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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.
 
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Its already happening in the UK.

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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How long before these wipes cause problems? That's a negative time, it's been happening for the last few weeks, people using wipes because others have bought up all the tp, then the lines plug.
 
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GregLocock, no, it's more of problem of those that didn't hoard resorting to non-flushable expedients, like paper towels, baby wiped or old socks.

My glass has a v/c ratio of 0.5

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If they are using non-disposable wipes and flushing them, they kinda deserve what comes back. They have been making a mess of water treatment plants since they appeared. The things need to be banned; well, the people that flush them for sure.
 
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What happened to the old out house habit of an old Wards catalog. Might be back, but Wards is gone.
 
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Where there's a will, there's a way.

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People have been dumping the labeled supposedly "flushable" wipes for years, and the fatbergs typically contain a number of such wipes.

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Lots of stuff is "flushable". Not so much of that stuff degrades well. [ghost]...*...
Ya. Ward, Will and the corn farmer can solve that problem.

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Oh, don't you know?

After all the "economic stimuli" is finished, toilet paper will be the new currency.

“What I told you was true ... from a certain point of view.” - Obi-Wan Kenobi, "Return of the Jedi"
 
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ax1e said:
After all the "economic stimuli" is finished, toilet paper will be the new currency.
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Why not. Some currencies have turned into toilet paper
 
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Comcokid, ... Eh? I wasn't saying it would not, nor was it a question.

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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You can't blame the public for flushing a product that says "flushable" right on the label. If it's causing the utilities major problems they need to lobby the legislature to ban the stuff. Good luck with that.

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Currencies were turning into toilet paper way before Nixon; Germany pre-WWII; China, pre-Communist takeover. My grandfather supposedly received his salary in a small suitcase on payday, and by the time he got the suitcase to the money exchange, it would lose 10% in value

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I was mostly limiting my discussion to the USD, which held it's value rather well when it was backed by gold initially, and later by silver. However you are right, pleanty of currencies have turned to dust over the years. The Continental Dollar, the first in America was one as well. The Confederate Dollar collapsed before the end of the Civil War. In 1209 the British Pound was worth roughly 2000 X of what it is today. The Lebanese Pound. It's a long list. Back to the $, I paid more dollars for my car in 2017 than I paid for my first house just after Nixon left office, $24,000 for a 3 bdrm, detached garage, in Spring Valley, only 10 miles W of the center of Houston in 1978. AS for stocks, it is apparent that the computer trading algorithms do not much care one way or another about C-19. They're just buying on dips. But we diverge too far. I brought this up initially only because I thought it paralleled the recent apparent artificial value of toilet paper.

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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Speaking of currency which could be used as toilet paper, I was in the Ukraine on business to visit some perspective customers and to hold some seminars back in 1994. This was a short time after the disolution of the Soviet Union and the Ukrainians were trying to go back to their pre-Soviet currency, the Koupon. When I was there the exchange rate was 40,000 Koupons to the Dollar, but the largest bill in circulation was only 50,000 Koupons. We were only there for three nights and never had to use any currency as our hotel (which was Russian owned and operated) took credit cards and breakfast was included. And our licensed distributor provided us with transportation (a car and a driver) and he also covered our lunches and dinners (he was a great host). On our last night there, we went to a very nice restaurant, which was walking distance from the distributor's office, with live music (a string quartet with a soloist) where the caviar and vodka flowed, however, they did not take credit cards. Therefore our host had to pay in cash. He literally had a plastic bag full of Koupons which had been bundled into one million Koupon 'bricks'. These had been done at a bank and were shrink-wrapped and certified by the bank as being legitimate. After dinner, he literally had to stack a bunch of these 'bricks' on the table to cover the check. After we had walked back to the office, I asked our host if I could buy some currency from him as I always try and bring some home from ever I visit as a souvenir. He insisted on simply giving me some. He opened his desk drawing and after rummaging for awhile, came up with handful of notes, including a couple of 50,000 Koupons. And then he looked down and grabbed a tiny (the size of their currently varied based on the denomination) note, a little smaller than a business card. As he handed it to me he said, "Here, take this. It's FIVE Koupons. It's literally NOT worth the paper it's printed on."

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Try paying your rent in cash with 2002 Turkish Lira; 1.5 million +/- per USD. Fortuately(?) they had 1,000,000 Lira notes and it only took 2000 of them to get the 2 billion lira monthly rent squared away. BTW anybody want to buy Venezuelan Bolivars? Got a couple trillion of those on hand.

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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