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Wonder why the bidet has never caught on over here.Have had many opportunities to use one abroad but i think i've only ever used it once for the purpose it was intended.Great for washing feet though:D

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I wouldn't say the world is full of them, but I know that there is a lot of ass kissing and licking in politics and business ... the relationship between Bush and Blair comes to mind:rolleyes:

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When I saw the title of this thread I immediately began squirming, uncomfortably, on my chair. The memory of that stuff is almost sensory!

By 1959 we had soft loo paper and we were getting used to it. Imagine my horror when I started work in Bury Tax Office and found that not only was the paper in the loos Izal but it was stamped with "Government Property" on every sheet. As if you'd want to pinch it! :eek:

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I remember my Grandma always had that in the house. Even after soft toilet paper came in it took them years to move over to it.

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We used to have that Izal stuff, or tracing paper as we called it , at school.

It was vile. :(

Thankfully they don't appear to have it in school these days.

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In 1984 and I was travelling with my younger daughter, then aged 9, to join my husband in Saudi Arabia, via Cairo. We had an overnight in Cairo and, before we went to sort out the hotel, we went to the loo in the airport. I walked into a beautifully clean cubicle and Nicky went in the next one. Thirty seconds later she wailed, "Mu-u-u-um." I asked her what was wrong. "There's no toilet," she said, "Just a hole in the floor and there's no paper, just a pipe thingy." On investigation it appeared that every second cubicle had an Arab loo, with water squirt instead of paper.

After a year in Saudi I got used to the "instant bidet" and I thought it was a lovely, clean idea (though I, being English, always took a sheet of paper in with me). The bidet got popular here in the 70s but seems to have gone out of favour now. Can't think why. :)

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I had a bidet installed at one house I owned. It had a spray function that hit the ceiling when turned up full. My teenage son and his friends used to turn it up to full to give me surprise next time I used it :)

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When we were kids and diddent have musical instruments,,, we wrapped Izal round a comb,,,,It was great,,i remember playing ""Can you wash my fathers shirt""......oh now i realy sound barking mad,,,,,,:p

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Thats not you its the wippet chasing you GC. ;):p:D

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can see i'm surrounded wi posh gits, Daily Express on a nail at our house.:D

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I remember that horrible stuff at the loos on peel street,used to dread needing the loo in town!
So uncomfortable and the one thing you really want in that situation is comfort!
Glad we moved on from that!

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I don't suppose that anyone realises but Izal was once made in Ossy at a firm called Hygiene Supplies on Stone Bride Lane, was ownd by a chap called Hebert Walsh. The reason I know this is that my mother used to work there for many years, until it closed due to the onset of soft toilet tissue and they could no longer compete. Izal was one of their main customers, but they couldn't stay a going concern with just one client

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look out for willows next book...

wipe along with origami :D

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Didnt they use it, espcially in "outdoor" loos because it didnt get damp like ordinary loo roll???