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Posted by G lib on 2009-01-18 12:48:49 +0000

"The Shelf", redux

Arriving in Germany on Friday brought around another surprise at having to poo onto a shelf, but I vowed to give it a chance after Pamesterdam spent some time describing how it's fun/educational to monitor your output.

However, after acquiring a Kindergarten (day care) virus that made me shit and puke simultaneously for almost 12 hours, the shelf has gone directly back into the 'evil' category, where it will, most likely, remain. You just don't need to see that shit up close and personal when you're feeling horrific in the first place. Ew.

Better tomorrow, I hope!

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-18 13:46:49 +0000

Oh, poor you! I'm so sorry to hear you're not well.

Can I plead temporary European-ity on the shelf issue? :)

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-01-19 14:56:53 +0000

Current challenege: four dumps in the four house toilets in twenty-four hours. If you can do that, it's Around The World.

Posted by mahatma chani on 2009-01-19 15:47:23 +0000

I'm pro-Shelf. Looking to install one in our new place (pending).

Posted by pchippy on 2009-01-19 17:47:20 +0000

New place (pending) in what neighborhood?

Posted by mahatma chani on 2009-01-19 17:50:58 +0000

We need secrets.

Posted by dyedon8 on 2009-01-19 18:37:48 +0000

Right now.

Posted by G lib on 2009-01-21 08:57:08 +0000

Way to bogart my thread MC. Don't you already have a "all me, all the time" thread?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-21 13:03:58 +0000

The man's a MegalomaniaC.

Posted by G lib on 2009-01-21 13:11:47 +0000

I know!

Can't I just sit here and talk about shit soup coming out of my ass without mister one-up-man coming in here and stealing my 15 minutes?

Jeez.

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-21 13:14:55 +0000

Yeah - "So you've got a stomach bug? Well I'm MOVING HOUSE! Maybe. Except it's a secret. Ooooh, the intrigue!"

Drama queen! ;p

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-21 15:32:06 +0000

I am embarassed to admit I have no idea what you mean by 'shelf'. Is this some European toileting thing?

Posted by pamsterdam on 2009-01-21 15:35:36 +0000

It's one of <a href="http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000212.html">these</a>. Standard in Germany, Holland, Austria, Switzerland...

Posted by MF DU on 2009-01-21 15:40:33 +0000

Good God... I try to value the differences in cultures - honestly. That would make my stomach crawl too, G lib.

apparently it is a 'European toileting-thing' - I just don't seem to understand.

Posted by ConorClockwise on 2009-01-21 16:32:31 +0000

Posted by TheFullCleveland on 2009-01-21 16:51:00 +0000

I imagined it was a primitive wooden shelf with a large hole in it. Like an outhouse. "Old Europe".

Posted by G lib on 2009-01-21 17:06:19 +0000

<a href=http://www.rideside.net/node/1646">The Shelf Part 1</a>
<a href="http://www.rideside.net/20060112/back_to_the_land_of_the_shelf">Tbe Shelf Part 2 (sort of)</a>

No really, I don't talk about poo all that much. It's just VERY UNNERVING.

Posted by virtue on 2009-01-21 17:53:14 +0000

I'm sure I've said this before, but I fucking love these things. Maybe because I had Giardia for a couple of months and got in the habit of checking my poo out. I also disagree with the blog commentators about the viewing of poop through water in an American style toilet--it's just not the same. Nor is the high contrast toilet paper, as neither allows one to adequately guage the consistency of one's poo. And I totally hear the complaints about liquid splashback from the American style. And I don't understand the stink part--I've never noticed the stink of the shelf to be different from that of the non-shelf. You can get skid marks in a regular toilet, too, so that doesn't seem to be much of a distinction.

Posted by tgl on 2009-01-21 20:12:16 +0000

So glad you're cooking tonight, virtue.

Posted by loxocele on 2009-01-21 21:31:59 +0000

a number of years ago, two friends of mine were quizzing everyone (quite literally *everyone* they talked to for more than a minute or so, friends and strangers alike) about whether they a) looked into the toilet after pooing, and b) looked at the toilet paper after wiping.

weird as i thought it was to be asked about it over drinks, i was amazed to realize that anyone *didn't* look. :P

Posted by Corby Trouser Press on 2009-01-22 09:06:56 +0000

I pity the French

<img src="http://www.cromwell-intl.com/toilet/pictures/france-beziers-brasserie-01660282.jpg" />

Posted by Corby Trouser Press on 2009-01-22 09:09:09 +0000

oh yeah, and http://www.cromwell-intl.com/toilet/

Posted by Corby Trouser Press on 2009-01-22 09:09:46 +0000

can we talk about baseball now?

Posted by jbcardinale on 2009-01-22 15:50:32 +0000

http://bloodsox.blogspot.com/2009/01/nobody-to-blame-but-yourself-tek.html

Posted by Miriam on 2009-02-10 17:19:53 +0000

Thanks, y'all! I haven't laughed that hard in a LONG time! Sorry you were sick, G, but that shit's hilarious!

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