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Old May 8, 2003, 17:49   #1
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Finland at Forefront of Europe
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It seems as though the Suomi are leading Europe in per capita tissue and toiler paper consumption.

Tissue consumption per capita:
  1. Finland 24 kg/capita
  2. Switzerland 19 kg/capita
  3. Sweden 18 kg/capita
  4. Belgium 17 kg/capita
  5. Norway 15 kg/capita


On average, toilet paper comprises 60% of all disposable tissues.

I would like to congratulate our northern friends for being so liberal-minded and progressive.
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Old May 8, 2003, 17:53   #2
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'ey, Finland's always lived by it's timber production. No point in chopping those big boys down if aren't going to use them.
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So would it be fair to say that Finns are just more full of **** than other Euros? Or are they just especially bad at wiping their arses?

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They use them to wipe the tears after all ice hockey games they lose.
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I guess this means rest of the world is walking around with a collective itchy bunghole.
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They use them to wipe the tears after all ice hockey games they lose!
Lies, imperialist lies, all of them!
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Old May 8, 2003, 18:34   #8
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So would it be fair to say that Finns are just more full of **** than other Euros? Or are they just especially bad at wiping their arses?

Maybe they just deal with sh*t better than anyone else.
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Well, we just like to be clean. No need to be poopiepants like the rest of the Europe .
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So would it be fair to say that Finns are just more full of **** than other Euros? Or are they just especially bad at wiping their arses?

They shouldn't be full of it any more after using that much paper to wipe their asses.
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Well, we just like to be clean. No need to be poopiepants like the rest of the Europe .
Good point...noticed France didn't even make the top 5.
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Southern Europeans don't use toilet paper. They use their left hand.
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Southern Europeans don't use toilet paper. They use their left hand.
You're off by a couple of miles...
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alva, . it's true!

they even s**t standing up. strange people
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If the Finns use more toilet paper per person then surely that put's them at the arse end of europe not at the forefront.
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they even s**t standing up. strange people
Not saying it isn't, but AFAIK that happens in more southern countries.
f.e., Try saying hello, giving your left hand to shake his hand to an Indier.
The pic is just a French toilet , and there are slowly disappering
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AFAIK the left hand thingie comes from the Middle East/Near Asia, not Southern Europe. Though I'm not sure if it still happens today, I thought it was mostly a thing of the past. I do know you should still never shake hands with a Muslim with you left hand, regardless of where he's from (apart from Western countries maybe), but I thought that was more based on tradition than on current practices.
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