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Post by jean on Nov 10, 2010 13:01:57 GMT
But it isn't the one on the end.
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Post by Patrick on Nov 10, 2010 13:17:23 GMT
 Can't help thinking that with that you'd spend most of your time fiddling with the taps on the side to get the temperature/spray power right to enjoy your shower properly. |
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Post by Weyland on Nov 10, 2010 13:18:48 GMT
I wonder what the showers here are like. According to the site, one of the current crew said this: "We realized in that moment that not only were we part of something way bigger than what’s happening on the surface of the Earth, but the Earth was there and we were here." -- Bill Shepherd |
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Post by everso on Nov 10, 2010 17:23:29 GMT
While we're debating baths v. showers, one thing I will say is that I hate and detest other people's showers. It doesn't matter where I go, be it family, friends, or hotels, it always seems that their showers are out to trick me.
Jean, while we were in the U.S. last month, we stayed at a lovely B & B with the bathroom all done out in Victoriana. The bath and shower was exactly like the picture you posted, with the exception that it had curtains rather than a screen.
Man, I cursed and swore every time I got in that shower because (a) I found it very claustrophobic and (b) the curtain kept sticking to my skin, like it was magnetised.
Other people's showers are a very good reason to stay at home.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2010 17:34:26 GMT
While we're debating baths v. showers, one thing I will say is that I hate and detest other people's showers. It doesn't matter where I go, be it family, friends, or hotels, it always seems that their showers are out to trick me. Jean, while we were in the U.S. last month, we stayed at a lovely B & B with the bathroom all done out in Victoriana. The bath and shower was exactly like the picture you posted, with the exception that it had curtains rather than a screen. Man, I cursed and swore every time I got in that shower because (a) I found it very claustrophobic and (b) the curtain kept sticking to my skin, like it was magnetised. Other people's showers are a very good reason to stay at home. other peoples showers are orrible, i agree. you can never figure em out, it can drive you bonkers. i dont like it when people have reading material in the bathroom/toilet. that really sets me on edge. |
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Post by Weyland on Nov 10, 2010 17:42:39 GMT
i dont like it when people have reading material in the bathroom/toilet. that really sets me on edge. Don't be ridiculous, Costy. I just checked my downstairs bathroom/toilet, and there are two days-old newspapers I haven't finished, one dictionary, four books, and a ScrewFix catalogue. The toilet upstairs only has two books and a colour supplement. |
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Post by everso on Nov 10, 2010 17:47:17 GMT
i dont like it when people have reading material in the bathroom/toilet. that really sets me on edge. Don't be ridiculous, Costy. I just checked my downstairs bathroom/toilet, and there are two days-old newspapers I haven't finished, one dictionary, four books, and a ScrewFix catalogue. The toilet upstairs only has two books and a colour supplement. Good lord! And I thought that sort of use for newspapers went out with WW2!  |
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Post by Weyland on Nov 10, 2010 17:55:52 GMT
Good lord! And I thought that sort of use for newspapers went out with WW2! I knew someone would take the bait! You're a star, Ev. Thank you. [Mind you, even the Torygraph is better than Izal.]  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2010 17:58:09 GMT
i dont like it when people have reading material in the bathroom/toilet. that really sets me on edge. Don't be ridiculous, Costy. I just checked my downstairs bathroom/toilet, and there are two days-old newspapers I haven't finished, one dictionary, four books, and a ScrewFix catalogue. The toilet upstairs only has two books and a colour supplement. OH dear god... it REALLY sets me on edge Weyland..  if i am at someone elses house and there is reading material, all i can i think about is germs, and people wiping their bottoms, and germ transferal, and the books to me, occur to be riddled with germs from places that i dont wanna know abhaaaat. its filthy dirty. im sorry, its just how i feel about it,. it reallllly freaks me out. if you have visitors, ( not you personally, i mean anyone who has a mini library in the toilet) could you not remove the reading material for the duration of the visit? if you do that, i promise i won't look through your bathroom cabinets to see what ailments you suffer from. ;D  |
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Post by trubble on Nov 10, 2010 18:15:49 GMT
While we're debating baths v. showers, one thing I will say is that I hate and detest other people's showers. It doesn't matter where I go, be it family, friends, or hotels, it always seems that their showers are out to trick me. Jean, while we were in the U.S. last month, we stayed at a lovely B & B with the bathroom all done out in Victoriana. The bath and shower was exactly like the picture you posted, with the exception that it had curtains rather than a screen. Man, I cursed and swore every time I got in that shower because (a) I found it very claustrophobic and (b) the curtain kept sticking to my skin, like it was magnetised. Other people's showers are a very good reason to stay at home. Hear hear. That magnetised curtain type was the first type of shower I ever tried apart from the pathetic shower head attached to the bath tap variety. The magnetised one was freestanding like an inverted tardis - you always felt it was about to fall over and it was much, much smaller on the inside than it looked on the outside. Magnetised shower curtains give you a cold bum. It was in my Gra ndpa's house where they also used that shiny loo paper. Weird people. The other shower I tried was in my Gra mpa's house and was completely transparent - not even slightly opaqued doors and sides - so it always makes you feel vulnerable. I suppose that wouldn't have mattered had the bathroom not been a corridor between the kitchen and the main hall with two doors, one of which didn't lock, and a constant household membership of various aunts, uncles, cousins, associated friends and the milkman. My grandparents never minded this and it was normal to say hello to them while they sat on the loo and one was travelling to and from the kitchen. My grandparents also regularly walked around nude. My granny refused to wear knickers because she found them uncomfortable and she had no shame in raising her skirt to pull up her tights if they were falling down, even if we were in the cake shop at the time. Still, they weren't as weird as my other grandparents with the shiny loopaper - I mean what use is shiny loopaper ffs?! |
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Post by trubble on Nov 10, 2010 18:17:16 GMT
Consequently, I prefer baths.
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Post by trubble on Nov 10, 2010 18:21:01 GMT
Also, although I am always surprised about how nice a shower is compared to my bad memories, and that's a bonus, I mainly don't like showers because I screw my face up really tightly to stop the water getting into my eyes and that gives me a furious headache.
Baths are relaxing.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 10, 2010 18:39:34 GMT
OH dear god... it REALLY sets me on edge Weyland.. if i am at someone elses house and there is reading material, all i can i think about is germs, and people wiping their bottoms, and germ transferal, and the books to me, occur to be riddled with germs from places that i dont wanna know abhaaaat. its filthy dirty. im sorry, its just how i feel about it,. it reallllly freaks me out. if you have visitors, ( not you personally, i mean anyone who has a mini library in the toilet) No need to worry, me old mate. I never actually touch the reading matter. I get the maid to hold it for the duration, and turn the pages, so no germs ever get anywhere near the paper. Hope that sets your mind at rest. As if I cared. They're all obvious. Just remind me -- when are you arriving? Will you be using the helipad? Only if you are I'll have to get Wormwood to move the old jalopy.  |
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Post by everso on Nov 10, 2010 19:11:02 GMT
Ah, now. Shiney loo paper. Back in the dark ages (the 1950s and 1960s) we used Izal (didn't it have a curious smell?) and Bronco. Now Bronco was good because you could use it as tracing paper (which I regularly did, me being a child artist, or thought I was) but Izal just had this curious smell, euwww.
My dad refused to use soft loo paper when it first became available. Reckoned it wouldn't hold up and he'd end up putting his fingers through it with all sorts of dire consequences. He was brought round in the end, some time in the late 1970s I believe.
My aunt fondly remembers the outside toilet of her childhood home, with the torn sheets from the Daily Mirror hanging on a nail. She could never be persuaded to use the newspaper if there was a photo of a baby on it.
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Post by Weyland on Nov 10, 2010 19:14:23 GMT
Ah, now. Shiney loo paper. It was probably Izal and the like that led to the invention of the bidet. |
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Post by everso on Nov 10, 2010 19:19:02 GMT
But that curious smell! I can still smell it. A bit like Sanilav. Euwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!
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Post by Weyland on Nov 10, 2010 19:41:00 GMT
But that curious smell! I can still smell it. A bit like Sanilav. Euwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! Izal's marketing line was "medicated". Actually it's not "was", it's "is". Somebody must still be using it. The very <shudder> thought! |
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Post by housesparrow on Nov 10, 2010 21:15:31 GMT
We had a vastly superior product in our house:  You could even use the stuff as notepaper |
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Post by everso on Nov 10, 2010 23:29:39 GMT
We had a vastly superior product in our house: You could even use the stuff as notepaper See my reply 93 above. |
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Post by housesparrow on Nov 11, 2010 6:11:17 GMT
Indeed; I can't remember using the stuff as tracing paper, but once used a roll of it as a kind of autograph book; my student chums each signed a sheet.
Goodness knows what happened to it but for ages it lay in a bos with all kinds of other useless mementos.
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if i am at someone elses house and there is reading material, all i can i think about is germs, and people wiping their bottoms, and germ transferal, and the books to me, occur to be riddled with germs from places that i dont wanna know abhaaaat. its filthy dirty. im sorry, its just how i feel about it,. it reallllly freaks me out. if you have visitors, ( not you personally, i mean anyone who has a mini library in the toilet) could you not remove the reading material for the duration of the visit? if you do that, i promise i won't look through your bathroom cabinets to see what ailments you suffer from. ;D 
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