Thoughts on the toilet

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I was always under the impression that reading on the toilet was pretty much a male exclusive activity? Maybe its just the missus

 

Talking on the phone and eating while on the toilet should be illegal!

Is breastfeeding in public looked down upon in your part of the world Rallymama? Its quite normal here.

 

I usually go shooting with my rubber gun.

 

@Cesard: It's gaining more acceptance (I've never been challenged about it) but Americans are strange. There seems to be some sort of taboo about breasts and nipples being exposed for anything other than titillation purposes.

Certainly, total strangers feel far more comfortable in coming up to someone and berating them about their parenting choices than they do at the sight of a mom and baby doing what comes naturally.

 

Teflon isn't stuck to the base of the pan.
The pan's upper surface is made with a large number of indentations, something in the shape of T T T T. When Teflon is poured over this surface it gets stuck between all these T T T T s... and the bond is purely mechanical.

I cant ever spend much time in the loo. Turn the CD to max and listen to some Aerosmith to help the business on its way

 

I usually liked to read while sitting on my throne.

Of course, we recently got a new toilet, much to my dismay. It's a lot worse than the old one, so I think it is safe to say that the King has been de-throned.

 

BA: Dreamer.

Shrikant: That's the old way of doing it. Those pans used to chip horribly. Now it's a multilayer process. A coating of teflon will stick to another coating of teflon (if done right). So you start with something that sticks really well to the bottom of the pan. The next coat is something that sticks to the first layer, but is a little closer to teflon. Repeat the process getting closer and closer to teflon. The final layer IS teflon.

Rallymama: Must be the puritan upbringing. Most mothers are really discrete and put a blanket over/around. There are a few that just whip it out in the middle of McDonald's and plant their child's face on top. I'm uncomfortable with that second group.

Why are there Braille dots on the drive-up atm's?
Why are there interstates in Hawaii?
Why did Kamakazi pilots wear helmets?
Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons?
Why is a women's prison still called a penal colony?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why are there floatation devices under the seats instead of parachutes?
What did Geronimo yell before he jumped?
Vegetable oil is made from vegetables, coconut oil is made from coconuts, what is baby oil made from?

 

@T2Bruno

2. (Hawaii interstates) In preparation for the Aquatic Car. (Hawaii likes its Bond movies.)

3. (Kamikaze helmets) They didn't want them to see the fear in their eyes?

4.(A&E Belly Buttons) Adam and Eve were probably monkeys. You could ask if they had lice? How many generations before a proper system of grooming was developed?

7. (Parachutes/flotation devices) The pilots and hostesses have all the parachutes. Not to mention, the time it takes to get the ruddy doors open normally, you'd not have time to use them.
Though I'd rather hit the sea at 65 mph (terminal velocity?) and float than at 10 mph and not.

8. (Geronimo) "Theelmaaa!"

9. (Baby oil) Head to Vrischika's Curio shop. She'll explain in detail.

Couple of new questions:

-Do *monkeys* have belly buttons?
-(Christian) God has omniscience, so he knows what *will* happen. He has free will as well - does he know what he will do? If he knows for certain - then he has no choice when it comes to doing something = no free will. Lovely religious paradoxes
-What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
-If someone asked you to draw abstract things (happiness, dignity, wisdom) in Pictionary, what would you do?

EDIT: One more thought, slightly plagiarised, but still interesting...
Carpenters carve a hallmark on their work. Painters paint a signature. Microchip designers write microscopic messages.
DNA seems to have a lot of sections with no apparent function. If any cryptologists looked at this, could we find any intelligible messages? (Assuming that if someone could write into our DNA, they'd have enough understanding of how language evolves to make it intelligible.)

either: "What are you doing in here? -God."

or "by William, age 8 and a half."

[ April 13, 2005, 21:17: Message edited by: Rhetorical Question? ]

 

Ok, now that I posted this, I spend almost all day asking me this silly questions:

- when you take a picture with Micky Mouse, the guy inside the disguise... is he smiling?
- here we have some stores open 24hs a day, 365 days a year; why they have doors?
- why planes aren't made of the same material as the "black box"?

 

I read whatever book I'm reading at the time and between the cries of my wife wondering what died I think to myself: "What the hell did I eat? Will that go down?" or "Why is the cat still in here and why is it slepping in my underpants???"

 

- here we have some stores open 24hs a day, 365 days a year; why they have doors?

and locks

answer is so that the stores can be locked in case of riots, or going out of business and waiting for new owners.

 

- why planes aren't made of the same material as the black box?

Unless I miss my guess, I don't think they'd get off the ground.

One thing on the subject of planes, though... I remember reading that no-one *really* knows (or can sufficiently explain) why planes can fly at all.

Someone prove me wrong on this?

 

I think I understand how a plane flies, but that explanation relies in the assumption that certain physical concepts hold true (such as the principle that moving air reduces pressure, or that the continual motion of air molecules creates pressure) which I am not able to prove.

 

- If a piece of an airplane broke off and it hit a Nuclear Plant, destroying an entire town, would that be considered a plane accident?

- Is it possible to explain a feeling without using another feeling as an example? (ie what is anger)

- What else in the house can be used if I run out of toilet paper, tissue paper and papertowel?

 

Left hand! Yeeechhh!

 

Usually I think of that minor insult I made at someone once: "Last time I saw something like you, I flushed it away immediately"

I hung my whiteboard/weekplanner in the small room. Everybody is allowed to write something on it while looking at it with their very narrow eyes.

Things written:
-(Quote from mentally disabled person) Happiness is having friends with whom you can share everything... and having pooped a lot.

-Don't drop your cigaret in our toilet, we don't do our stuff in your ashtray either.

 

I don't stay on the toilet for long (unless I am sick, and have diorrhea or something)...


But I know somebody who took four (4) hours in the bathroom. Why, you ask? Well, she apparently decided that she had to write an essay for school while being there. The bad thing was that that happened on a Ski-Trip, and the people who shared the room with her had to go downstairs to use the toilets of the restaurant in the hotel.

 

What is Tal's native language? *kidding* But seriously, he speaks better english than most americans I know.

Does Tal have another SP site in his native language?

ACK! What on earth did I eat last night??

AAARRRGGGH! Fire in the hole! (after eating Indian food. Gawd!)

[ April 17, 2005, 03:14: Message edited by: Ravynn ]

 

Ravynn: Yes, I'd say that's offensive.


- Why does a chair have arms and legs like a man but cannot walk or hold things? (Orcish insight)