How To Recycle A Traffic Cone

[mikef]

[Rusty Nuts]

Used to let houses to students every one of them had a traffic cone or some other road sign in it at some point.

[Norman Verona]

My brother filled our garden with them when he was younger and living with us (he's 10 years younger than I)

[blankczechbook]

that looks like a brilliant effort to make a french loo that can actually be used without fear...

( i hated a camping trip across france because of the campsite loos )

[pistonbroke]

At last , someone found out a proper use for the dammed things !

[Norman Verona]

We've come across some really dirty loos in France, I've used one of the pissoirs in Paris (round corrugated tin structure with two rows of "drains". Lady concierge who just looks back over her shoulder for a view of a row of danglers) But we've never come across the hole in the floor with two footprints. We have in Italy but never in France.

Mind you some of the loos we have come across in France defy belief.

[iain m]

My sons and I went to Le Mans for about 15 years in the 80/90s. We had a club that rented a field in a caravan camp some 10 miles away, with adequate loos and showers for 50 blokes. Every morning at peak time the owners wife would arrive and mop around everyone whether standing or sitting in the loos or taking a shower. It was the only time of the day she seemed to smile. :d

[peterg]

But we've never come across the hole in the floor with two footprints. We have in Italy but never in France.

There's one like that not that far from your place Norman when we were on our way down to Nantes for the day I needed a sh*t that wouldn't wait and saw a concrete bunker style public toilet in a lay by, I went in and found it was divided into two sections, the one of the left was the hole and two footprints like in the 'cone' photo above, the one on the right had a seat (of sorts) so I used that - no bog paper but luckily I had some in the car for just such an occasion

[davidgh]

But we've never come across the hole in the floor with two footprints. We have in Italy but never in France.

Motorway loo-stops from Reims south to Troyes, Dijon and Geneva feature several of these. Mem'sahib (normally fairly francophile) not amused.

[Norman Verona]

The French wouldn't see anything wrong in that. They use the gardens as toilets (men peeing) rather than pay for water for the loo.

At Le Mans the toilets were looked after by a family from Samuar, Everyone called the husband "pepe le poo". However I got talking to him and he was a farmer. His whole family came every year with their toilets. He got paid by ACO and got tips, which seemed a lot. The facilities were spotless, every toilet bowl was cleaned after use and the toilet rolls were always adequate,

The last year I was there the job had been taken on by the Le Mans Marie. They were dirty, no toilet rolls and no attendants,

Progress?

ed to add that this post is in response to Ian M's. I must learn to type faster.

[Norman Verona]

I've never seen one here, although I know they exist. All the motorway (and main route) rest areas that I've visited have self cleaning toilets. You use it, and as you close the door you can hear the high pressure water jets working.

Pete, the English always carry loo paper, the rest of the world use fingers.

[Ian Podmore]

But we've never come across the hole in the floor with two footprints. We have in Italy but never in France.

I remember going into a cubicle with one in Itlay, shut door, couldn't find the light switch.

Didn't want to move my feet in fear of putting a foot down the hole in the dark...

Who on earth would in invent such a useless device?

[Norman Verona]

The Italians? And the French. Only the Anglo Saxons take this business seriously.

[Norman Verona]

HM went in one in a restaurant in Italy. She was ages trying to get her stuff down and squat then get it all up again. When she came out an old lady, must have been 130 if a day, went in and came out almost straight away.

Must be practice, and believe me she had had plenty.

[bhouse]

The Italians? And the French. Only the Anglo Saxons take this business seriously.

But not even we take it as seriously as the Japanese.

Here is the control panel for a Japanese toilet:

And believe me, It's worth learning the Japanese for 'hot' and 'cold' before you use it...