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A friend went to India........ men & women attendants at most of the public "lavatories".......... if the men went to the "No 2" side, they were given ONE sheet of loo paper.

Our friend said he used his to clean his fingernails.

:-(

In Tenerife in public and restaurant loos you are asked not to flush paper but to put it in the bin provided. After a while you do it automatically.

lol Lavender

DH is bad at not washing fruit before he eats it. I now point out the grottiest people in the shops, and tell him they've been handling the fruit. :-)

My Mum always used to impress on us to wash our soft fruit well before eating it.

"Do you think the cherry and strawberry pickers have got a toilet and washbasin' she would say.

I think of the conversation every time I fancy a bowl of blueberries for breakfast.

Good thing we didn,t have flush toilets in the 40s when we had to use squares of Newspaper. :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0

I can beat that!!

We bought 20 acres up country almost 20 years ago, with an old run-down cottage on it. There were no services, but there was an indoor flushing toilet that emptied into a drain pipe that led to a septic tank about 150' away.

The only way to flush the toilet was to tip 1½ buckets of water into the tank because there was no water into the house, but at least it was indoors, not out in an outhouse

Anyway it soon became apparent that the drain pipe was blocked somewhere, so we had to call in the septic pumper truck to come the 60 km from the nearest town.

He found the pipe was blocked about 8' away from the house ..........

....... with old socks and a truck shock absorber :-0 :-S

Saw an article a while back... somewhere in the UK there was a blocked drain...... plumbers called...... and they found a Paddington Bear had been flushed!

I wondered why they didn't flush Winnie The Pooh.

OH's mother used to tell the story of going on a coach tour in the Alps back in the 70s. There was a stop at the top of one of the very high famous passes, a place to get refreshments and toilets ........... which actually were huts off to the side.

M-i-l joined the back of a pretty long queue for the Ladies hut, and was amazed at how fast it was moving. She did notice that women would go into the hut, close the door, then almost immediately open the door and leave.

She found out why when it was her turn ................... a hole in the floor with a wood plank on each side.

Being my no-nonsense m-i-l, she did what everyone else had been scared of doing, and used it!

Reminds me of Morocco...
hotels very good...go to a toilet while being shown around...disgusting ...just a hole in the floor..no toilet paper,VERY dirty and smelly and wanted a euro for the privilege..and that was about 8 years ago.

I'd like to volunte.... no perhaps not.

Liz probably had a personal wiper on staff

:-D

we were in Leningrad for a major meeting in 1975 ............ the toilets in the main conference hall all had a box or basket next to the toilet for used toilet paper.

The bathrooms in the hotel were just fine :-)

Mind you, we had booked independently, ie not as part of a group booking from either here or the UK, and the powers-that-be therefore upgraded us from the 3 star hotel we had requested to the 5 star ......... we were presumably presumed to be "wealthy"


Elizabeth Taylor was in the same hotel ............... she was filming The Blue Bird

She was GORGEOUS!!!!!

lol Bob

Way back in the 60s, friends went to Europe......... in eastern Europe (can't remember where) the "toilet" had no paper, but a community rag!

:-(

My dad was a plumber, so I know what shouldn't be flushed, or put down the sink drain.

Read this, it is true. My wife and I went to one of the Greek islands a few years ago and rented a small apartment. The manager lived in the next flat. Well, when we looked in the toilet, there was a bin full of someone elses used toilet paper. We told the manager, who was slicing beans outside his flat. He went in and picked the paper out WITH HIS BARE HANDS, and then went back to cutting up his beans without washing his hands. I hope he enjoyed his dinner.

tampons and disposable diapers used to be (??still are??) major problems over here.

I am always telling my missis NOT to put "Plenty" kitchen towels, and/or cotton buds down the loo..........a friend of ours had "backing up" problems, rodded her pipes, and the next one along but no improvement, eventually got the professionals in, it was three manholes further along..........two pairs of Kelvin Klein underpants......

This thread made me smile.
We have very hard water where we live & for the past 6 weeks or so, the toilet has got progressively slower filling with water after the flush.
I ventured to suggest that the water pipe was furred up & that a quick "Dynorod" type job would do the trick.
How stupid am I?.
It´s because I flush loo paper down the drain :-S :-S
I remarked that as the plumbing was less than 6 years old & this is the 21st century,I would expect to be able to flush paper away & anyway, that wouldn´t stop the cistern from filling.
Eventually he got sick of me mentioning the problem every time I went to the loo.
He has now cleaned out the water inlet pipe & Eureka. We have flush.

There's a lot of 'toilet humour' on this thread.

The chamber pot under the bed wasn't exactly nice nor was the outside dry loo at the bottom of the garden on a cold winter‘s evening. And then, the poor farmer in the middle of his fields, miles from 'civilisation', had alternative solutions. Bunches of trees were handy places but nettles were always causing concern - if you get my sting.

I'd better not go any further with this discussion.

Aircraft waste is supposed to go into the "honey cart"

I know a man who was supposed to empty the "honey cart"....... and he was standing in the WRONG place when it opened.

At least those wipes didn't go into a river, where people bathe........


and where do you think the waste products from aircraft go??