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Does anyone remember that toilet paper that was like tracing paper?
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Picto
02-06-2011
We used to have it in our school years ago and it was useless. It just used to spread the poo around instead of wiping your bum clean.

One brand that was brought to my attention was Izal medicated strong toilet paper : No jobs finished until the paperwork is done.

Does anyone still use this?
darkmoth
02-06-2011
Apart from primary school in the 70s...the only place else I ever saw it was in an aunts house....apparently it wasn't 'Godly' to use andrex
RAINBOWGIRL22
02-06-2011
I never poohed at school
Inspiration
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by Picto:
“We used to have it in our school years ago and it was useless. It just used to spread the poo around instead of wiping your bum clean.”

Ugh brings back some horrid memories that does.
molliepops
02-06-2011
If you softened it before use it worked fairly well.
KieranDS
02-06-2011
HAHA yes! We had it in nursery and reception!
JonDoe
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by molliepops:
“If you softened it before use it worked fairly well.”

How does one soften a nonporous substance?
HarrisonMarks
02-06-2011
At least your finger didn't poke through.
(Great thread,thanks for starting it).
Firthy2002
02-06-2011
Remember it from primary school in the early 90s.

Pretty useless for cleaning up after a poo.
NeilyM
02-06-2011
Ah yes, who can forget the horrors of slide-and-shine?

Someone was having a laugh, surely.
UKMikey
02-06-2011
I think they doubled up in my school by using it in music lssons for the makeshift kazoos. Never used the stuff myself - your only hope of going home without shitty pants must have been to try and use it end on as a kind of makeshift scoop.
vinba
02-06-2011
Yeah.. I remember it. It was at Paul's house.

I'm never poo'ing there again
molliepops
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by JonDoe:
“How does one soften a nonporous substance? ”

Rub it against another bit for a few minutes sort of crumpling it up, it did used to work.

What I hated was newspaper squares - cutting them up and stringing them seemed to take ages then the print came off on your bum when you wiped !
TeaCosy
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by molliepops:
“If you softened it before use it worked fairly well.”

Well whyever didn't you tell us that about 40-50 years ago?!?
molliepops
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by TeaCosy:
“Well whyever didn't you tell us that about 40-50 years ago?!?”

I assumed your parents taught you like mine did me
Madridista23
02-06-2011
It was called Izal. Disgusting stuff and it chaffed my ring-piece summat rotten.
Tombstone
02-06-2011
I have about 25-30 letters written by my grandfather on Izal paper from when he was in Africa in the Second World War. Apparently it was a much used medium because of it's strength. The battles of Alamein and Tobruk are detailed on them!
spiney2
02-06-2011
Izal was medicated, and always slightly damp I remember .........

...... associated with the days of bizarre ideas - catching VD from toilet seats - hence, medicated.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/household-pr...-toilet-paper/
You_mo
02-06-2011
Public places used it. Places like town halls and community centres. I have no idea why anyone thought medicated shiny tracing paper was good for wiping. Your heart would sink if you were desperate to go and saw the little square packet on the wall.
spiney2
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by Tombstone:
“I have about 25-30 letters written by my grandfather on Izal paper from when he was in Africa in the Second World War. Apparently it was a much used medium because of it's strength. The battles of Alamein and Tobruk are detailed on them!”

On The Road was written on a toilet roll!

http://maurathismaurathat.blogspot.c...of-day_29.html
Mongodude
02-06-2011
i used to wet and wipe it too, i thought everyone knew to do that! izal you can still get in asda, though why i do not know
elsquid
02-06-2011
My grandma used to have it at her house. Thankfully she also had nice toilet paper hidden under a Spanish dolly with a long dress on.
Did all grans have those loo-roll-dolls back in the early '80s or was it just mine?
LCDMAN
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by spiney2:
“Izal was medicated, and always slightly damp I remember .........

...... associated with the days of bizarre ideas - catching VD from toilet seats - hence, medicated.

http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/household-pr...-toilet-paper/”

Ah, Izal.... Many years ago I went to a Scout camp outside Sheffield, you turned up a lane opposite a huge Izal factory. I bet you can guess what bog roll was in the camp toilets.
Salv*
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by elsquid:
“My grandma used to have it at her house. Thankfully she also had nice toilet paper hidden under a Spanish dolly with a long dress on.
Did all grans have those loo-roll-dolls back in the early '80s or was it just mine?”

My Nan still has it, she used to live in Italy and moved here in the late 70s and brought it with her... I went into her bathroom today and it was there

Also about the toilet paper, they still had it when I was in primary school between 1997-2004, so I wouldn't be surprised if they still use the same ones.
Agent Krycek
02-06-2011
Originally Posted by UKMikey:
“I think they doubled up in my school by using it in music lssons for the makeshift kazoos. Never used the stuff myself - your only hope of going home without shitty pants must have been to try and use it end on as a kind of makeshift scoop.”

Ditto, and used as actual tracing paper during lessons
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