Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Your soft bum is killing the planet

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Your soft bum is killing the planet

    Felt nice and smug when I read this, I use plain toilet paper made of recycled pulp and it cleans my bottom just fine...

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...t-roll-america

    #2
    Your soft bum is killing the planet

    "For bath tissue Americans in particular like the softness and strength that virgin fibres provides," Dixon said. "It's the quality and softness the consumers in America have come to expect."
    Bath tissue? Do what?

    Comment


      #3
      Your soft bum is killing the planet

      Bumrinse, bumrinse, bumrinse.

      Comment


        #4
        Your soft bum is killing the planet

        I think I'm probably an arse criminal, because my favoured brand (Andrex aloe vera) sounds like the sort of 'luxury' paper they're talking about...

        Comment


          #5
          Your soft bum is killing the planet

          Toilet paper. Pffff. Straw does the job just as well. Failing that, fan your arse until everything is dry, and peel the residual cap off.

          Comment


            #6
            Your soft bum is killing the planet

            I am also an arse criminal, being a fan of "quilts".

            Is it the chemicals involved in breaking trees down into paper for the first time that's the problem here?

            Comment


              #7
              Your soft bum is killing the planet

              The problem is you and your bourgeois arsehole. I buy recycled, bog roll with a biodegradable packet, and it sorts me out just fine.

              Comment


                #8
                Your soft bum is killing the planet

                Ick.

                Recycled was once a tree too, though, right?

                Comment


                  #9
                  Your soft bum is killing the planet

                  Sphagnum moss is the best, but not readily available below 1500 feet.

                  Comment


                    #10
                    Your soft bum is killing the planet

                    Now that is proper enviro-vandalism

                    Comment


                      #11
                      Your soft bum is killing the planet

                      they have to think of some new way to market it because recycled toilet paper conjures up images of clothes lines covered in long lengths of soiled jacks paper.

                      Comment


                        #12
                        Your soft bum is killing the planet

                        Recycled for me too. But this article doesn't surprise me in the least. At a time we're supposed to be pushing for less packaging, reuse, reduce, recycle etc, some companies are pushing stuff like individual sachets of medicine and aloe vera bog roll.

                        If you've got piles, use soft stuff. Otherwise, why use a fresh piece of paper to smear off the shit?

                        Comment


                          #13
                          Your soft bum is killing the planet

                          Why not?

                          Comment


                            #14
                            Your soft bum is killing the planet

                            Sheryl Crow to thread.

                            Comment


                              #15
                              Your soft bum is killing the planet

                              What's wrong with the Daily Mail (in this context)?

                              Comment


                                #16
                                Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                TonTon wrote:
                                Recycled was once a tree too, though, right?
                                So? No further trees have been felled to make it.

                                Comment


                                  #17
                                  Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                  You grow trees to make paper. Worrying about cutting them down is like worrying about cutting down wheat to make bread.

                                  Comment


                                    #18
                                    Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                    Your soft bum is killing the planet
                                    I thought this was going to be a thread about the epitaph the world would insist was chiselled underneath George W Bush's Mount Rushmore statue.

                                    Comment


                                      #19
                                      Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                      Good show Liq and Egg, otherwise carry on furthering the destruction of our planet chaps...

                                      Comment


                                        #20
                                        Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                        I really can't see why people are so pathetic as to think they need some sort of super paper for their arseholes. As long as it's not tracing paper smearing shit all the way up my back it'll do the job.

                                        Comment


                                          #21
                                          Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                          Recycled cheap stuff. We're not posh.

                                          Oh, and at any given time, I have roughly a half a roll in my left pants pocket in case I have to use a public bog and they're out of paper.

                                          For that reason, it's 'see your father' when they have runny noses.

                                          Comment


                                            #22
                                            Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                            TonTon wrote:
                                            You grow trees to make paper.
                                            Hang on. You think the trees felled to make paper have all been grown for the purpose? Including the "virgin wood" that this whole thread was about?

                                            Comment


                                              #23
                                              Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                              I've used newspaper in a pinch, I really don't recommend it.

                                              Comment


                                                #24
                                                Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                                Taylor's correct here. Paper recycling does not make a great deal of economic sense as far as I'm concerned. If it did, recycled paper would be cheaper than normal paper.

                                                Comment


                                                  #25
                                                  Your soft bum is killing the planet

                                                  Taylor's so correct that he doesn't need to post on a topic to be correct.

                                                  But while recycling may not make economic sense, it makes environmental sense. So much of the paper we use has no business being 'virgin' paper. Sure, nice writing paper and office paper should be clean and white, but newspapers - with a one-hour lifespan - need nothing close to that. Nor does bog roll or takeaway bags.

                                                  Comment

                                                  Working...
                                                  X