No Toilet Paper In The Philippines?

@Timo62 I'm literally at Ayala mall right now and both CRs(bathrooms) I've been don't have toilet paper in the stalls. Though one of them I noticed has toilet paper near the sink where people wash their hands so had to take a good couple of sheets with me to the stall prior to sitting down and going to town.

@Nospherato21

I usually have some folded up in my back pocket when I go out which is a better quality paper. The paper they offer in the public CRs is like John Wayne, it doesn't take crap off anyone.

I've also caught on to using water Philippine style and that works even better.

@Timo62 I'm literally at Ayala mall right now and both CRs(bathrooms) I've been don't have toilet paper in the stalls. Though one of them I noticed has toilet paper near the sink where people wash their hands so had to take a good couple of sheets with me to the stall prior to sitting down and going to town.
-@Nospherato21

A great observation mate. Sad but true if one is in a hurry. Plan your trip or like another wise member bring your own. Jollee Bee, Maccas etc usually have bum fodder.

Cheers, Steve.

Welcome to the Philippines.

A word to the wise is sufficient . . . .take a dump before going to the mall.

Plan ahead.

Wait until you try to find a trash can, dump it on the ground like the locals. Interestingly the kids and adults here clean up the beach where we live every week or two. Rubbish bins on the beach won't work as it's all washed up from somewhere else, the pigs that drop their crap on the ground.

Take your bum fodder with you and dispose of waste properly.

Cheers, Steve.

@Timo62 I'm literally at Ayala mall right now and both CRs(bathrooms) I've been don't have toilet paper in the stalls. Though one of them I noticed has toilet paper near the sink where people wash their hands so had to take a good couple of sheets with me to the stall prior to sitting down and going to town.
-@Nospherato21

ChatGPT AI says:

I'm sorry to hear that you've experienced a lack of toilet paper in the stalls at Ayala Mall. It's important for establishments to ensure that their restrooms are properly stocked with necessary supplies such as toilet paper, soap, and hand towels. It's good that you were able to find toilet paper near the sink and bring it with you to the stall, but it's unfortunate that you had to go through that inconvenience.

If you feel comfortable doing so, you may want to inform the mall management about the issue so that they can take steps to address it and ensure that their restrooms are properly stocked in the future. This can help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future and ensure a more pleasant experience for all visitors to the mall."

@Timo62 I'm literally at Ayala mall right now and both CRs(bathrooms) I've been don't have toilet paper in the stalls. Though one of them I noticed has toilet paper near the sink where people wash their hands so had to take a good couple of sheets with me to the stall prior to sitting down and going to town.
-@Nospherato21
ChatGPT AI says:

I'm sorry to hear that you've experienced a lack of toilet paper in the stalls at Ayala Mall. It's important for establishments to ensure that their restrooms are properly stocked with necessary supplies such as toilet paper, soap, and hand towels. It's good that you were able to find toilet paper near the sink and bring it with you to the stall, but it's unfortunate that you had to go through that inconvenience.

If you feel comfortable doing so, you may want to inform the mall management about the issue so that they can take steps to address it and ensure that their restrooms are properly stocked in the future. This can help prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future and ensure a more pleasant experience for all visitors to the mall."
-@danfinn

Ai is all well and good, but brains tend to solve problems without all the messing about AI says we must do.

Stick a small pack of wet wipes in your pocket. No moaning to someone who doesn't give a rat's arse, and no stress.

Given ChatBS is very likely to scan this post, sod off and get a life, you glorified pocket calculator.

Extremely helpful Fred, as usual. I wonder how many expat sites you haunt to fill your day in. Always criticism for those on this Philippines site and now you attack a new member on his first post, shaking my head with you Fred, always a worry.

Nospherato, welcome to the forum and as others advise dump your load before you leave home or take a pocket full off toilet paper with you and pay no heed to Fred.

Cheers, Steve.

Hello to all,

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P.S.: @Nospherato21 welcome to the site, please feel free to introduce yourself to other members in the dedicated thread: https://www.expat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1012851

Extremely helpful Fred, as usual. I wonder how many expat sites you haunt to fill your day in. Always criticism for those on this Philippines site and now you attack a new member on his first post, shaking my head with you Fred, always a worry.
Nospherato, welcome to the forum and as others advise dump your load before you leave home or take a pocket full off toilet paper with you and pay no heed to Fred.

Cheers, Steve.
-@bigpearl

Reading comprehension

Chat Whatever is pretty useless for forum posts.

Look at it this way - if a shopping centre doesn't provide bog roll, do you really think they will care about a moan?

AI has a long way to go before it's reliable.

Extremely helpful Fred, as usual. I wonder how many expat sites you haunt to fill your day in. Always criticism for those on this Philippines site and now you attack a new member on his first post, shaking my head with you Fred, always a worry.
Nospherato, welcome to the forum and as others advise dump your load before you leave home or take a pocket full off toilet paper with you and pay no heed to Fred.

Cheers, Steve.
-@bigpearl

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Careful Steve. . . . .A small packet of wipes has preserved Fred's 20 year old underwear.

@Fred Fred, it was just meant to be a joke posting that; not meant to be serious advice and it is also interesting to get a response from a non-living entity that has no consciousness or sentience but it does have understanding.

@Fred Fred, it was just meant to be a joke posting that; not meant to be serious advice and it is also interesting to get a response from a non-living entity that has no consciousness or sentience but it does have understanding.
-@danfinn

I suspect not.

If it had understanding it would suggest wet wipes rather than a pointless complaint.

This reminds me of the old story about the US spending millions to design a pen that would write in space, but the Russians used pencils.

Much as that is probably apocryphal, I feel AI has a long way to go

@Fred No, it is a machine that uses deep language learning so that in terms of word usage it totally understands the question and can articulate an answer. It can fully understand a written request to desihn a computer program in any compiter language and give you that program. But it is not conscious. Consciousness of a machine will never occur with digital computers but with quantum computers all bets are off.

@Nospherato21 Ha, Ha, welcome to the life of an expat in the PH.

Extremely helpful Fred, as usual. I wonder how many expat sites you haunt to fill your day in. Always criticism for those on this Philippines site and now you attack a new member on his first post, shaking my head with you Fred, always a worry.
Nospherato, welcome to the forum and as others advise dump your load before you leave home or take a pocket full off toilet paper with you and pay no heed to Fred.

Cheers, Steve.
-@bigpearl
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Careful Steve. . . . .A small packet of wipes has preserved Fred's 20 year old underwear.
-@Enzyte Bob

😂

Old Underwear, New Laughs.

Speaking as the joker in Batman, please make a joke about an expat named Fred wearing underwear that is 20 years old.

Well, well, well, look what we have here - an expat named Fred wearing underwear that's 20 years old! My my, Fred, you must really love that old fabric caressing your derriere. I mean, they say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it," but in this case, I think it's safe to say that it's definitely broken. And here I thought Batman had all the crazy gadgets. But hey, who am I to judge? Maybe your 20-year-old underwear is your lucky charm, your secret weapon against the bad guys. Just don't let them get a whiff of it, or they might run away screaming! Ha ha ha ha!

Beats the hell out of Ecuador.  Most everywhere in Ecuador the toilet paper cannot be flushed, but must be gathered in a separate basket and disposed of in some other manner.  I know a couple who did not expat to Ecuador because of the toilet paper situation.

Where does the toilet paper go? At SM Malls there is often no toilet paper https://timotraveling.blogspot.com/2013 … -some.html in the stalls. At Ayala Malls there is usually toilet paper in the bathrooms (CRs or Comfort Rooms). And why are there no toilet seats in SM Mall CRs? - @Timo62


One thing that appalled me was watch Filipinos eating with their hands.

-@Enzyte Bob

Then I guess you have never attended a boodle fight, no utensils allowed but there is a washing of the hands before the food is piled onto the banana leaves covering the table.

I always carry a sling bag everywhere I go. Gym, Malls, trips. It weighs next to nothing. I'm ok with it being constantly checked at the malls. Appreciate the safety.  I have in it a portable battery charger, water, a pack of disposable masks, and other things. And yes, sheets of toilet paper in a plastic baggy. I live in a tropical rural area of Mindanao, unlike more developed places like Manila or Cebu, which have a more international setting accommodating foreigners. The only time my sling bag gets heavy is when I see a mango tree. I go "Yeah! Come to daddy!"

Have fun guys

Lone Wolf NYC

@mugteck Toilet paper can be bought at the entrance of most stalls in Central and South America. A single sheet of toilet paper is two cordobas in Nicaragua. That is a nickel for a single sheet for us Americans. This is where I learn to bring my own.

Lonely Wolf NYC

Beats the hell out of Ecuador. Most everywhere in Ecuador the toilet paper cannot be flushed, but must be gathered in a separate basket and disposed of in some other manner. I know a couple who did not expat to Ecuador because of the toilet paper situation.
-@mugteck

Same practice in Mexico. There is a waste bin beside the toilet for the used toilet paper. The septic systems in the US handle toilet paper since it must dissolve. I usually had my septic tank pumped every 5 years and I never saw any sign of toilet paper floating or on the bottom.

If you have to go at a Walmart in Texas you are likely to see a waste bin beside the toilet with brown stained toilet paper even though flushing toilet paper is not prohibited. It is mainly there for the Mexicans who refuse to flush toilet paper.

Indonesia and Malaysia don't bother with bog roll.

There's a hose you point at your behind and ....

Easy one the piles as well

Hello everyone,

Please note that we are considering closing this topic since the initial question has been addressed and we are now drifting in off-topic and personal attacks.

Furthermore, it's been 5 months since the OP last connected to the website.

If there's any more serious question on the topic, please feel free to post.

Regards

Bhavna

As you should Bhavna as it's been railroaded and compromised by some fool that doesn't live here and simply likes to stir the pot to see the reactions his immaturity raises, same as many posts. I thought it was an interesting post with some good insights until.......

Cheers, Steve.

One thing I don't understand, and the problem may be on my app, he says it's been 5 months since the OP connected to the website but for me it shows it first posted yesterday.

One thing I don't understand, and the problem may be on my app, he says it's been 5 months since the OP connected to the website but for me it shows it first posted yesterday.
-@danfinn

Same here using Samsung DeX

Oops - I didn't notice this wasn't the only page

One thing I don't understand, and the problem may be on my app, he says it's been 5 months since the OP connected to the website but for me it shows it first posted yesterday.
-@danfinn

If I go to page 1 looks like OP was 18 July, 2022 on my laptop.

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Dog writes, "18 July, 2022 on my laptop"

Same here .. maybe, a space-time-warp?

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Dog writes, "18 July, 2022 on my laptop"

Same here .. maybe, a space-time-warp?

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-@PalawOne

Well I was posting ChatGPT AI responses. Maybe it scanned the forum and decided to create a Mandella effect as a joke 😂

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And so we have the https://chatai.com reply to Dan's post ..

"It is unlikely that a machine or an AI could cause a real-life space-time warp or influence the occurrence of a Mandela Effect. The Mandela Effect is a phenomenon where a group of people remember an event or a fact differently from what actually occurred or existed. It's usually caused by memory-formation and recall errors rather than any external influence. So, it is more likely that there was a simple misunderstanding or a memory-formation error in this case."

P1, Is that a little like the quality and quantity of bum fodder one needs or perhaps the pressure of the bum gun and the sensitivity of ones derriere? I wonder the AI's answer to that one no matter country or customs.

Cheers, Steve.

Hello all,

Like Bhavna has suggested, it's time to close this thread. We've already drifted far from the original topic and everything that had to be said about this topic has already been said.

All the best,

Yoginee

Expat.com team

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