Toilet Roll Argument

Ms_Chocaholic

Has anyone seen customers buying Izal? I see it on the shelves but always wonder if they sell any. Used to have it at school, never wiped anything, just moved it all about !!!! :eek:

Rachie_B

Jay-Jay wrote:

Yer all soft! I mean how much pressure are you putting on there to make using value loo paper 'that' uncomfortable? Do you scrub?

:rotfl: its exactly what i was thinking !!

GreyPilgrim

Bambywamby wrote:

Quote from GreyPilgrim

"The luxury stuff doesn't even feel that different! Honestly, are all you women sucked in by slick advertising / brainwashing and a bit of fancy packaging?"


Only when it comes to men

hahah, I guess I deserved that!

GreyPilgrim

I just wonder whether the toilet roll thing is exactly the same as any other luxury item. Soap powder is a good example:

The soap powder wars see each manufacture trying to outdo each other by making progressively fanciful claims about their product. Check out the supermarket shelves next time you go out and each box will be "new" or "improved" (or even "New and Improved", which I believe is an oxymoronic misnomer...it's surely either one or the other - it can't be both?)

Do we really believe that those clever scientists are working around the clock making those soapy flakes do ever more fantastic things to our clothes? Or do you think it's bull? Surely if there was this type of arms race going on in the soap powder industry, and if they HAD been improving it every few weeks then we should be at the point now where actually washing clothes would be a thing of the past...a single wash with new Whizzo Soap Flakes would clean your pants and then coat them in a dirt resistant polymer which would last an eternity...goodbye washday!!!

Of course it's rubbish. It's just marketing.

Toothbrushes. All I want to do is clean my teeth. I don't need a rotating / oscillating head with essence of pearl extract and an ergonomically designed handlle (pioneered by NASA, probably). And now they've realised that they've milked the basic message of "these things are really good at cleaning your teeth...they're now trying to say your tongue is dirty!!!THIS ONE HAS A SPECIAL RIDGED BIT AT THE BACK TO CLEAN YOUR TONGUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". Apparently this is the real cause of bad breath...sods - you never told me that before"

There is no such thing as an anti-ageing cream. It's a lie. We age, we get wrinkly.

They fool us into believing this crap so that we'll buy there rubbish, AND THEY'RE BLOODY GOOD AT IT!!!

Guys, remember when Gillette told us that we needed a second blade on our razors because the first one didn't 'QUITE' shave close enough? They promised us that the second one would do the job.

(time passes)

Oh, wait a minute, we need the Mach 3 now, because actually the first two DON'T quite get all the stubble.

(time passes)

Actually, we were wrong again. You need to buy Quattro. it's got four blades. Honestly mate, this is all you'll ever need for a close shave

(time passes)

Hi, it's the gillette corporation. Now we're up to Fusion. This ones got five blades.

How long before we see:

http://www.flamingmango.com/funnystuff/gillette_light_speed.jpg

And then the !!!!!!s are bored with selling us things that we might actually need, they try and invent things to make us buy other things we don't need.

Do we really need Heel Balm? Are our worlds really going to crumble if we have a bit of dry skin on the bottom of our feet?

Head and Shoulders with Melanie "Oh the things I do to hydrate my skin" Sykes has the most fatuous statement I've ever seen in an advert. It says (this may not be the exact words):

"may reduce dandruff flakes by up to 100%"

Just ponder that statement for a moment. Drink it in. Sounds kind of encouraging doesn't it. Until you realise that it means absolutely nothing. It's a marketing mans dream because it promises absolutely nothing, but delivers everything.

Consider.

You use H&S, and ALL of your dandruff flakes go. The statement has lived up to it's promise.

You use H&S and half your dandruff flakes go. The statement has lived up to it's promise.

You use H&S and none of your dandruff flakes go. The statement has lived up to it's promise. ("May" reduce up to 100%)

It actually equate to saying "At best using this product you will see all of your dandruff go. At the least, you will see none of it go"

And to add to this, I think there's also a bit of small print on the advert along the lines of "when viewed from over 5 feet away":rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Excellent. Anyway, I forget where I was going with this meandering rant. I think it started off about toilet roll or something.

GP

Rachie_B

thanks for the laughs pmsl

ben500

smilermonkey wrote:

Well this thread has given me a smile fist thing in the morning!:rotfl:
Tried that Charmin stuff once...cost of plumber over £200 :eek: Never again (think I was diddled a bit by plumber as could have bought a new loo for that) Now Tesco value. No ripping, no clogging, no problem!

Please reassure me this was NOT a freudian slip

GreyPilgrim

ben500 wrote:

Please reassure me this was NOT a freudian slip

heheh - I thought you meant about her being diddled by the plumber

mr218

my bf/now husband used to be like you. he has a friend who is really a cheapskate (and proud of it) who would buy the absolute cheapest. in holland you can get these cheap toilet paper made of unbleached recycled paper. following his example, my hubby bought a few rolls of these and did irritate his bum. now he buys decent quality stuff. we generally look for deals and stock up.

also it is a nice luxury. so if you can afford it, then i think you should get it. as long as it soft and not the cheapest it is fine. when it comes to detergent powder, i dont get hte cheapest. but you can compare the ingredients of the washing powder to see the percentage of active material (like anionic surfactants). also buy in bulk and look out for deals.

maybe you could use the cheap stuff and let your wife and kid splurge

GreyPilgrim

mr218 wrote:

maybe you could use the cheap stuff and let your wife and kid splurge

Well after my hissyfit in tesco's I decided thats what I would do. They've bought the "pure silk £100 per square inch" stuff, and I've bought the tescos value stuff. I thought I would lead my example. I'm starting with the man in the mirror, because if you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make the change. (copyright M.Jackson)

Spirited_2

Splurge? We are talking about what you use to wipe your backside and flush down the loo, aren't we? Don't know about you, but there are plenty of things which come further up my priorities than my bum when I'm choosing where to spend my money.

I can completely understand that people with health problems might need something that bit softer. And I've certainly found paper to be 'too rough' myself in the past. But ASDA's (I'm sure other value brands have improved too) cheap toilet rolls are soft and don't clog up the loo (the way Charmin does - was it invented by plumbers?) I really can't see why I'd ever want to spend more money on toilet roll - even if I had cash to spare.

I know that we each have our own priorities, but gawds, there are people out there who are unable to get clean drinking water whilst we flush ours down the toilet alongside our luxury loo roll and excrement.

Personally, I don't think things should be ruled out because they are the cheapest - I'm not that concerned about being seen as a cheapskate. Try the cheapest, if it doesn't suit you then fine, go up the scale one at a time till you find something which is comfortable. At least you'll know that you aren't spending anymore money than you need to.