19 hours ago, kickstart said:

Could have been worse, half of an old telephone directory hanging from a piece of string, or newspaper.

 

 

O.M.Goodness Kicksart that dates you. 🙂.  I remember that from just after WW2 when we could barely afford the newspaper and as for a phone book, phones didnt happen for many years.

and... reckon we all got a shock to first see a toilet roll in the middle of the Thai kitchen table. 

L.O.S. Land Of (unique) Surprises.  😏

On a more serious medical note...  itchy anal "area" irrtations and rash can develop from natural sweating, or failure to dry after using bum gums.

22 hours ago, Korat Kiwi said:

Yeah a bit like at the doctors and they want a urine sample but only give you an egg cup. 

 

Damn when your bladder is full and you piss like a horse it's useless.  Overflow and wet hands...guaranteed.  

Aww - piss like a horse - those were the good old days.  

23 hours ago, HauptmannUK said:

Toilet paper everywhere but in the toilet..

 

Au contraire....   Toilet paper is what they provide you with to fall apart and stick to your hands instead of drying them.

 

 

BUT...   IMO - the whole subject is wrong - this is not toilet paper - this is a roll of tissue paper that is also commonly used in toilets.

 

 

It never ceases to amaze me how the 'loo discussion' paper, bum-gun discussion etc generates more interest than a Bob Smith tolling thread. 

Just got off the plane? It is clean, as clean as facial tissue but not as soft usually. There are decorative containers for it so it just looks like a tissue dispenser, just open the roll from the middle not the outside. What gets me though is how much they use, half a roll it would seem for some minor table spillage.

This is your only concern?...you must have a happy life...

13 hours ago, Jing Joe said:

On a more serious medical note...  itchy anal "area" irrtations and rash can develop from natural sweating, or failure to dry after using bum gums.

A liberal coating of Snake Brand Prickly Heat powder will put a spring in  your step!

It is part of the culture, live with it!

Maybe it was mentioned here already: Toilet paper only becomes toilet paper if it is used in toilets. Otherwise, it's tissue on a role.

I find it always funny when I buy something is a Thai supermarket and they would never every put plastic wrapped toilet paper or sanitary products in the same bag together with food. Will the new and clean toilet paper somehow contaminate the food? 

On 3/31/2024 at 1:09 PM, Kinnock said:

The water guns make tissue in the toilets unnecessary.  What surprises me now is the dinner table tissue dispenser in the toilet.

Better though, otherwise you end up with a wet boxer short at your chair🤪

9 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Maybe it was mentioned here already: Toilet paper only becomes toilet paper if it is used in toilets. Otherwise, it's tissue on a role.

Actually not. Toilet tissue is specifically manufactured for use in waste and septic systems - it contains very little binder and breaks down into fibers after a few minutes in water. Other tissues such a facial tissues and kitchen tissue have much higher levels of binder so they stay intact when wet and don't shed fibers and disintegrate. Toilet paper is therefore pretty poor for drying hands and mopping up spills. 

On 4/1/2024 at 8:10 AM, jacko45k said:

The facilities I might be using, toilets in the Malls in Pattaya, for some reason do not have them. 

Because customers steal the bum gun spray and/or the bum gun spray and the hose.

On 4/1/2024 at 11:02 PM, richard_smith237 said:

It never ceases to amaze me how the 'loo discussion' paper, bum-gun discussion etc generates more interest than a Bob Smith tolling thread.

Because they are more interesting?

 

I miss the bum gun. After living in LOS and using a bum gun, using my hand to push a bit of tissue paper where the sun don't shine is disgusting.

On 4/1/2024 at 2:43 AM, kickstart said:

Could have been worse, half of an old telephone directory hanging from a piece of string, or newspaper.

 

Like George, been here for so long never notice it now. 

An old telephone directory would have been better than Jeyes TP that I had to use at school. It was vile stuff made from grease proof paper. If you want to know how vile it was to use just cut up a bit of actual grease proof paper and use that. You won't use it again, ever.

 

I suppose they stopped making it years ago, which is a good thing.

15 hours ago, scorecard said:

Because customers steal the bum gun spray and/or the bum gun spray and the hose.

They must come in tooled up!

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

They must come in tooled up!

Actually quite easy to remove the spray head and the hose, just a solid twist and in many cases not that tightly fitted.  

8 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Because they are more interesting?

 

I miss the bum gun. After living in LOS and using a bum gun, using my hand to push a bit of tissue paper where the sun don't shine is disgusting.

 

Always surprises me when I read negative reports / comments about bum gun / sprays. 

So easy, so quick, achieves good level of cleanliness, no paper to dispose of. 

 

Years back my oil refining employer at Map Ta phut brought in 20 specialised western engineers, all on 2 - 3 year contract, all provides with close to new 3 - 4 western bedroom style houses all with several bathrooms.

 

All new engineers arrived within about 2 days, taken straight to their houses then taken to Foodland in Pattaya for a big shop up all paid for by the company.

 

All bought several giant packs of toilet rolls.

 

Within 48 hrs a big deputation of wives of the new engineers arrived at the company HO at Map TA phut. Their demand was that all the disgusting spray contraptions be immediately removed and taken away.

 

All attempts by the longer-term western staff to explain that the bum sprays weren't disgusting and were in fact very practical, easy to use and produced very clean bottoms totally not accepted by the new wives protest group.

 

A Thai English speaking engineer joined the discussion and mentioned that 99% of the houses, condos, apartments owned / occupied by Thai people across all of Thailand had these bum sprays and Thai people saw them as useful and produced good cleanliness. His comments not accepted.

 

Another Thai employee then suggested that the company quickly create a team of people to very quickly replace all the sprays with new, also not accepted.

 

Thai manager then mentioned that the company didn't own the houses involved and the rental contracts mentioned that house occupants / the company paying the rents were prohibited from making any type of alterations to plumbing or anything else.

 

Thai engineer then suggested the company buy a large quantity of black plastic bags the right size and put each hose and spray into a black bag and tie it to the existing wall plumbing fittings so as to as much as possible put the black bags out of sight.

 

This was agreed. But it was discovered later that some of the farang wives had demanded that their husbands remove the hose and spray, and they did. 

On 3/31/2024 at 10:38 AM, HauptmannUK said:

Toilet paper everywhere but in the toilet..

 

All you really need is water - or do you like skid marks?

On 4/5/2024 at 2:37 PM, scorecard said:

 

Always surprises me when I read negative reports / comments about bum gun / sprays. 

So easy, so quick, achieves good level of cleanliness, no paper to dispose of. 

 

Years back my oil refining employer at Map Ta phut brought in 20 specialised western engineers, all on 2 - 3 year contract, all provides with close to new 3 - 4 western bedroom style houses all with several bathrooms.

 

All new engineers arrived within about 2 days, taken straight to their houses then taken to Foodland in Pattaya for a big shop up all paid for by the company.

 

All bought several giant packs of toilet rolls.

 

Within 48 hrs a big deputation of wives of the new engineers arrived at the company HO at Map TA phut. Their demand was that all the disgusting spray contraptions be immediately removed and taken away.

 

All attempts by the longer-term western staff to explain that the bum sprays weren't disgusting and were in fact very practical, easy to use and produced very clean bottoms totally not accepted by the new wives protest group.

 

A Thai English speaking engineer joined the discussion and mentioned that 99% of the houses, condos, apartments owned / occupied by Thai people across all of Thailand had these bum sprays and Thai people saw them as useful and produced good cleanliness. His comments not accepted.

 

Another Thai employee then suggested that the company quickly create a team of people to very quickly replace all the sprays with new, also not accepted.

 

Thai manager then mentioned that the company didn't own the houses involved and the rental contracts mentioned that house occupants / the company paying the rents were prohibited from making any type of alterations to plumbing or anything else.

 

Thai engineer then suggested the company buy a large quantity of black plastic bags the right size and put each hose and spray into a black bag and tie it to the existing wall plumbing fittings so as to as much as possible put the black bags out of sight.

 

This was agreed. But it was discovered later that some of the farang wives had demanded that their husbands remove the hose and spray, and they did. 

 

What's the objection? they don't have to use it if it's there, or are they afraid they'll be enjoying themselves with it? 

I know in malls and such that don't have them is that some thais spray it on the floor to clean their feet or whatever and it's a big mess with people walking out with wet shoes 

How to economize on toilet paper use.