Cat Using toilet and toilet paper

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

--
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

Joy wrote:

I don't understand why, among many people, it's almost forbidden
to *talk* about it.

We're better about that than we used to be. Women used to say they had to
powder their nose when they needed to pee. My mother seemed to think the
word "toilet" was a naughty word. I don't see any need to say one has to
poop. That seems like TMI. Sure, we have to do it, and there's no reason
to hide the fact. OTOH, there's no reason to advertise it either.

Sure, people hear it as TMI. But my question is, why, exactly? I'm not
exempting myself from this analysis - I'm as discreet as anyone else -
just curious about it.

It's funny that your mom thought "toilet" was a naughty word - that word
was itself a euphemism. "Toilette" is a French word for washing, ablutions,
etc.

Joyce

--
War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

wrote:
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

"MLB" wrote in message
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wrote:
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'

Jo

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?" :-)
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Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
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wrote:
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

The term I've heard was similar, got to see a man about a dog. When I heard
my father say it when I was quite young I thought we were going to get
another dog.
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy, Bagheera & Shadow)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

wrote:
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.

I think the reason for the separate room for the toilet may be due to
the fact that it was a later addition, in many Victorian homes - the may
"bathroom" may have originally been set aside for the purpose, before
running water was installed. The toilet was referred to as a "water
closet" because the room in which it was installed originally WAS a closet.

MLB wrote in :

Nature is telling me something.

Here it was:

I feel the call of nature.

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It's funny that your mom thought "toilet" was a naughty word - that
word was itself a euphemism. "Toilette" is a French word for washing,
ablutions, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

I think the reason for the separate room for the toilet may be due to
the fact that it was a later addition, in many Victorian homes - the may
"bathroom" may have originally been set aside for the purpose, before
running water was installed. The toilet was referred to as a "water
closet" because the room in which it was installed originally WAS a closet.

And indeed it was - and still is. I'm thinking of two places where
friends of mine have lived. In both cases, the "wc" would make a small
or average-sized closet for clothes. They wouldn't be fun places for
claustrophobics.

Joyce

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go in one ear and out the other. -- Stephen Baker