OlderJason Mraz Shares Toilet Tissue Tips
Jason Mraz shared a naked picture of himself in his latest blog, which also suggests an eco-friendly solution to one of nature’s biggest pains in the ass.
The 31-year-old singer writes, “Americans’ addiction to two-ply, super soft toilet paper is causing greater harm to our environment than our gas guzzling cars. No s—…. In order to produce all that perfectly plush paper, companies must harvest tons of virgin trees, which the reaping of means less oxygen for the atmosphere to offset or all the carbon that seems to be frying us here on the surface.”
Here are some great toilet tissue tips from Mr. Mraz:
- Start small. Challenge yourself to use only 8 squares in your session. We’ve all been in that place where it’s close to the cardboard roll and you have to be MacGuyver to make a clean get-away. This will force you to get creative while taking good care of each square.
- Use both sides. I mean that. I bet some people are afraid to look at or get close to their own skid-marks. But I say it’s better to know how your body’s handling the business of your health. Fold the paper again and again using a clean angle from the very same square. There’s a lot of real estate wasted on each sheet when you only wipe once.
- Should you find the paper too thin and become the victim of too many breakthroughs, try using a stronger material as a backing. This worked when I was camping. The paper wasn’t holding up in the dampness of camp, so I used a leaf to give the paper more strength from behind. Plus the leaf was textured, which handled the job with far more efficiency than just the paper by itself.
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EWWW! Not classy! :(
gross. what does one do when he/she has diahrea? 8 little squares are not going to be enough. I think it’s best to do it clean and not get it on your hands….we have enough bad bacteria around here..to be greedy with trying to keep a hiney and hands clean
gee!
Wow ,Talking about going green with a little to much info !
what if we all switch to baby wipes?
What if I use one of your albums, is that a strong enough backing?
Go jason! Trust him to be shameless enough to publish something like this! Gotta love him!
Too much information!
Who the f*** is this guy?
Wow. . .too much info.
WAAAYYY to much info.
haha… I can’t even think of a person dumb enough to not know all that already - unless they’re little kids and have just started to use the toilet by themselves.
I take 2 squares normally. How huge has an ass to be that you would need 8?!
“This will force you to get creative while taking good care of each square…..”
GET CREATIVE?!?!??!?
i love him
Hilarious but true!!
He’s hot, and I love him so bad! x
DIRTY BOY!
Well I just threw up a little! Is this guy for real? Leaves, gas guzzlers, multiple sided toilet tissue? Is this what this guy is really worried about? An unclothed picture of himself infront of some wonky swamp water will not change the world or people’s bathroom habits! Geez this was sick!
he looks good. no comment on the toilet paper business.
love him, but too much information alert!!!! gross
TMI !!
Disgusting.
Is he for sure about saving the environment???????
Then let him stay HOME, DO not tour around the world in planes which produces gases.No stage lights or touring cars either.
HYPOCRITE!!!!
# 10—–you gotta be kidding me! Size of your hiney does not indicate how many little squares of hiney paper is needed. it’s the size of your little people or if you have tummy troubles.
If you want to use a leaf…..be my guest.
Nutjob environmentalist. Anyone with any real scirentific knowlege knows three is no such thing as global warming. Worried about CO2, then stop breathing idiot. The earth is in a cooling period now. There have been much warmer periods than this in Earths history, long before the Industrial Revolution and SUVs. The antartic icecore is actually expanding (yes not shrinking) and there are satellite pictures to prove it. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth film was proven to be based on faulty data. He’s a fraud. He jets around the world selling carbon credits. Look at HIS carbon footprint. What a hypocrite. Green is nothing but big business people working to separate you from your green. The green movement and Environmentalist do more to keep the poor poor and the rich rich more than anyone. Pure Evil.
GeorgeCarlin says it best here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyxuVFzKypU
# 21 nutjob….you are so incorrect…it is dangerous just to think the way you do. People that are so simple minded not to be concerned about today’s environment…..with an attitude like yours is dangerous.
For example….with the way we are using the earth’s resources, throwing so much trash out, not producing better green products, having huge gas guzzling cars….etc…….is NOT the way.
Ugh…gag……gag….
I bet you he just dumped in the water he is coming out of!
Where is that place? I’m so not gonna swim there!
CLASSY GUY??????
He is INSANE for taking a picture like this and posting it!
This guys said: “In order to produce all that perfectly plush paper, companies must harvest tons of virgin trees”
I say: U.S. companies that manufacture paper products use trees that were SPECIFICALLY grown for that purpose. They grew them so you can wipe your ass without worrying about some natural forest somewhere being wiped out. God, I hope I’m never near you and never have to breathe your stink.
That is not exactly that kind of info. that is useful to me . The best way I know to go about it is to buy recycled toliet paper and when done with each roll then recycle the cardboard cylinder shaped tube . This way your’e helping the environment by recycling the tubes and buying it recycled as well !! :)
I’ll just have to ‘go green’ somewhere else. I’m not getting skimpy with the tissue. I don’t intend to make going to the bathroom an exercise in saving the environment that I have to think about everyday while I’m folding and refolding bathroom tissue. ‘Get creative?’ Since when is going to the bathroom an art form?i sheesh! What a nut job. People have been going to the bath room all this time, who knew they needed HIM to tell them how.
still. HOT!
Whatever you say Jason….lol what the hell!? TMI!
TMI
That’s hilarious….
ughhhh……of all things…he has to bring up poop and toliet issues.
He must be very bored
huh? who wants to know his dumping/toliet issues? gag!
What he does need is a brain transfusion.
Good for you, Jason!! I don’t care if it was TMI; I think he’s doing a good thing & caused me to think about my habits.
With summer here he can just dry out some corn cobs and use those. I’m sure he’d enjoy.
# 35 vr:
good for you! (eyes rolling)
go collect some corn cobs like # 36 suggested…and have at it!
What about recycled toilet paper? Doesn’t that solve the problem? It seems he’s a big step behind !
I’ve been using the recycled kind for years. If anything, you don’t need plush, white, pristine, virgin trees to wipe your but. This is one of the easiest, most obvious, most painless thing to substitute for recycled paper.
i love him to pieces :)
recycled toliet paper is way too expensive just to wipe a butt!
Go Jason,
I love ur blog , I love ur song & especially ur pictures.
How smart you are?
I Love You Jasonnnnnnnn…..
@Jo: at least he’s trying to do something to alleviate environmental problems. what about you?@Jo:
i guess this is what a guy who smokes too much weeds would do..
Another celebrity taking it upon themselves to tell us how to live - seriously shut up already!
Tired of all these celebrities and their “Go Green” ****. I don’t get where they get their information, but just because they can sing or act does not make them experts. It’s getting really old already
#22 - I love how in your response to #21, you are unable to cite any factual information other your own idiotic opinion; yet still feel justified in calling another person dangerous (a person, mind you, who is able to cite facts). Another hilarious tree hugging hippie with no evidence to back his irrational accusations.
This guy can’t be serious. Oh dear.
This guy can’t be serious. Oh dear.
This guy can’t be serious. Oh dear.
# 45– your comment to # 22…is the usual bullshit of a red neck republican with a one sided brain.
By the way…you are actually nutjob hiding under Jen, LOL
Not worth saying anything more to a person like you.
I LOVE JASON MRAZ AND I ALWAYS HAVE AND ALWAYS WILL. dude is just such a solid guy. thanks for the advice. i do all that and more sometimes and sometimes i use an atrocious amount of toilet paper and just waste it cause i’m really such an ignorant idiot. that and using water. gah. i need to be reformed. another thing my mom says to help save water and electiricity especially if you pay hydro bills at your house, DON’T FLUSH THE TOILET IF YOU DO NUMBER 1. it’s just pee. let it accumulate, and maybe it’ll be stinky or stain your toilet bowl, but it saves power. but not the same if you do number 2. lol. number two in the western countries is a definate flush…but in the outhouses back home, where there’s just a hole ditch dug in the ground and no power…you just do number 2 and the next person comes and does number 2 and it continues and it’s all good. sometimes people need to live in a way that is harmonious with the world/put the earth first. thanks jared for this.
# 50
Thanks so much for your intensive and interesting information…
(rolls eyes)
lol. you’re welcome. the sarcasm is flowing ever so liberally. this thread is dead either way.
Lets see…. the end of the human race thru global warming or a dirty, smelly ass…. I’m going for the apocalypse on this one.
BRILLIANT! If only more “celebrities” had the guts to put themselves out there as he does, for such an important cause …
and what’s with all those prudes comments on here … Come on people: you live a way too sheltered life if you get offended or grossed out by such a post!
damn… why doesn’t he just wipe with his hand if hes that concerned?
# 55
lol…..very well said!
Wow you all sounds really shallow and selfish. No wonder the world goes down the toilet. These women I live with wrap 20 times around their hand just for peeing….talk about waste.
It’s not just that they harvest virgin trees, btw–they harvest virgin trees from the northern boreal forest, the single breeding ground for almost every migratory songbird in North America. Not only are we ruining our fresh air supply, we’re rapidly killing off bird and animal species by destroying this habitat. It’s only your ass! Go recycled!
I think that this comment is very courageous and enlightening to know that some people would change a little bit of themselves to look at the bigger picture. obviously, the people that read this blog has not a whole lot of concept of compromise.
it is simply a different side of looking at how we can all avoid a bit of waste. it is not to mean that you live your lives with a rule. he says, TRY next time. hope this opens at least some of your minds next time you are watching KENDRA’s show.
#26 I’m talking to you above, get your facts straight! The boreal forest was NOT planted by a company for your dirty ass, you ignorant fool.
@GoodGirl:
Not classy … but it Doo save paper. I don’t even use paper. Just some soap in the shower. Also leaves me soft and clean.
If you are going to care about the environment you have to apply that to your ass as much as to your head.
I jut wanna see him naked finally!!
I not only use half a roll of the thickest, most plush stuff around, I use the wet wipes as well. I don’t need to be burdened by dingleberrys… Lord people it’s 2009 and the treehuggers need to go back to the cave they so desperately adore.
@janiedoll:
@#5 janiedoll: hahahahahahahahahahahaha! omg i’m having such a bad day and this cracked me up. i actually like him and his albums…still, this was hilarious!!
Why not use the excess trees in the CA foothills? Last summer we all had to wear masks and keep the children in side because of the stupid fires, CAUSED BY STUPID ENVIRONMENTALISTS THAT WON’T ALLOW controlled fires, or the trimming back of excess trees.
@janiedoll</a
clever idea!
This dweeb, Jason, must hook up with Cheryl Crowe. Think of the commonality they share and could give seminars around the country. This will come in especially handy, since BO has steered the whole country into the *******, just like Detroit and New Orleans.
@LuckyL: ummmm hes the guy who sang im yours
@LuckyL: ummmm hes the guy who sang im yours
@LuckyL: ummmm hes the guy who sang im yours
#4 for the win! And signing “T. Howard,” genius.
How about Jason just stays home and quits jetting all over the world to make bad videos. That’s a lifetime’s worth of carbon credits for a whole shitload of us.
Jason is unclean and gross and everything he said about tp is ridiculous. Ever heard of replanting trees, assmunch?
@#21 Nutjob.. your screenname does you proud.
Yes, the Earth is in a constant state of temperature flux, and while we may not have caused the intial changes, our using fossil fuels and such with impunity is causing the changes to happen much faster than they would have by themselves.
lol # 72. i’m not sure if you’re missing the point or if you don’t know about jason as a person to know what he does to give back for his carbon footprint on the earth. the guy really does what he preaches and isn’t just blathering from a pullpitt saying do this my way or else. he’s not that dude. he’s not even close to being a douche. meh.
i was teaching a bunch of kids and trying to get them to realize how important it is to not litter and help out sometimes by picking up garbage at their school and lol they didn’t get it. gah. it kind of made me want to cry because i had to be all jokey with them when i was really thinking omg these kids are the next next generation and they don’t give a fcuck. lol. almost broke my heart. everyday should be earth day. i didn’t mean they need to pick up dangerous glass shards or w/e, but mostly paper garbage and wrappers and their stuff. it’s just commen sense. i got taught that when i was in kindergarten and in primary growing up so i don’t understand why these kids didn’t get it? i felt like i had stupid written on my forehead. meh.
thank you # 22. people who believe global warming doesnt exist need to have a reality check. it is a fact that the earth does evolve in cool and warm cycles (im a biochemist with a masters from usp by the way so i am educated) so there is a natural progression going on but it is going faster then it should. the earth started being harmed as early as when man stopped being nomadic and began cutting down trees to make way for farming. there is no way to stop it but we can slow the process down by changing our habits, starting with the waste the many people (mainly americans) produce. one day we will run out of our earths resorces and our future peoples will have to deal with that fact. the least we can do is try and do what we can to try to save our natural resources. o and anyone who listens to george carlin is an idiot.. sorry but his comments are for laughs only
How about just washing your ass with like a pressure cleaner device in the toilet? Somebody needs to invent an alternative! And then a blow drier just like a car-wash kind of deal!!! I am genius!
i disagree.. its not too much information. everybody poops. and using obscene amounts of toilet paper is a problem, so someone should be talking about it.
yeah. i don’t get it…well actually i do because i know it’s disgusting but i guess i don’t have a severe aversion to it like how i have irrational fears about blood. everyone takes a dump and everyone takes a piss. it’s natural. i don’t see what’s so abnormal about it, and #77 is right. this isn’t a grossness issue. infact you should actually THINK about what he is saying and think of a better way to add onto his advice. really. then that would be progressive thinking, and it would be helpful…instead of denegrating into insults and all these superfical matters instead of taking what he is talking about seriously.
SqueekyKlinboo2 @ 06/05/2009 at 7:19 pm How about just washing your ass with like a pressure cleaner device in the toilet? Somebody needs to invent an alternative! And then a blow drier just like a car-wash kind of deal!!! I am genius!
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don’t they have those kinds of toilets in europe? i’m sure they have something like that available already. i don’t know about the drier idea, but if it’s like those hand driers and it’s automatic heat then it could be harmful…but if it is adjustable heat and that would be more effective. start a toilet company. it’s actually big business. i don’t think i’d have the stomach to be in that business but i’d definately design the technology for it. it’s like that dude who made the urine purification system that turns it back into clean or as clean as possible water. it’s really neat technology.
Ehh..I’d still do him.
Who the hell uses toilet paper anyway? It is disgusting! Baby wipes are they only way to go! I have a box in every bathroom and keep them in my purse too. No member of my family has ever used toilet paper and I dont buy it. If you use toilet paper, you have a dirty ass!
Jason, that’s what your boyfriend’s tongue is for!
@s. h.: Sorry, but “opening minds” to a bunch of people who post on celebrity gossip blogs is a lost cause.
Even if you agree or disagree with him, he has a right to say whatever he wants, just like you have the right to say whatever you want.
If you want you celebrites to “shut up and entertain” has it ever occurred to you that you should “shut up and be entertained” and not run the gossip blog and use your pay or unemployment checks to pick up Star and National Enquirer every time it comes out?
Hey, try reading a book without pictures for once in your life, or is that not enough of a baby step for you.
#82
oh, go read a book yourself…..Peter Pan or whatever…
You have a brain the size of a pea
Well, now we all know who has skidmarks. No wonder he’s sleeping alone out in the woods…lol…gross
Love it! Go Jason!
@Nutjob:
I so, so, agree with you. I couldn’t have stated it better myself. Let’s not
forget all the individuals who consider themselves environmentally
correct, who will likely protest the hefty ‘premium’ costs of doing things
the ‘green’ way.
considering money is created from some of the natural resources provided by the earth, i wouldn’t mind if we invested more money with effective solutions back into helping the earth instead of depleating all we can from nature. really. you take from the land and you have to give back to the land. and you respect all things, not just what humans have created. maybe then we can appreciate living the simple lifestyle and maybe we can reduce the superficial. it doesn’t hurt to try/strive for improvement.
@janiedoll:
That truly made me laugh out loud…
Nice pic Jason, but East Germany fell because of horrible toilet paper. What you propose is a return to barbarianism or its modern cousin communism.
OR you could do what the Europeans do and get a bidet. I really can’t understand why that hasn’t caught on in America it’s so much so cleaner and if you don’t want to get a full one they have ones that hook on the inside of your toilet.
what’s a bidget? is it cool? is it that thing i see on tv sometimes that the person was talking about that shoots pressurized water at your a$$?
lol. america and their lack of quickness…and because of them we can’t adopt really impressive technology used in europe or in asia. it really sucks being stuck under the might of the usa. really. you hear it all the time here. lol. but the americans wouldn’t know that because they hardly know anything about their neighbouring countries and have only certain perceptions of those countries. it’s hilarious for us observers.
Im on LOVE!!!!
The difference between America and other cultures is really highlighted in the comments!
- You know, in some parts of the world they don’t even use 1 square of paper - they don’t use any at all.
- The very typical “but you’re worse” reply is plastered all over the comments 8-)
- Chill out. It’s not *that* disgusting, we all do it.
# 91- mertz
you seem closed minded. It is not true about all americans.
same as people from other countries. people that complain or insult americans are the ones that are very jealous and know that the US is the most powerful country in the world.
No one country is perfect. Don’t say things that you are not fully informed about.
thats why we use water to clean our hineys. Hello!!! trust me, its ,much cleaner than any other substitute
Jesus Christ what a moron. there is a better alternative than his gross suggestion… it’s called a bidet! Hello, why use paper at all when you can get everything rinsed clean with water?!
Jesus Christ what a moron. there is a better alternative than his gross suggestion… it’s called a bidet! Hello, why use paper at all when you can get everything rinsed clean with water?!
When we visited Italy a few years back……our hotel room had a strange shower (right next to a regular toliet) and further down…was this funny looking toliet….which we later discovered was called a bidet. Had no idea how to use it….and did not know Italian to ask questions. When we returned home from Italy….I looked it up on the internet. HA!
However…..I found out that one does need to use the fingers when using the bidet. Ummmmmmmm…not sure I can do that! I a lot of the Italian bathrooms don’t even have soap! ugh!
I can’t imagine older people, handicapped people with back problems, etc…using the bidet.
No one country is perfect. Don’t say things that you are not fully informed about.
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that is true. it’s not only america, it’s the british, the french, the germans, the dutch, the spaniards, the italians, the russians etc…there are a lot of countries that i have problems with, even my own, and i understand that they don’t all have tabula rasa’s. it’s common knowledge that americans don’t know much about what goes on outside of their country just like it’s common knowledge that although you have some of the best post graduate institutions that the education system there is broken and that when it comes to national and international testing comparisons american students don’t rank very high. i was watching cnn today and it was funny to see the guy who actually isn’t american, who travels the world and reports from many conflict zones say that george bush has harmed america’s reputation abroad and that the when you ask people from other countries, america isn’t even worth mud to them. yes america is a great country and well known for hollywood, money, metropolis’, finance, junk food, etc…and although many people want to come to the country because it is the land of democracy and oppertunity and mostly the immigrants or refugees are coming from usually a place of oppression, america doesn’t have a good reputation in the world. i mean what really would we do if there was no u-s-of a? i think the world would vastly change…but like how the chinese are saying they want the international currency to change from the dollar to the rand…a lot of changes are happening in the world, and there is A LOT of unanimous feelings of anti american sentiments and decade by decade after decade even as events fade and memories fade (and as much as i would like a more peaceful world) history doesn’t change…and the next generation just grows up knowing about specific events and harbour the same emotions that their ancestors did. maybe if americans knew a little bit more about what was outside their immediate scope, then they would have picked up much earlier that although they may be the world’s most powerful country…that they aren’t endearing themself to anyone else and that in these times it’s all for one and one for all kind of mentality. what you guys are experiencing i guess probably over the past 40 years from your own people and from people outside yours has been going on in other countries for many years…and we all know who funds these atrocities. it’s always the one’s with the most to gain, the one’s with the power to manipulate/manouver, and usually the one’s with the most money.
# 99 ! wow….all that information. It’s too bad that 98.9 % of what you said is incorrect.
All Americans are NOT the same. Perhaps you could have said….some Americans.
And further more….very very wrong….and stupid of you to think America funds ” atrocities”. What cave are you from?
What country do you come from? Iraq?…Iran??
Not very intelligent are ya?
lol. i’m neither of those. and you are correct. i’m just generalizing, which i realize is dangerous and quite incorrect but i did it. i understand that not all americans are ignorant. and also the information isn’t incorrect…i may have phrased it wrong but the general gist of it is all there. we can compare the whole my wad is bigger than yours but i’m don’t want to get into that. it’s okay if i’m wrong…but don’t kid yourself if you think any of those countries i mentioned don’t have blood on their hands at any point in history. and it’s not even consipracy theory if it’s been reported on, documented, confirmed by employees about what the us has been subsidizing. yesterday on ac360 randi kaye had a report (an this is nothing new) about how terrorists are buying technology to create weaponry or spy kits from AMERICAN companies, and that these people are allowed to do that because there are no sufficiant laws to STOP the companies from selling this technology to someone who is going to come back and use it against you. this information is nothing new…it used to be called the black market, and now smart people have figured out ways to circumvent law and put protection/safety in danger. money talks huge in this world. people think it’s always surprising when you find out america et al are usually behind or have a hand in a lot of the **** happening in the world/third world countries et al…but foreigners aren’t surprised. it helps if you look outside the borders and maybe learn a little bit about the rest of the world.
lol. just cause i said those things i’m automatically from the mid east. not even close, not even muslim. but why do i have to explain myself to you. sorry for making this thread so political but i was responding to some things in the comment, and i wasn’t the one who brought up the whole america thing…but i’ve said it a couple of times on this website and gotten lots of hate for it. lol. and it’s either i’m american or i’m not american when i’ve clearly said otherwise. hilarious.
i mean look at what happened in sri lanka recently with the ltte and the government there…how funny is it that after the war people are finding out that the weaponse used in the war from the ltte and from the government weren’t from sri lanka but mostly from britain or from the outside. seriously. and look at the weapons in the sudan, darfur…you know china is providing weapons to some of these militias and curropt governments in africa but they do it in the name of advancement and a quid pro quo to provide infrastructure and aide in return for land, and resosurces. the world is really amazing. anyways
sorry for going so grossly off topic. back to talking about how we can clean our human waste, which is a natural process for everyone.
we can clean our human waste by pooping the bullshit out of # 101
lol
lmfao. thanks 102.
currently listening to the paskitani ambassador to the united states explaining to the caucasian interviewer the history of pakistan and how the americans and russians were involved in mobalizing these fundementalists, and how no one thought ahead about the consequences at not demobalizing these guys. and how the entire position of the bush administration instead of dealing with fundemental issues in the region included these countries into their so called axis of evil, and how even these fundementalists in pakistan weren’t even from that countrybut they came from the outside. love history. completely hilarious. also hilarious is the media extrapolating the news in pakistan or afghanistan or even iraq and not explaining the local history there but only framing it one dimensionaly. it’s all rooted in history. if you’re poor, young, living in one of these places, you don’t go to school, you may not even be devotly religious, but if someone comes to you and says hey i can help you out but i want you to join my group…we can give you money, food, education, a family, a religion, etc…lol, you think many youths are resisiting? higly doubt that. i’ve heard it directly from the mouths of people who’s world is shifting around them but they can’t get out of their bitterness. just look around and think about it. such a well spoken man the ambasador, especially after musharaff tried so hard to silence him and kill him. love when even villagers know what democracy is, so much so that they can act in support of the lawyers and drive out musharraf. look at how the us is involved in the elections going on in lebanon (i have friends who were impacted by the wars…and let’s just say not only do they hate the lebanese government/lack of one, but they also higly hold america in contempt)…so the point is that america shouldn’t get involved in everything happening in the world, most of the time they get involved in what benefits them, but what the government doesn’t get is that foreigners don’t appreciate it on masse…not all of them but a lot of them. i mean i thought bill bennett was going apoplectic at what micheal ware was saying about the sentiment about america and bush in those regions and bill bennett responded with the typical, they would have loved saddam to still be ruling eh? ahahaha and micheal ware didn’t get a chance to answer although he tried very hard and campbell cut him off but his point was that the people there didn’t agree with the means america took to oust saddam and if there is anything they dislike, it’s the foreign miilatary in their immediate territory/backyard. i mean north korea and iran was and is sitting there…why couldn’t bush have dealt with that. revenge much? the devil you know you hold much closer than the devil you don’t know…and in that variable that ultimately became the us and their agenda (s). it’s entirely funny that every 10 years or so people have to figure out america’s plans for their country and see if they are in support and therefore in support of the local government or against the american agenda for their country and therefore against the government. i think this was one of my favourite topics in elementary school, tracing the origins of international conflicts.
read the link. that subject matter of the time story is nothing new. lol. people aren’t stupid and if they are, they shouldn’t remain comfortable with their stupidity. people are also getting smarter about politics and politricks.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1903255,00.html
(BAGHDAD) — Teenagers armed with grenades and suicide vests are the latest recruits for Sunni insurgents trying to find new ways to outwit heightened security measures and attack American and Iraqi forces, the U.S. military said Saturday.
The use of boys also serves a propaganda purpose — the soldiers face criticism for harming children if they fire back.
Insurgents first turned to women to carry out suicide bombings, causing U.S. and Iraqi troops to step up recruiting and training of female searchers at checkpoints to seek explosives easily hidden under women’s billowing black robes.
Now they appear to be using youths and weapons that are easier to hide like grenades as they face omnipresent checkpoints and convoys aimed at bolstering security gains that have caused the level of violence to plummet nationwide.
“With grenade attacks, insurgents hope to capitalize on reports of civilian injuries blamed on a coalition response to the attack,” said Maj. Derrick Cheng, a spokesman for U.S. forces in northern Iraq. “However, the reality is that the grenade explosion itself causes the majority of civilian casualties.”
The military has said in the past it believes al-Qaeda in Iraq and other insurgent groups are recruiting children because of their ability to avoid scrutiny.
But a statement issued Saturday was the first to provide detailed allegations of teenage suspects in what the military called “a growing trend of children carrying out attacks on Iraqi security and U.S. forces.”
Cheng stressed roadside bombs are still the main mode of attack against U.S. forces but said grenades are often the weapon of choice in urban areas where it is harder to plant explosives without being seen.
Young men can quickly throw the grenades then fade into the crowd, depriving the soldiers of the chance to fight back amid fears that they’ll hit innocent civilians. The tactic has been used in fighting before but takes on added significance as the Americans have been trying to improve relations with the Iraqi public in a bid to stem support for the insurgency.
Army Col. Gary Volesky, who commands U.S. troops in northern Iraq’s Ninevah province, said grenade attacks are on the rise but a “more disturbing trend” was the recruiting of children to throw them.
On May 9, U.S. soldiers killed a 12-year-old boy who the military said was believed to be involved in a grenade attack in the northern city of Mosul. Local residents said he was an innocent civilian. But the military said the boy was found with 10,000 dinars, or about $9, in his hand, which they said suggested he had been paid by insurgents.
At least five other youths between the ages of 14 and 19 have been involved in grenade and suicide attacks in recent weeks in northern Iraq, it said.
Those included a 15-year-old boy who was captured Monday after lobbing a grenade at a joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol in Hawijah, west of the disputed northern city of Kirkuk.
Another teenage boy threw a grenade at a U.S.-Iraqi patrol in the same area on Thursday, then fled the scene when it failed to detonate, the military said.
Nobody was harmed in those attacks. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate grenade attacks elsewhere in the area on Thursday, although it was not known who was responsible for the incidents.
A boy between the ages of 14 and 16 threw a grenade at a joint convoy of U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police in Hawijah on May 26, but no injuries or damage were reported, according to the statement.
The military also said a boy as young as 14 was the driver in a suicide car bombing that killed five Iraqi policemen in Kirkuk on May 12, while a 19-year-old man was arrested while trying to detonate a suicide vest at a Shiite mosque in the city on May 1, the statement said.
Four alleged members of a group known to recruit children were arrested on April 14, the military said.
Insurgent groups are trying to take advantage of the fact “that children do not draw as much attention and soldiers do not want to harm them,” the U.S. said in the statement.
The United Nations also has expressed concern that rising numbers of Iraqi youths have been recruited into militias and insurgent groups.
The U.S. military released several videos last year seized from suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq hideouts that showed militants training children who appeared as young as 10 to kidnap and kill. Children have also been used as decoys in Iraq.
yawwwwnnnnn
LMAO.
Good for him. MOST people don’t understand how many trees are cut down so they can wipe their ass or blow their nose.
They make TP & paper towels from recycled post-consumer paper. That’s what I use.
!st, we are not making the earth warmer, do some research, its a natural progression. Ask any actual scientist.
2nd, at least trees are replenishable
3rd, legalize hemp and use that !!
and finally 4th, I am NOT giving up wiping my ass with real TP. PERIOD
am I am not giving up wiping my hiney either. I like to use those wet wipes that are flushable.
Gotta remember bacteria nowadays!
He can use a corn cob…..I don’t care!
lol
Gross, but can i see more of him in that pic?
I am going to use twice as much every time just because I find his scolding so obnoxious. Maybe just wipe with an entire roll each time.
^^i hope you don’t really do that because that response would also be obnoxious.
I’m sorry, but hairy cracks require at least 16 squares.
Oh come on! He’s not saying go completely commando and just live like a bush pig, he’s just saying cut the amount you use, which is good advice. I realised after reading it that I use about 10 squares each time for no reason at all.
each person’s hiney is different. Some folks have tummy troubles….or whatever…..and they are gonna use whatever amt of tp that is needed.
period. There are so many much more serious things than toliet paper that you can cut back on for heavens sake.
I won’t eat at his house for sure! Wonder if he uses soap…or does he consider that taboo too?
HOT!!! very masculine/man vs. wild. and he has a point with the toilet paper thing. your **** stinks too so get over it pls.
He has officially gone completely insane!!
yeah……his head is now stuck up in his butt.
Need a huge wad to help him relieve himself
yeah i was counting my squares the other day (i wonder why…i didn’t think this would actually impact me) and i was at 8…and i cut it down to 4. it’s all good. do it within your means, but don’t just be happy being ignorant and uninformed. dumbness is a disease. don’t be a subscriber.
good for you Mertz- Hoped you washed you stinky hands.
Don’t be silly and an jerk calling people ignorant and uninformed over of all things…..toliet paper! LOL
Dumbness and being a jerk is a disease.
There real reasons some people can’t use 8 or less!
There are more important things to do on this earth to save the environment.
hey everything you do counts. that’s what i was agreeing with the girl previous (steph), and for people who keep saying more important things can be done, yes that’s true, but EVERYTHING YOU DO COUNTS, and you can’t discount that. there’s really no argument here. everyone starts in their own way. i had just realized that i do actually count my squares prior to the blog and after this blog, and i had just realized that what he’s saying is nothing new to me. and like some dude was saying it varies for each person. unlucky for me i’m really tiny and i hate acting human and using the washroom. i’m not better than anyone here. there are some really dumb comments here though about something positive in what jason was imparting. it’s okay if people don’t do it or don’t want to hear it, but it’s not really funny and people promoting their ignorance in their comments like it’s okay. i’m the first person to call on my own bullsh*t.
ok mertz….
Have a merry good time taking your little butt to the toliet and counting your squares a day.
LOL
@GoodGirl:
why is it so hard to just use water?
lol. see i’m not crazy. even pot heads know the don’t flush number 1 rule and flush number 2’s. lol. asher just tweeted this today
http://twitter.com/asherroth
@clintonsparks being green = keep it mellow if its yellow, flush it down if its brown - conserve water
about 6 hours ago from TwitterBerry
i feel vindicated. my mom tells me and my bros all the time. don’t all mom’s?
you are so wise and beautiful…i will give it a try.
I dunno. I agree with him, ppl don’t talk enough about this stuff imo. I buy toilet paper made of recycled goods and make sure the roll lasts a few days in our house, and thats with three kids.. small things make big differences people.. cutting back on the tolit paper, paper plates, 1 time use water bottles, and over packaged merchandise would be a HUGE step in the right direction to preserve the beauty of our world..its hilarious to me that people spent money on hair dye and wrinkle cream to preserve their personal beauty while litterally causing decay to the mother of us all.
*Love*
haha great tips but i won’t follow them during my period
coooooool pic
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