A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2005 A favor to ask Nako

I was wondering Phoebe, um , if it's not too much trouble, if you please, I mean you don't have to , but while your mesmerized by the backwards, swirling waters of the Australian toilets could you take a peek at the way the toilet paper is hung?? I bet it's "down under" isn't it??

The only place anything is "down under" is in Australia, and it's not the toilet paper! :p

Keep looking, Mel! One of these days you'll find someone else who hangs the toilet paper in the wrong direction!

I thought she went to New Zealand...not Australia

G-Mom

Well, she did, but aren't they both "down under"?

The toilet water definitely flushes in the same direction in both countries...

okay which way is the right way?? cause I tell you for sure if I get it on wrong I'm, not taking it off

Well, despite what SOME PEOPLE will tell you, the CORRECT way is over the top! :p

Who me !!!

I don't give a flying fig which way.

This is something we cannot do without.

'roughing it' camping? okie dokie.....but not without TP

Okay, I am votin' definately over! One of my pet peeves...toilet paper hung the WRONG way. It just tears off better over the top...it is scientifically proven. (I'm sure)

Oh Boy...here we go again!



OVER!

G-Mom

*whisper whisper* New Zealand is part of the continent of Australia So you're ALL wrong!! mwahahahahaha!!

~Phoebe

Actually, I just applied for a $1,000,000.00 government grant for this research! Funny thing is, they'll probably give me the money!



Cindy

Actually Ashley does all the TP hanging now, she thinks it's fun. I can use it any way it's hung....long as I got some I'm happy

I hate those despensers, I have to get ashley to reach in and start the darn thing....wonder if I'll get old enough to use the bathroom by my self *LMAO*

oh well they're kinda cool, cuz they're like the ones that you dry your hands off with back home... only really tiny and built for toilet paper ^.^ You pull the leaver thingy and paper comes out the bottom. not nearly enough of course, so you gotta pull it 3 or 4 times, but it works! Only problem is that in public bathrooms, you donno who's touched that icky leaver >.<

~Phoebe

When I read this much..
...I pictured the blow dryer things, and thought
"What the he!! is up with that?!"

Cindy

omg ms. cindy! you're so weird!

In Cindy's defense, I thought the same thing!

Yeah, me too!!! I will go as far as CHANGING it to the RIGHT way!!

And Phoebe, I would be carrying latex gloves and Purrel hand sanitizer with me EVERYWHERE!!!! Ewww!!!

Thank you, Jenn!

And, yeah...about those rubber gloves.
NEVER leave home without them!

i just try to make it a general rule not to go to public bathrooms lol. But the ones around here are pretty clean and i wouldn't mind using them if i had to. Definately not as clean as the ones in my dorm back in college *Mike is the best janator in the world!!* but they're clean.

Guys have it so much easier when it comes to that. They can go anywhere! I mean, we can too, but we have to have taken ballet lessons :p

~Phoebe

Okay, the TP is hung over not under!!! :p

My theory is this......My TP dispenser is set in the wall, not sticking out from the wall.....if the TP was put on going under it would be laying against the wall.....now, my wall is pretty clean, but it's not as if I clean my walls every week..........even if the TP dispenser is set out from the wall there is still a chance of the TP touching the wall, and the only thing I want the TP to touch is my hand and then, well you know.

As usual, I could tell a story about that!


Cindy

I think ONLY YOU could tell a story about that!!

I've actually thought of several!

The first one when I was ten years old walking home from Ocean View Amusement Park...

The second one.......(never mind)!

*does her impression of Bill*

Well the best thing to do if you don't wana get ur feet or shoes all icky is to:

1. Bring tissues *leaves are icky and covered in bugs*
2. Find two objects of equal height that you can "position yourself" on shoulderwidth apart.

Then just the things you found will get messy Women's survival! woo!!!

~Phoebe

Just think Cindy..when you get your grant you already have WONDERFUL resources (us)to help you out!

ooooooh hand sanitizer love that stuff..and they are starting to put in all the public restrooms around here.

think they are trying to tell us something??

I like the places where they make them wear the gloves.

Yeah, and you can study what kind of twisted personality goes against every other person here and says UNDER.

OMG! I am laughing so hard, thinking about another story. I would never tell this one to ANYONE in a million years, but, I swear, one of these days I'm gonna change my name and write a "tell all" book about myself.
Just gotta think of a catchy title for it...



Cindy

Traveling in Europe & Great Britian as a young woman was rather an eye opening experience in the bathroom department....

First there was the differences in TP itself, in some countries it was just like WAX PAPER -- now I ask you, what's up with that? And in other countries it was more like crepe paper. Either way, I was glad when my family mailed me a roll of American TP.

Second, there was the unusual style of public facilities. The ones in Florence were the WORST. You paid to get in, and you had to pay because the female attendant guarded the door. So you pay your confusing amount of money to get in the door only to find out it is ONE LARGE ROOM WITH NO DIVIDERS! And, by the way, NO TOILETS, EITHER!

Nope. Not a toilet in sight...just holes in the floor in tidy rows, and each hole had two foot-shaped indentations on either side where you were supposed to put your feet so you could squat with all the other squatting women under the watchful eye of the attendant....

Of course, the men had an even more unusual option....the urinals were built in -- right into the sides of buildings -- and again, no walls or screens. You'd just be walking down any old sidewalk and see guys facing the wall.

I didn't say much, considering that some of those urinals (and even the cow troughs in Switzerland) were older than our entire country, but I walked around a bit dazed. Maybe from holding it all over Europe. I decided to wait "til I got home" the following year....

Merme

Where did it all GO?
Like, did they have a sewage system that flushed everything somewhere?

Where did it go...shoot, I would be so SHOCKED about walking by a bunch of men with their toto's hangin out that I wouldn't CARE where it went! OMG.....

AND....squatting and trying to hit those little hole....I would still be there cause I couldn't get UP!!!! Okay...I'm staying home!

...brings to mind the local livestock auction parking lot the first Tuesday of the month.

If I were squatting to "eliminate my waste", I would probably fall in and eliminate myself!

My fiance' was stationed in Germany for a while when he was active in the Air Force. He said it was nothing to see some lady on the side of the road with her dress scooped up to use the bathroom. I believe it would cause a lot of wrecks here in the US with all the rubbernecking we Americans do.

Dianna

ok, gotta comment on this one now...

in the orient, there are two schools of thought.

in the poorer countries it is not uncommon to see anyone just squatting or letting it all hang out. the open sewer troughs are horrible and it just drains in the the local rivers... hence the disease rates in some of the countries.

in the countries that are better off (and the "better off" areas of the poorer countries) there are usually 2 kinds of facilities. the "standard, local" ones - either a hole or a toilet with no seat to squat over and ones labeled "american style facilities (or toilet, or comfort room, or what ever). those have real toilets, toilet seats, and a sign on the door of the stall requesting the locals to "please do not stand on the toilet seat. if you feel the need to squat, please raise the seat"

so, there!

Man, you guys come up with some weird stuff to talk about when you can't get outside and work in your gardens!


Cindy

Oh yeah, like you don't come up with weird stuff! Huh!!!

I'm still cracking up about that one! I never heard them called that before.

Me?
WEIRD stuff?

You must have me confused with someone else!

Cindy

Foreign Countries my foot...I saw a woman walking doen the street in New York and she just stopped (with the red light) and squatted and ..well...trust me, it was GROSS!!! It didn't seem to bother anyone around...EXCEPT ME....I was totally shocked. Now, at deer camp I might expect something of that nature....

Toto's....well, that was just something I had to come up with quick when my oldest was a baby..for some reason he wanted to call it a "pee pee stick"

This entire post is about going to the bathroom

~Phoebe

Mel I am flushing this thread to the archive...and having the last final word.....T.P. HANGS OVER THE ROLL and a triangle at the end after cleaning the bathroom is a must!!!