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Two days ago I reported the case of the character who hoarded thousands of bottles of sanitizer to sell through Amazon at ridiculous prices. Amazon foiled his plan when they terminated his listing for price gouging. Well, it seems he suddenly decided to donate the items, when he started to receive death threats and the Tennessee attorney general started a criminal investigation, with him as target, for price gouging. Nice! That news brightened my morning! 
The Man With 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer Just Donated Them[^]
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Cp-Coder wrote: to receive death threats
This story and all that surrounds it shows that the world has lost its mind. 
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Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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I agree that death threats are not acceptable, but prosecution for price gouging is entirely appropriate!
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Cp-Coder wrote: prosecution for price gouging is entirely appropriate
At the corporate level, sure, but not at the individual level.
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17,700 bottles isn't exactly "individual level" ... 
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If it's just one dou... guy, it is.
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Two: him and his brother spent 3 days touring two states, buying every bottle they could find and clearing enough space to store it.
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Still just two individuals, not a corporate retailer with all that entails. Business license et al.
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Dear ![Green Alien | [Alien]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/alien.gif) has everyone gone mad! Personally I would like to know how 'Wash Your Hands' translates to buy all the Pasta, Rice & toilet rolls you can...
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Quote: has everyone gone mad!
Not yet, but we are getting there. This morning I went on my weekly run to the groceries store. One of the managers that I frequently chat with, told me that he had an ear full from a lady, because the store did not have a sign above the Kleenex tissues, warning people not to use tissues for toilet paper 
Apparently she bought a few boxes of Kleenex when she could not get toilet paper and that clogged her sewage line. And somehow that was the store's fault! 
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Paper towels would be a dumb thing to do, but Kleenex? Have they reduced the size of pipes so much that this has become a problem?
This must've been thought out by the same people who try to "save water" by making toilets that do such a poor job that they actually require you to flush more than once for everything to go...thus consuming more water.
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Kleenex don't break apart in the sewer line like TP does. The latter is more fragile. It's always been a bad idea to flush Kleenex. It won't always clog a line, to be sure, but, is more likely to than TP.
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I've seen TP brands that were a lot tougher to break down than some tissues. And some people use so much TP it wouldn't make much of a difference anyway.
But if this lady switched to tissues and her toilet immediately clogged and it's to blame...I find that a bit unusual. Hey, not saying it's not true. But she's probably the type who would use a ton of either. I know someone who goes through a roll a day - by himself. And I'm not exaggerating.
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jackbrownii wrote: It's always been a bad idea to flush Kleenex.
 Not in the US.
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Kleenex is wetproof, so it doesn't dissolve in water.
It's not meant to wipe your butt with, but rather to be used as a makeup remover and such stuff.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Kleenex is wetproof, so it doesn't dissolve in water.
This has gotta be a Kleenex[tm] thing specifically, as I buy various brands and don't get much of a different result between picking up spilled liquids with a tissue vs TP. I'm not familiar with your use of "wetproof" here. It's not like you can wrung out a tissue after dunking it in water. Or if you can, you're buying stuff that's a lot tougher than I've ever found on my local shelves. 
Jörgen Andersson wrote: It's not meant to wipe your butt with, but rather to be used as a makeup remover and such stuff.
I thought that's what those little round pads or cotton balls were for (clearly, I don't wear makeup). I use tissues pretty much exclusively to blow my nose. The Kleenex police has never shown up at my door.
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dandy72 wrote: It's not like you can wrung out a tissue after dunking it in water
Certainly not
dandy72 wrote: I'm not familiar with your use of "wetproof" here.
It's probably so that they aim for lintfree, but to achieve that it also becomes wetproof.
I sadly can't ask my father anymore, but he used to manufacture paper and knew most of it from a technical point of view.
He thought people were really stupid buying brown coffee filters that are first bleached and then coloured brown to make people believe it was environmentally friendly (Pulp for coffee filters is grey untreated)
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: It's probably so that they aim for lintfree, but to achieve that it also becomes wetproof.
Then the brands I buy fail spectacularly to achieve that that. If I do so much as blow on a tissue, I can see particles flying off of it. I have a box sitting close to a wall, and the wall and surrounding area are covered in that dusty material.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: I sadly can't ask my father anymore, but he used to manufacture paper and knew most of it from a technical point of view.
Interesting. Everybody has his own specialty I guess. It's not the sort of thing I've ever given much thought, but you're right, there's gotta be an expert on even such a topic out there.
Jörgen Andersson wrote: He thought people were really stupid buying brown coffee filters that are first bleached and then coloured brown to make people believe it was environmentally friendly (Pulp for coffee filters is grey untreated)
Can't be much worse than the red coloring used to make meat look "better" and easier to sell than it otherwise would be.
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dandy72 wrote: Then the brands I buy fail spectacularly to achieve that that.
And therefore they also aren't wetproof.
dandy72 wrote: there's gotta be an expert on even such a topic out there.
It's quite amazing what you can do with cellulose actually. With heat and pressure you can even turn it into a spring. A useless spring since steel is both stronger and doesn't rot, but still.
The east Germans even made cars from it.
dandy72 wrote: Can't be much worse than the red coloring used to make meat look "better" and easier to sell than it otherwise would be.
Every branch has its tricks
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: The east Germans even made cars from it
I noticed your use of past tense.
Did they dissolve in the rain? 
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Nope, they are resin reinforced, lasts forever, so they grind them down and use as a roadfiller.
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Locally it's toilet rolls, paracetamol, liquid soap, pasta, tomato ketchup, and mayonnaise.
Oh, and "Home Bargains" is out of wine, apparently!
What gets me is these people emptying the shelves of all forms of pasta are leaving tinned tomatoes alone - what the heck are they going to put with it (other than ketchup and mayo)?
And from what I have seen of them, they can't cope with a recipe unless it starts with "For best results, cook from frozen."
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The tinned tomatoes were all gone in the local Tesco today.
As were the beans & spaghetti.
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Maybe everyone is like me and has an impulse buys dozens of cans of tomatoes when they're half price so they have enough at home already? What I find weird is the things that were still in stock.
Pasta was sold out, but the gnocchi and gluten free pasta shelves were still full.
The entire tinned food aisle was almost empty except for beetroot and tinned fruit which was fully stocked.
The butchery section was empty, except for on fridge full of duck.
All of the salt was gone, except the fancy pink stuff.
I also noticed that my local supermarket has brought in truckloads of disposable washcloths as a substitute for paper towels.
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glennPattonWork wrote: has everyone gone mad!
Yes, they have! And selfish too. I thought a crisis was supposed to bring out the best in people. It appears not! 
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