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| (...) To sit on while drying your feet after the shower. Also, to avoid the unpleasantness of looking into the toilet. Makes the room seem more civilized. --Bill. (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) My understanding is that body odor comes not from sweat, but from stale sweat. It isn't the sweat itself that stinks, it's the byproducts of the bacteria digesting the sweat. If you shower often the sweat doesn't stay on you long enough to (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| There is a slice-of-life article in the New York Times 6/11 about public restrooms in the subways. There is talk of hazard suits and padlocked doors. It cost too much to repair them constantly, and even more to hire attendants, so now they just try (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) OK, fine, then, I need a scanner... ;-) Well, you *said* you wanted to give me tools, a scanner's a tool, and I need that!... :-P Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk, nyuk... :-D Franklin (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) My mother claims a friend of hers caught some sort of viral ailment from breathing in the vapors generated by flushing a toilet in a Kmart restroom. She is so persistent with stories like this that my six year old made it from our house fifty (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Pretty much, but it's considered socially unacceptable to use the two interchangeably. Dave! (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Fair enough. My travels have brought me into contact more with pungent folks than with over-perfumed people, so maybe it's a matter of experience. It's hard to make use of public transport without getting a heady dose of funk. (...) Come on, (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I thought it was so we could piss all over the top of the bowl and still defecate without sitting in it. ;-) What I think is really bizarre is that we wash our wastes away with purified drinking water. I'd prefer to composte my waste as per (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I've known some pretty foul smelling people. Sometimes it was because they didn't scrub and sometimes it was because they lathered themselves in some kind of perfume. In either case, if the odor of a person gets in the way of my thoughts, I (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Kevin's right--there's an international conspiracy to drown kids and pets in public restrooms! Dave! (24 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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