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"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "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!!

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> 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.


You need reading lessons. I simply stated that I had a bidet the same as
Moe and then sf's bitching started.

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