Are westerners being robbed of TP when we get the hollow rolls? Is communism the right path after all?

  • LouNeko@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Food so spicy, they give you a roll of bandages as toilet paper. Patch yourself up.

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        3 months ago

        Well, first aid for an arterial bleeding is to “stuff a finger in the hole and get the person to lay down on the floor”. I suppose that could still be relevant here… If you have a cock ring I guess you could apply it as a tourniquet

  • Norin@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    You can buy something like this here in the US.

    The roll is smaller, and they market it as being made for camping (takes up less space in the pack, etc). It also, of course, costs more because of this, since modern camping gear loves to price gouge.

    If you’re going to pack TP though, just spool what you need around something smaller in diameter (like a skewer). Or if you know what you’re doing then just use leaves instead, those are free.

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    3 months ago

    There are some commercial rolls I’ve seen in the US that seem to be a happy medium…the holder itself in the stall has a thin plastic rod for the TP to go on, and the rolls have a very small opening in the center (and no cardboard) to go on that rod.

  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I used to buy rolls where the center of the tube came as a little personal roll you could put in your purse. I can’t remember which brand anymore.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    The toilet paper I used in Taiwan was in the form of individual pieces folded up like American tissues for blowing your nose. I even accused my host of making me use tissues, but she showed me that they were actually marketed as toilet paper. Oh, and I couldn’t flush them. That was not embarrassing at all.

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    3 months ago

    Here in Vietnam we use the whole toilet paper! That’s 65% more toilet paper per toilet paper!

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    3 months ago

    In China it comes stacked in bags and you pull it out sheet by sheet like paper hand towels or a box of tissues. You can hang the bag up.

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    3 months ago

    Just yesterday I was reminiscing with my wife about how TP rolls used to have no tube when we were children and how hard it was to find the center to put them on the holder.

  • Meron35@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Solid TP rolls are quite common in Asia. Not sure if this is still true, but a lot of public toilets don’t provide toilet paper for fear of people stealing them. You have to bring your own TP, at which point including the cardboard insert takes up too much space to carry around.