Coronavirus

So, how exactly does one "prepare" Izal medicated toilet-paper before use?

Take one or more sheets, as required. Screw up the sheets into a ball & roll the ball between your palms. Straighten out the ball & the sheets will be found to be softer, without the shiny surface. Repeat the process a number of times if a softer result is required.

As for toilet paper, I will panic when the local supermarket has no tinned soup.

A novel, if somewhat messy, alternative use for tinned soup.

Nigel B.

Surprised just had a delivery from Amazon and before handing me my parcel the driver said 'I must warn you that this parcel as been handled several times and you should wash your hands after handling it'

Needless to say I did as suggested

H

Wasn't Izal one step up from John Wayne paper? Rough, Tough, and didn't take no *^&( from anyone?

I was just leaving....

Was under the impression that those returning from Italy are obliged to self isolate, it appears that flight crews travelling to and from Italy do not have to, is this a glaring loophole in the governments master plan to protect us from the Coronavirus!
Dave W

Originating from Australia and just sharing here.

I thought Izal was for rubbing paintwork down.

It will be interesting to see if the F1 race in Melbourne goes ahead next week. I am sure it will because of the money involved and money is always the main deciding factor. It would mean the entire Ferrari entourage from close to the corona hotspot in Northern Italy will enter Australia without quarantine restrictions.

We have also had a case of a doctor who had been overseas, had flu-like symptoms and went to work treating 70 patients. He is now confirmed as having corona virus.The government have quarantined all 70 patients.

Am I optimistic that corona virus will be contained - what do you think?

Some pretty desperate ladies here toilet paper brawl

Next week it will be rice, pasta and flour being hoarded

Then canned food

* Danny M *

Toilet paper at home has always been soft, at school and the early days of work were a revelation that such a useless item as Izal existed. In an emergency it could be used as tracing paper but was absolutely rubbish for the paperwork after a number two. I can only conclude that skids in ones underpants must have been a common problem before soft paper. The preconditioning of the paper did not really work although it was better than straight off the roll. God knows what generation snowflake would do if the only had Izal in their safe space.

Mike

Interesting how all of a sudden everone is listening to what the scientific experts have to say. The science-denying climate change deniers and anti-vaxxers have all gone very quiet. These virus scientific experts must be a different breed of scientist fron those conspiring to line their pockets with grant money and pharma sales and create a one world government through "alarmism".

Well, 'thread drift' has allowed this thread to reach rock bottom, so, unashamedly continuing the theme... Anyone who has tried to clean chocolate spread off the face of a toddler, using only dry tissues, soon discovers it's impossible and will appreciate the superior cleansing abilities of 'wet wipes'. Pity they clog up the sewage works. In fact, dry tissue is such a poor cleaner, it's not surprising that cultures which use water for 'personal cleansing' (or whatever the PC term is) look upon the western paper-wiping world with scorn.

This forum is a mine of information - perhaps someone can enlighten me, especially in view of the possible imminent paper shortage. Having been far abroad and seen milk bottles half-full of water in lower-class conveniences and small hand-held shower-heads on flexible hoses in more salubrious ones, how on earth is one supposed to use water instead of paper, without getting it everywhere? Such knowledge could be very useful soon...

Not that bothered

over the last 40 years we've been pretty spoilt and they've cured virtually al the big nasties

We were wandering about with scarlet fever typhoid tetanus polio mumps measles bla bla bla for time immemorial around us before more recent times

Never come across diphtheria or rubella or cholera though

A dozen plus nasties, pretty much all gone from society now

One nasty was bound to sneak through eventually, and we're living like rats in a box nowadays, all packed together to maxmise capitalist efficiency

"Aye, he'll be gone by tomorrow morning" used to a common phrase as the doctor left the family home

We can only watch and wait, the gods will decide our fate

As least we'll all have clean bums when we go

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Chatting to our son, yesterday ... He is working in Laos : He mentioned that very point of scorn.

The high prevailing temperatures apparently make the use of a ‘bum jet’ [sic] quite reasonable.

MichaelG.

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P.S. ... He was, however, concerned about the locals’ habit of coughing and spitting.

It's in those those poorer places like in Africa India south America etc where this thing is going to be totally rampant

It could be carnage for them

The press doesn't seem to be talking about it either

Edited By Ady1 on 08/03/2020 08:20:02

The best of both worlds for the rear end is paper first then a bidet. The clean joy since having for for the last 9years cannot be overemphasised. As for the third world.. well I;ve seen folk wiping their faecal hands on the stall walls when the paper had been stolen again..

As far as governments caring baout the third world: Yes when there's olitical capital to be made and trade deals for foreign aid but a virus that kills the elderly. disadvantaged, homeless and overcrowded? Every politicians' dream come true if they can keep the economy running....

A cabinet minister has just stated that UK is well prepared to cope with coronavirus - so we're doomed. This is the same minister that claimed he'd talked to supermarkets about keeping supplies running- just that none of the supermarket big brass were able to confirm such a meeting..

Politicians needn't worry about washing their hands - they've been teflon coated so long...

A bit of info on the numbers coming out of China

The male smoking rates in China have been like Britain in the 40s and 50s so that will add to their woes, 4 in every 10 fags smoked are puffed in China

Edited By Ady1 on 08/03/2020 09:54:11

My Grandmother once wrote to Winston Churchill on Izal toilet paper to complain about the meagre widows pension apologising to the great man for using toilet paper as she couldn't afford proper writing paper.

Stew

Just got back from the supermarket. As expected there is no toilet paper, no worry. There appears to be a run on the alternative - tinned soups and tomatoes!

No doubt by Tuesday there will be so much toilet paper that it will be stacked in the car park.

JA

Either the BBC or the Guardian (I forget which) carried a suitably sensible explanation.

I think you could sum it up as 'carefully' and wash your hands afterwards.

I wonder what's happened to the price of bidets?

Neil