Are westerners being robbed of TP when we get the hollow rolls? Is communism the right path after all?
Food so spicy, they give you a roll of bandages as toilet paper. Patch yourself up.
MEDIC!
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
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.
if you know what you’re doing then just use leaves
For those who may not know what they’re doing, I’ve crafted a handy guide:
Or just use one of these.
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With sumac water?
@Allero@lemmy.today - portable bidet. Clever design! Better than many I think:
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You forgot our beloved nettle!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Here in Vietnam we use the whole toilet paper! That’s 65% more toilet paper per toilet paper!
But what about all the kids crafts and hamster tubes?
Where do you think all the centers of our TP go?
I got a box of these from Amazon in 2020. (In USA)
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?
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.
They have the same thing in China, it’s very confusing.
