AIBU to stop visiting a friend who's mantra is 'if it's brown flush it down, if it's yellow let it mellow'?

[RoseRedder]

I feel really uncomfortable around people's/my own toilet usage in general.

I can only poo in my own house, hate the idea if I need a wee that people can hear me so tend to turn on the cold water tap when I go.

Friend only flushes her toilet after a poo, so if visting and I need a wee I'm more often than not faced with dead wee already in there.

This makes me open and the lid then gag and puts me right off of using it.

Also I could never leave a toilet without flushing.

I'd like to know if I'm being odd and this is a normal thing that people do, or do most people flush?

Just to add friend is in England and is metered for water, I'm in Scotland and we don't have water meters, so I am wondering if this is the reason, although she sites it more on a 'saving the planet' reasons

not sure which poster that said this, but we are not wasting drinkable water by flushing our toilets

Rose do you have a separate system then? I'd love to have a grey water system to flush with as some nature reserves do, but that isn't financially viable for most normal residential properties.

Unless people have a separate supply of non-drinking water to your toilets then they are wasting drinkable water by flushing more than absolutely necessary. Of course it's up to them whether they want to do that, we all have different priorities.

All mains water is treated to drinking water quality standards. The pumping and treatment of drinking water is very energy intensive.

Although in Scotland the water and sewerage charges are billed along worth council tax, it is a separate charge that goes to the water company and not the council.

Regards drinking water from the bog.

My sisters cat hated me. It did not like me weeing in her drinking water, so ever night I had to share toilet with the cat (it was her bedroom) she used to attack me if I came for a wee.

I had claw marks around my knees for ages after, and that did look odd. And try explaining that the cat attacked everytime I sat down to use the loo..

We flush about 1 in 3 as well.

Sparkling, what do you mean about periods?

Well, I assume there will be wee and blood in the toilet during your period joan, and I wouldn't leave that for all to see.

Yes,I think we flush about 1 in 3.

The idea of not visiting a friend because there's wee in a toilet?! Purlease.

It's gross. Flush the loo people! Urine is not for sharing!

And what about the 'plip up' situation? Where you drop off some lunch and a drip of water shoots straight at your anus? I don't want my sensitive parts washes by other people's piss.

It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that an unflushed toilet stinks to high heaven.
Reader, I flush ours.

See Iwas alaways told the only drinking water tap was the cold water tap in the kitchen

Oh that's it. It's gross. I consider myself told and will change my habits forthwith.

Nope, its all the same water. I wouldn't drink from my bathroom tap for example because it's the last tap in the system so water hangs around there - kitchen water is 'fresher' IYSWIM. But it is absolutely the same water that goes into your house, your boiler, your taps and your loo. All treated, all drinkable. All expensive.

Nope. Not in an old house. Some still have water tanks.

Doesn't everyone have a waster tank? We have mains water to kitchen & tank for other. Still mains water but hangs around in our rather manky tank so not really for drinking, but yes originally was when it came into the tank.

Yes, it hangs around in the tank so I wouldn't drink from any other tap than the kitchen. But the water comes from the same place. You only have one 'in-pipe' which brings the same water in.

Sorry, pressed too soon - so the water you flush with - even though you probably don't want to drink it as it's been sitting in your tank - started its life as clean drinking water. That means it's been collected, cleaned, purified then pumped to your home - it's a precious and expensive resource.

And many countries think we're crazy for it. In some places water is a very precious resource, but we've always had loads of it until recently in the southeast. We' re going to need to figure out a way of recycling it.

The Tiggy solution:
Connect drainpipes to a water tank in the house which is used for flushing. You could possibly have a large butt then pump it up to the tank when needed or at night when the electricity is cheaper.

If you're worried about looking at someone else's pee, be very grateful this is not the alternative.

This can solve your xmas present problems too.
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