Can ebay please, delete all the ads for toilet paper because the big hype,

[annwillems-0]

To whom it may concern, 

Because the big hype, regarding toilet paper, and some people buying ridiculous amounts and than try to make money out of this on ebay , is not something to exept!  Please can you delete these ads? It is not fair, these people are buying so much, so other people are not able to do their normal shopping anymore! 

Thank you 

Kind regards A. Willems 

[beautbots01]

I heard Gerry Harvey (Hardlynormal) speaking on the radio and he was saying that in his day (and mine) they had strips of newspaper hanging off the dunny door.  I clearly remember that.  Trouble is not many of us buy the newspaper these days so would have to resort to junk mail from Coles and Woolies instead.  

[springyzone]

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@beautbots01 wrote:

I heard Gerry Harvey (Hardlynormal) speaking on the radio and he was saying that in his day (and mine) they had strips of newspaper hanging off the dunny door.  I clearly remember that.  Trouble is not many of us buy the newspaper these days so would have to resort to junk mail from Coles and Woolies instead.  

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They also had a pan service, not sewered toilets. Makes all the difference, as no flushing problems.

[offroad7400]

Interesting to see the Google search engine results for 'toilet paper'.  Demand appears on the way down - pardon the pun.  Maybe common sense is finally starting to kick in.  Blame the SOP (Stupid Old People) !

My local Aldi yesterday had pallets of toilet paper but NO orange juice ??

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=AU&q=toilet%20paper

[davewil1964]

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@offroad7400 wrote:

Interesting to see the Google search engine results for 'toilet paper'.  Demand appears on the way down - pardon the pun.  Maybe common sense is finally starting to kick in.  Blame the SOP (Stupid Old People) !

My local Aldi yesterday had pallets of toilet paper but NO orange juice ??

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%201-m&geo=AU&q=toilet%20paper

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Why old? The clips I've seen didn't show any old people, depending on your definition of old.

[beautbots01]

Yes had that when living on a fruitblock.  Trouble was you had to be careful you weren't caught on the pan when the dunny man came.  

Change of topic.  My husband has just returned from shopping and said "No toilet paper in Woolworths".  But ok for pasta.

[11dustyattic]

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@countessalmirena wrote:

I generally don't buy pasta because it's so easy to make and it gives me satisfaction to roll the pasta dough through my beautiful (red) Marcato Atlas machine. If there's a risk of tipo "00" flour and durum flour becoming harder to source, I might buy up some pasta... but I could just make some fresh and let it dry and store that at this stage.

Toilet paper is another issue. I don't see this becoming scarce except through people's panicking and stocking up. Am I correct in saying that the manufacture of toilet paper doesn't require any components that are likely to become hard to obtain? And that it is manufactured locally?

Some food and medicine are the major things we may find becoming genuinely hard to get. I hope that PPE manufacture ramps up at this point too, before global contagion interferes with production to a wider and more calamitous degree. 

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Some great points you make here, as always 😁 I don't think the toilet paper manufacturers here have any problem keeping up with demand. I watched an interview where they said they had plenty, and showed their massive supply inside their warehouse. The problem seems to be the supermarkets don't have the space for extra pallets. My daughter works for Woolworths and said they simply don't have the space. I do think however that the restriction to one packet per person is already helping this dire situation. All those in favour of calling this dire? 😂

But yes medicines etc will be a bigger problem or specifically imported stuff. I met a buyer the other day who works with the disabled and she said they were very worried about their supply of tp, paper towel etc. Hod help us if we run out of medical products

[11dustyattic]

Oops God help us I meant

[twyngwyn]

Cheap As Chips has plenty of TP

[brerrabbit585]

What's PPE?

[countessalmirena]

I had to create an emoticon (kolobok-style) in "honour" of the toilet paper wars:

My first attempt at the packet was too big; it would completely dwarf the koloboks themselves. But perhaps I can use it for some other creation in the future.