Remember that shiny bog roll from yer yoof?

[Smiler.]

On R4 - a programme on the very subject.

October really has been a toilet month.



That is all.

[jas xjr]

izal or i believe it was called

[Eric Mc]

An anagram of Liza - according to the programme.

And totally useless in its concept - according to a professor of bacteriology.

Good quirky stuff from R4 - as usual.

[Marf]

Ugh that stuff was bloody horrible, who on earth invented it!?

[Eric Mc]

The company that made it doesn't exist anymore, although part of the original company was sold off and is now Ronseal.

[MartG]

Reminds me of a story about how a bog roll salesman demonstrated the relative effectiveness of Izal v. soft bogroll - he squirted two lines of mustard onto a mirror, then wiped one line off easily with the soft paper, whereas the Izal stuff just generally smeared it about, and ended up using a lot more paper to get the mirror clean

[welsh blackbird]

We had this at work in the 1980's - it had "Government Property" printed on every sheet!

[Los Palmas 7]

We used to use it as tracing paper at school.

[chr15b]

I'm sure you can still buy this in tesco, or you could until about a year ago

[zac510]

Picture of it for us less privileged (or more privileged!)?

[chr15b]

doing a search for izal with the safe search off gives an interesting 6th result on google......

[Shaw Tarse]

Quinny said:

We used to have that stuff


God we were so jealous, when we went to a mates house and they had the posh soft stuff

Is that what started "I want to poo at Paul's" ?

[thatone1967]

was an army cadet in my yoof and remember always using this at army camps when we were away for annual camp and weekends... horrible stuff...

[t84]

chr15b said:

doing a search for izal with the safe search off gives an interesting 6th result on google......

A NSFW result?

[Marf]

t84 said:

chr15b said:

doing a search for izal with the safe search off gives an interesting 6th result on google......

A NSFW result?

Indeed.

[Langweilig]

chr15b said:

doing a search for izal with the safe search off gives an interesting 6th result on google......

I once saw a variation on that theme, POLITICS DEGREE - PLEASE TAKE ONE

[Hammerwerfer]

Even worse were the dispensers that gave it out one sheet at a time.

[dr_gn]

jas xjr said:

izal or i believe it was called

Yup - produced right next to a factory that built over 1200 Churchill tanks during WW2 - Thorncliffe Works near Chapeltown

I wonder if the tanks were equipped with dispensers?

[fatboy18]

Jeyes also made the stuff in the form of separate sheets which came out of a letterbox type dispenser, think we even used to use it in school for tracing paper

[Langweilig]

fatboy18 said:

Jeyes also made the stuff in the form of separate sheets which came out of a letterbox type dispenser, think we even used to use it in school for tracing paper

Would that be before or after its intended use?