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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
Slightly OT, but: If you go to Switzerland, don't be surprised to find a toilet tissue and even poop on railroad tracks. We call it "Plumpsklo". 
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I think it used to be that way in quite a few places, I know it was for sure here for awhile. my Mom grew up on the east coast and did a lot of train travel. she tells a story of having gone to the bathroom, washed her hands, and had taken her ring off to do so (which I never understood outside of a surgery suite. anyway...) I guess you shoved the sink "into the wall" when you finished with it to drain it. sure enough the ring was on the edge of the sink and out onto the tracks. and of course it was her inherited ring from her grandmother