German style toilets?

Do Trolls get threadworms? I thought they were silicaceous.

geoff explained on 08/08/2012 :

I may be wrong but I seem to recall that "Fenwoman" was a pseudonym for Mary Fisher who used to post in here regularly?

Glassworms, perhaps ...

In message , Dave writes

Don't think so - she was a northerner

Mary was sometimes 'Mary the Chandler' IIRC.

geoff brought next idea :

Ah, right, sorry then ;-)

It is/was a German thing, probably evolved from eating a lot of pork and inspecting the stools for signs of tapeworms; less disgusting than tapeworms.

Certainly a major culture shock on first encountering one. Less os than the French squat crappers.

Or ensure they are thoroughly cooked.

Same here in Australia - though you can wash your hands in the separate laundry: it doesn't seem to occur to Aussies that washing your hands after using the loo and before touching door handles would be a good idea but they're appalled by the idea of mixing dirty washing and food, thus every house has a separate laundry (or in flats like mine, wm and laundry sink in the bathroom).

Yes interesting this one. Not many medications applied up the bum in this country, but go abroad and they are everywhere.

Brian

And suffer an early death from bowel cancer...

MM

For verisimilitude I expect they do. Like when the Yanks all had tailfins on their cars because they'd stopped believing in creationism and knew we are all descended from fish.

MM

Before you go to all the trouble of sourcing and fitting a German loo, perhaps you should think again about why you think it's "impossible" with a UK style loo.

I'd agree that you can't admire a stinking pile of poo so easily in a UK type loo but then you don't have to drop it in the water. A few sheets of loo paper, a strategically placed hand, "squeeze" and Bob's your uncle. You now have a portion of poo to examine as closely as you like and which can then be dropped down the loo when you're finished.

Tim

Look at the floor plans on any developer's site and you'll soon see what the norm for new housing is, for example

Exactly! And is how the NHS bowel cancer screening works. Except you've then to use the mini shovel to smear some onto a card.

At wodneys you just crap on the tarmac and sort it out from there.

For anyone having to do such inspections , much more straightforward process. Halve / halve ... etc ordinary newspaper newsprint, not magazines , until rectangles just bigger than the water area of the trap. One sheet at a time, before doing your business, has never been known to cause a blockage, if using flimsy newsprint that is. The nail on the bog door is not obligatory. Nor is selecting newspaper pics of the Prime Ministor to do your business on, but it may help your mental health .

In article , N_Cook writes

Bloody politicians sticking their nose in our business again . . . . ?