The bog roll hoarders are back.

[papasmurf]

Could recycling be a better solution...?

Renova Recycled Toilet Tissue Paper - Pack of 20 Rolls - Eco-Friendly Paper-Packed 100% Recycled

Used one side only.

[Sheepy]

Hoping to finish them all off no doubt.

[patman post]

How long before there's a banned ex-member returning under the name R.Swipe...?

[Sheepy]

Things have taken a turn for the worse, 2 pages of bogroll and Gerry praying to the Brexit Gods that it will still go bottom up.
While Borchester has switched his humour on the yanks, as though they even have a sense of humour.

[patman post]

I can see the letters page now....


"Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells writes to register his disgust that no sooner had he gone into a discussion forum to report the total lack of shortages of bog roll at his local LIDL, than convoys of shoppers rocked up at the car park, bought up every last roll and now he has no option other than to wipe his arse in his chintz curtains ......"

The Col Blimps and Blue Rinses of Tunbridge Wells consider themselves above Tonbridge, and probably believes that Lidl's great stock of said items there proves their belief that pages of the Mirror and Sun are hung on a nail in the outhouse and utilised for the purpose...

[johnofgwent]

Hundreds available in Lidl in Tonbridge today. Different grades and manufacturers. Didn't buy any -
It's a non crisis.

I can see the letters page now....


"Disgusted of Tonbridge Wells writes to register his disgust that no sooner had he gone into a discussion forum to report the total lack of shortages of bog roll at his local LIDL, than convoys of shoppers rocked up at the car park, bought up every last roll and now he has no option other than to wipe his arse in his chintz curtains ......"

[T00ts]

I have a store cupboard, only buy to top up so usually bulk buying is not necessary, my point being that should my store cupboard be needed I am able to help others. This is something I have done for some time just in case everything goes pear shaped. It has proved pretty useful at odd moments in the last year.

[patman post]

I buy 48 bog rolls at a time......Now before you assume hoarder no actually,from a Wholesaler that sell in packs of 24 and are sold as bogof same as plenty kitchen towels 16 at a time same deal and so much cheaper than even Lidl or Aldi and I don't have to go often.

If it's true you don't have to go often, share out, and don't keep so many...?

[cromwell]

I buy 48 bog rolls at a time......Now before you assume hoarder no actually,from a Wholesaler that sell in packs of 24 and are sold as bogof same as plenty kitchen towels 16 at a time same deal and so much cheaper than even Lidl or Aldi and I don't have to go often.

[Barry]

Hundreds available in Lidl in Tonbridge today. Different grades and manufacturers. Didn't buy any -
It's a non crisis.

[HDQQ]

I have a theory on bogroll hoarders that might partially explain the phenomenon.

Some people decide it's sensible for them to buy two big packs of toilet rolls instead of their usual one, so they don't need to go shopping so frequently during the crisis. Lots of people buy big packs and these are bulky items that take up a lot of shelf space. So any excess demand quickly leads to depletion on the shelves. Other shoppers notice this and so they buy extra too, accelerating the depletion. Then the big packs run out so people who want to buy a big pack end up buying 2 or more smaller packs, which makes them run out quickly. I'm not a mathematician but it would be interesting for someone to create a mathematical model of this.

[Bright Young Thing]

Actually, that is not a very clever idea. If you buy four toilet rolls instead of one, then you only need make a quarter as many trips as before. It helps secure the job of the lovely lady at the checkout, but ultimately costs the customers more in time and money.

But then one person gets them rather than four people? No ideal solution I guess, but people being downright rude and emptying shelves is not helpful in any way.

Anyway, my post was more about supermarkets being more prepared for it this time, and putting in maximum allowed per person should lessen or stop the resulting empty shelves.

[patman post]

Actually, that is not a very clever idea. If you buy four toilet rolls instead of one, then you only need make a quarter as many trips as before. It helps secure the job of the lovely lady at the checkout, but ultimately costs the customers more in time and money.

Could recycling be a better solution...?

Renova Recycled Toilet Tissue Paper - Pack of 20 Rolls - Eco-Friendly Paper-Packed 100% Recycled

[Borchester]

But I still can't watch the opening credits of Terry Nations "Survivors" without needing to fight back an urge to puke...

I could never understand why they were always rushing round the country looking for petrol. And living in country mansions. I would have thought what they really needed were some old fashion high carbon steel tools, particularly saws. And triangular files to sharpen the latter. And smaller properties where they can have some privacy and which are easier to heat.

[johnofgwent]

It is like turning on a tap.

You don't think that the Kung Flu was invented by Andrex do you? All the bog roll companies must be making telephone numbers out of this  bug.

No, that was my experience in 76 after some class T@@@ slipped at the top of a stairwell and dropped a volumetric flask of e.coli down the stairwell of the microbiology dept onto the Freshers queueing ten floors below to register.


It was only about 250 ml. It stank. It reeked of the charnel house. And in the following conflagration, I went from eleven stone to nine and a half. It was unpleasant. Eighty six people died as a result of us unknowingly spreading the shite and that was just from stuff stuck to our skin and hair after several power showers.

Fred Hoyle used the spread of the contagion from the microbiology dept around south Wales and south West England as a template for how life might have spread from a passing comet that made it to the earth's surface.

Yeah, I wondered about him too. But fame is fame ....


But I still can't watch the opening credits of Terry Nations "Survivors" without needing to fight back an urge to puke...