Richard Thorne grins as he waves his hand under a toilet paper dispenser in a women’s restroom. The machine spits five sheets of tissue into his grasp.
A year in the works, the electronic tissue dispenser is being rolled out to the masses by Kimberly-Clark Professional as it seeks to capture more of the $1 billion away-from-home toilet paper market. The company believes most people will be satisfied with five sheets — and use 20 percent less toilet paper.
“Most people will take the amount given,” says Thorne. Waxing philosophical, he adds, “People generally in life will take what you give them.”
Americans typically use twice as much toilet paper as Europeans — as much as an arm’s length each pull, Thorne says. The company decided the best length is about 20 inches — or precisely five standard toilet paper squares, though the machine can also be adjusted to churn out 16 inches or 24 inches, depending on the demand.
As they say in the article, call it a final frontier — of cheapness.
#30 – Well, if I get to pry guns out of cold dead hands, then sure, I’ll grant the DittoHeads a slight reprieve….
Slight though… These bastards broke my country… I’m still pretty ticked off about that…
#30 – And I’m also a little steamed about only having 5 raggedy-ass squares of paper to clean up with!
We are now just weeks out from the impeachment
By a Congress whose approval rating is barely half that of the President, and can’t come to any sort of consensus WRT the Iraq War? Lotsa luck…
Lauren – you give me a chuckle. More than that probably to folks who’ve known me a spell. Let’s just note that I was a delegate at the founding convention of CLUW in 1974 – and did a fair piece of organizing work beforehand. And since.
#33
Interesting theory, but too bad you are simply wrong, or a liar.
http://pollingreport.com/BushJob.htm
http://www.pollingreport.com/CongJob.htm
If you look at that chart, you can see when the congress approval tanked. Right when they let Bush have his way on Iraq.
You can bet they wont repeat that mistake, and the fix is gonna be impeachment.
Check mate. It is over. Your idealogoy is now bankrupt and irrelevant. As of right now, Meiers has 5 days to show up or the impeachment begins NEXT WEEK.
Good luck with those facts of yours that are based on delusion rather than reality.
OFTLO said, “raggedy-ass squares.,,”
They’re not raggedy-ass. Coming out of that shiny, high-tech machine they’re clean-cut-ass squares.
It looks like you have trouble reading, GregA. All of your polls in your link show the President with a higher approval rating than the Congress.
you can see when the congress approval tanked. Right when they let Bush have his way on Iraq.
So how does that explain why Congress’ approval rating is LOWER?
Your idealogoy
Is this some kind of cryptic ethnic allusion to neoconservatives?
Meiers has 5 days to show up or the impeachment begins NEXT WEEK.
I just set my stopwatch. Have fun. And in the extremely unlikely event that there is an impeachment, how do you hope to get a conviction in the Senate, where the Democrats only have 49 and Lieberman sure as heck isn’t going to vote to convict?
Yup, Frank. You’re absolutely right. There isn’t one Republican in the Senate (+ Joe) who has the integrity or ethics to vote to convict.
So all the Democrats have to offer the country now is the futile hope that they can impeach Bush for firing several at-will employees.
Confirmed!!! Full judiciary meeting monday morning to vote and order arrest of Hariet Meiers, and debate Obstruction of Justice charges against Bush.
Frank, suck on it.
Congress can only cite for contempt, it can’t order the arrest directly, dumb@$$.
#39 – Well, that and election tampering…
I would like to think that the Democrats have more to offer than election tampering, OFTLO. But at least it gives the dead voters of Chicago and Philadelphia off the streets.
Sorry, “gives” should be “keeps”.
#36 – 🙂
#44 – It’s cool… I knew what ya meant… By the way, despite you being 100% wrong in all matters involving the maligning of the patriotic Democrats who selflessly serve this great nation, I should note that I am really enjoying your exceptional comments in the global warming thread a few posts back… (And I’m not even being ironic or sarcastic)
Procedure necessary for ordering arrest for contempt of Congress (as used since 1935)
1) Subcommittee passes resolution of contempt
2) Full Committee passes resolution of contempt
3) Full House passes resolution of contempt
4) Speaker refers matter to the US Attorney for the District of Columbia
5) US Attorney/DC refers matter to grand jury for action
Bio of the US Attorney for the District of Columbia:
To make a long story short, nothing’s happening Monday morning.
I don’t hate the Democrats, I’m just saying that being a viable second party means a lot more than just whining about “stolen elections”, “AWOL chickenhawks” and fantazising about impeachment.
#11. Speak for yourself with your European name. As a British European I take offense at that! I hate those damn corporate toilet roll dispensers… If you have a messy crap you need as much as you need. I just rip the damn thing off the wall or get the refill TP and use it manually.
Was it Sheryl Crowe who was advocating 3 or 4 sheets? get real lady…. thats fine when your a woman with a peachy bottom but when your a man with a hairy ass crack to clean, you need to get to the paper that will do the job!
Mean bastards!
Jesus Christ! This post was about toilet paper and you have turned into a political Bush bash. I think you all need to relax before you pop a hemorrhoid.
Expect the next version of these dispensers to be able to read the bar coding on your company’s ID and more importantly, some bean counting administrator to assign a fixed monthly number of toilet paper squares each employee can use.
Even creepier would be that if you use less than your monthly quota then you will have your toilet paper supply cut even more.
I was thinking the same thing.. But this is actually a great place to discuss american politics
#48 – Bwahahaha – And that isn’t maligning the patriotic Democrats who selflessly serve this great nation?
#50 – That’s what makes it a great thread…. 🙂
Joe Lieberman?
Note #13’s comment about (toilet-)paper “control systems”:
Cheap-bastard TP dispensers are nothing new.
Solution? VANDALISM.
Encourage gangs to break them open, carve their insignia into them, and flush the batteries.
Whats the REALIZATION, is that the dispenser WONT cost much more…But the Paper will…
#50,
Jesus Christ! This post was about toilet paper and you have turned into a political Bush bash. I think you all need to relax before you pop a hemorrhoid.
Comment by gquaglia — 7/12/2007 @ 1:34 pm
gq, So I don’t get it. Isn’t there a direct connection between Bush and toilet paper?
Pop a hemorrhoid. Now that is funny.
If the squares were a foot on a side….
#54 – Joe Lieberman?
Comment by Frank IBC — 7/12/2007 @ 4:34 pm
Oh… Fine… If you are gonna bring up that son of a bitch I guess the gloves are coming off! 🙂
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Hey! Note the 🙂
Just a thought…
You do realize that you have the makings of a Google bomb here, don’t you? You know, where the Google search for “Bush” will link to toilet paper sites 😉
The funny thing is that even those that try to defend Bush here are actually reinforcing the effect.