupid and selfish?  Selfish maybe but with large swathes of the population looking forward to virtual house arrest and everybody at risk of being subject to self-isolation with no notice is it stupid to try and have a little more in reserve at home?  Particularly as home delivery services are apparently at 100% and can take no more orders.

Philip Coe ● 2422d

Manchester, 4.7 million made every day.

Janice Evans ● 2422d

The daily fail lies torn and ready to fulfil its true purpose.

Stewart Jones ● 2422d

Just go to Sainsbury's if you want to see who's hoarding.A bloke today must have had 200 bananas. Perhaps he keeps monkeys.Lots of stuff out and people with huge trolleys of all sorts of stuff I can't believe they need.I'm worried in a few weeks time food recycling will be overwhelmed by a tide of rotten bananas and eggs.

Guy Lambert ● 2422d

Here is one of the alternatives:https://www.cheekywipes.com/toilet-paper-alternative-family-cloth/family-cloth-toilet-roll-alternative-wipes.html

Philippa Bond ● 2422d

I was very lucky and manage to get all my shopping but now worried about next week, hope things back to normal soon.

Janice Evans ● 2422d

According to an Aussie wag in the paper, if you want to figure out someones I.Q., start at 150 then deduct 1 point for every toilet roll they've got hoarded away in the spare room...Meanwhile, there's nothing new under the sun:https://priceonomics.com/the-great-toilet-paper-scare-of-1973/

Richard Cathcart ● 2422d

And back in 1973/4 we had no electricity during the "3 day week" for some 10 weeks.

Jim Lawes ● 2422d

We gave up sugar in our tea and on our cereal in the 1970s by reducing the amount we used until there was none left - and we no longer craved it.  Never looked back and never became dependent on sugar substitutes.  What a win that turned out to be!

Philippa Bond ● 2422d