Toilet Etiquette

[Pottsy]

I cant think of anything worse then when dropping the kids to school having someone else come in to drop there guts and spray the porcelin and me having to listen to it.

What do you guys think?

I'm with you on this one...can't stand it when I've settled in to a relaxing crap and the next cubicle gets suddenly filled with some rude barstard heaving his guts out. And smelling the results!!

Those of us who gone camping occasionally and had to find a suitable bush or rock, or have stayed places where what passes for a loo is made of thatch or corrugated iron, learn to get over these issues.

Speak for yourself! I spent years in India growing up, going wherever the going was good, and frequently where the going was very, very bad. Plus plenty of bush craps! I reckon the whole India thing is what has turned me into a toilet recluse...I will head to the "executive lounge" (disabled toilet!) rather than head in to the adjoining cubicle at work if occupied. Aaah, peace and quiet.

Which brings me to another issue - en suites. I always thought I'd quite like an en suite - convenience, ease and all that. We moved house a while ago and I've discovered I don't!

It's quite traumatic for me, as an avowed toilet recluse, to be subjected to the gruntings, however gentle they may be, of the lovely Mrs Pottsy producing the unemployed! How to reconcile the flames of ardour with the earthy realities of the sounds of the end results of yesterdays meal? The dilemma! I might have to replace the sliding door with a heavy one...or follow after one of my mates who did a warehouse conversion and put an old bank safe door in to his dunny - not a peep from in there!

[Iron Fist]

Ok

So after reading White Line fevers post in another topic.

Had me thinking about Toilet Etiquette.
EG: at my work in the Mens room there is 2 cubicles. I have always thought it polite that if i went to toilet and someone was already in the cubicle that I wouldnt go do my business in either cubicle till later.
Few of the other lads I work with agree and follow by the same code but there are people that have no such thought obviously.

I cant think of anything worse then when dropping the kids to school having someone else come in to drop there guts and spray the porcelin and me having to listen to it.

What do you guys think?

In the case of two cubicles: If you can hang on, definitely wait till later.

If there's a few cubicles, and the rest are vacant, it's damn creepy when someone starts using the one next to you.

i agree
I always wait if someone in a cubicle but sometimes you cant.

JAS on us being precisious, taking a piss is nothing, poo's are more private i think, hence why ya lock yaself in a little box. And when peeing you dont hear grunts like anna kornikova right next to you.

[Psyber]

JAS on us being precisious, taking a piss is nothing, poo's are more private i think, hence why ya lock yaself in a little box. And when peeing you dont hear grunts like anna kornikova right next to you.

More fruit and fibre = no need to grunt and groan..

[smac]

little miss smac, at around the same age, was confronted with one of Mozart's lost works when I took her to a public once. She looked at me with a shocked expression and proclaimed loudly "pardon you!" and proceeded to laugh (we taught the humour of trumpets from a young age). He of the trumpeting arse couldn't help but laugh also. We had to wait out his departure though because little miss smac was taking her time.

[Psyber]

Being twee about bodily functions goes back a long way. We have always used euphemisms.
From: http://oxforddictionaries.com

Toilet:

Origin: mid 16th century: from French toilette 'cloth, wrapper', diminutive of toile (see toile). The word originally denoted a cloth used as a wrapper for clothes; then (in the 17th century) a cloth cover for a dressing table, the articles used in dressing, and the process of dressing, later also of washing oneself (toilet (sense 2 of the noun) ). In the 19th century the word came to denote a dressing room, and, in the US, one with washing facilities; hence, a lavatory (early 20th century)

Lavatory:

Origin: late Middle English: from late Latin lavatorium 'place for washing', from Latin lavare 'to wash'. The word originally denoted something in which to wash, such as a bath or piscina, later (mid 17th century) a room with washing facilities; the current sense dates from the 19th century

I've always thought Lavatory or "loo" the best of them.