BS: Loos That Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**

Subject: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 04:32 PM

In the ten years I've been around here we've talked about damn near everything including condoms and dental dams so this one should fit right in.

Karen and I went to an Ethiopian restaurant the other night, a first time for their cuisine. It was great and we loved it but typically (unfortunately) I needed to use the head. This place is in an old building just north of the Ohio State campus and has probably lived its life in a dozen or more uses. Restrooms were put in as mandatory for the current use but the guy that did it needs to be strung up by his balls.

The toilet is at the far end of the VERY narrow room and within 6-8 inches of the backwall. The front of the seat is about 15 inches from the wall in front of you where the toilet paper rack takes up room as well.   Its sits for some reason on a raised platform portion of floor and the urinal is at your back and maybe 18" to your left.

If you're 5 foot tall and weigh 92 pounds, its probably just "cozy." But if you're a 6 foot fatfuck at 250 with size 13 feet its damn near an impossibility! Had things not been desparate I'd have gone elsewhere but...............................Words cannot describe the experience and you don't want to hear it. To make matters worse, this piece of shit shitter had a defective flush valve and I'm in there flushing repeatedly for about 5 minutes.

Now you know I'm not the only one who has had this experince in that place but I may have been the first to nicely and jokingly (but equally seriously) complain a bit. The owner was a real nice fella and even with the language hurdle I think he understood and wasn't insulted.

Afterwards I got to thinking of all the sub-standard crappers I've used for nigh on 60 years and I figure I ain't alone, so................................

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Wesley S
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 04:35 PM

There is a bar here in town that just has a trough to pee in. You get real near and neighborly with the other - male - patrons.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: SINSULL
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 04:54 PM

I lived in an apartment with the bathroom built into the eaves. Not a problem for me but tall gentlement had a hell of a time getting close enough to the toilet not to make a mess. The ceiling slanted directly over it.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 04:59 PM

You never "went" on my cousin Norbert's farm didcha Spaw? His was a outhouse about fifty years old that hung, loosely, over a creek about 20 feet below. It was braced in place but the bracing posts were cracked and dryrotted. As you sat and contemplated The Fates and whether or not it was safe to move you could see, through the cracks in the floor, the water rushing along below. As for the paper...well, you ever see a corncob?

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 05:52 PM

a couple years ago, I ran into this! It might explain a lot.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 06:02 PM

ahh...there is another site.

I wonder which one I saw first?

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Amos
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 06:25 PM

Down in Old Mexico the trough-style pisser and the hole-with-footpads style crapper are pretty run of the mill, especially in areas that were last modernized just before the Revolution. A lot of the same era installations can be found throughout Malaysia, often without bumwad, but equipped with a tim can of water for the same purpose. Tis can e confuzzling if you were raised up with at least a Sears catalog on a piece of balnng twine.






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Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 06:38 PM

In the Army, out in the field, latrines were dug by enlisted men.

I remember one for the enlisted people was was, as these go, nearly palatial. There was a seating arrangement made of poles, so that the user could more-or-less sit whilst doing. The one for the officers was also quite nice, only those who constructed rounded the place where the user's feet would be placed, and THAT caused a slippery, sliding sort of problem and if you weren't VERY careful indeed...well, officers had to be very careful when using.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Donuel
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 07:20 PM

What about the gas station wash room with the suspicious crust.
Deadly? Alien? cure for cancer? or perhaps urine that has learned to grow crystal houses for bacteria.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 07:26 PM

About ten years ago you could still find the hole with footpads in the ladies loos at rest areas on the French Autoroute. That really challenged one's sense of balance!

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Bobert
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 07:38 PM

Sheet fire there, Spawzer... Dontcha just hate that... I mean, at out age there are few simple pleasures left and one on them involves a comfy toidy... That's why they have codes for how them things is put in and I reckon that maybe Jimmy Traficant mighta made a few phone calls when it got time to inspect that tiody... Them things, by code, gotta have the flange centered 15 inches off the back wall and the tiody, by code, has to have 16 inches left and right from the center... Thems is code and codes is there for a reason and that reason, as I stated above, is all about improving the toidy esperience...

Next time you go there, just use the urinal for that business and leave a note to check tiody codes... That will get their attention, fir sure... No, use the sink... Leave a note that say's "Looked more comfy"... No, don't use the sink... Just do the deed right there in the eating area... Yeah, that *will* get their attention!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Charley Noble
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 07:53 PM

Spaw-

A "john" in Ethiopia is housed in an auxillary structure called a "shinta-bet," where "bet" is the general term for house and "shinta" is a distinctive output of most mortals. Within a traditional shinta-bet there would be a small hole in the floor and a couple of markers for one's heels, to facilitate squatting over the hole. Be grateful you were dealing with a more Western style appliance.

The restaurant manager probably invited some of his friends to install the toilet, rather than a licensed plumber. It's good that you provided him some feedback. They need to upgrade.

Happy to hear you enjoyed the meal. Did you order the honey wine as well, known as "tej"?

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 08:17 PM

A fancy cafe in one of our posh suburbs followed the law (equal numbers of male & female facilities) by chopping the 2 existing facilities in half - larger women would not have fitted into the cubicles as the side walls were very close to the seat.

The view thru the open door of Gents showed urinal & seat in very close proximity.

Speaking of equal numbers of facilities, in the mid 90s an American Casino company sent a team of architects to Sydney to build the Casino. I met one architect & his family, & learnt that he had persuaded the boss to allow twice as many cubicles for ladies as "You wouldn't want ladies queueing for the bathrooms when they could be gambling"

Dunno if the same happens in other countries, but it is a well known fact here that queues for female facilities are much longer than those for Gents.

sandra

Just loooove those Google ads - Buy Toilet Paper Online & Toilet Partition Hardware

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Jack Campin
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 08:42 PM

Two from Fundu Racaciuni, Romania, this summer:

http://www.campin.me.uk/Travel/Romania2008/VeronikasToilet.jpg
(the extra toilet paper under the roll is a 20-year-old school text on Romanian geography)

http://www.campin.me.uk/Travel/Romania2008/SchoolToilet.jpg
(I could provide that at wallpeper size if anybody wants it)

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Cluin
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 10:34 PM

There is a bar locally, just a big room with no walls. The door to the Gents is down near one corner, the opposite of the entrance.

One urinal, one toilet. If there ever was a stall around the toilet, it's long gone.

I pity whatever bastard gets caught short and has to honk out a dirt snake in that shitter, because opening the door gives the whole bar and anyone looking in from the parking lot a clear view of the king on the throne, ruling however benevolently.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Oct 08 - 10:42 PM

If it happens to you, just shout "OFF with his head!" and point at someone who's gawking at you.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 10:03 AM

If you're the "investment banker on the go" there's always
this.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: open mike
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 12:21 PM

a sequel to the bridges of madison county..
here find the toilets of madison county:
http://www.nutscape.com/

google ad below: Urinal toilet. shop fast. buy smart.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 01:33 PM

There was a lovely one in Belgium... a pub that sells over 400 different beers so a toilet is essential... it's in Bruges.

The ladies was a traditional sit-me-down with walls, door, floor etc., the gents also had the same equipment, back to back with a gap of about 4 feet between them. This gap was filled with a low wall, about 3, maybe 3 1/2feet in height, which housed the urinal trough.

Nothing wrong with that, you may think. Think again...

It's in the corridor between the back and front bars. Anyone walking between the two - and there are a lot of them, because the front bar is small and the back bar isn't - gets a full on, face to face, view of gents engaged in breaking the beer seal.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Charmion
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 01:57 PM

This reminds me of the Terror Toilet of RAF Brize Norton...

It's 1977, and I'm on a Canadian Forces Boeing 707 full of military families bound for the Germany garrison. Soldiers, airforce folks, wives (no civilian husbands that I could see), and lots of small children. Commercial airlines typically configure the 707 with two seats on the port side and three on the starboard side, just so nobody comes down with the screeching heebies. The CF, in its infinite wisdom, has our 707s rigged for maximum load, with three seats on each side of the aisle and the minimum legspace. Imagine the pleasure of a trans-Atlantic flight in your number one uniform, packed into the window seat like an agoraphobic sardine with an exhausted young mum carrying a screaming baby beside you, and a bored six-year-old kicking your seat from behind.

CF trooping flights are supposed to stage through Gatwick, but the British air traffic controllers are on strike -- a common event in those days. So we land at RAF Brize Norton, the strategic military airhead for southern England.

Close to three quarters of the passengers on the Canadian Forces plane are female, many with small children in tow. All the children have been up all night and many are snivelling; some are just plain howling. Exactly one door in the arrivals area of the Air Movements Unit terminal bears the international symbol for a ladies' washroom. Racing ahead of a finance clerk and a nursing officer, I fling it open. It contains one -- count 'em, one -- toilet and a tiny sink. No row of gleaming stalls. No changing table (what a notion).

About six feet away is a door marked with the international symbol for a men's washroom. As the 30 or so male passengers from our flight flock through it, I note that the interior features a double row of gleaming stalls and an extensive counter surface conveniently co-located with about a mile of sinks.

The nursing officer -- obviously a born leader -- commandeered the gents' loo. I'm not sure the Air Movements staff knew what hit them.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: open mike
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 02:36 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEFizrE1Yr0

this is apparently from the burn

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: open mike
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 03:09 PM

burning man festival

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Dave Swan
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 04:04 PM

My favorite Ethiopian restaurant of the many to be found 'round here has the same damn john as yours,'spaw. No kidding. Out here on the left coast the same layout. Is yours painted Pepto Bismol pink?

D

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Oct 08 - 08:51 PM

Actually, I have to confess that it wasn't till I reached Ethiopia, as a Peace Corps volunteers back in the Pleistocene, that I encountered a bidet in the house that I rented in Addis Ababa. My friends all marveled at the "fountain" in my bathroom. Why we Westerners seem to think cleaning our bodily orifices with toilet paper is hygienic does boggle the more sober mind and is an affront to environmentalists.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: RangerSteve
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 03:34 AM

A friend of mine rented a house that apparently predated indoor plumbing, and the bathroom was installed in a large closet. The toilet and sink faced each other. If you sat on the bowl, your knees were underneath the sink. At least you could wash and crap at the same time.

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: catspaw49
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 07:17 AM

LOL............Fiberglass molds did wonders for the boating and RV industries. We used to refer to the heads as "Triple S Models" where you could shit, shower, and shave, at the same time.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 08:31 AM

Barry Finn has a toilet in the switchback corner of his cellar stairs. It's a marvel to behold! It's also true that he and his family have a perfectly functional full bathroom on the second floor as well but the second toilet really is, well, unique.

We used to have a three-holer out back when I was growing up on our farm in Maine. The holes were respectively large, medium, and small. All went well until a large pine tree fell against the structure and altered its angle forward about 20 degrees.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: LoosThat Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Rasener
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 10:17 AM

About 30 years ago, we stayed at a Taverna in the south of a small greek island called Chios.
We hadn't booked any accomodation and it was latish, but we needed somewhere to stay. The taverner was right on the beach and was very friendly. We asked if they knew anywheer we could stay for a week. They said they could put us up and a very reasonable price. So we said OK and had a few drinks. I then asked where the toilets were. They pointed to a building by the side of the taverna.
It was a biggish room with windows that were not shaded. The only place to have a wee or crap was in the centre of the room.
No problem a bit primitive.
The next morning I asked where the bathroom was. They pointed at the crap house. I went in thnking this can't be right. Directly above the center of the room was a shower. Yes you have it. You had to stand in the middle of where everybody had a crap or wee and have your shower.

However I live in small town of less tan 3000 people in the UK, and we have one of the nicest public loos in the country. They even have classical music playing in the background.

Subject: RE: BS: Loos That Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Rapparee
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 05:01 PM

Recorded? I have a mental image of baroque chamber music being played by a quartet as you...do what needs doing.

Subject: RE: BS: Loos That Are Losers **(Ultimate BS)**
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Oct 08 - 08:50 PM

Villan-

It's nice to get reality checks now and then!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble