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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAppreciation thread for toilet paper.
Well, you think about it, how your life would be diminished without it.
Have you ever visited a Third World country? Toilet paper is a luxury there.
In Mexico, you go to public toilets, you bring your own or you buy it there.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)TP is a good thing
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Toilet paper is so important to me that I carry it with me while I travel.
I truly hates it when the paperwork is delayed due to missing resources.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)betsuni
(25,468 posts)TPP (Toilet Paper in Public) is great for restrooms everywhere. I don't know what all the fuss is about.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)When they came to a display of C-Ration meals, I heard the wife say that it was nice that the Army even gave us a napkin.
"No, Dear," the vet replied. "That was our toilet paper."
unhappycamper
(60,364 posts)The Pears were OK.
The mfers were not.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I grabbed that pic off the web, but the guy who did the display I saw had the most complete collection of C-rats that some of my vet friends had seen.
I tend to groan when I see military equipment displays and I have an unfair negative bias toward those who display them. The display included military weapons (small arms, Claymore mines, etc.) plus a couple of mule vehicles, one with a mounted recoilless rifle and one with an M-60 machine gun. I saw kids and even women climb up to "fire" the weapons at imaginary targets.
But I spent some time talking to the guy who brought the display, who was really a nice guy, a VN vet with a great sense of humor and some very funny stories about his experiences in-country. Including having an outhouse blown up on him, and at at first being relieved to discover the wetness on his head and neck wasn't blood--and then being a little less relieved to discover what it was.
I didn't much care for seeing the weapons, but the C-rats were really a blast from the past.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)to choose from, did the powers that be choose.. lima beans??
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)They always know best.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Jeez, at least they could have chosen,, oh... brussel sprouts, or okra.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)Ham hocks and lima beans is one of my favorites...I have it often.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)zeemike
(18,998 posts)It has to be fresh and slow cooked in a crock pot...
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)MH1
(17,600 posts)The Army moved on to MRE's about the time I got in. We got c-rations once or twice at the beginning, I think just because a) the Army needed to use up the stockpiles and b) a way of communicating to us how much of an improvement the MRE's were.
I just don't remember seeing a B Unit, or if I did, what the heck it was ...
Oh and they definitely didn't include cigarettes when I was in. Although in AIT one of the barracks still had a beer machine. I'm sure that's gone by now.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Before MREs came along we had LRRP rations introduced in Vietnam. These were dehydrated meals designed for use by Long Range Reconnaissance teams, but we also got them in the Infantry units--but very rarely.
LRRP rats had things like chicken stew, and spaghetti, and the taste was a huge improvement over C-rats. PLUS they were much lighter to carry in your ruck than a 5-day supply of canned food. The tradeoff was that you had to add water. And even carrying four canteens per man, we often ran out. And there were times and places where sending out a water detail would have been suicidal.
I don't know how long the LRRP rations were around, but they never replaced C-rats as the Army's basic field rations.
Beer in the barracks was part of the Modern Volunteer Army Program that tried to improve living conditions for post-draft troops, but I don't think the beer aspect lasted long. I was involved with it only very briefly as the OIC of the program for the Sixth Army area, and I think I learned more about it from my brother who was living it as it was implemented when he returned from Vietnam. He said the beer was popular at first, but that wore off very quickly.
Mugu
(2,887 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Without them we'd be back to using corn cobs...a stick...or the fingers of our left hand.
Was it a Koch plot that had Amazon kill the Penney's catalog? You can only virtually wipe yer bottom with an internet page
47% will never know, they don't even question...
ROFL.
malaise
(268,930 posts)Public toilets in that Third World place called Britain.
Ilsa
(61,694 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)occasionally my hand gets wet, but my toilet flushes without difficulty
Sancho
(9,067 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Oh, well, It's water under the bridge now. So to speak.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)PDittie
(8,322 posts)Very important for a few minutes prior to use but in mere moments afterward, its utility quickly spent, a fast flush. Certainly nothing to be talked about, examined, or analyzed for several days afterward.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Think about what our ancestors put up with.
Tetris_Iguana
(501 posts)1-ply sandpaper can go to hell!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)Koch was still working the bugs out. Still working on it...
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)brewens
(13,574 posts)war! LOL
RKP5637
(67,104 posts)pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)kpete
(71,984 posts)is something i can get behind
peace,
kp