In an attempt to raise the general tone of this thread
Anybody interested in toilet design and cultural differences might want to refer to Slavoj Zizek's writings on the subject (there's a brief reference to this on
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n17/zize01_.html but I've known him to talk about this for years). How many of you thought this thread would result in a discussion of psychoanalytical/philosophical thought!
On a slightly separate note, I always thought that the American "Soap on a Rope" was an odd invention, till I was camping in the Aoste region of Italy....
You do kind of get used to "turkish" (a small platform with a hole behind) toilets when camping, however, on this occasion, as I turned around to "pull the chain"...
there was a shower head.... Now I know about the Japanese having all kinds of "additions" to their toilets, but this was taking things to an extreme!!! On leaving the toilet, I tried the other doors in the sanitary block (those that were unlocked!
) and realised that
all of the toilets had "showers," or rather, all of the showers had in-built toilets!
"Soap on a Rope all of a sudden seems like a rather cunning invention, who'd have thought it!
Dom