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jberryhill

(62,444 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 12:14 PM Mar 2020

I FINALLY figured out the toilet paper thing

I thought maybe one of the side effects of the virus was to turn people into the Great Cornholio:

But I realized that many of the people were seeing and hearing the social media focus on toilet paper hoarding, and just figured they should buy some because others were.

Then, I thought maybe people were somehow inspired by scenes of Trump tossing paper towel rolls at disaster scenes.

Here at DU, the conversation moved to bidets.

But none of those captured what is driving it as a collective subconscious level.

We seem to instinctively know that something awful is going to happen to our ass.