The latest target by the environmentalists – Activists raise stink about super-soft toilet paper.
Will cushy 3-ply join the ranks of the incandescent light bulb? Will we eventually need a doctor’s note or prescription if we have hemorrhoids? What if we buy a few carbon offsets?
Or will the Nanny State provinces declare that soft toilet tissue can only be sold behind power walls?
Don’t sit down on the job people or your rights will continue to be eroded.
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From the article, “The vast majority of bathroom tissue is made from virgin wood fibre”.
Meaning from pulp logs that are not suitable for saw milling and wood chips that are the by product of lumber operations.
If the environazis want to use cardboard or worse they are welcome to it, just don’t try to tell me how to live my life or what to use.
Scratch a green and you’ll see red, communists by another name.
Who was that hollywood gal that said, one sheet will do the job. Will we have toilet paper inspectors make weekly rounds to check our bathrooms.
Will we have to go back to using the catalogue and newspapers in outside biffys.
Will there be inspectors checking out our purchases on credit or debit cards.
How sick can those envirowackos get.
Was it Sheryl Crow, Mary T?
This will only get worse.
Next you can expect mandatory installation of inbuilt cameras and monitors in our garbage bins to ensure that the “wrong” kind of garbage is not thrown in with the “right” kind of garbage.
Too far-fetched? No. It has already started in some areas of the UK.
Boy, you are on a real ‘body function’ roll this weekend…lol
Soon the enviro-wacks will have us going out to the back forty and using leaves and brush.
Without getting specific, they had better start thinking about the medical reasons and infections that have the potential to spring up (or already have) with their constant meddling.
We tolerated perfumes and scents being removed but with this one, back off fools!
but with this one, back off fools!
Yeah!! Butt out of our business!!!
Tolerance is the problem, since when is it good to tolerate idiots? I was taught to not tolerate fools or idiots.
While we tolerate their stupidity they march and destroy in evident intolerance of civilization and freedom, we should not suffer these fools lightly nor tolerate their destructive tendencies.
Commies are commies no matter if they admit their communist attractions or fake an environmental one, the goal is the same, disruption of the economy and class warfare egged on by false propaganda.
Personally I hate communists and socialists, I view them as the enemy of mankind and won’t suffer the fools… [portion deleted by blog admin]
If it follows the incandescent light bulb blame Harper, he was the one to follow his Liberal buddy McLiar in banning it.
Yes, I think it was Crow. Last week, I was shocked to see a sign on the door-this is a scent free zone. What a way to discourage customers. Now, if they can prevent persons from eating garlic before attending shows, games, concerts etc that have sat behind me–.
EARTH FIRST !
We’ll log the other planets later
The Red-Green Show.
The natural end result of the eco-business: the Red-Green Pyramid scheme.
“This society, promoted by its leaders as an egalitarian utopia, was in truth one of the most unequal on Earth.”
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“PETER HITCHENS: In the Soviet suburbs of Hell and the blasted avenues of Mogadishu, I saw what our society could become
Windows were filthy as a matter of course in Soviet Russia. In the five years I worked there, I never saw a clean one.
Rats, on the other hand, were commonplace and played merrily among the rubbish bins of apartment blocks and in the entrances of railway termini.
While most citizens struggled to survive in this suburb of Hell, however, a secret elite enjoyed great privileges: special living spaces, special hospitals, special schools, special lanes along which the Politburo’s limousines roared at 90mph.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257713/PETER-HITCHENS-In-Soviet-suburbs-Hell-blasted-avenues-Mogadishu-I-saw-society-become.html
The day they get their noses into our behinds is the day all hell will break loose.
I’m already stocking regular lightbulbs, not the screwy kind, guess I’ll have to start on the bum wipes too.
It was Sheryl Crow who advocated doing the one sheet wipe, kind of tricky business unless you’re a gnat.
Fred, that’s one of the classic bumper stickers of all time, beauty eh?
If it follows the incandescent light bulb blame Harper…
I’m not happy about that either.
Socialist societies overflow with TP jokes. That’s because when such a basic necessity is part of a command economy, there will never be enough and its quality will be a joke. This brings to mind P.J. O’Rourke’s masterpiece Holidays in Hell where his visit to the Soviet Union in the early 80’s was painted as a nightmare of shortages, and standing in line for hours just to purchase a couple of rolls of toilet paper.
This incredible report from a sociologist in Russia describes how the Stalinist state designed one kind of toilet paper:
My view is that the development and usage of toilet paper has a much neglected ‘cultural’, as opposed to crudely ‘economic’, aspect. I remember using something called ‘Izal’ – a sort of hard, crumply, medicated affair, prone to splitting under excessive pressure. It was clearly designed and manufactured by an anally retentive Methodist sworn to clean living, clean air and clean bums. It came in boxes especially designed to keep use of paper to a minimum. Each sheet had to be withdrawn singly and was usually the devil’s own job to extract. Sort of thing one found in the lower middle class household of Stalinist persuasion that I inhabited during my childhood years…. It never did me any harm, honest.
And Obama wants our government to have a big say in the design of cars?
If you read between the lines of this old Russian joke about toilet paper, you can catch the utter helplessness that people feel in a society that is incapable of addressing their most basic comforts:
A woman walking in the street is carrying a bag full of rolls of toilet paper.
A passer-by opens his mouth, “Hey, mother, where did you buy it?”
“Buy? Are you crazy? Where could I buy it nowadays? They are five years old. I am taking them back from the cleaners.”
And, of course, there are dozens of variations on the newspaper Pravda (Truth) being better utilized for duty in the water closet than actually finding out what was going on in the Soviet Union at the time. Those humorous anecdotes also say something profound about a society where attacking the state by smearing excrement over its propaganda organ is a way to fight back against the stultifying nature of Communism.
http://rightwingnuthouse.com/archives/2010/02/09/lets-talk-about-toilet-paper/
If it follows the incandescent light bulb blame Harper…
I’m not happy about that either.
LED’s will be lighting the way, those CFL’s are just a toxic communist product, made in China.
The CFL mercury nightmare
How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent light bulb? About US$4.28 for the bulb and labour — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about US$2,004.28, which doesn’t include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=aa7796aa-e4a5-4c06-be84-b62dee548fda
LED’s will be lighting the way, those CFL’s are just a toxic communist product, made in China.
Bruce, yeah. I could buy into the LED thing if they were effective enough. We had a CFL go poof on us and emit a terrible odour. We chucked them all after that.
I have a carbon foot print of less than 1 ton, thus I would like to trade offset credits for TP credits. Having lost a significant portion of the bowel to cancer, I am an over user of TP.
As far as I am concerned this is one issue the Econuts can flush down the drain before they step in the droppings of the bull.
Next will be taking away salt from the kitchens and tables in NYC … ooops already discussed.
Fire. Them. All.
LED’s cost more right now, they’re now used by many cities for their traffic lights, because they consume up to 80 percent less power.
You’ll see them more and more as production increases and price comes down.
Every time I get a government letter or by something I find myself tearing up the French documentation and I assume the French people do the same. Maybe if we could eliminate this waste of paper we will get to keep our soft bathroom tissue.
One man. A Daniel.
A Canadian.
A Canadian named Steve McIntyre, aka St. George, singlehandedly killed the Red-Green AGW dragon.
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“The case against the hockey stick
The “hockey stick” temperature graph is a mainstay of global warming science. A new book tells of one man’s efforts to dismantle it—and deserves to win prizes
Andrew Montford’s The Hockey Stick Illusion is one of the best science books in years. It exposes in delicious detail, datum by datum, how a great scientific mistake of immense political weight was perpetrated, defended and camouflaged by a scientific establishment that should now be red with shame. It is a book about principal components, data mining and confidence intervals—subjects that have never before been made thrilling. It is the biography of a graph.
I can remember when I first paid attention to the “hockey stick” graph at a conference in Cambridge. The temperature line trundled along with little change for centuries, then shot through the roof in the 20th century, like the blade of an ice-hockey stick. I had become somewhat of a sceptic about the science of climate change, but here was emphatic proof that the world was much warmer today; and warming much faster than at any time in a thousand years. I resolved to shed my doubts. I assumed that since it had been published in Nature—the Canterbury Cathedral of scientific literature—it was true.
I was not the only one who was impressed.”
http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2010/03/the-case-against-the-hockey-stick/#
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/14/hockey-stick-illusion-%E2%80%9Cshut-eyed-denial%E2%80%9D/
Bruce, did you read about the problems those cities had with LED traffic lights, not giving off enough heat to melt snow, causing many traffic problems. Seems they were invisible during snow storms.
Could we do without all of those advertising flyers that show up in our mail?
Having lost a significant portion of the bowel to cancer, I am an over user of TP.
Oh boy Teddi. I hope you’re o.k. now.
Look, we have hundreds, if not thousands of forestry workers still unemployed across this country. The industry has been dying a slow death as the internet has been replacing paper, especially newsprint. This in turn costs our government millions of dollars in subsidies, bailouts, and unemployment payouts. We need to do everything we can to help get these people back to work, and if that means using a giant wad of toilet paper with each wiping of the ass, then so be it. You have to do what you have to do because Canadians are suffering.
Do it to help the unemployed…
…did you read about the problems those cities had with LED traffic lights, not giving off enough heat to melt snow…
Oops! That’s right. I remember that now.
Interesting Mary, traffic lights with LED’s and a thermostatically controlled heat source would seem to be the answer for those areas with more frequent snowfall.
Could we do without all of those advertising flyers that show up in our mail?
I wish the environuts would go after the ten-percenters.
First they came for the toilet paper ? This really defines the Green Movement. Really first Global warming, then Climate change, now we are “wiping out” Bambi’s home? Perhaps this will create one of those “Green Jobs” the Watermelon crowd yaps about. A toilet paper inspector. Or Shitzenwipenfuhrer that should do. I can’t imagine any kids wantin’ to be one of “Those” when they grow up. The greenies really really seem to like using references to blitzkriegs, holocaust, all that National Socialist stuff, no surprise there. I can see a certain someone in a uniform with big boots and a green armband workin’ herself into a frenzy over the planet. Anusinspketorfuhrer will ensure “You vill have abrasions!”
What a bunch of anally retentive tools, the way forestry works, you log, replant log, replant etc. Not much game lives in a “climax forest” the Native North Americans understood that and would burn mature stands of trees purposely. The next year or so the new growth would attract game. But that is way too simple for the granola crowd as the old timers would say ” they couldn’t figure out how to pour water out of a gumboot if the instructions were written on the heel”.
Their agenda is really very simple they will control, the size of your house, car, what you eat, heat with etc oh and don’t even think about wiping your bum without an “anusinspektorfuhrer” permit, approval etc. Maybe we could gather up all the spotted owls that have been sacrificed in the “bird grinder” whoops giant fans, and use them for toilet paper. Should stimulate the economy, gathering selling, tradin’ “use an owl for a towel” at least we will get the last laugh on the pigeons and seagulls.
I am unable to use the recycled toilet paper one swipe and I develop a sore bottom
I use baby wipes which cannot be flushed even they must be carefully purchased as I have reacted to them as well
thank heavens for our bidet saves a lot of money
I recall being told plastic bags are destroying the environment
now every time I check out I am asked how many plastic bags would I like at 5 cents I guess that makes them more environmentally friendly
big whoppers Canadian style
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Love your blog and Butt out joke
CBC and CTV will feel totally ignored
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Fh – I buy a huge clubpack of kitchen catchers at Costco. Works out to about a penny a bag. Those suckers won’t ever break down. Heh.
(Used to use the environmentally-friendly, decomposable plastic grocery bags until they started charging for them.)
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Theres this French invention called the bidet . Operating a bulldozer 10 or 12 hours a day , you don’t really want any extra irritation or discomfort in your buttockial area and after a couple of infected ingrown hairs in the region , I installed one in my bathroom. If that’s out of the question due to funds or space , those shower heads on the ends of the hose hanging on the shower wall work just as good . Beats the hell out of that stuff you can see the wood chips in .And don’t ferget the prune juice.
Talking about paper products … let’s help our forestry industry:
http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/home-garden/articles/archive/yahoolifestyle/yahoolifestyle-7_new_ways_to_use_paper_towel
1. Seed Tester
2. Wax Remover
3. Corn De-Silker
4. Herb and Veggie Keeper
5. For Cooking Bacon
6. Can Opener Cleaner
Yes, I know the title says “seven new ways to use paper towels” but I only see six. ??
MSM shills for the AGW Fraud.
Down with AGW/IPCC/UN Fraud.
“More than 40 researchers funded by the foundation have also worked on assessment reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.”
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“Demise of Canadian research will impact global climate initiatives”
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Environment/2010/03/14/13225191-cp.html
Oh my, I have been looking for a good giggle and the GREAT comments have finally provided that release…thanks one and all! haha!
ps, Gabby…#7 could be let them dry and reuse again….ewww!
Perhaps incompetents like McGuinty in the have-not province of Ontario will see fit to put a bidet in every home to save the trees. He’s big on getting us metered on everything we use but the air we breath and pushing solar panel and wind farms to the hilt, no expense spared. Flushing off butts would take more water but it’s metered so we’d still pay. Wonder if they’ll go after soft kleenex as well and force us back to snot rags?
I prefer the Sears catalogue myself!!! Just sayin!
BTW,Craig Oliver LIED today on QP..he is still in a snit over the Jaffer affair..referred to Jaffer as ‘the MP,married to a CabMin’..help me out here people,which riding is Jaffer representing as an MP,where is he sitting in the HofC,cuz I sure haven’t seen him lately.
Forgot to mention the other gem Oliver came out with,in the media non-partisan (cough cough) panel(Tom Clark -Liberal sitting in)..Craig states,’The public TRUST us!!!’ He should really get a show on the Comedy Network!
Thanks for fixing the link in Favs Sandy. I love your new blog!
OT, I have just watched the parade of athletes for the Olympics, and have a question. What kind of facilities do these w/chair guys/gals have for rooms, bathrooms etc. When we travel with our w/chair bound g/son, we can’t find a decent handicapped accessible room, and have trouble with restaurants, and bathrooms. And were special flights arranged to handle all those w/chair passengers. And I noticed our PM and GG there waving and enjoying the moment.
No sign of iggy, guess he was busy telling his mps who could and couldn’t show up to work.
referred to Jaffer as ‘the MP,married to a CabMin’.
Wow!! Did he really say that? Which segment?
Craig states,’The public TRUST us!!!’
Sammy, I was drinking a cup of coffee when he said that and it almost ended up all over the room.
Bec at 4:57, no thanks!
But my personal #7 … I’ve replaced kleenex tissues with paper towels, the Quicker Dripper Picker Upper.
Cheryl Crow’s obviously never had to prepare for a colonoscopy (I think I used a whole roll of the softest TP I could find).
From the article by Peter Hitchens (Christopher’s believing brother) referenced by maz2 above:
“It confirmed the impression I had in Moscow that the Communist state had made a serious effort to replace and supplant such forces as conscience and self-control.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257713/PETER-HITCHENS-In-Soviet-suburbs-Hell-blasted-avenues-Mogadishu-I-saw-society-become.html#ixzz0iCLs6XUd
When individuals refuse to exercise self-discipline and self-control, something our nuclear families and faith communities traditionally prevailed upon us to do, then the state starts to carry a big stick.
Watch out! Soon trees will be used to make more big sticks and fewer rolls of toilet paper!
I am watching the final of the Brier … which is curling for the uninitiated or if you missed the Olympics
The prospect of me being denied my choice of (or any !!!) Bathroom Tissue seems to give a whole new meaning to what I will call “Curling Lingo”. let your imagination go with this …
1. Hurry … Hurray HARD
2. CLEAN … Clean … clean
3. GO!! GO! go-go-go-go
4. NEVER … Never … never
5. Whoa whoa whoa
and my favorite
6. Gotta GO GOTTA Go … WHOA… whoa … Off … Right OFF… Clean … Clean ..yEP … Yep .. GOOOOOOOOO !!!
Soooo … please mark me down as being opposed to the removal of my favorite ‘Tissue’ from the shelves of our supermarkets.
Jo,I recall the Oliver blunder re Jaffer being an MP,came in segment when he was talking to WK,along with John Tory,and Brad Lavigne..and WK followed this BLATANT LIE..no one bothered to correct it..what a surprise!
Thanks Sammy.
You know Jo,another aspect to this story could be the anger and revulsion toward msm and the opposition parties by our immigrant community.I wonder what their thots on this would be,as Rahim is a member of a visible minority,and had been recognized for his successes.The msm hasn’t mentioned this,and I see at Natnewswatch something about the ‘fight’ for the immigrant/visible minority voting block.HMMMM,maybe the msm/Libs have just screwed themselves by their continual hammering away at this story..gee,maybe they are racist..just thinking like a Lib.here!!!!!!!!11
Sammy, you’re very observant. It’s right here at the 06:50 mark.
Jo,reason I picked up on that,was I couldn’t believe how angry ol’ Craig was..almost blowing a gasket,so I stopped what I was doing and listened intently. That was NOT an error on Craig’s part..it was an outright LIE..meant to mislead and cast aspersions on any and all Cons MP’s..but according to Cranky Craig,we trust the media…yeah,right,like I trust Bernie Madoff to manage a stock portfolio!!
[...] So did Craig Oliver deliberately mislead viewers or was it a mistake? (H/T Sammy) [...]
Cocaine users ‘making global warming worse’
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By Bob Roberts 3/03/2010
Cocaine users were last night accused of helping to make global warming worse.
Above from the Mirror in the UK. Seems lots of rain forests are being cut down to grow cocoa plants.
What a choice we have, cocaine or toilet paper or trees.
So, all of you using cocaine at your club or for recreational purposes, stop, you are killing the planet (and yourselves)
Via Drudge