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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: tizaala on September 04, 2012, 01:00:48 pm
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Oh !
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When Dan gets his kilt, I'll make sure he chooses the right door ;D
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See, I might wear a skirt at a wedding or a funeral. Other than that, I've been in trousers or jeans pretty much since I left my last 'customer-facing' job (in 1989, since you ask ;)) - so actually, I do often just pause to check... and once, on a customer site, got it wrong! :D My customers howled with laughter when I told them, and wanted to know who I had surprised (since it was the man at the urinals that gave my mistake away :-[) Of course I couldn't tell them - I hadn't looked at his face :-[
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Some of the signs in very "designer" places are getting a bit too subtle, in placement or symbol.
It was said that following the tsunami some Japanese ladies were just too embarrassed to "go" without the comforting sound effects of their hi-tec loos to camouflage the noise
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Some of the signs in very "designer" places are getting a bit too subtle, in placement or symbol.
It was said that following the tsunami some Japanese ladies were just too embarrassed to "go" without the comforting sound effects of their hi-tec loos to camouflage the noise
I can sympathise with that. Im VERY particular about where I "go". NEVER in a public toilet, and only as a last resort at a relatives house, never a friend's.
I dont think Im alone in this either.
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hole in the ground is enough for me.
good stuff tiz. :thumbsup:
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hole in the ground is enough for me.
good stuff tiz. :thumbsup:
:roflanim:
So reminds me of my Duke of Edinburgh days :eyelashes:
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:D
Me and the sheep in the field, all girls together, who minds :D
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Some of the signs in very "designer" places are getting a bit too subtle, in placement or symbol.
It was said that following the tsunami some Japanese ladies were just too embarrassed to "go" without the comforting sound effects of their hi-tec loos to camouflage the noise
I can sympathise with that. Im VERY particular about where I "go". NEVER in a public toilet, and only as a last resort at a relatives house, never a friend's.
I dont think Im alone in this either.
I used to find it difficult, but after WWOOFing for a year, living in the woods with communal hole-in-the-ground loos (the walls and doors were sacking) and in a straw bale house with an outside straw bale that you peed on! :D, then living in a static with no services whatsoever - after that, I found I lost my embarrassment and can now go pretty much anywhere... between the front and back doors of the car in a layby, for one. One of the people I met WWOOFing did a lot of festivals etc; she maintained that the best way was to wear a big skirt - "You can squat down, your skirt reaches the ground all around you, no-one knows what you're doing under there", she'd say!
Mind, I'm less keen on peeing in the woods after I came home with a little blood-sucking lodger... :o
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I remember many years ago in my nightclub days (80's) the was a queue a mile long for the ladies loo. I waited patiently behind a lady who i tried to strike up a conversation with to elevate the boredom. She had a very vague look on her face and wasn't really talking back. Was she on drugs???? No she was peeing into a glass under her skirt, apparentely she couldn't wait any longer :o
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I remember many years ago in my nightclub days (80's) the was a queue a mile long for the ladies loo. I waited patiently behind a lady who i tried to strike up a conversation with to elevate the boredom. She had a very vague look on her face and wasn't really talking back. Was she on drugs? ??? No she was peeing into a glass under her skirt, apparentely she couldn't wait any longer :o
I can beat that one - in the queue, in a nightclub, in the 80's (hey we may have been in the same one ;) ) someone rushed past me & jumped on the sink :-\
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I remember many years ago in my nightclub days (80's) the was a queue a mile long for the ladies loo. I waited patiently behind a lady who i tried to strike up a conversation with to elevate the boredom. She had a very vague look on her face and wasn't really talking back. Was she on drugs? ??? No she was peeing into a glass under her skirt, apparentely she couldn't wait any longer :o
I can beat that one - in the queue, in a nightclub, in the 80's (hey we may have been in the same one ;) ) someone rushed past me & jumped on the sink :-\
Hope she washed her hands afterwards.. :innocent:
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I'm blushing at all these revelations :o
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In a queue on M25 I once got a dog bowl out the back of the car & used it in the front well. Everyone realised but at least no one saw. Dogs weren't impressed though
Rose
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Using a loo in a bar or cafe is France is fun. A urinal is often squeezed in next to a washbasin that is outside the WC. I have had ladies washing their hands or using the mirror just a few feet from me whilst I stand to attention. One bar I use has no door between the urinal and seating area so you can stand and see if my coffee has arrived at my table.
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have you never been stopped in traffic with too much pee and not enough empty water bottle and no way of stopping?
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heres another one, I went ice skating once with a friend, we were in our late teens and we had to catch a train back from London to High Wycombe in Bucks. Anyway my friend was so desparate for the loo and it was a train that didn't have a loo in the carriage, she went in the corner. :relief: :o
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When you've gotta go!! :raining: :roflanim:
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one site i was working on in Glasgow just before i went there it had been a few days of sunshine the local girls were out soaking up the rays and drinking they just squatted down and let it flow peter the labourer was surprised at this not as much as the girls reply calling him a perv for looking
there is a pub in falkirk the girls bogs always have ques they don't even bother with the sinks or corners they just walk straight into the men's then again it is probably an Englishman masquerading as a Scot and the sign put there to fool them :farmer:
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Those designer signs on loo doors often had me bamboozled... Way back in the late 70s, I was desperate in a London pub and couldn't find the ladies' - it said "powder room" on the door... Never used powder in my life - not since my mum used it on me as a baby! And the first time I saw "laddies" and "lassies" on the doors here in Scotland, I was wondering whether the first was just a mis-spelling, and the second the loo for dogs?!
On a more serious note, I have suggested to somebody (in a survey on what would get people to walk and use public transport more) that the lack of public loos is one factor that seems to be constantly overlooked. Especially a lot of middle-aged and older people simply need to go more often. My trip to work (last year, when I still had a full time job) involved an hour on a bus, plus over an hour's walk, plus waiting time up to an hour, when the bus didn't turn up again... Sorry, but particularly in cold weather, that's simply more than my middle-aged bladder can stand! Whenever I did use the bus, I had to avoid drinking anything for a few hours beforehand, which meant that I was getting dehydrated with all the accompanying symptoms. The healthy option? I don't think so! I enjoyed the walking, though.
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Has anyone read the book "A book of Urine" or something like that by Sally Magnusson. Its full of useful things you ever wanted to know about Urine :roflanim: did you know that two bags of it have been left on the moon, and that it was used in the making of Harris tweed. This book is a trivial pursuits of urine :roflanim:
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Has anyone read the book "A book of Urine" or something like that by Sally Magnusson. Its full of useful things you ever wanted to know about Urine :roflanim: did you know that two bags of it have been left on the moon, and that it was used in the making of Harris tweed. This book is a trivial pursuits of urine :roflanim:
what, the same bags?!?
;)
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sorry mike, you have lost me, its the blonde hair you see :roflanim: :-[
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I was recently stopped in the street by two American ladies seeking a "bathroom". I played mystified which was a bit naughty, and then said "Oh, do you mean the loo?".
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lol yes I have americans say that, very odd as we are so used to the words, loo, toilet
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The americans will ask for the bathroom, rest room , powder room - amything except toilet. They think that toilet is the action and will avoid using the word. Anyone for a "comfort break" ?
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Sometimes in the NE of scotland you get 'loons' and 'quines' on loo doors, now that must confuse lots and even other scots ;D
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also porta johns :farmer:
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No signs on the doors of a resturant on Istanbul but a bundle of rags burst into life and sprayed me with rose water or some such tut after I vacated the loo. What a great job eh - you can nap all day but when you sense someone walk past you can spray them with a smell worse than that left in the loo.
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What a great thread this is. Toilets from around the world! I hate the hole in the floor toilets you get in many places over here, especially motorway rest areas. I try and avoid them as I neve know which way to stand, facing the wall or facing the door. The only time I did use one, it had an automated flush and I didnt move away fast enough and got soaked. so now if I see them, I look for a disabled toilet, at least you get a proper convenience!
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When I travelled around oz, I was going across the nullabor desert and passed a concrete crapper, those very words were on the front of this concrete loo
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ppd which one is which???
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oh come on Lynda you must know that :roflanim:
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My dad was disabled and could barely walk. We were on holiday in our caravan with our chemical toilet in its own tent a few yards away. We had just had morning coffee in disposable plastic cups to save washing up, and Mum decided we should go for a walk. We left Dad lying on the long bench and said we'd only be about 20 minutes. It was a lovely walk and we were actually gone about an hour. When we got back, there on the floor was a disposable plastic cup filled to the brim. Poor Dad had needed to go and couldn't get up without help. All he had was the cup and as it got fuller and fuller, he was scared he wasn't going to be able to stop before he reached the top. He just made it!!! ;D We just told him he was lucky he wasn't a woman. :roflanim: We did always make sure he'd been before we went for a walk again though.
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are loons women?????? Just guessing
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are loons women?????? Just guessing
I will give you one more try...... :innocent:
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lol its the other one :roflanim: it doesn't help that I don't know how to pronouce them :-[
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And some bright spark thinks that urinals for women are a great idea... Maybe if you are 20-something or younger, but not for me, thanks! :-\
I remember a boyfriend of mine (ages ago) said he always took his trousers off in the French "hole in the floor" loos, when he had to squat... Especially in those with automatic flush!