most older houses had a separate toilet, but it has been considered the height of modernity to knock down walls to have all of the facilities one room. Essential when you are beigeing your decor on the off chance you might want to sell it to someone who wants a blank canvas in case they want to sell it to......
OH has been trained to put the seat down since we first became a couple. Question of hygiene and spray when flushing. He worked out for himself that it was best to sit down in the dark. Surely you, Wild Edges, are clever enough to use a piece of toliet paper if you can't "wave your willie" ddiscreetly to get rid of drips.
My Mil was absolutely fascinated and horror the first time she visited the loo in one of our favourite cafés and she had to walk past a man using a urinal to to get to the ladies where the flush included an automatic clean of the seat which revolved and a towel on a roll whose release mechanism was touch sensitive. I had to fetch her.
Public loos in France can range from utterly dire squat loos at the picnic "aires" on motorways to very sophisticated ones that flush the loo, clean the seat and rinse the floor before they let th enext person in. Free too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I've always thought having the toilet in a separate room made sense, and I suspect design will go full circle at some point when a pointy-head decides it would be a great design idea.
Years ago, travelling through France by coach, we stopped at what was basically a transport cafe for a loo break. The gent's loo area had no door, just the hanging strips of plastic obscuring vision. Whether by accident or design this only came down to waist height and the urinals were all in clear view.
The advantage of standing when it's dark is that you will know from the noise whether or not your aim is accurate. If you try to sit and miss the target it can be painful as well as embarrassing. (Yes, I am joking)
In October my energy deal with Extra Energy finnished, shopped around wasnt impressed with sound of customer serivce with Spark or Greenstar. Two weeks ago, article in the MOD, saying 1 in 7 small companies would go bust bcause of the green taxes, Spark and Extra owed millions. A week ago, tiny article in the Sun on the Sun City finance page, not heaed Extra at all, saying extra had in fact gone bust. Now, been put with Scottish Power, ironic, I left them for Extra because I have ecomony 7, new meter was installed by EDF in 2012, so I couldnt put my readings in on line, "computer said no" because of course, they were lower than the previous readings. Rang up, gave them bloke the readings, long complicated story, short, he put night and day readings in the wrong way round, 9 months of hell ensued, this is definitely my curmudgeon for the moment, do I have to go all throught this again!!
I know Lyn. When I worked in central London - many decades ago - The Evening Standard reported that the ladies who look after the loos at paddington Station had one the Best Kept Loos competition again. Their secret? Glue a plastic bluebottle to the urinal wall. Every single man and boy would take aim, thus reducing spray and splash.
However, the act of flushing also sends up spray so best done with the lid on.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
😀😀😀😀😀. Brilliant Obe, yes, agree that flushing must be done with the lid down, although I did hear, on tv, that it would be safer to prepare your food on the toilet seat than your worktop!
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Not sure I agree with that last one here Lyn. Ceramic worktops which, I'm told, are very easy to keep clean. In any case, I use chopping boards - big thick wooden one for everything except bread on a thinner wooden one and meat and fish on a glass one or plates or bowls depending on what I'm doing. I also think being too fanatical about hygiene in the kitchen is not good for your immune system.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
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My Mil was absolutely fascinated and horror the first time she visited the loo in one of our favourite cafés and she had to walk past a man using a urinal to to get to the ladies where the flush included an automatic clean of the seat which revolved and a towel on a roll whose release mechanism was touch sensitive. I had to fetch her.
Public loos in France can range from utterly dire squat loos at the picnic "aires" on motorways to very sophisticated ones that flush the loo, clean the seat and rinse the floor before they let th enext person in. Free too.
However, the act of flushing also sends up spray so best done with the lid on.