The Vent and Rant Thread

[wannabee]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

They certainly are the norm here. My sister-in-law has three sons, and they even installed a urinal to save water!
We have one of those 'rocket ship console' toilets, with half a dozen buttons. Three different water sprays, temperature controls for the water and the seat, etc., etc. I was afraid of it the first time I sat down...

I've seen them. They look fancier than Captain Kirk's chair. I haven't seen them for sale over here. If I installed one here it would make the news.

Another funny loo item: When we built the house twenty years ago we weren't connected to the sewer. Everyone had a septic tank. Our next door neighbours had a toilet under their house but because the floor was lower than the septic they installed it on top of a four foot pedestal with stairs leading up to it. It really was the Throne Room.
edit: you would really hurt yourself if you fell off

[Stitchawl]

Twenty years ago some friends of mine bought a week-end house along the Japan Sea coast. It was a very traditional old farm house, with a typical Japanese squat toilet. These are set flush (no pun intended) to the floor. They ordered a western style toilet, which at the time were fairly unknown in Japan, and hired a contractor to install it for them. When they arrived the following week-end, they found that the contractor had done a very neat job of installation, except for the fact that he installed it with the seat flush with the floor!

Stitchawl

[wannabee]

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

When they arrived the following week-end, they found that the contractor had done a very neat job of installation, except for the fact that he installed it with the seat flush with the floor!

Stitchawl

Did they uninstall it?

[Stitchawl]

Originally Posted by wannabee

Did they uninstall it?

Sure. After they stopped laughing. The contractor had built a platform under the floor to support it. All they needed to do was have him put back the flooring and hook it up.


Stitchawl

[Mortis]

Could be worse, you could be using a two hole outhouse in a Canadian North winter (-30º C), nothing quite like chipping the ice off before using :P

[maianhvk]

you guys are driving me crazy with these replies

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by SneakySnake

aha! Well we don't need to flush our feet over here, just bodily waste! are feet bodily waste?

Depends. When was the last time you washed them?
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Dennis

[DMcCunney]

Originally Posted by Mortis

Could be worse, you could be using a two hole outhouse in a Canadian North winter (-30º C), nothing quite like chipping the ice off before using :P

...and after using...
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Dennis

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

We need to pick up on that. Toilets on this side of the planet should have two buttons.

We're being very wasteful by using these "water conservation" devices that need to be flushed twice.

Yes, but you shouldn't have to flush twice all the time.

Originally Posted by Stitchawl

They certainly are the norm here. My sister-in-law has three sons, and they even installed a urinal to save water!
We have one of those 'rocket ship console' toilets, with half a dozen buttons. Three different water sprays, temperature controls for the water and the seat, etc., etc. I was afraid of it the first time I sat down...

Temperature controls for the water?

Originally Posted by Mortis

Could be worse, you could be using a two hole outhouse in a Canadian North winter (-30º C), nothing quite like chipping the ice off before using :P

My brother lives in Alaska, he says they call it the poop cone and there is shovel right inside the outhouse for that purpose.

Originally Posted by DMcCunney

...and after using...
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Dennis

You can't chip it until it freezes

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by dsvick

Temperature controls for the water?

those toilets are a bidet and toilet all rolled into one. ultimate in pampering and cleanliness! just imagine!

[Mortis]

Originally Posted by dsvick

My brother lives in Alaska, he says they call it the poop cone and there is shovel right inside the outhouse for that purpose.

You didn't think I was kidding did you? :P

I'm not going to comment, nope not gonna happen!

[dsvick]

Originally Posted by kindlekitten

those toilets are a bidet and toilet all rolled into one. ultimate in pampering and cleanliness! just imagine!

Talk about a waste of water. However, if you're going to use it, it might as well be warm water!

Originally Posted by Mortis

You didn't think I was kidding did you? :P

I knew you weren't kidding, he told us about poop cones a while again. He mentioned his shovel had broken so we asked him what shovel, he said the one in the outhouse, we asked him why he had a shovel in the outhouse .... Thus began our education into poop cones!

In cold weather environments in the Marine Corps the heads got cleaned too often for that to be an issue. Of course cleaning them brought on its own issues since the accepted way was to cover the frozen waste with kerosene and light it on fire. Of course it would not always burn evenly so someone had to be there to monitor and stir the mixture to make sure it was all consumed. Not the most pleasant of jobs!!

[kindlekitten]

Originally Posted by dsvick

Talk about a waste of water. However, if you're going to use it, it might as well be warm water!
!!

it actually wasn't that much water. I had a bidet in Germany.... ahhhh!

[wodin]

Originally Posted by Mortis

Could be worse, you could be using a two hole outhouse in a Canadian North winter (-30º C), nothing quite like chipping the ice off before using :P

I'm reminded of growing up in Wisconsin in the '40s '50s, Many places had not yet installed indoor plumbing, including my grandparents; so it was the ol' outhouse, or visit the more progressive neighbors.

When the Montgomery Ward catalog was used up, the outhouse had corn cobs for tidying up after. There were two boxes of them, one for the red ones and one for the white ones. The red box was bigger, because the idea was to use two red ones, then use a white one to see if you needed to use another red one.

[benham]

Up here on Sawyer Lake in WI there used to be a bar called Red & Irenes. It had 9 bar stools and no tables If you needed to use the bathroom you were told to go out the side door and turn left at the oil tank. Out houses were the world's first unisex toilet. This bar had a juke box where the songs cost a nickel but there were only 20 songs. If you won the shake of the day you had to put half in the juke box, which meant you played every song once and half of them twice!