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Old 02-06-2011, 13:57
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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?
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Old 02-06-2011, 13:59
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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
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Old 02-06-2011, 13:59
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I never poohed at school
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:03
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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.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:04
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If you softened it before use it worked fairly well.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:05
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HAHA yes! We had it in nursery and reception!
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:06
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If you softened it before use it worked fairly well.
How does one soften a nonporous substance?
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:07
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At least your finger didn't poke through.
(Great thread,thanks for starting it).
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:07
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Remember it from primary school in the early 90s.

Pretty useless for cleaning up after a poo.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:07
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Ah yes, who can forget the horrors of slide-and-shine?

Someone was having a laugh, surely.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:08
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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.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:08
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Yeah.. I remember it. It was at Paul's house.

I'm never poo'ing there again
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:09
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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 !
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:09
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If you softened it before use it worked fairly well.
Well whyever didn't you tell us that about 40-50 years ago?!?
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:10
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Well whyever didn't you tell us that about 40-50 years ago?!?
I assumed your parents taught you like mine did me
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:11
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It was called Izal. Disgusting stuff and it chaffed my ring-piece summat rotten.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:12
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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!
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:15
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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/
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:16
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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.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:17
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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
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:18
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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
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:18
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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?
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:18
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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.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:27
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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.
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Old 02-06-2011, 14:28
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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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