Appreciation thread for toilet paper.

[raccoon]

Well, you think about it, how your life would be diminished without it.

Have you ever visited a Third World country? Toilet paper is a luxury there.

In Mexico, you go to public toilets, you bring your own or you buy it there.

[quaker bill]

1. and why not?

TP is a good thing

[In_The_Wind]

2. I agree.

Toilet paper is so important to me that I carry it with me while I travel.
I truly hates it when the paperwork is delayed due to missing resources.

[WinkyDink]

10. Bwah! My husband and I did, too. Embarrassed when an entire roll unfurled on a B&B's driveway!

[pinboy3niner]

3. Oh, so you're the guy who squeezes the Charmin

[betsuni]

4. So how come I keep hearing that TPP is a BAD thing?

TPP (Toilet Paper in Public) is great for restrooms everywhere. I don't know what all the fuss is about.

[pinboy3niner]

5. At a recent display of VN-era military equipment I saw a vet explaining things to his wife

When they came to a display of C-Ration meals, I heard the wife say that it was nice that the Army even gave us a napkin.

"No, Dear," the vet replied. "That was our toilet paper."

[unhappycamper]

7. Is that a can of Ham & M****fuckers?

The Pears were OK.

The mfers were not.

[pinboy3niner]

12. That was definitely the least popular meal, thus the expletive for the lima beans

I grabbed that pic off the web, but the guy who did the display I saw had the most complete collection of C-rats that some of my vet friends had seen.

I tend to groan when I see military equipment displays and I have an unfair negative bias toward those who display them. The display included military weapons (small arms, Claymore mines, etc.) plus a couple of mule vehicles, one with a mounted recoilless rifle and one with an M-60 machine gun. I saw kids and even women climb up to "fire" the weapons at imaginary targets.

But I spent some time talking to the guy who brought the display, who was really a nice guy, a VN vet with a great sense of humor and some very funny stories about his experiences in-country. Including having an outhouse blown up on him, and at at first being relieved to discover the wetness on his head and neck wasn't blood--and then being a little less relieved to discover what it was.

I didn't much care for seeing the weapons, but the C-rats were really a blast from the past.

[pangaia]

14. Why, out of all the possible veggies

to choose from, did the powers that be choose.. lima beans??

[pinboy3niner]

16. Private military contractor

They always know best.

[pangaia]

17. Ah HA! I see.

Jeez, at least they could have chosen,, oh... brussel sprouts, or okra.

[pinboy3niner]

20. Or grilled asparagus, or mushrooms sauteed with wine

But NOOOOOOOO!

[pangaia]

22. Umm,, the mushrooms I could go for.

[zeemike]

25. I know It's weird but

Ham hocks and lima beans is one of my favorites...I have it often.

[pinboy3niner]

27. You should have given the Army your recipe

[zeemike]

28. I don't think canning it would help.

It has to be fresh and slow cooked in a crock pot...

[pinboy3niner]

30. Yeah, and that's not one of the advantages of Sterno or C-4, either

[MH1]

31. Okay I had a couple c-rations while I was in, but what's a "B Unit"? sounds scary ...

The Army moved on to MRE's about the time I got in. We got c-rations once or twice at the beginning, I think just because a) the Army needed to use up the stockpiles and b) a way of communicating to us how much of an improvement the MRE's were.

I just don't remember seeing a B Unit, or if I did, what the heck it was ...

Oh and they definitely didn't include cigarettes when I was in. Although in AIT one of the barracks still had a beer machine. I'm sure that's gone by now.

[pinboy3niner]

34. I'm rusty but I'm sure that can be answered with a simple net search

Before MREs came along we had LRRP rations introduced in Vietnam. These were dehydrated meals designed for use by Long Range Reconnaissance teams, but we also got them in the Infantry units--but very rarely.

LRRP rats had things like chicken stew, and spaghetti, and the taste was a huge improvement over C-rats. PLUS they were much lighter to carry in your ruck than a 5-day supply of canned food. The tradeoff was that you had to add water. And even carrying four canteens per man, we often ran out. And there were times and places where sending out a water detail would have been suicidal.

I don't know how long the LRRP rations were around, but they never replaced C-rats as the Army's basic field rations.

Beer in the barracks was part of the Modern Volunteer Army Program that tried to improve living conditions for post-draft troops, but I don't think the beer aspect lasted long. I was involved with it only very briefly as the OIC of the program for the Sixth Army area, and I think I learned more about it from my brother who was living it as it was implemented when he returned from Vietnam. He said the beer was popular at first, but that wore off very quickly.

[Mugu]

6. No job is complete until the paperwork is done. n/t

[WinkyDink]

8. Once got off an AMERICAN tour bus in Italy and was handed squares of newspaper! So yes: APPRECIATE!

[HereSince1628]

9. You do know that the Kochs control toilet paper, right?

Without them we'd be back to using corn cobs...a stick...or the fingers of our left hand.

Was it a Koch plot that had Amazon kill the Penney's catalog? You can only virtually wipe yer bottom with an internet page

47% will never know, they don't even question...

ROFL.

[malaise]

11. Do you know where the phrase 'spend a penny' comes from?

Public toilets in that Third World place called Britain.

[Ilsa]

13. especially appreciate septic tank-friendly t.p.! nt

[angstlessk]

15. I buy single ply by the case

occasionally my hand gets wet, but my toilet flushes without difficulty

[Sancho]

18. Having just returned from Europe, I think we should appreciate the bidet too!

[pinboy3niner]

23. Makes me wonder now if that French guy was wishing me a "good day" or something else...

Oh, well, It's water under the bridge now. So to speak.

[grahamhgreen]

19. Squirting with water is cleaner. Appreciation for water!!!

[PDittie]

21. I've always considered polls to be the equivalent of TP

Very important for a few minutes prior to use but in mere moments afterward, its utility quickly spent, a fast flush. Certainly nothing to be talked about, examined, or analyzed for several days afterward.

[Shrike47]

24. TP is wonderful! I often think how great for me that I was born after it was invented.

Think about what our ancestors put up with.

[Tetris_Iguana]

26. >=2 ply only

1-ply sandpaper can go to hell!

[pinboy3niner]

29. I think I see your mistake. Not getting the Extra Super fine grit.

Koch was still working the bugs out. Still working on it...

[PoliticAverse]

32. Can anyone spare a square?... n/t

[brewens]

33. I like to call them rolls of little Confederate flags. The one they waved around at the end of the

war! LOL

[RKP5637]

35. No job is done 'till the paperwork is done!

[pinboy3niner]

37. You can bet your bottom dollar!

[kpete]

36. now this

is something i can get behind


peace,
kp

[pinboy3niner]

38. You're the best, kpete. I mean that from the heart of my bottom!