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Labor power has apparently scared the shit out of us to such a degree that no amount of toilet paper will ever be enough to wipe it up.
I'd rather see people panic buying toilet paper than ammunition
Yeah, but I can tell you from COVID that when you're getting close to running out of it, all the people panic buying toilet paper that didn't need to make you a little bit cross.
Take solace in the fact that all the people that bought thousands of rolls with the intent to scalp them basically lost all that money after inventory caught up a month later.
Sounds like a trailer park boys story arc honestly
I just buy toilet paper from Costco once every one to two months and I'm fine.....these people are insane, stupid, or both. Seriously WTF does toilet paper have to do with survival? Just get a bidet if it gives you this much anxiety FFS.
Yeah it hasn't even been 5 years since this shit happened during COVID and people can't remember how ridiculous it was back then. How much toilet paper is even being shipped here from overseas and not manufactured using the billions of trees we have here in North America? Shit like this, or people panic buying gasoline and filling up trash bags with it, gives me a little bit of insight as to why the ruling class treats us like cattle.
God that was so fucking stupid. I hated it so much since I usually buy one of those 48 rolls packages to last me awhile. Well, I happened to be down to a few rolls when the panic happened, so I looked like one of those assholes.
God I hate people. Why is that the thing everyone panic buys?
There are people who benefit financially from these panics. The companies selling the goods, and the news who have a good news story. And politicians.
Sure, but it's still fucking stupid.
Don’t forget the scalpers hoping to make a quick buck.
I buy the bulk packs of super thick type and hardly need any so it lasts me like 3 rolls a year.
I’d love a bidet anyway but i refuse to do anything the landlord might get huffy about
the cheap ones are so easy to connect and disconnect that i don't think you could possibly fuck up enough for them to notice you did anything
It requires MAYBE an adjustable wrench or pliers. Your landlord will never know. Easily returned to original configuration in minutes. Do it!
The bidet is the way.
Hell yes. Installed bidets last time this nonsense happened and I will never go back.
Anyone not enjoying the luxury of a bidet doesn't know what they're missing.
Anyone not enjoying the luxury of a bidet is pooping like a Neanderthal
The moment I finished using a bidet for the first time, I had this revelation… my entire life, up until this point, I’ve been walking around with a filthy disgusting paper-wiped ass.
It was exactly the same for me.
Clean ass bros 🤜🤛
Glad we bought a bidet after the last wrath of morons did this.
Is this the new America? Disaster is looming, so buy toilet paper?
It's not even a disaster, like, the port workers wouldn't strike so long as to actually threaten the country, they live in it. It's only a disaster if you're trying to avoid paying them more
It's only a disaster if you're trying to avoid paying them more
So, it's a disaster then.
I would say it's a looming disaster in terms of the average price of goods for consumers when they are already living paycheck to paycheck in many cases.
I am on the side of the port workers, don't get me wrong, but the fallout from this strike will hurt people.
Well, maybe the company should give the workers what they want then.
As long as the right people are held accountable for that damage. The mainstream media does not have a good track record of reporting on the side of striking workers.
This a problem for people who don’t have a bidet. Gross people.
Morons don't even understand that toilet paper is domestically produced, not imported, so a dockworker's strike would have fuck-all impact on the supply of it anyway.
My area appears to have been hit with a paper towel shortage first. Attempted to get some at Costco today because we legit needed it, but they had none. Went to Lidl and they were running low, but was able to procure some.
I never understood this behaviour. I will starve before I run out of things to wipe my ass with.
With that much toilet paper, you’d be silly to stop wiping when it turns red!
Just keep wiping until you get all the way to the top.
I learned my lesson from the early days of covid. Buy that good stuff i bulk as a habit, not as an emergency reaction.
If it starts to disappear again, check out a company called Who Gives a Crap? We never had a supply issue during the pandemic.
Hahaha, this again. I'm starting to think big TP sows dissidence in society, trying to cause any form of logistics service to be disrupted, so long as it's not their trucks.
But also I love seeing how many people don't know how to clean themselves at home if they have no TP.