Has anyone slept in the bathtub?

[Melbourne]

@Bear_Nenno

I’m a tobacco chewing American, and I’ve never heard of this.

Washington DC:

@Charles Dickens

Both Houses are handsomely carpeted; but the state to which these carpets are reduced by the universal disregard of the spittoon with which every honourable member is accommodated, and the extraordinary improvements on the pattern which are squirted and dabbled upon it in every direction, do not admit of being described. I will merely observe, that I strongly recommend all strangers not to look at the floor; and if they happen to drop anything, though it be their purse, not to pick it up with an ungloved hand on any account.

– and that, I suppose, was the ‘civilised’ part of the country.