It is fascinating and perhaps ironic, to note again that after Hollywood has made so many disaster movies and similar TV rubbish: That they put it into practice in a real disaster & run around like a bunch of "headless chooks", whilst the situation deteriorates by the minute?

The real winners at the rate they are going looks like the undertakers.

Actually with the trots tickets I think I mentioned that I was sent a calculator by an eco toilet mob who encouraged linking it. It will tell you how long on average a roll will last. So you should be able to work out how many millennia a trolley full should last.

I put it on my Face book page,but may still have the email?

Here's some justice - it rains tonight, his garage roof leaks, every single roll of toilet paper gets wet, expands and pushes the walls out, resulting in the collapse of the roof.

Maybe next time, he'll park his car there and stop being an un-Australian wally.

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Only in Oz?:

QUOTE: Some plumbers have experienced a boom in emergency call-outs as people clog their drains with toilet paper substitutes.

In late February and early March, toilet paper shelves in supermarkets were stripped bare by shoppers, and some households turned to using baby wipes, paper towels, and even bedsheets as a stand-in.

Don Arscott, who has run Melbourne 24 Hour Plumbing for two decades, said he performed more than double the usual number of drain blockage jobs in the period when toilet paper was scarcely available.

“I had one family cutting up bedsheets to wipe their bums,” Mr Arscott said.

(... and interesting surname for such a plumber.)

For those that need eggs. McDonald's now has eggs by the dozen for the public. They also sell milk.
Neither of them are expensive by today's standards.

Here is a photo of the same shelves around six weeks after this thread opened. There's some small packs of dunny rolls on the shelves but still no bulk packs and not all brands are back. The supermarkets still have some work to do but this is better than nothing.

It not for the purchasing limits, we'd still have society's imbeciles panic buying this stuff for no good reason.

The bloke who panic-bought nearly 5,000 rolls still doesn't have a buyer for his stock and to that I say stiff bikkies!

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The bloke who panic-bought nearly 5,000 rolls still doesn't have a buyer for his stock and to that I say stiff bikkies!

Given the way he organised the shelves to be stripped to amass that pile, I call him an opportunist profiteer and I'm glad that no one will deal with him.

Still no toilet rolls at my local Coles. In fact I think they gave up, since they've filled most of the space with disposable nappies.

Well I think the dunny roll situation has finally sorted it self out.

Using the ebay search that excluded everything BUT toilet rolls only, we now have 34 resellers at 20 april.
One month ago on the 20 march we had over 8000 sellers!
Ebay should have taker action 2 weeks earlier than they did.

That is one hell of a lot of black market shelf strippers out of the game.
The dunny roll factory should be able to go back to two shifts a day, not three!

No more ships groaning at the gunnels with Asian trader date rolls on board heading to china.
No more red neck aussie hoarders unable to close the garage door with rolls stacked to the ceiling.
Well maybe that lot are stuck with the rolls, still got the door problem, the car will just have to stay outside in the rain.

Fred.

Another one:

QUOTE: A dad who reportedly said the coronavirus was a political ploy, and called his state’s lockdown “bulls***” has died of COVID-19.

John W. McDaniel, from Marion County in Ohio, was diagnosed with the virus in late March, and died in hospital on April 15, The Sun reports.

The 60-year-old man had allegedly posted several times on Facebook regarding the coronavirus, and the posts have been circulated widely on social media.

In another post, also believed to have been written by McDaniel, he asks: “Does anybody have the guts to say this Covid19 is a political ploy? Asking for a friend. Prove me wrong.”

McDaniel’s page appears to have since been taken down from Facebook.

A 21st century contingency - when one says something stupid on social networks, they give a relative or friend their password so the stupid comment can be deleted after the poster's demise.

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So the stupid gun toting yanks are now having big demos about lifting the lock down rules and freeing America from... um ....something.
After all its their right according to (pick your own ammendement #)!
Really are those people that dumb and stupid?
I thought we had enough brain dead people in Australia, by laying about on beaches in droves!

1/ Some one that lives in America, please tell me that all yanks are not fat gun toting NRA idiots.
That all we see on Aussie TV.
Are these people a majority or minority in your great country?

2/ What would be really interesting would be an analysis of covid19 sufferers in the groups of those protestors in about 4 weeks time.
Herd immunity apparently does not work with #19, see London or Naples for an example.
As most of the people we saw on TV in the USA protestors were wheezing lard laden belly protruding ill health examples they should figure highly in the death count! Some stats person over there let us know how it goes!

Fred.

I have always noted that the" Wild West" is still alive & well in USA: This is a country so introverted that they have never come to the realisation that the country North of them is very different and does things very differently and even speak a different language.

I may have a copy from the Bush era of a newspaper cartoon, featuring Shrub with a map & Gookin book "Presidency for Dummies" That about summed it up at the time. E.g. there was a spot marked on NZ South Island: Zena & Canada was Moose & Hockey.

Marc

Yes well have a look at this South Park clip that appeared in Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58BDrZH7SX8

To their credit, not all Americans own guns. I know a few that said they once did and some of them have either sold their weapons or given them away whilst a few others have kept them. They are people that are probably closer to some of the misery that has been caused when guns have fallen into the wrong hands.

We know it only too well. The top three mass shootings in the world have been committed in the last 25 years. Two of them - Port Arthur, TAS and Christchurch, NZ - have been committed by Australians carrying either automatic weapons or a mix of semi-automatic and lever-action weapons - all legal at the time the guns were used. The guns themselves aren't dangerous - only those people using them during a brainsnap are.

In the US, the Left side of politics want to place further restrictions on gun ownership but they never do much about it. The Right keep getting reminded by the NRA that the NRA has enough members to influence the vote and again, nothing gets done. The US has another road block - their constitution makes it legal (in a general sense) to own guns. It doesn't say what sort of guns though so there is room to move on helping to prevent further idiocy.

I was a vehement critic of the 1996 gun reforms here but I quietly knew that it would work up to a point, and it has. We haven't had a mass shooting here since 1996. The thing is, there are more guns in circulation in Australia now than there was prior to 1996. The thing that makes the gun laws work though is that owners are forced to keep them locked up and ammo kept separately to the arms. This helps prevent the crooks getting their hands on them.

Mobs like bikie gangs are now forced to import them on the sly (which is very risky) because they are less available by other nefarious means. At least with that, the bikies are only shooting each other and not innocent bystanders in an all-in shoot out.

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In a recent newspaper photo I saw, one American mob protester was holding up a large sign saying "DON'T CANCEL MY GOLF SEASON".

Heaven forbid the Governor should do that.