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   Kim Scheinberg (kims@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 20:09:41 JST Kim Scheinberg

   In most ways I think Europe is so much saner and healthier than the US — I would very much like to figure out how to move here — but there is one respect in which I remain the ugliest of ugly Americans:

   I am convinced that I could make a fortune selling Charmin and other such luxury toilet paper brands in Paris, Berlin, and Barcelona

   I know, I know, Europe has bidets (and older plumbing that makes US two-ply stuff untenable) but I wish I'd thought to pack a roll when I left NYC

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     EQ (eq@mas.to)'s status on Thursday, 24-Sep-2026 20:13:36 JST EQ

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     @kims You do not know how much you show being American with that last sentence, and it has nothing to do with toilets I'm afraid :-)

     Some parts of Europe has bidets, some parts of Europe has plumbing that was well thought out already 30 years ago. And some of the people putting down the plumbing in the street, at the same time put down a fiber network that we have been running fast fiber internet connections to private homes since 30 years. :-)

     And we do have 3-ply papers here in Sweden.