Are westerners being robbed of TP when we get the hollow rolls? Is communism the right path after all?
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.
As a household that doesn’t use a toilet paper roller, this would be amazing. I hate throwing away all those empty rolls
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.
Just rip the tube up and use it like a really tick toilet paper
Like a paint scraper
Thanks, I hate it.
Food so spicy, the give you a roll of bandages as oilet paper. Parch 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
ZE MEDIC IS HIYAAR!
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.
Fascinating
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!
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.
Skin pores close on cold water, making it less effective. Feels gross for me too (hypersensitivity), did that once for a while in a hot summer.
Hmm. I guess theoretically you could soap up with warmer water before getting in the cold shower. So the shower is mostly just rinse.
I was in the southern parts, you were hot and it was already warm. The shower was basically a way to cool off. I would take a couple a day, but they were always quick. and again, water pressure was like 5-10 psi on a good day.
We got an Airbnb in Hanoi at one point, and that had hot showers and good pressure and I took a very long one. Best I had felt in a while.
Yeah when they say 10 min max limit, they really mean it.
And even then you see people taking showers as fast as 5 minutes to save water stored in the tank.
Do they use rainwater collection tanks for showers or is it just a buffer tank on the roof to compensate for low pressure?
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.
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.
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):
This is common in US motels and some hotels. It’s supposed to say that one should put their towel on the floor, rather than the rack, to have it replaced.
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.
Life after Zionism
toilet paper without cardboard roll centers are much cheaper to produce, though impossible to place in a toilet paper holder, so they sit on the sink, or the floor, or a long nail in the wall
Tbf I can’t remember the last time I used a toilet paper holder.
TBF I can’t remember the last time I used toilet paper.
Bidet shower master race.
I get my servants to hold one for me while I need it
I mean, it’s own toilet roll, Micheal. What could it cost, 10 dollars?
you use it to place the roll standing on top
What’s my wife doing on Lemmy wrf
they have tp holders for those tubeless rolls. It’s hung on the wall like a box with a slit at the bottom to pull the tp through.
Do they not have holders specifically designed for it? Could just have two rollers that support it from the bottom.
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We used to have one at home. It’s like a clam shell – the roll sits in the bottom half, the hinged top half closes on top, and the paper is threaded through a wide gap.
Well look at the genius who figured out the sea shells!
Did you model that whole thing just to show us what you meant?
Yep.
That’s awesome dude, nice work! I wish I were this good in blender. I have to use CAD to make my models and then export them to the scene in blender. It’s an annoying workflow but I’m just not good at “traditional” modeling in blender
Depends on how many sheets there are per roll, and how many layers.
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.
did you libreboot it tho?
and also use framework
Legitimately curious about the stockings. I get all the other jokes in this thread but that one went over my head.
They transed their gender
I like your profile picture.
I appreciate me some Superintendent love. 👍
But do you hate AI?
I fucking hate it. I’ve lost all my friends because I was just spamming anti AI memes from Lemmy to everyone I knew. They’ve all blocked me, but I’d like to think they will think twice before “doing AI”.
loathe. i loathe ai
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!
It’s their Independence Day, September 2nd.
Yes, the night time street festivals and celebrations were amazing in Hanoi and Ninh Binh, Im so lucky I happened to come at this time.
and 2 weeks later will be the Moon Festival. It’s like the whole city is on hallucinogens LOL so many light and colors.
I’m sorry, the right answer was anarchosyndicalism.
Send this red fascist class traitor to the mines.
