TALES FROM THEVARUS (Part 1) || Internet Historian React
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- Опубліковано 19 вер 2024
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Regarding toilet paper. I used to work for a cleaning company. We had to change toilet paper, and paper towel rolls once they got to 1/4 or less. After putting in a fresh roll, i didn't have the heart to throw so much usable product away. So i kept it. I was allowed to, so there was no problem. So after 2 years of taking home so many rolls of TP, my wife and I had no problems when the shortages hit the US. In fact, we discreetly gave away some surplus to friends and family. In the end, we used up the last roll of TP I took home from work in mid 2022. By then, I was working somewhere else. It sucked having to buy TP once again.
I wonder how much money you saved from not having to buy TP.
I used to work as a custodian for a local school district, did so for just over fourteen years and I did the same thing. I haven't had to pay for toilet paper since 2008 and I still have enough of a stock after quitting back in January to last me another four months.
I was janitor at a rest stop on a highway during covid and by March they started implementing really strict rules on how little the roll was supposed to get too before you threw it away. The manager was always digging through the trash bag I used for TP because what was okay to throw away a couple months ago was now a decent amount left.
There were NO shortages. Only people panicking.
I think that's universal. I used to work as a cleaner, and I went years without buying trash bags, paper towels, and TP.
The news manufactured the tp shortage. I was literally standing in the warehouse looking at tp stacked to the 30 foot ceiling laughing with the employees. They said there was enough to supply the country for 5 years without making anymore.
As someone who works in logistics and shipping, and has an IQ not at Alaskan room temperature, the whole toilet paper crisis made me simultaneously laugh my ass off at how stupid people were and hate humanity with HOW LONG IT LASTED! I thought it'd take maybe a few days before people realized how dumb bulk buying toilet paper was, but that shit went on for WEEKS!
Thats the real herd panic mentality right there
I’ll give away all my TP for something that actually matters like, y’know, food or water. If TP is the big concern it’s not a real emergency, just people being hysterical. Wait til you can’t buy so much as a can of soup or loaf of bread, then you can call that a crisis.
It was a mix of mass hysteria and people getting fed conflicting information by media news outlets just looking for clickbait. The former alredy can slash people's IQ in half, but the latter also makes people paranoid to the point that they act like we're living through MadMax lol
Weeks? In South Africa it went on for months! And then the invermercin 'cure' hit. They called people who took the vaccine 'sheeple' while swallowing sheep dewormer pills....
@@filipvadas7602 True, but I was like, "Ah, this will only happen for a few days or something. People aren't THAT stupid, right?" and a couple weeks in, I'm even seeing new employees stealing toilet paper from work and I'm like, "Oh no... They ARE that stupid."
The toilet paper thing was so stupid here in finland. A sizable chunk of our whole economy is forestry and paper products, and still people hoarded the paper. The paper makers just increased their shift amounts and ran the machines day and night
That explains paperilakot a bit later... I worked at a warehouse that distributed pretty much everything to offices and schools, etc., toilet and hand paper included. 2022 and 2023 were sometimes so bad we had entire shipment we got delivered to customers by the next day due to backlog. I had to more than once spend entire day driving to some more distant customers to deliver the s***s (translated and cencored from how commonly called toilet paper) they needed last week, instead of doing what I was supposed to that day... 😭😭😭
Unironically, it is quite incredible how quickly nature reasserts itself when people aren't around to prevent it.
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When you say this aged poorly
It really did
RIP Twomad
i remember laughing at americans for hoarding toilet paper then few days later seeing on news my country people did the same lol
Oh in Italy fortunately we use bidet so at least in Florence there wasn't any problem with toilet paper. Yet we had fights in front of the stores because people were losing their patience by staying in line.
And as the video shows, it didn't even start with America. Every country collectively panic bought fucking toilet paper.
Americanisms, the most infectious virus known to man. Frequently found at any McDonald's and anywhere that serves Coca-Cola.
Your profile picture perfectly represents the reaction you had.🤣
You do realize this started in Australia. It's very likely that the news you heard came from there, not America.
Fun fact: The reason people often call president of Australia CEO is because, technically, due to certain weird investment grab attempts made after Black Thursday Australia is a company
Edit: as per comment below, prime minister instead of president
Fun fact... Australia doesn't have a president but a prime minister as the country is still a part of the English Commonwealth
@@vexile1239then who has executive power? someone from Commonwealth bureaucracy ?
@@alterego9082 the unwashed masses
@@alterego9082 the prime minister has major control of the country, but the king of England is technically our head of state the thing is all members of the commonwealth has self-government with only a representative/observer in parliament with the right/responsibility to dissolve the entire governing body should it become to corrupt and aid in replacing the members of parliament, minor problem though... the king's representative is no longer doing their job properly and is most likely receiving kickbacks to not do so
@@vexile1239a monarchism and democracy clashing, curious, really interesting, thank you
Pro tip:The old farmer’s almanac printed here in the USA has a hole in the top corner of the pages as when it was written in the colonial era it was used as TP in outhouses. So next time you’re at the the grocery store and see one, pick one up just in case
I work at a grocery store and it was so infuriating people either try to mass buy toilet paper or having my family members try to guilt trip me to buy more than what was needed. Had to help escort a pallet of TP and personally hand out 1 pack person so people got what they needed.
Give a man a toilet paper, and he is clean for a day. Give a man a bidet, and he is clean for a lifetime.
As someone who’s been in rural agricultural communities during COVID, I can confirm that the virus hit farmers and ranchers hard. I’ve had my uncle have to sell his already struggling traditional family farm (which had suffered from a previous damage from a wildfire and competition from larger producers) just to make ends meet in mid 2021.
It was truly a sad year.
Worked at a Super Market at the time, we definitely ran out for a couple weeks, but in that time pretty much everyone in the area had enough but some kids took a strong interest in paper goods once the limits were in place.
As someone who has used a bidet for over a decade, i felt like a god when the whole toilet paper shit happened.
i dont know why its not more used. youre not really cleaning your bum with the paper and its a waste of money
Hehe, toilet paper shit. I see what you did there.
A fellow bidet comrade! Although I uses handheld one, not the preinstalled one.
@@Alxmir23I just....don't appreciate being ass blasted with water.
@@CALAMITY0FHYRULE if you are not used to it ya. my friends would come here and try it and freak out when i was younger
It was crazy but I hardly noticed it because it wasn't as bad in germany and I mostly buy the big economy packs so I had enough toilet paper even before the pandemic... When the war started in Ukraine there was a cooking oil shortage that was the worst part the prices went through the roof just for sunflower oil and fryer oil 1 per person and almost €6 for a liter....
If I recall correctly, Germany was pretty quick in shutting it's borders when the virus started to spread.
The UK was not as organised, the whole thing was a major shit show.
The mass hysteria thing has always made me laugh. Before the varus, when Hurricane Harvey hit, the media, and some of my neighbors were going around saying there was gonna be a gas shortage. The oil refinery is in Houston, and they were told that they couldn't take the hit of the hurricane
It's happened before. I remember some hurricane as a kid, we had to walk a half mile to the gas station to buy a gallon for a generator.
God the pandemic was so bad. People were so bored and became fucking monkeys over anything and everything.
and many of those monkeys saw social media for the first time back then as it seems and many stayed to keep being monkeys.
Not me it was my calling, grinding video games and catching up on anime
I'm former military and a bit of a prepper.
Heard about a "mysterious disease" in late Jan 2020.
Initially i ignored it but after a month the info sounded more credible.
So i stocked up on the sanitizer and toilet paper plus other stuff including canned food etc in a calm reasonable manner.
By the time April rolled round i was sorted out and i watched the rest of the world go crazy, people fighting over toilet rolls and sanitizer was highly amusing to me.
This. Was watching stuff talked about in jan/feb on the beanie-cast and started seeing some oddness from china so i had stocked up a bit. TP supply held until the end of the craze, and had several cases of water just in case things got worse.
What is also hilarious about the tp shortage was that it had happened in US history once before. During the gas shortage of 70s(people lining up for limited gas, only allowed gas on certain days of the week depending on your license number...tons of crappy stuff) Johnny Carson decided to make a joke on the Late Show. He joked that about there now being a toilet paper shortage to go along with the gas shortage. People went nuts not understanding it was just a joke and caused an artificial shortage just like during covid.
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Good treatment advice right there. Cant get good bedrest without a pillow to fight the varus
I remember working in a grocery store at the time (US). For half a year, our paper product aisle was virtually empty. Our corporate office sent us a bunch of Mexican food items just to fill the shelves, despite our protests (we knew the items wouldn't sell in our area and it would mean more shrink for us).
Australian here, since I already bought a 48 roll pack back in late 2019, and I live by myself, I was never in danger of running out during the shortage.
Same, I had bought a big pack from Costco to avoid having to go to the store while on call. One week later...
I think the supply lasted me nearly a year too.
Lol, I was in the military when this happened. Never saw any of this mass hysteria myself, but it was fun to see it online.
Same here wasnt in military but lived in remote villages. Most insane stuff happend in cities
SmugAlana at 9:51 you made a joke about australians being criminals and as a australian I would like to say that have never been a criminal no matter what the Courts say
I just gotta say i am a new follower, yet to catch you on streams but the videos you make, they have some good rant about them and I am all here for them
That first night there was a covid case confirmed in our state, the grocery store i worked at had the worst night ever. People were buying WHOLE CARTS FULL of meat and water. They wouldn't stop coming to the registers either. The owner of the store had to block my register aisle and tell people no just so i could take a break to eat. We had to stay open and hour late just to finish checking out who was still in the store
So glad Florida didn't shut down
We did, but decided it was a stupid idea after a few weeks. I remember defending not going full lockdown to people in other states. They kept saying how bad Florida was. I'd point out our beaches and resorts that were open were full of people from states that did lock down.
Fucken-a 2 minutes and it’s in my recommendations. Nice.
8 here :D youtube knows :DD
Ah yes, the time when humanity lost it collective mind.
Humanity has been losing their minds ever since there were 2 humans on the Earth
How could humanity lose it it it never had it?
14:39 Nah, if that’s somehow true, they wouldn’t be building hospitals, they would be digging graves 😂
I remember how I was thinking how dumb the toilet paper thing was. I was buying food, bleach, alcohol, and a bidet while everyone else was flipping out for butt tickets. I knew that eventually everyone was going to realize you can't eat TP.
When I heard about the virus before the public went into panic mode, my thought was I needed to go stock up on FOOD. It was hilarious to me watching people lose their minds over bathroom tissue. Priorities!
I work in a Fry's. (A grocery store owned by Kroger.) This shit was so stupid. People were running out with toilet paper, starting fights. At one point we had to limit some items, like one package of TP or two gallons of milk per household.
So a guy puts nine gallons of milk in his cart, tries to go through self checkout, and then flashes a gun when he is told two gallons per house. He was then arrested in the parking lot five minutes before I started my shift.
This piece of shit thought nine gallons of milk was worth potentially ending someone's life. He could have sent a kid in or something to get another gallon. Its not like we keep track of who goes into whos car!
On the funny side, my uncle is a doomsday prepper (No joke) with a shed full of canned beans. He was smug about it to and traded beans for toilet paper.
Even at one-per-family rules, the store I worked in went from something like 36 or 40 full pallets of TP to ZERO in about an hour. Every day. We actually had to institute a rule that anyone that bought TP could not return it; you bought it it's yours. Scalpers in the parking lot trying to sell truckloads of it for extra high prices got arrested, or at the very least kicked off the property. And when the pandemic was 'over', and these people tried to return the basement full of TP they'd stockpiled... that 'no return' rule still applied. We just smiled and waved and told them to go away. LOL.
There was a guy who bought like a truck load of toilet paper, and for some reason tried to give it back but the store denied him, he was stuck with it
As he deserved.
If it's the story I'm thinking of, he bought Toilet Paper and Hand Sanitizer with the express intent of reselling them at a higher price. His E-Bay listings were later removed and his account locked or banned, preventing him from relisting them. He tried to refund it but the owner of the Supermarket knew what was going on and basically told him to go fuck himself.
it was so funny watchin ppl try to return 20 packs of toilet roll after it calmed down lol
The glitches the butts and the nuts 😂
Who need realty trash TV, if reality itself provides the best circus already?
I remember working at a store where once a week someone was screaming over the one per person toilet paper thing god I hated those days
I always find it funny how people somehow forgot they have water in their homes in case they dont have toilet paper .
8:58 LMFAO that happened to me and my family over lockdown like mid 2021. My Dad (rip) had ordered what he thought were a 10 BIG pack of TP. when it came to us my mom hollered to me. "KIRA!! COME SEE THIS SHIT!!" i come out to find in our hallway. 10 BOXES of 50 rolls of TP. that was 2020/2021.. we still got like a box left as of today in 2023 lol.
I work at a grocery store, for a good bit of 2020 we had basically nothing on the shelves for toilet paper and paper towels, it was ridiculous..
The only thing that sold out faster in the US was gun ammo, one place marked it up 600 bucks. We always store extra to just in case since we're rural so we were good to go. Couldn't get pasta though. The Pandemic proved that trashy folks are international. That news paper providing those pages is a good nod back to using pages from the Sears catalog before TP was common.
We have Costco in Australia too...
We had it with Toiletpaper and Milk for some reason. Sold out everywhere. For two or three weeks. Until they made that 2 packets per customer rule.
27:16 at least the professor is lovin it
Aliens : We don't really need to attack the humans, just do something that would make them panic, they will destroy themselves.
See the Twilight Zone episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street".
The premise was aliens took over by basically flicking to lights off and on. Everyone freaked out.
This is the reason why we are never going back to space, and I resent people for it.
I was looking at Australian news sites in early 2020, and saw how people were buying bidets and toilet paper like crazy, and knew this same type of panic would eventually make it's way to the US. So I was able to buy some toilet paper and stock up before the first panic buying started. It happened in Australia a week or so before it started in the US. The thing with the crime though is insane, and the problem is that never got better. States or Cities that removed bail still have all that in place, just allowing people to loot and commit crimes and if they're arrested, are just put right back out on the street to continue their crimes. It makes no sense.
The toilet paper thing really did happen.
I couldn't find any anywhere at one point.
21 is the only good answer to any math question
I worked at Walmart when this happened, someone threatened one of my coworkers with a gun when he told them we were out of toilet paper.
This whole situation made my realise just how close the modern civilisation is to complete anarchy. A slight delay in the delivery of toilet paper and people are literally throwing fists and pulling weapons.
4:55 think it was a bit bad in my area, and it looked like everyone bought flour as well.
think there was a fire in one of the native toilet paper places
I live about as far away from Australia as you can get, and even here the shelves were empty of toilet paper.
Everyone's sitting here, buying toilet paper like they need a whole roll per wipe.
I'm so glad I didn't let msm tell me what to think during this time
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Alana: *ear perks*
me: *faints*
I actually foresaw my area running out of toilet paper becauae I knew people in general are stupid and buy up more than they need. I got 1 of the largest pack they had and a bidet. My stepfather thought I was being silly to go through this, thinking this will pass over. Not even 48 hours later, all the toilet paper was gone and there were no more bidets to buy online. And not long after that, my stepfather was asking me for toilet paper
regarding the wasted food, to be clear, the population didn't drop that much from the C word. So we are ALWAYS wasting that much food on the commercial side of things.
man I remember the toilet paper thing
crazy to think what I had to do
the mental scars will never heal
luckily we use water and soap. way much cheaper and cleaner than those fancy paper.
The only reason people were panicking about it, was because they actually had to try to cook for themselves for once, and they realized how woefully inadequate their skills were
Those zoom pranks were funny but i feel kinda bad for the people that deal with him
The fact that nature very quickly reasserted itself and recovered from pollution in the few months that everything was shut down really puts into perspective not just how damage we're doing to the planet, but also that we're not actually neccesary. Nature will keep going long after we're all gone.
People fight over toilet paper at the store.
I, as a member of sohisticated, refined and cultured society who use water bidet, laughed and just ate popcorn.
Well, covid still hit our country hard though. Almost 900k lost their life. May they rest in peace.
Australia 100% ran out, all the stores in my area literally didn't have any for a couple weeks
I threatened to shit in the store
theres costco in australia too
November 2019 I bought a 48 roll pack of charmin. I always buy a large amount. As a dude I don't go through TP very much. Around August-September I was running low and started sweating. Luckily I found a 12 roll pack to get me through the rest of the year. I knew some people though that were taking a shower after every shit.
just how much toilet paper use when they go to the bathroom? a 12 pack lasts me alone at least 6-7 months. maybe even more. better yet get a bidet addon to your toilet
The toilet paper thing was crazy stupid. I live with 2 others and we go through like 1 roll a week unless someone gets sick.
6:18 people have poopped in stores for way less than toilet paper craze
Having worked at Target during this time, I get PTSD flashbacks from someone asking me “Do you know where the toilet paper is?” During the height of it, I would say “Whatever we got, we put at the front of the store. If there’s nothing there, then we have nothing in the store. No it is not in the backroom. No it is not still on the truck. We don’t have any more (in my head: because stupid people like you have panic bought it all).”
Then it was the Pokémon cards next with the exact same thing. Cardboard and TP, the most in-demand things of the early 2020s…
2020 was a burning dumpster fire, and the water we used to try and put it out? Memes. Only memes.
I lived in Boston at the time and we ran out.. the people living around me were idiots lol. Thankfully I lived in a house with a bidet so it wasn't really a problem.
imagine freaking out about toilet paper lmao just wash your ass out with soap and water
Big bidet behind it.
Would be funny if all this stuff was recorded on history books in the future... I wonder if they would add all the memes or just completely censor all the embarrassing stuff and just talk about the actual virus and the deaths lol
Aussies live in Australia for a reason, let's keep em there. That's why there's sharks in the water.
The food dumping situation is extra infuriating when you realize that there were entire communities that were starving because of a lack of supply due to the lockdown. Why they couldn't just donate the food to charity or food banks, I'll never understand.
I hate that the food wasn’t just distributed to those in need, it was such a waste.
Government...
And it's not like the shortage was going to last long anyway (in Australia) but they made the situation worse to the point of a self-fulfilling prophecy.
The concern (it's not customary to panic here) about the toilet paper in my country faded away when politicians and experts pointed out that several tens of thousands of tons of toilet paper (if I remember right) were produced here per year _for export_. So we were self-sufficient....
While I was wellstocked at home, my only takeaway was that I was laughing at the ridiculousness of my country, who has convenient access to water for washing, and still succumbed to toilet paper panic. It's like everyone forgot they had the spray hoses in their own homes.
That was when I realised my own countrymen was not exempt from dumb syndrome.
In Finland toilet paper problem came, at least to stores near me. Thanks to social media and fear of running out, people went to purchased shelfs empty and they restocked bit later.
Not going to lie, it was very worrying when i didn't buy into it, only to almost run out of paper because of peoples fear kept shelfs empty until i had 5 days worth of toilet paper, then toilet papers returned, i purchased 8-pack and i was okay for next 6 months 😅
Luckily my mom and I had collected enough fast food napkins over the years that we outlasted the shortage
@muhelectionwasstolen7253 nah it wasn't that often, we just didn't *use* any of the napkins for so long, we had collected a horde
I worked retail during the varus, man what a time....
What a time to walk in the ghetto Walmart to see empty shelves only to know I wipe using my hand and soap for a dump.
My city ran out for weeks at the start of all this. It was awful...
Meanwhile, I just asked my relatives what people used before toilet paper (Newspaper) and bought one of those just in case. Never needed it ultimately as the shortage wasn't too critical where I was but like... does that not sound like the obvious answer if you're short on something? Just check the alternative?
As a person living in Asia it was rices that goes out of stock
That Twomad part aged like milk...
so did Twomad
Now I'm curious, what did happen to the toilet paper hoarders from early 2020?
Like to me this whole toilet paper panic was so hilarious, don't you have like a little shower head thing next to your sinks or what? Having tp is nice and all yes but not like the end of the world to not have some, just spray your bum clean lmao.
I dont get why people just dont use bidets... it's not expensive and cheap as hell. Its cleaner and just wipe your ass with a separate towel
I had bought a bidet a couple months before this mass hysteria best $60 i ever spent
erm bidet? hello? best thing in the world
25:43 RIP Twomad
Rest in piss he won’t be missed.
tencent control some of the 5g tower in canada we had to ask our governement to build it locally at the place to let china to have access to something in canada who can track information build by china XD
The best part was the place i worked at was elected to stay open by popular vote so all of Kyle ate chicken till they opened, but I also got a curfew pass which ment i was the only person who could leave without getting a ticket
Lets be honest, they didn't need to leave those pages blank. If you've gone to using magazine pages you don't give a shit about the pretty pictures.
I remember this since I'm am Australian just before it happened I went down to Coles just to buy some basic groceries because we were running out and we were also running out of toilet paper so when I was at Coles I went to where they were and there was no and I was like wtf happened to the toilet paper so when I got back home I also found out about what was going on because it was on the news and I just started laughing because it was so stupid