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You can watch it here. Such a hilarious-yet-moving story!
Nala commented:
Maynne Millena-Millares replied:
I cannot understand Western culture and toilet paper. You guys don’t have bidet in your comfort rooms?
I cannot understand Western culture and toilet paper. You guys don’t have bidet in your comfort rooms?
My reply:
I was looking for this comment. Even at his lowest, Taran didn’t think of using a plastic bath bowl full of water with a handle (the washing hands with soap afterwards is obvious, so there’s no need to mention it) — no bidet necessary. The fact that his brain went for stealing toilet paper from Subway instead of that proves that the toilet paper culture runs a whole lot deeper than one might expect — just look at how people started panic-buying toilet paper when news of COVID19 first broke out. I’m not judging him, of course. I just think it’s interesting that sometimes the alternative is right in front of us (using water and soap), and yet we can’t help but make a more extreme choice. I can count on one hand the times I had to use toilet paper here in Morocco, and I hated it every time; it’s the equivalent of telling a kid to clean their room, and all they do is “make you think” that they cleaned their room, if you catch my drift. Also, it’s funny how some people have suddenly become such ‘environmentalists with a conscience’, claiming that it’s less wasteful to use toilet paper as opposed to using water. To those people I say, let’s compare our water bills, and our toilet paper usage, and see who wastes more money, and resources, shall well?
I was looking for this comment. Even at his lowest, Taran didn’t think of using a plastic bath bowl full of water with a handle (the washing hands with soap afterwards is obvious, so there’s no need to mention it) — no bidet necessary. The fact that his brain went for stealing toilet paper from Subway instead of that proves that the toilet paper culture runs a whole lot deeper than one might expect — just look at how people started panic-buying toilet paper when news of COVID19 first broke out. I’m not judging him, of course. I just think it’s interesting that sometimes the alternative is right in front of us (using water and soap), and yet we can’t help but make a more extreme choice. I can count on one hand the times I had to use toilet paper here in Morocco, and I hated it every time; it’s the equivalent of telling a kid to clean their room, and all they do is “make you think” that they cleaned their room, if you catch my drift. Also, it’s funny how some people have suddenly become such ‘environmentalists with a conscience’, claiming that it’s less wasteful to use toilet paper as opposed to using water. To those people I say, let’s compare our water bills, and our toilet paper usage, and see who wastes more money, and resources, shall well?