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Title: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: bijou on December 18, 2009, 12:48:12 PM: Quote

"They'll take my Ultra Soft Charmin only when they pry it from my cold, dead, aloe-smelling hands."

Highly doubtful it will come to that. Please, sit.

We're talking about toilet paper. Charlton Heston's famous vow was of guns.

The issue over tissue in the bathroom â€” the really super-soft stuff â€” is more like the fight about the big SUVs loved by many Americans.

Anti-green, according to environmentalists. Politically incorrect. Why should Americans use luxurious toilet paper made from old-growth trees when much of the world gets by with a far more basic and often recycled product?

Why should we flush redwoods, so to speak?

So Greenpeace, the Natural Resources Defense Council and other environmental groups have pushed manufacturers such as Kimberly-Clark (Cottonelle) and Procter & Gamble (Charmin) to stop using wood from virgin forests to make tissue products. ...

http://www.kentucky.com/greenspot/story/1051030.html
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: Peter3_1 on December 18, 2009, 12:54:21 PM: Never mind that such trees are fast growing plantation grown crops. Tge real reason is that the greenwenies are maschocistics with flashes of sadism. They want to feel the pain, but, kind of want to hurt tohers as well...... :evillaugh:
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: thundley4 on December 18, 2009, 01:00:46 PM: When are they going to go after Kleenex and the other facial tissue makers?
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: SilverOrchid on December 18, 2009, 01:13:42 PM: They really want us to wipe with pine cones. :mental:
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: Lacarnut on December 18, 2009, 01:26:07 PM: Quote from: SilverOrchid on December 18, 2009, 01:13:42 PM
They really want us to wipe with pine cones. :mental:

Let them dipshits go out in the woods and wipe with poison ivy.
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on December 18, 2009, 01:27:08 PM: Obviously bullshit, pun intended.

I'm still mad at how hard it is to find a toilet that flushes properly.
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: Chris_ on December 18, 2009, 01:34:42 PM: They are just pissed because we developed it, and the rest of the world is still using corncobs.........we all have to be "equally miserable" ya know........

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Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: RightCoast on December 18, 2009, 07:57:50 PM: They want us to use the NY Times - last ditch effort to save that rag.
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: I_B_Perky on December 19, 2009, 02:37:26 AM: Quote
They want us to use the NY Times - last ditch effort to save that rag.

Does the NY Times use environmentally friendly ink? Nothing worse than having non environmentally friendly ink on your ass. :-)
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: Randy on December 19, 2009, 04:10:30 AM: Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on December 18, 2009, 01:27:08 PM
Obviously bullshit, pun intended.

I'm still mad at how hard it is to find a toilet that flushes properly.

the $300 model Kohler's flush every time. Mine works so well I moved it with me. :-)
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: RightCoast on December 19, 2009, 09:08:02 AM: Quote from: I_B_Perky on December 19, 2009, 02:37:26 AM
Does the NY Times use environmentally friendly ink? Nothing worse than having non environmentally friendly ink on your ass. :-)

Must be Soy ink?
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: DefiantSix on December 19, 2009, 09:15:50 AM: Quote from: Ralph Wiggum on December 18, 2009, 01:27:08 PM
Obviously bullshit, pun intended.

I'm still mad at how hard it is to find a toilet that flushes properly.

It's not the toilet paper. It's the 1.6gpf toilet that they and your gub'mint nanny forced upon you, which couldn't flush a birdshit.
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: Hawkgirl on December 20, 2009, 09:25:18 PM: I admit, I'm a toilet paper snob...keep those single ply, sandpaper sheets away from my tush...

Only Angel Soft will do.. :heart:
Title: Re: Soft toilet paper becomes target of environmentalists
Post by: Ladywinter on December 20, 2009, 09:46:50 PM: Well, we know Mr. Whipple was no greenie. At least we'll always have that...