"Derek Geldard" wrote in message ...
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:36:15 +0100, "Mungo \"Two Sheds\" Toadfoot"
wrote:

We've just been in Canada and the USA. I was *greatly* impressed with
their toilets! One little push of the little lever and a mighty
whirlpool develops in the pan, which swooshes *everything* away, with
virtually no noise. Every time.


You might get that impression staying in Hotels with an onsite
plumber / handyman, however the usual ones seen therein do deteriorate
consistently over 2-3 years having a large loose rubber flapper valve
which eventually leaks and wastes water.

The toilet bowl is cunningly sized to accomodate exactly two cistern
fulls + a turd and five sixteenths, so in normal circumstances the
bowl can't overfill and spill onto the floor ... but if there is a
blockage or flow restriction on the outlet all bets are off. An over
enthusiastic housewife can, by power flushing the loo, have the
bathroom flooded to a depth of 2"(inc. fudgy bits) before you can say
"Homo Deluvi Testis" (The man who witnessed the flood).

Why do we have these noisy, complicated, unreliable efforts over here in
the UK?


AFAIR water appliances have over the years had to satisfy a plethora
of water boards / councils all over the country. It could, IMHO, be
that this has encouraged standardisation at the lowest common
denominator level.


Well... as much as I dislike the "Everything's better in the Yoo Ess"
argument, I'm thinking that maybe it is and they've moved on from the
Victorian era we appear to be stuck in.


That's an opinion you can get from watching 1970's films (perhaps on
daytime TV) where everybody lives in a literally palacial house with
an 18 foot ceiling and drives an enormous V8 car, all in soft pastel
colours and fuzzy soft focus. Totally bogus of course, like Disney,
all chicken wire and papier mache.

And the police always peruse "late model convertibles", everybody has a 555 phone number
and the any computer screen shown has an operating system that looks nothing like Windows
but any screen transition is accompanied by a pointless sound effect. (Come to think of it that
*is* like Windows.

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Graham." saying
something like:

And the police always peruse "late model convertibles",

They have to spend the kickback money on something.

On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:06:09 +0100, Graham. wrote:
That's an opinion you can get from watching 1970's films (perhaps on
daytime TV) where everybody lives in a literally palacial house with
an 18 foot ceiling and drives an enormous V8 car, all in soft pastel
colours and fuzzy soft focus. Totally bogus of course, like Disney,
all chicken wire and papier mache.

And the police always peruse "late model convertibles"

That's "late model" as in "US car engineering is twenty years behind the
rest of the world" ;-)

any computer screen shown has an operating
system that looks nothing like Windows but any screen transition is
accompanied by a pointless sound effect.

Don't forget that password entry is *always* echoed to the screen in
plain text, and any computer can read any file...

"Jules Richardson" wrote in message ...
On Fri, 18 Jun 2010 23:06:09 +0100, Graham. wrote:
That's an opinion you can get from watching 1970's films (perhaps on
daytime TV) where everybody lives in a literally palacial house with
an 18 foot ceiling and drives an enormous V8 car, all in soft pastel
colours and fuzzy soft focus. Totally bogus of course, like Disney,
all chicken wire and papier mache.

And the police always peruse "late model convertibles"

That's "late model" as in "US car engineering is twenty years behind the
rest of the world" ;-)

any computer screen shown has an operating
system that looks nothing like Windows but any screen transition is
accompanied by a pointless sound effect.

Don't forget that password entry is *always* echoed to the screen in
plain text, and any computer can read any file...

If Whoopi Goldberg is at the keybord it won't matter as she speaks every keystroke out loud.
(Those Sperry terminals wern't so dumb, They managed to display Soviet TV IIRC)

--
Graham.

%Profound_observation%