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rickrickMember
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Originally posted by Serenity:
> What did people use before toilet paper was invented? <<

*Newsprint, paper catalogue pages in early US
*Hayballs, Scraper/gompf stick kept in container by the privy in the Middle Ages
*Discarded sheep's wool in the Viking Age, England
*Frayed end of an old anchor cable was used by sailing crews from Spain and Portugal *Medieval Europe- Straw, hay, grass, gompf stick
*Corn cobs, Sears Roebuck catalog, mussel shell, newspaper, leaves, sand- United States
*Water and your left hand, India
*Pages from a book, British Lords
*Coconut shells in early Hawaii
*Lace was used by French Royalty
*Public Restrooms in Ancient Rome- A sponge soaked in salt water, on the end of a stick
*The Wealthy in Ancient Rome-Wool and Rosewater
*French Royalty-lace, hemp
*Hemp & wool were used by the elite citizens of the world
*Defecating in the river was very common internationally
*Bidet, France
*Snow and Tundra Moss were used by early Eskimos
IRRESISTIBLE (but I knew that)!
rickrickMember
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My grandma had an outhouse until she moved out of her house in the '80's. So I had the "privy-ledge" of that experience. Don't necessarily care to experience it again! Razz Didn't do near as much reading back in those days,
That’s the main problem with reading at the library – not enough toilets. Even Barnes and Noble (R2, that’s a book store) hasn’t figure that out yet. B & N serves coffee to get you moving, but it doesn’t have enough stalls to complete the movement process.
M mikefromwestyorkshireMember
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Originally posted by Serenity:
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My top inventions are the Teasmade and WD40 Wink


I must say, WD40 should be on their list but what is Teasmade?

Google is your friend, but:
The Goblin Teasmade has been our constant bedside companion for a couple of decades, and has faithfully made us two cups of coffee (I do not drink tea!) and woken us up when ready, every day when we are at home.
You can still get similar things now, made by Swan and others, but our 855 dates from the 1970s and looks like:
http://www.teasmade.com/855.htm
Could not live without it (£5 car boot sale!!)
rickrickMember
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Originally posted by Serenity:
When and where was toilet paper first invented? <<

*China…AD 1391 - The Bureau of Imperial Supplies began producing 720,000 sheets of toilet paper a year, each sheet measuring two feet by three feet. For use by the Emperors.
Ah! Prince’s Poop Paper – Tsar’s Toilet Tissue.

Can’t say that Chinese history is my strong suit, but I thought that they (China) had only one Emperor at a time, unless one counts the Emperorettes. But, let’s say there were 10 Emperors during any given Year of the Crap. That would be 72,000 poop blankets per Emperor per year, or 190.26 per day (assuming the Bureau of Imperial Supplies was on a 365 day calendar). That’s a lot of wiping/pooping, even for an Old Geezer Emperor (even for a Pre-Potty Trained Emperor). And, since each poop blanket was 6 square feet (they must have invented/discovered “feet”), that would definitely allow for a very, very long and circular (even artistic) wipe.

Something one needs to consider in regards to these *alleged* Chinese poop blankets – how would the Emperor wipe their LMAO with something that large? I suppose the Emperor could have had 5 slaves (one on each corner and one in the center) holding said poop blanket, but would an Emperor let someone touch his Royal Behind, or would he have them hold the blanket vertically while he rubbed up against it? I doubt an Emperor would do either, because then he couldn’t claim that his **** didn’t stink (something all guys like to believe), unless he had the 5 slaves killed after each Royal Wipe (and at 190.26 wipings per day for each of the 10 Emperors, it wouldn’t take long before China would become a ghost town).

Finally, to debunk this obviously fraudulent and slanderous claim against the British as being the inventors/discovers/“appliers”/evolvers of toilet paper, everyone knows that trying to flush 6 square feet of toilet paper down a toilet will clog up the pipes. And, everyone knows how difficult it is to get plumbers out on short notice.

This is yet another feeble attempt to downplay the significant contributions that the British have made, and I say pubicly, “Thank you to all of England for making our lives, and hands, so much cleaner.”
M mikefromwestyorkshireMember
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Originally posted by Serenity:
So, Mike, do you drink instant coffee? It appears to me to be an electric pot that heats water. It is hard to see in the picture.

Yeah, Shirl, has to be instant for this. We put the coffee and milk in the cups when we retire - in the morning, when the water boils, the steam pressure forces it into the teapot (which you would have the tea in if you were making tea) and when the kettle is nearly empty, and therefore lighter, the platform it is on springs up slightly, switching the alarm and lights on and the kettle off. You just pour the water from the teapot into the cups. The kettle is powered up 5 minutes before the alarm time you have set.
We then have some real coffee with breakfast Smile
M mikefromwestyorkshireMember
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Originally posted by region2:
...at a specific time. Idealy it should have the water bubbling when the alarm goes off. I'd worry about scalding myself whilst trying to shut the bl**dy thing off. My parents had one in the 70s - I remember thinking it was a bit of a gimmick even then...
R2

The switch is on the front, R2 - nowhere near any water or steam! By the time you hear the alarm, the kettle is turned off. Big Grin
rickrickMember
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Originally posted by Serenity:
And to read the all time 100 greatest: ( I just noticed, also British!)


http://www.scenta.co.uk/100greatest/100greatest.cfm


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Originally posted by Mr. Loveable:
Toilet paper has to be right up there, and maybe the greatest invention of the 19th Century.


Look at all the posts about toilet paper and its precursors (you’d be cursing too). I’ve reread the 100 greatest (see above link), and believe that TP should have been listed. I’m glad to see #15 is where it is. And, look at #44 (I’m very happy to see that others appreciate them). Without 26 there’d be no 24, so that’s a little off. #70 is curious (obvious U.K. plug - didn't know Lipton was Scottish).
M mikefromwestyorkshireMember
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Originally posted by Serenity:
Mike don't you have coffee in the little bags there , similar to tea bags? Then you could leave them in the teamade. It makes better coffee than instant.

Yes, we do, Shirl, but as GG says, they are a bit expensive, and not as readily available. As far as instants go, there re only about two decent ones, the rest bear no resemblance to coffee.
Not too important at 6am!
rickrickMember
I recently went back to tea after a long binge of coffee drinking. There’s nothing quite like the buzz one gets from coffee in the AM. But, a person isn’t a coffee drinker if they add a bunch of condiments such as milk, milk substitutes, cream, cream substitutes, sugar, sugar substitutes, goat’s milk, Coco Puffs, Coco Puffs substitutes, honey, honey substitutes, et al (Bailey’s & Coffee and Irish Coffee are an exception and an occasional backsliding into Starbucks should be expected). With those condiments you might as well drink hot chocolate with Swiss marshmallows (non-existent). Now, I’m all for using the condiments when young as a starter kit until one “acquires a taste” for caffeine (kind of like starting with a filtered cigarette before moving onto Marlboro Country before moving onto Skoal or the harder drugs). But once a person becomes an adult, it’s time to go straight.

Never slap a man who’s chewing tobacco.
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