If you don't work for AJ's company, will you start flushing the frickin' toilets and urinals?
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Countdown...
By Suldog
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:25pm
... to the first "It's better for the environment if you don't flush so often" comment.
3... 2... 1...
Suldog
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Countdown ...
By adamg
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:34pm
Until I get e-mail from the company AJ is referring to, demanding I stop insulting them ...
If it be yellow
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:39pm
let it mellow.
No, we ain't talking yellowbooks here, either ;-)
At the children's museum and at at least one of the airports I passed through recently, they have special potty handles. The flush handle lets the user vary the volume according to the flush contents, and is treated with an antimicrobial coating. You can select "#1" for "liquid wastes" by pulling up to flush, and "#2" for, well, #2 by pushing down.
That ain't all
By adamg
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 1:46pm
The Children's Museum also has some waterless urinals.
I've also never understood
By Andrew
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 12:48pm
I've also never understood those who flush halfway through. Does anyone have an explanation for that?
Halfway through...
By amusings, your ...
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 1:13pm
Andrew,
I believe that's a mercy flush.
When someone's droppin' a deuce, and they think it is particularly stenchful, sometimes they'll hit the flusher to dispatch the dirty deed. Or... they do it to cover up any noises that they might be emitting.
Mercy flush.
Not that i have any experience DOING that... but... heh. butt.
Related Potty Survey
By Anonymous
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 1:43pm
My 6 year old just informed me that my wife flushes public toilets with her foot. (She has trained him to use his shirt-covered elbow) When questioned, she claimed that this is something all women do. Is she a germiphobe, or is this indeed standard procedure in the women's room?
MY WIFE
By Suldog
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 1:44pm
Nope. Uses her bare hand. So do I, for what it's worth. Are we hideous untouchables?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Don't people wash hands after?
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 2:50pm
I will cop to the foot flush thing on occasion (grody dive bars, nasty gas stations), but I don't worry too much about touching the handle. That's because I wash my hands after I'm done with me and the handle.
My pet peeve: women who don't want to let their butts touch that dirty public toilet, so they release at altitude and spray the seat. Then they declare themselves too dainty to either clean up their own piss Pollack or flush the toilet!
It depends on the grodiness
By stephencaldwell
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 1:47pm
It depends on the grodiness of the restroom in question. Dive bars? I'll use foot or some shirt covered body part. If it's the Lenox, I'll just use my bare hand (though I think the Lenox has automatic flushers)
i don't know if other people do it
By always
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 2:18pm
but I've always assumed that because the pedal is close to the ground that they're meant to be flushed with the foot.
Pedal?
By Suldog
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 2:37pm
A pedal would make imminent sense, but I've never seen one in a public john. Just handles. Where and when did you sight a pedal?
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Floor Button
By SwirlyGrrl
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 4:13pm
I've seen floor buttons, too. I don't think I've seen either them or the pedals around here, though. Pedals and floor flush buttons seemed to be reserved for places that are hosed out - ball parks, fair grounds, swimming pools, public parks, etc.
They may have gone out of fashion when autoflushers became widespread.
If it's skeevy
By cynical
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 4:08pm
...I flush with a foot. I'm scrubbing my hands afterwards no matter what, but considering how many people don't wash or, apparently, wipe (take that, you squatters!), I'd just as soon avoid the extra contact. Also, I am a big fan of opening the bathroom door (after the wash-up) with a sleeve-covered hand or the occasional paper towel. Again, too many people don't wash after doing their bidness, and maintenance people could help us all out if they'd place a trash barrel near the door so the protective paper towels can be disposed of properly. (Personally, I don't drop them on the floor; I crumple 'em in my hand or a pocket until I find another place to dispose of 'em.)
But I swear I'm not a germophobe except around public restrooms. *shudder*
Paper Towels Piled By Door
By bostnkid
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 2:36pm
that seems to be the big one at my office.everyone uses a papertowel to open the door out of the bathroom, and then they let the paper towel hit the floor.
then there are the days when it looks like somebody attacked the stalls with a brown paintballl gun.wtf?
third part, one big fat guy in one of the other companies used to drop his pants and tightie whities to the floor when he STOOD AT THE URINAL!!!he looked llike the great white whale.i think he died.
Why is everything in public
By DaneCook
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 3:41pm
Why is everything in public toilets so bleepin' wet?
It's a shame that Dane Cook
By stephencaldwell
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 3:45pm
It's a shame that Dane Cook isn't funny anymore.
dane cook
By bostnkid
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 4:26pm
when was he funny?
when he tries to act
By pierce
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 11:02pm
when he tries to act
maybe for one October?
By Ron Newman
Mon, 03/03/2008 - 11:23pm
but hopefully not any further ones.
1/2 way flusher here...
By 02129resident
Wed, 03/05/2008 - 6:01am
Not only do I enjoy the mid-stream woosh from flushing, but somehow the audible roar of water seems to give me the impetus to finish the bladder void.
flush
By mudder
Sat, 03/08/2008 - 7:32pm
if its yellow
let it mellow
if its brown
flush it down.....lol