No, they stopped fairly recently AFAIK.Yes, cause it was a tad thicker if i remember right and it always had that certain smell, not unpleasant tho, i think you can still get it, cant you?
It made very good tracing paper, we used to use it for that when I was a kid.It was like using tracing paper but even worse wasn't it? ..
One time my parents came to visit us, we all went to the Queen's Sandringham estate and house for the day .. obviously as tourists when no Royals were there .. I was going through a hard time at the time so when we were all in the car driving back to mine, my Mum presented me with a full roll of toilet paper that she'd somehow managed to nick from there just to cheer me up. It worked.It made very good tracing paper, we used to use it for that when I was a kid.
Later during a brief stint working for HM Inspector of Taxes, found that the toilets all had the hard type of paper and printed with "Government Property" (or something similar) on each sheet, obviously I pinched a roll (lost it a long time ago).
One time my parents came to visit us, we all went to the Queen's Sandringham estate and house for the day .. obviously as tourists when no Royals were there .. I was going through a hard time at the time so when we were all in the car driving back to mine, my Mum presented me with a full roll of toilet paper that she'd somehow managed to nick from there just to cheer me up. It worked.
I'd be more concerned for their welfare if they messed with MY Mum ..I wouldn't boast about it like last person to nick a royal bogroll did...
Ten minutes is a VERY long time for a pee. If she didn't need to queue, she would be done and out in a couple of minutes
Which is why in many theaters women have liberated the mens' room during intermission. Long line -- no line.A common cause for complaint from women; queuing because of inadequate toilet facilities.
For example, Preston (Lancashire) railway station has one set of toilets (that's ladies' and gents') on one platform, with only four cubicles in the Ladies'. Four! At a busy commuter station! The queue regularly stretches out of the door. Undignified and disgraceful.
Which is why in many theaters women have liberated the mens' room during intermission. Long line -- no line.
A common cause for complaint from women; queuing because of inadequate toilet facilities.
For example, Preston (Lancashire) railway station has one set of toilets (that's ladies' and gents') on one platform, with only four cubicles in the Ladies'. Four! At a busy commuter station! The queue regularly stretches out of the door. Undignified and disgraceful.
I worked in a very historic Victorian court building where the facilities were becoming a significant issue. When it was built there were no women barristers or solicitors or judges, no women clerks or civil servants and so there was a multiplicity of men’s toilet and very few women’s.A common cause for complaint from women; queuing because of inadequate toilet facilities.
For example, Preston (Lancashire) railway station has one set of toilets (that's ladies' and gents') on one platform, with only four cubicles in the Ladies'. Four! At a busy commuter station! The queue regularly stretches out of the door. Undignified and disgraceful.
I worked in a very historic Victorian court building where the facilities were becoming a significant issue. When it was built there were no women barristers or solicitors or judges, no women clerks or civil servants and so there was a multiplicity of men’s toilet and very few women’s.
I don't think I would be comfortable using this method of unblocking a toilet. So much scope for error.
Frank Sidebottom?Who takes a shit sideways?
That is funny.
Works on a similar principle to a plunger, but as you have written, could go so terribly wrong.
I feel honour bound to mention one of the alleged ingredients of the said enema was juice of the death cap.From one of our great historians:
I had forgotten that one of the theories about Claudius' murder was that he was given a poisoned enema.
The comments are full of better and worse puns like:
A nasty end...
Administered by an ass-assin? (I'll get me toga...)
Coroviranus.
With friends like these, who needs enemas.
My mum was talking about the good old days when people weren't worried about the lack of toilet rolls in the shops as they used newspapers. She said she always knew when they were getting visitors - my gran would cut out the squares of paper using pinking shears.
They had normal bogs - outside ones too, none of this namby-pamby, indoor nonsense with central heating and they had to share it with the neighbours.The newspaper couldn't be flushed in a proper bog. You could use it in an earth closet.
It has a particular smell. When I had a job doing home visits I'd occasionally catch a whiff and think 'Oh aye, the silly buggers're going to block their bog up!'
When around 6 years old, we lived in a Glasgow tenement block which had a shared toilet.She said she always knew when they were getting visitors - my gran would cut out the squares of paper using pinking shears.