every now and then - not often, look you see, but still - i rather like to do a sort of "follow up" post to something what i have gone done written. no, that's not it. more that i feel obliged to, or rather simply have nothing else better to write of. that is very much what is likely here.
around the start of the year i elected (or opted) to share with you a bold, brave decision to make a brand switch in respect of toilet paper. you can, if you wish, click here to read of the logic, the methodology or decision that went into it all. should you be in a rush, or just interested enough to know but not that interested, mostly it came down to availability and using a koala for advertising. indeed i am that simplistic at heart, no matter how complex things seem to get.
for those following the plight (or what have you) of how much toilet paper i may use, and which type, presently (or at time of writing) there are three (3) rolls left off of that mega pack. so it has lasted quite a decent amount of time. as i had no wish to find myself bereft of the stuff i made the decision to purchase some more. whereas i did not specifically seek to get more of the koala endorsed Cushelle ones, well, they were the first ones i saw and with the magic of a Tesco club card thing this pack of six came in at what i considered an agreeable price.
not quite or exactly the same as the ones i purchased before, as you can (vaguely) work out from that picture above. these are, it says here, "quilted sunshine daisy" ones. presumably they are called such so as to avoid any legal mishaps off of Andrex, who(m) have a type called "quilts". the ones which were the same as what i had before, if that makes sense, were even more agreeably price (from memory i believe a further £1 cheaper) but what can i say, i have decided to pamper my behind, or live a slightly, albeit modestly so, bourgeois lifestyle in terms of bathroom concerns.
this declaration of "average content" (or length) of the toilet rolls fascinates me. we live in a time where very nearly everything they can regulate is regulated. nothing highlights this more than the fact that all forms of food have to have things like salt and sugar content clearly marked, both to the nearest 0.1g and as a precise percentage. any sort of business that can get away with just giving an average in this brave new world have a charmed life. no, i am (decidedly) not unravelling a roll to either count the sheets or measure the overall length. where the f***, for a start, am i going to find a 30m space to roll one out (so to speak) and how would i explain it to passers by?
it was of course that the toilet paper industry were pioneers, or if you will legends, of the "shrinkonomics" games. should you be unaware of that term, it is when a company elects to sell you a product for the same price, but to a lesser ("fewer") content. credit where it is due, they were quite cunning with this. for years and years they gradually increased the diameter of the cardboard tube which lies at the heart, or centre, of a roll of toilet paper. so, the roll always looked the same, but has less (or if you insist fewer) sheets of paper on it. took longer than you might think for we, the people, to clock what was going on. ever since other industries have done the same, be it coffee types selling a few grams less ("fewer") in the same size jar, and toothpaste too.
but then some confusion comes in. as you can (kind of) see in the above, the packaging promises 50% more sheets, but then goes and does a graphic to state that six of these rolls equals nine of another. if six was nine, so to speak. what is it, then? i mean, 50% more than what? oh, never mind, i, like most shall if truth be told, will just get on with using them (it) as intended.
how, exactly, one would delicately word a review of the business end use of toilet paper eludes me. just as well, then, or fortunate, that i have not actually used any of this new batch yet. it is my hope that it, this fancy named and vaguely measured toilet paper, serves its purpose and does the job asked.
be fair dinkum to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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