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07-08-2019, 11:13 AM
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Outhouses with running water?
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07-08-2019, 11:13 AM
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#42
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Cholula
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gumby
I worked in the clubhouse at a golf course and found the exact same thing. The ladies locker room was far, far worse than the mens.
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Are you saying that the condition of the ladies' locker room was not up to par?
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07-08-2019, 11:20 AM
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#43
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Cholula
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Quote:
Originally Posted by imoldernu
Outhouses with running water?
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Maybe just a hole in the ground? That's what was available in the public restrooms at the train station in Asilah, Morocco. Imagine my surprise during our train journey when I went to use the toilet in the car and it was merely an opening in the floor that dropped human waste on to the tracks below.
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07-08-2019, 11:21 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Just wipe the seat with TP, then place tp down if there are no seat covers and sit to do your thing. Wash your hands when done, or carry hand sanitizer! You really will not catch any diseases from the toilet seat. Its not that difficult
Or as the saying someone posted at one of my work bathrooms went: "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie and wipe the seatie"
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07-08-2019, 11:23 AM
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Not intending to hijaak. Being male, and single living on my own without a spouse to report to, I've in the past had the seat up (more convenient for the guy). Plus, regardless of seat up or down, I've always thought, gotta touch the bar either way, so what's the point?
But after I having a discussion with a female friend about the seat up vs seat down controversy, I've switched to seat down. Main reason, that's the courteous thing to do. I've got to the point now that feels odd to leave the seat up.
Now about the hovering controversy, I'm gonna let the women here fight their own battles and know when to stay out of the scrum .
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07-08-2019, 11:30 AM
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#46
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Nemo2
Or at least carry, and utilize, a plastic kitchen funnel, (these are available in various sizes), at all times.
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A business idea: disposable water soluble paper funnels for men and women on a wall dispenser. Seat on a spring so it is up unless sat upon.
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07-08-2019, 11:33 AM
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#47
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Pacific latitude 20/49
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Quote:
Originally Posted by footenote
Remember using the public toilet adjacent to the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1996. I passed several local women in stalls and quickly averted my eyes. Maybe leaving the stall door open was a Beijing
As I quickly discovered, there WERE no doors. And no toilets either: just a hole in the floor in the middle of a large, concrete stall. The walls were out of reach, so it was pure squatting.
Oh and... no toilet paper either. On subsequent touring days, every pocket of my travel vest was stuffed with TP. I looked like Mae West - and didn't care.
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Yes old Europe as well, especially camp grounds. Just hope you don't get diarrhea! Check your heels!
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07-08-2019, 11:35 AM
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#48
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Quote:
Originally Posted by haha
I had a college friend whose female steady insisted on peeing on him in her foreplay. Maybe these female hovercraft that you describe are just a bit shy of the direct approach?
Ha
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Do you have a Russian video of that one?!
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07-08-2019, 11:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by easysurfer
But after I having a discussion with a female friend about the seat up vs seat down controversy, I've switched to seat down. Main reason, that's the courteous thing to do. I've got to the point now that feels odd to leave the seat up.
Now about the hovering controversy, I'm gonna let the women here fight their own battles and know when to stay out of the scrum .
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Grandson was being scolded by the females in the family about leaving the seat up. So, I tried an experiment. I declared that I like both seats down. The seat plus the cover seat. Well, I didn’t press the issue, but the cover seat never gets put down. Apparently the toilet needs to be at the ready to sit on but never ready for standing or just being in it’s fully closed position. Thankfully, DGS is getting better at putting the seat down. It was getting him in trouble.
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07-08-2019, 11:54 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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Quote:
Originally Posted by footenote
Remember using the public toilet adjacent to the Forbidden City in Beijing in 1996. I passed several local women in stalls and quickly averted my eyes. Maybe leaving the stall door open was a Beijing
As I quickly discovered, there WERE no doors. And no toilets either: just a hole in the floor in the middle of a large, concrete stall. The walls were out of reach, so it was pure squatting.
Oh and... no toilet paper either. On subsequent touring days, every pocket of my travel vest was stuffed with TP. I looked like Mae West - and didn't care.
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I don’t know how you world travelers deal with this. I’ll admit that I have issues and the thought of my morning constitution being akin to my exercise program doesn’t really work for me. Not saying that’s the reason I don’t travel, but it’s one of the reasons I don’t mind the fact that I don’t travel abroad.
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07-08-2019, 11:55 AM
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Location: Syracuse
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Please. For the love of God. Close the lid on Porta Potty and those dump toilets found in national parks. There is an exhaust vent to let the stink out. They don't work when you leave the lids up.
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07-08-2019, 11:57 AM
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry1
Grandson was being scolded by the females in the family about leaving the seat up. So, I tried an experiment. I declared that I like both seats down. The seat plus the cover seat. Well, I didn’t press the issue, but the cover seat never gets put down. Apparently the toilet needs to be at the ready to sit on but never ready for standing or just being in it’s fully closed position. Thankfully, DGS is getting better at putting the seat down. It was getting him in trouble.
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I now like having both seats down. Regardless, I don't over think as there's no avoiding some ewwww factor no matter what seat position if over thinking.
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07-08-2019, 12:07 PM
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#53
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I cleaned restrooms at restaurants when I was a kid. Yes, the "Ladies" room was always and everywhere worse than the mens room.
You "ladies" are not.
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07-08-2019, 12:11 PM
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#54
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Give me a museum and I'll fill it. (Picasso) Give me a forum ...
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Location: Northern Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by easysurfer
Not intending to hijaak. Being male, and single living on my own without a spouse to report to, I've in the past had the seat up (more convenient for the guy). Plus, regardless of seat up or down, I've always thought, gotta touch the bar either way, so what's the point?
But after I having a discussion with a female friend about the seat up vs seat down controversy, I've switched to seat down. Main reason, that's the courteous thing to do. I've got to the point now that feels odd to leave the seat up.
Now about the hovering controversy, I'm gonna let the women here fight their own battles and know when to stay out of the scrum .
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The correct position is seat down, top closed.
And it is really simple. Need it up, raise it. Need it down, lower.
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07-08-2019, 12:32 PM
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#55
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kcowan
Do you have a Russian video of that one?!
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No, my friend was an American Ivy-Leager.
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07-08-2019, 12:32 PM
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#56
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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Chattanooga
Posts: 3,893
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Quote:
Originally Posted by kcowan
A business idea: disposable water soluble paper funnels for men and women on a wall dispenser. Seat on a spring so it is up unless sat upon.
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Leave it to a FIRE member to figure out a way to monetize a bathroom visit !
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07-08-2019, 02:17 PM
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#57
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Location: Rio Grande Valley
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I’ve only ever hovered in southern France because there were no toilet seats!!!
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07-08-2019, 02:37 PM
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#58
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I am so glad I have been doing road trips with a motorhome to carry my own bathroom with me. All those expensive gallons of fuel are worth it.
And one thing to give Europeans credit for: the stop areas on toll highways generally have a fuel station, a restaurant, and a restroom. The restrooms as a rule are generally clean, and usually of the same condition as an airport restroom.
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07-08-2019, 02:37 PM
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#59
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Join Date: Jul 2017
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry1
Grandson was being scolded by the females in the family about leaving the seat up. So, I tried an experiment. I declared that I like both seats down. The seat plus the cover seat. Well, I didn’t press the issue, but the cover seat never gets put down. Apparently the toilet needs to be at the ready to sit on but never ready for standing or just being in it’s fully closed position. Thankfully, DGS is getting better at putting the seat down. It was getting him in trouble.
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You do not wish to be in a house late at night, wherein a female in a hurry rushes into a poorly lit bathroom and, ahem, falls in.
Now, I'm not broaching the issues of the duty to be cognizant of your surroundings, or proceed with caution, or to make sure that a room is properly lit before entering. Nope. I'm just saying you don't want to be there.
Don't ask me how I know . . .
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07-08-2019, 02:43 PM
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#60
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One of my first jobs was cleaning a beauty salon. At that time there was only one male operator and 90% of the clientele were female. The two private unisex bathrooms were not pigstyes, perhaps because the operators and clients shared them?
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