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The new york times article wasn't very clear about how people are using them. So I'll spell it out: adults are using these wet wipes instead of toilet paper. Th
by graeme 12y ago
The new york times article wasn't very clear about how people are using them. So I'll spell it out: adults are using these wet wipes instead of toilet paper. That's why so many are entering sewage systems.
- walterbell 12y agoNYT put their writing skills to work on wet wipe awareness demon snowballs industry representatives chafe scraping the bottom clean
- yen223 12y agoGrowing up as a kid, my dream job was to be the guy who wrote those cheesy headlines, like "Man Attacked By Crows, Fowl Play Suspected" and such. I didn't realize it is still a viable career option.
- colechristensen 12y ago"Murder: Man Attacked by Group of Crows"
- dankohn1 12y agoThe `most celebrated Post wood [0] of all time: "Headless body in topless bar."`[1] [0] Wood is a banner headline, because the largest handset letters were made of wood to save costs. [1] http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/01/5137028/real-story-headless-body-topless-bar-argued-veterans-post http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/media/2012/01/5137028/...
- yen223 12y agoThere's a similar one, possibly apocryphal. When Michael Foot led a nuclear disarmament organization, a newspaper ran with "Foot Heads Arms Body" My personal favourite: A while back, tight-rope walkers crossed the Han river in Korea. The Washington Post chose to run with "Skywalkers in Korea Crossed Han Solo" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR2007050300374.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05...
- gadders 12y agoI prefer "Book Lack in Onger". "When I asked colleagues around the office to nominate a favourite, the one that came up most frequently was (not from the Guardian), Book lack in Ongar - on a report about a crisis in the library service in Essex. (For the benefit of English language students at the international school in Frankfurt, whose teacher asked for a glossary of headline puns, this one is a play - no pun intended - on the title of John Osborne's Look Back in Anger)." http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardianreview5 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jan/26/books.guardianr... Or possibly "How do you solve a problem like Korea?" from the Sun: http://btoe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/things/large/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-korea.jpg?1345814357 http://btoe-images.s3.amazonaws.com/things/large/how-do-you-...
- shostack 12y agoMy favorite from the Chicago Tribute[1] re: the infamous chocolate factory... "EPA not cuckoo for cocoa powder" [1]http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-11-04/news/0511040117_1_opacity-violations-power-plants-cocoa-powder http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-11-04/news/051104011...
- Evolved 12y agoMy favorite is when Jaime Sin (a Cardinal) visited Rome and the headline was, "Cardinal Sin in Rome!"
- prostoalex 12y agoCorrect, obligatory link to a startup offering a subscription on this https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/one-wipe-charlies https://www.dollarshaveclub.com/one-wipe-charlies
- graeme 12y agoDo those contain alcohol? I can't imagine it's a good idea to repeatedly apply that to the anus.
- baddox 12y agoThey don't contain alcohol. Why in the world would they contain alcohol?
- 001sky 12y agoWet wipes are produced as air-laid paper where the fibres are carried and formed to the structure of paper by air. They are moistened with water or other liquids like isopropyl alcohol depending on the applications.
- yen223 12y agoIt's not uncommon for wet wipes to contain a bit of rubbing alcohol for anti-microbial purposes.
- WizzleKake 12y agoRegular toilet paper seems absolutely barbaric after one has become accustomed to wet wipes. Try them and you will understand.
- debaserab2 12y agoWait until you try a bidet. Any form of wiping will seem like savagery afterwards.
- burnte 12y agoI had my gallbladder removed at the end of 06. TP became less effective. I switched to wetwipes in 09, and got a bidet two years ago. Dear lord my life is genuinely SO much better now. It was an inexpensive $100 stainless steel addon for a regular toilet, and so incredibly worth it.
- yawaramin 12y agoI've lived in three different countries in Asia. Have always had a mini-shower or at least a piped jet of water beside the toilet to help clean up. North America has the most bass-ackwards wiping convention I've ever seen.
- tzs 12y agoThis is the 21st century. We should be able to do a lot better. We should be able to have our sphinctors replaced with an artificial valve. This should be a standard size (or one of several standard sizes if one size does not fit all) and standard mechanism. When you have to go, you sit down at a waste collection station, and a computer guided arm would connect a hose to your valve and open it. This can be designed so that at no time in this process is anything on the outside of the valve, the hose, or your body exposed to feces. All the feces goes into the hose. When you have been emptied, the valve is closed, the hose retracts, and its interior is cleaned. That is how civilized people would take a crap (until we reach Star Trek levels of technology...then we'd just beam our feces out).
- bidetsprayerman 12y agoBetter than a Bidet = the Hand Bidet Sprayer. It requires no new plumbing and can go in any bathroom including a rental. See www.bathroomsprayers.com.