Comments on: Your Butt is Killing the Rainforest

By: Michael Boven

Michael Boven — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:09:44 +0000

Yer all lame and lazy to care. i aint perfect but i want a future for my children and theirs also.

By: Michael Boven

Michael Boven — Tue, 04 May 2010 18:07:52 +0000

Truly it is a big deal, unless you don’t care if yer children’s children might not have a planet, if more people cared then we might not be havin the problems that we are, hence earthquakes,valcanos,and everything else….

By: jj0jj

jj0jj — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:48:45 +0000

nice work people!

so glad the global warming nut jobs did not run away with this thread

By: agent0range

agent0range — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:19:41 +0000

almost all asian country use water and soap

ask them hehe

By: Larry

Larry — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:04:36 +0000

Complete horseshit.
Nobody uses old growth virgin timber to make paper. It’s just too valuable. And half rotten.

Pulpwood is grown specifically to turn into paper.

If I want to squat, crap into a hole in the floor and hose my ass off I’ll move to the third world.

Which is where we’ll all be if these enviro-whackos have their way.

By: Orjan Morjan

Orjan Morjan — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 19:10:39 +0000

Think of it this way: If someone threw shit in your face, what would you use to clean it? Smear it out with paper or wash it away with soap and water.

Attitudes have to change. Imagine if all of Asia started using whitened paper too.

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:03:33 +0000

Sheryl Crow’s dirty practices are just too disgusting to contemplate, Noelegy.

By: Noelegy

Noelegy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:21:04 +0000

I can’t believe no one’s made a reference to Sheryl Crow and her recommendation that we all use only one square of toilet paper…

By: Marissa

Marissa — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:42:15 +0000

just quit poopin’ y’all

By: Wok

Wok — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:25:55 +0000

Well if y’all want mine, y’all can have it. Texture don’t matter to me.

By: Gail Pink

Gail Pink — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 17:30:42 +0000

I will NEVER give up my soft TP. NEVER!

By: angstrom

angstrom — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:23:56 +0000

Stop cutting down our forests! Use the natural way, simply rub your ass directly on the tree.
It’s enviro-friendly and stops local kids from climbing in your garden.

By: Tommyboy

Tommyboy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:18:43 +0000

They don’t know how to use the 3 shells?!! HAHA

Second alternative is to buy a High Tech Jap Toilet: http://larve.net/people/hugo/pictures/2001/05/06/jp_toilet

Heated Seat with heated high pressure water and then a nice air dry system to leave the bum clean.

Leave it to the japs to keep thinking of better solutions while we work on the next generation 5 layer lotion safe for a bear’s bum TP.

By: mkultra

mkultra — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:50:48 +0000

@Goober:
“There are more acres of forest in North America today than there were before the white man arrived 500 years ago.”
Really? You may be right, but could you provide a source for that statement? Having seen the steady spread of development and urban sprwal over the last few decades I am sceptical.

By: Dog Droppings

Dog Droppings — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 12:21:58 +0000

“There are more acres of forest in North America today than there were before the white man arrived 500 years ago.”

Goober, everyone is untitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:38:51 +0000

Just do what the dog does – scoot your butt across the carpet.

By: HollywoodBob

HollywoodBob — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:10:45 +0000

Yay! Let’s all use recycled tp, and contribute to global warming even more!

News flash, recycling may make you feel good, but aside from keeping trash out of the landfills, it actually uses more energy to produce (poor quality) products than if you used virgin materials.

Pulp forests are fast growing and consume large quantities of carbon dioxide. And until they can be replaced by hemp fields, they’re the best option for paper.

And stop whining about old growth forests, the damn hippies destroyed the timber industry in Oregon because of the spotted owl and its supposed old growth habitat. Old growth forests are full of rotting trees, thick under brush, and are disasters just waiting to be sparked off by a lighting strike or an inconsiderate tourist.

By: Stencil

Stencil — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 06:16:57 +0000

instead of destroying rainforest why don’t people just use TP made from cotton?

By: chet

chet — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:11:40 +0000

I don’t see what’s so wrong about the article. It’s not saying you should use pine cones or anything. Since most people don’t see fit to read the article before going on a rant, I’ll summarize the main argument: making recycled toilet paper is more energy efficient than making them from trees and the non-bleached kind means less crap being dumped in the water. Both reasonable claims and hardly qualifies this as “eco-agitprop”. I use a cheap 100% recycled TP and it’s really not bad. Saves me money and my ass feels just fine.

By: LaraAtHome

LaraAtHome — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:58:07 +0000

One thing this post proves: people are very possessive of their TP. Take away at your own risk.

I’m willing to make do with the harder paper. It’s easier on the septic system and much cheaper.

By: fnord

fnord — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:38:49 +0000

Good lord, the above posters might need to consider upping their meds. Might be an idea to get reading glasses as well, since none of them apparently read the article which addresses every asinine point they tried to make.

By: agent0range

agent0range — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:59:02 +0000

just use soap and water much much better and cleaner
toilet paper doesnt totally clean ur ass

By: Sean McKenna

Sean McKenna — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 03:52:07 +0000

So sorry mr. gore, but if it’s my arse versus the planet, I’m going to have to go with my arse. The planet will just have to make due.

You soft headed little gits can spew all the eco-agitprop you want, but keep your d@mned grubby hands off my toilet paper, climate controls and food stuffs. I’m not interested in being proselyted by a bunch of gaia worshiping Ecohovah’s Witnesses.

By: will shetterly

will shetterly — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:22:41 +0000

Just for the record, good post. It’s hardly as if the New York Times is some wild greenie newspaper.

By: scot

scot — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:56:51 +0000

This is like the idiots who think that buying a living Christmas tree is helping save the environment. THEY’RE GROWN ON FARMS TO BE HARVESTED YOU IDIOTS.

By: SenorMysterioso

SenorMysterioso — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:54:20 +0000

wait… paper is made from trees?

By: Johnny Cat

Johnny Cat — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:49:29 +0000

The 3-seashells method is the best way to go. Recyclable and once you master it, rather nice.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 01:12:33 +0000

Awe you guys are punny (and cranky!)

By: liltrix

liltrix — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:26:21 +0000

who posted this crap… neatorama is not a place for this rubbish… its obviously not real, and people need to do some research! what happened to neatorama? i thought this was a place where bullsh*t stories like this don’t surface

By: Evilbeagle

Evilbeagle — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:08:53 +0000

I think everyone already called crap on this story so I don’t have to do it myself. Sorry, but no alarmist idiocy is going to guilt me into using an equivalent to sandpaper on my butt. Especially given that toilet paper comes from trees that are planted for that purpose.

And some of us Americans use both paper and bidet.

By: Christophe

Christophe — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:06:50 +0000

Oy vey, everybody!

By: Moon

Moon — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:52:52 +0000

I’m calling crap on this t.p. story.

“..including some percentage of trees from rare old-growth forests in Canada.”??? What percentage?? .00001??

Tree farms in South America and the United States specifically grow trees (fast growth trees, BTW) for producing this.

It doesn’t help if you go overboard on the reporting, enviro-reporters. There’s enough stories about environmental damage without going nuts about it.

By: vonskippy

vonskippy — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:35:17 +0000

My butt just called the Blackberry girl and told her we really don’t care what happens to the rainforest as long as our TP is soft.

//damn tv commercials, now my butt knows it can make calls on purpose.

By: Marissa

Marissa — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:20:25 +0000

Seventh Generation has a super soft 100% recycled toilet paper: http://www.seventhgeneration.com/Recycled-Toilet-Paper. It’s really not that hard to save the planet, is it? Change your TP and invest in a bidet – get clean and get green.

By: Toy LaRocca

Toy LaRocca — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:12:30 +0000

As with everything on the internet, it’s the greedy, selfish Americans fault. The more educated peoples of every other continent use the more environmentally friendly corn cobs – getting three or four uses per cob.

By: Goober

Goober — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:01:06 +0000

Of course this is all a crock of shit. Virtually all paper, toilet and otherwise, is made from trees that would never have been planted except as a crop to be harvested for paper production.

There are more acres of forest in North America today than there were before the white man arrived 500 years ago.

By: coalitionforspace

coalitionforspace — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:59:58 +0000

Might be time to try a more European solution.

By: Peter Forever

Peter Forever — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:40:20 +0000

Toilet Paper for my ass but for which price ? Global warming is a real problem, even in our toilets ^^ WELL PLEASE DO NOT GO TO TOILET
A SIMPLE LIFE IS POSSIBLE, UNCOMFORTABLE BUT ECOFRIENDLY

Lol

By: LisaL

LisaL — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:29:47 +0000

If you wanna rub sandpaper over your no-no bits, more power to ya, but this gal likes her soft fluffy tp!

By: mikerm19

mikerm19 — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 22:22:18 +0000

Not this environmental crap again. Ugh. I don’t even want to go into why it’s really not that big of a deal.

That said, I buy cheap tp. It’s usually not that comfortable, but I don’t really care.