Amazon is running out of toilet paper.

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My tin-openner has broken! At any other time that would be a comment for the 'first world problems' thread, now I'm not so sure.
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OccamsToothbrush

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There is an upside to all this stupidity, though.

One of these days you will be able to tell your grandkids (and great-grandkids) how you lived through and survived the great toilet paper apocalypse of 2020!

IF you live through it. Wouldn't it be a hoot if the virus lived and thrived in toilet paper and the people who have the most get more germs than everyone else?
 

BUTCH1

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Speaking of toilet paper, there was this story about a guy who accidentally swallowed some twine during a meal, next day he crapped it out and it was tied in a perfect bow-tie.
I shit you knot.
 

BUTCH1

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Just got back from Dollar General, not a speck of TP to be found, glad I was on to of this earlier in the week. Now stocking up on canned goods and pasta, coffee, ect. No one has any idea if they might tell everyone to hunker down and close retail stores down the road.
 
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BUTCH1

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Bike week here in Daytona has been shut down, all outdoor vendor permits have been laid null and void, 300,00+ bikers in town, they want them all out ASAP. Bikers have little concern for any virus and continue drinking heavily. :oops:
 

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Bike week here in Daytona has been shut down, all outdoor vendor permits have been laid null and void, 300,00+ bikers in town, they want them all out ASAP. Bikers have little concern for any virus and continue drinking heavily. :oops:
Dayum. And I agree with the last.
 

OccamsToothbrush

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Bike week here in Daytona has been shut down, all outdoor vendor permits have been laid null and void, 300,00+ bikers in town, they want them all out ASAP. Bikers have little concern for any virus and continue drinking heavily. :oops:

Can you be sure that drinking heavily isn't an effective countermeasure? There are no stats that show how the virus is impacting the biker demographic, but since alcohol can kill it you gotta wonder if maybe they've onto something.
 
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snoopy7548

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Can you be sure that drinking heavily isn't an effective countermeasure? There are no stats that show how the virus is impacting the biker demographic, but since alcohol can kill it you gotta wonder if maybe they've onto something.

Alcohol kills the virus. I get infected, I drink alcohol, I kill the virus. :D
 
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shortylickens

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Bike week here in Daytona has been shut down, all outdoor vendor permits have been laid null and void, 300,00+ bikers in town, they want them all out ASAP. Bikers have little concern for any virus and continue drinking heavily. :oops:
I guess that means no Daytona Bike Bitch video for 2020.
Shame.
 

BUTCH1

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I guess that means no Daytona Bike Bitch video for 2020.
Shame.
Nope, I found it pointless, they've been here for 12 days, is one more going to hurt?. I usually watch them on Sunday morning as they leave town, they all marshal in one huge parking lot and head out to I-95, usually plenty of tits and wheelies, not this year. :(
 

Red Squirrel

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Found some 2016 expired 99% isopropyl alcohol. Given it's been aged for 4 years wonder how much this goes for in this current market. :p

Also I did not know that even had an expiry date.

As a side note, is there anything special about sanitary wipes, are they basically just wipes with alcohol and water? Those DO go bad as the alcohol evaporates. Can you just put more alcohol and shake it to renew them? I guess you'd want to dilute the alcohol down to 70% first.
 

BUTCH1

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Found some 2016 expired 99% isopropyl alcohol. Given it's been aged for 4 years wonder how much this goes for in this current market. :p

Also I did not know that even had an expiry date.

As a side note, is there anything special about sanitary wipes, are they basically just wipes with alcohol and water? Those DO go bad as the alcohol evaporates. Can you just put more alcohol and shake it to renew them? I guess you'd want to dilute the alcohol down to 70% first.
No, alcohol won't go bad, everything has to have a "best buy" date on it nowadays, just be careful, it's pretty flammable. You could put it in a fine mister bottle and just use it like that. We don't want a flaming red Squirrel running around!.
 

shortylickens

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No, alcohol won't go bad, everything has to have a "best buy" date on it nowadays, just be careful, it's pretty flammable. You could put it in a fine mister bottle and just use it like that.
I did that a long time ago for general cleaning but I guess in the days of Ultra-SARS maybe it could also save my life.