• Lovable Sidekick
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      42 months ago

      A few assholes bought as much TP as they could, also hand sanitizer and other items, to hoard and sell at exorbitant prices to make a profit off the pandemic. They made their homes and apartments into little warehouses.

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m not sure how much we brought, but majority if it’s still stored in our garage, don’t seem to be running out of it anytime soon XD

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    Just get a bidet. if you are feeling fancy, get that one like those in japan. You will be converted.

    If you got electric issues, get a spray jet.

      • XnxCuX
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        Maybe im overthinking it, but couldn’t it have always been deemed endemic? I googled ts and cant grasp it 😂

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          It’s endemic when it’s just always there, like the common flu. Even if the numbers fluctuate. When it first appears and spreads across borders it’s pandemic.

  • BarqsHasBite
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    Like beginning of pandemic? Hmm 5 years is a stretch but maybe a few.

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      There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot and their toilet paper is itchy and annoying.

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      As a bum gun user, this. Never need the paper unless you want to pat to dry, and then the paper is clean anyway.

      Toilet paper is for sneezing, picking up bugs, or dinner table napkins.

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      Had a bidet going into the pandemic. I’d bought a big (grocery store big, not Costco big) package sometime before the runs. I’m still not quite through that pack.

    • @[email protected]
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      22 months ago

      Wife is not a fan of bidets, I wonder if having a toilet do the same is reasonable? I donno never tried it but always wondered

    • @[email protected]
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      102 months ago

      I’m just happy that the newest electrical code is allowing electrical outlets closer to bathtubs. Otherwise I’d never be able to have a powered bidet on my toilet.

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          42 months ago

          I’d have to go look up the exact wording, and it’s on my drive that I don’t have hooked up right now. GFCI was required for any outlet in a bathroom, but there was still a ban up until the most recent edition on any outlet within the… shoot, the word/phrase escapes me, something like ‘shower space,’ which includes the area with four horizontal feet of the edge of the bathtub. I have a toilet right next to the shower/tub combo, and a door next to the toilet, which meant no outlet allowed near the toilet and thus no electrically powered bidet.

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    652 months ago

    Can you imagine, you bought a pallet of TP in 2020, and you finally run out in 2025 just intime for there to be No TP because of tarrifs.

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    Shockingly I am one of them.

    But we didn’t hoard.

    My ex used to work at a bjs and there was a sale the summer before lockdown AND we’d just bought a house so she had bought like 10 packs…. Had to fill all our empty storage.

    Anyways.

    October 2024 I purchased my first toilet paper again since 2019.

    I guess technically we didn’t buy any DURING the pandemic…

  • @[email protected]
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    132 months ago

    That was a bizarre time period. I wonder why moms didn’t start hoarding baby diapers at the time. Can you imagine what happens if the supply chain collapses and you run out of diapers? Having enough toilet paper will be the last of your worries at that time.

    Fortunately, all of those fears were unfounded, but they were also directed towards some weird items too. If you want to worry about something, toilet paper isn’t really very high on that list.

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      We had a baby that was finished breast and on to bottle milk in the thick of the pandemic lockdowns.

      There were some shortages but I distinctly remember there being two boxes of formula left after a mild shortage, some mild concern setting in but suppressing the monkey brain and leaving one behind as I thought about the other parent that was going to come along behind me.

      I think mums and dads are more likely to think about the other baby and be less grabby (edit: of baby products). Pure speculation. We didn’t have much toilet roll hoarding here though either.

    • @[email protected]
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      Im glad this was not one of those weird items that everyone lost their minds over unnecessarily.

      I mean, there were times without these mondern diapers. If you have a baby you will have plenty of different cloths that you can use as a diaper if necessary. Just like your able to get clean down there without TP. Bizzare times indeed.

      Random bonus fact: Back then many Babies were potty trained by the time they were one year old just because its more work to diaper your child up with cloth diapers and clean them after use.

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      No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.

      So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs in the IV without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.

      So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.

      I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my entire soul and most of my organs out the next morning. Im talkin ass-chaffing farts

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    When some finally got back in stock we got some but it was awful quality. We got some better stuff a little bit later. So we have a box of single ply in our garage still lol. I can’t imagine using it now though, probably covered in cobwebs and dust.

  • FlashMobOfOne
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    Buying in bulk is a guaranteed return on investment, though. (And that’s especially true in the Donald tariff era.)

  • Geetnerd
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    Yeah, this is shit, literally.

    In my 2 person home, we go through a 12 pack in 2 weeks.

    • @[email protected]
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      12 months ago

      I started tracking 2 weeks ago for fun. So far its 1 roll in 3 days avg for 2 people using this bathroom.

      The result May change if you are using mega rolls or normal ones or w/e else is there.

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        When you’re the caretaker of an 88 year old mother with diabetes, you go through that much.

        And since you’re a ignorant young male, women dab their urethra after they piss, which my mother does at least a dozen times a day.

        You’ll understand after you move out of your parent’s house.

        And when one of you “Well, Akshully…” cunts try to save face, you’re wrong, and ignorant, and sound stupid to actual adults.

        • AmbiguousProps
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          102 months ago

          Are you doing a “well, akshully” here while also complaining about that very behavior?

          • Geetnerd
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            12 months ago

            Why so ignorant?

            Oh that’s right, spending on your life online, instead of touching grass.

          • Geetnerd
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            32 months ago

            Because people who have no idea what they’re talking about are stating:

            "Hurrr, hurrr, I’ve never gone through that much…’

            Well, now you’re learned something.

            • @[email protected]
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              You don’t need to attack people in order to teach them something. It seems like there’s other things going on in your life that are bothering you. I hope things get better for you soon man.

            • Ms. ArmoredThirteen
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              122 months ago

              Seems like you’ve got some feelings you should work out fam. I get it but like expressing it this way you just look like an asshole. Hope your day goes well

              • Geetnerd
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                12 months ago

                I’m not your "fam.’

                I’m educating young people who haven’t gone through it yet.

                • AmbiguousProps
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                  92 months ago

                  You’re not educating anyone, you’re just being hostile for no reason.

                • @[email protected]M
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                  “Educating” my ass; have you ever thanked a teacher for calling you a wrong stupid cunt?

                  If I want to educate you on the proper way to respond to someone stating their own possibly-naive experience, I’d undermine my effort if I let my own cunt face follow it up with “Now go wipe your mom’s ass for the umpteenth time cuz you’re a shitty teacher.”

                  Sincerely, I don’t feel the kind of hostility towards you that that example suggests. But if you feel insulted, reflect on that and go from there.