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Cat Using toilet and toilet paper
Yowie kirjoitti:
"MLB" wrote in message Yowie wrote: "jmcquown" wrote in message OMG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbHS4YJOMc&NR=1 Amazing! BTW - there was a aweful lot of water in that pan. Is that normal? Yowie When ou said "pan" did you mean the toilet? If so, the answer is yes. MLB Pan= where the business goes. Bowl= the ceramic part Cistern= the water storage & delivery system Toilet= the whole structure There's only a small amount of water, right down the bottom of our toilets. Maybe less risk of splashback? Yowie I too thought, like you did, that there was quite a lot of water there, more than we have in ours. -- Christine in Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
MatSav kirjoitti:
The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan than those in the UK. In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the front inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for inspection?) before flushing, and not straight into the standing water of the S-(or U-)bend vapour trap. I remember the bowls with the shelf from school, but then I went to the German school. In Finland we don't normally use the shelved variety. My brother lived/studied in Germany for some years, and has told me they have the shelved bowls there everywhere. I remember I was worried at school, that what if I had to do a "real biggie", and with the shelf there...and... well... before anyone says TMI they can just use their imagination... :/ -- Christine in Finland christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com |
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Cat Using toilet and toilet paper
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:33:19 -0700 (PDT), hopitus
wrote: I hate those kind...the very same ones they have in many large USA airport public facilities. I don't mind self flushers so much. I hate being greeted by some barbarian's **** when I have to use public accommodations. Bud |
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Cat Using toilet and toilet paper
Yowie wrote:
"MLB" wrote in message Yowie wrote: "jmcquown" wrote in message OMG http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQbHS4YJOMc&NR=1 Amazing! BTW - there was a aweful lot of water in that pan. Is that normal? Yowie When ou said "pan" did you mean the toilet? If so, the answer is yes. MLB Pan= where the business goes. Bowl= the ceramic part Cistern= the water storage & delivery system Toilet= the whole structure There's only a small amount of water, right down the bottom of our toilets. Maybe less risk of splashback? Yowie I think there's always a risk of splashback no matter how much water is in the pan. The colder the water, the more likely the splashback. ;-) -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
Toilets are fascinating pieces of engineering, and the different
designs around the world can be somewhat confusing. One I used in Romania last year: http://www.campin.me.uk/Travel/Roman...hoolToilet.jpg from my travelogue: http://www.campin.me.uk/Travel/Romania2008/ ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts ****** I killfile Google posts - email me if you want to be whitelisted ****** |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
MatSav wrote:
Toilets are fascinating pieces of engineering, and the different designs around the world can be somewhat confusing. The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan than those in the UK. In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the front inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for inspection?) before flushing, and not straight into the standing water of the S-(or U-)bend vapour trap. Much of the [human] world sees defaecation as a normal bodily function that is a great indicator of health (or otherwise), and in less developed countries, defaecation in public is seen as nothing unusual (particularly with children). In my opinion, we have a somewhat strange and prudish attitude in the UK. Our 'bathrooms' are often placed at almost inaccessible parts of public buildings, and eliminating is seen as something to be hidden. It's something we all have to do, so why hide it? Because things being natural and done by everyone isn't automatically connected with either doing it privately or the location of public toilets? I've always thought that the older the building, the more likely it was that indoor toilets were added as an afterthought, whereever they could be squeezed in. I'd expect that to have happened more often in the UK than in North America, although I well remember a building I attended a couple of dances in. It was originally built in the 1800s for one of those men-only fraternal organizations that eventually sold it in order to buy something cheaper and easier to maintain. During the last of their reign and under the new owners, the place was rented out for dances (among other events), since although shabby, it had a large room with a hardwood floor plus a bar. The mens' toilet was in a sensible and accessible place on the main floor. The womens' toilet, clearly an afterthought, was in the basement, down a long flight of stairs and along a corridor. Some European homes I've been in had the toilet and bathtub in different rooms, which was rather odd to my eyes! I have never really adjusted to the hole-in-the-floor type, no matter how often I'm told that it's more natural to crouch down instead of sitting, and that they're as clean as any other (when in private homes, not necessarily in public locations, but we all know not all public toilets are clean), and they use less water so are more environmentally sensitive. My knees just don't take a lot of bending, and I really think that if you want to keep them clean, you need to practice your aim. Of course, that's true for sit-down toilets, too. Especially for men. -- Cheryl |
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"Christine BA" wrote in message
MatSav kirjoitti: The USofA seem to use bowls with a higher water level in the pan than those in the UK. In much of Europe, there's a 'shelf' on the front inside edge of the bowl where business is deposited (for inspection?) before flushing, and not straight into the standing water of the S-(or U-)bend vapour trap. I remember the bowls with the shelf from school, but then I went to the German school. In Finland we don't normally use the shelved variety. My brother lived/studied in Germany for some years, and has told me they have the shelved bowls there everywhere. I remember I was worried at school, that what if I had to do a "real biggie", and with the shelf there...and... well... before anyone says TMI they can just use their imagination... :/ Australian toilets (or at least, the Australian toilets I have seen) don't have a shelf and have far less water than the American model as depicted. Perhaps our loos are like the ones in the UK. I don't like the idea of a 'shelf', but neither do I like the idea of my butt that close to water, particularly in the winter time. Doesn't it radiate cold? And how do you avoid splashback? Yowie -- If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones. |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
Some European homes I've been in had the toilet and bathtub in different
rooms, which was rather odd to my eyes! Not just Europe - that was the usual arrangement in New Zealand when I was there. I'm not sure where the idea came from, but it fitted in with Maori tradition, which regarded the idea of washing and excreting in the same place as utterly disgusting. ==== j a c k at c a m p i n . m e . u k === http://www.campin.me.uk ==== Jack Campin, 11 Third St, Newtongrange EH22 4PU, Scotland == mob 07800 739 557 CD-ROMs and free stuff: Scottish music, food intolerance, and Mac logic fonts ****** I killfile Google posts - email me if you want to be whitelisted ****** |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
On Sep 12, 5:15*am, Cheryl wrote:
I've always thought that the older the building, the more likely it was that indoor toilets were added as an afterthought, whereever they could be squeezed in. In some of the older council houses in East London (I have a couple of friends who live in them)- the toilets were originally outside (I just remember using an outside toilet) and there were no baths but there was a big room at the back of the house for storing coal so now these older houses have the bathroom and toilet on the ground floor behind the kitchen. Hugh and Mark who live with this arrangement say it's a real problem when you wake up in the night and need to use the toilet because you have to go downstairs and through the living room and the kitchen to reach the facilities without putting the light on so you wake the other person up and without tripping over Chloe, Tigger or Bandit in the dark .. The mens' toilet was in a sensible and accessible place on the main floor. The womens' toilet, clearly an afterthought, was in the basement, down a long flight of stairs and along a corridor. In many older pubs in London, the gents is on the same level as the bar but the women's is upstairs or downstairs apparently because the women's was an afterthought because many years ago women did not go into pubs (in some pubs a women on her own can still get some funny looks around here) and anyway they were considered less likely to get drunk so it was safer to have their toilet upstairs rather than the men's one. Some European homes I've been in had the toilet and bathtub in different rooms, which was rather odd to my eyes! It's not common but I would love to have it here- there's few things more annoying then being stretched out in a hot bath with a good book in the middle of a long soak and having Dave banging on the door because he needs to use the toilet! Lesley Slave of the Fabulous Furballs |
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"Jack Campin - bogus address" wrote in message
Toilets are fascinating pieces of engineering, and the different designs around the world can be somewhat confusing. One I used in Romania last year: http://www.campin.me.uk/Travel/Roman...hoolToilet.jpg Eww. But on a similar vein.... when travelling through Australia, the toilet stops along the freeways will almost always be a toilet seat on a tin tube (simply to raise the seat off the ground so one can sit rather than having to squat) that goes down into a giant pit. These are specailly designed composting toilets because of the often huge distance from town water and town sewage facilities and surprisingly don't smell bad at all. They're primed with a particular form of bacteria, and lime is regularly thrown in to reduce the acidity from uric acid. Anything organic will easily be turned into good mulching compost, particularly in the summer months. I don't know what the gent's toilets are like, but the women's toilets are almost almost always clean and well stocked in TP. They may or may not have a small sink outside to wash you hands, but its usually supplied by tank water collected from the facility's roof, and may or may not function due to lack of water. The only disconcerting thing is the wind wafting up on one's exposed buttocks whilst sitting there - not something I'm accustomed to :-) I haveno idea what Id do if I had to squat. My knees simply don't work that well any more - I can't even manage the 'hover' as taught by mother to daughter in regular rest rooms these days. http://www.campin.me.uk/Travel/Romania2008/ Not having the resources to get tehre myself, I always enjoy other folks traveldiaries. Thankyou. Yowie -- If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones. |
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