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| Steyn: When the Government Runs Your Bathroom |
| 2009-08-09 |
| the Charmin gets squeezed out: Cuba, in the grip of a serious economic crisis, is running short of toilet paper and may not get sufficient supplies until the end of the year, officials with state-run companies said on Friday... "The corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper," an official with state conglomerate Cimex said on state-run Radio Rebelde. A five-month wait for toilet paper? I think that falls under what Obama would call "the fierce urgency of now." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 I wonder how much water is required to keep a septic system line clear? I suspect more than the "federal" toilet provides. |
| Posted by: tipover 2009-08-09 21:13 |
| #6 I have Caroma™ Australian toilets. They have two buttons. Little flush for #1, full 1.6 gallon flush for #2. They do not jam as their passageways are large. Bought the first one when my younger son was launching sea monsters. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-08-09 20:36 |
| #5 I bought one of those, at the time I had a well, and wanted to conserve, when it wouldn't empty the bowl I opened the tank to look, all they had done was to mount a Gallon and a half plastic cylinder over the lush drain, a minuite's knife work and it flushed fine. (Never was short of water, I drilled the well 20 feet deeper than the ground water level) |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2009-08-09 19:52 |
| #4 Al Bundy "Bud, the toilets today aren't worthy of the name. They come in designer colors, they're too low, and when you flush them they make this little weak, almost apologetic sound. Not the Ferguson. It only comes in white and when you flush it -- BA WOOSH! -- That's a man's flush, Bud. A Ferguson says, 'I'm a toilet: sit down and give me your best shot.'" |
| Posted by: badanov 2009-08-09 19:49 |
| #3 "Salad Shooters™ report to the High Fiber camp #05-34!" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2009-08-09 18:33 |
| #2 When are they going to regulate against high-flow intestines? |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-08-09 18:27 |
| #1 The government already runs our bathroom. It's called 'low-flow toilets'. Remember to flush three times. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-08-09 18:25 |