to think the designers were having a sneaky laugh at this one?

[booyhoo]

i mean the ones that designed my house and all the others in this cul-de-sac. they put the downstairs loo at the front of the house so that i either have to sit in the dark or turn the light on and let all my neighbours know I'm doing a poo. i have a blind but i know from seeing my neighbours silhouettes that it is still easy to see that i am sitting on the loo. if i go upstairs it wakes the dcs. thanks for that lovely designer person.

Do you really think your neighbours are that interested in your life?
My ensuite is at the front of my house with the toilet sideways on to the window.
If people are that interested in me having a poo, then I feel sorrry that they have nothing more interesting in ther lives

Lol, lol, lol at squirt tossing

I have a funny feeling that MadamDeathstare has actually done that chanting thing at some point in her life

This thread is making me laugh out loud.

'We know what you're dooooing, we know that you're pooooing'.

Squirt tossing

Calm down dear, it's only a poo.

And if you can't go to the loo because it wakes your chldren how do you live? How do you do anything?

After reading this thread, I can now see the sole benefit to having a windowless bathroom

Well, I guess you don't have a TV since you are watching your neighbours and assume they do the same!

Check if they have a TV, then you might be off the hook

My loo is at the front of the house, by the front door....boy do I hate the doorbell ringing when I am sitting on the throne, I can hear them, they'll hear me flushing or even worse. Then I have to open the door them, oh the shame

Couldn't you sort of commando crawl into the loo? Then sit hunched over while you do the biz? Then you couldn't be seen.

Then your neighbours would just think you were environmentally unfriendly, leaving your light on for no good reason, instead of knowing that you do poos in your loo.

i like the sunlight/jar idea, too.
if there's a light on the windowsill you won't see anything inside the loo.

yes i have had the doorbell situation aswell.

it never used to bother me before but i have noticed it in all the opposite neighbours so i know they can see me aswell. also, one day i parked the car and because of the layout of the place my parking space brings me level with next door's loo and there have been occasions where i have heard everything while getting teh dcs out of the car. i just sit in the car til their done now. wrt my own loo i will just poo in the dark. yep the dcs wake if they hear the stairs creaking or the loo flushing upstairs as it's right beside their room.

Pooing in the dark seems so primaeval....

Time to dig an outhouse. With no light, obviously!

It occurs to me to ask why don't any of you put some blinds/curtains up in your loos?

This thread has really cheered me up, after a particularly crappy day. Thanks all[ smile ]

squirt tossing

PMSL

DS1 has paper thing walls between his tiny bedroom and the bathroom - it's very noisy from in his room. A shower sounds like monsoon........using the toilet........

i do have blinds bunbaker but i know from seeing the neighbours that they hide very little.

The way our house is positioned our downstairs loo is positioned next to neighbour1's front room and neighbour2's loo is positioned right next to our living room.

This is not an issue with neighbour1 as their TV is on the adjoining wall, and as such they cannot hear us.

We however are able to hear the neighbour2 dh next door peeing. it's like someone is pouring a bloody big bucket of water down the loo! with stops and starts as well!

Feel very embarrassed occasionally, especially when tv is not on to disguise it.

YOu've just reminded me of a block of flats I used to live in - as you walked towards the front door there were bathroom windows above the front door for that side of the building...

The bath was in front of the window.
The shower was in the bath.
There was frosted glass in the windows but it didn't hide very much, particularly in the evening, particularly when the light was on...

Amazing the number of people in those flats who would merrily shower away in front of the window displaying their all to all passers by without realising that they were doing so.

Every so often winter the management company had to put up a notice to remind people as there would be complaints from the people coming to pick up their kids from the nursery next door, having to explain why they could see people showering

A thicker blind or curtain won't cost very much.

Both my upstairs and downstairs toilet are at the front, I've never thougth about it before, but funnily enough when I came home from work today, the first thing I noticed was that both lights were on. Of course when I got in DP and DD were both watching the TV and no one was actually in the bathrooms.

yes deign flaw indeed, however i wouldn't be bothered if my neighbours knewi was having a shit - we all do