People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam
People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam
Are westerners being robbed of TP when we get the hollow rolls? Is communism the right path after all?
I've been on Lemmy for about a year, so I'm certain that communism is the only right path.
Same, I've installed Arch on my ThinkPad, shaved my legs and put on knee high stockings. I also give every car a middle finger and swear when walking past parking lots. Lemmy has radicalized me in surprising ways.
Good man! It also happened to be Vietnams national holiday here yesterday, and so there were national flags and hammer and sickle flags everywhere, festivals, and street performances about Ho Chi Minh and the struggle aganst France, China, US, and TBH i never felt so patriotic for a country not my own!
I'm sorry, the right answer was anarchosyndicalism.
Send this red fascist class traitor to the mines.
Don't go to Russia. Every once in a while you can encounter this atrocity. Yes, it has holes right out of the roll, no perforation whatsoever and not even a hole that you could hang it on and therefore outer layers are always dirty. And, of course, feels like a sandpaper, tears when wiping, but stretches when you actually try to get a piece. Please don't tell me that this exists outside of Russia, that'd be way to much assrash for this world.
That's because soft toilet paper is too gay for Russia.
Fellas, is it gay to use tp that doesn't hurt?
I encountered this in Ukraine, often combined with those toilets in the floor and/or extremely rickety, extremely "well-loved" outhouses. Once, we stopped in what appeared to be a stranger's yard and my hosts advised we were at the rest stop. I asked where the restroom was. They all started laughing. They are a hearty bunch.
The one that's just like a concrete block with few holes in the floor? God that shit's terrifying. Grew up in Russia and luckily never had to use one of those as they were never the only option. But if I had to, I'd rather shit my pants instead. Had to use shoddy garden toilets, squat toilets and toilets with no stalls before a few times each, all were awful experiences, but this thing, it combines all three for the ultimate discomfort.
You see these in Poland every now and then, just with an actual central hole. I remember seeing these in my school, we used to call it srajtaśma ("shit tape" is the best translation I can think of), and it was just as bad as you described it. It also had a very particular smell to it.
Funny how I could probably understand what you mean if you said it without translation. Sounds very simillar to срать тесьма, which is also shit tape, though it's not a correct grammatically in Russian. To my knowledge, we don't have a specific name for it, but if there were I'd say it'd either be студенческая/солдатсткая (student/soldier) paper because they're so poor, or жоподёрка (the assripper)
So it's just crepe streamer paper?
Very close to it, yeah, like a very thin and shitty one. Doesn't stretch as much nor is as sturdy, but the texture is spot on.
Its literally tissue paper, I think youre being pretty dramatic
looks like itd be more ecofriendly because its mot bleached, and its not shipping around with a heap of empty space for the (now i think about it) oversized cardboard tube
These exist and are widely used in rural Romania. Even public institutions like schools and town halls use these there. They're not the worst you can get though. About 10-15 years ago you'd also stumble across houses that had no toilet paper, just newspapers. You were supposed to wipe with those. Not a fun experience!
What the hell??? This can barely even be called "toilet paper".
It's so hard to use toilet paper after getting a bidet.
I mean sure, I use TP to double check the bidet did it's job and to dry. But wiping twice as opposed to dealing with a marker butthole has spoiled me.
Only reason you have a marker butthole is because you ain't eating enough fiber motha fucka. Get some fiber powder and drink that shit bro wtf don't spread misinformation like you spread your ass to shoot water up there to enema douche the bit of poop you left pinched off up your buttholy hole because you ain't eating some God damn fiber my man!! EAT FIBER YO POO BE ONE BIG OL UNBREAKABLE LINK ITS WONDERFUL 👍
That’s cuz you gotta bring your own TP with you instead of it being provided to you for free. No need for a TP holder tube if you’re not gonna share.
Wait, are US bathrooms communist???
Dont let the Republicans find out! They will lobby to take free TP out of schools on account of spreading communist ideology.
Food so spicy, they give you a roll of bandages as toilet paper. Patch yourself up.
MEDIC!
ZE MEDIC IS HIYAAR!
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
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.
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.
Shitposting is being taken a little too literally lately
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.
H.E.B. store brand toilet paper is like that. Haven't seen any other companies do it.
As a household that doesn't use a toilet paper roller, this would be amazing. I hate throwing away all those empty rolls
Just rip the tube up and use it like a really tick toilet paper
Thanks, I hate it.
Like a paint scraper
I try to find uses for ours where we can. I have a BBQ with a dead sparker so I usually use a half-tube which I light on fire and drop by the burner before turning on the gas
half-tube
Short cylinder or long half cylinder?
Take dryer lint and stuff it in half a toilet paper roll, then dip it in some melted wax. Makes a great fire starter and you can use stuff you're gonna throw away anyway.
I dont think i saw any TP in VN. Everything was bidet and wash hands.
wasnt terrible. Cold showers constantly and no water pressure were by far more of a culture shock to me. It was more similar to when I would go and hike for weeks on end in college.
In Brazil I saw a toiled paper that the center was filled with another roll, so you'd need to remove that center to put it in your bathroom and use it as a "portable toilet paper" to carry with you
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.
If I may ask, what country and how long ago was this? I have never really seen this before
This exists now in the US at Target. I liked them, actually.
That's an option here in Japan, though most don't use it. I'm pretty sure some people sell that style in the US as well. I use one that has a hole but no cardboard insert.
Where do you think all the centers of our TP go?
But what about all the kids crafts and hamster tubes?
I see your Vietnam toilet paper and raise it with with my paradoxical environmental savings whatever this is (lights were on when this picture taken):
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.
I got a box of these from Amazon in 2020. (In USA)
Are you still using them?
They were kinda handy to have around tbh. Like, tissue in my backpack during allergy season, or in my car. I think we used them as tp on a camping trip.
At home, we only used them until the usual tp rolls came back into supply.
They came in a pretty big package so we had them around for a couple years, but I think they're all gone now... So, yeah we used them, maybe not as intended and maybe not favorably, but they saved my ass in 2020, literally!
Life after Zionism
I don't see how that's related..?
Depends on how many sheets there are per roll, and how many layers.
That's called coreless TP and you can get it in the US too, mostly from institutional suppliers. You can also try Asian markets like Ranch 99 if you are near one.
Is this different from the one that's also coreless but designed to fit on the spike style roller dispenser?
They have the same thing in China, it’s very confusing.
