CommonFreddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."
My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.
What stuff do you think is common?
(
chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
« Go Back
Filthy toilet habitsI would have thought that a relatively small group of professional people, i.e. scientists for the most part, would not be grotty enough to abuse toilet facilities.
But frequently I go upstairs here for my daily sedentary contemplation and find one if not both traps uninhabitable because of faecal residues all over the place.
OK, we all deposit skidmarks on the bowl from time to time. But most folk use the supplied brush to clean them off.
But quite regularly I'll go in to find brown smears, or worse, on the rim, the seat and even the floor. Who among my colleagues is rough enough to do that sort of thing? I wish I knew.
I would expect even public toilets to be cleaner than that.
/rant
(
K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:09,
2 replies)
when i got to my current flat in Chinathe western style toilet (always better than those squat-over-a-ceramic-hole jobs) had clearly NEVER been cleaned. it was a filthy grey kind of colour around the bottom, where everything gets flushed away, and guess who got the unenviable task of taking a knife and chipping away at this dried-on (nay, CAKED ON) excrement? it was a half hour of my life i never want to see again.
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 11:58, closed)
eurgh!why did i continue to read this as i ate my lunch?!
(, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 12:33, closed)
« Go Back