Comments on: Life Without Toilet Paper

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 07 Dec 2006 05:59:41 +0000

Bidets are the shit.

By: kim

kim — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 19:10:17 +0000

that’s unreal. it’s so hard to believe that it’s 2006, and we sit here trying to envision the future and how our everyday procedures will be changed as technology expands, and we still have parts of the world not even using something as common as TOILET PAPER.

By: pinkyracer

pinkyracer — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:03:21 +0000

yeah, and in most parts of the world, it’s still not used. In Tanzania, people wipe with their left hand, then rinse it off in the faucet next to the pit toilet they’re squatting over, if they have indoor plumbing. If there’s soap they might use that too, but I never saw soap in those bathrooms. Most had TP as well, for the tourists. But when I asked for some at someone’s home, she laughed at me. And I got Giardia, probably from a chef who did his business then went back to work handling food with both hands. The whole etiquette is that you’re not supposed to eat or pass food with your left hand.

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:54:53 +0000

John Spartan: [whispering to Lenina] Look, I don’t know if you guys know it, but uh… you’re out of toilet paper.

Alfredo Garcia: [confused] Did… did you say toilet *paper*?

Lenina Huxley: Um… they used handfuls of wadded paper back in the 20th…
[Lenina, Alfredo, and Erwin all laugh]

John Spartan: I’m happy that you’re happy, but the place where you’re supposed to have the toilet paper, you’ve got this little shelf with three seashells on it.

Erwin: He doesn’t know how to use the three seashells!
[Erwin continues to laugh, then calms down]

Erwin: I can see how that could be confusing.