Loos of the World
Location: Reasonably up-market hotel, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
Inspired by Monster's father-in-law (actually I was thinking of taking this photo even before she mentioned his, uh, foible).
I've never seen one like this before. The flush comes in a swirl from the channel shown upper left side, rather than in a shower from under the rim ...
Dying to pee?
We took this pic of the facilities in Death Valley in August 2007 in Reg's memory. let me tell you it smelled too damn bad at that distance to risk venturing inside.....
Dead hobos will do that in the heat
Check out the swanky new pooper at Taylor Bay Campground, at Land Between The Lakes Nat'l Recreation Area. (western KY/TN)
We use to love going to LBL national park. The kids loved to see the Bison and visit the nature center.
The big ticket for me as a kid was the planetarium. And the buffaler.
But we, Popdigr and I, were usually too busy hunting one thing or another.
Land-Between-The-Lakes is having a coyote round-up pretty soon.
Man I wish I lived closer but we have plenty of coyotes around here.
At the time we were stationed at Ft. Campbell. Great posting for our family.
Hey Merc, almost a thousand Screaming Eagles are
coming home this week.
Cool. We lived on post when we were there. It was a great place to live for the kids. They went to school on post as well. Could walk to school and work. "Air Assault!"
At a holiday camp near Lake Iskandarkul, Tajikistan. It was very clean, but then again I was there a little ahead of the tourist season, and was the only woman there :)
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In my rather swanky hotel room in Almaty.
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I suppose I could handle that, except for the lack of toilet paper.
Thats what your Left hand is for Glatt
I know I've told you about my Italian loo issues (long dress, high heels, hat - hole in the floor.)
So I am impressed with your sanguine attitude to the holes in the ground above.
I can only surmise you were not in wedding garb.
Hotel room is worthy of your effluence.
Glatt - always take your own loo paper.
Sundae - I made sure I left my sunglasses on the windowsill outside the cubicle, and tightly furled my rather flappy trousers to prevent mishaps ;)
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I like your precautions, limey!
After visiting numerous unsavory loos along the highway yesterday, my personal rules now are: always remove your glasses and wig before barfing in a strange loo - well, before barfing at all. And definitely tightly furl loose clothing.
(see honeymoon fail thread)
I have a weird memory of desperately needing to go to the toilet halfway across France. The coach stopped eventually, an unscheduled stop that made the driver quite grumpy; he was English but had total Gallic charm.
I walked into the hole in the floor toilet, retched and decided I could hold on for another couple of hours.
I'm not sure if this really happened. Truth is I'm not whiney about needing to go. If I tell you I need to, then I really need to (remember this for the future.)
But I do know with hindsight that I must already have been running a high temperature, which developed into the worst fever I've ever experienced, the only one to include hallucinations.
So maybe it was a fever-dream. If I'd really needed to go that badly I'd have squatted by the roadside.
A pooper w/a puker:
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That is a pissor with a puker
Or a pair of pissers for starstruck lovers that can't bear to be apart.
That is a pissor with a puker
Yeah, I assumed there was a pooper. Shouldn't have done that.
Sorry. Sorry urrbody.
I'm frankly baffled.
That tiled thing is too high to be anything but a puker, surely. Also borne out by the sign.
But seriously - where in the WORLD do people throw up that regularly that they need to make special accommodation for it?!
Well, bars maybe. But wouldn't a normal cubicle serve the dual purpose of being somewhere where people could pass solids?
I think the idea is to have them throw up on something that the next person isn't going to want to sit on.
I looked for the source of this thing. Russian sites claim it's Russian. Czech site claim it's Czech. And French sites claim it's British.
Resolution is not good enough to make out the language on the sign ...
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I think the to hand grips give it away, unless it's in a culture of vertical towel racks. :haha:
Could be useful for seasick passengers on a ship.
That's right, with these floating skyscrapers they probably discourage over the rail. Good thinking.
I looked for the source of this thing. Russian sites claim it's Russian. Czech site claim it's Czech. And French sites claim it's British.
:lol:
Good call re the ship idea.
Except there's only one. Shouldn't the atavistic phenomenon of sympathetic vomiting mean there was at least a row of them? There can't only be one seasick person on-board.
(I am thinking about this WAY too much)