Posted on 06/21/2014 4:12:25 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
It is breeding like rabbits. A dozen kids is excessive.
Personally, I don't understand having more than one, but at the end of the day it's not my business. However, we have accomplished populating the earth, so I think we can all slow it down a bit.
Housing in London is predominantly row-houses, with mostly one toilet which may be adequate for family of 2. However, the housing values have gone thru the roof in last 2 decades, making them unaffordable and forcing many grown kids to live with their parents. So family of 4 or 6 is not uncommon sharing only one toilet in the morning toilet rush hours.
A single toilet is common in the U.S as well, I have never heard of it being used as an excuse for Americans to defecate in public.
You should rethink that excuse, row houses in London sound pretty normal.
It can get worse, at least it was just on the floor. Why I have no idea and it’s disgusting beyond belief, but some will smear it on the walls with their fingers. I think they like the idea of making someone else clean it up. You gain a strong appreciation for tile, bleach, a drain in the floor and a high pressure hose when you’re responsible for a public restroom. I managed a large pool for several summers. They’d do it in the pool itself, too. People are pigs in general, but certain groups take it to an entirely different level.
We had out houses before we had indoor plumbing.They worked fine.
Having single toilet is adequate for most small families who can easily stagger toilet usage in the morning rush hour. Singles, couples, retired folks, rural folks, people who do not have to use toilets all at once to get ready for job commute in the morning would have no need or excuse to take desperate measures. That is normal. But we are not talking ‘normal’.
When shit happens, it happens, it can not wait and it does not need ‘excuse’. Either its in the toilet or it is in the pants or somewhere else. And London row houses does create situations that are not ‘normal’
In USA, size of families tend to be smaller, with sizable population consisting of singles, single parents, retired folks and couples with no children. There is also sizable population who does not have to get ready in the morning or go out to work in the morning. For them, having only 1 toilet is never an issue. Most 2-3 bedroom apartments/houses have more than one toilets anyway. Most landlords also rent 1 bedroom/toilet apartments only to smaller families. Plus, America has invested heavily in creating ample public toilet/restroom facilities and created building codes to mandate toilets in all public places, which mitigate any need or excuse to go out in public.
I was sent to India to train some fellow employees on the use of a software automation tool.
The trip was hell, from my ride to the Austin airport, the storms mid air, the delayed takeoffs/landings, the smelly Indian lady sitting next to me from London to Mumbia, etc. In total, I was aboard planes and airports for over 44 hours until I finally arrived at my hotel, the Westin in Hyderabad. My delays had me diverted to Mumbia where just looking at the place was scary. As a Texas, I enjoy carrying my ‘equalizer’ hidden on me at all times, just in case I need it. I found myself staring at dozens of Indian Military with automatic assault rifles at almost every corner of the airport. Not once did I feel safe, especially with the sight of so many muslims in full dress all around me. Air India sucks big time by the way...avoid it at all costs.
When I finally arrived at my hotel, we had to undergo a security inspection, under the car, trunk, luggage, myself and anything else. After this inspection, if you pass, you go thru a large metal gate with spike strips. When you get to the main lobby entrance, you go thru the security inspection again, but this time, they scan your luggage thru machines.
While inside the lobby the next day, I noticed someone accros the street hanging out of a building, constantly staring at us in the hotel. Turned out to be an Indian Military outpost.
Arriving every day to the office, I underwent all of the security protocols be it at the office, or returning to the hotel.
If it had not been a business trip, I would have done things much differently and visited better places, like New Delhi for example.
Most of my time there, I thought of my family, my dog, and Texas.
Get real, in America homes were built with a single bathroom during the big family era, the post war years and the pre-war years, decades and generations of building homes with a single bath, many if not most of us grew up in them, countless millions live with them today.
The luxury of having two bathrooms is a fairly recent situation, most boomers didn’t have 2 when they started life, in fact in 1960 17% of US homes didn’t ANY indoor toilet or bathroom, yet we still never heard of, nor experienced public defecation.
Your description of hand ringing helplessness in an effort to tell us that Americans are, or were having to defecate in public because big sister was putting on her makeup, is silly.
I have lived in those houses and apartments all over the US, they are everywhere, entire neighborhoods of them.
You are spewing nonsense to justify a ridiculous image of British and American dads going out and defecating in the open because their teen son is showering for too long, or because mom is blow drying her hair.
What you are describing is 3rd world immigrants.
I wonder if this was the consequence of the atrocities that occurred a few years in Bombay involving Jewish victims, I believe. What a world we live in that you had to go through such measures!
“The British found the use of cannabis so extensive in colonial India, that they commissioned a large scale study in the late 1890s (Iverson, 2008). They were concerned that the abuse of cannabis was endangering the health of the native people and driving them insane. The British government asked the government of India to appoint a commission to look into the cultivation of the hemp plant, preparation of drugs from it, trade in those drugs, the social and moral impact of its consumption, and possible prohibition.”
so like India(and Colorado ), once America makes pot a totally legal substance we will live in huts and crap in the streets.
sounds like a plan Obummer would be proud of.
Because they’re afraid of the bear?
Yes, no doubt. The incident in Mumbia was devestating. The government needs foreign investment and business and can ill-afford more terrorists events. However, it does not make the western businessman feel safe when he/she is reminded just how vulnerable they are with so many muslims about.
I understand. I’m so naïve that I belief the Muslims are stuck in Pakistan and that India is filled with Hindus (not that they are OK) and Christians.
Funnily enough, my facebook page just posted a wonderful article about a gorgeous hilltown filled with western hippies experiencing yogi-type experiences. I don’t believe any of that tripe but the photos showed a very peaceful, bucolic part of India.
I am not trying to convince anybody, or create any image of British or American dads or generalize it as something being done by everybody or happening everywhere. I simply mentioned what I saw during my few visits to London, and tried to explain my opinion since you commented on it. Unfortunately, there is no crystal ball to tell if the turd came from an immigrant or local orifice.
I believe you saw what all Western nations see now, after the left changed all of our immigration laws in the 1960s and early 70s.
I doubt that the more traditional Brits have taken to defecating in public, and I sure know that the traditional Americans haven’t.
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