[struwwelpeter]

Here's a place I had in a town near Lugansk. It had a sink, but no hot water - and the cold water only ran for one hour a week.

Over there, they would use the bathtub as a cistern and heat up water on the stove to take sponge bathes or wash clothes. The waste water from bathing/laundry was for flushing to john.

[GSlob]

Well, from a saying "toilet is the face of a company' [cf. # 49] one could logically progress to 'the face of a country". Actually, not too bad an acid test.