BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 04:13 PM

it could be worse!

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 04:00 PM

Oh, YUCK!!! That is just creepy.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: katlaughing
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 03:48 PM

They should all have bidets available, but THIS is the best paper to use!

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 02:40 PM

John Wayne toilet paper: it don't take shit off anybody.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 02:37 PM

My surprise at English toilet paper (institutional) was not so much its size, but the degree of glaze that seemed to have been applied.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 02:35 PM

The best place to catch something is in a hospital, because it's full of sick people! Sounds crazy, but it's true. Sick people should not be crammed together in a stuffy building with a lot of other sick people, they should be somewhere with healthy people around them, some sunshine, and some fresh air.

However, the healthy people in society don't want the bother and the complex medical organizations that treat illness want everything in one place for obvious logistical and financial reasons.

And that's the irony of it all. Want to stay healthy? Try as best you can to stay out of the hospital. If you have to go there, try to make it a fairly brief stay. Some, of course, don't have that choice...and in fairness to the medical staff, they certainly do the best they can.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 02:34 PM

Your father makes your mother sick to her stomach?

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Bernard
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 01:47 PM

The whole thing's a tissue of lies... papering over the cracks to prevent people getting to the bottom of the problem...

Seriously, though... my father has just been in hospital for a new knee, and I was disturbed by the number of people who were ignoring the anti-bacterial hand lotions by the doors in the hospital, despite prominent notices everywhere.

He's been home for a couple of days, and has had sickness and diarrhoea since arriving home - and so has my mother.

Coincidence?

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: GUEST,IZAL
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 01:30 PM

Peace
I'm suprised at the intemperate language you are using.
Good grief
;-)
Blue skies

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 01:26 PM

Spaw's from Ohio? Sheeit, that explains lotsa things, no offense, Spaw.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 01:13 PM

Hey, Spaw...we HAVE socialized medicine in Canada, and there is no shortage of toilet paper here. There is a shortage of real dumbasses, though. Maybe if a few more of you Yanks from Ohio moved here, we could eliminate that shortfall. You think?

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 12:56 PM

120 grit sandpaper. No point wasting a good potato.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: catspaw49
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 12:49 PM

Geeze Rap......I was gonna' say it must be due to socialized medicine as the hospitals here are well supplied. Then again, you live in Idaho where you have to set your watch back 90 years when you cross the state line.

So what do y'all use? Spuds?

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: GUEST,sparticus
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 12:48 PM

Help!
I've just posted to this thread with a useful suggestion for using the Daily Mail to help with this problem but it's gone missing. If it turns up in a sensitive thread please accept my apologies.

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Hi - no messages have been deleted from this thread, so either you posted your message to another thread, or it disappeared of its own accord - some messages don't "take" when you post them.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 12:45 PM

You have toilet paper in English hospitals?

Must be an NHS benefit....

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 11:48 AM

"It's probably Maggie Thatcher's fault! Sounds like a cutback she would've brought in."

We-e-e-ell, not quite. She would have widened it for the rich, and banned it altogether for the poor, if the rest of her record's anything to go by!

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 11:14 AM

No shit.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Peace
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 10:26 AM

I understand that in order to economize, the hospital administrations are requesting that patients use BOTH sides of the paper. I trust everyone will do his or her best to help.

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 10:22 AM

Hey, man, the ONLY thing that really works is to wash your hands thoroughly...toilet paper or no toilet paper...and it's not a bad idea to wash your body down there too, if you have the facilities to. You don't in most western washrooms as they are set up. Toilet paper was invented primarily on behalf of modern people who are so terrified of facing their own crap that they will do anything to avoid being directly confronted with it. Same goes for flush toilets, which are a stupid idea ecologically speaking, because it's not smart to put large amounts of manure into a flowing water system...it tends to migrate into the local water supply. It should be put directly into the soil. Such creatures which are that scared of dealing responsibly with their own bodily processes are truly piteous in the greater field of Nature as far as I'm concerned. ;-)

But, hey, I can still sympathize with your problem regarding the overly narrow rolls of paper. It's probably Maggie Thatcher's fault! Sounds like a cutback she would've brought in. ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: GUEST,IZAL
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 07:53 AM

Dear sir
We have recieved your recent letter on the subject of toilet paper and would like to reassure you that ours fully complies with EU toilet paper standards. We do our best to ensure that our facilites are of the best standard possible, but recognise that non-standard stndards are difficult to comply with. Please be assured that we will be monitoring this issue closely (we have installed CCTV in all of our toilets). In the mean time feel free to discuss your toiletry needs with our equal opportunites office, Anne Drex on floor 8.

Yours
Ima Bitflushed

Subject: BS: toilet paper size in English hospitals
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 19 Oct 07 - 07:42 AM

There has been a lot of fuss in the news about people getting infections when they are patients in English hospitals.

Recently I took my wife for out patient appointment, and while I was there I availed myself of the toilet facilities. I was immediately struck by the bus ticket sized toilet paper. Obviously too small to wipe an adult bottom.

When I got home I measured it against the size of Andrex that you buy at a supermarket. the hospital toilet paper was at least two centimetres narrower.

Is it any wonder people get infections if half the people there are wandering round with crap on their hands - and don't tell me you should wash your hands - some people simply don't! And anyway if you did, who can say if you miss a bit.

This narrow toilet paper is surely a false economy. I have written to the hospital authority, but so far received no reply.

Have I got a point, or have I gone as old and nuts as everyone says?