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The Roman's had it sorted
With a sponge upon a stick
You don't need anything fancy
It's simple and it's quick
You don't need rolls of paper
Go cutting down the trees
A little squirt of water
Then a gentle breeze
French and others do it
Which seems to work quite well
At least I must assume so
But one can never tell
So why can't we all have it
That's what I'd like to know
I'd like a bit of comfort
When I have to go.
I did not guess your new rhyme would be about such things 🚾🚽🚻
Thank you 😁
I didn’t think anyone would but it is a matter of concern which affects us all. I try to cover subjects which concerns us all.
Now how on earth could we guess that !
That’s what I said, you would never guess. Discussing bodily functions is what this forum is all about.🙂Perhaps bit of miss-timing on my part I didn’t expect to be posting it late on Saturday night! 🙄
Gosh, you are so imaginative Don! B-Day indeed! And now we have toilet jokes about sustainability, a bit of History and last, but not least, humour! I'll be thinking of you when I buy my next pack of toilet rolls! Looking forward to the next one, Chrys x
Yes best to move on quickly. 😄 I was discussing the equipment not the procedure. 🙄
Oh privies and things! Toilet humour 😋 Forget the Romans though as the sponge on the stick was never cleaned until it fell apart. Apparently someone called Crapper was credited with inventing the modern toilet! xx
I didn’t know that about the sponge on a stick 🤢
Ha ha Imagine the germs spreading and how minging the sponge would be! 😮 x
I was going to “Like” your reply but I think the correct response is: 😱
😂
🤣😣 xx
The Romans always had running water for that purpose, if you ever go to Hadrian's Wall you'll see the remains of the set-up they had. Crapper didn't invent the flushing toilet he was a business man (pardon the pun) who exploited the invention of a bloke whose name I forget. 😉
The soldiers might have but not the rest of them. They built giant public cesspits with individual seats so no running water was involved x
They probably had to use Andrex there. 🙄
Oh it gets worse 😆 x
Toilets
Those Minoans who lived in santorini were thought to have had toilets with running water, hot and cold , and a sewage system 3,500 years ago . Their home was a volcanic island near Crete which erupted in a vast explosion over 2-3 days with pyroclastic flows, tsunamis and vast deposits of pumice .Cultured people. Their town was buried under 60 metres of pumice and only found in 1967 . It has been partly excavated and the houses were 3 storey and beautifully decorated with many frescos with colours well preserved by the pumice. The toilet even had a U- bend to trap the gasesThey found very few household objects and it is thought that they left the island when earthquakes began before the eruption. No bodies like Pompei or skeletons like Herculaneum. Did they escape?The tsunamis affected the whole Mediterranean and wiped out the harbours on the North coast of Crete. The remaining Minoan culture there and in Crete was a trading nation and the tsunamis destroyed much of their trading fleet and so declined.
This is all on various web sites with many photographs.
Has any body been there? To Crete or Santorini itself. Fascinating place with red, black and white beaches. 1000 ft cliffs showing multi layered bands of coloured deposits. Hot springs with iron deposits making the sea red , and the volcano itself is growing again in the centre of the flooded crater.
A bonus - very good wine
Sorry to go on but it is incredible place, and just think where our civilisation would be now if this civilisation had survived years before the greeks and romans
Time and time again we boast about some new development only to find that some ancient civilisation had it thousands of years ago. 🤥
I've been to the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete. Tsunami was thought responsible for their decline.
I believe the island is being very carefully monitored, as it has 'cracks' indicating that the (still very active) mega-volcano could erupt any day? When it does, it will be a MASSIVE explosion, and the resulting tsunami will hit all the Mediterranean coastline!!! Methinks the gap between Gibraltar and Spain may even widen...!
Maybe it was all those Minoan gases - trapped all this time in the U-bends...? 😂🤣😂🤣
Yes indeed the ground level measured by satellite.This rose by 4 inches in 2011 as the magma moved in and then sank down again. They check the gas produced for changes and more that i have forgotten There have been minor eruptions and earthquakes over the years. The seabed around is very active too with another underwater volcano that rose up and sank down again, in 17th century i think. They did produce a a plan for evacuation, but it could not have worked . In summer the tourists pour in by ferry and plane . The cruise ships all go there so the population increases by a vast amount more.
It is amazing to be in the caldera and see those cliffs , to think about it.
I like the minoan gases! Dont know what the greek plumbing is like these days!
You really pick your subjects don't you Master Po
Who would ever dream that you would pick our need to go
A subject we tend not to normally include in conversation
Is in fact a daily visit for most people in the nation
Some struggle to facilitate a movement that will impress
Whilst others seem to fill the pan with an unholy mess
But as you say the French who some consider are not our chums
Have introduced the bidet which is much cleaner for our bums. 
x
Oh, that's really a good one Skis!
Very good😂😂😂
Fancy being a groom of the stool
At Henry the 8th's Court
With all the food he would consume
And all the gallons of port!
Oh that ones good too!
It's only the Brits
That make a to-do
About our need
To go to the loo.
When we moved into our house the bathroom suite( a beautiful dark maroon affair......ha ha) included a bidet. No spray and jet of drying air, just a plug and taps. No good for owt but washing your feet .
It wasn't replaced when the white suite was installed.
And there was me guessing that your poem would be about autumn or stir up Sunday .....never dreamt of B Days .
Was yesterday stir up Sunday? I depend on the Archers to tell me but they were too busy burying Jo Grundy yesterday to be baking!
Might as well stick it under the processor now. 🙁 Sorry to hear about Jo Grundy he was the same age as me. 😥
When I was young and evacuated to the country in 1939,
I used Dock leaves for such essential toiletry tasks!
As long as you didn't use nettles by mistake! x
I very quickly learnt the difference;
they always grew close together but easily identified!
I love a good bidet, so civilised!
I’d never have guessed that topic Don.
Great poem Don! The Roman sponge on the stick was the origin of the saying ‘getting the wrong end of the stick’, meaning to misunderstand something..... Ugh!
That doesn’t bear thinking about! 🤢
Well, Don, you always manage to get us lot talking, don't you? I've only just woken up and the first coffee hasn't hit home yet so I was a bit slow and expected a poem about your own B day ie birthday! It took me a few minutes to catch on!! Very good as always. xx Moy
So many forums die from lack of use, ours never will. 😂
Very European Don-1931. You really are good at these poems. Should write a book
I used to work in a museum and got really obsessed with latrines. They became my specialist subject. Now I can't remember anything about them, which until now I hadn't been particularly sad about, but now I see where all that latrine knowledge could have come in handy, and I could have regaled everyone with tales of toilets 🚽
Latrines? Much too posh for us common folk Huff! 😋 xx
Apparently the subject is "cloacopapyrology", just in case you didn't know.
I was just checking on Bronco and Izal!
Would that be from the Latin 'cloaca' perchance...? Interesting that it in itself derives from the Greek 'kluzein', which means 'to wash out' - which brings us back to Don's poem...? 👍😊
Finally found the post Don.
Good thing I wasn’t queuing for the loo for that length of time🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Did you all know that HER MAJ eat al call it THE LAVATORY😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Fancy, I always thought she called it 'The Bog'. 😎
Travelling.
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