Americans have already started noticing a decline in toilet paper rolls in their local stores as customer apparently bulk buy - despite the majority of paper being produced domestically
Toilet paper ‘panic buying’ has been reported in parts of the country, as Americans fear the impact of the ongoing port strike.
Roughly 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked out on Tuesday morning after their contract with the ports expired. News that the strike could impact 36 ports appears to have led some consumers to buy rolls upon rolls of toilet paper in a panic, with shoppers posting pictures of their local stores with empty shelves.
Social media users in New Jersey, Colorado, Virginia and other states reported shelves cleaned out of toilet paper.
Hahaha, this again. I’m starting to think big TP sows dissidence in society, trying to cause any form of logistics service to be disrupted, so long as it’s not their trucks.
But also I love seeing how many people don’t know how to clean themselves at home if they have no TP.
Is this the new America? Disaster is looming, so buy toilet paper?
It’s not even a disaster, like, the port workers wouldn’t strike so long as to actually threaten the country, they live in it. It’s only a disaster if you’re trying to avoid paying them more
It’s only a disaster if you’re trying to avoid paying them more
So, it’s a disaster then.
I would say it’s a looming disaster in terms of the average price of goods for consumers when they are already living paycheck to paycheck in many cases.
I am on the side of the port workers, don’t get me wrong, but the fallout from this strike will hurt people.
Well, maybe the company should give the workers what they want then.
As long as the right people are held accountable for that damage. The mainstream media does not have a good track record of reporting on the side of striking workers.
I agree.
Yes but not just disasters. Toilet paper got sold out before the last solar eclipse. Americans buy toilet paper because it’s one of the few things they can still do with agency. It makes them feel like they accomplished something
I never understood this behaviour. I will starve before I run out of things to wipe my ass with.
I learned my lesson from the early days of covid. Buy that good stuff i bulk as a habit, not as an emergency reaction.
This a problem for people who don’t have a bidet. Gross people.
You can use your hand
Yeah, it’s easier if you lick your hand first. You’ll get used to the taste after a while
Labor power has apparently scared the shit out of us to such a degree that no amount of toilet paper will ever be enough to wipe it up.
Why always the fucking toilet paper? Time to finally get the bidet.
Just buy a fucking bidet.
Doesn’t help, you still have to use toilet paper to dry. You end up cleaner, not using much less toilet paper.
No? You can and should use a bidet towel
And there are also bidets that have an air jet.
You mean like an F16? That’s awesome but I don’t see how it would keep your bottom any cleaner.
Glad we bought a bidet after the last wrath of morons did this.
“wrath of morons” has a nice ring to it.
As someone watching from outside (and a born and bred bidet user), this is hilarious.
Don’t they already have a stockpile from last time?
These people need to be banned from doing this lmao
Morons don’t even understand that toilet paper is domestically produced, not imported, so a dockworker’s strike would have fuck-all impact on the supply of it anyway.
If it starts to disappear again, check out a company called Who Gives a Crap? We never had a supply issue during the pandemic.
So we learned nothing. Neat.
We have truly learned nothing
I learned something. The Koch brothers have some sort of secret campaign to make people afraid of not being able to wipe their ass during a disaster. I’m sorry, people, toilet paper is a luxury I will forego if the end is truly upon us.
I just can’t relate to other people. It makes me think these guys get up in the morning, check their TP stash first thing, and breathe a sigh of relief knowing their ass is safe for what ever diarrhea related emergency life has in store that day.
