Sewage disaster in the making
Sewage disaster in the making
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If the over-buying of toilet paper in some markets goes unabated, how long before people are going to see massive waste-water backups into their homes because some of the less clever people are using non-compatible paper towels, baby wipes, and nose tissues which block conventional sewer systems?
Nothing would make the entire trapped-at-home situation just a bit more unbearable than human waste backing into basements and shutting down apartment building toilets.
Nothing would make the entire trapped-at-home situation just a bit more unbearable than human waste backing into basements and shutting down apartment building toilets.
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I think the latest lump was 3 tons of paper mashie which as you know is a relatively small lump. Domestic properties are also having localised blockages.
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Ya. Ward, Will and the corn farmer can solve that problem.
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After all the "economic stimuli" is finished, toilet paper will be the new currency.
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Lots of currencies have turned into toilet paper. Happens more and more ever since the "Gold Standard" was abandoned by Nixon and then by every other country on Earth.
It's much easier to pay back your debts with toilet paper.
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Getting back to 3DDave's thread's topic ...
How is being essetially under house arrest affecting everyone? Any surprise reactions? Too much quality family time, etc.? I hear beer sales are up 80%, except for Corona's I presume.
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The cops hauled a guy away today that went stir crazy. Took 4 of them to taze, zip-tie and plastic wrap him up small enough to fit him in the paddy wagon.
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Anyway, it appears that her husband as now decided to remain in Caracas but my sister and her son are staying here. Their son is of course an American citizen as are his two daughters. They've managed to get a Green Card for his wife and she's in the process of applying to be naturalized. He's got a really good job, being able to speak both fluent Spanish and English (in fact, he's considered to have TWO first languages) working for a tooling supplier who has customers both here and in several South American countries.
Now over the years, they had tried to move as much money out of Venezuela as possible, either directly or via third-party countries, like Panama. Unfortunately, they've lost most of what they had except for their real estate, whatever it's now worth. My sister's biggest problem is that she's nearly 70 but has not worked sufficient quarters to get Social Security or Medicare. Granted, she's invested what money she had left behind in the states, but that's only going to last so long. Her son bought a nice house and she's moved in with them last year.
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Todays picture from Norway (Scandinavia, Europe): The problem with sewers here are not the toilet paper, despite some hoarding, but an excess and increasing flow of Q-tips, hand cleaning tissues and other waste, blocking pumps. Waste said to originate from quarantine demanded home offices.
No much excess paper money floating around, we mostly use cards. (Please do not get THAT picture in your mind!)
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IR, Amigo mio! I had you pegged from East Asia. Q' sorpresa mi han dado!
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Too young to even do THAT; although my parents claim that I spoke Spanish to the cab driver that picked us up at the airport, probably La Guardia, since we arrived before JFK even got elected. I tried two years of Spanish in high school, but those little Spanish gray cells apparently got tired of waiting to be reactivated and either left or changed jobs.
My supposed native language, Mandarin, is in better shape, although my Cantonese is very stilted and mostly only capable of ordering Dim Sum.
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Interestingly enough, several old friends work retail in poor rural areas where the career choices outside of the building trades and agriculture are: retail, fast food, or Walmart. As several memes predicted, hoarders keep trying to return TP and other hoarded items for rent money. While part of me feels bad for folks struggling financially, another part of me feels good that smaller retailers aren't accepting returns now for the "safety" of employees.
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Poland in pre USSR collapse days but during glasnost was quite fun. You were meant to officially exchange money at a bank at some sort of official rate, but for sporting event we were exempt. The money changers on the side of the street were offering 15000 zlotys to the UKP. The issue one set of people had when they got fined for speeding was that fines hadn't kept place and the maximum was 8000 Z. They still had grozneys ( subdivison of a zloty) coins!! Now they were worth more as scrap metal than the coins were for sure. It was wads of currency in exchange for one or two notes alright.
The deposit on the beer bottles was 3 times the cost of the beer (2p) and the deposit on the plastic crate was 10 times that. The beer wasn't bad either.
They had a re donomination in 1994 for 10,000 = 1 new zloty
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