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This is the thread where you ask all those lavatory-related questions that come to you when you're in the loo. And answer them too, if you like.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Can you even get 1 ply? I am so middle class I don't think I've ever encountered it.

― Emma, Monday, 6 January 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Does he mean the tracing paper stuff?

― N. (nickdastoor), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought some Asda Supa Value 9p roll once and it was 1 ply and really rough and came apart on my arse - never again.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the tp here at work is a step away from sandpaper. i like two ply with ripples and aloe.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 January 2003 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, yes, you can get 1-ply. Believe me. The firm I work for decided to use it as a cost-saving measure for a while. It's f***ing crap. Every single wipe leads to a hull breach. It's not worth the paper it......um......is.

― SittingPretty, Monday, 6 January 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Why are there slugs on the wall? What was that that just fell on my toe? Should I do something about the foliage coming through the window? What is that? Why is there no lock on this door? Should I resolve only to buy white loo roll in future? What does this say about me? Why am I still in the loo? These are things that occur to me. The thing that fell on my toe was a slater.

― alix (alix), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

hahah hull breach

whatever gets the job done

― ron (ron), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

well here in our new offices they have abandoned one-ply in favour of two ply and also decided that we *will* use paper towels and not the blow-dryer (we had a choice at the old place). But why are the soap dispensers attached to the wall so loosely?

The door to the gents loo also leads to a staircase onto the roof. I've yet to ask whether there is a corresponding door in the ladies....

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

the bathrooms here are disgusting. there have been times when the toilet has overflowed from someones massive shit and its all over the floor. and of course there is no warning you walk right in and get the old mud foot. There should be a sign posted outside the door "Massive Dump Has Flooded Bathroom, Use At Your Own Risk!"

― Chris V. (Chris V), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Our school toilets used to have one play, and the one in this case was the shiny stuff. Who invented that shit? Did they not do a few field tests beforehand and realise that shiny and bumwad do not go together, unless you're an prisoner on dirty protest / conceptual artist, in which case it's a positive advantage.

Secondly, are they woman-sized tissues? And what's it all about with this man-size stuff anyway?

And does the balm on Andrex (or whatever) make a difference.

I should state here that I have an interest - I used to work at a bog roll packing factory for Marks and Spencer. We had to re-glue the flap if it hadn't been glued by the machine.

We were poorly paid and sometimes in futile revenge, we used to spray lots of glue all over. If you have ever had a bog roll which you just can't get unravelled properly as the glue keeps ripping it, then chances are, it was someone like me exacting proto-marxist revenge on Bourgeois bog roll. We also used to make sure they were covered in dust. Apologies again. It seemed righteous at the time.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Paper towels are far more hygienic than blow dryers. Apparently. I read somewhere once. I am sure this is based on science.

― Emma, Monday, 6 January 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Thirdly - why can't the students using the toilet near me

a) Lift the fucking seat up
b) Flush the fucking toilet after a dump?

Realise anser is that student is not the key descriptive noun here; I should have said men using the toilets near me. But before lapsing into casual sexism, I've heard tell of ladies looz in pubby clubby type places being equally disgusting come midnight. Is this true?

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Using paper towels is better in a public restroom b/c dryers just move around the dirty air and get it all over your pretty hands. Yuck!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

A slater as in SOMEONE FIXING THE ROOF????

I wonder which cubicle I went in and get scared I don't know exactly where I am, and where I'll be when I step out.

― Graham (graham), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Emma - science has proven it. Allegedly. Dyers are rubbish anyway. But lets not get me started on the topic of the hand blow dryer, or else I might not stop.

PS - I prefer the towel on a roll. It's abrasive, so really dries well. Though I don't like using them on trains, as they don't boil wash them, given the stains you see on newly pulled towel.

PPS - At Lancaster University, you could tell how important the area was by the length of towel you could pull out, as more towel = students don't get to these places much.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Hand blow dryers

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:21 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that would be a roofer. This was a woodlouse. We have many in our house. The toilets at work keep flooding. One time the whole locker room was awash. There's a sign on the door that reads "Female toliets broken. Please use custome r toliets". I ask you. Toliets. The custome r toliets only have blow dryers. I believe this is nicer as the amount of paper towels we get through is amazing. We are regularly amazed by the volume of this matter because the instore janitors don't empty the bins much. At all. They're asleep in the broom cupboard. Also, my job is located in a cold area and standing next to a hand dryer is warming. Obv.

― alix (alix), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:28 (twenty-two years ago)

4. wipe hands on pants

― ron (ron), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I've heard tell of ladies looz in pubby clubby type places being equally disgusting come midnight. Is this true?

I've never compared the men's and women's toilets (at least not since the old 9:30 closed), but yes, I've seen the women's loo at clubs and other places become plenty filthy in the course of a night. (And then in a mall once I saw a restroom in which someone had managed to projectile-sh*t all over a stall's walls. Diarrhea can do nasty things, but I still can't picture how this person's feces managed to hit such an altitude and range.)

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Good lord, someone else for whom slater=woodlouse - I thought it was just my Dad's eccentricity.

The toilet here has no heating and has 3 outside walls, it's sooo cold that I'm considering trying to shift my routine.

Does anyone remember Bronco toilet paper? Single-ply tracing paper with no perferations. Smear rather than absorb. Ugh.

― Alfie (Alfie), Monday, 6 January 2003 16:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I had no idea slater was weird. Oh well.

― alix (alix), Monday, 6 January 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Vicky calls them that too, but then........

― chris (chris), Monday, 6 January 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Btw, I'm sorry I didn't turn up on New Years. I'll explain later. Was it fun?

― alix (alix), Monday, 6 January 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

can't really remember, but I larfed a lot.

― chris (chris), Monday, 6 January 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Jolly good. That's the main thing, as they say.

― alix (alix), Monday, 6 January 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I was going to make a Choco-Taco joke, but really this whole thread grosses me out too much.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 6 January 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Har har Dang is not British.

― Dave B (daveb), Monday, 6 January 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone ever use the pre-moistened butt wipe that comes in the plastic containers? I've been wanting to buy some so that I can see the look on the checkout person's face. Probably similar to the one they make when you buy the super-colossal tube of KY.

― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I just bought 4 cheapo toilet rolls from the CO-OP for 69p and they're called 'Everyday' Toilet Tissues, which makes it sound like you'd save the 3 ply stuff for 'special occasions'.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"hmm time to clean the shit from my ass; might as well wipe my shit with a little aloe before flushing it away forever"

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 6 January 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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