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[Le Redditeur]

Toilet paper, soap, toothpaste and deodorant are the things I'm always hoarding in.my house. Nothing to do with being a retarded prepper, I'm just autistically worried that I will forget to buy it when it runs out and then I'll sit in the toilet to take a shit and realize, too late, that I can't wipe.

[Liar Revealed]

Comic shops should be advertising a secondary usage for their capeshit comics.

[Guest]

Also you live in Austin. Stop saying you live in Texas, Austin is not Texas.

I live in Dallas, actually. To outsiders, I understand that might all seem like the same shit, but to Texans, they're very different.

I thought with the way you were talking about SXSW that it was your city. I know Austin is different, it's pretty much a Californian enclave and is probably where all the Californian immigrants move to.

75% of the population is homeless drug addicts, ensuring corona will move swiftly and effectively. Fuck them for what they did to Bookpeople.

[Kugelfisch]

Even if you don't drink, the booze will last damn near forever if you buy eighty proof or higher. And there are alternative uses for alcohol than drinking it.

Unless it drops on the head an unopened bottle of vodka will outlast you and it makes for a good cleaning agent as well. Niche use, sure, but it's cheap anyway.

Toilet paper, soap, toothpaste and deodorant are the things I'm always hoarding in.my house. Nothing to do with being a retarded prepper, I'm just autistically worried that I will forget to buy it when it runs out and then I'll sit in the toilet to take a shit and realize, too late, that I can't wipe.

Prepping has nothing to do with it. It's cheap stuff and you'll need it anyway and if you don't have something in reserve you'll run out of it at the dumbest moments.
Best tip I ever got from my mother was to have a roll of trashbags in every bin. Just throw it in before you put in the new trash bag. You'll always know where it is, it's always exactly where you need it and you'll always have enough extra so you don't have to immediately go and get new ones. You'll eventually need them anyway.

[Lindsay's Liver]

Are YOU (yes, you) doing anything differently because of the coronavirus?

Me: No. I've always washed my hands. I didn't need a potential pandemic to tell me to do that.

I haven't stockpiled anything. I don't have a year's supply of bottled water (why would the coronavirus keep me from water?) or toilet paper (why would the coronavirus make toilet paper hard to get?) or anything else.

I am living completely normally.

Now that I've said that, watch me be dead from it by the end of the year...

[Kugelfisch]

Are YOU (yes, you) doing anything differently because of the coronavirus?

No.

I am living completely normally.

Never did that either.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Haven't really changed anything since I'm not neither a slob who coughs and sneezes like a savage, nor someone who actually hangs out with other people.

I haven't stockpiled anything. I don't have a year's supply of bottled water (why would the coronavirus keep me from water?) or toilet paper (why would the coronavirus make toilet paper hard to get?) or anything else.

Not knowing the answer to this just means you are not one of the chosen ones who will survive this crisis.

(I'm also not really stockpiling on toilet paper. Dunno how much Australians shit, but an entire trolley full of toilet paper would probably last me over a fucking year.)

[Guest]

Toilet paper is the stupidest thing to stockpile because worst comes to the worst you can grab an old t-shirt for a shitrag.

[Poonoo]

Toilet paper is the stupidest thing to stockpile because worst comes to the worst you can grab an old t-shirt for a shitrag.

Or you can install a bidet. Or just use a hose and spray your asshole.

There are so many alternatives, the problem now is that people who actually need it are rushing the stores now because of the idiots last week who bought a year's supply. And apparently Americans have started doing it too because you feel threatened that Australia is out-burgering you with supermarket fights and dumb behaviour.

[Lindsay's Liver]

Here in Dallas, hand sanitizer sold out everywhere, but water and toilet paper remain plentiful. We also have a big St. Patrick's Day parade coming up this Saturday that hasn't been cancelled (yet, at least), though i know a few sponsors have pulled out. It's pretty huge here. It goes straight through one of the city's most popular bar and restaurant strips. Thousands gather. Drunk people everywhere. Me, I'll be home probably watching videos of Joe Biden making a fool of himself.

For me, Bill Hicks summed up my feelings about coronavirus news: