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Does anyone remember that toilet paper that was like tracing paper? |
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Yes it was horrid. If you scrunched it it became all jagged and painful to use.
Also non-absorbent. It pretty much failed the success criteria for loo roll really. |
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Worst invention ever. What were they thinking?
I know us boys had to use it at school, but were girls subjected to the same fate? |
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I remember using small squares of the Daily Express strung on a string. But that was in 1942.
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Worst invention ever. What were they thinking?
I know us boys had to use it at school, but were girls subjected to the same fate? Like it isn't difficult enough for a child to clean themselves up in the first place, it was made so much more difficult having to use that waxy rubbish that just smeared the wee or poo everywhere and not actually drying or cleaning anything. What were they thinking? |
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I remember it from school so used to carry some soft toilet paper, from home, in my satchel. Yeah I know, I was a wimp.
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It was called Izal. Disgusting stuff and it chaffed my ring-piece summat rotten.
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How did it ever get to market?
Surely if somebody came forward with the idea to use that as toilet paper, which is effectively the most effective invention for toilet paper which achieves the opposite objective of what conventional toilet paper is supposed to do, they'd have been laughed out of the office wouldn't they? It's like inventing a water-resistant sponge. I tried crumpling it up in the vain hope it might make it more like actual soft paper. I probably only succeeded in making it more scratchy though. |
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Yes we had it too*, and I knew exactly how modern and technologically advanced it was because I found a tracing of a diagram of a crystal in one of my dad's old chemistry books from when he had been at that same school and the square was as far as I could tell exactly the same size/shape as the present-day ones, and I can't remember if I checked but I'd be surprised if the perforations weren't an exact match.
* rolls at school, I remember the boxed variety from older relatives, not sure which was harsher, but at least the boxed one wasn't pretending. |
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How did it ever get to market?
Surely if somebody came forward with the idea to use that as toilet paper, which is effectively the most effective invention for toilet paper which achieves the opposite objective of what conventional toilet paper is supposed to do, they'd have been laughed out of the office wouldn't they? It's like inventing a water-resistant sponge. I tried crumpling it up in the vain hope it might make it more like actual soft paper. I probably only succeeded in making it more scratchy though. |
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HAHA yes! We had it in nursery and reception!
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I can't remember bloody primary school! That's a hell of a memory you have.
My first memory is from when I was aged 2.
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The Queen had it back in 1979, when I collected my D of E award. Exact same stuff you got 3 sheets of in forces ration packs. One up, one down and one to polish, we used to say. In 1982 they added another sheet. That was to write home on.
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My first memory is from when I was aged 2. |
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I vaguely remember it as San-Izal.
http://wisewebwoman.blogspot.co.uk/2...ived-izal.html |
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Yes, I remember the Izal & Bronco too
![]() The latest bit of useless BR, you will find at Motorway service areas (& other public loos too) - so narrow, it is deadly! I usually take an "Aldi Aloe vera" 3 ply with me - I suppose it's to stop people nicking it. So having discussed the worst, which is the best? Yes bit of a Bum question I know...
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Yes, Izal was the standard toilet paper when I was young
I have a very vivid memory of being 9 or 10 and my girlfriend ......aww ! ........of the time took me into the outside toilet of her house and presented me with a few squares of pink soft toilet tissue as a token of love. I don't think I'd think I'd ever seen soft toilet paper before I've remembered that for over 50 years......... ![]() I don't remember her name but I remember the toilet paper.......
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It was called Izal. Disgusting stuff and it chaffed my ring-piece summat rotten.
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Exact same stuff you got 3 sheets of in forces ration packs. One up, one down and one to polish, we used to say.
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Yes, Izal was the standard toilet paper when I was young
I have a very vivid memory of being 9 or 10 and my girlfriend ......aww ! ........of the time took me into the outside toilet of her house and presented me with a few squares of pink soft toilet tissue as a token of love. I don't think I'd think I'd ever seen soft toilet paper before I've remembered that for over 50 years......... ![]() I don't remember her name but I remember the toilet paper....... ![]() A lifetime of marriage brought about by bog roll
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And also the 'poke hole in paper, use finger, wipe finger' official method.. Usually followed by how to take the tube out of a regular bogroll, flatten it and never forget to pack that. And if you did, if you ate the oat cakes, you probably wouldn't need the paper anyway..
A clump of bloody stinging nettles would be less abrasive than the paper, on the plus side.
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I recall (IIRC !) that some had "government property" stamped on each sheet.....
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For a minute there i thought ' Yay! Picto is back! ' ... and then i saw the date
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My first memory is from when I was aged 2.
- I suppose it's to stop people nicking it.
