Those numbers sound insane to me. This is almost half a roll per day, for a single person?

Can any average american or german person comment on how this actually works? Do you wipe like 15 times per visit, or is it just a very high amount (folded?) of sheets per wipe?

I'd say poor diet and obesity result in greater toilet paper use. But we can also expect American to use more than India, for stereotypical reasons.

Are the rolls the same sizes for all countries? Both in the number of sheets and in the amount of fiber used.

Time to install some bidets.

Seems like the US has some really sticky shit problems going on, lol.

Not sure why the down votes, having even just a simple bidet sprayer attachment is strictly better than toilet paper. It's not even close.

Moving from the east to west recently the rarity of and aversion to bidets is one of the strangest things to see in the western world.

Got one at home now. Rarely buy paper any more. And you're cleaner down there.

Don't users still need to dry off with paper? (I do, am I using it wrong?)

The Fraiser River Valley is one of the very most sustainable forests on the planet. The mineral extraction at Ft MacMurry has very little usable wood for lumber, and even less for paper, I believe that its a lot of manzinata that is used for OSB. I have not looked at this in a while, because my father studied forest management at UBC. Would you like for me to prove this with say 15~20 references?

My guess: to weaken Canada's economy, limit Canada's international standing, bankrupt the sovereign state, cause rise of populism and voters thereof, have its people overthrow the government, then absorb the former country as a state to extract its natural resources, to fulfill manifest destiny.

Other than the current tariff narrative, it's fairly standard CIA play when we look at what they did to Latin America already.

Canadians may be nice but we are also petty and proud. It’s hard for us to win against a big bully, but we won’t be pushed around either.

Everyone is going to lose here.

Trump can't win anywhere else, so he's trying for a win here.

Let's hope victory against Canada looks better than victory against Iran else we'll be paying $10/roll for toilet paper as well as $4/gal at the pump.

I think it’s fairly well established that Trump treats trade as a zero sum, single play, game.

China is the long term winner here.

I hope this is comedy

Missed opportunity for Biden to push (!) for mass bidet adoption.

> I'm also curious, is there any reporting on increases in Canadian prices as a result of their tariffs on American products or does that only go one way?

The current counter-tariffs haven't taken effect yet, but yes, various products saw price increases with the previous sets.

Though TBH, I personally saw more increases in prices from American tariffs on Chinese goods where American sellers couldn't be bothered to sell goods to Canada without first importing to the US and just tacked on a price increase for all buyers. To the best of my ability I've avoided those products/sellers.

I'm not sure how to discuss bidet problems without sounding gross.

I tried a bidet previously because people rave about them. But when trying them, there seems to be two problems. The water that hits you sprays around on impact. So that immediately-sullied water now has a bit of blast radius to it. I also can't see down there, so having done what certainly felt like a pretty thorough job bidet-ing, I would wipe and discover the job was not so thorough. So although you could potentially use a bidet to reduce your toilet paper usage, toilet paper itself allows you to actually check whether or not you got everything, which just seems impossible with a bidet alone. And if I only used the bidet, then what am I supposed to do to dry myself? It feels like TP needs to be in the mix at least a little bit.

Am I just using it wrong? Does a lifetime of using it give your brain a clearer sense of where the water has hit and what "clean" feels like.

Once you go bidet, you don't go back. There are lots of nice kits that you can install on your existing toilet too, making it super easy. [1] is a generic Amazon search. Electricity not required for most

We use so much less tp since we got one.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s?k=bidet+kit

Yes, Canadian dairy prices were always higher than US prices, probably by 10-20 percent or so. There's an internal quota system, and a prescribed allowable volume for imports with very high tariffs on imports above that prescribed limit. Canada did this to protect its dairy industry, and to ensure there's a level of self sufficiency to their food production.

Canada has the same issue in many industries, where the need/desire for Canadian firms to compete against US firms - even though Canada has a population roughly a tenth the size of the US - results in a handful of bloated monopolies/monopsonies that the Canadian population has to deal with.

For an alternative perspective you can look at the US healthcare system, where the US has a protectionist system that props up its healthcare industry (insurance, providers, pharma companies, etc) at the expense of its population, to the tune of about 2x what Canada spends per capita.

Canadians who live near the border will commonly hop over for some shopping and fill up their tank with cheap gas, while Americans try to fill their prescriptions from Canadian pharmacies and travel to Mexico for procedures they can't afford to get done in the US. It's all a matter of what the system is set up to do.

Unfortunately I don't have electrical in my toilet closet in my master bath. I'd totally do it though.

During the lockdowns, my local Catholic parish office indicated to me that they held some TP in reserve, in case any parishioners got desperate during the shortages. There were really problematic runs on items like that in every store in our area. Of course, if you had excess TP, it was also a good strategic donation, for the less fortunate.

I contemplated a bidet during the lockdowns, and some YouTubers were touting their convenience and comfort. But ultimately, I rent an apartment with a landlady, and there's no way a bidet could get installed and survive my lease agreement.

So I decided that a good compromise was to start buying wet wipes. I found the "Sensitive" Huggies to be fairly good. Unscented and gentle. There's also "Honest" brand at Target, marketed to adults. Supposedly flushable. I don't flush them.

It's been working out so well that I carry around the wet wipes in my pocket, everywhere I go. They have saved me in many situations in many public restrooms. And they can also clean up my hands if I happen to get muddy or gritty while I'm out and about.

And if you really wanted... buy washable toilet paper towels. https://www.marleysmonsters.com/collections/toilet-unpaper-a...

As someone on the border, the tariffs do screw over individual folks on both sides of it.

Canadian grocery prices are awfully high and they've been known for various price-fixing scandals (the Loblaws bread-fixing apology gift cards come to mind) so there's often a lot of Canadian Walmart/Sams Club/Local Grocery shoppers.

One of the odd things is that Americans had it better coming back to the US from Canada after a day out shopping - we could bring back $800, but the Canadians going home could only bring back $50 or so, unless they were out for more than 48 hours then got $800. US Customs was also hilariously lax on actually enforcing things ("anything to declare?" "ah, I spent $200 at IKEA" gets a handwave) compared to the Canadians that'll fine-tooth comb the vehicle to pull every penny of duty they can coming home to Canada.

I wonder if Trump even cares - he's now a lame duck president trying to make a legacy for himself by building ballrooms and putting his name on everything (or tearing it down in a huff if not allowed to - Kennedy building).

Insiders say he's bored of being president, bored of his Iran war, and has no interest in going out stumping for others in the midterms since there is nothing in it for himself.

The only enjoyment he's got left is trying to get a rise out of the press and get some adulation from his base with playground antics like his "Lake America".

At this point it's not just that he started out stupid (even his own mother said so), but that he's pretty seriously suffering from dementia - I'm sure any nursing home staff recognize the symptoms.

You must mean switch to bamboo based products from wood based paper. Way more sustainable, and not much more expensive, but as more switch, although it should become cheaper...

Wiki cites https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/west/2026/04/08/864876... which reads: "loss of the warehouse could impact 3% of sales [for Kimberley-Clark] in the West Coast region", which seems like a long way away from what's being discussed.

Also even though the fire was in Ontario CA, it was Ontario California not Ontario Canada.

The person in the video was asking for higher pay. "Pay us enough to live". Not very communist of them. Did you see something different? It's hard to know with all the AI generated fakes out there, so I understand if you were misled.

Anti-capitalist = communist now? News to me.

You don't even need to shell out for one of those (though I'm sure they're nice). Bidet attachments work really well. If you have a 3D printer, you can try using a bidet very easily: https://www.printables.com/model/739924-bidet-from-a-pet-bot...

I use the 3D-printed one for travel (I'd gladly pay extra for hotels that have bidets) and outdoor use.

Using a bidet is such an easy life upgrade for anyone relying on TP.

OTOH, upgrade to a TOTO, or other 'smart' toilet. Need less paper that way.

My experience with these has been that I use more paper, because I always feel "wet" afterward.

Whereas with a good, solid, no-nonsense beef bomb, I can skimp a little as long as there's a good pinch at the end.

Who knew destroying the federal government would have knock-on consequences