On 28/11/2017 10:21, Brian Gaff wrote:
So why was the baby always the last one to use the bathwater, hence throwing
the baby out with the bathwater?

Babies would no doubt be covered in sh1t at the end of the month and....
big people would want hotter water whereas babies would want the coolest
water by my reckoning.
So babies last.

On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 16:06:25 UTC, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
On 28/11/2017 10:21, Brian Gaff wrote:
So why was the baby always the last one to use the bathwater, hence throwing
the baby out with the bathwater?

Babies would no doubt be covered in sh1t at the end of the month and....
big people would want hotter water whereas babies would want the coolest
water by my reckoning.
So babies last.

You could always trying googling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27..._the_bathwater

This idiom derives from a German proverb, das Kind mit dem Bade ausschütten. The earliest record of this phrase is in 1512, in Narrenbeschwörung (Appeal to Fools) by Thomas Murner; and this book includes a woodcut illustration showing a woman tossing a baby out with waste water. (It also shows the bottom half of a person defecating, in the border illustration at the lower right corner.) It is a common catchphrase in German,

On 29/11/2017 00:42, Roger Hayter wrote:
Max Demian wrote:

On 28/11/2017 19:47, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
news Tin baths in front of the coal fire, wonderful, but then I have the tinted
memories of age.
I'm sure it was draughty and not terrible hygenic either, but I am still
here.
Brian

me too...I also ...

https://www.iels.org/assets/19/_MG_4069_l.1.jpg

That's a bowl for washing the clothes, or possibly children.

The scale is a little difficult to judge, but I think that is a standard
(adult) sized tin bath.

The shape's wrong. Tin baths are more elongated - see the reply from
G.Harman.

--
Max Demian

"whisky-dave" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 29 November 2017 16:06:25 UTC, www.GymRatZ.co.uk wrote:
On 28/11/2017 10:21, Brian Gaff wrote:
So why was the baby always the last one to use the bathwater, hence
throwing
the baby out with the bathwater?

Babies would no doubt be covered in sh1t at the end of the month and....
big people would want hotter water whereas babies would want the coolest
water by my reckoning.
So babies last.

You could always trying googling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27..._the_bathwater

This idiom derives from a German proverb, das Kind mit dem Bade
ausschütten.
The earliest record of this phrase is in 1512, in Narrenbeschwörung
(Appeal to
Fools) by Thomas Murner; and this book includes a woodcut illustration
showing
a woman tossing a baby out with waste water. (It also shows the bottom
half of
a person defecating, in the border illustration at the lower right
corner.)

Why are krauts obsessed with ****ting ?

It is a common catchphrase in German,

And your royals brought it with them.