I’ve traveled to countries where you throw your toilet paper in the trash. The can was rarely empty when I arrived. Nor do I remember it smelling particularly bad.
When I was living in India, my apartment bathrooms had floor drains (and to respond to another poster downthread, I lived on the 4th floor). Of course it is worth considering that I had a cleaner to come hose down the bathroom everyday, so the place was always clean and dry. I can imagine that if we didn’t have servants we might have used a different system.
Face it, smokers are the lepers of 21-century America. When I was single and living in an apartment, I noticed that the smokers would usually come out to the (common) courtyard to smoke. Most of them kept ashtrays on their windowsill, and a few had little tins containing matches.
It was probably to avoid losing their security deposit, but I was quite amused that even the smokers didn’t allow smoking in their apartments.
You must have better toilets in Australia. Or at least, you were lucky enough to miss the first generation of low-flow toilets that just plain didn’t work, and typically required multiple flushes to dispatch a sizeable turd. Better toilets that actually do the job expected of them are now available, but a not-insignificant number of houses and apartments are still cursed with the dreaded first-generation low-flow toilet.
I like artificial sweeteners, and I try to keep a bunch of them in a little tin on the kitchen table. Because I would drink milk by the glassful if I kept it in the house, I use powdered creamer.
I think our toilets have a lower water level in the bowl… what, if any, difference that makes, I know not. There must be an SD discussion somewhere about the relative merits of toilet designs.
No, you could put anything in them; they’re simply there in the stall for convenience for sanitary products. Other wise your choices would be to try to flush them or to have to carry them out to the main washroom trash bin.
You still find some old buildings here in Israel - mainly government offices - where they ask you to place your used toilet paper in a bin. I always flush it anyway, because I’m not a goddamn savage.
The water table is too high in some places for basements to even be possible. Some buildings are on higher elevation than the rest of the area, and basements can sometimes be found there.
That sounds as if Australia, like Europe, generally uses non-siphoning toilets. Indeed those clog less easily because there is no particular reason to make the waterways narrow.
Some people just seem to like bland, tasteless food. Like my sister-in-law, for example. I think she has pepper around somewhere, but if you eat her cooking it’s obvious that “spice” isn’t in her vocabulary.
Tell me about it. We tried to get rid of a hideous serving dish we got as a gift that way for years. We kept getting it back with food in it. The lid finally broke, and I think it was almost unintentional, and we finally felt justified in throwing it away.