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People warn about culture shock, but nothing prepared ne for this solid toilet paper roll in Vietnam (lemmy.world)

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

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[-] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

when you take brutalism so far that your toilet paper looks like concrete

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Now with 20% more aggregate!

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

It's exfoliating!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It’s just a little asbestos, don’t worry about it comrade!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Assbestos

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Fireproof toilet paper, truly innovative.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

Don’t go to Russia.

There's a very tall list of reasons to not go to Russia and their toilet papers isn't very high on it.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I don't know...

My list goes:

Their toilet paper
I might criticize Putin
I might criticize the government

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, I wouldn't worry about 2 and 3 that much. It's just that as a foreigner, especially if you are from the US, you will most definitely fall under the surveillance of FSB and the cops will look at you twice, but they're not paid half-decent enough to actually give a shit and do their job properly. They might harass you here and there but if you don't do anything stupid like protesting in red square or doing selfies in front of military bases, then they'll have nothing against you. I imagine that's not that much worse than living in the US under CIA's umbrella and trigger happy cops. Other than that, it's not nearly an extreme hellhole like NK, Afghanistan or Syria that people make it sound like. In fact, you can get by in Moscow or St. Petersburg without a guide or translator just fine. I'd rather advise to watch out for the tourist traps(the usual), and to avoid getting out of the city limits and into the suburbs because of the much increased crime levels.

Ah, and put the fact that for every dollar you spend there, you put 20 cents straight into Putin's pocket into that list...

And also that you'd probably need a visa and it's a hassle...

And that you'd probably need a Russian friend to get you hooked up with the basics and avoid going through the bureaucracy - like with currency exchange, credit card, carrier plan, etc...

Also that weather is rather harsh there...

And also that it's probably the dirtiest country on earth because city planners didn't zone out lawns and parks properly therefore the mud gets spread absolutely everywhere...

And that internet is half-broken, with half sites censored while the others block everyone from Russian IP's because sanctions...

And that Ukraine might not let you in afterwards...

And that you'd for sure be questioned by your homecountry's intelligence services...

And that's about all that I can think of.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

And you'd likely be held prisoner as a trading chip for Russian murderers.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, it that case you're referring to, the guy was actually snooping around which would fall into doing stupid things. But, just in case, just this once, here's a free get out of jail free card: If you ever got caught just say that you're an orthodox christian who came to Russia to enjoy based traditional culture in this bastion of anti-woke-ism and family values, and complain about some dumb shit like how western liberal agenda prevents you from hitting your wife or something. They can't put you on TV while you are in prison, so they'll have to let you go.

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Might accodentally fly my drone into a cracking vessel at an oil refinery. Whoops.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

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)

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That's because soft toilet paper is too gay for Russia.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Fellas, is it gay to use tp that doesn't hurt?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

MEDIC!

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago

I've been on Lemmy for about a year, so I'm certain that communism is the only right path.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

But do you hate AI?

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

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".

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

did you libreboot it tho?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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!

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

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???

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Dont let the Republicans find out! They will lobby to take free TP out of schools on account of spreading communist ideology.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 week 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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

H.E.B. store brand toilet paper is like that. Haven't seen any other companies do it.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

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 👍

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

^ this user does not wash their asshole

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I see at least 3 plys.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

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