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    Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury

    Blender Magazine Folds

    Felix Dennis Counts His Money As His Old Company Crumbles
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    My company just downgraded the office-supplied coffee from Starbucks to Dunkin Donuts.


    So it looks like I timed my move to full-time work-at-home status perfectly!

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    Image of AvenueOfTheStrongest AvenueOfTheStrongest
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    There's a way out. Bidets. Bidets everywhere. Now if you excuse me, I have to go shoot myself, that's not a world I want to live in.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/30/09

    @AvenueOfTheStrongest:


    [www.deniskitchen.com]

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    Image of Almostbanned Almostbanned
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    I know it sounds gauche, but my lifestyle is so heavily subsidized by my expense account that I honestly don't know what I would do if it were drastically cut. My company is thankfully still doing well, but there have been preemptive cuts (like no more business or first class travel), which I've managed to get around creatively, but any deeper and its going to suck the fun out of working altogether.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/30/09

    @Almostbanned: Someone is going to cut YOU if you keep saying "lifestyle," hon.
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    Image of flossy flossy
    03/30/09

    @Almostbanned: ... its going to suck the fun out of working altogether.


    Um, duh? It's work.
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    Image of flossy flossy
    03/30/09

    @flossy: Close italics, you dolt.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    That is one bland, ugly bathroom.
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    Image of TedSez TedSez
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    If they're desperate for paper, I'll give them my stack of unread Blenders.
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    Image of resipsaloquacious resipsaloquacious
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    I suggest that someone at Alpha "go Merrill" on the restrooms.


    That should get the point across.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/30/09

    @resipsaloquacious: By "go Merrill" do you mean the girls should use the boys' room at their whim until Alpha's sales force resembles a scene out of the new documentary about Plato's Retreat?
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    03/30/09

    @BookishLookish: No, go Merrill means throwing around and stepping in and tracking through the office what an angry monkey might throw around, which actually happened, as reported by Gasparino. But your "go Merrill" sounds like more fun.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/30/09

    @son of spam: My way or the highway, baby.
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    Image of DaeSu DaeSu
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    As once worked for a company which, in a cost-saving measure (or pure stupidity), removed every other fluorescent light bulb in the hallway. I don't know how much money was saved, but it gave the building the sickly pall of a porn theater.
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    Image of son of spam son of spam
    03/30/09

    @DaeSu: Good, an expert. Which porn theaters do you like best?
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    Image of DaeSu DaeSu
    03/30/09

    @son of spam: I've always been partial to the old Fair Theater on Astoria Blvd.in Queens, probably because, prior to its rebirth as a XXX theater, I saw "The Jungle Book" there as a kid.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/30/09

    @DaeSu: "Porn theaters," sigh. That is an anachronism that is fast approaching "ice man" and "teletypist."
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    03/30/09

    @BookishLookish: or "U.S. auto manufacturer"
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    Image of friendsinlowplaces friendsinlowplaces
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    Why just the women?
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    03/30/09

    @friendsinlowplaces:


    The company apparently believes that women do not have bowel movements.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/30/09

    @friendsinlowplaces: Probably the demand is greater than in the Men's watering hole. My long-held suspicion is that women secretly use it as a form of currency.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/30/09

    @friendsinlowplaces: Boys don't wipe.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/30/09

    @BadUncle: Nah, we just stuff our bras with the stuff.
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    Image of allyzay allyzay
    03/30/09

    @friendsinlowplaces: i'm assuming hamilton is clarifying due to the fact that the only ppl who have tipped him off to the bathroom situation are women...?
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    03/30/09

    @friendsinlowplaces: Possibly because women are known to be TP hordes, like covering our whole hand in the stuff to avoid accidental seepage. Boys, however, use the 3 sheets rule, for errant drops and other more dense materials...or they just skid in the pants, which isn't unheard of for the rushed and not easily revolted of the bunch. I'm thinking they feel that's why God invented underwear.
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    Image of pattycakes pattycakes
    03/30/09

    @friendsinlowplaces: that's a good question. this year, my company changed our healthcare policy and stopped covering 100% of routine annual exams for women (they now only cover 80%). but they continued to cover them 100% for men.

    anybody have a reasonable explanation for that one???
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    Image of Shelwood Shelwood
    03/30/09

    @pattycakes: What's the average age in your office? Many men don't bother with annual exams until they're older, while women will usually do the annual gyn thing from 18 or so on.
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    Image of saythatscool saythatscool
    03/30/09

    @friendsinlowplaces: Quiet you.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/30/09

    In reply to Stupid Media Cost-Cutting Tricks: Toilet Paper's a Luxury
    I suppose I'll have to put TP next to guns on my list of things to hoard for the end times.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/30/09

    @Mount_Prion: It's funny how the issue is never addressed in Mad Max.
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    Image of Mount_Prion Mount_Prion
    03/30/09

    @BadUncle: Beyond the Toilet Bowl


    Ehhh...

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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    03/26/09

    In reply to Blender Magazine Folds
    One less magazine that I have to read at BigBoxOfBooks while drinking my frozen coffee drink. How is Bust doing?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/26/09

    In reply to Blender Magazine Folds
    I still have their first three issues, from the era when Blender was put on CD.
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    Image of FracturedAcetabulum FracturedAcetabulum
    03/26/09

    In reply to Blender Magazine Folds
    I watched the vid the first time around and had to use some serious solvents to clear that out. I'm not venturing into the transcripts.


    But I admire your ambition!

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    Image of TallulahSkankhead TallulahSkankhead
    03/26/09

    In reply to Blender Magazine Folds
    Anyone remember when it was a DVD?
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    Image of TheHonJudgeSmails TheHonJudgeSmails
    03/26/09

    @TallulahSkankhead: Haha, yes. Mac or PC-compatible!
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    Image of hamburgerhotdog hamburgerhotdog
    03/26/09

    In reply to Blender Magazine Folds
    I thought Blender was just an excuse to get singers into pose in very little clothing, like top 40's Maxim? Did anyone actually pay for that magazine? I went to a show two years ago and suddenly found it appearing in my mailbox long thereafter.
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    Image of hortense hortense
    03/26/09

    In reply to Blender Magazine Folds
    It had its hits and misses. It was just so dated by the time it hit stands- that was a major problem.
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