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echo: fidonews
to: BJRN FELTEN
from: MIKE MILLER
date: 2020-12-01 17:19:00
subject: The US obsession with toi

Hello, Bj”rn Felten.
On 12/1/20 4:39 PM you wrote:

 ak>> .. toilet paper and what else? ;-)
 BF>    Sigh!
 BF>    What's with this weird US toilet paper obsession? Whenever 
 BF> there is a cricies of any kind, they all storm to the nearby 
 BF> supermarket and fights like their lives depended on it, emptying 
 BF> the shelves as fast as possible.
 BF>    It simply makes no sense to me. But then again, I have a bid‚ 
 BF> at home and uses about one roll of toilet paper per year -- 
 BF> usually used up by foreign visitors who prefer spreading their 
 BF> shit around between their buttocks with a handful of paper rather 
 BF> than washing it away with the bid‚.
 BF>    Quite a cultural difference, I'd say...?
Kimberly Clark, Georgia-Pacific, and Proctor & Gamble all have great marketing
departments. 

No one is more susceptible to conspiracy theories through marketing than us
'murricans! 


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