BS: Boy, did WE blow it!

Subject: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 10:48 PM

I'm so ashamed.... I think we actually missed it!

WORLD TOILET DAY

LOVE the logo at the World Toilet Organization. You can even get a sample constitution for establishing a local outlet. Hey! Maybe we could use their constition as a model here at MUDCAT!

These folks really know their business. Look--

Toilet as a Social Space   

By Lim Tai Wei, World Toilet Organization Volunteer

The toilet, though a humble instrument, is a microcosm of society at large. Though a functional instrument, social expressions, economic development, cultural character, hygiene standards and environmental factors are expressed through the humble but necessary instrument called the toilet.


Social Expression

Public toilets often contain graffiti that espouses social issues, social frustrations and social trends in the society at large. It is a vent for such expressions to come forth. A private space that creates awareness of issues, not necessary for oneself but for others as well. However, this is an anti-social form of behaviour at the same time, as vandalism, the damage of public property is illegal in most countries.

Thus, the social expressions comes with a sense of rebelliousness that compels one to be a rebel with a cause, no doubt behind the security of a private toilet. Penal enforcement to stop such anti-social is difficult as toilet is a secure space with very little leeway for monitoring and catching the culprits. A more useful avenue of rectification would be through social mass education in which people are directed to healthier forms of social expressions - through arts, public debates, participation in public organizations or legal interest groups.

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Sorcha
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 11:12 PM

ohhh, nooo....can't believe we missed this.....Spaw, oh Spaw.....

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 11:37 PM

Dogs are big toilet fans, and should know about this.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Bobert
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 11:43 PM

We aim to please.......

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 19 Nov 03 - 11:57 PM

Damn! I bet that gold toilet's cold to sit on. But I guess that if you can afford a gold toilet you can afford to pay some lackey to go warm it up for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 12:23 AM

but someone put that damned lid down! I was informed the other day that flushing a toilet with the lid up, spays microbes up to, something like a 20 foot radius. Just think of that next time you hang your old toothbrush within shooting distance.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: rangeroger
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 01:38 AM

Well, if the microbes are spayed, we won't have to worry about them breeding.

rr

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Metchosin
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 01:41 AM

LOL rangeroger, how true, how true. Seems it blew it double.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: open mike
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 01:57 AM

doesn't any one else use a non-water based sanitation system?
www.biolet.com? (a.k.a. earth closet)\

i also have a composting privy..

and the link below says go here: http://www.mrsbidet.com/index2.html

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: open mike
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 02:14 AM

http://www.compostingtoilet.com/

http://www.envirolet.com/

other waterless or low water solutions

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: The Shambles
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 02:26 AM

Didn't miss it - I was engaged.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: GUEST,Boab
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 02:52 AM

Huh!--Thought the thread was referring to the Holland-Scotland fitba' result-----oooooooh Thank Goad fur whusky!!

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 05:10 AM

Can anyone remember the gents bog (it really could be) at the Sidmouth late nights extras in the late 70s - that was a definitely non water based system. It was more (recycled) beer and cider based.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 08:53 AM

I always wondered about those bottles of stuff that's sold as "eau de toilette" or even as "toilet water". Who would use such a thing, and why? And why pay for it if you do use it, when you could just dip it out for free?

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 09:56 AM

Someone suggested to Essex Girl that she should try using some toilet water, but as she was getting some, the seat fell down and cracked her on the head.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 12:58 PM

I believe that comes from the old days when your preparations for the day (getting dressed, washing your face, etc.) were referred to as your "toilette." While you were making your toilette, you might put on some eau de toilette. :-) At least that's my guess, anyhow.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 06:34 PM

Open Mike,

Yes, I have a Sunmar composting toilet. But it's strictly for rainy or cold weather use. I much prefer the woods themselves if the weather's nice.   

BTW I think Mudcatter couple Batgoddess and Curmudgeon also have a composter.

Bruce

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Nov 03 - 07:01 PM

They do. I always feel as if I have left some business unfinished when I leave their bathroom without the reassuring finale of a flush.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Mooh
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 12:13 AM

Nothin' quite like a good shit in the bush to remind me of my roots. Wish I'd taken pictures of all my favourite outhouses over the years 'cause they're all gone now. Ah, memories...

Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Emma B
Date: 21 Nov 03 - 06:32 PM

I have a number of photos taken over a few years of the best "loos with a view" but my all time favourite is the one at the refuge in the White Mountains in Crete which is just a wooden seat with a hole cantilevered several hundred feet over a (fortunately inaccessible) gorge.
A close runner-up is the ladies on the paddle steamer "Waverley" which is situated above one of the paddles. Talk about the shit hitting the fan!

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Tweed
Date: 22 Nov 03 - 10:24 AM

I shat in outhouses til I was fourteen and I can tell you I don't miss 'em at all. You guys are goin' a little bit over the edge with them "good old" coldass-open seasonfor mosquitos/deerflys/bullflys,horseflys'target-humanwaste-runoff-into-the-water-supply days. I'll take the modern day shitter, given the choice. It's right down the hall, there ain't no flys and it's always room temperature. Yassuh...A bear shits in the woods only because he ain't got a house wif running water..

Yerz,
Tweed (Thoroughly sold on modern day sanitation)

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: Amos
Date: 22 Nov 03 - 10:48 AM

The word itself (toilet) is from the French for a cloth bag used for holding clothes.

It was used to mean morning preparations to face the world (washing and primping, etc.) long before the plumbing device became common. Toilet water is scented lotion for use in making your morning preparations, much like after shave lotion.

A

Subject: RE: BS: Boy, did WE blow it!
From: wysiwyg
Date: 22 Nov 03 - 11:45 AM

BTW, the Pope is Catholic AND he shits in the woods-- outdoorsman from his childhood!

~S~