i really, really did not have any intention of making quite so many posts on the subject of toilet paper. by that i do not mean to disparage or belittle a product which has become essential to the world we have created, look you see, but to be honest there is only a limited (finite) amount of stuff one can write of about it. well, since we are here, let me see what i can come up with.
for those who read this blog fairly frequently there may be some surprise that this subject (or topic) has come up again so soon after the last post concerning this sort of thing. no, it is not the case that i have been on some wild campaign or crusade to use up all that i last purchased in record time, as circa 45% of the last quantity purchase remains unused or (if you will) ready for use. being quite mindful of how the ease of access to toilet paper can be snatched away from us all i did, however, elect to keep an eye out for it being on offer (at an agreeable price), taking it as a give than perhaps it is an item one would benefit from having too much of that too little ("fewer").
which all led to a frankly preposterous, somewhat obscene amount (volume, i suppose) of toilet paper being purchased. yes, as you can (more or less) see in the above picture, that's twenty four (24) rolls i got, all at once. two dozen, if you like. or a roll of toilet paper per hour for one complete day by the currently accepted means of measuring such.
hopefully it is going (considerably) too far to suggest that i now have at my disposal enough toilet paper to keep me in relatively good stead for the remainder of my natural (or otherwise) life. a more realistic view to take would be that it is highly unlikely i shall need to purchase further for, at the very least, another year, be it in regards of a calendar one or twelve (12) months from today. up to now concepts of time have featured more (or further) than i had expected in all of this.
cost, or the appearance of a good deal, was at the forefront of such an excessive seeming purchase. the price for these was, as you can more or less see in the above, £8.99. slightly smaller in the image is a breakdown of what the cost is per roll, which my calculator suggests is just north of 37p each. for a decent quality, and if we are to remain in the realm of honesty, essential item to have.
appreciating the tone of this blog is generally light i would really not wish for these comments to be seen as flippant, or otherwise belittling certain things. much of modern life has taught us to, in a very real sense, "be prepared". when the infamous "lockdown" occurred, what, six years ago in the face of a brave new plague, for some reason it was toilet paper and pasta that people rushed to stockpile. whereas i think it most likely that any government trying to impose another lockdown will get told to f*** off, or or to otherwise go and f*** themselves, one can never really be sure as to what shortage shall happen next, or why.
going for a rare instance of putting some interesting (if not quite useful) information here and it was so, of course, that toilet paper was one of the first things we, the people, eventually worked out was being used as a means of "shrinkflation". that is, for clarification, when manufacturers, nominally in a subtle way, began reducing the amount of quantity in certain items whilst retaining the same price, rather than putting prices up. toothpaste was a rather, if you will excuse the expression, big example of this. it took longer than you might think, though, and yes i believe i have (indeed) written this before, to clock that the toilet paper manufacturers were gradually increasing the diameter (and consequentially the radius) of the cardboard tube at the centre (heart, perhaps) of toilet rolls.
using my quite smart Star Wars ruler, and the obligatory tape (actual) of The Joshua Tree off of U2 for scale, as you can kind of see in the above image the diameter of the cardboard rolls in this packet is all of 4.5cm. which i think means the radius is 2.25cm; although it has been some time since i have done that sort of mathematics. admittedly this information would be more useful (or interesting) if i had an historical or current roll for comparison but i, alas, do not. still, any future browser seeking details of what the diameter of a toilet roll cardboard tube was in 2026, there you go.
mindful of the quasi challenge cushelle has posed to my purchase of andrex i did indeed go and check if the koala branded product had a counter offer to make on price. no, as the above picture shows, with it being that the price for the same quantity of their pack (24) set at £2.76 higher. as much affection as i have for koalas it is very simply so that hard cash (very much) talks.
just as a conclusion i am somewhat baffled by the marketing of andrex, making it ludicrously clear that each and every roll features puppies. what sort of demographic is it that they are after who(m) would make their purchase based on what sort of animal will (or shall) be prominent on the paper when they go and make use of it in the way intended?
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