Comments on: Glorifying The Unglorifyable http://hroman.com/glorifying-the-unglorifyable/ Apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: hroman http://hroman.com/glorifying-the-unglorifyable/comment-page-1/#comment-1612 hroman Mon, 24 Dec 2007 02:48:36 +0000 http://hroman.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/glorifying-the-unglorifyable/#comment-1612 I spent two years of my life living in a university residence of which the bathrooms were unisex. I can tell you that the tension is worse when you're in a stall and you're not sure if the person who walked into the bathroom is a girl. At times like that, you get REAL silent. ... I've never thought about teachers' habits, mainly because at my high school that they had their own bathrooms, free from the embarrassment of having to emerge from a stall to a throng of students. Quite a reversal, I would imagine. I spent two years of my life living in a university residence of which the bathrooms were unisex. I can tell you that the tension is worse when you’re in a stall and you’re not sure if the person who walked into the bathroom is a girl. At times like that, you get REAL silent.
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I’ve never thought about teachers’ habits, mainly because at my high school that they had their own bathrooms, free from the embarrassment of having to emerge from a stall to a throng of students. Quite a reversal, I would imagine.

]]> By: jd2718 http://hroman.com/glorifying-the-unglorifyable/comment-page-1/#comment-1611 jd2718 Sat, 22 Dec 2007 01:36:14 +0000 http://hroman.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/glorifying-the-unglorifyable/#comment-1611 I used to have no fear of public plumbing, but then cigarettes and coffee offered precision-regulated timing. These days, cigarette-free, the need occasionally arises during the working day. In some instances, choice is no not present. There might be as many as 3-4 such occurrences in the course of the school year, but of course, that is 3-4 occurrences too many.... See also <a href='http://pissedoffteeacher.blogspot.com/2007/12/this-is-old-chair-and-couch-from.html' rel="nofollow">this link</a>. Read down. You'll know when you got there. I used to have no fear of public plumbing, but then cigarettes and coffee offered precision-regulated timing. These days, cigarette-free, the need occasionally arises during the working day. In some instances, choice is no not present. There might be as many as 3-4 such occurrences in the course of the school year, but of course, that is 3-4 occurrences too many….

See also this link. Read down. You’ll know when you got there.

]]> By: R-Shizzle http://hroman.com/glorifying-the-unglorifyable/comment-page-1/#comment-1610 R-Shizzle Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:06:58 +0000 http://hroman.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/glorifying-the-unglorifyable/#comment-1610 firstly, I must congratulate you on how much you must have drunk because only a drunk would make a blog entry about their own toilet buoyancy experiments. anyway, you, my friend, are the reason I hate public washrooms... you're the reason I have to run up ten flights of steps until I can find a restroom to use. Many guys simply won't leave until the washroom has been vacant for at least five straight minutes. Anyone who's waited in a men's washroom will know that you can wait until the building closes, and not only will most not leave the stall, but they won't even make a sound, if they sense someone else is there. I always laughed at the stupid rights groups that fought to have unisex washrooms... why would women want to deal with people who are either spend 20 minutes log driving, are stupid enough to give the toilet seat a golden shower, or even brave enough to pinch one off in a urinal. If public restrooms spent a couple extra dollars to play muzak and replace the air freshener, this would maybe be less of a problem. Anyway, most older Japanese buildings have only squatter toilets, so that changes everything :o) firstly, I must congratulate you on how much you must have drunk because only a drunk would make a blog entry about their own toilet buoyancy experiments.
anyway, you, my friend, are the reason I hate public washrooms… you’re the reason I have to run up ten flights of steps until I can find a restroom to use. Many guys simply won’t leave until the washroom has been vacant for at least five straight minutes. Anyone who’s waited in a men’s washroom will know that you can wait until the building closes, and not only will most not leave the stall, but they won’t even make a sound, if they sense someone else is there.
I always laughed at the stupid rights groups that fought to have unisex washrooms… why would women want to deal with people who are either spend 20 minutes log driving, are stupid enough to give the toilet seat a golden shower, or even brave enough to pinch one off in a urinal.
If public restrooms spent a couple extra dollars to play muzak and replace the air freshener, this would maybe be less of a problem.
Anyway, most older Japanese buildings have only squatter toilets, so that changes everything :o )

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