'one of those European toilets. with the inspection platform'?!Is this a new thing they've added since I was last in Europe?
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Photoshop Bitch 2014 edition,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 14:10,
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There are mainly in Germany, I think.
The French just have a hole in the floor.
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Tue 3 Jul 2012, 14:11,
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The French just have a hole in the floor.
I stayed at a place on Gotland once that was an old school buildingThere were three toilet cubicles, one with one seat, one with two seats and one with three seats. However the two-seater had had one seat boarded up and the three-seater had had two boarded up, making each cubicle a one-person institution. Obviously the owners had moral concerns about people performing their bodily functions side by side.
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Tue 3 Jul 2012, 14:16,
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I once had the misfortuneof being forced to use the facilities of a remote bus station in China. It had been a long ride, and Mr Tortoise's head was touching cloth
as I ran to the public conveniences. I was greeted at the door by a person of indeterminate gender, having both bewbs AND a beard.
Hurling some loose change at the creature, I hurriedly made my way inside, only to be confronted with a shallow trough on the floor, separated into several compartments by extremely low walls, a tap on the wall, and a bucket.
The object of the exercise involved squatting over the trough, snapping one off, and then flushing it away with a bucketful of water. Timing and position was everything.
It's extremely unnerving to be looking at the back of someone's head whilst curling one down, but even more frightening knowing that the person behind is doing the same. The worst bit was when the chap behind finished first, and
chucked his bucket of water into the trough, thereby creating a logjam of turds (mine and his) directly under my arse.
French toilets? Luxury!
(as I ran to the public conveniences. I was greeted at the door by a person of indeterminate gender, having both bewbs AND a beard.
Hurling some loose change at the creature, I hurriedly made my way inside, only to be confronted with a shallow trough on the floor, separated into several compartments by extremely low walls, a tap on the wall, and a bucket.
The object of the exercise involved squatting over the trough, snapping one off, and then flushing it away with a bucketful of water. Timing and position was everything.
It's extremely unnerving to be looking at the back of someone's head whilst curling one down, but even more frightening knowing that the person behind is doing the same. The worst bit was when the chap behind finished first, and
chucked his bucket of water into the trough, thereby creating a logjam of turds (mine and his) directly under my arse.
French toilets? Luxury!
Chumps 👀,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 15:34,
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Thanks for sharing!!I shall not be eating for the rest of the week
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 16:14,
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they had them when I was last in the damthat was years ago, mind
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Ham o' Shatner -.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 14:11,
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I ended up having to sit on them backwards and aim straight down the hole,because the flush was never strong enough to shift my logs off the platform.
Exasperating. No wonder Europe is on it's knees.
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Smallbrainfield,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 14:42,
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fucking hell! well, at least you could skin up on the cistern :D Ham o' Shatner -.-- --- ..- .-. / .- .-.. .-.. / --. .- -.--,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 14:45,
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{:-)"Everywhere men are in chains, smash the cistern"
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector.,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 15:14,
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Oh right... so the inspection platform is for you to inspect your doings?I thought you meant an overhead platform for others to inspect YOU. Or is that just Soviet Russia?
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Tue 3 Jul 2012, 15:26,
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It's like a little shelf built into the porcelain.When I was a student, my diet was lacking in fibre, so my sturdy British turds used to push me off the seat. A most uncomfortable circumstance, hence the need to aim straight down the hole.
e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet#Washout_toilet
(e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flush_toilet#Washout_toilet
Smallbrainfield,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 15:42,
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Ah yes, I think I *have* used one of thoseI don't like the look of those Anglo-Indian ones. I'm not against the idea of squatting, it's just that I can't even look at a picture of one without getting an urge to go and wash my feet.
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Tue 3 Jul 2012, 15:56,
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"Hansh, Hansh! You must come and shee thish"."Und bring your calipersh".
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joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 15:45,
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Yep, in the Netherlands I found it was about 50:50normal bogs vs. the shit-shelf.
I saw an Italian workplace that had three cubicles - two normal bogs and a hole-in-the-floor type. Though I understand that may be the fashion for certain strict orthodox religious types that forego bare arse/seat contact. Probably some ancient warning about dead legs or bog-skiving that now requires your whole family to be put to death.
(I saw an Italian workplace that had three cubicles - two normal bogs and a hole-in-the-floor type. Though I understand that may be the fashion for certain strict orthodox religious types that forego bare arse/seat contact. Probably some ancient warning about dead legs or bog-skiving that now requires your whole family to be put to death.
joefish It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks,
Tue 3 Jul 2012, 15:47,
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