COLD DARK ROOM

[ZEROPILOT]

Minus point.
There's a hole in the ground somewhere in the South East corner.
Follow the smell, like the coffee.

About that. Middle Eastern toilets are a hole in the ground?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Not a coffee fan. I bought my own Diet Mountain Dew.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I cheated and found Badger penis bones used as jewelry...

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

About that. Middle Eastern toilets are a hole in the ground?

Mostly, yes, and here in Africa.
Hole in the ground with no toilet paper, you use your left hand and water.
Modern families and tourist areas now have modern sit-on toilets however and it's gradually becoming more common.
One of the first thing we did after buying my house here was get a proper toilet and shower installed, the place had neither.
One place we visited had the hole in the ground in the middle of the kitchen.
Some of the people here have never used a 'modern' toilet and wee on the seat, or even stand on the thing to go.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Not a coffee fan. I bought my own Diet Mountain Dew.

Johnsonboswell's brought tea.

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

I cheated and found Badger penis bones used as jewelry...

Wear it!

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I cheated and found Badger penis bones used as jewelry...

Ummm cheaty, cheat, cheat.
Yes, the bone has a hole in each end so can be threaded easily.
Often used as a tie pin!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Mostly, yes, and here in Africa.
Hole in the ground with no toilet paper, you use your left hand and water.
Modern families and tourist areas now have modern sit-on toilets however and it's gradually becoming more common.
One of the first thing we did after buying my house here was get a proper toilet and shower installed, the place had neither.
One place we visited had the hole in the ground in the middle of the kitchen.
Some of the people here have never used a 'modern' toilet and wee on the seat, or even stand on the thing to go.

We have a Haitian fellow here at work and we can't break him from standing on the seat to go...And not clean up.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

Ummm cheaty, cheat, cheat.
Yes, the bone has a hole in each end so can be threaded easily.
Often used as a tie pin!

No point for cheating and then admitting it?

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

We have a Haitian fellow here at work and we can't break him from standing on the seat to go...And not clean up.

They often don't here either.
Yeuchhh!!

 

[ZEROPILOT]

A good friend of mine is from Algeria and he mentioned the same sort of thing, but he grew up in the 40s and 50s and I had assumed technology had caught up.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

No point for cheating and then admitting it?

Oh go on then.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

A good friend of mine is from Algeria and he mentioned the same sort of thing, but he grew up in the 40s and 50s and I had assumed technology had caught up.

Things move slowly here, but they do move.
It's ok once you get used to the balancing and taking a bit of loo paper around with you.
In some ways it's more hygienic as you don't touch anything someone else's been touching.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I suppose
There are still OUTHOUSES where I lived as a child in most every farm and field.
It doesn't get worse than an old outhouse.

 

[Cowboy_Ken]

Things move slowly here, but they do move.
It's ok once you get used to the balancing and taking a bit of loo paper around with you.
In some ways it's more hygienic as you don't touch anything someone else's been touching.

The “squat" on the rim is more suited really for our bodies. Until I was “civilized" by a well traveled lady, I did so, even while in L. A.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

I suppose
There are still OUTHOUSES where I lived as a child in most every farm and field.
It doesn't get worse than an old outhouse.

An old outhouse with a black widow spider under the seat?

 

[ZEROPILOT]

An old outhouse with a black widow spider under the seat?

Every single one of them are full of them! How'd you know? Luckily they rarely bite and when they do, they rarely break the skin.
You also have to bang the walls and the planks to chase out the odd rattlesnake.

 

[Tidgy's Dad]

Every single one of them are full of them! How'd you know? Luckily they rarely bite and when they do, they rarely break the skin.
You also have to bang the walls and the planks to chase out the odd rattlesnake.

I think I prefer the Arab system to that, though you do get the odd cockroach.

 

[ZEROPILOT]

I think I prefer the Arab system to that, though you do get the odd cockroach.

Truth is that most farmers end up peeing on the outside of the outhouse, anyway.

 

[johnsonnboswell]

Lets play with the echoes