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to be annoyed about the state my toilet was left in...

493 replies

Lillamyy1 · 01/06/2015 06:18

I spent quite a while cleaning the bathroom yesterday morning, which made me even more annoyed, although I always keep the toilet clean...
A friend came round for a few hours and when her DP came to pick her up he went to use the bathroom and was there quite a while. When I went up there 10 or so minutes later I was hit by the most godawful stench, although to be fair to him we haven't any air freshened and he had opened the window, but oh my god the state of the toilet bowl! Skidder central. It was absolutely rank.
Surely it's common curtesy to flush a couple more times and pour some bleach down to try and get rid of the evidence if you've had a massive skiddy shit at someone else's house (and in fact your own house!) We have one of those toilet duck brushes with disposable heads which is in the cupboard so he couldn't have known it was there but the bleach is right next to the bloody loo!

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BertrandRussell · 02/06/2015 21:16

Yes of course he should have cleaned up.

But he should have used the loo if he had needed to. It is insane to say that you can only poo in your own loo.

Mintyy · 02/06/2015 21:47

This thread is so amusing.

Op has made made 1 post, while some other posters have got themselves so embroiled that they've made 30! (yes, I did control find).

Surely surely everything has been said now, and the 20+ posters need to get a hobby do something else now mebbe?

Songlark · 02/06/2015 22:08

But why did he suddenly need it then. Unless he had problems with his bowels he should have waited till he got home. Most people can manage to.

Songlark · 02/06/2015 22:09

Minty how do you do control find, do you have to go into word?

Mintyy · 02/06/2015 22:16

Just do control find (ctrl f) anywhere on this page. A little box will pop up at top right of screen. Well it does on mine, I'm on laptop.

Mintyy · 02/06/2015 22:17

You are one of the most prolific ones Songlark!

TattyDevine · 02/06/2015 22:18

Ooh I just love a good toilet thread. This one has it all. Merits vs evilness of toilet brush, bleach pros and cons, toilet roll hand downers, shouldn't he have waitedes, the whole lot!

BertrandRussell · 02/06/2015 22:25

" Unless he had problems with his bowels he should have waited till he got home."

Why? Please explain to me what's so bad about using someone's loo?

Songlark · 02/06/2015 23:06

Am I Minty? can't you tell I'm bored then. It's just funny. Grin

IKnowIAmButWhatAreYou · 02/06/2015 23:08

I can't believe that so many people don't know that bleach totally dissolves poo if you squirt some directly on - its what I always do.

While I've seen bog brushes a-plenty, I've never seen a bottle of bleach in a work loo....

ThumbWitchesAbroad · 03/06/2015 01:02

weare - oh I see. No, mum's never burst as such - when she was first getting used to them, they'd leak sometimes but not as explosively as it sounds like the bloke at your DH's work. The only time she had that kind of thing happen was in hospital, after they'd given her some graphite based contrast medium to do an x-ray on her bowel for obstruction - it caused a massive eruption and she was completely and utterly mortified. The x-ray and nursing staff were amazing but she was so so ashamed. :(

Bertrand "Why? Please explain to me what's so bad about using someone's loo?"

Well, in the case of the bloke in the OP, it's pretty self-explanatory, isn't it? I mean, let's face it, if he'd cleaned up after himself and there'd been no stench, the OP would probably have been none the wiser and there'd have been no thread!

Bleach doesn't always dissolve poo, even squirted directly on it. It needs to be cleaned off as well, or it can just set.

Bunbaker · 03/06/2015 06:51

"Most people can manage to."

Aaargh! Songlark How many times does it have to be pointed out that while a number of people can control their bowels like you clearly can, a great number of people can't?

Why are you being so obtuse? Have you never had a sudden urge to empty your bowels? Did you know that roughly 20% of the population suffer from IBS? Hasn't it occurred to you that if he had wanted to go earlier at home he would have done? Do you also believe that wheelchair users can really walk or that people with sight problems really have perfect eyesight?

How can I and other posters who don't have clockwork bottoms get through to you? Stop sticking your fingers in your ears and singing la la la.

BertrandRussell · 03/06/2015 06:54

It doesn't matter whether you can hold it or you can't - why should you have to when there's an available loo? Obvioulsy you should leave it clean- but there are people on here who think it's rude to use someone else's loo. That's just wierd!

Bunbaker · 03/06/2015 07:05

I agree Bertrand. I agree it shouldn't have been left in a state as well. I would have been mortified to leave it like that and would have flushed a few times and cleaned it as best I could.

SoldierBear · 03/06/2015 07:13

So glad someone else has posted that bleach does not magically get rid of shit just by the act of squirting it in the toilet bowl. A good scrub is also needed. Maybe it works for fresh shit but not for the dried on variety

AuntOlive · 03/06/2015 07:44

Bleavh works for fresh and at the risk of tmi, 'loose' poo. Especially after brief delay and reflush. Presumably the op's guest had splatter issues therefore it sounds as if it would have responded well to bleach (IMHO). However as I've said before (without wishing to be sexist) IMO not many males would necessarily know that.

OnIlkleyMoorBahTwat · 03/06/2015 09:03

Perhaps the bloke didn't want to go poking in the cupboards to see if there was a loo brush because normal people keep them next to the toilet.

Next time I go to Ikea I'm going to hang round the toilet brush section to see if I can spot a Mumsnetter stocking up. Those of you who buy the 50p 'disposable' toilet brushes, how many do you buy at a time?

Not so long ago there was a German doctor on Womans Hour who has written a book on some aspect of the digestive system and it made me think of Mumsnet because she mentioned the poo shelf that is common in German toilets for the purposes of inspecting poos and she also talked about ease of going in terms of scvinchter (sp?) control - it would appear that 'only being able to shit in your own toilet' is a real medical condition.

Anyway, I'm sure a lot of people would find her book very interesting Grin.

Merguez · 03/06/2015 09:16

Sphincter

gamerchick · 03/06/2015 09:20

Is this still going on? Grin hot topic shit is it seems.. You don't even have to come back to a thread after starting it.

AuntOlive · 03/06/2015 09:24

Yes gamer - I wonder what the op makes of it all, or whether she has worked out if she was/is in fact BU or not!

Songlark · 03/06/2015 09:47

Bunbaker how many times have I said (but you won't acknowledge) that people with bowel problems would be so used to the routine of cleaning up after themselves, that this awful mess he left simply wouldn't happen.His DP would also be so used to it she'd surely be warning him not to leave the bathroom in a mess. In the light of this what makes you still so insistent that he has bowel problems. It all points to that he doesnt.

ApeMan · 03/06/2015 10:30

I wonder if someone who dooms their guests to popping their head down the toilet and scratching/licking/toilet papering the bowl clean, then being outraged if they don't, is quite passive-aggressive.

fortyfide · 03/06/2015 11:40

I have a pee and pull the chain. Do some of you think I should carry a bucket and mop with me?

On the funny side one of the Beetles is said top have had a pee at Buck House and not pulled th chain. Radical, or childish?

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 03/06/2015 12:12

OMBTwat - we have a poo shelf toilet, I hate it!

DameDiazepamTheDramaQueen · 03/06/2015 12:13

OMBTwat - we have a poo shelf toilet, I hate it!