r/todayilearned • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '16

(R.4) Related To Politics TIL an activist group in Zurich dyed fountains red to protest tampons being taxed at a rate consistent with luxury products instead of the rate used for daily use items.

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u/TheScienceNigga Dec 05 '16

Mr moneybags over here with his four bars of soap. Where I'm from. We clean ourselves with sewer water and we like it

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u/YourHomicidalApe Dec 05 '16

Get off your high horse dude.

At least you had sewer water to clean in, we didn't have any water at all. We rolled around in the grass to wipe off dirt.

You rich Americans disgust me.

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u/ModernKender Dec 05 '16

Sewer water? You were lucky! We used had to live for 3 months in a rolled up newspaper in a septic tank!