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   mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago

   What is wrong with using t.p.? Not using it is nasty.

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   GJ_Jehosaphat said, about 1 month ago

   There are companies which use recycled post-consumer fibers instead of fresh cut trees to make TP, paper towels & napkins. I have a friend who installed a Bidet Kit (hose & sprayer) to the back of her toilet - haven’t tried it myself (use 7th Generation products. There are other brands available - no need to “GO” without.

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   sablebrush5 said, about 1 month ago

   Have you seen where Obama blew off the Dalai Lama? It’s the first time that the Dalai Lama was not received at the White House by the president in years. Obama asked him to come back after he meets with Hu Jintao in China in November.So here we have Obama kowtowing to human rights violators of the worst kind while pushing away a man who is fighting those very same human rights violators. Yes, China is much more important than Tibet, but Bush met with the Dalai Lama and paid no price.

   I thought Obama was a champion of the little guys of this world. And the president of the most powerful country on the planet is afraid of meeting with the Dalai Lama because it’ll hurt China’s feelings? What’s wrong with this picture?

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   Kees said, about 1 month ago

   473,587,500,000 gallons of water

   that’s why you scream “holy shit”
   1 US gallon = 3.78541178 liters I think that would be enough to provide complete Africa annually.

   So, You now all buy a bucket an a washcloth and stop buying TP :-)

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   LibrarianInTraining said, about 1 month ago

   Save the trees! Wipe your bottom with an owl!

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   DavidDow said, about 1 month ago

   Very funny, L.I.T. Man, this is an appetizing subject. I think that I’ll have my coffee first before trying to respond.

   Beguine, where did you get your information?

   I’m listening to ULYSSES in my car, and, in it, Bloom tears off a page of a periodical, holding the “prizewinning story”, & wipes himself with that, showing the eventual fate of all literature.

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   murph0613 said, about 1 month ago

   Beguine, that will happen in the US over P&G’s dead body. Fortune 10 company, the lion’s share of their revenue comes from TP. You just can’t change the culture like that. Sorry to burst your bubble, but that’s just how it is.

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   wbthacker said, about 1 month ago

   Beguine stated “We use 36.5 billions rolls of toilet paper in the U.S. each year.” Based on the 2009 population estimate of 305 million people in the USA, that’s 120 rolls of toilet paper for each man, woman and child. If you’re going through a roll every three days, I recommend more fiber.

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   rac0308 said, about 1 month ago

   or less paper per…

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    kjhesser said, about 1 month ago

    I’m all for bidets but what are the repercussions involved? Would Californians be restricted to pooping only on Tues, Thursdays and alternate Saturdays? Would there be a Cash for Crappers program to upgrade toilets? More power plants need to be built to provide the electricity for drying towels or airdryers, causing more enviromental destruction? How much could be saved if we all used just one less square? Of course there will be, probably already is, a billion dollar study to study this issue into the next century.

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    jack75287 said, about 1 month ago

    beguine

    I am sure that is very true but I still plan to use my Charmine double ply.

    sablebrush5
    Sorry but Obama says I, me, my, to much to be in it for others. Hopefully he is the kind that believes you got to take care of yourself first before you can help anyone. If that is true he better start doing something for jobs quick.

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    jack75287 said, about 1 month ago

    One sheet of tolite paper at a time. Sheryl Crow.

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    Paudil said, about 1 month ago

    Dang, one roll lasts me a couple months!

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    grim509 said, about 1 month ago

    Not to sound rude or condescending, but I have to seriously question those numbers. They come up to a roll every 3 or 4 days. Per person. My wife and I have 5 children and I’m pretty sure we don’t even go through that much.

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    Contrarian said, about 1 month ago

    I have an idea for toilet paper replacement:

    Go Green TP

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    mroberts88 said, about 1 month ago

    The best way, is probably going with an economic friendly tp.

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    joe-bobst said, about 1 month ago

    In the Great Depression it was common for people on farms and small communities to substitute Sears-Roebuck catalog pages for TP. Throughout the Midwest corn cobs were useful. The red ones were preferred to start with, and the white ones (less common) to finish. This is the way it was as the unemployment rate climbed way up into double digits and kept going much like it is now. TP then was a luxury, food a necessity. And indoor plumbing was not universal.
    JB

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    GJ_Jehosaphat said, about 1 month ago

    Great - now Carl has US talking about Tissues instead of Issues. Must be laughing his Squeezable Soft Charmin-g A@@ Off.

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    Jim said, about 1 month ago

    ” Cash for crappers ” LOL !

    Contrarian : Thanks for the link . heheh

    Can’t do this , with a bidet .

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    DavidDow said, about 1 month ago

    Thanks, Beguine, but these numbers—whether accurate or not—are just too crude. Each American ain’t using two rolls/week or even the equivalent (considering those who spend fifty hours per week at the office, using its toilets). Now, I could be persuaded that the U.S. uses too much toilet paper, but it is highly biodegradable & can come from recycled materials. Instead of encouraging us to use less (worthy as that goal might be), we need to encourage, through tax breaks & other incentives, more eco-friendly, paper-less toilets & we need to mandate that paper manufacturers use 100% recycled materials in their toilet paper.

    Following up on more of yesterday’s remarks:

    Contrarian: Why are you obsessed with where Roman Polanski’s erection was 32 years ago or where David Letterman’s erection was some years ago? Please: Let’s focus on subjects that matter: the environment, Bush-Dick’s unwarranted & foolhardy occupations of Iraq & Afghanistan, Bush-Dick’s, the Republicans’ (& now President Obama’s) enormous additions to the federal debt, the increasing gap between rich & poor here & around the world, the poor states of American education & infrastructure, global hunger & starvation, & many others. These celebrity scandals are the smallest of potatoes.

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    Allan Brown said, about 1 month ago

    Hi Begine

    One more question How much treated water does the bidet use? I cant see the municipalities installing a twin pipe system so the bidet uses untreated water so the extra purified water consumption may prove a huge cost and that I’m sure is not all that green since most municipalities get their water from over diverted rivers streams and lakes. The south west USA would be hard put to convert.

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    DavidDow said, about 1 month ago

    Gocomics cracks me up: It censors “p-n-s” (you can buy the vowels) but permits “erection”.

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    jack75287 said, about 1 month ago

    DavidDow

    Were dose it say we have to talk about Iraq. Today’s strip went to toilet paper and then meander to Polanski and if you think drugging a 13 year old girl then vaginal rape, oral rapping and sodomizing the poor child should be swept under the rug will aren’t you the one who called me a misogynist. People talk about a lot of things here.