People hoarding toilet paper

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Looks like this has caught on in Ireland now, was in the supermarket and half the aisle was empty. What is the logic behind bulk buying toilet paper what do people thing this will solve?

https://imgur.com/gBVDLuk

Plumbthedepths

Social media driven idiocy.

nthclare

Some people are just full of Sh1t

Deebles McBeebles

Probably a ploy by Big Bidet to gain more market share. Crafty bastards.

sbsquarepants

Calvin Rich Grit wrote: »

What is the logic behind bulk buying toilet paper what do people thing this will solve?

You won't be asking that when you have to clean your arse with a dish cloth!

Dr. Colossus

Calvin Rich Grit wrote: »

Looks like this has caught on in Ireland now, was in the supermarket and half the aisle was empty. What is the logic behind bulk buying toilet paper what do people thing this will solve?

https://imgur.com/gBVDLuk

You should inform the etiquette tread.:pac::D

Leg End Reject

I saw a post here which said it's because one genius posted on social media that all loo roll was made on China and supply could be cut off. Diarrhoea isn't a symptom of Covid-19.

CFlat

I wouldn't mind if you have to stay at home and self isolate for 2 weeks then if you run out of loo roll there's always the shower to clean your behind. It does a better job then toilet paper and probably better for the environment.

jimgoose

Calvin Rich Grit wrote: »

Looks like this has caught on in Ireland now, was in the supermarket and half the aisle was empty. What is the logic behind bulk buying toilet paper what do people thing this will solve?

https://imgur.com/gBVDLuk

I think the story is going around on social media that most toilet paper is made in China and supplies of it are about to dry up. See what I did there? That, and sliced pan is a bit "been there, done that, and nearly died of constipation from gorging on crappy, low-end white bread".

cj maxx

I got looks yesterday buying a large pack of loo roll. Not panic buying but normal shopping. Family of 4 down to 2 rolls!
As soon as I put them in the trolley others started grabbing them like it was an emergency

Leg End Reject

I don't get the panic over needing to self isolate either. You could get someone to drop things into you, they need to be in your company for more than 5 seconds to catch anything, or they could leave it at the door.

I don't think any of us will starve or have shıtty bottoms.

I bought it to build a fort, if things get bad I will take refuge inside

Leg End Reject

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I don't think any of us will starve or have shıtty bottoms.

Is that an "either, or" choice? Just asking

manonboard

I plan on stocking up on it for later. Its not that i need it, its that every country who gets bad cases of the virus seems to have it go out of stock in the shops quickly.
So people buy it to avoid shortage, and people buy it cause shortages. I dont see there being a supply shortage realistically

Leg End Reject

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Is that an "either, or" choice? Just asking

Yes, choose carefully and God speed.

B.A._Baracus

It is stupid when you think about it.
Some video comes out about people fighting over toilet roll in Australia. Then people follow in suit to buy buy buy half way across the globe.

sbsquarepants

jimgoose wrote: »

I think the story is going around on social media that most toilet paper is made in China and supplies of it are about to dry up. See what I did there? That, and sliced pan is a bit "been there, done that, and nearly died of constipation from gorging on crappy, low-end white bread".

Don't be too quick to ditch the sliced pan there, you need a lot less toilet paper when you're constipated!

Or in a real emergency you could always wipe your arse with bread:D

Scoundrel

If I had my way anyone found doing this would be horse whipped publicly

jimgoose

sbsquarepants wrote: »

...Or in a real emergency you could always wipe your arse with bread:D

Now extra-absorbent!! By Jove, I think we've cracked it!

Sky King

I dont have this problem as I use the three sea shells.

nigeldaniel

Suicide still claims more lives every day than any virus and I do not see as much endorsement of kindness or compassion on the same scale to help.

Infini

So it begins: The Bogpocalypse.

The only thing worse than the coronaflu...... an empty toilet roll holder.

Jet Black

What's wrong with hanging your arse over the bath and showing the ****e off your hole? Join the sink pisser movement to save some water too.

MarkR

I read online that it was a symptom of panic buying. People in an emergency feel they need to gather resources. Loo roll is a large package, prominently displayed. Primitive mind thinks, that's important, and in it goes to the trolley.

I picked up a large pack in Aldi over the weekend, because that's what I normally buy when I need to buy them.

I'll be accepting offers in excess of 1 million dollery doos.

Day Lewin

They are bulk buying it in a pointless panic because they are sh1tting themselves already.

Deebles McBeebles

I hope Adverts and Donedeal are installing extra servers to cope with all the toilet roll ads. Hand sanitiser ads have drastically increased in the last 3 days!

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manonboard wrote: »

I plan on stocking up on it for later. Its not that i need it, its that every country who gets bad cases of the virus seems to have it go out of stock in the shops quickly.
So people buy it to avoid shortage, and people buy it cause shortages. I dont see there being a supply shortage realistically

You don't need it and you don't see there being a supply shortage but yet you admit that you are going to stock up on it anyway. Basically you are perpetuating the stupidity.

manonboard

Calvin Rich Grit wrote: »

You don't need it and you don't see there being a supply shortage but yet you admit that you are going to stock up on it anyway. Basically you are perpetuating the stupidity.

Yes, completely. Yet SHOULD i be wrong about shortage, I dont have to worry about it as much.
Assuming I am right in my predictions leaves some risk for me, being cautious even though i don't think it likely to be a shortage, ill be good in either situations.
We never know how things play out.

This morning i am isolated for the next 7 days due to medication making it extra dangerous for me to be outside now. I am glad i stocked up on lots of medical and food stuffs supplies. I am very lucky of the timing and i am very glad i dont assume my predictions are right.

topper75

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I bought it to build a fort, if things get bad I will take refuge inside

That pic brought me back to my supermarket shelf stacking days fadó fadó.

One chap would arrive in on a Sat morning hungover. He would proceed to climb up to the top of the jackspaper rack in the stockroom downstairs and wall himself in order to get some shuteye until 11.

His buddies would cover for him by telling floor management that he was down filling his trolley and telling stockroom management that he was above stocking his shelves.

It was pre-Tiger Ireland when booze was king and work ethic was only something you saw on imported television programmes.

LirW

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Probably a ploy by Big Bidet to gain more market share. Crafty bastards.

This is the right answer. Now if the lobby wants to penetrate the Irish market they need to develop a kit that works with the sh*te water pressure in upstairs bathrooms and we have a winner.

Yester

Ridiculous carry on. My bunker is still fully stocked since Y2K.

YFlyer

sbsquarepants wrote: »

You won't be asking that when you have to clean your arse with a dish cloth!

What be the problem with that? Throw cloth or towel in the wash.

Princess Calla

topper75 wrote: »

That pic brought me back to my supermarket shelf stacking days fadó fadó.

One chap would arrive in on a Sat morning hungover. He would proceed to climb up to the top of the jackspaper rack in the stockroom downstairs and wall himself in order to get some shuteye until 11.

His buddies would cover for him by telling floor management that he was down filling his trolley and telling stockroom management that he was above stocking his shelves.

It was pre-Tiger Ireland when booze was king and work ethic was only something you saw on imported television programmes.

The walk in refrigerator was also a great thing to sort ya out

Princess Calla

Was in dunnes and tesco earlier, plenty on the shelves.

Though the big 24 packs were gone, but I think their delivery comes Tuesday /Wednesday... They would take up alot of space in stockroom, so probably work on a standard delivery, kinda the "just in time" model.

Princess Calla

Yester wrote: »

Ridiculous carry on. My bunker is still fully stocked since Y2K.

Did you not top it up for brexit?

NeinNeinNein

Snowflakes and their hoarding. In the old days you would just turn your jocks inside out.

Gael23

It is really worrying for people like myself with gastric illnesses that could get through an entire toilet roll on a bad day

Yester

Princess Calla wrote: »

Did you not top it up for brexit?

I only came out of the bunker yesterday. What's a brexit?

RobertKK

I guess it is for when all this coronavirus sh1t hits the fan.

Rufeo

What did people do before there was toilet paper?

NSAman

Oh for Gawds sake... this is getting crazy....

In my day we washed the toilet paper and hung it out to dry....that was proper poverty and ecologically friendly. If you were REALLY stuck ya got a Dock leaf and wiped yerself....


Happy Days!!!

Abba987

Now they sell it on moore street with the surgical masks they have acquired

quokula

I always get mine in bulk (72 rolls) from amazon as it's cheaper and easier to just buy once every few months. Delivery arrived today and I'm pretty sure the courier thought I was one of these hoarding idiots.

Sky King

NSAman wrote: »

If you were REALLY stuck ya got a Dock leaf and wiped yerself....

A dock leaf? Are you mad?

Then you'd have to wipe with a nettle to cancel it out!

NSAman

Sky King wrote: »

A dock leaf? Are you mad?

Then you'd have to wipe with a nettle to cancel it out!

Obviously someone was spoilt with 4 ply toilet roll....

Should have bought 2 ply and gave the difference to the poor..(like my family)

Pauliedragon

NeinNeinNein wrote: »

Snowflakes and their hoarding. In the old days you would just turn your jocks inside out.

Or just go commando if there were no spare jocks. God forbid someone's crackers get cold.

Bobblehats

cjmc wrote: »

I got looks yesterday buying a large pack of loo roll. Not panic buying but normal shopping. Family of 4 down to 2 rolls!
As soon as I put them in the trolley others started grabbing them like it was an emergency

Monkey see / monkey doo.

Hopefully folks don’t resort to mudslinging in the event there’s none left..

andekwarhola

Deebles McBeebles wrote: »

Probably a ploy by Big Bidet to gain more market share. Crafty bastards.

This deserves far more likes.

Capt'n Midnight

Sky King wrote: »

I dont have this problem as I use the three sea shells.

After AIDS, there was NRS, then there was UBT.


Scary.


Just make sure to check the expiry date on the toilet paper