The Eternal T.P. Question

[thaiturkey]

I notice that those two abominations Bronco and Izal are missing from the list. Bronco was armed forces issue and Izal, I'm sure, was made from grease proof paper.

 

[OldGuy43]

Very interesting information!

If you think that was interesting Google " toilet paper roll physics ". Fascinating stuff!

(And everyone thinks that I have to much time on my hands.)

 

[EweSheep]

Interesting!

I remember that bald headed guy squeezing Charmain.......

 

[Beekissed]

Mr. Whiffle?

 

[sgtmom52]

Old style toilets in Japan...


New style toilets in Japan with heated seats, heated "rinse", and optional sound you can play to cover any noises you may not wish to share . Much better than the old ones. We used both types while visiting there.

 

[Spookwriter]

Like Sour, I might of had one of dem "outhouses" in my
early growing up years. Complete with Sears catalog and
corncobs even.

This "indoor plumbing" fad is pretty handy. Don't believe it?

I can recall having to pump the water for our baths. Heat it on
the stove, and pour it in the big metal "wash tub" setting either
in the kitchen or out on the back porch. Summertime was creek
bathing time.

Every time you needed water, you was off to the pump.

(Sour? I don't recall the pump ever freezing. Yours?)

So...I'm happy just to have indoor plumbing. Don't care which way
the toilet paper goes.

On the lighter side...you'all remember my poor wife? Love her dearly,
but she is truly left handed.

She was changing the toilet paper roll in her bathroom a few weeks
ago. Poor woman. Sounds so simple. But she flushed the commode and
tried changing the toilet paper at the same time.

Don't ask how.

She accidently dropped the spring and one half of the roller in the toilet.
Down it went.

The look on her face was priceless as she carried the remaining piece
to the office and tried to explain to me what she had done.

After trying not to laugh, I told her it was my fault. I knew she was left-handed.
I forgot to tell her, she needed to close the toilet lid before changing the paper.

(And yes, that's really true.)

Spook

 

[GardenerGal]

Great stories, Spookwriter. Thanks for sharing! My father grew up in rural New Hampshire and that's what life was like there, but he gave his kids indoor plumbing, so I guess I'm spoiled. We do have a little fishing shack still, in rural New Hampshire and it had an outhouse for years till we fancied up and put a toilet, sink and shower indoors. The water line has to get drained or it freezes up in the winter but there is plumbing three seasons and we don't go up there in the winter anyhow.

 

[Beekissed]

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Count me in that group. When people asked us "What do you do without running water???" We'd just reply that we HAD running water....we run out to the pump, pump a bucket full and run it back into the house!

 

[thaiturkey]

'Outhouses' were common in England until rebuilding began after the bombing of WWII. They were built as far away from the house as possible, necessitating the availability of some indoor facility under the bed for night time needs. The paper was usually squares of newspaper hanging on a string from the water pipe.

My aunt, as a young girl, got stuck in the seat of her parents' toilet one day. The fire brigade was called to release her.

 

[Spookwriter]

You know, I use to wonder the point of a "two-holer" outhouse. Never
made much sense to me.

It's a woman thing.

Girls go to the bathroom in groups. I don't know why. Maybe they gotta
help each other, I don't know. Maybe they're afraid of falling in, or maybe
getting stuck. (It could happen)

We go out to a restaurant, the girls all gotta go to the the bathroom at the
same time.

Men-- We're brave. Not scared to go to the bathroom alone.