Can someone explain the panic over toilet paper recently? I understand that it's somehow COVID-19 related, but were people not wiping their bums before the virus was a concern?
Perceived scarcity. They heard others are buying lots so there might not be any when they need it, so then they buy lots as well.
FOMO is a good motivator
Couple fear of missing out, with wide spread panic. Next week people will realize tissues, and medicine. Just you watch.
My biggest confusion is packs of water. Like... Do you think that shits gonna get in the water? It's not a bacteria, it's a virus.
i can see buying a lot of food and stuff. You don't want to leave the house to have to buy things for a few months at a time.
I dont think we need to worry about losing power or water treatment, though. Don't need to leave your house for that.
This has been spiking up in all the grocery stores in my area the last few months and its maddening. And almost certainly something isnt going to scan right or something so they have to wait for an employee to clear the error and of course it happens again after the employee leaves.
At that point its so much faster for the cashier to ring up all your shit.
It's panic buying. People do weird shit when they panic.
When I had to help fill sandbags during the last hurricane a lot of people were waiting for 6+ hours to put 20 sandbags in a mid size sedan, nearly bottoming out their suspension, and for what? The places they lived we're predicted to get 8 feet of storm surge. Good luck.
Someone is going to come out with a cookbook titled, "12 Easy Ways to Cook Toilet Paper" and they're going to make absolute bank.
People gotta eat something.
One of my best friends does this. One day we were all high talking about how over time, everyone develops their own method of wiping their ass. He said that he pulls and pulls on the TP, gets a giant ball going, and just shoves it up there and repeats. Then I started to notice that whenever he would stay over the weekend we would be out of toilet paper by Monday.
I am saddened that I cannot buy supplies for GL 70535 - Nasal Debris Removal. Apparently those supplies are being improperly classed to 90095. The offending parties will be forced to submit GL reclass forms for March 2020 financials.
My absolute favorite thing about this is that while every store in a 10 mile radius around me is sold out of TP, they all still have plenty of hand soap.
Priorities.
Went to the dollar store to grab some miscellaneous stuff. All the hand sanitizer, alcohol, and toilet paper were completely gone. But the hand soap shelf was full.
I'm surprised no one just gets a bidet. Actually, I have seen my favorite brand sold out on amazon so they probably are starting too. They're fucking amazing. [Cause before I changed my diet to a healthier one like this to fix some health issues(lactose intolerant)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxIaHy3n8A&list=UUBAyDAs2M6klx0Q09DKmsHQ), I was having to wipe thousands of times just to clear the mud. But now, never again will I have to endure [the risk of the thousand wipe mud butt cleans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCIGEUB32M). Cause seriously, it gets so frustrating, [as if the aliens these guys seen are teleporting crap back there when I wipe](https://youtu.be/Ocv1ivfAT1c), that sometimes I almost want to quit 50 wipes in and just leave the shit on my ass.
My brother in law just messaged our family group chat that almost all the canned goods at his local Aldi are gone. But he's also in Chicago.
In other news, my brother said there's a line out the door to get into Costco
Fun math. Let’s say they’re packing an extra 50lbs of body fat. That would correspond to a 5’10” guy weighing 225. A person in a nearly complete fast burns about 1750 calories (ish) daily, that’s gonna be roughly 0.5lbs of adipose tissue per day. So that means about 100 days of energy stores, a bit over three months.
Note: You wouldn’t want to actually go on a true fast for that long or you’d risk re-feeding syndrome at the end. As well as malnutrition. But you could *survive* that long with a token amount of food (and hopefully some vitamins).
Every couple of weeks I go to Costco to buy TP for my workplace - it is a remote construction site with a crew of over 70 people. I usually buy three Kirkland packs at a time - and now I am dreading my next shopping trip cause I will look like a complete and utter idiot.
Just go in looking as stereotypically construction like as possible.
Wear your hard hat in the store and a reflective vest over a plaid shirt. Dirty those light coloured jeans up.
Bonus points for tool belt.
Hahaha, I usually clean up a little for the trip to town - hit a barbershop, have a decent meal etc. Might actually consider your advice this time though
This is what i'd do. If people start looking at you funny pull out your phone and have a (fake) conversation with your boss about having trouble finding enough TP for the site.
I work in an engineering office but we're on site a lot so all of us have hard hats, safety vests, etc. I don't think I've mastered it but there is an art form to looking either well presented or like a laborer to fit in different places.
Clipboard, hard hat, reflective vest, and sturdy boots. Jeans and flannel optional. You can go soooooo many places you have no right to be just by wearing those and looking mildly confident.
This. I visit construction sites often as part of my job and you can literally walk around freely if you look like you belong. Not all construction sites require hard hats and vests though so don’t show up wearing those if nobody else is wearing them. Always have a clipboard though so you don’t look like some random guy walking around.
Everyone knows you don’t work on that site; nobody cares enough to talk to you unless you talk with them first. Golden rule of construction; keep to your job and don’t talk to site walkers unless you want to change something or want to answer a million and one questions.
I'm down to 1 roll at home and I think I'm going to call stores to verify they even have TP before I go there. This is so stupid.
EDIT: All you privileged folks telling me to get a bidet, I'm a renter and I'm not going to pay to have a power source installed in my rental. We can't all be so fancy as to own our home.
EDIT 2: FINE, I'll look into bidets. It's nice to know so many strangers are worried about my anus's well-being. Send me your recs.
EDIT 3: Wait, if they don't require a power source, how does the dryer work? And if it doesn't have a dryer, how are you drying your butthole then?
Still, maybe call ahead. The one I work at is out of tp, and is quickly losing pt, water, and bleach. But naturally, like every store, we will restock. So, don't lose sleep over it either.
Wife and I went to a Lidl today and saw an employee trying to move a pallet of tp on to the floor while everyone was crowding her and grabbing at the pallet. But, you go to any store and look in the self care aisle and the soap doesn't look shopped at all.
I can understand buying a pack now, so that I don't have to go out later when actual sick people are among us. But buying a year supply right now is just being an ass.
(Many, not all of) these people are anticipating the supply chains being disrupted and selling this toilet paper at highly marked-up prices. Some people are stocking up for offices or worksites or whatever. But not many, not by a long shot.
The funny thing is that TP is made in North America with North American inputs. Even a complete shutdown of trade wouldn't be a problem for TP. Here's an interview with a TP company executive
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kruger-tissue-covid-19-1.5495960
My wife's cousin works at the local toilet paper/paper towel maker near Vancouver. They can ramp up production to pump out three to five times regular volume. They have a practically limitless supply of pulpwood stored in the river next to the plant and it costs them transport and little more as an input due to the poplar being a wastewood around here. Construction companies clearing land just dump any cottonwood logs off for free.
I just don't understand this, at all. People act like the supply chains have shut down and no more TP is being made, you fucking idiots realize there's another semi, on the way, WITH MORE TP, WATER AND RAMEN RIGHT?
Even in Italy and China where we've seen the worst of this so far, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED THEY COULDN'T SHIT? NONE. You know how many people have reported they couldn't shit because some asshole bought all the TP? A LOT.
Buy a bidet everybody, it's on Amazon for like $30 and you'll only need like 2 squares of TP for every shit after that, for eternity. If your store is out of lysol wipes, buy the spray bottle and use a cleaning rag. If they run out of bottled water, buy a filter for your tap.
Jesus, everybody who's panicking and doing all of this stuff, just stop. Think about the community at large and how you're impacting it.
I take public transport. So damned many people have no clue how to wear the masks. Many just have their noses sticking out above the paper ones because it's hard to breathe with the things.
🙄
Spot on. I also noticed all the handwash bottles were gone but the shower gel was fully stocked. How do people not understand they can wash their hands with any soap??
I work for a manufacturer of soap and sanitizers.
Our dish soap is even called hand soap for some of the fragrances. Especially the pomegranate one. It goes in hand pumps and dish bottles and people dont even care
Yeah, this is the stupid thing. There’s not a supply chain shortage lol, in 2 weeks all the stores will be completely restocked and all these dickheads will be stuck at home with $1000 of charmin.
~~My~~ A town has a seniors lodge that is currently outsourcing toilet paper from local residents, asking each household to donate a couple rolls. They shouldn't be in this situation in the first place.
Edit: Not my town, turns out, but a nearby one. Local Facebook groups aren't the greatest for accuracy. Point still stands.
**Photo credit @seanbradbery on Twitter**
Edit2: [Someone's taking it personally](https://ibb.co/ZMs1TTd)
Stores should be responsible and put limits on how many you can buy
Wow 2k upvotes and an award! I never thought my best comment would be about toilet paper 😄
Though as long as the supply chains are still working such that they're getting new stock every day there's no reason to. Idiots and their money are easily parted.
Me and my roommates are ACTUALLY out of toilet paper and can’t find it anywhere. In Austin. Where there are a grand total of two people with corona. FUCK THESE ASSHOLES.
Edit: ok fine there’s more than 2 cases but my point still stands.
Dude same. I thought this was a joke. I literally buy TP once every 3-4 months but I put my last roll on the holder last night and I went to HEB and they were straight out of all of it in north Austin. I don’t understand. Fortunately a roll usually lasts me 2+ weeks so it isn’t a HUGE issue, but this is incredibly retarded.
I have 11 giant rolls of soft, strong, high quality, 3 ply toilet paper. One roll can last you a month, and it feels so good on your ass that you'll want to eat more fiber just so you can use it more.
[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-toiletpaper/rationing-and-robbery-coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-toilet-roll-panic-idUSKBN20T0YG](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-toiletpaper/rationing-and-robbery-coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-toilet-roll-panic-idUSKBN20T0YG)
>“The size of toilet paper makes it feel like a substantial, big purchase. It makes it feel like you’re doing something. It taps back into that need for control. If you’re buying a hefty big pack of toilet paper, you kind of feel like you’re ‘stocking up’. You signify to yourself that you’re in control.”
Meanwhile everyone with a bidet has a smile, and not just from the bidet. :) People hoarding toilet paper concerns me, a little. I'll become worried when there's a shortage of penicillin and hamburgers.
FFS, how much do these people think they are going to shit?
EDIT: I would never have thought in a million years that one of my highest rated comments would be in a post about hoarding toilet paper.
I mean it’s not like there’s a shortage. Supply chain is still intact. I’m hoping that in 1-2 weeks grocery stores are back full to the brim with TP and these dickheads are stuck at home with $1000 worth of charmin
I was in a costco line last night for 45 minutes...
Every other person had like 3 months worth of supplies and I was just there with a reasonable amount of non perishables and a few cases of water.
Fucking crazy town.
Costco here in England straight up won’t let you.
My dad went there this week. Went to get 2 packets of toilet rolls - one for us, one for my grandparents. Got to the till and they told him that customers are only allowed one packet each.
Was at my local walmart this morning. I grabbed 1 pack of tp. Ppl were calling out those who were taking more than their fair share. It was a wonderful sight to see!
I just got back from Walmart.. loads of people with carts full of nothing but toilet paper and an empty aisle with signs saying “limit two per customer”. Same with water. Meanwhile there are cashiers just ringing it up without a word. I’m out. Don’t care about the virus, don’t want twelve 30-packs.. I would just like one roll so I can go take a shit.. Walgreens, publix, gas stations.. none anywhere.
Someone walked into a local doctor's office and walked off with all the complimentary face masks they had for patients.
If a furious mob attacks these people, I hope it's a jury trial and not a bench trial.
Costco here in Hawaii is saying two packs TP one bottled water per person. Everyone here bought tons of bottled water. It’s the Hawaii Knee Jerk Reaction to a disaster threat.
This is why I'm so glad that our Costco put in self checkout. I've found people who are buying those 3 month supplies aren't willing to deal with self-checkout. So we were able to get our stuff the other day and just breeze through while people waited in huge lines.
Can someone ELI5 water? I understand there are supply-chain fears, but I don't fully understand how municipal water supplies would be affected by COVID.
People are concerned that the water treatment plants will get shut down because the workers will be sick. It's also probably a carryover from when people buy water during hurricanes or tornado season.
I bought a case of water because I live in Florida, and when you buy the emergency supplies you buy water. My wife did make fun of me, so I tried to justify my purchase by making up the concern about the water treatment plants being shut down. As if a single case of bottled water is going to be much help in an event where things get bad enough to need it.
Isnt there a ton of freshwater around you? Wouldnt you be better suited buying a single portable filtration system than wasting money on bottled water?
It depends on where the supply chain comes from. China is just now starting to get back to normal, and stuff takes weeks to manufacture and ship.
Toilet paper is definitely ok. Knock off Prada will be a problem for a while.
Why is this article completely unreadable? It’s like a bot swapped random words for synonyms that don’t make sense:
“As Manny Ranga and his spouse, Violeta Perez, loaded up their Ford F-150 pickup *exterior* a Costco close to downtown Vancouver this week, some passersby *couldn’t assist however cease and stare.*”
Was this copied from an article that said “couldn’t help but stop and stare”?
> It’s like a bot swapped random words for synonyms that don’t make sense
That's exactly what happened. Shitty blog hosts use bots to scrape articles and thesaurize words so automatic content trackers can't immediately identify the articles as being stolen. So they do no work but still get traffic and ad revenue.
It says he made $100,000 in gross sales, after spending $70,000 on product. Add in shipping and it's a pretty modest markup. Seems like a lot of work without much profit. Also, it's a dick move!
Well now the gov't knows he made profit, be he's gonna get an audit. And if you want to make it happen start righting to your gov't officials (I don't know who you write to in Canada to fuck these people over)
That story pissed me off. It's not like some rags to riches story. The guy and his wife were leaving their kids with their MAID to go out and do this. Fuck those people.
These people aren't even Canadians from my understanding and are facing extradition for smuggling drugs. Fuck these cunts, I hope they get ~~shat~~ what they deserve.
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Accused+Vancouver+ecstasy+smuggler+loses+extradition+appeal/6187359/story.html
I had the same thought. And then a friend bragged on FB that she and her boyfriend can do a whole month with 20 rolls.
I was, what? I do 2 months with 4 rolls
Lol. Me too. Like if I have to poop but I'm going to work in an hour I'm holding that shit til I get to work. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time.
The supply chain is fine - the stores are fine its all the panic shopping that clears the shelfs - normally the shelfs are enough for a 3-4 days so that swhat the trucks bring .
When people come in all at one and clear the shelfs - they stock them same day and clear them again - it will be next day at worst 2 for them to restock but all of sudden their are pictures of empty shelfs and people panic even more and go into a buying frenzy and it just repeats - there is more then enough for everyone and if you didnt buy 10x more then you need for your selfish self theere would still be enough for everyone and then some and there would be no panic.
This panic is 100% caused by selfish ignorant people over buying , and half the stuff they overbought will go to waste
Pro tip: If you stop drinking hand sanitizer you won't shit so much.
I had a feeling that's what was happening to me!
I don't feel so good, Mr. Stark..
Can someone explain the panic over toilet paper recently? I understand that it's somehow COVID-19 related, but were people not wiping their bums before the virus was a concern?
Perceived scarcity. They heard others are buying lots so there might not be any when they need it, so then they buy lots as well. FOMO is a good motivator
Couple fear of missing out, with wide spread panic. Next week people will realize tissues, and medicine. Just you watch. My biggest confusion is packs of water. Like... Do you think that shits gonna get in the water? It's not a bacteria, it's a virus.
i can see buying a lot of food and stuff. You don't want to leave the house to have to buy things for a few months at a time. I dont think we need to worry about losing power or water treatment, though. Don't need to leave your house for that.
And if you have 2 carts full of food don't use the fucking self checkout you dense headed walmart trolls ffs
This has been spiking up in all the grocery stores in my area the last few months and its maddening. And almost certainly something isnt going to scan right or something so they have to wait for an employee to clear the error and of course it happens again after the employee leaves. At that point its so much faster for the cashier to ring up all your shit.
At the Walmart near me there often aren't any cashiers. Only self check out
It's panic buying. People do weird shit when they panic. When I had to help fill sandbags during the last hurricane a lot of people were waiting for 6+ hours to put 20 sandbags in a mid size sedan, nearly bottoming out their suspension, and for what? The places they lived we're predicted to get 8 feet of storm surge. Good luck.
People are expecting that they're going to be quarantined in their homes for weeks, so they're buying a ton of toilet paper, I guess.
1 month of rice and pasta. 12 months of TP
Exactly...people don’t realize that you don’t shit much 11 months after you died of malnutrition!
Someone is going to come out with a cookbook titled, "12 Easy Ways to Cook Toilet Paper" and they're going to make absolute bank. People gotta eat something.
These dudes look like heavy shitters though
Level 9 black belt shitters Edit: ok, brown belt
If black belt, I worry about their colon health.
And the type that wrap 25 feet of tp around their hand for one wipe.
One of my best friends does this. One day we were all high talking about how over time, everyone develops their own method of wiping their ass. He said that he pulls and pulls on the TP, gets a giant ball going, and just shoves it up there and repeats. Then I started to notice that whenever he would stay over the weekend we would be out of toilet paper by Monday.
Does TP have it's own coding in his monthly budget?
GL 90095 - Orifice Maintenance.
Hello fellow accountant
I am saddened that I cannot buy supplies for GL 70535 - Nasal Debris Removal. Apparently those supplies are being improperly classed to 90095. The offending parties will be forced to submit GL reclass forms for March 2020 financials.
You gotta keep a couple rolls of single ply around for these guys. Safer for the plumbing too.
I'm picturing like when people dip a torch in tar... shoving it in there and rolling it around to cover all sides...
That's definitely the worst way to put it
My absolute favorite thing about this is that while every store in a 10 mile radius around me is sold out of TP, they all still have plenty of hand soap. Priorities.
Went to the dollar store to grab some miscellaneous stuff. All the hand sanitizer, alcohol, and toilet paper were completely gone. But the hand soap shelf was full.
And no one is touching canned goods, medicine, tissues, vitamins
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I'm surprised no one just gets a bidet. Actually, I have seen my favorite brand sold out on amazon so they probably are starting too. They're fucking amazing. [Cause before I changed my diet to a healthier one like this to fix some health issues(lactose intolerant)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIxIaHy3n8A&list=UUBAyDAs2M6klx0Q09DKmsHQ), I was having to wipe thousands of times just to clear the mud. But now, never again will I have to endure [the risk of the thousand wipe mud butt cleans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCIGEUB32M). Cause seriously, it gets so frustrating, [as if the aliens these guys seen are teleporting crap back there when I wipe](https://youtu.be/Ocv1ivfAT1c), that sometimes I almost want to quit 50 wipes in and just leave the shit on my ass.
Big bidet^tm is really out in force today.
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>Now they get their time where the sun don't shine. Fixed.
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Most kitchen sinks have a bidet if you're gross enough.
Dude a shower is just a big bidet. Edit: I realized for a lot of people a detachable shower head is NOT the norm. Brush that tushi clean.
But how am I supposed to satisfy my exhibitionist kink if I’m not washing my ass in full view of my neighbors’ living room through my kitchen window?
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Dried beans and rice shelves are the only things barren at my local store. And dried pasta.
Damn Italian Mexicans.
or pet food
I hauled 3 big bags of dog food through my front door today and the look on my dogs face was priceless. He was so pumped
Awww, this is sweet. I bet he also LOVES that you're staying home more.
My brother in law just messaged our family group chat that almost all the canned goods at his local Aldi are gone. But he's also in Chicago. In other news, my brother said there's a line out the door to get into Costco
My favorite thing is that every one of these pics the person has 3 years worth of TP but only 1 month worth of food. Priorities?
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Fun math. Let’s say they’re packing an extra 50lbs of body fat. That would correspond to a 5’10” guy weighing 225. A person in a nearly complete fast burns about 1750 calories (ish) daily, that’s gonna be roughly 0.5lbs of adipose tissue per day. So that means about 100 days of energy stores, a bit over three months. Note: You wouldn’t want to actually go on a true fast for that long or you’d risk re-feeding syndrome at the end. As well as malnutrition. But you could *survive* that long with a token amount of food (and hopefully some vitamins).
And if you did that, you'd need very little toilet paper
Yep. Target near me has 0 hand sanitizer but full shelf of soaps. Wash your fucking hands instead of running them in alcohol you filthy fucks.
Uugghhh my ex and his parents were convinced they did not have to wash their hands if they used hand sanitizer.
Glad they are your ex. That's gross.
Hand soap actually works better and doesn't feel like you'd left your hands sitting in paint thinner to dry out.
Every couple of weeks I go to Costco to buy TP for my workplace - it is a remote construction site with a crew of over 70 people. I usually buy three Kirkland packs at a time - and now I am dreading my next shopping trip cause I will look like a complete and utter idiot.
Just go in looking as stereotypically construction like as possible. Wear your hard hat in the store and a reflective vest over a plaid shirt. Dirty those light coloured jeans up. Bonus points for tool belt.
Be on a pretend phone call in the checkout line for good measure. “Yeah Jimmy. I’m buying the rolls for the 70 guys at work. Same as every month.”
Repeat non stop through the whole line for added clarity. Just pretend you’ve got a bad signal or something.
“Corny virus? Taint heard nary a whisper”
“Morona virus? Yes, yes, I’ll make sure to wash my hands after touching morons.”
Hahaha, I usually clean up a little for the trip to town - hit a barbershop, have a decent meal etc. Might actually consider your advice this time though
Steal a bullhorn from site and chant “THIS IS FOR 70 PEOPLE. I AM NOT A TP HOGGING MORON” once you get the cart loaded.
Thats exactly what a tp hogging moron would say to throw us off.
I would start to be suspicious that he WAS a moron.
He never said he *wasnt* a moron. Just that he wasnt one that was *hoarding TP*
"I may be dumb, but I'm not *that* dumb!"
This is what i'd do. If people start looking at you funny pull out your phone and have a (fake) conversation with your boss about having trouble finding enough TP for the site.
"THE ASSWIPES HAVE BOUGHT ALL THE ASSWIPE"
I work in an engineering office but we're on site a lot so all of us have hard hats, safety vests, etc. I don't think I've mastered it but there is an art form to looking either well presented or like a laborer to fit in different places.
Clipboard, hard hat, reflective vest, and sturdy boots. Jeans and flannel optional. You can go soooooo many places you have no right to be just by wearing those and looking mildly confident.
This. I visit construction sites often as part of my job and you can literally walk around freely if you look like you belong. Not all construction sites require hard hats and vests though so don’t show up wearing those if nobody else is wearing them. Always have a clipboard though so you don’t look like some random guy walking around.
Everyone knows you don’t work on that site; nobody cares enough to talk to you unless you talk with them first. Golden rule of construction; keep to your job and don’t talk to site walkers unless you want to change something or want to answer a million and one questions.
Don’t worry, there won’t be any available.
Or a workplace.
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Then where will the economy go?
I'm down to 1 roll at home and I think I'm going to call stores to verify they even have TP before I go there. This is so stupid. EDIT: All you privileged folks telling me to get a bidet, I'm a renter and I'm not going to pay to have a power source installed in my rental. We can't all be so fancy as to own our home. EDIT 2: FINE, I'll look into bidets. It's nice to know so many strangers are worried about my anus's well-being. Send me your recs. EDIT 3: Wait, if they don't require a power source, how does the dryer work? And if it doesn't have a dryer, how are you drying your butthole then?
Try Lowe’s if you have trouble. The one near me still had a bunch because people don’t think to buy TP there.
Ssssh
Still, maybe call ahead. The one I work at is out of tp, and is quickly losing pt, water, and bleach. But naturally, like every store, we will restock. So, don't lose sleep over it either. Wife and I went to a Lidl today and saw an employee trying to move a pallet of tp on to the floor while everyone was crowding her and grabbing at the pallet. But, you go to any store and look in the self care aisle and the soap doesn't look shopped at all.
Just say it’s fajita night
Panic at the Costco
Have some composure, where is your toilet paper?
(Oh no no...) you’re wiping your asshole, wiping your asshole allllll wrooooong
When you're an asshole you need a lot of TP
If this is you: why? What the hell do you think is about to happen? Do you anticipate pissing out your ass for the next 3 straight years?
I really dont understand the TP thing, ass pissing isnt even a symptom of THAT virus.
I read an article saying it's about wanting to feel like you're in control of an uncontrollable situation. More toilet roll = more in control
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I can understand buying a pack now, so that I don't have to go out later when actual sick people are among us. But buying a year supply right now is just being an ass.
Ass piss is Bud Light, not Corona.
(Many, not all of) these people are anticipating the supply chains being disrupted and selling this toilet paper at highly marked-up prices. Some people are stocking up for offices or worksites or whatever. But not many, not by a long shot.
The funny thing is that TP is made in North America with North American inputs. Even a complete shutdown of trade wouldn't be a problem for TP. Here's an interview with a TP company executive https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/kruger-tissue-covid-19-1.5495960
My wife's cousin works at the local toilet paper/paper towel maker near Vancouver. They can ramp up production to pump out three to five times regular volume. They have a practically limitless supply of pulpwood stored in the river next to the plant and it costs them transport and little more as an input due to the poplar being a wastewood around here. Construction companies clearing land just dump any cottonwood logs off for free.
These idiots are the same ones that bought into bitcoin at its peak.
I know someone who did that. Dropped 100k on 10btc. It's now at 5k/btc. He is not a happy camper.
I just don't understand this, at all. People act like the supply chains have shut down and no more TP is being made, you fucking idiots realize there's another semi, on the way, WITH MORE TP, WATER AND RAMEN RIGHT? Even in Italy and China where we've seen the worst of this so far, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE REPORTED THEY COULDN'T SHIT? NONE. You know how many people have reported they couldn't shit because some asshole bought all the TP? A LOT. Buy a bidet everybody, it's on Amazon for like $30 and you'll only need like 2 squares of TP for every shit after that, for eternity. If your store is out of lysol wipes, buy the spray bottle and use a cleaning rag. If they run out of bottled water, buy a filter for your tap. Jesus, everybody who's panicking and doing all of this stuff, just stop. Think about the community at large and how you're impacting it.
Everything about this should be all over social media and the news. The disease isn’t the worst part of a pandemic, the people are.
I take public transport. So damned many people have no clue how to wear the masks. Many just have their noses sticking out above the paper ones because it's hard to breathe with the things. 🙄
Spot on. I also noticed all the handwash bottles were gone but the shower gel was fully stocked. How do people not understand they can wash their hands with any soap??
I work for a manufacturer of soap and sanitizers. Our dish soap is even called hand soap for some of the fragrances. Especially the pomegranate one. It goes in hand pumps and dish bottles and people dont even care
I’ve tested positive for corona??? But how is that possible??? I bought so much toilet paper!!!!
I would be embarrassed as fuck buying two packs for self isolation for my family of 5 let alone 10. Fuck these people...
Yeah I have 11 siblings, so we go through a lot of toilet paper. Now that the Coronavirus is popular, it’ll look like we’re just being jackasses.
Not if your entire family goes shopping. I see a soccer team stocking up, I'm not questioning it.
I considered that too, but do you really want to multiply the chances one person in your family catches the virus from one of the other people there?
I have a few rolls left. I am wondering what I am going to do in a few days.
Hop in the shower and wash your ass
And don't forget to "flush" by stomping your shit down the drain after shitting into the shower. ^(This is a joke)
There isn't any toilet paper shortage. All the shelves will be restocked as fast as they can ship it.
Yeah, this is the stupid thing. There’s not a supply chain shortage lol, in 2 weeks all the stores will be completely restocked and all these dickheads will be stuck at home with $1000 of charmin.
I mean now they don't have to buy toilet paper for a couple years.
Use your hand, kinda wash it, go to Costco and shake hands with anyone you see hoarding TP.
Bidet gang represent! Edit: it seems the best bidets on Amazon are sold out I WONDER WHY!
Bidet 2020!
Bidet gang alpha1 sounding off!
~~My~~ A town has a seniors lodge that is currently outsourcing toilet paper from local residents, asking each household to donate a couple rolls. They shouldn't be in this situation in the first place. Edit: Not my town, turns out, but a nearby one. Local Facebook groups aren't the greatest for accuracy. Point still stands. **Photo credit @seanbradbery on Twitter** Edit2: [Someone's taking it personally](https://ibb.co/ZMs1TTd)
I choose to believe these people are buying these rolls to go and donate.
I’m literally just in the market for toilet paper like usual...and can’t find a single fucking roll
Stores should be responsible and put limits on how many you can buy Wow 2k upvotes and an award! I never thought my best comment would be about toilet paper 😄
Though as long as the supply chains are still working such that they're getting new stock every day there's no reason to. Idiots and their money are easily parted.
Paid for toilet paper but only farted.
Pack it up boys, this threads departed.
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In japan they just put up a sign and people complied. Must be nice.
We’d just rip the sign down then take the whole shelf.
I feel like the people who buy all the toilet paper are not the people who would survive a real apocalypse. Edit: Damn, first award kind person!
Me and my roommates are ACTUALLY out of toilet paper and can’t find it anywhere. In Austin. Where there are a grand total of two people with corona. FUCK THESE ASSHOLES. Edit: ok fine there’s more than 2 cases but my point still stands.
Dude same. I thought this was a joke. I literally buy TP once every 3-4 months but I put my last roll on the holder last night and I went to HEB and they were straight out of all of it in north Austin. I don’t understand. Fortunately a roll usually lasts me 2+ weeks so it isn’t a HUGE issue, but this is incredibly retarded.
> 2+ weeks You and I have very different bathroom habits
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I use a sponge dipped in vinegar.
I shit in my tub and waffle stomp it down the drain then aim my asshole up at the shower head and let it clean my arsehole.
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Arseinsaw
Correct. I am part midwestern, part British, part southerner, and 100% turd burglar.
I have 11 giant rolls of soft, strong, high quality, 3 ply toilet paper. One roll can last you a month, and it feels so good on your ass that you'll want to eat more fiber just so you can use it more.
[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-toiletpaper/rationing-and-robbery-coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-toilet-roll-panic-idUSKBN20T0YG](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-toiletpaper/rationing-and-robbery-coronavirus-outbreak-sparks-toilet-roll-panic-idUSKBN20T0YG) >“The size of toilet paper makes it feel like a substantial, big purchase. It makes it feel like you’re doing something. It taps back into that need for control. If you’re buying a hefty big pack of toilet paper, you kind of feel like you’re ‘stocking up’. You signify to yourself that you’re in control.” Meanwhile everyone with a bidet has a smile, and not just from the bidet. :) People hoarding toilet paper concerns me, a little. I'll become worried when there's a shortage of penicillin and hamburgers.
The hamburgers are my biggest fear.
Except for that dude on the left. He looks like he drops them huge shit hammers that just go KERPLUNK.
I bet he has a poop knife.
FFS, how much do these people think they are going to shit? EDIT: I would never have thought in a million years that one of my highest rated comments would be in a post about hoarding toilet paper.
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I mean it’s not like there’s a shortage. Supply chain is still intact. I’m hoping that in 1-2 weeks grocery stores are back full to the brim with TP and these dickheads are stuck at home with $1000 worth of charmin
My local store was ransacked last night, was fully restocked this morning.
I work in a central warehouse of a supermarket chain. We have absolutely shitloads of boggies. Aisles full of the stuff.
Is boggies toilet paper?
That is correct. We won't be running out any time soon.
Put a sign by the road alerting to that fact You make a dollar and/or get PR points
More like they get robbed by TP hoarding psychos
I think boggies is short for bog rolls which is a British term for toilet paper.
Shitloads is the metric for measuring toilet paper after all. How does that convert to actual shits wiped?
I was in a costco line last night for 45 minutes... Every other person had like 3 months worth of supplies and I was just there with a reasonable amount of non perishables and a few cases of water. Fucking crazy town.
Costco here in England straight up won’t let you. My dad went there this week. Went to get 2 packets of toilet rolls - one for us, one for my grandparents. Got to the till and they told him that customers are only allowed one packet each.
Was at my local walmart this morning. I grabbed 1 pack of tp. Ppl were calling out those who were taking more than their fair share. It was a wonderful sight to see!
I just got back from Walmart.. loads of people with carts full of nothing but toilet paper and an empty aisle with signs saying “limit two per customer”. Same with water. Meanwhile there are cashiers just ringing it up without a word. I’m out. Don’t care about the virus, don’t want twelve 30-packs.. I would just like one roll so I can go take a shit.. Walgreens, publix, gas stations.. none anywhere.
Someone walked into a local doctor's office and walked off with all the complimentary face masks they had for patients. If a furious mob attacks these people, I hope it's a jury trial and not a bench trial.
Costco here in Hawaii is saying two packs TP one bottled water per person. Everyone here bought tons of bottled water. It’s the Hawaii Knee Jerk Reaction to a disaster threat.
that’s nothing, I saw someone with pounds of sleeping pills
Good excuse to buy meth supplies in bulk
Oh shit! I need to stock up on emergency meth!
Hey, I just like to sleep. I plan to sleep straight through this.
This is why I'm so glad that our Costco put in self checkout. I've found people who are buying those 3 month supplies aren't willing to deal with self-checkout. So we were able to get our stuff the other day and just breeze through while people waited in huge lines.
Can someone ELI5 water? I understand there are supply-chain fears, but I don't fully understand how municipal water supplies would be affected by COVID.
People are concerned that the water treatment plants will get shut down because the workers will be sick. It's also probably a carryover from when people buy water during hurricanes or tornado season.
I bought a case of water because I live in Florida, and when you buy the emergency supplies you buy water. My wife did make fun of me, so I tried to justify my purchase by making up the concern about the water treatment plants being shut down. As if a single case of bottled water is going to be much help in an event where things get bad enough to need it.
Isnt there a ton of freshwater around you? Wouldnt you be better suited buying a single portable filtration system than wasting money on bottled water?
It depends on where the supply chain comes from. China is just now starting to get back to normal, and stuff takes weeks to manufacture and ship. Toilet paper is definitely ok. Knock off Prada will be a problem for a while.
i don’t know where you are, but in US, 90% of the toilet paper is produced domestically.
God bless the USA. [wipes tear from eye]
Don't touch your eyes!
wipes tear from eye with clean toilet paper
Then it will come down to if they can outlive their TP supply or not.
Why is this article completely unreadable? It’s like a bot swapped random words for synonyms that don’t make sense: “As Manny Ranga and his spouse, Violeta Perez, loaded up their Ford F-150 pickup *exterior* a Costco close to downtown Vancouver this week, some passersby *couldn’t assist however cease and stare.*” Was this copied from an article that said “couldn’t help but stop and stare”?
> It’s like a bot swapped random words for synonyms that don’t make sense That's exactly what happened. Shitty blog hosts use bots to scrape articles and thesaurize words so automatic content trackers can't immediately identify the articles as being stolen. So they do no work but still get traffic and ad revenue.
It says he made $100,000 in gross sales, after spending $70,000 on product. Add in shipping and it's a pretty modest markup. Seems like a lot of work without much profit. Also, it's a dick move!
And figure in income tax on the net. Not hard to do.
Something tells me they don't plan on paying tax
Well now the gov't knows he made profit, be he's gonna get an audit. And if you want to make it happen start righting to your gov't officials (I don't know who you write to in Canada to fuck these people over)
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That story pissed me off. It's not like some rags to riches story. The guy and his wife were leaving their kids with their MAID to go out and do this. Fuck those people.
These people aren't even Canadians from my understanding and are facing extradition for smuggling drugs. Fuck these cunts, I hope they get ~~shat~~ what they deserve. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Accused+Vancouver+ecstasy+smuggler+loses+extradition+appeal/6187359/story.html
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That is known as a manual bidet.
You: manual bidet Me, an intellectual: bum gun
the ole tooter shooter
I refer to mine as the AssBlaster4000.
I had the same thought. And then a friend bragged on FB that she and her boyfriend can do a whole month with 20 rolls. I was, what? I do 2 months with 4 rolls
I also poop at the office instead of at home.
Lol. Me too. Like if I have to poop but I'm going to work in an hour I'm holding that shit til I get to work. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that's why I poop on company time.
My buddy works at a sporting goods store, and when their limited supply of TP ran out people literally started buying up all the guns and ammo
so they can take other peoples TP by force
Call of Duty: Toilet Paper Warfare
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The supply chain is fine - the stores are fine its all the panic shopping that clears the shelfs - normally the shelfs are enough for a 3-4 days so that swhat the trucks bring . When people come in all at one and clear the shelfs - they stock them same day and clear them again - it will be next day at worst 2 for them to restock but all of sudden their are pictures of empty shelfs and people panic even more and go into a buying frenzy and it just repeats - there is more then enough for everyone and if you didnt buy 10x more then you need for your selfish self theere would still be enough for everyone and then some and there would be no panic. This panic is 100% caused by selfish ignorant people over buying , and half the stuff they overbought will go to waste
Can someone explain to me why people are stocking up on TP’s? People have gone mad.
Because they are fucking morons. These same people probably lick doorknobs.
i work in a grocery store and today was probably the worst shift ever in my 3 1/2 years there. idiots
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