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  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: replaced by s/w tools...
 
(...) 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 (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.cad.dat.parts, lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
(...) Pretty much, but it's considered socially unacceptable to use the two interchangeably. Dave! (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
(...) 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, (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
(...) 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 (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
(...) Kevin's right--there's an international conspiracy to drown kids and pets in public restrooms! Dave! (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
richard marchetti wrote in message ... (...) To keep animals and children out of the toilet. Small kids can drown in toilets. (...) ?? In my experience, public restrooms don't have lids and private bathrooms do, which would be logical according to (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
 
  Re: Questions on Bathing
 
(...) Well that's fine, but the whole point is that it isn't about oneself; it's about those around oneself. Whether or not it's valid, the perception of body odor conveys a real impression of personal hygiene, so if someone's funky it doesn't (...) (22 years ago, 12-Jun-02, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.debate)


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