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The Great Debate A discussion that may tear the forum apart

Poll: The Great Debate (129 member(s) have cast votes)

Which way should the paper roll face

  1. A. The paper is pulled under and down along the wall. (20 votes [15.50%])

    Percentage of vote: 15.50%

  2. B. The paper is pulled over and out towards the user. (99 votes [76.74%])

    Percentage of vote: 76.74%

  3. C. Others (4 votes [3.10%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.10%

  4. D. I am Dolorous Menhir and I whipe my ass with hundred dollar bills (6 votes [4.65%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.65%

Bonus question, do you "scrunge up" the paper or do you fold it?

  1. Scrunge (28 votes [23.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.33%

  2. Fold (90 votes [75.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 75.00%

  3. Diaper (2 votes [1.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.67%

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#41 User is offline   Battalion 

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Posted 26 May 2010 - 07:02 AM

Baby wipes are not flushable. I know this because the people next door keep flushing them and blocking all the drains up. They don't fall apart like wet toilet paper.

And Darkwatch, please, if you know you have to tell me ... how does one use the three shells. It's been bugging me for years.
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 08:26 AM

I'm still the only one who picked diaper?










I don't actually wear a diaper, I just used it as "other" since I think I doa mix between scrunge and fold.




I'm drunk and between doesn't even look like a wor, but i guess it is

edit: neother soed diaper

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Posted 26 May 2010 - 02:59 PM

View PostBonesaw85, on 26 May 2010 - 08:26 AM, said:

I don't actually wear a diaper, ...


Riiight :laughing:
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 08:21 PM

View PostAptorian, on 26 May 2010 - 03:54 AM, said:

Giving us our first ever look at a cockroach at the same time.

There may have been some girly screams. I can't remember.


Wait, you'd never seen a fucking cockroach before?

I know Scandinavia is supposed to be some sort of wealthy paradise, but jesus christ, that's like saying you've never seen a rat. Denmark's got to be about the same sort of temperature range/climate as Britain, how do we have them and you dont? I refuse to believe that you, Apt, a man who spends half his time passed out drunk on the floor and the rest of the time masturbating to /b/ at the computer screen, has never seen a cockroach scuttle past in the wee hours of the morning.
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 08:40 PM

According to what I hear Cockroaches do exist here in Denmark. They're just very small and are only found in selective places, like very dirty restaurants, fruit and vegetable storages, etc. I've only ever encountered one nest of cockroaches here in Denmark, that was when we received a crate of water melons from Spain, or South America or some place and a few dead ones fell out.

Never seen a rat either, but they are supposedly much more abundant. Seeing as I don't go spelunking in the Danish severs regularly, I still don't have many chances of running in to one.

Denmark is luckily a relatively clean nation and our lovely weather is hard on the big insects.
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 09:17 PM

actually TT, until I went to Grand Canaria when I was 16, i'd never seen a cockroach except on the telly.

I'd seen a rat or two, but no cockroaches.
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 09:46 PM

I've also never seen a rat or a cockroach "in the wild" as it were.
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 11:05 PM

In 4th grade of hightschool, my physics teacher made me do a calculation, I remember that A requires less energy than B. (The man was evil and sick.)
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 11:46 PM

I've never seen a cockroach either.
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Posted 26 May 2010 - 11:51 PM

Cockroaches are disgusting things. And big. You know that common adage that when everything else is gone, the cockroaches will still survive?

I don't believe that shit. There's no way they can survive somethings if my fear induced, adrenaline laden Sandal Smack of Doom can utterly obliterate a two and a half incher.
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 12:02 AM

The world's largest cockroach reaches 3.5 inches as an average length and is - surprise! - Australian.
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 06:24 AM

In the house we lived in down in Benguela when I was in Angola. We had a refrigerator that didn't work (also the electricity wasn't dependable anyway), we used it to hide our fruits and vegetables in because it was still kind of dank and shady. You couldn't keep the door closed properly, so on the back wall in that refrigerator was where the smart cockroaches lived. It was pretty clever of them because it was probably the one place in the house that the lizards couldn't crawl into and eat them. The cockroaches down there were probably around the length of your index finger and a bit thicker, luckily the lizards ate most of them. Bless those slithering, wall hugging scaly bastards.
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 06:46 AM

Once I carelessly deposited a banana peel in what was a waste-paper basket, thinking it was an all-purpose bin. It had a lid on it.

When Dad opened it five days later, a huge swarm of fruit flies escaped into the house. Their tiny screams linger around the fruit bowl, on cold nights.

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Posted 27 May 2010 - 10:17 AM

I don't think the combination of toilet paper and cockroaches is a particularly good discussion. Though I'm sure there are websites which cater for that sort of thing.
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 01:55 PM

View PostBattalion, on 26 May 2010 - 07:02 AM, said:

And Darkwatch, please, if you know you have to tell me ... how does one use the three shells. It's been bugging me for years.


Well you see the way they're used is based on
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Posted 27 May 2010 - 02:37 PM

View PostAptorian, on 26 May 2010 - 03:54 AM, said:

View PostZanth13, on 26 May 2010 - 02:05 AM, said:

when i lived in South Korea they seemed to have squatting toilets in public restrooms...i never had it explained but i guess they squatted did the deed and sprayed out the area with water...

it was always so nasty and stinky.... it was like a urinal but on the ground... and full of Sh!t...


You mean a latrine with plumbing?

Yeah. They have those in the cities of Angola as well. How that still beats spending half a year sitting each morning on a concrete slap over an abyss of writhing poo, which is what we had to do when we moved into the countryside.

But the worst was probably when we first got to Angola. They put us up in a famous "sports hotel", the place where travelling athletes supposedly stay when they travel through Luanda or something. Maybe the name actually stretched back to the Portuguese occupation or something. Anyway. The toilets in this place was something out of horror film. Rows of old, wooden booths, in a room full of yellow, dirty tiles. One single light bulb hanging in the ceiling. Enough to light the hallway, but leaving the booths themselves covered in darkness. Inside the booths there was old, half melted candles, sagging in the heat that I suppose people brought with them... for reading or maybe dark satanic rituals... and of course, the Hole. No toilet bowl to sit on or anything. Just tiles that ended in a stained orifice in the floor. I remember first time we went in there. Me and Jim moved right on in, taking our first ever look at this crazy hole in the floor. I think it was Jim that shined a flashlight at it, just to get a glimpse at this thing. As soon as he turned on the light, half a dozen cochroaches and other nameless horrors came scuttling out of the holes. Giving us our first ever look at a cockroach at the same time.

There may have been some girly screams. I can't remember.


There's places like that in southern China, too, only with better lighting. Which is kind of bad, because the big public restroom is co-ed, and the dividing walls between the holes in the ground are about a foot high. And don't forget to bring your own toilet paper...

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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 28 May 2010 - 06:49 PM

there was no carpet option, who doesn't love to scoot on the floor like a dog instead of use toilet paper....
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Posted 28 May 2010 - 10:26 PM

I blame reading this thread yesterday for my toilet related nightmare.

And the toilet paper was wall side in that and sticking against the wall because of the steam.
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Posted 28 May 2010 - 11:10 PM

View PostMott, on 28 May 2010 - 10:26 PM, said:

I blame reading this thread yesterday for my toilet related nightmare.

And the toilet paper was wall side in that and sticking against the wall because of the steam.


Steam....., STEAM ! Jesus man, what have you been eating ?
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Posted 29 May 2010 - 03:50 AM

roaches are horrible,

few creatures earn instant death from me, but they are one of them...

growing up in a few slumish places in Texas i have seen my share of the bastards... they infest...uggghhh i dont even want to think about them actually... I might just move to Denmark... do they have extradition... just kidding... sort of.... (PM me)

luckily i havent had to deal with roaches in a long while... the little ones are the worse though, they infest and are hard to get rid of...

what we call "water roaches" are much bigger and scarier (few inches long) but i have never seen them make a nest or infest, you only see one or two at at time...

oh and almost everything is flush able depending on your drainage system and how careful you are...
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