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There are so many times article out like driving in pain. I will say that this was a a draft of a future house networks article
gathered. So it has admitted editing the process and I am hoping and praying the editor will have some good, the good taste to remove some of these euphemisms about poop yeah. It's not me
no, you don't have to get hilarious about poop, it's hilarious on its own sure. You know I like this and by the way, yeah toilet paper has a pretty interesting. His
we actually enters the one thing I didn't clay realize it's pretty american actually toilet paper is
if you go elsewhere in the world, people have different feelings about her paper than american
Will you come back in you realize, like, while America really reach,
really loves its toilet paper gear. Any certain liquid statistics in a really kind of comes home like, for example, here some editing that needs to happen,
he's got some numbers wrong. What I found yeah, what I found was the Americans spend something like six billion dollars on toilet paper every year. Yes, is about twenty four roles per person that right yet per year and
We do something like we go through something like thirty six and a half billion roles and toilet paper each year in America. Thirty
they have billion roles of toilet paper. Every year
a lot of toilet paper. Yes m.
We were not showing many signs of stopping, as a matter of fact, for the paper is getting more expensive by the years. It's rising by about two percent in cost every year and weird were saying, give it to us. There's lots of theories
If China Paper somehow became a luxury item, yeah, I'm Americans would you say: well, I have to buy this luxury item. I cannot live without toilet paper there, but it s because we want or told of paper- and you don't think about it until you experience something other than toilet.
Which is usually a stream of water up your but yes- and we thought about this before, but for those of you haven't heard, are various statements on this. I wanna officially gone record again saying that toy papers- grossing disgusting, nay idea of wiping poop from your but with dry paper- is counter intuitive. It makes no sense and if you dont involve water in some way to the process, then you're doing around for years. Let him your com.
I'm at the deepest here, so I do have one. I hope well now need to re hook it up at about one of the toilet ones, because after I said that a couple years ago around, like dude here you go to meet the lake too
product by, but when immediately right and hook it up, but we did some bathroom innovations and it is now somewhere in a bag and my house, I need to find
get going again. So you have a better.
A floating around your house in a bag somewhere he yet for that.
Wait, wait kind is, is it like one? That's like a toilet, lids ice buddy, it's it. If its under the lid
I got to earn them scored, sir, a jet of water to your, but I've got one of those japanese toilet seats that has a bad day in a dry and everything. Really they are fantastic. Buddy man, you're life- I mean it's, it's that's more expensive than irregular toilet seat, but there that it's not so outrageously, expensive that you know yet what you always say. I went toilet paper. I do a little bit. I mean toilet paper. He still needed, pat yourself dry. You definitely do, although here
prior to you yeah, but you'd have to sit there for fifteen minutes to get so. What's the problem? Try it. I remember there is George Carlin Album where he was talking about some game show contested in one of the one of the game show contestants Hobbes was sitting on the toilet till my legs go numb. What's so funny the little things stand up here from childhood yeah like that's locked in there, but you probably don't remember something really important right about your family like multiplication, oh here or or schooling, or eight so history of toilet paper, man like so many things. If you go back to ancient China, they were apparently future people because it seems like so many things the ancient chinese people thought of and then it disorder went away for a thousand years. Will they arm
They invented paper right. So, if you're making paper and you pooping eventually, you gonna put the two together, like all other issues this, because of your time prior to this all around the world. Basically, humans used whatever was hand like leaves MOSS
very popular for me. I'm gonna marry the actual years leaves not bad yeah MOSS. I would say little messy, but sawfish that masses the bomb, especially its fresh.
It says here cocoanuts. I don't even know where to start with that yeah, I guess. If you went with the green, it be ok,
Maybe I'm sure it's not like a whole cooking. Are you using like a part of a shell or something like a shard near, don't say shard in that area that, but I think a cocoanut shell, the outer shell would be at least like they would probably do the job. You know right. Can a rough ride, says shells and yeah NEO and that if you live near the
you could you shells in theirs. Definitely some kind of molluscs. There would be better than others here. I saw somebody point out that there is such a thing is razor clams and they would razor glamour does not want to use their snow. Your deftly on the right track with that
Corn Cobb's huge here in Amerika. I think that makes a lot of it. Sure it's got like that. Can a rough bits voted sound interpret.
Bout. Perfectly shaped continually turn it in you get. You know new coverage or whatever
You're, the only thing where the corn carve using a core cobb is that you have to like a banjo music in your head. Why do you think that is the only way to do it? Shapes war.
Not bad no, and if you were a rich type Frenchy from Renaissance on, you would probably use lace delay. I saw that in that that doesn't make any sense is laces full of holes
you seem so french royalty, like shall only white. My bottom with Handmaid lace Right- and I think also, if your royal to you,
Actually, the one doing here, your own bottom might, for example, King Henry, the eighth who I know wasn't french. He had a position called the groom of the stool that wasn't at him now. So I think, if you are super rich, you had people wipe for you, which is now the only time you do as if you broken both your arms were here. Here's the deal. I looked up grim understood because that immediately piqued my interests should. First of all, we are not talking about a stool, listen, poop, military America's still sample. Now it means like this portable commode that look like
stole that they would carry around. I wonder if this were the term for poop stool came from me. I don't know what to say. Yes, ok a winter. I also found that- and this is absurd-
that all of royalty held like it, what he was not the only one they're all other kings had them in Queens and Dixon Duchesses, but they were there very closest helpers. Obviously, but apparently they didn't actually like help them wipe. They would help them undress for sure
There would be in charge of the commode up. I can apparently they would just can attract their meal schedule and dietary goings on like what cousin and what comes out, but I did see anywhere where they actually like, wiped their budgets for them. I see you ve passed
being shared is Tuesday. Most of them were knights and King George, the third Makin George, actually had a groom of the store. John Stewart with you, a party who eventually became prime Minster of England wow. That may and thank you for bringing us
today, because I was grossly misled by this house- the words article not yet sounds like you're, but for you I failed to
the young, the proper outside research. So thank you for saving me and shaming me at the same time. Well that sounds like
I blame you, probably red grim and Estonia, like you, don't need to know anything more about that now, but I should
no better, you know I've been doing this for years. I'm supposed to be professional, took it all right.
Greeks, use clay and stone and the Romans they were on the right track. They used like a sponge on a stick which was wet and that they would then clean with salt water. Yet why actually taken aback a second? The Greeks actually used polish bits of stone, yeah a sickly,
phone pause, pursuing, ok and then there is also something called. I think the streaky striking and ours
If you were dumb, if the town-
voting on like kicking somebody out. They would have their be these, like I'm bits of ceramic with
persons name engraved on it and they just throw it into this potter whatever. While the really show your disdain for somebody, you could use one of these destroy keys as a stone for wiping yourself and wiping yourself with the person's name resident about as bad as it gets. But that's where the word ostracised comes from it. It sounds like an australian like exclamation, a striking
Roy key people get the point. People are using whatever they can to wipe there, but like it's an issue, things get messy since the dawn of time took took, like you know, doesn't feel good to walk around after a poop. If you haven't clean myself right, so it was an issue and let's fast forward in time to
Eighteen, fifty seven! This is worth turned to get good in New York City.
There was a man named Joseph Gay Eddie and he invented something called Gaieties medicated paper sheets and they were, it was,
will the paper, but it was not yet on a role. They were really a tissue that you would put pull out of a box like kleenex yeah. They were like if you wanna, brandname buzz it. That's fine proprietary upon him, but fifty cents for five hundred cheats and you so proud. He had his name printed on them by then think that through, but here's the deal we had a heart and selling it because
at the time, and this is no joke. Americans used literally used the farmers almanac and the Sears catalogued wipe there but yeah as mere fact. Both of em, I think, came with a whole punched him like the top corner.
To make it easier to hang from a nail in your outhouse amazing. So there,
definitely one reason why I gaieties medicated paper didn't take off, but another part of it was that this is like a taboo thing right. You got it.
This year's robot catalogue in the mail. It served a couple of purposes. One of which was unspoken right here
the mayor of the mail delivery guy, just walk up into sight, color handed to the person insane user catalogue, yeah thanks, wink wink not noticed issued last.
Couple months Eric I was wondering how long it would laugh at me, like these things, were a couple hundred pages
So I wonder how long it would last, but yes most especially
Earl America, that was toilet paper that in corn cops. I wonder third argument: super cookout and families, like
Marge winter and were already to the tool section, the imo at your own, I'm sure there have always been miserly jerks, who yelled about using too much toilet paper here
so that was one reason that that Gayety had trouble with his medicated paper right. Yet another part was that the,
Abu right, no one wants to talk about that and he actually sold. His thing is like medicine. It was meant to be for the prevention and treatment of hemorrhoids right yeah, which obviously that will help, and it was it was very much what we would consider the first toilet paper, but it didn't take off it wasn't until about thirty or forty years later, that Clarence and E Urban Scott Scott Brothers
whose name still appears on toilet paper all yet got together and actually created the first toilet paper honour all the other changed everything it really did,
the apparently the shame. The stigma of of creating toilet paper was so much that they release their product in eighteen. Ninety
until nineteen o true that they finally acknowledge that it was their their product. Here they were just to share with you, didn't have to put their name
let me know- and apparently they use some of the companies that their company owned tis to you,
under yeah? They really really trying to put some distance and between them and the toilet paper they created there I get it. They did manage to sell out of it, though, because they were smart enough to market it too, like hotels and drug stores and stuff, and so they solve a lot of it, not like direct to customer right, and they said you know your hotel needs. This trust me no more talk about it, but despite these in your bathrooms and every one of the great an end again like it was it, it board kind, a well but then
Toilet paper, as a as we understand it today really didn't become like a state boy. What were you call an icon of american culture? Frankly until like three things happen from about the beginning of the twentieth century? Until about the nineteen? Thirty three one of the first things was that America has started getting indoor plumbing, dashing toilet cells, those the biggest deal. I think it was because we can use corn Cobb's and that any longer nope.
This is largely in the cities where, where you would find indoor plumbing still in rural America, up to the thirties, people were still using corn cobs in Sears and Roebuck Catalog. That's when the second thing that that took place that changed everything happened, the Sears catalog went to a clay.
His glossy paper no longer was soft and absorbed in any longer so mean it was slick and you you can't use that to wipe your bottom after pooping. There was the second thing that happened,
Lastly, the third thing that happened was a company called the was it the Hubert Hubert Paper Company Coburg Herbert Paper Company released a brand of toys
paper called Sherman yeah and they very very wisely branded it in such a way that this focused
its femininity softness its gentleness, and you could talk about how softly
No and wonderful is product was without talking about what it was actually used for, which meant that now you could market it to the public and, as a result, Sherman took off the army.
That sort of became the name and toilet paper for many years in no small part, thanks to a man named Dick Wilson who, from nineteen sixty four to eighty five and more than five hundred tv commercials played the beloved Mr Whipple George Whipple Grocery store manager very famously. I would urge usually women in the commercials not to squeeze the Sherman, because, apparently from sixty four to eighty, five women in grocery stores were compelled.
His waist toilet paper yeah constantly, like. Ah, I feel so nice and soft, which barely there's something wrong to the toilet paper well,
You didn't want your toilet paper, priestly wheeze. That's what you have other paper for yourself, so you could squeezing the comfort of your own home so add exact, John to vote. Yes, actually came up with that. Tagline am or phrase in the actors. Ritual name was Ricardo. The Google Yahoo Google Elmo from from England yeah did not answer
That others can say Rome, ITALY, I know little known fact about Dick Wilson- is that he is the Father of Stephanie Balconies love interest improving
Strangers know in real life, yet as historic and another factoid
is he was in but which the tv show you played the drunk. You see the bar here, who just couldn't believe witchery. He just seen, Mr Weber tells me: did you see that he was in more than five hundred of those Sherman adds there. There is a point where
He was. There was a pull that was taken, a nineteen seventy eight and found that in America he was the third most recognised person by Americans after Richard Nixon in Billy, Graham that South America there's a home run for add at agency. This is so America, the President, a preacher and toilet paper guy, MR with ball
I love it. You won't take a break yeah, we'll take a break and bring it into the modern age of, but wiping
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right so red point now, where Sherman his wealth. Before that we are at a point where toilet paper was now being championed by plumbers by doctors as being a good thing. Charming comes along said man,
the first soften dont squeeze it though, but boy. I know you want to Johnny Carson joke about it on the tonight show. Yet I was those kind of a significant thing here. He said that there was in this is in nineteen seventy three when there were cast shortages and energy shortages and Johnny Carson joke about there being a toilet paper shortage and people thought he was serious, apparently went out and like bought out grocery stores. The next day.
Yet it was a self sustaining thing, because there is a shortage. We are when people when people ran on body created a shortage in the successive waves of people came and saw for themselves that there was no toilet paper. So they panicked
but whenever they could in apparently for weeks in some places there there was you couldn't for you can buy toilet paper because it had been hoarded causes Johnny, Carson, checkbook man and he took it back, but you know back in those days takes a while for people get that information sure even on the year the tonight. So this one article
it was great the history one which one you so called the longer one I'll be, I think, you're the mental
What are our desolately was right, yeah, so always let these mental floss articles?
oh and by the way we would be remiss if we did mention that there will in man get you started
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made a pretty good point here. The end of it, which I never really considered but toilet paper, is actually sort of a marker of where you are as a country like developing nations when they start
buying more toilet paper. That means they are getting more sanitary, as a nation means they have extra money to spend as a nation. That means that their basically just sort of their demographics are changing in a positive direction. Speaking from a neoliberal standpoint that is correct, yeah, but it's interesting. I never thought about it. Like Brazil, they ve double the amount of toilet paper they sold since two thousand four year, which is pretty significant. Considering american toilet paper has plateau
we by as much as we we possibly camera were saturated MA. Am you were still spending six billion on INA, yet all over the world there are, I mean you know, and we want to go out. Guatemala with certainly saw the the bucket and the water next to the toilets. There
still many places all over the world where you clean yourself with
whatever water. You haven't you and if you do have something to wipe yourself with you, don't even flush it down the toilet. You and you have a low water hose in a bucket. Maybe in can take your business but or with a there are some places
where the plumbing just can't even handle actual toilet paper, just throw that away as well. Yeah flushing you wanna talk about how to help. It was me.
Yeah me, we can talk about it for sure, but I strongly encourage everyone to go to Youtube and watch a little six minute discovery channel bit from things from how it's made Canadian, how it's me I was out what it was. The lady just stop short of saying a.
I'll get the gun and others that yeah it's amazing now and I know I can of sensibly watch manufacturing videos
like all day and all night, but this one was especially call looking chuck. Did you get the same sense where, like you're just watching this huge
rules of toilet paper going over the rulers, and just think like that is so delicate, like all you have to do is lift your hand at the ass completely throw production on this.
I didn't feel like I want to do that, but I kept wondering like how, in the world where these machines just rolling this toilet paper so fast without breaking yeah, it's pretty impressive is certainly no. Let's start at the beginning, the whole thing starts with a tree: NEO you're, on your backyard. You cut down a tree you take,
to the toilet paper manufacturing. You sell it to him for a few dollars and then you leave and since you left it,
your tree any longer, because he took money for it and what the toilet paper manufactures you gonna do with. What's now, they're tree they're gonna grind it up in the little chips. They're gonna soak it
some water you're gonna grind it up even more
and what you have are called pop, we're gonna cook at first, you gotta cook it in a date it was called the digestive yeah that turns it in the pop yeah. And if you look at this video, it's like it looks
the council wet toilet paper, yeah, that's exactly what it was like in it, but it can one. It's dried crumbles really easily do I. So that means you got a few extra steps. The next step is you gotta bleacher cause you removing the color. If you ve ever seen like I'm the kind of grayish tan,
like I'm, like paper towels, or something that you seem like an office building the ideal or something like that like that is what pop looks like if you dont bleach it yeah, which, as I think the only reason they do, that is because they found that people don't like their toilet paper to be anything other than white. No,
where's the nineteen seventies yeah man. I gotta say I found this: some blog posts from a site called histories dumpster. They have pictures of
northern Brian toilet Paper, like
in my view, and the pink- and it was just like our member has followed my tongue from new style. You yeah, it was very cute, the Atlanta guess. We should go ahead and say the reason they don't do that anymore, because those ache dies. They found good cause cancer. In some cases they are expensive, more expensive to use dies and yet was basically a healthy people. Like you don't need these US dies.
It also the dies also kept the toilet paper from breaking down as quickly to yeah. They probably also looked inside. You know what my poop doesn't look any better on baby Blue that doesn't white no bite
the whole reason that they had. Those is because everybody loved to colored coordinate every room of their house in the seventies. Yet including the bathroom. Everything in the bathroom is big, so people would
people would buy more toilet paper to go with their more bathroom or whatever so Graham is grave. Was that so supervision
these two and that's just yet another reason that the seventies were hands down the greatest decade in the history of pretty great one other thing chuck, there's a company covering over and they actually sell colored toilet paper again.
Really yet like seven seven euros in fifteen cents, which that much less than it would be in dollars. But these days for six roles: ok, surrender factory Virgilius, so we ve made pulp and we ve
it's that now its white right. Then you take the Pope and you mix it with water and you ve created a paper stock. That's right and then you press it under a screen. This one was this gloomy away: yeah. They they precedent
screen. I guess you'd, your draining out of the water is one reason, and biogas is the main reason, because what you are left with is that dry white product,
yeah that the lady, the canadian lady, on how it's made said that they you hit him with it,
I went there on that screen and it instantly dries it out here. The systematic can you think of this stuff is so delicate that, but then, if you watch the process, it they're pretty rough with it yeah. So then, well concurrently was going on to we should say: is there also making the are the cardboard roles, which is Canada tubes in our just go, need to watch that happen on its own? They just make this one long, continuous tube that they cut and the like sixty edge. They probably depends on you know which company, but the one they feature think were sixty inch tubes, which would then roll toilet paper around. So you would have basically, as a sixty edge role, giant role of teepee right, which
really neat and they really daddy glue it. That is deeply glue that they used to keep it. You know not talked but a fixed affixed. Thank you. So it doesn't unravel here like when you, when you rip that toilet paper off at the very beginning that that's glue, that holding it to go right and then they have these circular size that car
there and just cut the big long row in the several small role. That was the coolest part.
It was and then down there they can be individually, raptor put in packs like for six or a million and then the asylum. It is a very cool short video. The I'd watch, that's enough forever. So that's if you're, making it from scratch, there's also recycled toilet paper, which isn't quite as popular
here in the United States, because it's a little coarser, the fibers are a little longer fear with with toilet paper, the shorter, the fibre these softer, the toilet paper. It's gonna be, and then they also adsum proprietary chemical combinations that include like extra routers, that kind of pull the fibers out of liquor
horizontal position in this kind of tough them a little bit here and then they'll put in like emboss and stuff like that to which came and gives it a quilted feel. So all of that is to make it softer and making them more. Gravy grabs the poop bread out your bottom yeah and those fibers a sort of balance. Their delicate balance are walking because they wanted to be solved, but they also want it to be strong enough because of its two flimsy, like the junk you get it. You know public restrooms in your office, probably yet that everyone provides a nightmare story about their fingers. Bustin through that stuff crank, which is worst case scenario.
When it's clean up time, so they're trying to basically walk that balance of soft and strong ray I'm one way they ve done, that is to add more layer. See applies so apparently led up to six plies.
I know that I didn't neither. I can't imagine you, could you couldn't even for that is what is, I feel, like? I wonder, and probably a cloud despite the new born with a cloud and that in eighteen, forty two that started a saint Andrew in Andrews Paper Mill in England right invented the to apply an added. No, this is another. I supported that until the nineteen thirties they would market toilet paper as splinter free like a bit net. They would they were forced to
because apparently that was a thing. So that's kind of that's where I was going with recycled toilet paper. It's kind of the new splinter splintering toilet paper, which I mean compared to the toilet papers of your recycled toilet papers, is completely luxurious near by compared to actual, like six ply superstar
stuff that you can get. It is a little rough and again the reason why the fibers are a little longer and it follows the same process, but there's a step at the beginning, where you take all these different,
purse and you put a man and mash them together in some water and you inject some air and it creates foam, and the ink in the paper gray sticks to the foam in the foam float southern. They just skim the farm off the top, and you just remove the ink and then you start the rest of the process, making a pulp again what a world.
It is pretty amazing, rightly took another break and we're gonna come back and wrap. It up with some more amazing facts about teepee
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And point out that the toilet paper is hung in an improper overhand fashion. So, apparently, I'm not sure who
I'd episode waiting on that,
there are in the minority, is apparently only thirty percent. Do the under hang you
definite overhang person. What about you?
overhanging for sure.
Apparently and remember, seeing this online a few years ago, a kind of went around, there was a
Did anyone again himself Wheeler of Albany perforated wrapping paper company submitted a patent for the first perforated toilet paper on a role and that showed
the over position and everyone was like. That's it settle. This was the first one this house was to be which really prove nothing when he now I mean it's still preference, but there are definite pros and cons of the whole thing. I ever here's the thing for me. It's a lot of the pressure of the pros days list as like your little carry your dog won't be tempted to go yank it if its and the under position, presumably because its hidden.
No because it's so if you're a little kid or a doggie, and you come up if you, if it's in an overhand fashion, if it's overhanging, you can just come up and start slapping downward on the toilet paper roll in it will just come right off
on an underhand. Your hang to use in our state its flips around and stays together. Northern yes it does. You have to pull
downward on the toilet paper if it going from under hang,
to get it off the raw. If you slap downward on the front top of the toilet paper, or that there is never gonna come loose, sicilian trivial force hold them play. I think I disagree on this notion. I think that's presuming that you're using the old school built into the Wall Toilet paper dispenser now, because I have the one where it sits on a free standing stand and if I put my hand on the back of that thing and just give it a spin, it will
then, all of a sudden, now you ve changed your perspective down as over others down. I know it's all crazy yeah. I guess I haven't seen the many of them there can about a fashion, other ones that are built in
This I haven't seen the many of them there can about a fashion, other ones that are built into the wall. Early, you don't see, does as much
You can only yet illegally plans they have to from behind yet the classic ceramic holder built onto the Wall ride. I have that, although my bathroom is more of his is a really now. I wish in his hand
that, although my bathroom is more of his, is it really
coordinated bathroom. I know you would never be sweet yeah. We does have those stands where that the toilet papers are stacked up about post yeah, then that top it's got a little l shaped thing in the dude hangs on their yet we just have one. I like drill
EL shaped thing in the dude- hangs on their yet we just have one leg drills into the war yeah I get so it's not occur by just the same thing. I can't get to the backside of it. The issuing and get the back a man. So ok, but if you are using a kindness affixed to the
then there were new. If you have an underhand you can't you can't slap, it frees right. Well, that seems like a kind of a minor thing to really champion as a reason yeah, especially if you have kids are mischievous darkshire here. My dogs never done it and I fear the worst dogs right. Ok, now you tell where one and so on
got you ve got that in that's that's for the under hang for the overhang I wanted
things about the underhand is that you can't see the unsightly and of the toilet paper all right it s. Not
finally, I agree and in fact there is a whole book out. There are numerous sister got it for its pretty Osmond called a toilet paper. Origami teaches you all sorts of different way
like for the end of a toilet paper. All gaelic yeah and you can
wake up one day and there is all night
following your like. Where am I, the Ritz.
My dear John, I'm at my house. Still in this surprisingly, not even tailor the I think
the new chapter in our life here and she says pooping. Why are you in the bathroom hair I get out? Yes, yes, Emily! Yes, speaking of get out it sought last night. Finally, would you think was great yet then I got Emily to watch it and she was reticent. She loved it. Yeah. That's, really not hurt,
saw it last night? Finally, would you think was great yeah? Then I got Emily to watch it and she was reticent. She loved it. Yeah, that's really not her jam either. I just don't see how you could not ultimately leave. That movie feel like pretty great happy that you saw there are some pretty scary aspects to it in area is like a good straight, a poor movie yeah. I called I called all the twister area, yeah lettuce and she's. I go out gonna nail down. Did you call the bad guy from Billy Madison being the bag? I believe was he and Billy Madison yet Eric I dont know if I saw Billy Madison its. I that's another one of those like what was I doing not seeing Tommy boy and Billy Madison near. I think I was in my like blue and watch an art films.
Very get out highly recommended yeah agreed, finally by me, so back to their overhand unhand thing, which, if you can believe it were still talking about, there is one thing and in over hang aside from the delightful toilet paper gotta, you can do
There is one thing and in overhang aside from the delightful toilet paper origami you can do. I led, I think, definitely says yes overhang in an underhand. If you have a toilet role holder up against the wall, you are inevitably going to brush your knuckles up against them
of your bathroom to grab the toilet paper, something you don't wanna do, because if you leave the lid of your toilet open when you flash in error so wise site, clone of appeal in poop
it was all over your bathroom, including your bathroom walls. So if you can not touch your bathroom miles when you're getting toilet paper so much the better- well, that's not upon for me, but you know that people around here behind your back.
Because I'm a big hurry knuckles? It's been your nickname for years. I know I know Russia Tirana here. I just pretend like I have heard
it's always talk about. The future was wine this up with the like, you said, Americans, apparently, like you, can pride this gun for my cold dead hands. I too think that it's too
The paper other Koane, its toilet paper, to write in one hand and a lot of other countries, especially here in Europe and Japan, have roundly sided with the Paddy yeah, which I researched the day a little bit cause. I'm like. How do you think
the day I seen him before and of a true today is you'll, have a toilet, and then
so that you have a toilet, but it does have a lead in there's like some facet knobs and
breathing journey there he'll turn it on
like water comes up out of the bottom, so a big day is actually french for small horse and the reason they called there's because you,
to straddle the body like you would be riding a horse basically right now,
You turn on the water and adjusted just tell you want to the temperature you want, and then you just yourself so that it's gettin the spots that it needs to get turn it off dry off, wash your hands and you dont right and the big day. Actually that today I just described the porcelain fixture that goes next to the toilet was actually America,
it's like the Americans came up with that version of the body still didn't catch on in America, but Europe where
had already been invented before this is like the improved version of it went nuts for this americanized version here, just kind of got lost due to time that the amount
These were the ones who gave Europe the modern day and we just never took it on ourselves, both stiffly. If you have that style, that's definitely an extra expense, because you have to have that fully plumbed and the other the space for it. You know like it: it's nodded
cheap thing: if you wanna get the full deal knows not by like you have and like I have, you can just pay. It basically just uses an extra hose.
Yeah that comes out of your already existing water supply and goes into your toilet, see yet again the expenses that
early outrageous right or get one of these activities. Equality wanted
we gonna last awhile, especially if you get a japanese one bright, but what
reasons why around the world, the days are so prevalent like in Japan, sixty percent of restrooms nobody's in
Well, I didn't know this. Ninety percent have been days early, one of the reasons why people are behind them. So much is because kind how I heard that
that they use way less water than toilet paper does like the manufacturing of vapor yeah, so get this man. This is a scientific american bug. Perceval average per day use is going to take about an eighth of a gown of water to get yourself where you want to be right, which is clean there to make a roll of toilet paper.
One roll? It takes thirty, seven gallons of water. What one point three kilowatt hours of lectures: oh, my God, one and a half pounds of wood. So in Amerika we use thirty six point: five billion Rosa toilet paper. Every year there requires fifteen million trees. It uses four hundred and seventy three billion
five hundred and eighty seven million five hundred thousand gallons of water while and requires seventeen point, three terawatts,
electricity. Now I don't know how much terawatt is but brother. That sounds like a lot of electricity man. It's disheartening! I'm gonna get my body.
It really is, and it makes it really gonna make you think, like our toy papers, an environmental catastrophe, so maybe a bit is, is
Well and the other thing, if you use the wet wipes, regardless of their flexibility on the package, they did not great for the environment like it might not clog up your toilet right there, but they don't break down like toilet paper. Does right, did you see they consume,
report short video on it. Now I think forty seconds long in their like this is what are. The paper looks like when you flush, and they had to
like a little whirlpool going in a beaker of glass of glass, bigger water right, they dropped in some to a paper in an immediately broke apart into five hundred pieces right. They did that to wipe a forcible white, no less, and it did nothing they're like well. Let's try something harder: they put a new kitchen aid mixer with water and lighted C4. Ten minutes it didn't bring
at all, so they don't really break upper. No one really knows how long it takes to degrade, but they certainly don't break up where they actually grew in size up in defended and Nicholas Cage. That's right. So
the fact that this stuff isn't good for you, your sewer system and certainly for ever septic system.
Is probably reason enough, not to always use wipes something.
Apparently they save you know. If you have an issue and you may be sure, hemorrhoid or somethin, then you might want to use a wife for a little while you know follow your your heart, like this chemicals allow that stuff
yeah. There's this. We found a self article about women using wives or regular toilet paper here, cause we're creeps and we read article
like that and on the other. I think I am a guy called just saying you know. I think it was a dermatologist that he said that whenever a patient comes in its as I got irritation down there, I think it's you know, probably from his wife's amused.
Most of the time, it is because they have like our went on that someone might be allergic to they might have. I answer back tearful stuff that somebody could be large too, and he just prescribed using basic, cheap toilet paper.
Yeah and dumb with with with kids in babies.
You know when you're doing the work doing all that work. You obviously agonies wipes, but I will buzz market this brand of we use water wipes and is just water. Why it's just
this water? That's the only ingredient out in those like it's not like, for you know where anti for
went to my house anyway, but they didn't have fragrances, herb chemicals or anything like that, and it's just a buzz market them all day,
a good brought up water wipes out one other thing
Be remiss in saying that if you are
a Muslim. You use something called a lotta and I would strongly encourage your vaguer read a great vice article called a Muslims guide, the anal hygiene that explains loaders.
Which is basically like carrying your own pot of water to clean yourself off with we're having one next year, your toilet, one more thing to you:
this to me. It is not your imagination. Toilet paper is getting smaller, its decreased by about half an inch narrower square, yeah, four and a half inches and out to half an inch narrower and shorter
the same thing yet, and not only that but they're making see. This is how they get you
little bit smaller. They increase the size of the tube, and so your actually getting less paper, but there still
urging the same or more per year right
it's actually yeah member. We said it's going up by about two percent a year, but you're getting less paper, and so here's how they get you. They are increasing the size of the cardboard
they're, making it narrower so you're, actually getting less toilet paper now actual paper for either the same price or money more money, because I think he said, prices are going up about two percent each year. So these companies that make toilet paper selling usually paper towels as well and napkin,
paper, napkins and apparently those or on the decline. So there can a ripping off. I Jussieu with the toilet paper roles now, even though they call it like a double role. It's pretty much what used to be a single role so that that's my toilet paper, so bucks you want to start a bloody revolution in the streets. Let that word get out
yeah, I got nothin, I got nothin else either man toilet paper has been dying. I fuel,
more about toilet paper. You can type those words eventually into the search bar house have worked. I can't you can also check it out
mental fastest, go onto the internet, go watch, some Sharm and commercial gotta get pictures of thumb of colored toilet paper from suddenly he loved and since I said the seventies cyclists and are met
others, proper pronouns, guys in your last absurd and standardized patient. So you read listener male, be any weren't sure what pronouns used for someone they them is always a good way to go, and you dont know. Maybe it's because I'm twenty two or maybe it's, because I Griffin Montessori, but I've always known they them to be plural or singular there. No, that's not familiar for some Josh also suggested the word sis, gender or a neutral gender. I just wanted to give a friendly correction of the word: Sis gender refers to someone who is not transgender and identifies with the gender. They were assigned at birth, Sis being derived from the Latin prefix sis, meaning on the side of the supposed to trans meaning across from the initial term,
These now is age under the prefix aiming without, though that's just one of many terms being used these days. I thanks for everything you bring to my days of how much I learned from the guys. I could return the favour here. Your friendly neighbourhood, queer person chase a chase. Thank you.
It has also here we certainly try to always use the right terminology its. We drop the ball. Sometimes it's hard to keep up sometimes, but we always will take this corrections and train. Do it right in a future? Yes, we'll never ever referred algae BT. Few I a as alphabet some people say
the worst. What decide is ensuring commented dismissive yeah. I hate that managers,
oh you're, somebody saying that sent him straight, he had fallen
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