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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mrs.Duck Date: 29 Jul 09 - 06:28 PM I am lucky enough to work in a school where we have a toilet that not only washes your bum but blow dries it afterwards! I have put this on my list of luxuries should my lotto numbers ever come up. I even use it if I haven't 'been' :) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Penny S. Date: 29 Jul 09 - 05:12 AM I know I am responsible for thread creep, but there wasa story on the radio about a 67 year old diabetic woman in Australia who was trapped between her toliet and the inward opening door for a week until her neighbour heard her while putting out his washing. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Peace Date: 28 Jul 09 - 01:27 PM The height of the dispenser should take into account the length of the roll of paper. For example, the quick way to figure it is to multiply Pi (3.14159) with the diameter midway through the roll. That will let you know that the entire roll is x feet long unless you're in Canada where it would be x meters long. So, with that underconsideration, and if you intend to make full use of the roll, and say the whole roll is 125 meters long, don't hang the dispenser more than 124 meters from the floor. As you take say a meter of paper to wipe your unmentionables be sure to leave at least a foot in the US or a meter/3 in Canada so you can pull on the roll and get paper, else you'll be using your hand and no one will want to be your friend. I worked all this out earlier. A word of caution, I think this is a really stupid idea. And the fuckin' calculator fell in the bowl, blocked it when I flushed and there's about 1/2" of water on the floor if yer in the US or 2.54 cm/2 if yer in Canada and a perfectly good mathematical instrument has gone to its great reward in the sky. FYI |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: VirginiaTam Date: 28 Jul 09 - 01:14 PM Every bathroom should have one of these especially if you do a lot of entertaining. I have seen some hilarious entries in one at a house I used to clean. Almost as funny as Mudcat. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Jul 09 - 01:00 PM Reminds me of a comment I made last Friday night... Now that pubs and clubs are non-smoking, I notice that they no longer smell of smoke. Instead they smell of other people's farts or as I paraphrased: 'The Great Unwiped'. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Nigel Parsons Date: 28 Jul 09 - 08:01 AM "In days of old, When knights were bold, And paper not invented. They wiped their arse On clumps of grass, And went away contented!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Penny S. Date: 28 Jul 09 - 07:05 AM In the prizewinning loos at Heston, the basins were in a separate part of the room, with the loos down corridors with the space between the opposite doors larger than one door, if smaller than two - though I'm not sure about that. I'm going to check out distances from now on. But I still think that there should be room for someone to stand in the loo and swing the door round without being forced against the seat. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 28 Jul 09 - 05:22 AM I recall being at a house party in which when you entered the house via the front door, you had a view up the stairs. At the top, you could see the louvre doors of the bathroom. If the light was on,because of the angle of the louvre slats, you could plainly see anyone sitting there!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 28 Jul 09 - 02:22 AM Toilet doors don't open outwards because they could hit the person standing waiting or washing their hands. In public places where space is a premium, it is often not possible to have the sinks in a separate part of the bathroom. The exception to this should be disabled cubicles, designed for use by those in wheelchairs, where an inward opening door would mean no room to turn the chair around. The one in my office is carefully placed next to the kitchen so that anyone coming out of the toilet can successfully hit anyone coming out of the kitchen with their hot drink or food... I remember using one in Belgium where it was possible, when seated, to see into the hotel foyer over the top of of the 'saloon' style doors... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Penny S. Date: 27 Jul 09 - 04:31 PM To pick up on a point by Liz, many, many modern ladies loos, including a prizewinning set on the M4, have doors which open inwards, rotating through the only standing space. Judges by a man without going in. Apart from the obvious problem for users, unless size - 1, this means that cleaners cannot access the whole cubicle, and that if anyone has a problem, they cannot be reached from outside. Fainting, heart attacks, or drug related issues. Why don't doors open outwards? Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 27 Jul 09 - 08:21 AM http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madison_Museum_of_Bathroom_Tissue |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: GUEST Date: 13 May 09 - 08:52 PM Notice on cubicle wall, gents, Ratagan youth hostel, Scotland, 1974: "Economy drive: please use both sides of the paper." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Joe_F Date: 13 May 09 - 08:42 PM While we are on that subject, here is an oddity: When a roll runs out, I buy a new one on the next shopping trip, and put it on top of the tank for when the replacement runs out (I am an inventory management freak). But if a guest uses my toilet in the meantime, I almost invariably find that he or she has started in on the spare rather than using the roll that is in the dispenser. Why is that? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: JHW Date: 13 May 09 - 04:30 PM Does BS mean Bog Standard? I've often wondered. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bill D Date: 13 May 09 - 12:47 PM "Afterwards I wiped my tail with a hen, with a cock, with a pullet, with a calf's skin, with a hare, with a pigeon, with a cormorant, with an attorney's bag, with a montero, with a coif, with a falconer's lure. But, to conclude, I say and maintain, that of all torcheculs, arsewisps, bumfodders, tail-napkins, bunghole cleansers, and wipe-breeches, there is none in the world comparable to the neck of a goose, that is well downed, if you hold her head betwixt your legs. And believe me therein upon mine honour, for you will thereby feel in your nockhole a most wonderful pleasure, both in regard of the softness of the said down and of the temporate heat of the goose, which is easily communicated to the bum-gut and the rest of the inwards, in so far as to come even to the regions of the heart and brains. And think not that the felicity of the heroes and demigods in the Elysian fields consisteth either in their asphodel, ambrosia, or nectar, as our old women here used to say; but in this, according to my judgment, that they wipe their tails with the neck of a goose, holding her head betwixt their legs, and such is the opinion of Master John of Scotland, alias Scotus." Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel, Chapter 1.XIII |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 13 May 09 - 05:36 AM carpet? - Luxury! 8-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Spleen Cringe Date: 12 May 09 - 06:04 PM Whatever happened to rubbing your arse on the carpet? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Joe_F Date: 12 May 09 - 06:02 PM Live & learn. It had never occurred to me that anyone would stand up to wipe. Hence, I accepted the conventional height without thought. However, it does mean that you have to bend over if you are standing & want some paper for some other purpose. ObSongs: There's a lack of toilet paper, So they wait until it's vapor, And they light it with a taper, In Mobile. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: gnu Date: 12 May 09 - 05:52 PM Yup. Sobeys grocery has flush sensors, faucet hand sensors, door sensor lighting, FRESH FLOWERS, a survey card and pen... and shitty toilet paper! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: frogprince Date: 12 May 09 - 05:46 PM I had serious doubts as to whether the junk could possibly be so cheap that the buyer would come out even after people unrolled enough to serve the purpose. That's bypassing the question of who would even try to be that damnably stingy. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 May 09 - 05:36 PM I understand attempts to control waste, but making it difficult for people to obtain the amount of tissue needed to properly cleanse themselves seems counterproductive. If you were the boss, would you rather shell out a few extra bucks for toilet paper or have your employees smell of unwiped shit? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: frogprince Date: 12 May 09 - 05:36 PM I try to avoid having to use the johns in the local businesses, mainly because of the paper they've been installing lately. In the local grocery, I found paper so thin that it took at least six feet of the stuff folded up to be usable. I thought "at least it can't get any worse". I was wrong. I encountered some in a donut joint that was so thin that there were actually numerous voids missing. I think they may have caught some flak for that; they've gone back to some that is at least much better. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: robomatic Date: 12 May 09 - 05:21 PM In one of my workplaces, the guy in charge of bathroom maintenance decided for some reason we had to economize on TP, so he had installed brand new 'hangers' where there was a tab on the roller which engaged a small knob or 'stop' thus prohibiting the roller from rolling a full 360, in fact, it couldn't roll more'n 180 degrees. Since the roller was plastic and the knob was metal, those of us with jacknives (all of us) whittled away at yon tabs until we had rollers which would really roll. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: gnu Date: 12 May 09 - 04:21 PM The latest here in public toilets is mounting the one-million-feet-roll dispenser under the grab bar so that no human, disabled or otherwise, can get hold of the one-millionth-of-an-inch thick paper, which has no perforations (arrrggghhhh), without contorting into a pretzel shape. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 12 May 09 - 03:53 PM When the paper is mounted on the wall behind the toilet, it should be mounted high enough that it's accessible by reaching over one's head. Sorta like reaching for the rip-cord on a parachute. When you grab a handful, you're supposed to yell "Geronimo!" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: olddude Date: 12 May 09 - 03:00 PM don't go listening to music either, the tappin foot got that old congress guy in a world of trouble at the airport John ... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: olddude Date: 12 May 09 - 02:58 PM When I was a kid in high school the darn thing was mounted on the wall behind the John Now how is that suppose to work .. and I have seen it the same way in public places also ...Dah I guess if a persons head rotated 360 it would be ok |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Lizzie Cornish 1 Date: 12 May 09 - 02:49 PM Every home should have one.. ;0) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bill D Date: 12 May 09 - 01:49 PM To add to my post: Since it is hard to reduce height, toilets are made lower. If one needs to raise it, there are many gadgets available For those looking for money saving TP ideas, try this page ☺ |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Rapparee Date: 12 May 09 - 12:28 PM To quote Abraham Lincoln, "Long enough to reach the ground." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bill D Date: 12 May 09 - 12:03 PM Since many homes have only one, and must be used by children as well as adults, the 'standard' height is low enough to allow most folks to have their feet on the floor as much as possible, and to bring the knees 'up' a bit, giving the body the most efficient angle for for easy elimination.. (I had an entire book on the design of bathrooms once) IF one needs other heights, they can be ordered from specialty plumbing suppliers. IF one has really, really special needs, it is possible to make the toilet adjustable in height. I know someone who designed one, bought necessary parts (sleeves, hydraulics...etc) and installed it to make use by handicapped persons easier. It works fine! has about 6 inches adjustable range, I believe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 12 May 09 - 08:17 AM ..........folowing on from this happy discourse, while musing this morning in the wee room, I pondered why it is that while dining chairs, waiting room chairs & so on have standardised heights, toilets on the Thoughts? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:17 AM http://www.dmt123.com/generic-health-5/3443-12-dmt123.html |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 25 Oct 06 - 05:16 AM http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=poo |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Oct 06 - 04:11 AM Corn cobs + piles..... not a happy picture. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bobert Date: 24 Oct 06 - 08:56 PM Ummmmmm, upon further relection, screw tidy paper... Corn cobs good 'nuff fir my granddaddy and he lived to be 88 years old so corn cobs good nuff 'fir me... Ummmmmm, Part B... Who really cares??? Womenz allways win this one so here's what I say... I say what we men needz is our own bathrooms that womenz ain't allowed to use... Then we can do what we men have to do, when we want to do it and where we want to do it... I built the P-Vine a bathroom in the new house and put everything in the dumb places that womenz want stuff... Fine, let her have her little bathroom fantasy, right??? The I have my "men's room" and I got all my funky rat that she hates in there and an old flour sack filled with good ol' Virginny growed corn cobs an' thats the way I like it... Ya' know, they don't make no corn cob dispensers, do they??? End of friggin' toidy paper dispenser argument... Bobert (alias "Real Man", alias "No Toidy Issues Wuss", alias "Corn Cobs Rule", alias "Get the Heck Outta Here, I Built You Yours and This One is Mine", alias, "Always Throw the Cobs Down Wind"...) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Tweed Date: 24 Oct 06 - 08:30 PM One wad / multiple wipes? Standing up to wipe your ass? My god, do you Brits have a paper shortage over there or what? Use it once for crissake and then get rid of it. Carry a crow bar for the one-sheet dispensers, or to get into the next stall for more. Stuff the toilet full of it,but keep your butt clean, goddamm!!...you can't go around smelling like shit. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 24 Oct 06 - 07:39 PM Oh yes..... I'm sitting on it at the moment. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 24 Oct 06 - 06:37 PM 'equally useful on the other end....' LTS, You have another end?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bunnahabhain Date: 22 Oct 06 - 06:41 PM Annoy everyone equally, fix them to the ceiling.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Oct 06 - 06:01 PM Ah yes... and those tissues with the nose balm in are equally useful on the other end.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bill D Date: 22 Oct 06 - 11:19 AM When I KNOW I'm going to be in a new environment for awhile, I sometimes carry a reasonable supply of tissue of my own choosing...just to avoid the sandpaper/tracing paper problem noted above. "Be prepared" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:16 AM ...........here I sit, broken hearted, paid a tenner, and only f****d!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: GUEST,... Date: 22 Oct 06 - 08:08 AM (What happened to my post just then?) to continue... Conversation in a public toilet: "Any paper in your cubicle?" "No, sorry." Pause "Have you got change for a tenner?" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: GUEST Date: 22 Oct 06 - 07:38 AM Conversation in a public loo: |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Oct 06 - 05:52 AM I'm a waddist too.... much more secure and can be utilised in a multitude of different ways - The Solid wad - secure but uses a lot of paper. The Wad, Wipe and Flip - wadded around the fingers with a tail several sheets long left. Tail is flipped over to provide a new, clean surface after each wipe. Maximises paper useage but care must be taken not to dangle the end in the pan. The Wodge and Pray - a handful of paper crumpled up and applied once or twice. Can lead to embarassing dags or famous East End of London gangsters (Ginger Marks). Usually used in a cold bathroom or when in a hurry. The people who annoy me most are those who leave just a couple of sheets on the roll.... enough to make it look viable, but not enough to complete the job - and all so they don't have to change the roll. Limpit is an expert at this trick. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Mr Happy Date: 22 Oct 06 - 05:40 AM All in our family were taught that the front to back technique was correct, the opposite having potential for causing various health problems [see above]. Unless one is a contortionist, I can't see it being possible to remain seated & enact the front to back method. ************** ............& then there's those ridiculous single sheet dispensers! Even worse than the enclosed roll type. If the single sheet type jam up, its well nigh impossible to extract any paper at all! ************** Also, type of tissue: the 1st kind I recall in UK was 'IZAL' http://www.carbolicsoap.com/toilet-paper-p-905.html. It was horrible, hard, shiny stuff like tracing paper, totally non-absorbent. But even worse than that, years ago when in Belgium - not even a sit-upon toilet, rather a 'squat-thrust' with straining bars! - the 'toilet tissue' was green with the texture [both sides] of sandpaper!! AAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggghhhhhh! I'm a 'waddist' & prefer a wad or pad of tissue to do the biz. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Bill D Date: 21 Oct 06 - 12:29 PM "fold or wad" ah, FOLD...carefully measured for individual circumstances. Less waste, no surprises! And the most important issue of all... BRAND of paper! They are not created equal. (We had a thread awhile back on type & technique). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 21 Oct 06 - 12:03 PM Bad Boy! Sit! Stay! Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Toilet paper dispensers: Height? From: JohnInKansas Date: 21 Oct 06 - 08:19 AM bad boy bobad! John |
