@Yet One More Idiot  

@laofuzi
 

Make me… actually I got enough so eh shrug

And don’t call 911 if you ran outta toilet paper, either!
 
For alternative wiping accessories, use:  
-a sponge on a stick dipped in salt water  
-corn cob leaves  
-rags

@ABronyAccount  
Oh, i loved The Pjs.

Didn’t you that that toilet paper cures corona Virus Twilight? I thought you enjoyed reading; you silly pony!

@ABronyAccount  
My dad was in the supermarket just the other day - not surprisingly, completely out of TP. He saw one woman picking up a pack of kitchen towels with intention to use them as substitute TP…one brief explanation later, she hastily put the pack of kitchen towels down and left to try another store for some actual TP. xD

Solution #1: Stock up toilet paper regardless of others’ needs to survive.  
Solution #2: Become a magical pony that doesn’t need to use toilet paper at the first place…

@Yet One More Idiot  
Believe it or not, it was a failed Eddie Murphy project which drove that point home to me. He voiced a put-upon superintendent of an apartment complex. One of the tenants had an chronic overflow issue. He asked what she flushed. She listed a host of items that should never be within 6 feet of a drain, and then added “… a paper towel.”  
“AHA! How many times do I have to tell you people? NO! PAPER! TOWELS!”
 
Obviously done for a laugh but it made the point.

When the TP is gone, take a cart of adult diapers and a garden hose to the checkout.

@LaszlVFX  

 
The problem with using any other type of paper as a substitute for TP is that it tends to clog up toilets as soon as it’s flushed down, leading to blocked and overflowing loos, lots of mess, burst pipes, etc…
 
TP is specifically made to break down and essentially dissolve in water when flushed, so that it won’t block your pipes. Other types of paper when flushed do NOT break down much (if at all) and cause the aforementioned problems.

I only have 10 and a half rolls left. I sure hope that’s enough to outlast the hoarders who are probably reselling tp at a higher price.

@LaszlVFX  
>> lives in a world where going to the bathroom isn’t some sort of crisis situation
 

@CaptainGrumpy  
I mean comfort isn’t the priority in a crisis situation.

@LaszlVFX  
@Derpy Whooves  
let me rephrase that: it can be done, but it’s probably not as comfortable

@CaptainGrumpy  
>> lives in a world where using tissues, paper towels, etc for toilet paper isn’t normal
 

@CaptainGrumpy  
Not really. There are some substitutes for toilet papers that can work. Just use regular tissues or wet tissues as a toiler paper, paper towels can work as well.

the thing is, and I’ve said this multiple times IRL, is that it’s all fecking respiratory - surely tissues would be the smarter choice
 
now if there was a tissue shortage then it would probably be less cause for concern, because you can use most paper products as a substitute for a tissue (paper towel, toilet paper, etc.), but it’s quite hard to do the reverse for toilet paper

Don’t hoard TP you buttwipes!

@LaszlVFX  
One of the problems right now is that shipping is broken. For shipping things in, everything now is JIT (Just In Time) now, and with inventories as low as possible if you don’t get your shipment this morning for what you need this afternoon, then whoops you don’t make anything and everyone spends the day cleaning the equipment they cleaned yesterday. And if that thing you need is in China, or something that Amazon doesn’t consider high priority, then double whoops.
 
And when you do have something made and ready to go out the door, delays in the shipping chain are screwing up getting what you have to the stores where it can be sold.
 
It’s a very interconnected world right now, and when one gear stops turning just about anywhere on the planet, it can jam up gears miles and miles away. And it can sometimes take weeks or even months to get all the gears turning again.
 
So, if you can get some toilet paper, maybe grab a little extra.

@Derpy Whooves  
I guess that makes sense.

@LaszlVFX  
Actually, their margins are small enough that the extra expense of shipping, and the increased costs for raw materials (and, again, shipping) along with the still ongoing trade wars is causing them to have a less than stelar day.

For real. At least the toilet paper companies are gonna make a bank out of these panicking people.

Not this Sunday just gone, but last Sunday…a woman right behind me in the queue at the supermarket was buying 5 packs of TP. 5 frigging multipacks of 16 rolls each.
 
That’s 80 loo rolls. That’s as much as 8 tens.
 
And that’s terrible.
 
…but seriously, old memes aside, what the hell is she gonna do with that much loo roll?
 
I hope her children decide to play with the rolls in the bath, or the dog gets at them or some shit, as karma for her greed. :P