http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/ Exploring migrants, exiles, expatriates, and out-of-the-way peoples, places, and times Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:23:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-4021 Bucharest, 1984/2008: Back to Tineretului « Far Outliers Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:12:35 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-4021 [...] Oil and sugar were rationed. However, in order to find fresh meat, hard cheeses, fresh fruit, or toilet paper, we had to keep an eye out for people queueing up at storefronts on our way to and from the city [...] [...] Oil and sugar were rationed. However, in order to find fresh meat, hard cheeses, fresh fruit, or toilet paper, we had to keep an eye out for people queueing up at storefronts on our way to and from the city [...]

]]> http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-2783 toilet paper Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:10:32 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-2783 who would have thought there are toilet paper tales..... Very interesting though! who would have thought there are toilet paper tales….. Very interesting though!

]]> http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-2706 The Scatalogical Truth of Capitalism « Europe Endless Tue, 27 Nov 2007 14:46:28 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-2706 [...] ago when Joel at Far Outliers wrote about his experiences studying in communist Romania (”Romania, 1984: Toilet Paper Tales“).  Scholarship never seemed more like roughing it (certainly from my perspective).  [...] [...] ago when Joel at Far Outliers wrote about his experiences studying in communist Romania (”Romania, 1984: Toilet Paper Tales“).  Scholarship never seemed more like roughing it (certainly from my perspective).  [...]

]]> http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-557 alex c Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:59:27 +0000 http://faroutliers.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/romania-1984-toilet-paper-tales/#comment-557 curiously enough, i lived in romania in 1983/4 and i did not encounter this odd problem.. and i had no connections inside no paper factory.. curiously enough, i lived in romania in 1983/4 and i did not encounter this odd problem.. and i had no connections inside no paper factory..

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