# No, you can't use my bathroom **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2005, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491 "2005-07-07T19:05:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Greathouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greathouse/32/2992_2.png) [@Greathouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greathouse)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/221 "2005-07-10T01:48:25Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > Ya gotta love them there bubbles. When I read this all I could keep thinking of were those damn commercials with the _scrubbing bubbles_. ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/222 "2005-07-10T01:51:43Z")
> [@Xploder](#): > > Ya gotta love them there bubbles. _sings_ I’m forever blowing bubbles… ---
**Author:** ![EleventyOne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@EleventyOne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EleventyOne)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/223 "2005-07-10T02:50:21Z")
> [@OleOneEye](#): > > Ben-wa soaps? Ah, if only the carpet guy had used the three seashells, he’d have been farting roses and the OP wouldn’t have had anything to complain about. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/224 "2005-07-10T03:52:26Z")
> [@surrotobeinMD](#): > > Exactly how DO you use the three seashells? If you have to ask, you’ll never know. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/225 "2005-07-10T03:57:40Z")
If only we could ascertain **Shat on Cookie** ’s address, we could organize an SDMB Crapathon, where members pledge to leave a log on her front lawn. Share the love! Let her know we’re not angry, but that her sentiment moves us. ---
**Author:** ![MissGypsy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8491ac/32.png) [@MissGypsy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissGypsy)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/226 "2005-07-10T04:08:30Z")
> [@OleOneEye](#): > > Ben-wa soaps? I can see the commercial, with the mother and daughter walking along the beach, talking about that “not-so-fresh feeling”… and then… camera cuts to product shot :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Ruby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/13edae/32.png) [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/227 "2005-07-10T04:34:21Z")
> [@Sat on Cookie](#): > > Sorry, but when a complete stranger asks to use my bathroom, I’m not expecting them to barricade themselves in there and drop stink bombs that take hours to dissipate. I think it’s disgusting. It seems to happen every single time a worker sets foot in my home, and it grosses me out to no end. I think this post says it all. If she has an issue **every time a worker sets foot in her home** , I think we can all see where the problem lies. It’s painfully obvious that after 227 posts, the OP isn’t likely to defend her position. Pity. I would also venture to guess that if Mr. Laborer had a particularily fragrant deposit in her toidy, he may have just been in the loo for 15+ minutes to hopefully air out the roof before opening the door. If that was the case, he was doing her a _favor_. ---
**Author:** ![furt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/439d5e/32.png) [@furt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furt)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/228 "2005-07-10T04:51:37Z")
> [@Ruby](#): > > I would also venture to guess that if Mr. Laborer had a particularily fragrant deposit in her toidy, he may have just been in the loo for 15+ minutes to hopefully air out the roof before opening the door. If that was the case, he was doing her a _favor_. Speaking as someone with a spastic colon, this is right on. I frequently have to go NOW, and sadly cannot schedule my shits on a daytimer. Moreover, when they come, they not infrequently smell like Satan’s own outhouse. When I’m at someone’s house and they haven’t had the brains to put some air freshener in there, I’m put in quandry. Several times I’ve found myself opening a window and spending five minutes desperately fanning the aroma out. ---
**Author:** ![Binarydrone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3da27b/32.png) [@Binarydrone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Binarydrone)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/229 "2005-07-10T06:54:06Z")
Well, I just know that if you did this in my home that I would be literally beside myself with worry that you were in there beating off while thinking about me! I would probably have to nuke the site from orbit, just to be sure. Honestly! One has standards that one must adhere to, after all. ---
**Author:** ![surrotobeinMD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@surrotobeinMD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrotobeinMD)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/230 "2005-07-10T11:59:41Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > If you have to ask, you’ll never know. Well, do you have a better idea as to how to obtain information if it’s not by asking? :rolleyes: My ESP is broken. If I have to ask and NOT get an answer, then I’ll never know. At this point, my attention span has moved onto other things… what was I saying? ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/231 "2005-07-10T12:16:37Z")
> [@surrotobeinMD](#): > > Well, do you have a better idea as to how to obtain information if it’s not by asking? :rolleyes: just in case you’re serious here, I believe you’vebeen ‘whooshed’ (ie missed the flying jet joke that flew overhead) **Guin’s** post that you quote isa variant of “I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you” thewhole “how do you use benwah/ 3 seashell soaps” is a joke ---
**Author:** ![surrotobeinMD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@surrotobeinMD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrotobeinMD)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/232 "2005-07-10T12:35:22Z")
> [@wring](#): > > just in case you’re serious here, I believe you’vebeen ‘whooshed’ (ie missed the flying jet joke that flew overhead) **Guin’s** post that you quote isa variant of “I could tell you but then I’d have to kill you” thewhole “how do you use benwah/ 3 seashell soaps” is a joke Oooooohhhh. Sorry. I’m new. (does that work for message boards too?) ---
**Author:** ![surrotobeinMD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@surrotobeinMD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrotobeinMD)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/233 "2005-07-10T12:36:53Z")
I’ll laugh like I knew what the joke was so as to not appear stupid! ---
**Author:** ![wring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/838e76/32.png) [@wring](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wring)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/234 "2005-07-10T12:39:40Z")
I saw that you’d just joined and suspected you hadn’t caught the tone. welcome to SDMB ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/235 "2005-07-10T12:46:03Z")
> [@surrotobeinMD](#): > > I’ll laugh like I knew what the joke was so as to not appear stupid! To be kind, I’ll let you in on it. The “He doesn’t know how to use the three seashells!” bit is from the Sylvester Stallone film [Demolition Man](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/). He plays a cop who was in suspended animation for some reason that I mercifully can’t recall, who’s thawed out in the 21st century to catch some major criminal. One of the “fish out of water” jokes about him is that he doesn’t get how to clean up after himself in the bathroom with the three seashells, and they think that’s just so funny. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/236 "2005-07-10T13:05:30Z")
> [@surrotobeinMD](#): > > I’ll laugh like I knew what the joke was so as to not appear stupid! I like this reply. Just for that, you may… **SHIT IN MY TOILET** Remember to lift the lid first, please, so it goes IN and not ON my pecious throne. ---
**Author:** ![Uvula\_Donor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e19adc/32.png) [@Uvula\_Donor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uvula_Donor)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/237 "2005-07-10T13:10:26Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#): > > Remember to lift the lid first, please, so it goes IN and not ON my pecious throne. “pecious” - That means “so spotlessly clean you can eat off it,” right? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/238 "2005-07-10T13:22:36Z")
My keyboaRd hates the letteR “R” It’s been a long, uphill battle with that fuckeR, and I Really don’t want to discuss it… ---
**Author:** ![surrotobeinMD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@surrotobeinMD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/surrotobeinMD)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/239 "2005-07-10T14:03:19Z")
> [@wring](#): > > I saw that you’d just joined and suspected you hadn’t caught the tone. welcome to SDMB Thanks! I’m quite naive, gullible and easy to make fun of! I enjoy using the toilet and shit whenever possible! I prefer to shit **in** the toilet, keeping the **on** the toilet shits for group get-togethers and visits to the in-laws! In my spare time I clean the toilet with Lysol products that contain bleach. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491/240 "2005-07-10T14:16:43Z")
> [@yBeayf](#): > > You enter, you shit, wipe, and flush, and you leave. Speak for yourself. Seems to me to be missing something. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-cant-use-my-bathroom/311491.md?page=13)