Posted 9 Jan 2020 32 minutes ago, silty1 said: My dad's dumps were quite toxic and we only had one bathroom Well since we had a new bathroom fitted I am banished to the older one upstairs. Saying that, can anyone remember the days when to have a second toilet downstairs was a luxury you showed off about? Along with wahey fitted carpets? Good old 70s! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 16 minutes ago, jeremytwo said: Well since we had a new bathroom fitted I am banished to the older one upstairs. Saying that, can anyone remember the days when to have a second toilet downstairs was a luxury you showed off about? Along with wahey fitted carpets? Good old 70s! Yeah. The guest toilet. It is a luxury indeed. I remember the elders telling us about the days of the outside toilet in the back garden... When it snowed and was degrees minus centrigrade outside. We are all spoiled rotten nowdays. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 29 minutes ago, Anna66 said: I remember the elders telling us about the days of the outside toilet in the back garden... When it snowed and was degrees minus centrigrade outside. We are all spoiled rotten nowdays. That's what we had during the 50s in Wales. In Germany during the 60s in a Mehrfamilienhaus we had the toilet halfway down the stairs, which was shared by three families on the same floor. In both cases flushing took place with a bucket of water and newspaper for wiping one's bottom. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 1 minute ago, bramble said: That's what we had during the 50s in Wales. In Germany during the 60s in a Mehrfamilienhaus we had the toilet halfway down the stairs, which was shared by three families on the same floor. In both cases flushing took place with a bucket of water and newspaper for wiping one's bottom. One apartment I had in Germany had a cupboard half-way between floors. I assume that this was also once a toilet, although all signs of it were long gone. I also recall in the mid-80s visiting friends of my parents, going upstairs to use their toilet and coming down and whispering to my mum Me: "Mum. They have two toilets in the bathroom!" Mum: "No, the other one is a bidet" (As if I knew what that was!) Mum: "You didn't use it did you?" Me: "Nooo!" (PS. Yes I did. And I thought the flush was a bit strange!). 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 On 1/16/2019 1:03:23, Svetlana.Petro said: I think the main cause of disgust is the political correctness here. What if they had included scenes from Cologne here where the perpetrators were mostly Muslim men? Several hundreds of them from countries that have actual rape culture. Somebody would have lost their job in the process had they shown that. If I tell people on here how I got cat called and followed by migrants in Frankfurt they will call me a liar and racist and say something like "German men are just aggressive". German men are the least aggressive men I know. There are a lot of Waschlappen among them. Can't even ask a girl out...lol 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 3 hours ago, Anna66 said: I remember the elders telling us about the days of the outside toilet in the back garden... When it snowed and was degrees minus centrigrade outside. That's when the chamber pot comes handy... But don't forget to look that no crab fish is in it... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 1 hour ago, franklan said: That's when the chamber pot comes handy... Which any decent Victorian of course would throw out of the window into the street. (I'm reading a book on The Victorians at the moment!) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 Just now, jeremytwo said: Which any decent Victorian of course would throw out of the window into the street. (I'm reading a book on The Victorians at the moment!) "Look out below!" they would cry, hence the name "loo" or so I am told.. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 19 minutes ago, Anna66 said: "Look out below!" they would cry, hence the name "loo" or so I am told.. Our history teacher said it was because they shouted "Gardez l'eau" Which eventually got shortened to "loo" Don't ask me why he was giving us scottish lessons - we weren't that far "up north"... Wiki: Gardyloo 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 5 minutes ago, HH_Sailor said: Our history teacher said it was because they shouted "Gardez l'eau" Which eventually got shortened to "loo" Don't ask me why he was giving us scottish lessons - we weren't that far "up north"... Wiki: Gardyloo I think Mr Sailor is correct. Now according to the Museum of Toilets* in Stoke on Trent it was Thomas Crapper who invented the porcelain palace. Is that correct? *There is no museum, however there is the Gladstone Pottery Museum! 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 ..and we say " loo behold " when we are watching someone on the toilet! ( Teacher´s story!! ) 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 11 minutes ago, jeremytwo said: I think Mr Sailor is correct. Now according to the Museum of Toilets* in Stoke on Trent it was Thomas Crapper who invented the porcelain palace. Is that correct? *There is no museum, however there is the Gladstone Pottery Museum! No.. he didnt invent the porcelain toilet.. he did invent the flushing mechanism thats known to day as the "ball cock"... however, he did invent the man hole cover that allowed easy access to the sewers.... His name was cast in to the cover... Hence the term being created " going to the crapper"... 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 On 1/8/2020, 11:18:12, BradinBayern said: Bullshit. Nudity is not necessarily sexual. Taking a crap is definitely not sexual (unless you have weird fetisches). The brain tells you something is not right because it has been so conditioned. Children have no problem with nudity or which bathroom they use because they have not yet been conditioned to feel ashamed. Yes, other religions and people are even more prudish. What does that have to do with the conversation? (note quote function not working) It’s an issue of privacy not prudishness. Here’s a small example. Sex Assaults in mixed sex wards (used to be single sex but that’s considered transphobic) https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/07/1000-sex-assaults-mixed-sex-wards-investigation-finds/ edit: moved over to the proper 🧵 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 9 hours ago, AlexTr said: My question is why any of these vulgarians think that having kids makes anyone an arbiter of who gets to use the toilet. The issue is quite simple: if you don't have kids, you are not as tuned in to the risks that kids face. If you are not a woman, you are not as tuned into the risks that women face. If you are not a ... well if you still don't get it, i cannot help you. Different experience means it is important to allow people to judge risks for themselves. Dismissing the opinions of others, especially when it potentially messes with their kids, is a losing proposition. 7 hours ago, BradinBayern said: The questions of whether any trans person using the toilet is dangerous whether fat and bearded or not has already been answered - Not in any statistically relevant way. As a parent, I would have expected you to respect others' judgements and choices when it comes to their kids. Not sure that statistical relevance has been a major decision factor for most Moms I know. If it does not feel right, they will reject. Your statistical methods are unsound for obvious reasons by the way. Quote Actually, there are many more cases of trans people being the victims of violence than the other way around. Nobody has argued otherwise. You are preaching to the choir. Quote I would rather trust a fat bearded trans guy than some of the posters on TT, OK? Depends on the circumstances. Quote That is my decision to make. ... and by extension, you respect the idea that others want to make their own decisions?? You seem uncomfortable with that if they go against your views. Quote How about you? They are teen aged. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 My daughter is now 31 but when she was about 3 or so in London and if I was alone with her and she needed to use the loo, I was always uncertain whether to go into the café or restaurant toilet with her...or rather, into which room..the men´s or the ladies´... In general, I tended to look at the women going in and shrug my shoulders and they´d generally smile and say " it´s ok..isn´t she lovely? " And " I don´t mind if you come into the ladies´ room." Different times??? PS: kids do tend to follow you around at a very young age...I remember going to the loo at our house in London and my daughter walked in, saw " it " and said, innocently, " oh, how pretty." 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 1 hour ago, jeremytwo said: I think Mr Sailor is correct. Now according to the Museum of Toilets* in Stoke on Trent it was Thomas Crapper who invented the porcelain palace. Is that correct? *There is no museum, however there is the Gladstone Pottery Museum! As usual it's not correct. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 1 hour ago, balticus said: The issue is quite simple: if you don't have kids, you are not as tuned in to the risks that kids face. If you are not a woman, you are not as tuned into the risks that women face. If you are not a ... well if you still don't get it, i cannot help you. Different experience means it is important to allow people to judge risks for themselves. Dismissing the opinions of others, especially when it potentially messes with their kids, is a losing proposition. As a parent, I would have expected you to respect others' judgements and choices when it comes to their kids. Not sure that statistical relevance has been a major decision factor for most Moms I know. If it does not feel right, they will reject. Your statistical methods are unsound for obvious reasons by the way. Nobody has argued otherwise. You are preaching to the choir. Depends on the circumstances. ... and by extension, you respect the idea that others want to make their own decisions?? You seem uncomfortable with that if they go against your views. They are teen aged. Sure I respect your judgement as a parent, but I also respect the right of trans people to use the bathroom that is appropriate to them. It is you who wants to tell someone else what they can and cannot do, not I. If you make a statement that allowing trans people to use the bathroom is dangerous, then you have to back it up with facts. You cannot just make shit up because trans people make you feel "icky". The same sorts of arguments were made to try to keep black people out of public bathrooms, by the way - also with no facts to back them up and so they failed. If you don't want to use the public bathroom, then don't. No one is forcing you to. No one is forcing you not to either. I seriously do not understand your statements "others want to make their own decisions" and "respect other people's judgment when it comes to their kids". What am I telling people that they cannot do? 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 1 hour ago, Rushrush said: It’s an issue of privacy not prudishness. Last time I checked the women's bathroom had stalls. Your article was a link to studies done at a mental health ward. Hardly relevant. 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 7 hours ago, jeremytwo said: Well since we had a new bathroom fitted I am banished to the older one upstairs. Did you do the work or did you sit around trolling the net while someone else did the work? 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted 9 Jan 2020 11 hours ago, balticus said: 40 year old obese man with a beard You mean like this: Beard 1 0 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
