Dimensional Door - Freeople Thread 20

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[Mo1]

What is that?

[Mo1]

(I paid property taxes today, so I'm really not fit company.)

Right after Christmas ??

Well that sucks

We have to pay ours in August .. it's less painful on the bank account

[Mo1]

I saw that thread and stayed clear of it *L*

[Mo1]

A FUNKLE!!!

[westmex]

That is a Squat Toilet...Used in Asia, the Near East and Loddy says Europe...

One squats facing the plumbing and does their thing...Arn't you glad Tom Crapper invented what we know as a flush john....LOL

.....Westy.....

[westmex]

.....Westy.....

[Mo1]

You mean they don't have regular toilets in other countries??

[westmex]

Yes Mam, in a lot of countries they use squat toilets a lot more primitive than that one I posted...On the other hand Japan builds fancy ones like we use that squirts one's bottom with water and then blow dries it...LOL....

.....Westy....

[lodwick]

Are you pissed, yet?

Damn these thieves.

Associated Press | 30 Dec 2004 | Associated Press


(12-30) 17:52 PST CRAWFORD, Texas (AP) --

President Bush spelled out in greater detail Thursday the pay raise that takes effect Jan. 1 for federal workers, members of Congress, judges -- even Vice President Dick Cheney.

Congress passed the pay raises earlier this year, but Bush was required to sign an executive order detailing the pay hikes before the end of the year. He did so Thursday.

The president's annual salary of $400,000 is not affected by the legislation.

The cost-of-living raise lifts salaries for members of the House and Senate from $158,000 this year to $162,100 in 2005.

The measure provides civil servants with 3.5 percent raises -- the same that nilitary personnel will receive next year. Under a complicated formula, that translates to 2.5 percent for members of Congress.

The 2.5 percent pay hike also applies to the vice president -- who is president of the Senate -- congressional leaders and Supreme Court justices.

Cheney, House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Chief Justice William Rehnquist will go from $203,000 to $208,100. Associate justices move from $194,300 to $199,200 and House and Senate party leaders go up from $175,700 to $180,100.

[Mo1]

Ummmm .. I'll pass thank you very much *L*

Well ... looks like I'll back staying in the good old USA

I don't do squats

[Conservababe]

Ha, I'd just like to pull my bloomers aside like my grandma did and pee in the woods than use one of those. LOL

[westmex]

Mexico use same type toilets as we do, only some places you can't flush the TP, but put it in a container along side the John....

.....Westy.....

[Conservababe]

No, I'm not pissed of the salaries. But, I am of the perks and retirement benefits of the SOB's.

[westmex]

Can you do number 2 that way and suppose you are in a city, no woods....

.....Westy....

[Mo1]

You can't flush the TP ???

I have a feeling I don't want to know why

[westmex]

The sewer systems are antiquated and the TP tends to clog them up..So you deposit the TP in a container and it goes to the garbage dump....There that wasn't so bad, now was it...lol

.....Westy....

[Mo1]

OK .. I suppose I could handle that

But that squating thingy ... fugettaboutit

[lodwick]

You're correct: the retirement and perks are even worse than the annual salary rip-offs....it just goes on, and on, and on.

The fu**ers just won't die...soon enough.

[Darksheare]

Yeah, so Swerves, don't do anything I'd do.
I knwo, cuts down on the fun.
;-)

[westmex]

Squat Toilet proponents say they are more sanitary since you don't put your bum where someone else has put their's...

.....Westy....