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Heavenly Anarchist
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When doing Tudor re-enactment we tend to say 'I'm going to the jakes' when visitors are around but often use more down to earth language amongst ourselves, as Tudors weren't people to shy away from bodily functions or anatomy. A re-enactment friend was mortified to find that her small boy, on returning to school, stood up in class and loudly declared 'I'm going for a piss'.
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Penny S
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I have remembered the toilets in Tenterden, Kent, where the council had decided to accommodate French and German visitors, with a sign which read:
TOILET
TOILETTE
TOILETTEN
Which looked like some weird grammar conjugation...
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Kaplan Corday
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Deuteronomy 23:12-14 indicates that the Ancient Hebrews' arrangements were pretty basic, and I have always enjoyed the passage's anthropomorphic suggestion of God's needing to be protected from seeing Something Unpleasant while doing his rounds of the lines (let alone perhaps accidentally stepping in It!).
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leo
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Originally posted by Firenze:
But not 'From a processing plant in the West Midlands'?
In the Czech Republic, you'll be interested to know, the universal indicator seemed to be 'WC' and/or the standard male/female icons - which is good, as I don't think I would have coped with ženy and muži. Btw, for those not familiar with Slavic languages, which of those terms do you think belongs to which gender?
I remember going into the wrong one in Prague.
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Polly Plummer
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Have you heard about the non-German-speaking man who wouldn't go in the door marked "Herren" but looked for one marked "His'n".
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M.
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In the House of Lords, one doesn't go to the Ladies but the Peeresses.
And the mirrors* are (or at least were a few years ago), hand mirrors chained to the wall.
M.
*Perhaps that should be looking glasses?
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not entirely me
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A friend was telling me today that when her autistic son was young and she was taking him in a public toilet she used to tell him that it said Laddies and take him into the Ladies.
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georgiaboy
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Originally posted by Polly Plummer:
Have you heard about the non-German-speaking man who wouldn't go in the door marked "Herren" but looked for one marked "His'n".
Yes, that's an oldie -- he was said to be from Texas!
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quetzalcoatl
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Originally posted by M.:
In the House of Lords, one doesn't go to the Ladies but the Peeresses.
And the mirrors* are (or at least were a few years ago), hand mirrors chained to the wall.
M.
*Perhaps that should be looking glasses?
I thought you were going to say that the mirrors are two-way.
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