World, be enlightened
Everybody can quote just a little bit of Emma Lazarus:
“Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”
Comes now a 2009 supplement:
I would add a few things to that noble sentiment which is meant to welcome people to the United States of America, in keeping with the idea of my friend being unable to buy a toilet he wanted to the continued explosion of intrusiveness from agencies trying to make us “secure”:
1. Welcome to the USA. We keep tabs on everything, including your bowel movements. One reason is that, in the name of safety and security, we are full of shit.
2. Because of this, I wouldn’t breathe too deeply no matter how much you’re yearning.
Lisa Paul »
8 July 2009 · 5:11 pm
I never understood the old saw that “it takes 3 flushes with a low-flow toilet”. My British husband has recreated an English Pub in our basement and our low-flow toilet can stand up to a room full of Englishmen eating curry, drinking beer and watching football (soccer). Surely that must be the Olympic Games of toilet performance. No one has ever had to flush more than once. We don’t own a plunger.
CGHill »
8 July 2009 · 5:20 pm
Three seems a bit much, though the ones at work routinely seem to prefer two, at least if solids are involved. Perhaps there’s some hitherto-unnoticed plumbing issue afflicting those having to do the triple flip.
I do own a plunger, but I haven’t had to use it, saints be praised, since I moved into this house in ’03.
McGehee »
8 July 2009 · 6:13 pm
I don’t re-flush — I just hold down the handle until it’s all gone.
Dick Stanley »
9 July 2009 · 9:17 am
Toilets, heck. Wait’ll the gov starts measuring our carbon footprints for new taxes while the rest of the world merrily spews carbon into the atmosphere.