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ChrisHB Feb 2017 1:00pm, 28 Feb 2017 14,591 posts	Quote Pin ChrisHB The shiny paper wasn't useless, despite what you would think. It didn't tear and it did smell of disinfectant, so that would have been a marketing plus. Wasn't it sold as "medicated"?
DoricQuine Feb 2017 1:07pm, 28 Feb 2017 3,163 posts	Quote 1 pin DoricQuine I remember squares of torn up newspaper thread onto a string and nailed to the wall of the outside toilet!!! Yes I am that old
Velociraptor Feb 2017 1:07pm, 28 Feb 2017 35,609 posts	Quote Pin Velociraptor It traded on being the preferred loo roll of the Queen Mother. Everyone wanted to be posh by association. The Queen Mother, of course, was in no way inconvenienced by having the nasty stuff in all her lavatories because she didn't have a bottom.
Diogenes Feb 2017 1:08pm, 28 Feb 2017 21,193 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes (It was highly effective at smearing what it was supposed to remove across a much wider area)
Jock Itch Feb 2017 1:10pm, 28 Feb 2017 11,905 posts	Quote 1 pin Jock Itch Freshly ground coffee in those bags, they give you a little sticky label thing to keep in the freshness. They never stick !! crap, knobs me off. Sort it out Teresa May !!!
alpenrose Feb 2017 1:21pm, 28 Feb 2017 24,341 posts	Quote Pin alpenrose My granny & grandad also had the cut up newspaper. It was a treat if there was a roll of Izal in there. You had to give the Izal a good rub to make it some kind of semi-absorbant.
Wriggling Snake Feb 2017 1:51pm, 28 Feb 2017 14,707 posts	Quote Pin Wriggling Snake We had an outside loo as well, in that there London. We lived in a huge terrace so the trip was bloody miles... Izal? I remember the name starting with a J?
Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) Feb 2017 1:53pm, 28 Feb 2017 14,460 posts	Quote Pin Atonal Miserabilist (AFKA TRO) On the positive, it did make a cheap and readily available source of tracing paper...
Nicholls595 Feb 2017 2:22pm, 28 Feb 2017 10,827 posts	Quote 1 pin Nicholls595 I remember a sketch on Not the Nine O'Clock News.... I read the Financial Times..... Because I have a pink bathroom
Nicholls595 Feb 2017 2:24pm, 28 Feb 2017 10,828 posts	Quote Pin Nicholls595 Oh, and Wren Kitchens