Cat Using toilet and toilet paper

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MLB wrote:

Ever hear these?:
I have to see a man about a horse?
A friend is calling.
Nature is telling me something.
Where is the rest room?

I've heard "nature is calling". Never heard the one about having to
see a man about a horse!

My maternal granparents had to see a man about a dog.

Yowie
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If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.

Tell that to the men in my life. They use the toilet area as a "reading
Room" I might take a long bath but, my family, especially the men think it
is a reading room.


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Cheryl wrote:

Some European homes I've been in had the toilet and bathtub in
different rooms, which was rather odd to my eyes!

I've seen a few homes in San Francisco that have that arrangement.
They're all Victorian homes, so that might have something to do with
it. In both houses, the room with the toilet (the "wc") has nothing
else - no sink, while the room with the tub has the sink. I think it
would make more sense to put the sink in the room with the toilet -
that's certainly more hygienic. Otherwise, though, I like the idea
of two separate rooms. You can take a long bath without feeling
guilty.

Joyce

--
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is
beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but
the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
-- Dave Barry

Many homes in Australia have the tub and/or shower in a different
room from the toilet. I visited one home where the toilet was in one
room, the bathtub and shower were in another, and the wash basin was
in a third room.

We have a small sink for washing hands in the bathroom, where the shower
and bath also are, a room for the toilet only, and the laundry which has
the washing machine, dryer and larger wash basin / laundry tub in it.

if I was redesigning the house, I'd make thelaundry alot smaller, and make
the bathroom much larger. The laundry room is a real waste of space, IMHO,
and could share with the toilet. Neither is the sort of room where you
want to spend any more time than strictly necessary.

Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.

How about "short pause for a worthy cause".


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MLB wrote:

Ever hear these?:
I have to see a man about a horse?
A friend is calling.
Nature is telling me something.
Where is the rest room?

I've heard "nature is calling". Never heard the one about having to
see a man about a horse!

My maternal granparents had to see a man about a dog.

Yowie
--
If you're paddling upstream in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many
pancakes can you fit in a doghouse? None, icecream doesn't have bones.

The laundry room is a real waste of space, IMHO, and could share
with the toilet. Neither is the sort of room where you want to
spend any more time than strictly necessary.
Tell that to the men in my life. They use the toilet area as
a "reading Room" I might take a long bath but, my family,
especially the men think it is a reading room.

A while ago I was reading a book about Japanese culture by an American
who visited Japan in the 1920s (I think it was called "The Kimono Mind").
He described the Japanese pride in having an immaculate and tasteful
toilet. They took it to the point that some Buddhist monasteries had
special "meditation toilets" - you didn't ever **** or **** in them, you
just sat and thought, surrounded by the inspirational Zen decor.

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Jofirey wrote:
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MLB wrote:

Ever hear these?:
I have to see a man about a horse?
A friend is calling.
Nature is telling me something.
Where is the rest room?

I've heard "nature is calling". Never heard the one about having
to
see a man about a horse!

Joyce

Probably left over from the old days in the west.
MLB

There is still the more current 'got to see a man about a dog'


My grandfather used to say that to me when I was a small child. I adored
him and always wanted to follow him around but in answer to my question
"where are you going, granddad?" if he didn't want me along he'd always say
"I have to see a man about a dog" and I knew I couldn't go with him then. I
often wondered about this dog, whether my grandfather was going to buy it,
or what? He never came home with one anyway, I used to get disappointed by
that as I loved dogs, even as a small child.

Tweed

Adrian wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:
Adrian wrote:
Yowie wrote:
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MatSav wrote:

Much of the [human] world sees defaecation as a normal bodily
function that is a great indicator of health (or otherwise), and
in less developed countries, defaecation in public is seen as
nothing unusual (particularly with children). In my opinion, we
have a somewhat strange and prudish attitude in the UK. Our
'bathrooms' are often placed at almost inaccessible parts of
public buildings, and eliminating is seen as something to be
hidden. It's something we all have to do, so why hide it?

I don't think it's so bad to hide it - I prefer my privacy, myself
- but I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost
forbidden to *talk* about it. Everyone I know is pretty vocal
about urination - "Can we stop - I have to pee really bad!" etc.
But everyone's so discreet about pooping. They'll say they need to
"use the bathroom". I have one friend who always says "I have to
sit in the bathroom". Oh, really?
Are you meditating? Getting ideas for redecorating? What? What is
that about?

For a while when we were desperately trying to get Cary out of
nappies (diapers), we had to rush into the toilet, inspect his
efforts and praise him profusely for it. I mean, what do you say
about the stuff? We had to go into some detail about the particular
individual nature of each session, and thus made a straw for our
own backs. After finally getting him to poop confidently in the
toilet, we then had to train Cary *not* to give us a running
commentary about his bowel activities even though we'd made a big
fuss just months earlier We're still arguing over who has to do
the wiping. Kinda reminds me of the time when some girlfriends of mine
got
togetherover lunch. All bar one of us have kids, and they're all
roughly of the same age too. We're in the middle of eating and
chatting about our lives, and the topic, as it usually does, turns
to our precious children, and one of my friends was complaining
about her own son just not 'getting' toilet training. The rest of
us chip in, and we all find ourselves having a lively discussion
about poo as we're happily chowing down. Except of course the one
who hasn't had kids yet (nor a litterbox), and she was looking
rather..... green. For the rest of us, dealing with other people's
poo is such a normal every day affair it had simply become a fact
of life, and we had forgotten that other people have certain
sensitivities to the subject, *especially* whilst eating.
Yowie

10 years ago I was asked by a three year old girl "does your mother
wipe your bottom?" :-)

g

I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his
mother/father to wipe him. He was 8.
8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS.

Tweed

I think most 8 year olds would be far too embarrassed to ask, at
least I hope they would.

This child is spoilt beyond spoilt, maybe because they lost the child before
him at 13 weeks, she was born with a genetic defect. They do have an older
child too, though.

He's horribly behaved, drives his older sister mad and when she quite
rightly gives him a push away from her, she gets the blame. He's a vile
child and I'm glad they've now emigrated to NZ!
I really used to have to bite my tongue, nothing he can do is wrong and he
was always lolling all over his mother's knee being cuddled and kissed.
Seen along with the bottom-wiping, I considered it to be an unhealthy
relationship.

I hate it if family issues clash with my job.
It would be considered inappropriate for parents to be wiping the bottom of
an 8 year old unless the child is disabled. They should be teaching the
child life skills like how to behave and being independent in the toilet.
Interesting that he can wipe himself perfectly when at school..

Tweed

Cheryl wrote:
Adrian wrote:
Christina Websell wrote:

I was shocked when my cousin's boy needed a poo and called his
mother/father to wipe him. He was 8.
8 years old and can't wipe his own bottom? FGS.

Tweed

I think most 8 year olds would be far too embarrassed to ask, at
least I hope they would.

How did he manage in school?

Perfectly well, apparently.

Tweed

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"Christina Websell" wrote in
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Exactly. But I wanted to as she was so awful, but she searched me
from head to foot, and I kept quiet. N was livid when I told her.
She said no way she did not speak English, everyone employed at the
airport has to and she deliberately chose not to.

Penn Jillette's my hero on this:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/colum...3-penn-teller-
tsa_N.htm

http://www.boingboing.net/2003/01/04...te-airpor.html

I've had a crush on Penn for years - he's smart, he's funny, he's a 'bad
boy', outspoken as all hell, and he's tall & solid. My sorta guy. I'd love
to have him as a guest for a dinner party. No doubt we'd argue as much as
we'd agree, but the conversation would be sizzling, I'm sure.

Yowie

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Jack Campin - bogus address typed:
The laundry room is a real waste of space, IMHO, and could share
with the toilet. Neither is the sort of room where you want to
spend any more time than strictly necessary.
Tell that to the men in my life. They use the toilet area as
a "reading Room" I might take a long bath but, my family,
especially the men think it is a reading room.

A while ago I was reading a book about Japanese culture by an American
who visited Japan in the 1920s (I think it was called "The Kimono
Mind").
He described the Japanese pride in having an immaculate and tasteful
toilet. They took it to the point that some Buddhist monasteries had
special "meditation toilets" - you didn't ever **** or **** in them,
you
just sat and thought, surrounded by the inspirational Zen decor.


To be fair, its often the only place in the house where you can remained
'unbothered' for a few moments. Unless you have cats or young kids, of
course.

Yowie

"Yowie" wrote in
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I'd never heard of anyone being discreet about toilet paper until I
joined Usenet - it seems only to be Americans that tend not to say the
full words. Don't know why.

The same reason many other words (ie. "swear" words, and Carlin's "seven")
aren't used in public: It's a class thing. Middle class people want to look
upper class and NOT look lower class, so they don't use "vulgar" (ie.
common) language. Americans are particularly vulnerable to this inferiority
complex, and I think mothers most of all (because they want their kids to
aspire to be upper class).

My mother had no problem swearing up a storm, but woe if I dared to let
loose such a word. Of course, once she was out of ear shot, I could tell
all my friends all about my rich vocabulary that I learned *from her*.