A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
A thought is harmless unless we believe it.
Not what she had, but given the location of the manufacturer I'm not surprised.
https://www.pikkuvihrea.fi/en/styrof...-outhouse.html
Good god, I've heard some horror stories about Izal 'tracing paper' in their school toilets!
Years ago many school toilet blocks were often outside in separate 'lean-to' buildings with high level cisterns and black 'open-front' toilet seats, plus inhabited by spiders and many other (non-human) 'nasties'!
That would be the stuff of nightmares for many of today's pupils, they probably don't know how fortunate they really are!
Last edited by Lencoboy; 15-01-21 at 16:22.
The ZT policies in day centres and the like I was referring to from the early-mid 2000s I personally perceived to be in response to the moral panic over the epidemic of NHS workers being on the receiving end of violence and aggression and soon after nearly everyone seemed to be jumping on the same bandwagon, especially in the public sector, but sometimes also in the private/independent sector as well.
I know the authorities probably meant well at the time, but unfortunately such policies have failed to lessen the problems as like I said upthread, they're mostly treating the symptoms rather than the underlying causes, so the cycle therefore keeps endlessly repeating itself.
My infant and junior schools were like that - the boy's toilet block was actually in a different playground a few yards from the school; boys' and girls' playgrounds were separate. My last two years of junior school were in a brand new building replacing the two older ones.
Something else that seems unthinkable nowadays, segregated male and female school playgrounds, never mind toilets!!
I do often wonder whether the staff toilets for the teachers, etc were also outside and in similar conditions back in the day, or whether some schools may have had 'shared' outside toilet facilities between pupils and staff?
Or if the staff/teachers had their own indoor facilities and the pupils' were outside, that sounds pretty inhumane by today's standards!
My father's parents in Manc had an outside "privy". When my Mum and Dad were "courting" my Dad was so embarrassed having to explain this "arrangement" to my southerner Mum..She was unfazed and they DID get married..despite the (in)convenience of outdoor "ablutions" at the future in-laws!
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