Today I got told that I am the...

[MikeH]

Well the DC commuter belt isn't but it is surrounded by West Virginia and North Carolina which I know are full of rednecks. The left hand side of Virginia between Kentucky and Tennesee looks like it'd be full of racist southern white men.

[Hauldren Collider]

Well the DC commuter belt isn't but it is surrounded by West Virginia and North Carolina which I know are full of rednecks. The left hand side of Virginia between Kentucky and Tennesee looks like it'd be full of racist southern white men.

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are trolling.

[Dinner]

Something that just hit me: how easy/convenient is it to read a magazine or book while on a squat toilet?

Not at all. Also you have to manually "flush" the squat ****ter using a cup and bucket of water; as in dip the cup into the bucket, pour water into ****ter & repeat until the turd goes down. Worse, most of the Asian ****ters aren't designed for toilet paper to go down them and putting any toilet paper down them causes the whole damn thing to back up. This is largely due to the fact that in poor countries metal pipes are expensive while terracotta pipes made out of pottery are cheap so they use those crappy pottery pipes which seem to catch the paper and clog constantly so they always have a trash can filled with used toilet paper.

Don't tell me that's a better system then just dropping the used TP in the toilet and letting the flushed water carry it away.

[Dinner]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are trolling.

Why? He's right. Ever been to West Virginia? There are a bunch of Scots and Irish living in those hills and inbreeding for centuries. The results are not pretty.

[Hauldren Collider]

Why? He's right. Ever been to West Virginia? There are a bunch of Scots and Irish living in those hills and inbreeding for centuries. The results are pretty.

Oh I know, I'm talking about southwestern Virginia, around the VT area. Blacksburg and stuff.

[Dinner]

You quoted me as I was trying to add in the "not pretty" I had left out.

[Dinner]

Come to think of it I can remember an English documentary on the history of the English language and the documentary crew went out to some of the smaller and more isolated islands of the outer banks from Virginia to South Carolina because the people who live there all come from families which settled there in the 1600's and they still speak an archaic form of English which no longer exists in England. Originally they came from the same county in England and each county had it's own regional dialect but because some of those islands are so isolated, poor, and distrusting of outsiders they still use these 400-500 year old dialects so most outsiders can't understand half of what they're saying. Most of them also still practice a fundamentalist version of protestantism which even Oliver Cromwell would have found extremist.

[C0ckney]

do you have a link?

[Al B. Sure!]

Come to think of it I can remember an English documentary on the history of the English language and the documentary crew went out to some of the smaller and more isolated islands of the outer banks from Virginia to South Carolina because the people who live there all come from families which settled there in the 1600's and they still speak an archaic form of English which no longer exists in England. Originally they came from the same county in England and each county had it's own regional dialect but because some of those islands are so isolated, poor, and distrusting of outsiders they still use these 400-500 year old dialects so most outsiders can't understand half of what they're saying. Most of them also still practice a fundamentalist version of protestantism which even Oliver Cromwell would have found extremist.

You're sure you're not thinking of Gullah people who live on the Sea Islands off the coasts of the Carolinas?

[Dinner]

No, they were white.

The documentry also talked about Frisians in the Netherlands. Frisian is like a strange proto-English.

[Al B. Sure!]

interesting that coastal islands would develop such isolated cultures. They're not that far away

[Spaced Cowboy]

Alby, try wet paper towels, knew a guy once who insisted that was the only way to fly.

And I can attest to Oerdin's statement about squat toilets in China and the fact that there is a little waste can next to the toilet for the used paper. I've seen 100's of them in China. Thank God have not had to use one yet.

[Elok]

Flushing paper towels is not a good idea.

[Spaced Cowboy]

Who said flush them?

[MikeH]

Ew.