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Noo the trick is find out which way every one else runs and go the other way. Wait till they look interested then change, continue at random intervals until testers hair turns various shades of blue.

:) Di

Posted by: DK the Elder on July 18, 2002 05:12 PM

Oh, no... They're doing the no-toiles experiment AGAIN!

Posted by: Sparker on July 19, 2002 02:08 PM

... have they changed the time for the no toilet interval? (:

Posted by: [0-0] on July 19, 2002 04:04 PM

why do they tell you the toilets are not working? i don't get it...why don't you just go and see what happens when they tell you they are not working?
is it like the "routine maintenance" like what you see on websites? eg, monash webmail, library internet catalogue, banking sites - "this serivce will be unavailable from 0300 to 0700 hours every saturday for routine maintenance"
and how cna they tell you not to move around? what if you really need to woalk somewhere? who can dictate you to not move from your desk? i am confused...?

Posted by: b on July 21, 2002 10:06 PM

To answer [0-0]'s question, yes, they changed the no toilet interval, they moved it to just before lunch. You can imagine what confusion that caused.

b, I think some people may have tried the toilets after they were told they didn't work (or slightly before, I suspect). This would explain the mess covering the downstairs toilets. I wouldn't have wanted to be sitting in a downstairs cubicle when the upstairs ones were flushed, I can tell you! The bit about not moving around was because our floors creak and they were trying to interview someone downstairs. Everytime we moved, there was a loud creak..... Well, that's the story their giving us, anyway....

Posted by: Sparker on July 22, 2002 09:25 AM

how old is your building, just out of interest?? creaky floors, bad plumbing...sounds like something out of the 1890s/

i don't remember who i was with once when we were in some public toilets and someone flushed it; instead of emptying, the bowl filled itself to about double the normal volume of water. so, being the young, immature people that we were/are, we thought 'what would happen if we flushed it again?? would it empty itself or overflow??'

it overflowed, much to our delight. we ran out giggling. b, was that in canada somewhere?? i know my sis was there but dunno who else.

anyway, um...where was i??

-Em

Posted by: Em on July 22, 2002 10:37 AM

i think it was in canada somewhere!
i rememebr that incident, but am a bit vague on it?
gonna have to check my canada diary now coz it will bug me for the rest of the day!

immature...speak for yourself! lol!

boy did we run though......

see, we have great adventures....!

Posted by: b on July 22, 2002 01:16 PM

For some reason I am thinking Niagara Falls, at the toilets near the curve of the river where the whirlpool was?? And that little souvenir shop??

Anyway, sorry to Sparker et al for making this comments space all about us.

-Em

Posted by: Em on July 22, 2002 11:09 PM

That's okay, Em, this wasn't a particularly important piece of social commentary. I hadn't realised that you guys (that's the non-sexist useage of the word "guys") were so well travelled. Are there any other notable toilets that you have visited?

Posted by: Sparker on July 24, 2002 09:31 AM

Yes, actually, B and I have had the pleasure of visiting toilets in Montreal, Toronto, Los Angeles and Quebec city. In the US/Canada, we noticed that toilet bowls are mch fuller than they are here. And I was disappointed by the fact that when the water swirls and flushes down the drain, you can't even really notice the clockwise vs anticlockwise hemispheric movement much.

Soon I will have the pleasure of bringing you a detailed report on the toilets of Southern France. I know you're on the edge of your seat with that one. (So am I!!).

P.S. How old is your building by the way??

-Em

Posted by: Em on July 24, 2002 10:37 AM

when we got to LA airport, the first thing we did was go to the toilets to observe the "clockwise/anticlocwise" flush...i dunno even if we needed to have a leak either!
the toilets over there flushed way more vigoursly than here though....!!!
lol!

Posted by: b on July 24, 2002 12:30 PM

... I thought that in USA they didn't have the low water usage flushing toilets like we have in Australia ... ? Can't remember where I read it but there was someone trying to get approval to sell these toilets to the USians at some point ... Or I could've been hallucinating. You work it out.

Posted by: [0-0] on July 24, 2002 01:33 PM

Yeah...I'd agree with that based on my own limited research...the toilets bowls are about 1/2 full whereas ours are about 1/4?? I think the half-flush concept isn't widespread outside Oz as well.
Em

Posted by: Em on July 24, 2002 02:55 PM

One can't go past the *ahem* "public toilets" (read hole in the ground) in downtown Bangkok...

Nothing moves clockwise or anti-clockwise except..ummm.. well you know..

Posted by: Moby on July 24, 2002 03:27 PM

Em, age of building? Don't know. I'll find out.....

Posted by: Sparker on July 24, 2002 04:45 PM

So we are talking actual holes in the ground, or those ones where you squat but all the plumbing is there?

...how very aromatic...who empties those?? And how??

We be glad we live in a country with plumbing and sewage systems...and the environmental challenges that this brings...

I iz Em

Posted by: Em on July 24, 2002 04:47 PM

can't believe we are talking about toilets....

Posted by: b ;) on July 25, 2002 09:47 AM

I'm going to keep posting about toilets in an effort to make this topic one of the Top 10 most Popular. Will you join me in this quest?? Possible topics include 'best toilet you have visited', 'most exotic' but I think Moby's already covered that...'best view' from a toilet/bathroom.

Here's something interesting that I read about squat toilets, in India, they found that this type of toilet was part of the reason people were having strokes...they were getting up in the morning, going to the dunny, and apparently squatting in that position so early in the day can contribute to strokes...due to some medical reason that I cannot exactly remember.

Very interesting.

-Em

Posted by: Em on July 25, 2002 11:33 AM

I read a lovely article about excersise some time ago. It talked about the fact that people regard the squat excerse as dangerous, because it puts too much strain on the knees. However, before the advent of the modern toilet, squatting was a normal part of daily life, so our bodies are actually quite well adapted to it....

....I think the half-flush thing is Australian, as I remember an American comedian joking about it, along the lines of "Well was that worth a full flush, or was it just a half flush job"...

Posted by: Sparker on July 26, 2002 09:45 AM

the toilet bowls were definately fuler in canada/la than what they are here...but then canada will never run out of water coz of the mountains and snow...that's the place to go if australia runs out of water...
i also can't rememebr a half flush button..

you also know what i have found, in some places, there is a half flush and a full flush button, but the full flush button does not work! that has happened to me a couple of times in resturants...

best view from a toilet....well..potentially from the hotel sofitel in melbourne...the ladies toilets look over the city - you can see the mcg..however, if you are having a long bog that can't get out, all you can see is the toilet door so what's the point of that?

good reading in toilets would have to be at universities - so much graffiti that it takes you twice as long to hang a shit becuase you get cuahgt up reading all the crap on the doors...

Posted by: b on July 26, 2002 12:04 PM

.........Do you guys have lives...or do you just go around flushing toilets... Oh..and Sparker..their hiding Sadaam Husein in your building....NUKE IT QUICK!

Posted by: Deik on July 3, 2003 02:53 PM

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