The universe has a weird sense of humour.

Covid is endemic now. Is there another pandemic?

No joke, I once spent an entire day feeling like I was straight up gonna die. I thought I had appendicitis or something but the pain was nowhere near my appendix. Either way it kept me laying prone waiting for death for like 8-12 hours before I finally went to the hospital.

So I go the hospital, they run all these tests, Im pretty sure they gave me some kind of drugs in the IV without fully telling me because I remember feeling a lot better and having to try hard not to giggle when they wheeled me around to get scanned.

So they do all this stuff, and then finally the doctor comes in and tells me Im just full of shit. Like, literally, I was massively constipated and that was the entire issue.

I got back home and was in a ton of pain again, so I drank an entire bottle of Miralax and then pooped my entire soul and most of my organs out the next morning. Im talkin ass-chaffing farts

As a European watching Japanese toilet technology I really do feel like a caveman sometimes.

As a bum gun user, this. Never need the paper unless you want to pat to dry, and then the paper is clean anyway.

Toilet paper is for sneezing, picking up bugs, or dinner table napkins.

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I'm just happy that the newest electrical code is allowing electrical outlets closer to bathtubs. Otherwise I'd never be able to have a powered bidet on my toilet.

Had a bidet going into the pandemic. I'd bought a big (grocery store big, not Costco big) package sometime before the runs. I'm still not quite through that pack.

There were the opportunists profiteering arseholes that hoarded necessities in hopes to sell them marked up to the skies. I hope their butts rot and their toilet paper is itchy and annoying.

Like living or ever existed?

Can you imagine the world ending AND having a dirty bum. Some fates are just too unbearable.

Im glad this was not one of those weird items that everyone lost their minds over unnecessarily.

I mean, there were times without these mondern diapers. If you have a baby you will have plenty of different cloths that you can use as a diaper if necessary. Just like your able to get clean down there without TP. Bizzare times indeed.

Random bonus fact: Back then many Babies were potty trained by the time they were one year old just because its more work to diaper your child up with cloth diapers and clean them after use.

We had a baby that was finished breast and on to bottle milk in the thick of the pandemic lockdowns.

There were some shortages but I distinctly remember there being two boxes of formula left after a mild shortage, some mild concern setting in but suppressing the monkey brain and leaving one behind as I thought about the other parent that was going to come along behind me.

I think mums and dads are more likely to think about the other baby and be less grabby (edit: of baby products). Pure speculation. We didn't have much toilet roll hoarding here though either.

This was me until very recently. I even gave toilet paper away at work when we were short. Bidet seats for the win.

I dont even use 12 rolls in that time. wtf?

That feels, excessive.

A few assholes bought as much TP as they could, also hand sanitizer and other items, to hoard and sell at exorbitant prices to make a profit off the pandemic. They made their homes and apartments into little warehouses.