Starting the Great Toilet Paper Panic and the Shockingly Recent Invention of Toilet Paper
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- Опубликовано: 3 сен 2023
- As well as causing the deaths of more than 6.9 million people and completely reshaping the global socio-economic landscape, the COVID 19 Pandemic will likely be remembered for the many bizarre social trends it inspired. From conspiracy theories about 5G networks causing COVID to the inexplicable revival of sea shanties, the combination of isolation and mass confusion truly brought out the weirdest in people. But perhaps the most unusual - and embarrassing - incident of the pandemic was the great panic which saw millions of people stampede into stores to buy up, hoard - and in certain cases, scalp - massive quantities of toilet paper. Such was the frantic demand for pillowy three-ply that one could be forgiven for thinking the main symptom of COVID was chronic diarrhea. Yet perhaps we shouldn’t be so surprised, for this was not the first time this has happened. About a half century ago, America was swept by another buying mania for that oh-so-precious bum fodder, though this time triggered not by a virus, but by a talk show host’s ill-timed joke. This is the story of the Great Toilet Paper Panic of 1973.
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To answer some common questions every time we mention this on our videos: Yes, you'll still use a tiny bit of TP to dry, but massively less than normal. Your local sewer workers or septic system will thank you, and any potential double flushes to avoid clogging as a result of Taco Bell will forever be in your past. No, it does not shoot water up your butt and pressure is adjustable. Yes, it gets you extremely clean. Warm water units do exist, but cold water only is fine. Turns out your rear sphincter isn't terribly sensitive to even extremely cold temperatures. Who knew? Proctologists probably... And now you! No, most units don't require electricity, nor anything complicated in installation, just the water valve already attached to the toilet. Yes, in a rental it's not usually a big deal to install unless prohibited by the lease, as it's easily and quickly installed or removed. Mostly just taking the toilet seat off (usually using a screwdriver or some seats don't even need that), putting the bidet on the toilet, putting toilet seat back on, hooking up to the water valve near the toilet with the adapter so both the toilet and bidet can get water from the valve... Those are the highlights. Easy peasy, TP squeezy. Now you, too, can laugh in the face of any future toilet paper panics. Go, and be free.
I was looking at fancy one that sense you and as walk up the lid opens and button to open seat but when walk away it closes and auto flush as well as cleans you, as 110v be $400 (I think) but for 240v like over £1k maybe even £2k
AND you will be FAR cleaner than you are with toilet paper smearing! No more filthy underwear!!
When I ran out of toilet paper, there were still plenty of sun newspapers in the shops.
Just imagine “I had a curry last night I’m gonna need the telegraph!”
I feel like this segment leaves a lot of room to have more puns in it.
This is a good time to remember that most if not all toilet paper and other virgin paper products in the US are made IN the US and Canada.
Supply shortages effect a lot of things, but toilet paper will not be one of them
I well remember the 1973 "shortage" panics. Businesses quickly learned that yelling "shortage" was a sure way to increase sales and raise prices. Soon there was a "shortage" of just about everything out there. Part of the more recent toilet paper shortage was due to our staying home. Airports and restaurants in particular go through surprisingly huge amounts of toilet paper and when we weren't using it there, we had to use it at home. That difference had to be made up at the grocery stores, which soon ran out.
I have had a toilet seat bidet and I love it!!!! It doesn't eliminate need toilet paper because you have to dry yourself, but it greatly reduces the amount I use.
It can but depends how much you spend on one, some use warm air to dry you
@@mlee6050 Yeah, ypu are right. I don't have that kind, so still us toilet paper.
When I was in elementary school the toilet paper in our bathrooms were dispensed in little squares that had little splinters in them. Those little squares were very flimsy. They barely got the job done.
I bought a bidet in the middle of 2019, and it paid for itself in less than a year… and I couldn’t relate at all to all the hubbub around the covid toilet paper grab.
Highlight History is clearly owned by Big Bidet 😂
My first bidet encounter was when I moved to Asia. I was so happy to get my own home bidet and when we moved to an apartment that didn’t have an outlet anywhere near the toilet, I was so sad not to have a bidet for a couple of years. We went from using a pack of 30 rolls every 6+months to every couple of months. I’m so happy to have a bidet again
Through the 30's and 40's my dad had the job of tearing up the newspaper into squares to hang on a hook in the outhouse for a family of nine.
In Australia at the very start of the pandemic, there was a guy who rushed around and bought out every store within several miles. When supply returned faster than expected to meet demand, the guy went back to the stores to try and sell back the toilet paper, to which the different managers interviewed said FU to him sighting his actions and greed.
Good on them!
hell yeah, the manager from Drakes SA was one who gave him the middle finger. it was GLORIOUS to see
The moral of this story is that we never learn from past mistakes
Insanity like this is the reason for the 3 sea shells...
Switching to a bidet was the best choice our family ever made. Our toilet paper usage has plummeted and when the COVID panic-buying started, we were totally fine.
Having had roommates I am amazed at how much TP people use at one time. My last would see a roll of TP last barely a week...
Raised poor, whenever a dry good is on sale I have a tendency to stock up and did so at the end of 2019 so when COVID came around and everyone was running around looking for TP, I had packages of it and paper towels as well.
I don't know if a bidet is for everyone, but I can say this: if you need more than a warp-around-your-hand x twice paper to wipe your butt you should probably see a Doctor.
I believe I see one innacuracy in this script at 7:43 "... thus when a large portion of society suddenly started working from home, the toilet paper struggled to adapt..." The way I remember it, the toilet paper shortage began before people started working from home, so I don't think that was a factor in keeping up with inventory demands at first.
I never saw a shortage near me
@@mlee6050 I sure did. When I'd go out for millk or produce I saw the non-perishables in the aisles were decimated, but I'm always stocked up on non-perishables so I made it through the shortages with plenty of wiggle-room. As for toilet paper, I gave half of it to my daughter's family and we both still had plenty "in the end".
A DAY before lockdown I bought a massive pallet of bottled water by chance.
A day later the limit was 2 cases.
I think only Sweden can justify their paper consumption because they make more paper products than anyone else and have a well functioning tree farming system
There was already a bidet at my place before the pandemic. A house with 5 residents, we had four rolls. We maybe went through two rolls during the entire shortage, tops.
This is what you call a Self Fulfilling Prophecy.
I worked in a supermarket, and people were indeed doing this, to the point when a pallet of toilet roll was brought out it was like a flock of vultures attacked it and there was literally a fight over them.
in germany at least one paper company went brancrupt because of the covid toilet paper crisis: first demand skyrocketed, then few would buy toilet paper because of massive stocks in all homes....
You’ve convinced me sir, ordering now
So probably a bit late to add, but if you have older plumbing or it’s sister at the joints, you may also need pliers for a bidet
Who else is watching this while sitting on the toilet?
Butt if people start using the water alternative, then the TP makers would start loosing money, and we know where that will end up... 💩
When you live in a technological backwater country(Sweden) that has their toilet seats incompatible with bidés then you're forced to use toilet paper...
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10:00 - Bonus fact
PS :As a certain game would say ; *paper please ?*
There’s no shortage of trees in the United States. In fact, there’s more trees now than when Columbus landed.
I always buy a single pack of 24 when need toilet roll even when live alone, I don't view it as bulk buy but as buy a single pack every 6 months or more
I noticed the empty shelves on Australian news clips, weeks before covid hit in Canada. So I bought up around 200 rolls of tp, maybe 70 of paper towel, topped up my 200 cans of canned food and 40+ cases of pop. Later as I stocked up with frozen food 2 weeks later, I walked past all of the people that panicked with a smirk. One guy even asked me weeks earlier when he saw me stocking up, 'you don't think covid will come here do you', I almost stared in disbelief. But I normally stockpiled before each winter since I don't own a car, I knew how to stock up before the snow would hit in November. I then slept with my back to my apartment hallway door, to protect my supply.
Brags about being part of the problem?
@@philipeono Points out that I stockpile before the pandemic. Only shock was I was running out just as the pandemic started. But I noticed the issue 2 - 3 weeks before anyone else did. Their loss.
"I walked past all the people that panicked with a smirk." I've met people like you. What surprises me is that your alias suggests that you're a Newfie. I don't believe that because Newfies aren't assholes.
@@likebot. Not my issue people cannot plan in advance, or extrapolate from reality and make decisions based on current events. You picking TP as the hill to die on is odd.
Just have to let supply catch demand.
OH CRAP!
Thanks.
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Bidett woiod solve this. Toilet paper is so barbarian.
I have about a years supply.
I'm also in the habit of doing my business at my workplace or in grocery stores so it will likely last longer.
The bidet is an additional step, not a toilet paper replacement.
Fun Fact: Russia wasn't able to produce toilet paper until 1969.
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They are not done yet. It’s coming back this fall.
No
Toilet paper?
Did it ever really go away? (Some people I know are ALREADY yelling about them reinstating covid rules. Ugh.)
@@beagleissleeping5359 I don’t have a good sense of it, cause I’m somewhat off grid, but there’s news of new variants out to get us all. Of course that means more and more “medicine”.
@@iteerrex8166 Anyone who finds current lineages interesting is either an evolutionary biologist (and legitimately is fascinated by what we are learning about the topic by watching this in such detail) or is being taken in by panic grifters. They just aren't interesting. Fortunately it appears to only be the panic grifters, and grifters stoking panic over the panic grifters, that give a shit. Twitter isn't real life. Relax.
I'm living in an area that is in. Severe drought. My choice between trees or drinking water, water wins.
So this is basically an add?
It would be an ad if it advocated a particular product and manufacture. It said, "you should get a bidet," not "you should get this bidet." The one on screen was an example not specific recommendation. Usually ads would have also said something along the lines of, "This video brought to by ." But it would not be hard work to make it advertisement. Proctor & Gambil sponsored a SciShow video on fiber supplement and it specifically recommended Metamucil ( ruclips.net/video/OF000Jm-U9c/видео.html ). That was an advertisement.
confuses 'ad' with 'public service announcement'
Wasnt that many. Thats still including the deaths when they had covid a t the time
True. They included people who fell down stairs, died in car accidents, and quite a few who weren't even tested, but had symptoms. And that was back when essentially everything was considered a symptom. The list from the CDC included things most working adults experience on a fairly regular basis.
Most feel it won't get you clean
So is Simon not hosting here anymore because this new guy isn’t a remotely suitable replacement. Dude is boring and is putting me to sleep.
What I call the Redneck bidet: attach a sink sprayer hose to the inlet to the toilet tank. (No I didn't actually do that, I saw it on social media 😂)
ETA was right all along
How ironic. A comedian named Johnny tells a toilet paper joke.🧻