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New York Jets NFL team bring 350 rolls of toilet paper to London because British variety is too thin
The Telegraph ^ | 10/2/15 | Sophie Jameson

Posted on 10/02/2015 6:37:09 AM PDT by markomalley

When NFL team the New York Jets take to the field at Wembley on Sunday, the US players should feel right at home.

Nothing has been left to chance in preparing the Jets for their game against the Miami Dolphins - with the team even bringing their own toilet roll because the British variety is too thin.

An astonishing 5,000 items have been brought to the UK by ship for the six NFL teams who will play in London.

Among the items being brought to London, according to the New York Times, which spoke to Aaron Degerness, The Jets’ senior manager of team operations, are:


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To: markomalley

I think Americans are spoiled by the very high quality of toilet paper available for sale here. Not that many countries sell toilet paper anything like what we have here (maybe Japan and South Korea are the exceptions).


21 posted on 10/02/2015 7:13:28 AM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: markomalley

I always figured the London game was just a lot of roll playing


22 posted on 10/02/2015 7:17:29 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: markomalley

How many British toilets will our plush toilet paper clog?


23 posted on 10/02/2015 7:17:37 AM PDT by toothfairy86
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To: RummyChick
I haven't been there, Britain, for three years, but the last time I was there the toilet paper was quite adequate for the task at hand. (Get it?....task at hand? I'm here all day folks.)

But I'm not a pro football player. We might not want to go there.

24 posted on 10/02/2015 7:19:59 AM PDT by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: ctdonath2
Just got back from Germany myself. I wonder why the heck they have a Flat shelf in the toilet ? Makes it easier for them to look at theiir business?

Weird

25 posted on 10/02/2015 7:20:05 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: markomalley

26 posted on 10/02/2015 7:22:18 AM PDT by xp38
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To: xp38

That’s thoughtful of them to put a drinking fountain in the room.


27 posted on 10/02/2015 7:28:07 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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To: markomalley

And then there is that commercial with the English gal trying to get us to use special “wipes.”


28 posted on 10/02/2015 7:30:05 AM PDT by Slyfox (Will no one rid us of this meddlesome president?)
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To: markomalley

Talk about something that justified the Revolution...


29 posted on 10/02/2015 7:34:01 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ditter
It has been a while since I have been there but French TP is awful..........when you could find it!

Kinda like what we use to wrap lunch meat is what I remember. I remember a hole in the floor and a women with a kid walking in behind me in a cafe in Paris.

30 posted on 10/02/2015 7:39:05 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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To: markomalley
In my best voice, so the Jets are s#*tty? Who knew? lol
31 posted on 10/02/2015 7:42:41 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: markomalley
O, the pioneers have hairy ears, They piss thru leather britches;
They wipe their ass on broken glass, Those hardy sons-of-bitches!

32 posted on 10/02/2015 7:43:53 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: markomalley
Most of the world is astonished that we use fresh water to flush the toilet.
33 posted on 10/02/2015 7:46:25 AM PDT by Phlap (REDNECK@LIBARTS.EDU)
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To: onedoug
True American Patriots!!






34 posted on 10/02/2015 7:48:27 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: markomalley

Charmin for me. - I like the big rolls of original Charmin. Not the stuff that’s more like cloth than toilet paper.
- Grew up on an outdoor toilet and the Sears & Roebuck catalog. (The Charmin doesn’t itch; most others are treated
with some chemical or something that I’m allergic to I reckon.) The stuff at school was VERY primitive TP.


35 posted on 10/02/2015 7:54:19 AM PDT by Twinkie (John 3:16)
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To: Twinkie

My grandparents had a big old elegant house that had a PINK bathroom.

It had PINK tile and a PINK toilet, bathtub and sink.
And my grandmother used to exclusively buy Charmin toilet paper in PINK.

Have not seen it for years. I heard lots of women started showing up at their doctor’s thinking they had got the herpes when in fact they were having an allergic reaction to their colored toilet paper.


36 posted on 10/02/2015 8:02:17 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: markomalley

Some prankster might put Exlax in the team meal before the game.

5.56mm


37 posted on 10/02/2015 8:05:09 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Stentor

I remember the French “hole in the floor toilet” . I am a woman and had to undress to make sure I was over it just to pee. Wouldn’t you know it there was a man on the roof peeking at me.

I think I screamed something that they had not heard a Texan say since WW2.


38 posted on 10/02/2015 8:30:36 AM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: ctdonath2

Guess they didn’t want to be caught asking, “Can you spare a square?”


39 posted on 10/02/2015 8:45:29 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ditter
I think I screamed something that they had not heard a Texan say since WW2.

If you had told anyone over there about it, you would have gotten that stupid shrug that they do. I had a Depardieu look alike on the Metro show me how he used to fight in the old days. Fists stopping inches from my nose. I looked him straight in the eye and he ambled away. A french dude translated that he had actually been a boxer and was probably trying to scare an American tourist.

All in all it was a beautiful city. Oh, I almost forgot, I saw a salami hit his wife in a McDonalds. He slapped her with a hand he brought from behind his head. No reaction whatever in the place. This was 96.

40 posted on 10/02/2015 8:49:25 AM PDT by Stentor ("The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.")
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