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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
Adrian wrote:
MLB wrote: Adrian wrote: Yowie wrote: wrote in message MatSav wrote: 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? I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself - but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc. But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to "use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to sit in the bathroom". Oh, really? Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is that about? For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our own backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the toilet, we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running commentary about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big fuss just months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the wiping. Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating. Yowie 10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother wipe your bottom?" :-) And your replu was???? MLB I'm not telling you. ;-) Good boy! Best wishes. MLB |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
MLB wrote:
Adrian wrote: MLB wrote: Adrian wrote: Yowie wrote: wrote in message MatSav wrote: 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? I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself - but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc. But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to "use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to sit in the bathroom". Oh, really? Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is that about? For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our own backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the toilet, we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running commentary about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big fuss just months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the wiping. Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating. Yowie 10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother wipe your bottom?" :-) And your replu was???? MLB I'm not telling you. ;-) Good boy! Best wishes. MLB a few days ago I was telling my son about the cat that used the toilet and sent him the pictures. Yesterday I asked him if he had looked at the message. He said he had and had started looking at it when he said to himself "Why am I here looking at a picture of a CAT POOPING?" LOL MLB |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
Cheryl wrote:
ScratchMonkey wrote: "Jofirey" wrote in news:7h7vdlF2sejc9U1 @mid.individual.net: Funny how what was old is new again. In an effort to make the 'master bath' in my daughters three year old house more classy, the toilet itself is in what is essentially a closet off the room with the shower and huge tub and double sinks etc. Personally I think the architect underestimated the amount of room needed to set aside for a toilet with the door closed. I thought our toilet/shower off out bedroom was tiny! How big does a public restroom stall need to be? Seems like that would be a good guideline for how much floor space to allocate. You have to consider how the door opens. I encountered one toilet - just the toilet and a sink - in a public area in which the door opened inward, but only so far because the toilet was behind it. It was all I could do to squeeze around the door and past the sink so I could close the door. A "hefty" person probably couldn't do it. MLB |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
Adrian wrote:
Yowie wrote: wrote in message MatSav wrote: 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? I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself - but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc. But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to "use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to sit in the bathroom". Oh, really? Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is that about? For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our own backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the toilet, we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running commentary about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big fuss just months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the wiping. Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating. Yowie 10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother wipe your bottom?" :-) g I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his mother/father to wipe him. He was 8. 8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS. Tweed |
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Airport security (was: Human Litterboxes)
"Christina Websell" wrote in
: Exactly. But I wanted to as she was so awful, but she searched me from head to foot, and I kept quiet. N was livid when I told her. She said no way she did not speak English, everyone employed at the airport has to and she deliberately chose not to. Penn Jillette's my hero on this: http://www.usatoday.com/travel/colum...3-penn-teller- tsa_N.htm http://www.boingboing.net/2003/01/04...te-airpor.html |
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Christina Websell wrote:
Adrian wrote: Yowie wrote: wrote in message MatSav wrote: 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? I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself - but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc. But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to "use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to sit in the bathroom". Oh, really? Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is that about? For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our own backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the toilet, we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running commentary about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big fuss just months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do the wiping. Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine got togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating. Yowie 10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother wipe your bottom?" :-) g I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his mother/father to wipe him. He was 8. 8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS. Tweed I think most 8 year olds would be far too embarrassed to ask, at least I hope they would. -- 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)
Adrian wrote:
Christina Websell wrote: I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his mother/father to wipe him. He was 8. 8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS. Tweed I think most 8 year olds would be far too embarrassed to ask, at least I hope they would. How did he manage in school? -- Cheryl |
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Human Litterboxes (was Cat Using toilet and toilet paper)
"John F. Eldredge" wrote in message
On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:12:16 +0000, ScratchMonkey wrote: wrote in : It's funny that your mom thought "toilet" was a naughty word - that word was itself a euphemism. "Toilette" is a French word for washing, ablutions, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper While my mother generally did have an earthy sense of humor, and didn't have any hesitation about calling the appliance itself a toilet, she always used the euphemism "T-Paper" instead of "toilet paper". I'd never heard of anyone being discreet about toilet paper until I joined Usenet - it seems only to be Americans that tend not to say the full words. Don't know why. Around here, its the 'bog roll'. LOL 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)
"Joy" wrote in message
wrote in message ... Cheryl wrote: Some European homes I've been in had the toilet and bathtub in different rooms, which was rather odd to my eyes! I've seen a few homes in San Francisco that have that arrangement. They're all Victorian homes, so that might have something to do with it. In both houses, the room with the toilet (the "wc") has nothing else - no sink, while the room with the tub has the sink. I think it would make more sense to put the sink in the room with the toilet - that's certainly more hygienic. Otherwise, though, I like the idea of two separate rooms. You can take a long bath without feeling guilty. Joyce -- Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. -- Dave Barry Many homes in Australia have the tub and/or shower in a different room from the toilet. I visited one home where the toilet was in one room, the bathtub and shower were in another, and the wash basin was in a third room. We have a small sink for washing hands in the bathroom, where the shower and bath also are, a room for the toilet only, and the laundry which has the washing machine, dryer and larger wash basin / laundry tub in it. if I was redesigning the house, I'd make thelaundry alot smaller, and make the bathroom much larger. The laundry room is a real waste of space, IMHO, and could share with the toilet. Neither is the sort of room where you want to spend any more time than strictly necessary. 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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