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To: listenhillary
Apparently, early production techniques managed to embed splinters in the paper.”

Eastern Europe (and elsewhere in Europe?) they still use tree bark and other coarser wood materials for TP. Best to bring your own favorite.

34 posted on 08/06/2012 5:11:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Eric Holder's NAACP rally against the voter ID laws required the press to bring govt issue photo ID.)
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I was deployed to Uzbekistan in 2004. If the portajohns ran out of good ol’ U.S. style TP, they substituted good ol’ former Soviet Union style TP. I have a souvenir roll of that Russian stuff. Not like sandpaper, but close.

And in a restaurant in Samarkand the WC was an elevated hole in the floor. I only needed to take a whiz but noticed that used TP went into a wastebasket next to the hole. Ewww!

My deployment to an independent republic of the defunct USSR taught me one thing: nothing, I repeat, nothing bad I ever heard about life under communism was ever proven to be wrong. The socialist quality of life sucked beyond all imagining; the middle aged Uzbeks told me so, and I swear their younger generation was nostalgic for Josef Stalin & they told me so too!

Humble toilet paper a measure of the general societal quality of life? You bet your bippy!


43 posted on 08/06/2012 7:39:27 PM PDT by elcid1970 (Nuke Mecca now. Death to Islam means freedom for all mankind. Deus vult!)
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