Tissues and issues

[venta]

Please excuse inanity. Is very important for clearing up an argument:

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Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

My godmother still buys the horrid shiny stuff out of preference - fortunately in addition to normal stuff (either for visitors, or her husband, or maybe her preferences are more complicated... I've never wanted to ask!)

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I know some people think/thought that the shiny stuff was more hygeinic, being essentially non-permeable (and hence presumably keeping one's hands cleaner?)

[the-alchemist.livejournal.com]

But also hence (as one of my teachers once put it) having a tendency to redistribute rather than remove.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Yes; I hated the stuff at primary school.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I assume there's some special technique that I never quite acquired.