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The thread on greaseproof paper got me thinking does anyone still use this stuff? I remember my grandparents used to have it in their outside khazi.I suppose back then it was considered a step up from newspaper and i recall it had a disinfectant whiff about it.It was'nt too kind on your ar*e either:eek:.Maybe in this nanny state of ours it's been banned on health & safety grounds.

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Why do you think I was asking about greaseproof paper, have you seen the price of bog roll these days :D

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You should be using John Wayne ass wipe.:)

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When Izal was popular, there wasn't much else...other than newspaper of course.
you could have Izal on a roll, or Izal sheets.......I can't recall any other brands.

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you can still buy it at asda....if you really want to.... nasty, crinkly and sharp stuff...

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they still use izal in some public toilets, how this company has survived god only knows , all i can imagine is that there is a fan base of izal somewhere that enjoys both their finger going through the paper mid wipe or enjoy walking around with crap smeared up their back

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Oh i have just remembered the name of another brand of the hard toilet paper.......Bronco.....after using it you walked like you had a busted bronco :D

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It isn't even any good for wiping the drips off either!

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been left stamping your feet a few times then eh lol

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Now then, that's for me to know and you to wonder about:D

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PMSL IS IT BETTER THAN A TONGUE :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:

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i can quite honestly say i have more pressing things to wonder upon :p

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Just tried that ... almost threw my back out and I still couldn't get my tongue anywhere near it:mad: You must be some kinda contortionist.:eek:

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I'm really pleased to hear that:o

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Easier to find someone else to do it,the world being full of them. :rolleyes: Its that or invest in a bidet. :D

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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???

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Ooh we used to do that too. You can't play a comb with the soft stuff! :D

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Can you imagine having to use that stuff if you have piles:eek::eek::eek:

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Aw, c'mon ... you just want to start a Monty Python thing going here .... Daily Express, luxury .... we used dead porcupines;)

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We don't have porcupines here, but we do have hedghogs.
Maybe your bigger country has bigger bums :D

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emzy loo rolls like Izal were the ordinary loo rolls in those days, there were no such thing as soft toilet tissue in the fifties and early sixties. The factory where my mum worked closed in the sixties because they couldn't compete with the firms making solf toilet tissue, it would have cost to much to upgrade their machinery at the time

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When I was given the job of managing Melbourne House building maintenace, I inherited 10 years supply of the stuff stored in the cellar.

A mysterious cellar flood, that no one else witnessed, damaged the whole stock overnight ;)

I then had Kleenex soft tissue dispensers installed and thereby gained the overwhelming support of the staff for any further changes.

One of the cleaning staff actually preferred it to the soft stuff, so I was saved from surruptitiously disposing of it.

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That's being nice ... every country has its fair share of big assholes .... most of them we elect to Parliaments to get them out of the way:alright:

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My --we are both on form today aren't we :D
Perhaps it's because our birthdays are only 2 days apart and it's due to
astrological factors

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The stars and planets make us do it:D

And we Sagittarians are always on form:rofl38: