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Mamacita
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Originally posted by Ann:
Whilst I was looking ...
![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif) At first glance I thought she was holding her nose! Now, that would really be tacky.
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John Donne
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
This set is nice.
People just let themselves down in the small details. I mean, what could classify as a folkart toilet becomes merely a repository for surplus material from the Playschool Useful Box.
The pearls are crooked. The cistern-top mat is irregularly cut. And the leopard skin lid cover is rumpled.
People have no standards.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Coot:
The pearls are crooked. The cistern-top mat is irregularly cut. And the leopard skin lid cover is rumpled.
Stop carping. It's supposed to look like that.
It's not its fault it didn't win the Turner Prize.
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Alfred E. Neuman
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
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Originally posted by duchess:
I have a drawer next to my commode that I stick all the mags/news in for discreet viewing.
I can so relate. I have a similar drawer next to my bed for magazines I wish to be discrete about.
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I'm shocked that you would wish to be separate and distinct from your magazines. Did you mean that you wish to be discreet? ![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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Celsti
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I think he means he's using his discretion. Thus the question is of noun/adjective choice rather than word choice, which is slightly less heinous and only warrants a small fine and five grammar demerit points. See me.
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Celsti
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Thank you. I try. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Sine Nomine*
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It has been pointed out to me privately that in the interest of full disclosure, lest I appear to be setting myself up as some sort of ghastly good taste maven, I should reveal I'm anxiously awaiting a set of penis refrigerator magnets currently winging their way towards me as a late birthday gift from another shipmate.
This shipmate, who has been in my house, kindly suggested I should also disclose the fact that there is not a flat surface in my house, either wall or table, not covered with something. (Mostly dust these days.)
There -- are you happy now? I wasn't trying to fool people. Really I wasn't.
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Rossweisse
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They do say that confession is good for the soul, Sine.
(Happy All Souls Day.)
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Benedictus
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
It has been pointed out to me privately that in the interest of full disclosure, lest I appear to be setting myself up as some sort of ghastly good taste maven, I should reveal I'm anxiously awaiting a set of penis refrigerator magnets currently winging their way towards me as a late birthday gift from another shipmate.
This shipmate, who has been in my house, kindly suggested I should also disclose the fact that there is not a flat surface in my house, either wall or table, not covered with something. (Mostly dust these days.)
There -- are you happy now? I wasn't trying to fool people. Really I wasn't.
Sine, darling, I didn't say any of that. All I said was that I thought it was funny that someone had asked you about tasteful tchotchkes. What with the refrigerator magnets and all your other lovely things. The rest was, apparently, your own guilty conscience.
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Sine Nomine*
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Actually, I just wanted to brag on my refrigerator magnets.
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Mr Curly
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When my great great aunt was in the old folks home, they used to knit/crochet covers for coat hangers while sitting around waiting for someone else to fall off the perch.
Get this. They used to cut up plastic bread bags into thin strips, and crochet that. A lovely recycled gift, perfect for those who vote Green.
I think Mrs Brains made me throw it out when I explained what it was made of. I do still have a coathanger momento from great great aunt, made before times got quite so tough.
By the way, has anyone ever seen a real "live" concrete aboriginal? I gave one to a friend for his 21st once. And yes, it was a joke.
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Leetle Masha
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In the 1960s, I got roped into cutting drycleaners' plastic bags into long strips, making the strips into pom-poms, and tying the pom-poms onto frames made of wire coat hangers to form "pom-pom poodles". Truly ghastly, both in the process of being made and in their sales value (nil) at the church bazaar, er, bizarre. ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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Sine Nomine*
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"Tasteful" people can be tacky too.
I had occasion Monday evening to be at the home of a rich (3rd generation), recently deceased, prominent citizen of our city, expressing my condolences to his widow and children.
The family was receiving in the drawing room (yes, they actually have a "drawing room") and as I snaked my way through the line, I noticed a pair of 18th century chairs with decrepit needlework covering had ribbons tied across the arms so none of the hoi polloi would sit in them.
So I'm standing there thinking...who's going to flop down and get comfortable in the presence of the grieving widow anyway? Do they not trust the good manners of their supposed friends and business associates? Why didn't they just take the chairs out of the room for the evening? Did they want to be sure, sure, sure we all knew they had a pair of 18th century chairs? (Like, duh. Two chairs and about umpteen million dollars.)
After a suitable period of mourning I shall have to ask the daughter, who is my connection to the family, what the hell they were thinking.
(I must say the whole experience was such a cliche of Old South Old Money it probably deserves a thread of its own.)
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churchgeek
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Re: the OP - I once moved into an apartment where the previous tenant had put one of those blue cleaner things in the tank. I guess I'm passively common, because I didn't remove it. It was OK; I never had people over.
Anyway, it turned out to be helpful. My landlord (company) was really good about sending maintenance over right away, but sadly, the maintenance guy was just plain dumb. For example, when my self-defrosting freezer wasn't defrosting, he told me that you just have to manually defrost self-defrosting freezers every now and then. I knew that wasn't true so had them send a professional (GE guy) over who fixed it.
So back to my toilet. (How often is that said?) I had a leak from the tank - I noticed water on the floor. The maintenance guy tried to tell me it was only condensation. But... it was BLUE! If that blue tablet thing hadn't been in the tank, I don't think I would've thought of coloring the tank water to prove to the dumb maintenance guy that it was a leak and not condensation!
Of course, in later apartments I've had less responsive landlords and have had to resort to fixing things myself, thus bypassing any dumb maintenance guys the landlord may or may not have hired...
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ken
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Originally posted by Viola:
Coat hangers bedecked with ribbons and lavender bags - you know the type of thing.
Viola, my dear, I'm rather afraid that I don't.
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Gracious rebel
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While we're on about tackiness and toilets, what do people think of those acrylic loo seats that are transparent and have colourful items set into them? My sister's downstairs loo has one with 'licorice allsorts' in it - normally she has excellent taste, but I really think she's lost it with this one!!
Edited to add - wow my 999th post! i'd better think of something profound to say next time!! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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ken
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Originally posted by Gracious rebel:
While we're on about tackiness and toilets, what do people think of those acrylic loo seats that are transparent and have colourful items set into them?
My ex-wife has one with barbed wire in it.
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L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.
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Gracious rebel
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yuk, I don't think I could bear to sit on that at all!!
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Viola:
Coat hangers bedecked with ribbons and lavender bags - you know the type of thing.
Ooh yes. Are we talking about the padded coathangers?
Any minute now someone will say that plastic and wire ones are tacky and you should only have real wood ones. They will have to be made of a certain kind of organic wood from non-endangered renewable forests with wholesome non-toxic CFC-free varnish, or be antique ones.
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KenWritez
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I protest some Shipmates' "no books/magazines in the loo" policy.
Barbarism!
Every room in the house ought to have books, especially the loo. What a disfavor to your guests, to deprive them of necessary reading material and forcing them to gaze undivertedly at your taste in bathroom wall decor and sink top accoutremont.
The KenWritez household loo features a lovely view of the newly de-papered east wall sheetrock, with the newest Clive Cussler "Dirk Pitt" novel (beyond wretched), plus a book on surviving the Chicago Commodities Trading Pit as a Christian, and Cook's Illustrated "New Best Recipe" cookbook guarding the wife's bathroom scales from overzealous use.
Upon the sink counter we have some lovely stacks of Cook's Illustrated magazines, a Coldwater Creek catalog for the Sturdy Wench, novels by such lights as Terry Pratchett, Neal Stephenson, Richard Cohen, Martha Grimes, David & Leigh Eddings (this one in case we run out of t.p.), P. J. O'Rourke, Constance Hale, an American Sign Language dictionary, speech therapy textbook, as well as home improvement magazines and catalogs.
All of which allow our guests education, entertainment, (pray, even enlightenment!), as well as comfort and necessary diversion during what would otherwise be unavoidable periods of ennui.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by KenWritez:
Every room in the house ought to have books, especially the loo.
It's about germs. Who wants to read a book that's spent its life in close proximity to your toilet?
Also, more crucially, if you have to share a bathroom you don't want to encourage anyone else to spend any more time in there than is strictly necessary.
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RuthW
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Do you really need that much reading material in the bathroom? Couldn't you just take Metamucil?
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churchgeek
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I second the germs objection.
Although, an artist friend of mine used to have an old toaster as a book holder in his bathroom, and my first book of poetry was in it, and I took that as a compliment. ![[Smile]](smile.gif) Hopefully no guests of his would come to associate my writing with any nasty toilet experiences they might have there, though. Let me re-phrase that: with any toilet experiences!
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ken
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Originally posted by RuthW:
Do you really need that much reading material in the bathroom? Couldn't you just take Metamucil?
Dunno. What's the plot like? Are there any pictures?
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John Donne
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Um. If a non-reader in the toilet may enquire... do ppl reading in the toilet do same while waiting to... go, or is it more of a leisurely pit stop - read a few pages after you finish communing with nature?
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KenWritez
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For me, it's a matter of reading while going and then afterward for a few moments while the body makes its post-flight checks and ushers out any stragglers. After all, it's an automatic process and after about the age of 5 it's not that interesting. Hence, a distraction from the--excuse the expression--business at hand.
Germs oughtn't be an issue if you wash your hands with soap and water after each visit, as I was taught to do, and you don't store the books immediately adjacent to the commode; they're on the counter, a few feet away.
RuthW, it's not a question of reading material quantity but diversity, something I thought a card-carrying liberal such as yourself would appreciate.
Really, it's not that big a deal.
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Mamacita
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Originally posted by Sine Nomine:
"Tasteful" people can be tacky too.
Yes, indeed. Two examples (of a more earthy nature) come to mind:
- The perfectly spotless bathroom in the perfectly spotless apartment of a newlywed friend, whose wife had set a large can of air freshener spray in a fancy glass coaster on top of the toilet tank.
- The "pom-pom poodle" bottle cover. When my family lived in Iowa in the mid-1950s, the state was dry, or at least had very restrictive liquor laws, and if you wanted a drink in a restaurant you had to B.Y.O. So the ladies would knit or crochet these little poodles that would fit over a bottle of booze, and people would actually carry these when they went out. Like no one would guess what you were holding.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by KenWritez:
Germs oughtn't be an issue if you wash your hands with soap and water after each visit, as I was taught to do, and you don't store the books immediately adjacent to the commode; they're on the counter, a few feet away.
We're almost all brought up to do that but in practice not everyone does.
Combine that with the habit that some other people have of licking their fingers each time they want to turn over a page and it all starts looking fairly unsavoury. I sometimes wonder about just how many hands (and mouths) a library book has passed through.
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Sine Nomine*
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Any minute now someone will say that plastic and wire ones are tacky and you should only have real wood ones.
At the risk of sounding like you-know-who, what on earth would you hang on wire hangers except dress shirts back from the laundry?
Trousers go on slack hangers so they hang straight. Jackets and coats must be on wooden or molded plastic hangers so the padding in the shoulders doesn't get screwed up. Sweaters shouldn't be hung at all.
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Sine Nomine*
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I think it needs to be stored horizontally on a shelf, much like the late Queen Mary's beaded court gowns.
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Moo
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
What would one hang this on?
Speaking of 'not geschmackvoll'...
Moo
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