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Do you know what a loo brush is for?

Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:35
I ask, because apparently it is knowledge quite exclusive. Were you ever taught?
Hydesland
11-08-2008, 20:38
Ehh, isn't obvious? :confused:
Smunkeeville
11-08-2008, 20:39
Is it for mock sword fights?
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:40
Ehh, isn't obvious? :confused:

Well, anecdotally when it comes to unpleasant dookie surprises in public restrooms, I have to say that it no longer appears to be.
JuNii
11-08-2008, 20:40
knowing what it's for and knowing how to use one are two different things. ;)
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:42
Is it for mock sword fights?

Only should one happen to be wearing vinyl or rubber clothing, which right-wing politicians have shown us is exactly what we should be wearing to the loo, incidentally. So, ½ points to you.
Ashmoria
11-08-2008, 20:43
Well, anecdotally when it comes to unpleasant dookie surprises in public restrooms, I have to say that it no longer appears to be.
there are cleaning brushes in public toilets?

or am i expected to bring my own?
Enormous Gentiles
11-08-2008, 20:46
I just use my toothbrush to clean the loo. I like those multi-tasking tools. I think it saves the environment, too, by cutting down on unnecessary brush manufacturing.
Gravlen
11-08-2008, 20:46
This is a dirrrty thread! :p
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:47
there are cleaning brushes in public toilets?

Of course. Right there next to the toilet.

or am i expected to bring my own?

Only if you wish to impart an impression of being refined.
Vetalia
11-08-2008, 20:47
Generally, there aren't any. I don't think a policy of BYOB is encouraged either.
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:47
This is a dirrrty thread! :p

T'aimes ca, hein, salope!
Hotwife
11-08-2008, 20:48
I ask, because apparently it is knowledge quite exclusive. Were you ever taught?

The gay men I met in the Army used it to ram each other in the ass
Steelwall
11-08-2008, 20:48
Yes, I do. Unfortunately, my flatmate doesn't.
Andaluciae
11-08-2008, 20:48
In heathen America, we have no public "loo brushes". Instead, we pay those who failed to graduate high school to clean our bathrooms every few hours.
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:49
Generally, there aren't any.

How then do the pixies that run the water closets expect you to clean the loo should the need arise?
Ashmoria
11-08-2008, 20:49
Of course. Right there next to the toilet.



Only if you wish to impart an impression of being refined.
no ive never seen any toilet cleaning products in a public bathroom.

but i would be in HEAVEN if women decided they were no longer too delicate to wipe their own urine off the toilet seat after they are done peeing without sitting down.
Andaluciae
11-08-2008, 20:50
How then do the pixies that run the water closets expect you to clean the loo should the need arise?

Wait for the (startlingly) well paid high school dropout to do it.

At least that's how it functions around Columbus.
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:51
The gay men I met in the Army used it to ram each other in the ass

Ah, Hotwife, you and your constant mythomania. You were never in the army to see that.
Hydesland
11-08-2008, 20:52
Well, anecdotally when it comes to unpleasant dookie surprises in public restrooms, I have to say that it no longer appears to be.

Perhaps the Swedish find toilet humour a little too funny, and kindly see to it that they leave a humorous surprise to the next unfortunate person to have to use a public restroom cubical.
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:52
Wait for the (startlingly) well paid high school dropout to do it.

Which leaves others exposed to hours of poopie shocks. Unforgivably savage insanity.
Hotwife
11-08-2008, 20:53
How then do the pixies that run the water closets expect you to clean the loo should the need arise?

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5806105.html
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:54
Perhaps the Swedish find toilet humour a little too funny, and kindly see to it that they leave a humorous surprise to the next unfortunate person to have to use a public restroom cubical.

I've had the misfortune of discovering this issue respects no mere national boundaries. London was, with its dreadful plumbing, doubly stricken with this commode plague.
Vetalia
11-08-2008, 20:56
How then do the pixies that run the water closets expect you to clean the loo should the need arise?

We usually just use a bunch of illegal immigrant janitors.
Hydesland
11-08-2008, 20:56
I've had the misfortune of discovering this issue respects no mere national boundaries. London was, with its dreadful plumbing, doubly stricken with this commode plague.

Well, they do say that toilet humour is universal.
Andaluciae
11-08-2008, 20:57
Which leaves others exposed to hours of poopie shocks. Unforgivably savage insanity.

Ah, but I dare remind you, that we in America hate the environment, and as such, public restrooms typically utilize toilets that dump many liters of water in a violent, swooshing whirlpool down the drain, enough to dislodge even the most stubborn poo. Oftentimes, a sitter is well advised to stand up before flushing, lest ones buttocks be made wet by splashes from the vortex.

We also don't have those bizarro "Look at your own poo on the little shelf!" toilets that the Germans use, and are aggressively trying to proliferate around Europe in their bid to create Reich VII.
Sirmomo1
11-08-2008, 20:57
Is that a Little Britain reference? Really?
Sumamba Buwhan
11-08-2008, 20:57
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1167/758826627_3e608e7576.jpg?v=0

I thought I knew what it was but wasn't sure so I said no - I guess I did know though. Never saw one in a public restroom here in the states.
Smunkeeville
11-08-2008, 20:58
This is a dirrrty thread! :p

I'm winning said "dirty [sic] thread" so, poo on you! Poo on the lot of you!


*wins*
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 20:59
Is that a Little Britain reference? Really?

Est-ce que vous disrespectez ma famille?!?
Hotwife
11-08-2008, 21:00
Ah, but I dare remind you, that we in America hate the environment, and as such, public restrooms typically utilize toilets that dump many liters of water in a violent, swooshing whirlpool down the drain, enough to dislodge even the most stubborn poo. Oftentimes, a sitter is well advised to stand up before flushing, lest ones buttocks be made wet by splashes from the vortex.

We also don't have those bizarro "Look at your own poo on the little shelf!" toilets that the Germans use, and are aggressively trying to proliferate around Europe in their bid to create Reich VII.

I never could figure out that feature (I called it the shit shelf) on German toilets.

You absolutely need a brush when shitting on one of those.

I can shit in my American Standard (vintage 4 gallon early 1980s model) every day for a month, and never leave a sign that I've crapped in it.

Oh, and here in the US, some people have "automatic toilet bowl cleaners" You know, chemicals you put in the toilet that, if the toilet [b]works correctly and doesn't leave shit and shit stains everywhere[b], you never have to brush anything, because there won't be any bacterial growth or mineral accumulations at all.
JuNii
11-08-2008, 21:00
In heathen America, we have no public "loo brushes". Instead, we pay those who failed to graduate high school to clean our bathrooms every few hours.

I once did. but I found they tend to struggle too much and their heads really can't get to the hard to reach places.
Fassitude
11-08-2008, 21:02
Ah, but I dare remind you, that we in America hate the environment, and as such, public restrooms typically utilize toilets that dump many liters of water in a violent, swooshing whirlpool down the drain, enough to dislodge even the most stubborn poo. Oftentimes, a sitter is well advised to stand up before flushing, lest ones buttocks be made wet by splashes from the vortex.

So you only have one button for both the Asian as well as African foster kids to play water sports with? Ghastly miscegenation.

We also don't have those bizarro "Look at your own poo on the little shelf!" toilets that the Germans use, and are aggressively trying to proliferate around Europe in their bid to create Reich VII.

They try, but only meet with success in Austria. I don't know why Austria always has to be their bitch. Can't they be more like the Dutch? They use fingered dykes, you know.
Ashmoria
11-08-2008, 21:06
Ah, but I dare remind you, that we in America hate the environment, and as such, public restrooms typically utilize toilets that dump many liters of water in a violent, swooshing whirlpool down the drain, enough to dislodge even the most stubborn poo. Oftentimes, a sitter is well advised to stand up before flushing, lest ones buttocks be made wet by splashes from the vortex.

We also don't have those bizarro "Look at your own poo on the little shelf!" toilets that the Germans use, and are aggressively trying to proliferate around Europe in their bid to create Reich VII.
you are very well advised to have all your business done, press the lever and RUN.

those hyperagressive flushing toilets splash the soiled water around the whole stall.

thats one reason i like the self flushers. no need to be close--but you do have to wipe the seat fast if you have peed on it.
Smunkeeville
11-08-2008, 21:09
you are very well advised to have all your business done, press the lever and RUN.

those hyperagressive flushing toilets splash the soiled water around the whole stall.

thats one reason i like the self flushers. no need to be close--but you do have to wipe the seat fast if you have peed on it.

Gah! I hate those! Being short I have to position myself quite carefully and be sure to be statue still or it will flush mid-tinkle. I have lately figured out how to position so that while hovering slightly I can put my hand over the "eye" and keep it from flushing, however the maneuvering to do so is almost impossible.
Ashmoria
11-08-2008, 21:29
Of course. Right there next to the toilet.



Only if you wish to impart an impression of being refined.
so with this loo brush is there also some kind of "soap" provided? how is the brush disinfected? dont you ever pick up the brush only to find that it is too disgusting to use and you have to run out of the stall to wash your hands?
German Nightmare
11-08-2008, 22:42
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Loo.jpg
The Atlantian islands
11-08-2008, 22:45
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Loo.jpg
Dasch einfach d geilschte.
Psychotic Mongooses
11-08-2008, 22:47
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Loo.jpg

Usage of the spacebar wouldn't have gone amiss...
Geniasis
11-08-2008, 22:51
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Loo.jpg

Ich frage mich, wie viel Leute diesen Fehler wirklich gemacht haben.
German Nightmare
12-08-2008, 01:23
Dasch einfach d geilschte.
Darf auf keinem WG-Klo fehlen!
Usage of the spacebar wouldn't have gone amiss...
But it's one wo rd!
Ich frage mich, wie viel Leute diesen Fehler wirklich gemacht haben.
Hoffentlich nicht allzu viele!
New Limacon
12-08-2008, 01:32
there are cleaning brushes in public toilets?

or am i expected to bring my own?

It's Sweden, so everything is socialized. Including the loo brushes.

Their usage is quite obvious. It is what is used when the last careless creep didn't replace the used up roll of toilet paper.
Dumb Ideologies
12-08-2008, 01:33
I refuse to use such bog-standard equipment.
Katganistan
12-08-2008, 02:44
Est-ce que vous disrespectez ma famille?!?

Lauren Cooper? Your reputation precedes you.
Jello Biafra
12-08-2008, 02:53
That's awesome that the people who use the public toilets have to clean them.
Biotopia
12-08-2008, 03:14
In heathen America, we have no public "loo brushes". Instead, we pay those who failed to graduate high school to clean our bathrooms every few hours.

Pray spake more of this wonderful country thou doust call "Amerry-kaa", for is doust sound like a most noble land betwixt the garden of paradise and these shiny bowl recepticles.
Biotopia
12-08-2008, 03:20
Ah, but I dare remind you, that we in America hate the environment, and as such, public restrooms typically utilize toilets that dump many liters of water in a violent, swooshing whirlpool down the drain, enough to dislodge even the most stubborn poo. Oftentimes, a sitter is well advised to stand up before flushing, lest ones buttocks be made wet by splashes from the vortex.

We also don't have those bizarro "Look at your own poo on the little shelf!" toilets that the Germans use, and are aggressively trying to proliferate around Europe in their bid to create Reich VII.

More like Das PoopenRiech. Oh man i hate those toilets, it always induced a performance anxiety like "am... am i supposed to... centre it?" America has the mega-trucks of toilets. Also what's with the prolific use of paper seat covers, it so wierd. Incidentally i grew up with an outdoor toilet in the middle of the city :)
H N Fiddlebottoms VIII
12-08-2008, 04:20
I know what a toilet brush is for and how to use one, but I'll be damned before I clean any toilet I don't absolutely have to. Fortunately, I live in a country with decent plumbing, and not some silly European hellhole with toilets that only use .00001 "litres" per flush.
Seriously, if you're that concerned about wasting water, why don't you just go shit in the woods?
Blouman Empire
12-08-2008, 05:33
I remember seeing a Warning sign on the wrapping of a toilet brush which said : Danger, Not for oral use.

Now I want to know why you would even consider using it for oral purposes.
Ryadn
12-08-2008, 05:42
Of course. Right there next to the toilet.

It's possible I've seen them once or twice in bathrooms in office buildings. Generally, you're lucky if there's toilet paper, and really lucky if there are seat covers.

The public doesn't clean up after themselves in the U.S., we just move on until we've found a stall that is less disgusting than the others.
Vetalia
12-08-2008, 06:11
The public doesn't clean up after themselves in the U.S., we just move on until we've found a stall that is less disgusting than the others.

Hey, at least there is one. You're not so lucky in most of the world.
Enormous Gentiles
12-08-2008, 06:38
*snip* Seriously, if you're that concerned about wasting water, why don't you just go shit in the woods?

In my mostest loudest, mostest obnoxiousest American voice, I dost scream from the High Heavens...

*SIGGED*
Ryadn
12-08-2008, 07:15
In my mostest loudest, mostest obnoxiousest American voice, I dost scream from the High Heavens...

*SIGGED*

But you didn't. Charlatan!
BunnySaurus Bugsii
12-08-2008, 08:41
That's awesome that the people who use the public toilets have to clean them.

It sure is awesome! Sweden wins again!

At the risk of spoiling Fass's good mood, I must point out that I started a thread on a similar subject in '07. Do you clean the toilet? (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=545493)

Thread won by Potarius, who apparently has cleaned more toilets than I've taken a dump in!
BunnySaurus Bugsii
12-08-2008, 08:45
I remember seeing a Warning sign on the wrapping of a toilet brush which said : Danger, Not for oral use.

Now I want to know why you would even consider using it for oral purposes.

You never had a pet elephant then?
Barringtonia
12-08-2008, 09:48
I think I'm going to patent an ass-ring, probably requires some fitting but it comes with condom sized bags that unfold, clip and tie as you poo through the ass-ring, neatly capturing the poo for disposal, either direct into the toilet or wherever...

They'd be biodegradable as well, I'm all for the environment.

They'd probably be handy for a number of things, such as mountain climbing, allowing you to poo anytime and deal with it later. They'd also clearly solve the issue of poo-deposits on the side of toilet bowls.

They'd also be handy for quick anal sex I guess since they'd worked pushed the other way, providing an instant condom.

Any suitable names for this invention? I'll probably need some professional sketches for my patent application as well.
BunnySaurus Bugsii
12-08-2008, 10:24
I think the Soviet space program probably invented that forty years ago.

You might be lucky ... perhaps they DIDN'T patent it?

In Soviet Space, poo does you!
Cabra West
12-08-2008, 10:32
We also don't have those bizarro "Look at your own poo on the little shelf!" toilets that the Germans use, and are aggressively trying to proliferate around Europe in their bid to create Reich VII.

Huh???
Which ones are those, then?
BunnySaurus Bugsii
12-08-2008, 10:37
Any suitable names for this invention? I'll probably need some professional sketches for my patent application as well.

The Shitwrap.


Don't let your shit go loose!
Don't mix it with other poos!
Shrink-wrap it!
Shit-wrap it!
Down in the sewer it goes,
In it's own set of clothes!

Sheeeee-ee-it
WRAPPED!


(Ooops, me post drunk. Bad bunny! Bye)
Barringtonia
12-08-2008, 10:41
The Shitwrap.

It needs to have a friendlier name, I'm toying with the idea of OneRing.

OneRing to rule them all, OneRing to find them, OneRing to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
Peepelonia
12-08-2008, 11:39
knowing what it's for and knowing how to use one are two different things. ;)

Knowing what it's for and being just too damn lazy to use it are also two diffeant things.
Blouman Empire
12-08-2008, 11:57
You never had a pet elephant then?

Never thought about that.
Cosmopoles
12-08-2008, 11:59
They make excellent alternative imitation microphones for bathroom karaoke if you don't have a hairbrush.
Cheese penguins
12-08-2008, 14:16
I do understand the most common use of a toilet brush, but then again the most common use may change depending on location and economic factors. For me, I clean my toilet with it. If I missed something frightfully obvious I apologize. I was instructed on usage at an old job cleaning Chalets, quite a disgusting job in my opinion but it was an earner.

Hai everyone, long time no see.
Kahanistan
12-08-2008, 16:48
Usage of the spacebar wouldn't have gone amiss...

Nor would it with anti disestablish mentarianism, but in the German language 90% of their vocabulary is that long.

The picture is certainly made of lulz, especially if you have a Google translator handy.
Nobel Hobos
12-08-2008, 16:58
I do understand the most common use of a toilet brush, but then again the most common use may change depending on location and economic factors. For me, I clean my toilet with it. If I missed something frightfully obvious I apologize. I was instructed on usage at an old job cleaning Chalets, quite a disgusting job in my opinion but it was an earner.

Hai everyone, long time no see.

Hi? I do kinda remember you but ... all penguins look the same to me.

Fassigen is talking about "loo brushes" in public conveniences. Apparently, after taking a dump, a good citizen is supposed to use the provided "loo brush" to clean the toilet. Never seen such a brush myself, but hey. I'm Australian. We just take a dump wherever, it turns to dust in no time.
Cosmopoles
12-08-2008, 17:12
Hi? I do kinda remember you but ... all penguins look the same to me.

Fassigen is talking about "loo brushes" in public conveniences. Apparently, after taking a dump, a good citizen is supposed to use the provided "loo brush" to clean the toilet. Never seen such a brush myself, but hey. I'm Australian. We just take a dump wherever, it turns to dust in no time.

I thought indoor toilets were something of an innovation in Australia, never mind cleaning them.

Yes, I am deliberately fostering a ridiculous and inaccurate stereotype, but it amuses me so I won't apologise!*
SoWiBi
12-08-2008, 17:31
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/Loo.jpg

Sonofabitch, I wanted to post that pic first! I want to at least lay hind claim to it because it was mounted above *our* toilet in my shared flat, okay?

And yes, I know what a loo brush is for, and whenever the rare chance presents itself that I can use a public loo brush without posing much greater "yuck risk" to myself in the process than a following loo user would be exposed to when encountering an unbrushed toilet, I actually do use it, too.
Biotopia
12-08-2008, 17:38
I thought indoor toilets were something of an innovation in Australia, never mind cleaning them.

Yes, I am deliberately fostering a ridiculous and inaccurate stereotype, but it amuses me so I won't apologise!*

I'd laugh but until my father's house was demolished three years ago we had ONLY an outdoor toilet which was probably built in about the 50s (the house itself being built in 1936 or 8 - yes we had a tin roof, weatherboard, verandah a jacaranda and orange tree in the back and two giant gum trees out the front). And this was in an inner-city suburb of Perth.
Poliwanacraca
12-08-2008, 19:38
no ive never seen any toilet cleaning products in a public bathroom.

but i would be in HEAVEN if women decided they were no longer too delicate to wipe their own urine off the toilet seat after they are done peeing without sitting down.

Amen. God, I loathe those women.
German Nightmare
12-08-2008, 22:57
Sonofabitch, I wanted to post that pic first! I want to at least lay hind claim to it because it was mounted above *our* toilet in my shared flat, okay?
http://www.studip.uni-goettingen.de/pictures/smile/aetsch2.gif Ha Ha.

Not only did I post it first - you might have noticed that I have already referred to shared flats also? Hehehe. :p
Enormous Gentiles
12-08-2008, 23:06
But you didn't. Charlatan!

I'm not sure why it doesn't show up. Must research...

EDIT: Apparently it helps to have the signature option enabled. Go Figure.