OT: public rest rooms hygiene question

According to Lady Lucinda Lampton the Romans had a 20 seater up by Hadrian's Wall.

Bruce

Perhaps this is providing too much information but on most of the Northern Isles in Orkney there isn't a sanitation system. If you are "posh" then you have a septic tank, otherwise you have a pipe running from your house out to the beach where the strong tides soon disperse whatever comes out of the pipe...

Here's a picture of the strangest experience I ever had in a bathroom. This is real and weird. When you lock the door it becomes one way and although you can see out perfectly no one can see in, but I will admit that I didn't trust it and couldn't really use it.

Bruce

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In Old Beth -She`aan , on the High street there is a Public House [from the Roman Conquest time] that has more than 20 holes in a rows , thus the people could sit and discuss city matters in leisure ,,, under the stone bench a little ditch with streaming water `carried` the `produce` away. mirjam

I advice those interested in those matters , to look for the book, Temples of Convenience , chambers of delight , by Lucinda Lambton, St Martin Press, 1995.

mirjam

The one in the link I included is real. I've actually been in it.

Lucille

Amen!

When I was traveling in Europe, it was the "WC"

Disappointing - I always liked that and thought it was imaginative treatment for a pretty desperate bathroom.

Haven`t seen the book - must get it from the library. We watched the TV series, though. Wonderful!

Pat

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In Old Beth -She`aan , on the High street there is a Public House [from the Roman Conquest time] that has more than 20 holes in a rows , thus the people could sit and discuss city matters in leisure ,,, under the stone bench a little ditch with streaming water `carried` the `produce` away. mirjam

I hope they don`t often get a drought!

Pat

"Lucille" wrote

I don`t think I`d ever dare go in! I`ve seen pictures of a one-way glass one in the street which was bad enough, but I`d never dare risk one where you actively had to DO something to make it opaque!

A couple of weeks ago there was a programme about designers building their own homes, and one had a whole bedroom wall like the one you describe. It made the landing beautifully light, but I wouldn`t fancy it. I have enough problems remembering to switch the LIGHT off, let alone the wall!

Pat

Hahah i don`t know how it was solved 2000+ years ago , the city is biiger than Pompei and was desroyed after some erarthquakes wars etc , those Tuins are of one of the Oldest known Human Cities,,,,it goes centuries back .... and only about 20% have been dug out. mirjam

When my sis and now-XBIL bought an old farmstead (about 1975), their hired hand stayed at that house. The original owners had never put indoor plumbing in this house...still had a hand pump in the kitchen and a real icebox. The hired hand didn't like talking about the outhouse and whenever he had to make use of the facility, would say he was going to mail a letter. Welllll, my best friend and I were working for the BIL and he wanted us to paint the house. One day we got really silly (not uncommon!) and decided to paint the outhouse, a

Joan

s we wrote: "Let'r drop: In town" and "Let'r drop: Out of town".

In Israel , they mark toilets with OO, and the story that goes around is that , it is a heritage from the British Army that had toilets marked Officers` Only ,,, i don`t know if it`s true , but that is the lore .... mirjam

Quite true Miriam. When I left the RAF in 1973 it was still quite normal to find places where toilets were marked "Officers Only", "SNCOs only" or "Other Ranks" (SNCO = Senior Non-Commissioned Officer). If there were any females around (WRAF, WRAC, WREN etc) they had their own, seperate toilets. Bruce

Great story - how'd the farmhand like it?

ellice

Thank you , now i will know how to answer that Trivia Question , that keeps coming up .. mirjam