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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 these. 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

The Shelf Part 1 Tbe Shelf Part 2 (sort of) 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

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!