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Stop wiping your butt with virgin forests

The sad truth is that most Americans are contributing to deforestation every time they wipe their butts. In the US, only 2% of the toilet paper used in homes comes from recycled sources. That is a damn shame. There is no need to kill trees to wipe off the dingleberries.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/science/earth/26charmin.html

Please consider buying toilet paper made from 100% recycled paper. I am not some hardcore environmentalist , but we have switched to buying White Cloud Green and it is just as soft and strong as Charmin, Northern or any other brands that use non-recycled pulp.

Check out the GreenPeace tissue guide.

http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/forests/tissueguide

By ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) on Mar 24, 2009, 08:18 in Off Topic.

dwmte7 says on Mar 24, 2009, 09:57:

LET THERE BE NO SLAUGHTER FOR BUNG FODDER! ENOW!

funny aside....not to make light of the seriousness of the thread...years back when i first landed in colombia, finding toilet paper in a john was like finding hen's teeth.....NONE, NOWHERE! i don't care if it was a fine restaurant, the public johns at the intercontinental or a sleeze bar below the metro in north centro.....zip. you could see the folks who found themselves stranded--to use a comment of another pbh poster---they were walkin around with one sock. if folks found a roll of paper in a john...they would steal it. period.

add to this travesty, the sphincter swipe in those days was made of lija (sandpaper) and if you had a slight case of the runs,and had to visit the throne three or more times in a day, that ole rayita was bleeding. and to make it worse, after it would tear the skin of the old hole, it would fall apart in your hand mierda y todo. que pena.

patriarch

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dwmte7 says on Mar 24, 2009, 11:26:

foreigners use a sock, pow wow....others, who knows

could you lend me a hand?

patriarch

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dwmte7 says on Mar 24, 2009, 12:56:

wasn't that a nazi thing...each troop was issued two slices of wipe daily and they'ld poke a finger through, claw at it a bit then remove and wipe the finger clean (???) with the slice of wipe. yikes.

patriarch

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tasco66 says on Mar 24, 2009, 13:56:

There is no way you are going to get miamimike to give up his toilet paper:

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to win (Leonid Brezhnev)

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ColombianoGringo (Moderator) (Trustee board) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Mar 24, 2009, 13:57:

Ha Ha. I had some Reagan tp back in the 80s.

Yo me como los mocos debajo de la ruana pa que no me pidan.

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Catfish35 says on Mar 26, 2009, 23:12:

Man I would give up my nice soft corn cob for a roll of Bush wipes....sheeeeit!
I carry my cobb everywhere...rinses clean everytime

Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end."

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dwmte7 says on Mar 27, 2009, 04:45:

they used to sell nixon t.p. also.

patriarch

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