"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 13:37:22 -0500, jmcquown >
>> wrote:
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>>> On 11/11/2015 9:28 AM, Gary wrote:
>>> > jmcquown wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Also uncommon: urinals. We had a urinal in one bathroom when we
>>> >> lived
>>> >> in Bangkok. My mother refused to let Dad or my brothers use it for
>>> >> that
>>> >> purpose. She said, I'm not cleaning that. Use the toilet like
>>> >> everyone
>>> >> else." LOL She kept a vase of fresh flowers in the urinal.
>>> >
>>> > Interesting. If she had thought more about it, a urinal is much easier
>>> > to clean, vs men standing up and peeing in a toilet that's 2 feet away
>>> > from the man part. Urinals keep all that pee right in there. Peeing
>>> > (while standing up) in a much lower toilet get residual drops on the
>>> > rim and the floor.
>>> >
>>> Actually she didn't have to clean it, we had a maid. It was apparently
>>> just the thought of a pee trough that bothered her.
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>> I wouldn't want that in my bathroom either. It's as repugnant as a
>> bidet or a toilet with the seat left up. If there were his and hers
>> bathrooms and a maid to clean them, I'd say go for it because I'd
>> never need to step foot inside the one with a urinal. Otherwise, it
>> won't happen in any bathroom I use.
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> A bidet??? I can see you need educated! One doesn't pee in a bidet! It
> is the place you wash yourself *after* you have peed!
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> What? No bidet? So, tell me, how do you clean yourself afterwards?
> Don't tell me you don't wash???
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> No I am not having a go at anyone for not having one, but I will not be
> sneered at for having one and having it likened to a toilet!!

I don't think anyone is sneering but seriously they are generally not used
here at all. I don't think they are common in Canada either. At least not
the parts where I've been. And no, we generally do not wash after. That's
what toilet paper is for. And if needed, flushable wet wipes.