posted September 21, 2001 08:36 AM            

---

Ok, so yesterday I was in the supermarket, and I decided to buy some deoderant (I like to have a spare can in, 'cause it's not something you want to run out of). I go to the aisle, pick up a can, then notice that there's a 3 for the price of 2 offer on. Great! Get more for your money! Except there's no way in hell I need 3 cans of deoderant (plus the one I already had). I really don't smell that bad!

But of course, if there's a 3 for 2 offer on, you can't just buy one, can you? It doesn't feel right. I actually almost decided to buy a can of a different brand, which didn't have the offer, in order to avoid the issue, but then I gave up and just bought three. They'll last me for months, but at least I got a bargain...

Anyway, that's my random rant over with. Any of you have things you can't really complain about, but which annoy you?

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 08:50 AM            

---

This is why I no longer shop at wholesalers...

I bought nearly a metric tonne of TP one day... and got some really bad looks... but at like, 10 cents a roll, how could I pass
up two-ply freshness?

If you do the math - four squares per use, say 200 squares total per roll, and 100 rolls, I need about one use worth a day...

Should last until halloween.

------------------
#include <sarcasm.h>

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 09:13 AM            

---

quote:

---

If you do the math - four squares per use, say 200 squares total per roll, and 100 rolls, I need about one use worth a day...

---

You only use 4 squares per day? Am I doing something wrong!?

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 09:20 AM            

---

Gotta be frugal with your TP .. there might be a shortage of it one day and you'll be thinking "I gotta go borrow TP from Sputnik, and he's going to whine about it."

------------------
"Just shut up and help me inflate the damn thing!" -Slappy Jackson

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 01:03 PM            

---

Good lord. I can't believe that I'm actually calculating this, but I'd say that I use roughly 72-80 sheets a day. This is the main difference between the sexes, I guess.

------------------
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible.

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 01:25 PM            

---

Why not use some of that TP on halloween >=D

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 02:53 PM            

---

Huh. I'd put my personal daily TP use at around 20-30 squares. I guess I'm just frugal for a female TP user.

Woot. Another TMI thread.

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 03:00 PM            

---

Either that or I go to the bathroom A LOT.

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 03:02 PM            

---

*Watches the thread transform before his very eyes*

As opposed, of course, to my un-very eyes.

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 03:49 PM            

---

Good lord, you ladies are using a lot of toilet paper.

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 04:26 PM            

---

I use as much toilet paper as a camel, smoking marijuana, on a hot tuesday. In other words, pi*pi. or 9.something units of bathroom tissue per time period.

In other words, I have no freaking clue how much TP I use daily.

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 05:42 PM            

---

I'd guess from 20-30 pieces a day.

Glad to know I'm not doing anything wrong...

IP: Logged

posted September 21, 2001 06:33 PM            

---

Guy here, and I use a whole shitload (there's a pun for ya) but only once every 1.5 to 3 days.

------------------
They're the Care Bears of the music world.

-Random cartoon character on some show I saw today's (9-20/01) take on boy bands.

IP: Logged

posted September 23, 2001 09:25 AM            

---

20-30 a day?

My very (as opposed to un-very, as someone pointed out) mind is boggled! Boggled!

Doesnt that make it harder to number each square? Going into double digits would put more wear and tear on my felt-tip marker...

------------------
"Just shut up and help me inflate the damn thing!" -Slappy Jackson

IP: Logged

posted September 23, 2001 04:39 PM            

---

20-20 sheets a day!

oogle-floogle! I'd guess I use about 5-10 max. All bowel movements present and correct that is.

Hey when it gets TMI you'd let me know, right?

But to try and wrench this thread back on topic I guess I can't complain about having nothing to do when I quit my job because I wanted some relaxing time before Uni.

IP: Logged

posted September 23, 2001 05:26 PM            

---

Heh heh... Nevah said pee pee.

------------------
Nothing can kill the Grimace.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hungryjoe/

IP: Logged

posted September 24, 2001 08:44 AM            

---

*Meg kisses her groupie on the nose for being so cute*

------------------
Nanny's philosophy of life was to do what seemed like a good idea at the time, and do it as hard as possible.

IP: Logged

posted September 24, 2001 03:29 PM            

---

There is no way I'm contributing to this particular thread drift.

Talk about TMI. Yeesh.

IP: Logged

posted September 24, 2001 07:42 PM            

---

Um...am I weird here? I only go to the bathroom like, twice a day because I never have to..so thus I only use about 10 sheets a day...

------------------
Torgo wobbles, but he won't fall down!

IP: Logged

posted September 24, 2001 08:53 PM            

---

If you'll see above, once every 1.5-3 here. But I am a man. So go fig, and yeah, maybe that was a little TMI.

------------------
They're the Care Bears of the music world.

-Random cartoon character on some show I saw today's (9-20/01) take on boy bands.

IP: Logged

posted September 24, 2001 10:06 PM            

---

SIIIIIIIG!

------------------
~Fnordia
/X\(..)/X\
------------------

"...there might be a shortage of it one day and you'll be thinking "I gotta go borrow TP from Sputnik, and he's going to whine about it."
-Sputnik2

IP: Logged

posted September 24, 2001 11:08 PM            

---

I've always wondered how some women can get through more than one roll every single day - then I spent a weekend with a family of three which used up EIGHT ROLLS during that time. There was TP as serviettes, table cloths, for drying dishes, for applying and removing cosmetics, used instead of towels and I do believe some may have been used for wiping excess urea. But how VERY unstylish! Have you noticed how you never see living rooms strewn with TP in House Beautiful? There's never a roll visible in those seductive bathroom shots either. I suppose they use the Polish method for wiping their asses for aesthetic reasons.

------------------
Looking out my window...

IP: Logged

posted September 24, 2001 11:28 PM            

---

Heh. My former roommate and her fiancé used up prodigious amounts of toilet paper. As I was the household TP supplier, it drove me batty. I swear, when he lived here this summer, we went through like a double-sized roll every four days or something. After they moved out and Tom moved in, we've only used up like one roll (double-sized) in three weeks. Shee.

------------------
"Everything's possible in zero-gravity!"
"Not gravity." --Opus and Genarti

IP: Logged

posted September 25, 2001 12:01 PM            

---

WARNING: TMI

I'm starting to think that I use far less than I stated. So, I'm starting Project TMI today.

It will be a 7 day experiment.

IP: Logged

posted September 25, 2001 11:08 PM            

---

Seven days - hah! I put a new roll of bogpaper on the little holder on Sunday 16th and noticed this morning that I'll probably have used it all up by tomorrow morning. I should say I'm the only person using it and that I missed a crappe on Monday, but I had the runs on Saturday due to a lager fest on Friday which makes up for it - and I hope you're all taking notes about my bowel movements because THERE'S A TEST AT HALF-TERM!

IP: Logged

posted September 25, 2001 11:21 PM            

---

Gah. Just...gah.

IP: Logged

posted September 26, 2001 10:58 AM            

---

I'd just like to point out that the topic name of this thread NO LONGER APPLIES!

IP: Logged

posted September 27, 2001 05:48 PM            

---

The thread name might be a bit off. But the discussion is certainly taking place in the right forum...

I always wonder about my housemate, I sometimes think that she literally burns the stuff.

IP: Logged

posted September 29, 2001 03:34 AM            

---

I opened a new roll last night, for my pre-going-to-bed toilet visit. I'll let you know when I finish it. 240 sheets/roll, Clickie can probably do the maths better than me.

IP: Logged

posted September 29, 2001 02:18 PM            

---

You people are sick.

Sick I say!

------------------
Ack, bec's geometry homework wants to sell me a Tiny Wireless Camera! - Cropherb, via IRC

Barbies are melting TODAY. - Jesse Dangerously

IP: Logged

posted September 29, 2001 08:43 PM            

---

I just want to say, I changed the toilet paper roll the other day, and couldn't help but think of you brunchers. True story.

------------------
They're the Care Bears of the music world.

-Random cartoon character on some show I saw today's (9-20/01) take on boy bands.

IP: Logged

posted September 30, 2001 01:19 AM            

---

i come in here expecting one thing. . . .I getsomething totally different. That being said, i think i use around, oh. . .i have no clue, but a shitload, mostly due to skin care. Grrrr. my mum stocks toilet paper. she says its her security blanket, that the world could be falling around her ears, butf she has afull cabinet of toilet paper, she feels wealthy. Go figure. Adn we wonder why im weird.

------------------
<BoredWolves> dini has Special Priveliges to call me demeaning names.

(BoredWolves was Kyree on IRC)

IP: Logged

posted October 01, 2001 11:13 AM            

---

From my 7 week study (assuming I have no more movements today) I use on average 11.857142857143 sheets a day.

What's very interesting is my tp use compared with alcohol consumption.

IP: Logged

posted October 01, 2001 01:10 PM            

---

Pet, that's really rather fascinating. And I figured out why it is my numbers were way off. I was taking into account TP used *in my household*. I have a soon-to-be-five-year-old. He uses a whole roll just to blow his nose.

IP: Logged

posted October 01, 2001 01:26 PM            

---

OK, so when you order things in the mail, they come in one of 2 types of styrofoam peanuts. One of them actually looks like white peanuts, whilst the other looks like a very early 3d computer rendition of a peanut. Honestly, I think they just make them by pressing together bands of foam. Now, I can't imagine that the foam band ones cost much less then the nice ones, so why do I have to deal with crappy packing peanuts? Anyways, that really annoys me...but shouldn't because I'm sure they're better.
------------------
This is side 5.
Follow in your book and repeat after me as we learn three new words in Turkish.
Towel...Bath...Border.
May I see your passport please?

[This message has been edited by BananaTheocracy (edited October 01, 2001).]

IP: Logged

posted October 01, 2001 05:06 PM            

---

Ever gotten the packaging that's made of corn? It's quite tasteless.

------------------
Any physical improvement program is at least fifty percent mental. That's why retards and tiny babies are often so out-of-shape.
-Christian Rudder, via [url=http://www.thespark.com/]The spark.com[url]

IP: Logged

posted October 01, 2001 07:04 PM            

---

Wait, they're tasteless as in they have naked pictures of Bea Arthur on them, or they're tasteless as in they have no flavor?

------------------
This is side 5.
Follow in your book and repeat after me as we learn three new words in Turkish.
Towel...Bath...Border.
May I see your passport please?

IP: Logged