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Eduardo- good thinking with the "papers" response!
As far as the availibility of different products in Brazil, I found that in São Paulo certain Carrefour, Pão de Açucar and other stores carried American or European goods , it was just a matter of knowing which stores had what. Then Walmart came to Brazil, and I think their success inspired their competitors to do things like stock the same inventory in all stores and so on. When I was last in Brazil (2004) things were very different at the big department stores than they were in 1996.
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I use the recycled TJ's paper ( cheaper than 7th Gen, but with all the eco-benefits.) Over the top, of course. I hate lotion-y TP, if I wanted lotion there......
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They do have everything in Brazil that you could wish for...but I was a missionary with an R$85/month mesada. We couldn't buy the best stuff. We built up tougher skin in certain places as a result.
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quote:Probably only half the households in Bulgaria used toilet paper (so we always made sure to carry around a little packet of tissues for those situations) and it was of the newspaper variety, the others used washcloths (or perhaps nothing at all - since I recall some times where there were no discernable wiping implements, not even seashells).
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Does anyone use colored TP? My parents would get blue at times and it would always make me do a double take every time there was a new roll, especially after having had white for awhile.
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Is colored TP safe? Is that really a region where you want to be rubbing highly soluble material filled with dyes?
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I love toilet paper. It's so much better than using corn cobs or newspapers. Even better is that wet toilet paper. Best stuff ever. I don't bother with Charmin and stuff. An ad about bears using toilet paper is just...too...creapy. So I just buy the store brand.
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That's why it's worth the extra $$ to buy the undyed. White TP is bleached with dioxin, which is highly carcinogenic. Do you really want to rub sensitive tissue with a carcinogen?
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Some institutions here use the sandpaper variety--schools, etc. Others use one ply stuff that, while not rough, falls apart at the lightest touch. We use Cottonelle ultra with ripples; it's one of the few things that I absolutely insist we buy brand name.
Oh, and I agree with whoever (Tom?) said toilet paper was a worthy topic of review. To quote Legally Blonde: "All those opposed to chafing, please say 'Aye'."
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quote:Originally posted by Verily the Younger: Is colored TP safe? Is that really a region where you want to be rubbing highly soluble material filled with dyes?
Who knows. I think they've stopped buying the blue kind, but I'm not home enough to know for sure.
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quote: That's why it's worth the extra $$ to buy the undyed. White TP is bleached with dioxin, which is highly carcinogenic. Do you really want to rub sensitive tissue with a carcinogen?
Do you get this at a health store? I've never seen it at a grocery store.
It's a reference to the movie Demolition Man with Sly Stallone and Sandra Bullock. I thought it was hilarious. Of course, pop-culture references are always funny to me in those rare occurrances that I'm familiar with what is being referenced--that's why I enjoyed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory so much.
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A fair amount of eastern cultures do not use toilet paper but cleanse themselves with water (or use a combination). In fact, growing up in Somalia, merely using toilet paper was considered most unclean and therefore unholy (i.e., you aren't clean enough to pray if you merely use toilet paper.) In the bathrooms would be a little kettle one would pour down to the area in question and then simultaneously rinse with the other hand...all of this of course to be followed by cutting that hand off.
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Gee, Rico, I'd have been worried about rogue toilet seats from the space shuttle given the rest of the thread... =)
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quote: quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's why it's worth the extra $$ to buy the undyed. White TP is bleached with dioxin, which is highly carcinogenic. Do you really want to rub sensitive tissue with a carcinogen? --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Do you get this at a health store? I've never seen it at a grocery store.
I buy it at Trader Joe's.
It's not just the slight risk of rectal cancer, it's that the dioxins used to bleach the...TP, tissue, paper plates, etc get into the water supply and can contribute to any number of cancers.
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quote:Originally posted by the_Somalian: A fair amount of eastern cultures do not use toilet paper but cleanse themselves with water (or use a combination). In fact, growing up in Somalia, merely using toilet paper was considered most unclean and therefore unholy (i.e., you aren't clean enough to pray if you merely use toilet paper.) In the bathrooms would be a little kettle one would pour down to the area in question and then simultaneously rinse with the other hand...all of this of course to be followed by cutting that hand off.
Best. Post. Ever!!!
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quote:Originally posted by Shan:In terms of how the toilet paper flows from the roll, I was actually woken up at midnight by my dad (I was about 16) to change the direction from under to over.
Good for him! It is nice to know of parents committed to teaching their children to do things right!
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I posted this on the thread on the other side:
I think that people who are responsible for toilet paper decisions for institutions such as places of employment, schools, stores, whatever, ought to be forced to have whatever brand they choose in their homes as their personal toilet paper. Think of it as a perk: tey should just be able to take it home and never pay for personal toilet paper--but it must be that same brand.
Similarly, people who have toilet paper dispensers installed that have that little peg that makes it so that you can only get one quare at a time ought to have those installed in their homes as well.
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