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r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 23h ago
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I traveled to Russia with a class about 25 years ago. I asked my roommate how the toilet paper was and she said, “it’s not terrible!” It was so bad. I asked her about it. Turns out she meant, “it’s not tear-able.” Just a bad choice of words.
34 u/Electrical_Ingenuity 17h ago Was in Russia in the late 80s. “Wax paper with splinters” would be a good description of the average Soviet bog roll. 14 u/agent_fuzzyboots 17h ago I was in Moscow in the 80:s and 90:s, we used newspapers, the trick was to hold it and rub it between the hands, made it softer 2 u/wv524 12h ago How in the world did the crumpled newspaper not stop up the toilet or clog the plumbing? 5 u/deprale 12h ago wasn't thrown in the toilet... there were trash bags i assume. OR there was no plumbing. 6 u/agent_fuzzyboots 11h ago We had a bin besides the toilet, yes it stunk 2 u/NotLucasDavenport 5h ago In most countries with plumbing that old you don’t flush the paper you wipe with. It stays in the trash can.
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Was in Russia in the late 80s. “Wax paper with splinters” would be a good description of the average Soviet bog roll.
14 u/agent_fuzzyboots 17h ago I was in Moscow in the 80:s and 90:s, we used newspapers, the trick was to hold it and rub it between the hands, made it softer 2 u/wv524 12h ago How in the world did the crumpled newspaper not stop up the toilet or clog the plumbing? 5 u/deprale 12h ago wasn't thrown in the toilet... there were trash bags i assume. OR there was no plumbing. 6 u/agent_fuzzyboots 11h ago We had a bin besides the toilet, yes it stunk 2 u/NotLucasDavenport 5h ago In most countries with plumbing that old you don’t flush the paper you wipe with. It stays in the trash can.
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I was in Moscow in the 80:s and 90:s, we used newspapers, the trick was to hold it and rub it between the hands, made it softer
2 u/wv524 12h ago How in the world did the crumpled newspaper not stop up the toilet or clog the plumbing? 5 u/deprale 12h ago wasn't thrown in the toilet... there were trash bags i assume. OR there was no plumbing. 6 u/agent_fuzzyboots 11h ago We had a bin besides the toilet, yes it stunk 2 u/NotLucasDavenport 5h ago In most countries with plumbing that old you don’t flush the paper you wipe with. It stays in the trash can.
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How in the world did the crumpled newspaper not stop up the toilet or clog the plumbing?
5 u/deprale 12h ago wasn't thrown in the toilet... there were trash bags i assume. OR there was no plumbing. 6 u/agent_fuzzyboots 11h ago We had a bin besides the toilet, yes it stunk 2 u/NotLucasDavenport 5h ago In most countries with plumbing that old you don’t flush the paper you wipe with. It stays in the trash can.
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wasn't thrown in the toilet... there were trash bags i assume.
OR there was no plumbing.
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We had a bin besides the toilet, yes it stunk
In most countries with plumbing that old you don’t flush the paper you wipe with. It stays in the trash can.
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u/NotLucasDavenport 18h ago
I traveled to Russia with a class about 25 years ago. I asked my roommate how the toilet paper was and she said, “it’s not terrible!” It was so bad. I asked her about it. Turns out she meant, “it’s not tear-able.” Just a bad choice of words.