For all happy multiculturists

[thebish]

Back to the future. 1940 Louisiana style. Toilets for us and toilets for them.

you mean - male and female?

Remembering not long ago you were extolling/studying the history of sanitation, that's rather an unfunny remark. Shall I really be the one to put my neck on the line and have the balls to say I don't see all things connected with the word Asian as wonderful and unquestionable? Having a friend who owns a contract cleaning company, I've seen first hand the disgusting state of some of these squat toilets. Every bit as bad as some of the animals who class as our own culture. Might amaze you to know that Bolton had them twenty years ago in factories and work places. (They also had prayer rooms at that time too, so we're hardly behind the times in multicultural advancement.) I don't happen to see this as a unification thing, more an example of seperating cultures than joining them together. This is Britain, 2010. For a country that's a world-leader in sanitation, it's my opinion that it's a backward step and a real wedge in the us and them cultural topic rather than an advancement. It's not another comment for personal debate. Air your own view by all means, just accept mine as equal.

so - did you mean male and female? I didn't mention anything about Asians at all - it was a 5-word question. In Louisiana in 1940 - they had "us and them" toilets - male and female.

as for your contract cleaning company mate - did he find the sit-down public toilets to be pristine?

nor did I "not accept" your view - i really can't understand how when someone replies to you or asks you a question you always retort that they are somehow denying you your view... get a grip!

neither is it really like Louisiana - if you were referring to toilets for "blacks" and "whites" - because I don't believe Rochdale have said that one type of toilet is exclusively for asians and one is exclusively for non-asians - have they? both can be used by either - so, racial separation it is absoutely NOT.

[thebish]

Firstly do any folk irrespective of where they come from actually "like squat toilets" I thought they were just chosen for ease of cleaning and simplicity of plumbing more than owt else?

Secondly squat toilets assuming they are kept clean are actually better for your health than our regular sit down ones!

last time I went to a Formule 1 "hotel" - they had squat toilets - I suspect, simply for ease of cleaning...

[thebish]

I think we should have these modern japanese ones....

[TANGODANCER]

so - did you mean male and female? I didn't mention anything about Asians at all - it was a 5-word question. In Louisiana in 1940 - they had "us and them" toilets - male and female.

as for your contract cleaning company mate - did he find the sit-down public toilets to be pristine? (Covered. Read the thread properly)

nor did I "not accept" your view - i really can't understand how when someone replies to you or asks you a question you always retort that they are somehow denying you your view... get a grip! Not someone, old chap, just you
neither is it really like Louisiana - if you were referring to toilets for "blacks" and "whites" - because I don't believe Rochdale have said that one type of toilet is exclusively for asians and one is exclusively for non-asians - have they? both can be used by either - so, racial separation it is absoutely NOT.

Not 1940, Louisiana 2006.

In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree....

[thebish]

Not 1940, Louisiana 2006.

In September 2006, a group of African American high school students in Jena, Louisiana, asked the school for permission to sit beneath a "whites only" shade tree. There was an unwritten rule that blacks couldn't sit beneath the tree. The school said they didn't care where students sat. The next day, students arrived at school to see three nooses (in school colors) hanging from the tree....

OK Tango. just to be clear - how does that story relate in any way to what is happening in a Rochdale shopping centre?

[Zulus Thousand of em]

They are common across many parts of the globe but rarely seen in Britain, which has a strong heritage of pioneering lavatorial invention.


I bet the journo was living for the day when he could get this phrase into an article!

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Oh, and Tango and Bish, if I have to ask you to kiss and make up again then I will be insisting on tongues!!


Pack it in, the pair of you. It's boring.

[thebish]

Oh, and Tango and Bish, if I have to ask you to kiss and make up again then I will be insisting on tongues!!


Pack it in, the pair of you. It's boring.

fair enough Zulu - but nobody will be hanged for using the wrong toilet in the rochdale shopping centre and there is no racial segregation being proposed - just in case Bolton fans should ever need to go there it surely is worth reassuring them?

[TANGODANCER]

I'm watching the golf like a good little lad.

[Zulus Thousand of em]

Oh, and Tango and Bish, if I have to ask you to kiss and make up again then I will be insisting on tongues!!


Pack it in, the pair of you. It's boring.

fair enough Zulu - but nobody will be hanged for using the wrong toilet in the rochdale shopping centre and there is no racial segregation being proposed - just in case Bolton fans should ever need to go there it surely is worth reassuring them?

I'll probably have a shit before I leave home - now leave it.

[Prufrock]

It's a fecking toilet, that cannot be stressed enough. Out of fourteen toilets, it's two that have been changed for the benefit of people who want it. All around the country everyday businesses and councils try new schemes and new initiatives to cater for different groups, children, teenagers, single mums the list goes on and on yet it's only ever when Muslims are catered for folk get up in arms and the Sun bring out the bold typeface.

[InsaneApache]

Burnden park was well ahead back in the day. The toilets are memorable. I still wake up in a cold sweat thinking of them. I'm sure they had squat toilets as well. Or was it that the Man Yoo fans had ripped them out and thrown them at us?

[thebish]

It's a fecking toilet, that cannot be stressed enough. Out of fourteen toilets, it's two that have been changed for the benefit of people who want it. All around the country everyday businesses and councils try new schemes and new initiatives to cater for different groups, children, teenagers, single mums the list goes on and on yet it's only ever when Muslims are catered for folk get up in arms and the Sun bring out the bold typeface.

indeed - I remember when my kids were babies often having nowhere to change them because all the babychange facilities were always in the ladies toilets. Now they are not - and it makes life easier and better - and nobody is any the worse off - just as nobody will be any the worse off for these two non-segregated squat loos being in stalled.

Rochdale council bows to European bureaucrats and political correctness and forces pensioners to poo in the dark and on their knees alongside asylum-seeker muslims - exclusive....

[thebish]

I'll probably have a shit before I leave home - now leave it.

ahh - you went before you came?

[Gary the Enfield]

I'll probably have a shit before I leave home - now leave it.

ahh - you went before you came?

Now I enjoy a good sh*t as much as the next man, but it doesn't excite me THAT much.

[thebish]

I'll probably have a shit before I leave home - now leave it.

ahh - you went before you came?

Now I enjoy a good sh*t as much as the next man, but it doesn't excite me THAT much.

it was summat my grandma always used to say - which made me chuckle - for the precise reason you indicate!

[Puskas]

I'll probably have a shit before I leave home - now leave it.

ahh - you went before you came?

Now I enjoy a good sh*t as much as the next man, but it doesn't excite me THAT much.

it was summat my grandma always used to say - which made me chuckle - for the precise reason you indicate!

Was your grandmother famous? Give us a clue....

[thebish]

The show's undisputed master of the mime genre was Lionel Blair, who was particularly expert at the Victorian novels which he read with alacrity. He liked nothing more than to be tucked up in bed holding a little Hardy, before getting stuck into the Mayor Of Casterbridge...

[William the White]

Back to the future. 1940 Louisiana style. Toilets for us and toilets for them.

you mean - male and female?

It'll be sheer and sunny toilets next!!

you mean - toilets with a really steep drop - and toilets that let in the natural light? I'm all for that - imagine the fun of waiting for the splash! BOMBS AWAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!

hobo sat serenely on the bank waiting for "the bite"

Or the sting, perhaps...

Sudan's sqat toilets - no other kind available - had walls, but frequently no roof - since in the desert north (where i and partner were based) it last rained about 50 years ago. Also rarely had a door, just to keep every thing circulating, no way to trap the smells. So the toilet was home to all kinds of life - especially the giant african cockroach, which just loved it down there. One day partner felt movement beneath her bum, stood up and discovered a scorpion. She screamed. I came running, and bravely smacked it with my flip flop, feckin hard, repeatedly in a frenzy of total fear, till it departed from this earth.

Toilets have always seemed tame ever since.

Cue our Oz posters with tales of the outback dunny...

[thebish]

One day partner felt movement beneath her bum, stood up and discovered a scorpion. She screamed. I came running, and bravely smacked it with my flip flop, feckin hard, repeatedly in a frenzy of total fear, till it departed from this earth.

her bum - or the cockroach??