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Does anyone remember that toilet paper that was like tracing paper?
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Welsh-lad
07-12-2016
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.
Resonance
07-12-2016
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?
himerus
07-12-2016
I remember using small squares of the Daily Express strung on a string. But that was in 1942.
karapote monkey
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Resonance:
“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?”

Yes, girls had it too.
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?
Keyser_Soze1
07-12-2016
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com...66635cac84.jpg
francie
07-12-2016
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.
razorback Tony
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Madridista23:
“It was called Izal. Disgusting stuff and it chaffed my ring-piece summat rotten. ”

I vaguely remember it as San-Izal.
Alrightmate
07-12-2016
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.
Doctor_Wibble
07-12-2016
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.
Resonance
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Alrightmate:
“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.”

Yes, that's what I don't get. Unless it was invented before the soft stuff and schools for some some inexplicable reason decided to carry on using it?
Ben_Copland
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by KieranDS:
“HAHA yes! We had it in nursery and reception!”

I can't remember bloody primary school! That's a hell of a memory you have.
Resonance
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Ben_Copland:
“I can't remember bloody primary school! That's a hell of a memory you have.”

Really My first memory is from when I was aged 2.
MAW
07-12-2016
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.
Ben_Copland
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Resonance:
“Really My first memory is from when I was aged 2.”

High School is even a blur for me. I'm probably going to be riddled with all sorts of degenerative things.
LaineyT
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by razorback Tony:
“I vaguely remember it as San-Izal.”

It was called "tissue" it was paper and I mean paper lol.Get a nasty paper cut if you used it the wrong way lol.


http://wisewebwoman.blogspot.co.uk/2...ived-izal.html
Projectionist
07-12-2016
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...
swingaleg
07-12-2016
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.......
wuffles
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Madridista23:
“It was called Izal. Disgusting stuff and it chaffed my ring-piece summat rotten. ”

Thank you, I've been trying to remember the name of it all day!
Jellied Eel
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by MAW:
“ Exact same stuff you got 3 sheets of in forces ration packs. One up, one down and one to polish, we used to say.”

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..
Resonance
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by swingaleg:
“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.......”

Lol, I was hoping the story would end with "and we're just celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary".

A lifetime of marriage brought about by bog roll
MAW
07-12-2016
Originally Posted by Jellied Eel:
“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..”

The fruit pudding was ok though. We used to save that up til there was a proper bog though, there are times you wouldn't want to be caught short A clump of bloody stinging nettles would be less abrasive than the paper, on the plus side.
TeeGee
07-12-2016
I recall (IIRC !) that some had "government property" stamped on each sheet.....
mintoe
07-12-2016
For a minute there i thought ' Yay! Picto is back! ' ... and then i saw the date
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