tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20015691689828060842024-03-13T16:58:05.008+00:00The Privy Counsel (A Bog Blog)Counselling the shit
out of plumbing since 2010.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger643125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-23320107651718169782024-03-09T11:09:00.001+00:002024-03-09T11:13:01.925+00:00The Secret to Happiness: Double Toilet Roll, Flowers, and A White Tiled Floor.<p>We tend not to read a lot of challenging literature here at the Privy Counsel, having come to the comfortable conclusion that we know what we like, and we like what we know. Why bother reading anything other than P G Wodehouse, if the result is that you end up depressed and horrified? Well, quite. </p><p>Depression and horror, of course, are part of life whether you like it or not. We endured, for example, a seminar recently where talking about one's personal life was encouraged, and people took this as a signal to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqcf0cb_paQ" target="_blank">start sharing information about their cats</a>. As you may imagine, it took quite a lot of wine and ranting to get over this particular trauma, and we're not entirely sure that we ever fully will. There are, however, techniques for facilitating relative sanity. </p><p>The trick, or so the evolutionary psychologists tell us, is to not focus on the horror. The human brain is engineered to anticipate danger, preferably seeing it everywhere, not excluding that other seminar you nearly had to go to, about sustainability. By making you permanently anxious your brain is, to put it crudely, promoting its own survival by ensuring that you don't forget to worry about snakes, bears, and whether the acquaintance you just made is likely to send you pictures of lasagna in the future. This is all fine. The problems emerge when life becomes so safe that, although there is no lack of sociopaths who will insist on talking at length about their grey cat Jasper and their brown cat Molly and these animals' respective feeding habits and individual peculiarities, there are very few actual life-threatening dangers, like snakes and bears, around. The brain, however, doesn't know the difference between grizzly-bears and cat-fanciers, responding with reasonable horror and panic when confronted with either phenomenon, and ensuring that you dwell on the memory, thus continuing your state of panic. The most effective measure against this constant state of angst is to focus on whatever good things happen to float by, in the polluted mess of a river we call life. Let go of the metaphorical mangled bike tyre, and grasp for the attractively weathered and potentially useful piece of flotsam wood.<br /></p><p></p><p>There are many different methods for focusing on the good stuff and trying to forget about that weird photo of layered pasta. Some people meditate, others, for reasons unfathomable to us, knit things. Personally, our preferred method of <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/three_amy.shtml" target="_blank">dropping ice-cubes down the vest of fear</a> is to open a bottle of wine and let nature take its course. Whatever you do, do not read modern literature.<br /> </p><p>Jonny, that splendid piece of manhood, is a philosopher in the true sense of the word: a lover of wisdom. Not for Jonny the convoluted conversations about whether Foucault's fuck-ups in the realm of historical accuracy mean that he can be discarded as a credible academic (yes), or the anguished political contortions on the subject of interest-rates (nobody understands this; let it go). Jonny went to a restaurant in Leeds, and it was nice. This hunky sage writes:<i></i></p><blockquote><i>Chaophraya, Thai restaurant in Leeds.<br /><br />Double toilet roll. Ample.<br /><br />Flowers. Lovely.<br /><br />White tiled floor. 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Go to a nice restaurant. (Take photos, if you want. Maybe send them to us.) Have some wine. Spend time with people whose company you enjoy. Develop the skill of telling complicated but plausible-sounding lies to get out of having to hang out with people who are prone to talking about cats, or sending photos of lasagna. Chill the fuck out. Personally, we're off to drink vast quantities of champagne. Vale!</p><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/84LKB_aDSNw" width="320" youtube-src-id="84LKB_aDSNw"></iframe></div><p>Festive Video: Whitney Rose, <i>Chivalry Is Dead</i></p><p><b>Related Reading: </b><br /></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Man%27s%20pragmatic%20everyday%20struggle%20for%20survival%20in%20this%20perilous%20world" target="_blank">man's pragmatic everyday struggle for survival in this perilous world </a><br /></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Graffiti" target="_blank">graffiti</a> <br /></p><p>Some posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Restaurants" target="_blank">restaurants</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Thailand" target="_blank">Thailand</a><br /></p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-86723143439239009812023-12-24T10:38:00.006+00:002023-12-24T21:33:19.194+00:00Delusions of Grandeur, Also Christmas<p>Do you also get bored when cooped up with strange people you're related to, and nothing to do? What better way to start Christmas than with a dispute! One fruitful gateway into a lusty debate, we find, is to propose a frivolous alternative to something that people take very seriously. Hear us out.</p><p>Christmas is a time laden with traditions whose authenticity is continuously being contested. Since these traditions - whether they involve a literal belief in virgin birth or the correct way to make rice porridge on an induction cooker - have profound emotional significance, people are inclined to absolutely lose their marbles if their particular delusions should be questioned. Try, for instance, suggesting that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KeVHwGWJUg" target="_blank">the N'Sync version of <i>O, Holy Night</i></a> is better than <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG7LJDo2r1E" target="_blank">the Jussi Björling one</a>, or that vegan pickled herring is a serious culinary option for adults. As long as the subject is not one that you personally care about, you can happily pit your friends and relatives against one another and, in the heat and dust of the melée, or what Tolstoy would call "<a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/tolstoy/1869/war-and-peace/book-10-chapter-30.html" target="_blank">that smoke</a>, those shining bayonets, that movement, and those sounds", grab the remote control. </p><p>If you can execute this strategy with even a moderate amount of skill, a restful time enjoying quality TV and eating the good pralines (everyone else will be too busy arguing, and throwing crockery, to care about the confectionery) is guaranteed. Beware, however: this method is fraught with danger. Most likely there are aspects of other people's interpretation of Christmas that you, Machiavellian strategist though you may be, find contentious - wrong, even. Thus an adroit - or even just reasonably perceptive - opponent can easily suck you into this game with the result that you find yourself, like Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, falling with the flagstaff in your hand on the Pratzen heights, bleeding profusely and unconsciously
uttering a gentle, piteous and childlike moan. Good luck!</p><p>Whatever happens, we have a Christmas gift for you. Are you ready? It's A WET T-SHIRT PICTURE OF JONNY!</p><p>Ok no it isn't, strictly, a wet t-shirt picture of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a>. But it's the nearest thing we could find - like a telescopic tree-like object made of plastic in China instead of a mighty Scots pine filling the house with its majestic scent, or the Ballycastle cream liqueur which tastes quite a lot like Bailey's. (By the way, you can make - if you're short on cash or sanity - <a href="https://aseasyasapplepie.com/homemade-baileys-irish-cream/" target="_blank">your own Bailey's</a>. It's fine. It tastes fine. However, the hangover lasts for 48 hours and it's not the pretty kind where you're just pale and interesting with a headache, it's the kind with chunks.) Anyway, long story short, Jonny writes:<br /><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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out to a park full of lights and got very wet<br />Thought
these toilets would have a mirror so I could do a wet photo for the fans<br />
They didn't but I got a #selfie</i></blockquote><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p>You're welcome.<br /><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEfdEFyIF_MowpQfHblnW_9FFLQuJqTv77zWbapbdXOZ-78anG9SXEm5cgSW2dsgvDXBwANLoECA_xvRhjGdy5JiekawARYggSvy4qd1P1K3jBez6dzCmEI5-wseDn6bYT5rwoAMRKNRcvjCZWNYtAzPQiHdeV7wEzs-bYVRkiqSlJjdGAl8TO257uRPA/s1824/403606593_1480579045851199_7632612624094801398_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEfdEFyIF_MowpQfHblnW_9FFLQuJqTv77zWbapbdXOZ-78anG9SXEm5cgSW2dsgvDXBwANLoECA_xvRhjGdy5JiekawARYggSvy4qd1P1K3jBez6dzCmEI5-wseDn6bYT5rwoAMRKNRcvjCZWNYtAzPQiHdeV7wEzs-bYVRkiqSlJjdGAl8TO257uRPA/s320/403606593_1480579045851199_7632612624094801398_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have written before about the absurd hipster insistence on installing sinks that resemble cattle troughs. This one however, a) is clearly not inspired by anything resembling hipster sentiments, and b) if it were, it would be in line with Christmas traditions and therefore fine. (Or would it? Here's your chance to hone your debating skills by bringing this up at Christmas lunch.)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXvrncscpbA9agmWBK2SYipngaX0D9l2oqfPRLXDzNJykRqTDYARTdvM9LW4pePAzoXgHJayCCG9iNZrG_7n_c0vMf5jsdZy_azTBEgg0vo2kd8TNA2bl7GIUBEspC6ir-EG3CAbOf4cn6_1mHNmUBxfJVJ-c5_Axh-O_XxGP4F6nSO5WJQ6DN_cU2wU/s1920/403412535_710098931066596_7884180380475829798_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1920" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheXvrncscpbA9agmWBK2SYipngaX0D9l2oqfPRLXDzNJykRqTDYARTdvM9LW4pePAzoXgHJayCCG9iNZrG_7n_c0vMf5jsdZy_azTBEgg0vo2kd8TNA2bl7GIUBEspC6ir-EG3CAbOf4cn6_1mHNmUBxfJVJ-c5_Axh-O_XxGP4F6nSO5WJQ6DN_cU2wU/s320/403412535_710098931066596_7884180380475829798_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The abundance of urinals here is in line with the Oriental largesse of the Three Magi. (Or is it? Etc. Also, is the concept of the Three Kings racist? Have at it!)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><p>Jonny's literary rollercoaster continues:</p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i>They did have a tap on the wall though<br />Maybe
just to hose the place down?<br />It
stank of piss<br />And the
toilet doors had gaps at the top and bottom which I hate<br />But I
got to pee which I guess is the main aim.</i></p>
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<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1giiDhqvYP0NXyhh-0mFXIbt_64hK7NaNpPAg-EgZ3z-g7EL-h55jLBG_vrOh3G6l8OUqvYEUU8xX1EtQZYJhSQfCrWeNTZlHYJyPAJ8yB7pqf8oALcirSGc8B55bAJ18OPmkkOvyNZj7-Ox61vE8vUh2QWZVxwBVvC0LmH4jdyNoR1ldvht9R2mUXw/s1824/403403488_672869264966178_122941696700071315_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1giiDhqvYP0NXyhh-0mFXIbt_64hK7NaNpPAg-EgZ3z-g7EL-h55jLBG_vrOh3G6l8OUqvYEUU8xX1EtQZYJhSQfCrWeNTZlHYJyPAJ8yB7pqf8oALcirSGc8B55bAJ18OPmkkOvyNZj7-Ox61vE8vUh2QWZVxwBVvC0LmH4jdyNoR1ldvht9R2mUXw/s320/403403488_672869264966178_122941696700071315_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a very merry door! (Or is it in fact adverse to inclusion?)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNb3vStqcSDFFLyu5X5eFOAi-uQlLWjEktSSOe9qU2K6nojvWy0YRMPXt1WME3laQhuZ9iIgf7vWn1oMu3-jB3V8UoNJUl8ylt6b1elqTn419m8vehsAytmfmKACyFKzD9djch0tbS4Xsso2SWnsHmIq9e7Nr8Y0_s8uJimbG5UxlwuPtNO96Vb8JPuk4/s1632/403410603_1813933109064804_7236391997625261741_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1632" data-original-width="1224" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNb3vStqcSDFFLyu5X5eFOAi-uQlLWjEktSSOe9qU2K6nojvWy0YRMPXt1WME3laQhuZ9iIgf7vWn1oMu3-jB3V8UoNJUl8ylt6b1elqTn419m8vehsAytmfmKACyFKzD9djch0tbS4Xsso2SWnsHmIq9e7Nr8Y0_s8uJimbG5UxlwuPtNO96Vb8JPuk4/w300-h400/403410603_1813933109064804_7236391997625261741_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">HO-HO-HO-HOLY NIGHT!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Merry Christmas!</p><p><br /></p><p>Since 'tis the season of the RS virus, whatever the hell that is, and will soon be the season of the norovirus, we would argue that the NHS Gangnam Style handwashing video is the most relevant video for what is sometimes termed the festive season.<br /></p><p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TGddyTW5eMc?si=B_McEgbrKMNJVCUB" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p>Festive Video: NHS Northamptonshire, Handwashing Gangnam Style <br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Reading</h4><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Christmas" target="_blank">Christmas</a></p><p>Our most recent post on Christmas: <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2023/12/scylla-charybdis-and-christmas.html" target="_blank">Scylla, Charybdis, and the Vagaries of Christmas </a><br /></p><p>All posts featuring <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a></span></p><p><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/06/whether-you-want-it-or-not-super-summer.html" target="_blank">Why do hipsters insist on installing sinks that resemble cattle troughs?</a></p><p><br /></p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-54422627448054868932023-12-10T10:40:00.015+00:002023-12-10T12:59:05.403+00:00Scylla, Charybdis, and the Vagaries of Christmas<p> Remember Scylla and Charybdis? No? Don't worry, our memory is also shaky. Let us together make an attempt at appeasing Mnemosyne, mother of the muses, with a brief refresher. Scylla, according to <a href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/Scylla-and-Charybdis" target="_blank">a pub acquaintance</a> of ours, was "a supernatural
female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks, each
head having a triple row of sharklike teeth, while her loins were
girdled by the heads of baying dogs". Phew. Not someone you'd want to meet when staggering to the shop to get Diet Coke on a hungover Sunday, right? Well, exactly. Scylla probably had many admirable traits, if one were prepared to overlook her penchant for brutally ingesting everyone who came within her reach. She may well have had valuable insights, for instance, on foreign policy, or 15th-century pottery. It's important not to judge. Still, we're pretty sure we're not alone in hoping she stays away from the corner shop this particular morning.<br /></p><p>But Charybdis was a chill person, right? Someone who enjoyed gardening, and cataloguing Cliff Richards LPs? Unfortunately, according to our source, Charybdis "lurked under a fig tree a bowshot away on the opposite shore, drank down and belched forth the waters thrice a day and was fatal to shipping". Oof. While one tries not to be guilty of unreasonable prejudice, this is starting to sound like an unpleasant pair, Scylla's purported expertise on Aachen stoneware notwithstanding. This, we're sure you agree, is all very worrying. But what you are no doubt wondering is why we're even bringing up these obnoxious characters, particularly on a day which we'd like to devote to contemplation, for instance on the value of stopping after the fourth beer. The practice of stopping after the fourth beer is contested in some circles, particularly when contrasted with alternative methods, like staying in the pub, gesticulating, until it closes. Both approaches, we're sure you agree, have their merits but one is more conducive to nausea. Whatever stance one takes, it is a classical problem well worth perusing on a Sunday.<br /></p><p>We do actually have a reason for evoking the dilemma, faced by Odysseus - who, although undoubtedly a bit of a twat, was an acknowledged navigator - of trying to steer along a perilous route, edged on two sides by mythological monsters. You see, we have an impossible choice before us. <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a>, that trail-blazing avant-gardist of the photography of sanitational milieus, has sent us such a richness of bog pictures that we are at risk of being either devoured by Scylla or drunk down and then belched forth by Charybdis. </p><p>We have in our possession pictures of some rampantly festive red hand-dryers which just scream "CHRISTMAS BOG BLOG POST!". Thus we could make these photos the basis of our Christmas post, based on the reasonable assumption that we will absolutely not be in possession of enough brio and pizzazz to produce another intriguing bog blog post before Christmas. Or we could blissfully assume that the joys of the season will inspire in us a glowing zeal to publish Jonny's toilet photos, powerful enough to overcome our constitutional lethargy and, to borrow a word from Jane Eyre, inanition, and write another post, later, which can be nominated this year's Christmas post. In that case, we'd do better to publish, today, the pictures of the wet toilets in the park, which Jonny advocates "hosing down" (in a manner psychologically reminiscent of the monstrous Charybdis?), and keep the red hand-dryers for a potential future bout of inspiration, which however must not consume us so far into the future that Christmas is over. You see the dilemma?<br /></p><p>You're right of course. It wasn't really a dilemma. Here are the festive red hand-dryers! Jonny says:</p><p><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt x1jfb8zj xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"></span></span></p><blockquote><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt x1jfb8zj xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto">Not sure why but 'Seasons Treatings' made me really angry. </span></span><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt x1jfb8zj xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto">Also got a new jumper and thought I looked cute.</span></span></i></blockquote><p> </p><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt x1jfb8zj xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j"><span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u" dir="auto"></span></span><p></p><p><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt x1jfb8zj xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXDts12qMC2_pPmLzFAI7oZ1p59Rdu6Xtv_sisC2x0QpO-jQkuc4KPra3xmtzy8cjwXVSF2RGlAFUFDc3VbJngKyQq2LA3nVvC3ixEb5yBgu0iyagmYtfoZhn6og5WW-iI32IKwR19fF7trzZikWTAAlUNx6SRsGRFkGb-QKoCvtP-M55cJ1tzO4FRabY/s1824/403395971_345811228136266_6523684458289103632_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXDts12qMC2_pPmLzFAI7oZ1p59Rdu6Xtv_sisC2x0QpO-jQkuc4KPra3xmtzy8cjwXVSF2RGlAFUFDc3VbJngKyQq2LA3nVvC3ixEb5yBgu0iyagmYtfoZhn6og5WW-iI32IKwR19fF7trzZikWTAAlUNx6SRsGRFkGb-QKoCvtP-M55cJ1tzO4FRabY/s320/403395971_345811228136266_6523684458289103632_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We agree that this is heinous and ought - in a fair and just world - to result in punishment along medieval lines.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwlsHX-aaaS-WIWOjQ6LPhYCk5y0jSx0H4me0ndE2OVeoKcldPSYsZqoS6QMYOeRPYfpuL3UUxa7ztXedTogNTlg7meHRhuuevpNZrQD8pxSSKoBYIlGJkUwei-okUhDhq69-vVb_qPTPOivkyRJh6Fvwe3C7xNo_soHYGU24KrvNQAg48SXnJbUj-N0/s1824/403403599_3543285855894501_6306713667828800836_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="1824" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrwlsHX-aaaS-WIWOjQ6LPhYCk5y0jSx0H4me0ndE2OVeoKcldPSYsZqoS6QMYOeRPYfpuL3UUxa7ztXedTogNTlg7meHRhuuevpNZrQD8pxSSKoBYIlGJkUwei-okUhDhq69-vVb_qPTPOivkyRJh6Fvwe3C7xNo_soHYGU24KrvNQAg48SXnJbUj-N0/s320/403403599_3543285855894501_6306713667828800836_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A very unholy trinity. Or a sign of things to come? Who knows what miracles the future holds.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpn1uYCE3QWoWwtEDWdS_RY037v_d2fUjDMy6ATr5ImEYfIlf9g3zvZDPx3LLZp6Yjb4N_UB7TZtkAI1aSTFA68bFSQlJbm0Za1V1hhV-ZYjzkrzo7HJJ6Hfwz5x6Mq2cj_oyuk3fn7oxqHyunlVrT0jxt-YCmYp454LlrrpwjO9T6PFbRvr8uDHiI0Q/s1824/403412980_1559353944804617_5943756157685973768_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="1824" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzpn1uYCE3QWoWwtEDWdS_RY037v_d2fUjDMy6ATr5ImEYfIlf9g3zvZDPx3LLZp6Yjb4N_UB7TZtkAI1aSTFA68bFSQlJbm0Za1V1hhV-ZYjzkrzo7HJJ6Hfwz5x6Mq2cj_oyuk3fn7oxqHyunlVrT0jxt-YCmYp454LlrrpwjO9T6PFbRvr8uDHiI0Q/w400-h300/403412980_1559353944804617_5943756157685973768_n.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If memory serves us (and empirical data suggests not), we remarked to Jonny, upon receiving this picture, something along the lines of, "Might just be because we've just seen <a href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/caravaggios_shadow" target="_blank">the Caravaggio film</a>, with wine, but we love the aesthetics!". <br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRmulHAlaYT1JmE-ECpIZTdUr5slVXC0mGYhpM2aykPORZ3UsEdArqa8_wpi7Vy8WigP27yxu2sl07fDWK9zbVCY0psCPlc3ecgsex_I99OMF9wI6o8X7meV7CKiV5MU3RRlhkl7_lohchDL_lRFjempEBvv6Y1tBSJeBc75KBbfSKCOHJs1S6eKxCjn4/s1824/403402168_400902169169641_4746439301428753090_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1368" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRmulHAlaYT1JmE-ECpIZTdUr5slVXC0mGYhpM2aykPORZ3UsEdArqa8_wpi7Vy8WigP27yxu2sl07fDWK9zbVCY0psCPlc3ecgsex_I99OMF9wI6o8X7meV7CKiV5MU3RRlhkl7_lohchDL_lRFjempEBvv6Y1tBSJeBc75KBbfSKCOHJs1S6eKxCjn4/w300-h400/403402168_400902169169641_4746439301428753090_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does Jonny look cute in this jumper? 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Works of Art. Also Weak Hearts.<p>Are you sitting there expecting things to work? Trains, the postal service, your mum's lawnmower? Your memory? The basic functions of the nation state? No, us neither. This is why we're extra grateful for stuff that works, and people who send us weird pictures. These, for instance, are from Hafjell in Norway. Ah! <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Norway" target="_blank">Norway</a>! High of mountain, clean of air, hygienic of toilet! The artist formerly known as <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/konditori-hollandia-sumptuous-luxury.html" target="_blank">Logoped Friend</a>, though that is absolutely not her name*, notes that the taps, perhaps having been inspired by those lofty peaks, are high enough to enable the intrepid tourist to fill her water bottle without losing her mind. That would of course be delightful even without the stupendous views of the fells and this well-stocked bog-roll holder. <br></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiM2KKJeKZGq2jmgCRKL7qsBXLHx82Cv49zjXcb19wjNVW8qSgSLM0BrlEJEoLiyedpOK3vvadLPG_xhznPs5NBXQWNAkW1xOGFVsn11ZhUtJbrhe0j57lViN8xHKRBl66DGQOdxgfRSMQa1KZipA5Va-FT35enf4IGgVwX8SbyxWFUECM1ht0PRI29hY/s2048/361073316_198423999866628_685699864347127047_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiM2KKJeKZGq2jmgCRKL7qsBXLHx82Cv49zjXcb19wjNVW8qSgSLM0BrlEJEoLiyedpOK3vvadLPG_xhznPs5NBXQWNAkW1xOGFVsn11ZhUtJbrhe0j57lViN8xHKRBl66DGQOdxgfRSMQa1KZipA5Va-FT35enf4IGgVwX8SbyxWFUECM1ht0PRI29hY/s320/361073316_198423999866628_685699864347127047_n.jpg" width="240"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0VgVArE9NbONtnZCNWNrPjVvW4G4b5bVqsmqdutMkrVtwXblsfmH2l-rDgrflrgbCWkum1tSgcMSwsBs2qqIAVXDOSuak_ob7bT--iNq9XtN6j7GlgLMYHTGGnt8nFhY0Gduaf_87I09iOcd2psWfbzdWHecHNTHr53xcV3H7pk-jataNIBuFN1KgHMw/s1440/361087617_1011810356666860_4673482206658078242_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0VgVArE9NbONtnZCNWNrPjVvW4G4b5bVqsmqdutMkrVtwXblsfmH2l-rDgrflrgbCWkum1tSgcMSwsBs2qqIAVXDOSuak_ob7bT--iNq9XtN6j7GlgLMYHTGGnt8nFhY0Gduaf_87I09iOcd2psWfbzdWHecHNTHr53xcV3H7pk-jataNIBuFN1KgHMw/s320/361087617_1011810356666860_4673482206658078242_n.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwI70L0eTAUd5JZo89k0RCWN7o43p9UcV0tZLh2VDRaxn5R0qALrJNV_Xrx90EMRU74KHmGazE-eVFodBI-tBNOat5J4Aldek5SzF3P10mz8dzl5onPQsByiAXKK5FlQ99eKNoNv2nypJbP8RG8A9KWVf1M9RbxlN1Y9oGaLOY0sXZ-QtctREqK2aaDm4/s2048/361129638_1223728295002630_6701170998800344474_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwI70L0eTAUd5JZo89k0RCWN7o43p9UcV0tZLh2VDRaxn5R0qALrJNV_Xrx90EMRU74KHmGazE-eVFodBI-tBNOat5J4Aldek5SzF3P10mz8dzl5onPQsByiAXKK5FlQ99eKNoNv2nypJbP8RG8A9KWVf1M9RbxlN1Y9oGaLOY0sXZ-QtctREqK2aaDm4/s320/361129638_1223728295002630_6701170998800344474_n.jpg" width="320"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuN506uTRnO6yQp4B8QZovhQ-gIjotWZFrI5uczg3ejRBeOcB28dzMXVmLhIp3d6bY6RPu-IeyBxvASIRhVsLBF1PvbnTxZpQMgyTJjoZk6T9D17iGv4zrlORm_UJdFVgahLqTrWb44d4rkUnryS-6y5Hgb2IeToTkw5PCxhgDlL4QUyMIDaWjfvt0Nh4/s2048/361167715_823411012480394_7848106173140467906_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuN506uTRnO6yQp4B8QZovhQ-gIjotWZFrI5uczg3ejRBeOcB28dzMXVmLhIp3d6bY6RPu-IeyBxvASIRhVsLBF1PvbnTxZpQMgyTJjoZk6T9D17iGv4zrlORm_UJdFVgahLqTrWb44d4rkUnryS-6y5Hgb2IeToTkw5PCxhgDlL4QUyMIDaWjfvt0Nh4/s320/361167715_823411012480394_7848106173140467906_n.jpg" width="240"></a></div><br> *Logoped Friend notes that what her name would be in a subjunctive, Platonic, ideal world, is <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Speech-Language%20Therapist%20Friend" target="_blank">Speech-Language Therapist Friend</a>. Alas. We can only strew ashes in our hair, and long for what potentially might have been, inside the cave behind the flickering torch of some bearded Greek bloke, but which never was, and never, now, will be. Alas. Alas. Alas.<br><p></p><p> Speaking of delightful things of doubtful ontological status, Jonny somehow manages to find the time to throw us a bog pic now and then, whether we're in a fit state to receive it or not.</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQMyTxnE_qdON3hhXsrdSpxWlm5fo4qwOtp-dB4DQoVdPUZTOUIaYPWQx8qf5qXLhk5z0xIxHBVOSXKV8D4TlSbp7_qEWxa6UgVhoS7ltfYeLaINTa6H8l6P4o3qsEyGs72D9cUPyqBmAHiBe9VisNuKaZt83R7FyGEaRRpcSl8a1ZIotdriRTuopQ4U/s1150/366103293_318076344021360_7268204575718727510_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1150" data-original-width="956" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGQMyTxnE_qdON3hhXsrdSpxWlm5fo4qwOtp-dB4DQoVdPUZTOUIaYPWQx8qf5qXLhk5z0xIxHBVOSXKV8D4TlSbp7_qEWxa6UgVhoS7ltfYeLaINTa6H8l6P4o3qsEyGs72D9cUPyqBmAHiBe9VisNuKaZt83R7FyGEaRRpcSl8a1ZIotdriRTuopQ4U/s320/366103293_318076344021360_7268204575718727510_n.jpg" width="266"></a></div><br> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAnPua0gRedXOVhFhgoJ9YuvJ2YMG4iQ1snWHld5OkqiJaipmkyKHXoOBChm5aRepGNgW7jBrh4BwlldWTKarnXhNIk1ICcK6l0mbgLbJOaEVGj5VrI1bQ-a-mTl6-cJuJSkE_zhuSBjrJYWTyNCikEu9jtXRjHI1ld45BPNAkdx0yW3LI8o01FY7SARM/s999/366391330_1317575332173437_9164811271340000671_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="959" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAnPua0gRedXOVhFhgoJ9YuvJ2YMG4iQ1snWHld5OkqiJaipmkyKHXoOBChm5aRepGNgW7jBrh4BwlldWTKarnXhNIk1ICcK6l0mbgLbJOaEVGj5VrI1bQ-a-mTl6-cJuJSkE_zhuSBjrJYWTyNCikEu9jtXRjHI1ld45BPNAkdx0yW3LI8o01FY7SARM/s320/366391330_1317575332173437_9164811271340000671_n.jpg" width="307"></a></div> <p></p><p>How it happens exceeds our understanding but <a href="about:blank" target="_blank">Jonny</a> manages, at the same time as being a strapping young man and a delight to all and sundry, to not just entertain but educate us. Yes! educate! A rare feat, we agree. Look at this. Reader, just look. Yes, we're tired and have a weird itch as well, but bear with us. Have a shufti. We'll be finished soon. Yes, promise.<br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRUvOqP6KNNUvQGFW7Ah7JnYkhyuCo59l939Moz4vnKVtvmRE6GcDjMKtFr4jydNJkd8zuq0Y9H2dvQFlJvaDf9qsIuPxnDyABRqASNzHyQxfVvE6rEUklYVtcBXBKrhq7Du49wiC4NQf_cuijo8SMCsisB0PxRkLycR_gPIy0-poSNKgzXIYyf9WyD_4/s2048/355805583_644429724383440_6252538091898606083_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRUvOqP6KNNUvQGFW7Ah7JnYkhyuCo59l939Moz4vnKVtvmRE6GcDjMKtFr4jydNJkd8zuq0Y9H2dvQFlJvaDf9qsIuPxnDyABRqASNzHyQxfVvE6rEUklYVtcBXBKrhq7Du49wiC4NQf_cuijo8SMCsisB0PxRkLycR_gPIy0-poSNKgzXIYyf9WyD_4/s320/355805583_644429724383440_6252538091898606083_n.jpg" width="240"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oooh.</td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5b4h5ZgUO587GYdliAtZjAN_d7qhDMAIDjE1fPs8AvLu0vDwRPNxRnFUQE27GczPfqOK_Rksv3ovaJh9g68doQhs5fIdulv3aQWe03dNQl3jyOnsuhjNWZhLoPvUuPKek9ATTf4q9xAukS7VYvKe_3VBuR3DA2lO5KPHLWrIRQCVUnXoPoIxnI4HkjU/s2048/355806624_538154051725614_136272904430622866_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5b4h5ZgUO587GYdliAtZjAN_d7qhDMAIDjE1fPs8AvLu0vDwRPNxRnFUQE27GczPfqOK_Rksv3ovaJh9g68doQhs5fIdulv3aQWe03dNQl3jyOnsuhjNWZhLoPvUuPKek9ATTf4q9xAukS7VYvKe_3VBuR3DA2lO5KPHLWrIRQCVUnXoPoIxnI4HkjU/s320/355806624_538154051725614_136272904430622866_n.jpg" width="240"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaah.</td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWPG48eFL6cC607zi5rwt8J0zMCfpQPla9RJO_cfH_gIEFEyvRc1u5HJWRY7XrL8hL-9L0wf0QnQUMKoIVFAHLlIXoXhp7hmrIX9NCNyln5KsBEUbaftxfYegqfKHMh5n3l62uyT4bXroAtCmsHUCRlT-QUN0bcAQ4l09c5_qMVR0LgtPqmKDHCTddcE/s2048/355810516_276956545015925_354224376201415388_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBWPG48eFL6cC607zi5rwt8J0zMCfpQPla9RJO_cfH_gIEFEyvRc1u5HJWRY7XrL8hL-9L0wf0QnQUMKoIVFAHLlIXoXhp7hmrIX9NCNyln5KsBEUbaftxfYegqfKHMh5n3l62uyT4bXroAtCmsHUCRlT-QUN0bcAQ4l09c5_qMVR0LgtPqmKDHCTddcE/s320/355810516_276956545015925_354224376201415388_n.jpg" width="240"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gaaah! What the fuck?<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>We would argue that not only is this art, it approaches <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/brownian-motion-or-brownout-or-brown.html" target="_blank">the dreamy hyper-realistic plains of post-post-modernism</a>. Yes, we would go that far. Thanks for asking.<p>Things are about to get quite exciting and we would like to request, at this point, that nervous readers make sure they are sitting down. Perhaps with a drink at hand. Anyone with a weak heart or any kind of medical condition - up to and including having ever sat through an entire sports programme on TV - is encouraged to throw themselves off a cliff. Believe us, it will be quicker and less painful.</p>Jonny writes:<i><blockquote>My friend Raj is in <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Switzerland" target="_blank">Switzerland</a><br>He didn't say much, just 'this is for your toilet blog.'<br>Hopefully people can decipher the diagram.</blockquote></i><br> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWCzZ2TMAZ2J_q3FLr6r1hf6Yqf7-7TnFbnbepnOk658pf4U4d3vf5qd4c97x3meoGFYh0FvpxUvy50ZOefudqMmcoXOm21p4JqIWeWyNNIU9VJki1bYZdi29amLlnB_-lmtXJFB8leM5ZIo3e3bvyzDC08k8KawXlZuHhl6lcVKjTbiEj4tZXln9z9A/s2048/367399459_628362582610179_973756740839568850_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWCzZ2TMAZ2J_q3FLr6r1hf6Yqf7-7TnFbnbepnOk658pf4U4d3vf5qd4c97x3meoGFYh0FvpxUvy50ZOefudqMmcoXOm21p4JqIWeWyNNIU9VJki1bYZdi29amLlnB_-lmtXJFB8leM5ZIo3e3bvyzDC08k8KawXlZuHhl6lcVKjTbiEj4tZXln9z9A/s320/367399459_628362582610179_973756740839568850_n.jpg" width="240"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A challenge to adventurous readers: Try looking at Raj's enticing sandal without feeling your heart clunking like <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/01/finally-italian-train.html" target="_blank">that bizarre train that time in Italy</a>. We dare you.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIENb3vnrkvaHxlhG030Lud-TrE0Rh9wO_qCMIBkmDiFxF-bcsTpv-WXSM8ndZDZb89WA9AhW-dBtYUTTU05PVqHuZXZu5L_wcAL2ooYXLqdx2sZGva4Xwx9_igUjjrXAbhssCSN8PZRVADCQT3Jp293gsev8lD7yXOsd-DfKmX2NI81YBE8_tB4_BC3w/s2048/368906440_672879251077737_6294773665978416987_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIENb3vnrkvaHxlhG030Lud-TrE0Rh9wO_qCMIBkmDiFxF-bcsTpv-WXSM8ndZDZb89WA9AhW-dBtYUTTU05PVqHuZXZu5L_wcAL2ooYXLqdx2sZGva4Xwx9_igUjjrXAbhssCSN8PZRVADCQT3Jp293gsev8lD7yXOsd-DfKmX2NI81YBE8_tB4_BC3w/s320/368906440_672879251077737_6294773665978416987_n.jpg" width="240"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Agreed. Definitely time for a drink.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>Reader, are you with us? Are you, too, feeling the tingle in your toes, that feeling as if somewhere, out there, there is a world that isn't mind-boggling, bewildering and full of brutalist architecture, but friendly, filled with delicious cheese and with clear signage that's easy to follow? Reader, we dream of that world, too. Let's have a Festive Video and get this weekend started.<p><br><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iGndxYMEmrU?si=AjF-OrEOBEO7ifhB" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p>Festive Video: Korslagda Kukar, <i>Dennis</i><br></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Reading</h4><p><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">That time when we found - to everyone's surprise - the dreamy, hyper-realistic plains of post-post modernism in Semi-Intellectual Friend's bathroom in Thailand (<i>What the fuck were they doing there?</i> we hear you ask. Yeah, it boggles us too):<br><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/brownian-motion-or-brownout-or-brown.html" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Brownian Motion, or, Brownout, or, A Brown Study - Semi-Intellectual Friend's Shower </a></span></p><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Another time when contemplated some art: <br></span><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2017/11/what-thing-is-and-what-it-is-not-are.html" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">What a Thing Is and What It Is Not Are Identical In Form. Or So We've Been Told.</a></span>
</h3><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"> </h3><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Switzerland" target="_blank">Switzerland</a> appears to be a popular tourist destination, with adventurous mountain toilets in more than one place</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Norway" target="_blank">Norway</a>, also</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Speech-Language%20Therapist%20Friend" target="_blank">Speech-Language Therapist Friend</a></span></span> <br></p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-18780015954549156442023-05-10T19:05:00.100+01:002023-05-13T14:16:52.141+01:00All Flesh is Grass. Also, the Winner of the Toilet-Paper Origami Competition!It is a truth universally acknowledged that the <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/09/a-startling-absence-of-themes-rhymes.html" target="_blank">Erfurt latrine disaster</a> is by far the topic that we receive the most messages about. Why this should be, we couldn't tell you, but one might of course speculate. Is it the thrilling combination of sewage and brutal, sudden death? Is it the reminder that life is fleeting, and all flesh is grass? Or is it that satisfying moment of realising that yes, <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bqcf0cb_paQ">for most people life is one long chain of really, really shitty moments</a>, and it always has been, and it's not just you being paranoid and incompetent? Your guess is as good as ours - or, quite possibly, considering our track record of displaying an appalling lack of judgement, better.<div><br><div>If there is one person who, in stark contrast to us, has a long history of having excellent judgement, it is <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Favourite%20Aunt" target="_blank">Our Favourite Aunt</a>. She recently proved the excellence of said judgement by going to visit Monet's house and taking pictures of the toilets.</div></div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-jzyWzBmx-9rFxXaS-VXVtxrobZz9t4EPD9UrUCfMqgdNLVNNndOHkFInQzkVgEuCdIgIQVr1MWNZxfiYaHB5_tIJg9DdXfiFLIViwPRKnlNHoZ2nBjSd9UR4BR7sYdnzUV80LCHHVX54HziBDKY-B2itfbMSqjwqh427RGwA-Tw8-zh4Hbq1xzhB" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enjoy the tulips while you can.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Words cannot adequately express our gratitude to everyone who bravely entered this bizarre competition with such grace and stamina.</div><div><br></div><div>Before we tell you who the winner is, let us share the most elucidating comments from our international jury of experts. In no wise must the efforts of both ourselves and the jury be underestimated. This has been a long process, and has involved us insisting on motivations and writing anxious messages saying things like:<br></div><div><br></div><div><blockquote><i>I'm going to ask you to motivate your answer, please. (Please. I've been doing this with students wanting a higher grade all afternoon. *it says clearly in the question that you have to motivate your answer, for instance by illustrating it with examples *)</i></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>On being told that this particular juror preferred a particular entry, we had to push - yes, even after the heart-rending plea above, we had to keep pushing - for a motivation:</div><div><br></div><div><i><blockquote>What's good about [this entry]? Is it, for instance, the quality of the origami, or the description and puns?</blockquote></i></div><div><br></div><div>The reply arrived, without hesitation:</div><div><br></div><div><i><blockquote>I must admit I let myself be overly influenced by puns. That totally affected my judgement.</blockquote></i></div><div><br></div><div>Another juror said, about the same entry:</div><div><br></div><div><i><blockquote>I wonder how long it took to make the rose. I would have developed haemorrhoids. [...] Still, I vote for the rose. Both for creativity and sheer bravado.</blockquote></i></div><div><br></div><div>And the rose is, indeed, the winner! Here it is again, for your enjoyment:</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div>We shall be contacting the winner and arranging for Jonny to send them a signed photo of him dressed as a pirate. Be warned, however, that <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/12/frame-of-mind.html" target="_blank">last time</a> we arranged a photo competition, the prize was a signed photo of Jonny wearing a trench coat, and it took him four years to send it. </div><div><br></div><div>We would be remiss if we, after this bog-related onslaught, didn't also share the latest toilet photo that Jonny shared with us. Please note that it comes with a trigger warning for royalist sentiments, sartorial genius and unbridled pizzazz:</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Since we have established that a) seven people read this blog and b) none of those seven ever listens to any of the Festive Videos, it matters not one whit which video we select to be this post's Festive Video and thus you have only yourselves to blame for us selecting this one:</div><div> </div><div><br></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-GLxWa6uujM" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div>Festive Video: Hailey Whitters, <i>Plain Jane</i></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Related Reading</b></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Favourite%20Aunt" target="_blank">Our Aunt </a><br></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Tudor%2520Friend" target="_blank">Tudor Friend</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a> </div><div>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search?q=origami" target="_blank">toilet paper origami </a></div><div>Last time we arranged a competition: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/12/frame-of-mind.html" target="_blank">Frame of Mind </a></div><div>The post in which we remembered we'd forgotten the toilet paper origami competition: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/11/spanish-missteps-also-other-missteps.html" target="_blank">Spanish Missteps, Also Other Missteps</a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/bachs-bog-handwashing-and-harmony.html" target="_blank">Johann Sebastian Bach's Bog</a> </div><div>Our classic post on the correct way to hang your bog roll: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/12/rocking-rolling-ranting.html" target="_blank">Rocking, Rolling, Ranting </a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/brownian-motion-or-brownout-or-brown.html" target="_blank">Our classic post on post-post-post-modernism, illustrated using Semi-Intellectual Friend's shower </a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/02/has-newtonian-physics-been-unfairly.html" target="_blank">Our timeless rant about how everything is terrible, and getting worse, illustrated by little carts rolling down an incline</a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/07/moving-heaven-and-earth-polarisation.html" target="_blank">This one is also quite good </a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-girl-bartenders-hate.html" target="_blank">That time when we had a really terrible experience in a bar</a> <br></div><div> <br></div>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-58209482829194779902022-11-19T16:17:00.002+00:002022-11-19T16:37:48.830+00:00Toeing No Lines Whatsoever - Rather, Really Letting Ourselves GoAfter being exposed to some gentle ribbing, in <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/11/spanish-missteps-also-other-missteps.html" target="_blank">our last post</a>, on the subject of her atrocious taste in music, Shewee Fiend Friend had many things to say. To refresh our possibly collective memory, here's what we said:<div><i></i></div><blockquote><div><i>Since Rampant Rat-Hunting Friend absolutely will not approve of any
music we might choose, ever - being, on this point, as rabid as <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a> - it is utterly irrelevant which <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK9ijYgqKx0" target="_blank">Festive Video we choose for this post</a>. </i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><i>Also, we know for a fact that this blog is read by a total of seven people, one of whom is <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Mum" target="_blank">Our Mum</a>, and none of whom ever watch the Festive Videos. Thus it matters not one jot whether we also link to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzROr08TSz4" target="_blank">this version</a> of this Festive Video, and also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5l2sGHVERk" target="_blank">this fantastic version</a>.</i></blockquote><i></i><div><div><br /></div><div>The things Shewee Fiend Friend had to say in response were, in chronological order:<div><br /></div><div></div><blockquote><div><i>Just to spite you I listened to the first twenty seconds of the second version of that festive video</i> <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>It was interesting to watch the spandex aerobics dancers until the singing started, then I couldn’t take it anymore</i> <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>But I’m really glad to hear I’m not the only one who lets you know your taste in music is abysmal</i> <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>Really just abysmal<br /><br />[...]</i> <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>Also I’ve just watched the third version of that video</i> <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>Well I listened to around twenty seconds again. I had forgotten how bad it was so I had to turn it off pretty soon</i> <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>It was also awful</i> <br /></div></blockquote><blockquote><div><i>Where do you even find these things? How have you heard of this terrible person</i></div></blockquote><div></div><div> These are interesting questions which will, we are certain, spark further research and lead to many fruitful debates!<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Jonny, meanwhile, has been devastatingly handsome in several toilets. Let's go through them systematically, in a scientific fashion.</div><div> </div><div>Jonny writes:</div><div><div class="x78zum5 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli" role="none"><div class="x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl xcrg951 x1r145dm" role="none"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1cy8zhl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x193iq5w x1n2onr6"><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1tlxs6b x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x14ctfv x1okitfd x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1mzt3pk x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou x1n2onr6 x13faqbe x1vjfegm x10y3i5r" role="none" style="background-color: var(--wash);"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z __fb-dark-mode" role="none" style="--mw-blockquote-border-start-color: var(--placeholder-text); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background);"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none"></div></div></div></div></span></i></div></div></div></div><blockquote><div class="x78zum5 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli" role="none"><div class="x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl xcrg951 x1r145dm" role="none"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1cy8zhl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x193iq5w x1n2onr6"><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1tlxs6b x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x14ctfv x1okitfd x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1mzt3pk x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou x1n2onr6 x13faqbe x1vjfegm x10y3i5r" role="none" style="background-color: var(--wash);"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z __fb-dark-mode" role="none" style="--mw-blockquote-border-start-color: var(--placeholder-text); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background);"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none">Went into the office today and I was the only one there</div></div></div></div></span></i></div></div></div></div><i><span class="xzpqnlu x1hyvwdk xjm9jq1 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x10l6tqk x1i1rx1s"></span></i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x14ctfv x1okitfd x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1mzt3pk x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou x1n2onr6 x13faqbe x1vjfegm x1lcm9me x10y3i5r" role="none" style="background-color: var(--wash);"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z __fb-dark-mode" role="none" style="--mw-blockquote-border-start-color: var(--placeholder-text); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background);"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none"><i>Which is a shame because I look really fit today</i></div><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none"><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x14ctfv x1okitfd x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1mzt3pk x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou x1n2onr6 x13faqbe x1vjfegm x1lcm9me x10y3i5r" role="none" style="background-color: var(--wash);"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z __fb-dark-mode" role="none" style="--mw-blockquote-border-start-color: var(--placeholder-text); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background);"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none">Here's a pic of me by our unisex toilets</div></div></div></div></span></i><div class="x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl x193iq5w x1c4vz4f xcrg951" role="none"><div aria-hidden="true" class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf x1iyjqo2 x2lah0s xl56j7k x1n2onr6 x1ll7btr x1n327nk x1t2a60a"><div class="x6s0dn4 x78zum5 x1ll7btr x1q0g3np" role="none"><div class="x6s0dn4 x78zum5 x1ll7btr x1q0g3np" role="none"><div><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"></span></i></div></div></div></div></div><div><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"></span></i></div><div><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"></span></i></div><div><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf x1n2onr6" data-release-focus-from="CLICK" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><i><span class="xzpqnlu x1hyvwdk xjm9jq1 x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x10l6tqk x1i1rx1s"></span></i><div class="x78zum5" role="none"><div class="x78zum5 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli" role="none"><div class="x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl xcrg951 x1r145dm" role="none"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1cy8zhl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x193iq5w x1n2onr6"><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x230xth x14ctfv x1okitfd x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1mzt3pk x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou x1n2onr6 x13faqbe x1vjfegm x1lcm9me" role="none" style="background-color: var(--wash);"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z __fb-dark-mode" role="none" style="--mw-blockquote-border-start-color: var(--placeholder-text); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background);"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none">(We have 3 men's and 1 unisex)</div></div></div></div></span></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x14ctfv x1okitfd x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1mzt3pk x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou x1n2onr6 x13faqbe x1vjfegm x1lcm9me x10y3i5r" role="none" style="background-color: var(--wash);"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z __fb-dark-mode" role="none" style="--mw-blockquote-border-start-color: var(--placeholder-text); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background);"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none"><div><div class="x78zum5 xdt5ytf x1n2onr6" data-release-focus-from="CLICK" data-scope="messages_table" role="gridcell" tabindex="-1"><div class="x78zum5" role="none"><div class="x78zum5 x1iyjqo2 xs83m0k xeuugli" role="none"><div class="x1h91t0o xkh2ocl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x13a6bvl xcrg951 x1r145dm" role="none"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1cy8zhl x78zum5 xdt5ytf x193iq5w x1n2onr6"><i><span class="x4k7w5x x1h91t0o x1h9r5lt xv2umb2 x1beo9mf xaigb6o x12ejxvf x3igimt xarpa2k xedcshv x1lytzrv x1t2pt76 x7ja8zs x1qrby5j x1jfb8zj"><div class="x78zum5 xh8yej3" role="none"><div class="x1g8br2z x1gn5b1j x230xth x14ctfv x1okitfd x6ikm8r x10wlt62 x1mzt3pk x1y1aw1k xn6708d xwib8y2 x1ye3gou x1n2onr6 x13faqbe x1vjfegm x1lcm9me" role="none" style="background-color: var(--wash);"><div class="x9f619 x1n2onr6 x1ja2u2z __fb-dark-mode" role="none" style="--mw-blockquote-border-start-color: var(--placeholder-text); --mwp-message-list-profile-start-padding: 16px; --mwp-reply-background-color: var(--comment-footer-background);"><div class="x6prxxf x1fc57z9 x1yc453h x126k92a xzsf02u" dir="auto" role="none"></div></div></div></div></span></i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> Indeed, <a href="https://sex-matters.org/where-sex-matters/the-workplace/" target="_blank">why should the women have their own toilet</a>? It's not like they're <a href="https://fairplayforwomen.com/" target="_blank">people</a>. However that may be, however, we absolutely agree that Jonny looks fit in front of this unisex toilet, and congratulate his employer on hiring such a dishy toilet enthusiast!<br /></div></div></div></div></span></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-I9kZ7dtAz_4/Y3j3LocLbMI/AAAAAAAAQkc/eYmNiUBIumcP-N83tX90auxCTxmzON3ygCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1668871975758469-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonny: Dishier than ever, in front of a unisex toilet.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The following photos arrived without any comments, which is a fantastic chance, we believe, to let our creative juices really flow, imagining where they might be from and what might have happened in these toilets to result in such clear signage. We encourage our readers to let go of all restraints and embrace some really fervent speculation.<br /></div><div> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ef2SQsRBTWc/Y3j2nA150wI/AAAAAAAAQkM/rJdKQfClb_kuQ4A4Cj7XgnAz-cotyGlzwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1668871830417622-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Really let yourself go, now.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>A note of caution to sensitive readers: the following picture is highly suggestive and might make impressionable individuals over-excited. Be very, very careful.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_JGswctbQIY/Y3j2haPMU6I/AAAAAAAAQkA/24hF6fCC5y0PAIpHu9-VX6DzS0WKdVbaACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1668871804488607-3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Careful, now!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Finally, is this the <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/fainting%2520couch" target="_blank">fainting couch</a> to end all fainting couches? Does one feel the urge to lie down sensuously, while sipping a gin-enriched glass of champagne and feeling really fabulous? Reader, one does.<br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>Since we have established that it is irrelevant which Festive Video we choose, here is a random one that we have put no thought into whatsoever.</div><div> </div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vAiU9ti9bwg" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div>Festive Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAiU9ti9bwg" target="_blank">Sam Outlaw, <i>Jesus Take the Wheel (And Drive Me to a Bar)</i></a><i><br /></i></div><div><br /></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Related Reading</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend </a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/11/spanish-missteps-also-other-missteps.html" target="_blank">Spanish Missteps, Also Other Missteps</a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sex-matters.org" target="_blank">Sex Matters</a> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://fairplayforwomen.com/" target="_blank">Fair Play for Women </a></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.filia.org.uk/" target="_blank">Filia</a></span> <br /></div></div></div>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-49670482367758550112022-11-12T19:20:00.003+00:002022-11-12T19:20:21.297+00:00Spanish Missteps, Also Other Missteps<p>Remember when, two years ago, we ran a <a href="https://fb.me/e/1TeFhkqGu" target="_blank">toilet paper origami competition</a>, where we encouraged people to send in pictures of folded bog roll? And where the winner was supposed to receive a signed photograph of <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a> wearing a pirate costume? No, we didn't, either. No winner was ever selected, and nobody ever received a photo of Jonny, signed or otherwise. Nostra culpa! We shall do our utmost to rectify this dire mistake.</p><p>Speaking of Jonny, we occasionally get asked who Jonny <i>is</i>, and we never know what to answer, although we seem to remember, vaguely, possibly having made an attempt, at some point, to explain the existence of Jonny on this blog, on this blog. Usually, we resort to giving our standard definition, which is that Jonny counts as a friend for administrative reasons. There.</p><p>Other friends are neither more easily explained nor have ever featured on the Privy Counsel, which in some cases possibly counts as a loss for humanity. Luckily, in the case of a friend who we have decided to call Rampant Rat-Hunting Friend (we could tell you the story of the rats but you wouldn't want us to - trust us on this), this sad state is about to be remedied! Rampant Rat-Hunting Friend has been to <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Spain" target="_blank">Spain</a>, and has consequently sent us a photo of below toilet, remarking:</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>Prison toilet. In use until 2017.</i></blockquote><p></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d_DWpu0jF30/Y2_V0gtbbVI/AAAAAAAAQjY/WOXZETAecJ0oD6gv5KchnxDoNCD8jdFPACNcBGAsYHQ/w222-h400/1668273611036684-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="222" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have seen worse toilets, and we have never been to prison.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>The delight does not end there. Rampant Rat-Hunting Friend continues her epistolary fireworks with this message:</div><blockquote><div><i>Is the lid supposed to be up and the seat down when you use the toilet, or all the time?</i></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rJXdPYbNztk/Y2_Vy5dWgKI/AAAAAAAAQjU/4uu2QMZk2OgkhJsmdNCLuGYqPmS61wRzACNcBGAsYHQ/w223-h400/1668273605084747-1.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="223" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A question for the ages. (Incidentally, this sign reminds us of <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/German%20Friend" target="_blank">German Friend</a>'s photo of <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/08/a-blog-post-of-astonishing-clarity.html" target="_blank">admirably clear signage in Bologna</a>.)</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><p>Remember when <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/08/where-east-meets-west.html" target="_blank">we went to Kristianstad and ended up explaining fermented herring to a steel slide player from North Carolina</a>? For reasons that seemed logical at the time, we went back to this provincial town for another cultural experience, and got the opportunity to review the bogs of no fewer than two venues: The Bishops Arms pub and the Teatern theatre. </p><p>The beer in The Bishop's Arms was, unsurprisingly, top-notch. However, we must say that on the occasion when we visited, the malodorous state of the ladies' loo left a lot to be desired.</p><p>The beautiful Art Nouveau theatre was packed to the gills with an audience eager to consume some of Nashville's finest musical exports. Said audience was not of the youthful, giddy variety, given to pranks and hi-jinks, but rather calm, collected and mature, prone to staying steady in their seats. It had not allowed its collected maturity to prevent it, however, from donning a variety of checked clothing, and one or two of the really mature audience members even sported fringed garments. </p><p>The Kristianstad theatre is a wonder of grace and light. Not so the toilets, alas; although clean, they are prosaic to a painful degree. When will the citizenry of Kristianstad rise up and demand facilities that match the soul of the building? A population that is capable of devotion strong enough to result in fringed shirts is surely able to lobby for soulful toiletry? Onward, Kristianstad's older citizenry! Unto the breach!<br></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a7tLErV9fIs/Yz3KqlY-bMI/AAAAAAAAQfc/8buSWrWG95IedW0mMSA__wkllcAGMnZ0QCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1664993939559909-4.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top: The Bishops Arms Pub, Kristianstad branch.<br>Bottom: The painfully prosaic bogs in the Teatern theatre.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><p></p><p> Last, but not least, we had occasion to visit the toilets in the party penthouse of the Turning Torso building in Malmö. We interpreted the taps as constituting either a practical IQ test, or some kind of shibboleth designed to separate the wheat from the chavs: they were so hard to operate that one could have solved the Riemann hypothesis in the time it took to work out how to wash one's hands. Possibly one needs to be posh to know how to push these taps.</p><p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C2buet7c86w/Yz70j8Wt7RI/AAAAAAAAQgA/hCIhcoQFz3cO2o5rZGUCfzLgt6j-UsvDwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1665070212190034-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did tiny, rolled-up towels suddenly become a trend? When did this happen? And also why? And, for that matter, how? We do not understand this process. Have we been reading the wrong magazines?<br></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Today's Festive Video is about not being broken.<br></p><p></p><p><br><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BjuikSkmoqw" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> </p><p>Festive Video - Ross Cooper, <i>I Rode the Wild Horses</i><br> </p><p><br> <b>Related Reading</b><br> <br> All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a></p><p>That time when we wondered if Jonny might be the Marlon Brando of toilet selfies: <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html" target="_blank">Echoes of Edgar Allan Poe</a> <br><br>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/fainting%20couch" target="_blank">fainting couches</a><br><br>That time when we went to see a country band and ended up explaining fermented herring to a steel slide player from North Carolina: <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/08/where-east-meets-west.html" target="_blank">Where East Meets West</a><br>
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<![endif]--></p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-86666846529553945162022-09-10T18:04:00.002+01:002022-09-10T18:18:34.295+01:00A Startling Absence of Themes, Rhymes, and ReasonThere are times in one's life that are clearly themed. There are, for instance, times when one gives up on <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/08/the-privy-counsel-greengrocer-or-moral.html">learning Greek</a>, times when one is dedicated to <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search?q=gin&max-results=20&by-date=true">drinking large quantities of gin</a>, and times when one rants more or less incessantly about <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/02/has-newtonian-physics-been-unfairly.html">the decline of literacy and how we're all hurtling back towards not just the seventeenth century but a pre-Reformation stage of not having standardised writing</a>. <div><br /></div><div>Sometimes these times, stages and phases mix, mingle and flow into one another. Sometimes there is no theme at all - unless of course the theme is "a startling absence of themes". This feels unsettling. One has a sneaking suspicion that perhaps there is a theme lurking in a dark corner after all, but that either one missed the memo, meeting or rally at which it was announced, or one has been too distracted by <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/02/hungary-dubious-shelf-life.html">the horror clowns capering around the potato field</a> to pay attention. Perhaps there is actually a pattern, but said pattern will be revealed by a load of bricks which are currently in the air and are about to hit one on the head, with painful consequences, before sorting themselves into an attractive arrangement on the floor. </div><div> </div><div>Sometimes one simply has no idea what the hell is going on - literally, metaphorically, or on any other level. This is, in our experience, a time to harden the fuck up and keep on keeping on, but also, potentially, to prepare to explore new avenues. Sometimes, granted, what hits one is lyme disease. But sometimes it isn't. Sometimes the thing that hits one isn't a ton of painful bricks, but a delightful present, or a sudden realisation, or sunlight. Reader, it may be time to prepare for potential presents, realisations, and sunlight.</div><div><br /></div><div>Not literal sunlight, obviously. Unless one happens to be in the southern hemisphere (in, for instance, just to pick example at random, <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australia">Australia</a>), the days are getting shorter and the nights longer and darker. As we <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/07/losing-then-finding-ones-shewee-and-b.html">mentioned in a previous post</a>, a phenomenon which <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny">Jonny</a> has termed the Twelve Days of Cistern is currently the only thing enabling us to view the darkening days and approaching winter, with its attendant emotional carnage and horror clowns, with anything resembling equanimity. Literal sunlight, at Privy Counsel HQ latitudes, is about to become as rare a commodity as electricity. However we received, just the other day, a terribly enticing present which wasn't - and we would like to emphasise this - gonorrhoea. We also received a delightful missive from <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Tudor%2520Friend">Tudor Friend</a>, which read:</div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>History! Toilets! Death! All the things one loves.</blockquote></i></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br /></div><div>Tudor Friend helpfully says, further:</div><div><br /></div><div><i><blockquote>My dad adds “that’s one fucking big latrine! But ‘dig her wide and dig her deep’!” That is a quote from “The Specialist”, one of his favourite books, which is all about the proper way to build an outhouse.</blockquote></i></div><div><br /></div><div>Have we mentioned that, although we have never met Tudor Friend's dad, he is an inspiration to us? Pondering the Erfurt latrine disaster is prone to making us contemplative and reticent. We believe, however, that Tudor Friend speaks for us all when she says:</div><div></div><blockquote><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i>It does kind of boggle the mind, doesn’t it. “Our royal family just all drowned in shit” is really awkward to represent on the family escutcheon….</i></div></blockquote><div><br /></div><div>Having pondered the unreliablility of floors, irrespective of the presence of brick patterns, and the propensity of Death to lurk in medieval outhouses, let us contemplate the fact that there is always Jonny.</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eYLwfnnfJ_k/YxyaekuVVOI/AAAAAAAAQdA/xmxzaRTPcec1b--DjSrWYxManDDM6bn9QCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1662818934580304-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonny's messages are admirably clear and informative.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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recognition of our efforts to describe the many delights of Swedish
culture to said worthy North Carolingian musician - not, we suspect, your typical demographic in terms of Swedish tourism.<br></p><p>Whether freedom of speech was a central part of the evening's conversation, however, or played a more discreet role, confined mainly to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-0cgq6THR4" target="_blank">inside of our head</a>, may be a moot point. The important thing as far as we're concerned is that we enjoyed ourselves hugely, from the sneaky can of wine on the train to the last rant over the last beer in the last pub. Since the amount of beer that drives out the toilet obsession from the aforementioned inside of our head has not as yet been determined, despite dedicated empirical research, we took some photos. Here, for your delight and edification, is an illustration of one of the toilets at the <a href="https://biljardkompaniet.se/" target="_blank">Biljardkompaniet</a> sports bar in, of all places, Kristianstad.</p><div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-mr8DjSQmxAg/YwOTQ826FpI/AAAAAAAAQbc/zgMbINzKROEJeOn5SHrSm16dd88x1tT9QCNcBGAsYHQ/w300-h400/1661178688253318-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="300"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under normal circumstances we would naturally be having some kind of fit at this point, gesticulating wildly while pointing out the manifold horrors of leaving toilet paper about in this cavalier manner, without a proper toilet roll holder. On the other hand, check out the crafty spare-bog-roll-holder in the corner! Then ponder the fact that there was not just one of those, but two! This makes up for many, many, many sins.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div><br></div><div>Let us move on from the murky world of southern Swedish sports bars, to what <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%2520Fiend%2520Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a> describes as a "lovely loo in a hicktown bakery".<br></div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zM4f7DN2TBo/YwORb-bnaZI/AAAAAAAAQa8/4qXJxDJlubgHtCV7YA5wRmY-8b5tcrf4gCNcBGAsYHQ/w225-h400/1661178216934104-3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="225"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These taps look like the perverted Danish variety of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-hirschsprung-museum-or-revising.html" target="_blank">subjunctive taps</a>. On the other hand, it looks like there might be both soap and hand lotion? As <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Semi-Intellectual%20Friend" target="_blank">Semi-Intellectual Friend</a> <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/03/rampant-titillation-basically-real-life.html" target="_blank">so wisely remarked once</a>: "Real men have hands that are as cracked and tough as the floor of the Gobi if it was made from leather." However, the rest of us rather enjoy a spot of lotion.<i><br></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div><br></div><div>We have become accustomed to relaying the less messy and more amusing parts of our conversations with Shewee Fiend Friend, but lately they have centred mostly round a) <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/18/megalithic-complex-standing-stones-discovered-spain" target="_blank">the inexplicable Spanish inability to find 500 huge stones</a>, and b) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HNya8Il2L8" target="_blank">the hot priest in <i>Fleabag</i></a>. Reader, this is not of public interest.<br></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Feisty%20French%20Friend?m=0" target="_blank">Feisty French Friend</a> sends us a greeting from her travels:</div><div></div><blockquote><div><i>Do not wash feet in toilets!!!<br></i></div><div><i>At Vientiane Airport</i></div></blockquote><div></div><div><br></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V61dWZwXpJI/YwOTNKvIxNI/AAAAAAAAQbQ/_a0uN1M28-0M6frPPtFvbnEjzNv7u7j8ACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1661178673764055-3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does this rampant discrimination against feet remind us of anything? Friends, it reminds us of <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-horror.html" target="_blank">the car park toilet in Goathland</a>.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div></div><div>Jonny proves, once again, that he is not only devastatingly handsome but has an uncanny knack for saying what we're all thinking, which is: </div><div> </div><div><blockquote><i>Too hot!</i></blockquote></div><div><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uFqnv4isv5g/Ywnol7IFfOI/AAAAAAAAQcE/9g1B_8wQcYIZEdGSnlOly1m7iWdwehebwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1661593746732805-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So hot.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</div>What <a href="https://www.disarmers.com/" target="_blank">our favourite band</a> was doing in a weird sports bar in the southeastern corner of Sweden we will never understand. But we will be forever grateful! Many thanks also to the friend who shall henceforth be known as Waycool Maths Teacher Friend, who not only bravely ventured into a wild and uncharted territory, but who showed unparalleled presence of mind by bringing wine.<br> <br> <br> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-r4q0y6tpao" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br> Festive Video: Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, <i>(Please Be a) Stranger</i><br> <br> <br> <b> Related Reading</b></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search?q=sarah+shook" target="_blank">Sarah Shook and the Disarmers</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%2520Fiend%2520Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a> <br></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Feisty%20French%20Friend?m=0" target="_blank">Feisty French Friend</a></div><div><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/10/halloween-horror.html" target="_blank">The car park toilet in Goathland</a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-hirschsprung-museum-or-revising.html" target="_blank">The perverted Danish subjunctive taps</a> </div>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-40688292117587248922022-08-04T14:34:00.002+01:002022-08-05T08:58:19.128+01:00The Privy Counsel Greengrocer; or, The Moral High Ground; or, Shit Gets Heavy<p> We reported, in <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/07/losing-then-finding-ones-shewee-and-b.html" target="_blank">our last post</a>, on <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a>'s distressing experience of being forced to comply with the diktat of ideological zealots. [Male person in Shewee Fiend Friend's life], having gone from <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/07/moving-heaven-and-earth-polarisation.html" target="_blank">not caring which way the toilet roll hangs</a>, to becoming an <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/12/rocking-rolling-ranting.html" target="_blank">over-orientation</a> fanatic, is exhorting Shewee Fiend Friend to engage in a practice which to her eyes is misguided and wrong, with such force that she has "mostly given up and submit[ted] to [our] and his joint pressure". </p><p>While obviously exulting in this epic triumph of right over wrong; good over evil; over over under, we nonetheless feel some concern regarding <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend's human right to hang the bog roll any damn way she chooses</a>. This led us to wonder whether Shewee Fiend Friend is, in fact, the greengrocer of the Privy Counsel bog blog.<br></p><p>Having gone through, like many people, what one might term a moderately woke phase (one of the more sinister manifestations of which was, apart from an increased propensity to indulge in humourless ranting, <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html" target="_blank">a bona fide crush on Justin Trudeau</a>) some years ago, we came out the other end with a determination to read the kind of literature that we have had a nagging feeling, ever since high school, that we really should have read, but never got around to due to <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-mystery-mysterious-case-of.html" target="_blank">other concerns</a>. For instance, we went back to <i>1984</i>, enjoyed the <i>SCUM Manifesto</i>, and made the acquaintance of <a href="https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-2011-12-23" target="_blank">Václav Havel's greengrocer</a>.</p><p>For readers who are perhaps slightly less intellectual than the desired ideal (we are absolutely looking at you, <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Semi-Intellectual%20Friend" target="_blank">Semi-Intellectual Friend</a>), the famous greengrocer appears in Havel's essay <i>The Power of the Powerless</i>. Havel writes:</p><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><i></i></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><i>The manager of a fruit-and-vegetable shop
places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: "Workers
of the world, unite!" Why does he do it? What is he trying to
communicate to the world? Is he genuinely enthusiastic about the idea of
unity among the workers of the world? Is his enthusiasm so great that
he feels an irrepressible impulse to acquaint the public with his
ideals? Has he really given more than a moment's thought to how such a
unification might occur and what it would mean?</i></p><p><i>I
think it can safely be assumed that the overwhelming majority of
shopkeepers never think about the slogans they put in their windows, nor
do they use them to express their real opinions. That poster was
delivered to our greengrocer from the enterprise headquarters along with
the onions and carrots. He put them all into the window simply because
it has been done that way for years, because everyone does it, and
because that is the way it has to be. If he were to refuse, there could
be trouble. He could be reproached for not having the proper decoration
in his window; someone might even accuse him of disloyalty. He does it
because these things must be done if one is to get along in life. It is
one of the thousands of details that guarantee him a relatively tranquil
life "in harmony with society," as they say.</i> <br></p></blockquote><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-d-KmoR9_A3Q/Yuu4e2-JTRI/AAAAAAAAQY4/VmD_UB8ZOLc7hrp_b9bcUbIO8FtPgXuPACNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1659615350103911-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a funny yet achingly intellectual meme that we made a couple of years ago.<br></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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might be the greengrocer, and the toilet-roll orientation (the correct
one, which she is now engaging in, albeit against her will) might be the
slogan. Shewee Fiend Friend pondered this. Then she wrote back:</div><div><br><p></p><blockquote><i>Ok I’ve finished reading it. It gets heavy towards the end. Basically you are suggesting I am a collaborator<br><br>In your own ideology! Which you think is morally just!<br> <br>You
are criticizing my collaboration of a system you believe in and have
tried to convince me of! How do you, as the post totalitarian dictator,
somehow get the moral high ground here??!!</i></blockquote><p><i></i><br> Regarding the moral high ground we would argue, firstly, that we always had it. As we have stated before, categorically and determinedly, on the issue of toilet-roll orientation "<a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html" target="_blank">there is only one possible position, morally as well as intellectually</a>". Secondly, having conceded, on more than one occasion, most notably
perhaps regarding the Canadian prime minister but also on several other
points, some of which we can remember, to Shewee Fiend Friend that she
was right and we were wrong, perhaps we win the moral high ground on
this occasion by virtue of past humility, however haphazard and
accidental? Or perhaps it is simply the case that smugness will triumph. Whichever argument we employ, we doubt that Shewee Fiend Friend will agree.</p><p>Reader, it is hot, hot, hot out there, rather in the manner of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/jane-eyre-plunging-into-passion.html" target="_blank">Mr Rochester's bedroom</a>. Jonny, that connoisseur of fine bathrooms, sent us this exquisite toilet selfie, which we would argue is on a par with the weather, in terms of hotness. Attached was this greeting:</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><p><i>You can't really tell but the shirt is waaaaay too big</i></p><p><i>Looks like the <a href="https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/Muumuu" target="_blank">Homer Simpson moo moo</a></i></p></blockquote><p></p><p><br></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-EfBH42WvoPw/YuvB0oZuzBI/AAAAAAAAQZA/7RLjr7UewUI5AutUfhfW71IibM6c9xk_wCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1659617735093133-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400"></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Moo-moo? Or just Mmmmmmm?<br></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>This is all very well, we thought, but what in the name of arse is going on with the mirror? Jonny's theory was as follows: </p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>Who knows? It was a Mediterranean restaurant so maybe it's normal?</i></blockquote><p></p><p>When we suggested, in line with the current fashion for political correctness, that Jonny might be guilty of xenophobia, perhaps even mediterraneophobia, he retorted, quite reasonably:</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>I don't think so? Just my first time in a Mediterranean restaurant so statistically it's the norm.</i></blockquote>Another possibility, put to us by a reliable source, is that the mirror is a portal to hell. "And not the fun one." We are inclined to agree.<br><p></p><p><br></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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For instance, portaloos with a flush are obviously a game-changer, but where do they place on the grand scale of human endeavour? Are they on a par with fire and penicillin, or further down, more towards the level of <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fkYZ4wTBd8g">Billy the Bass</a> and <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search?q=duct+tape">duct tape</a>? What would Abraham Maslow say? We predict that philosophers will be spending centuries hashing this one out.</div><div><br /></div><div>We have many habits here at the Privy Counsel, some of which are healthy and many of which are downright deplorable. One habit of which we are not only particularly fond but which we like to think is positively edifying, is having beers with the friend we like to call <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Nerdy%2520Beer%2520Obsessive%2520Friend?m=0">Nerdy Beer-Obsessive Friend</a>. We happened to be having beer and bewilderingly complex pizza with Nerdy Beer-Obsessive Friend the other day at a place called <a href="https://benchwarmers.se/">Benchwarmers</a>, in Helsingborg, and were very pleased to come across this festive and also clean and coat-hook-enriched toilet, especially in light of the inevitable fatigue following upon a) a hard-hitting debate regarding the human condition in relation to portaloos, and b) pizza that requires an inordinate amount of cognitive effort just to figure out what the hell is on it, and why.</div><div><br /></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XbfPbEaz98o/YuO17zwyvdI/AAAAAAAAQXg/thH-i_E0N748ZpO-dUOL3s5h1AJBEix6QCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1659090406334248-0.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're assuming that the flamingoes are ironic, but the thing about the modern age is that one can't tell the difference between even a joke and a bona fide news item. 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Reader, it was rough.</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/jzizI1S6ZmQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div>Festive Video: Tré Burt, <i><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=jzizI1S6ZmQ">Know Your Demons</a></i></div><div><i> </i></div><div><b>Related reading</b></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/08/on-nature-of-academic-friendships.html">On the Nature of Academic Friendships</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search?q=duct+tape">duct tape</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Nerdy%2520Beer%2520Obsessive%2520Friend?m=0">Nerdy Beer-Obsessive Friend</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%2520Fiend%2520Friend">Shewee Fiend Friend</a> </div><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/07/moving-heaven-and-earth-polarisation.html" target="_blank">Moving Heaven and Earth: Polarisation and Proto-Indo-Europeans </a><div>That time when Shewee Fiend Friend went about the countryside reclaiming her womanhood and urinating all over everything: <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/02/sisters-standing-up-for-themselves.html" target="_blank">SISTERS STANDING UP FOR THEMSELVES</a><br /></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny">Jonny</a> </div><div>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search?q=pheasants">pheasants</a> </div><div>Why do hipsters require sinks shaped like <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search?q=cattle+trough&max-results=20&by-date=true">cattle troughs</a>?</div><div>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee">Shewees</a></div>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-17192334742820390532022-07-26T19:24:00.002+01:002022-08-27T13:09:01.984+01:00Gin, Lemons and Mum<div>It is a truth universally acknowledged that although using a tired Jane Austen pastiche is a terrible way to start a bog blog post, if the alternative is to help one's mother download apps to her phone after having consumed three or possibly more gin and tonics, then frankly my dear, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times and one more chlamydia joke will definitely not kill you.</div><div><br /></div><div>Having got that off our chest, we feel an urgent need to acknowledge the power and brilliance of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Intellectual%2520Friend?m=0">Intellectual Friend</a>'s latest philological analysis, which landed in our lucky, lucky inbox the other day. It was a tour de force of intellectual vigour, if that's not mixing metaphors with the abandon with which <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%2520Mum?m=0">Our Mum</a> mixes drinks, and although we will not be quoting from said philological analysis, as it was very long and very complex and we're definitely not sober enough to divide it into digestible chunks for our regular readers, believe us when we say that it was a thing of beauty. </div><div><br /></div><div>Other beautiful objects have turned up on our metaphorical doorstep, as it were in several temporal dimensions at once, which linguistic stratagem is an attempt to gloss over the fact that we're too lazy and disorganised to for instance publish the photos of a cool thing that Italian Friend (who, for reasons lost in time and/or alcohol, doesn't have her own label, but who has been mentioned for instance <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/05/inviting-ourselves-over-for-dinner.html?m=1">here</a> and <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2017/07/in-which-privy-counsel-goes-ballistic.html?m=0">here</a>) sent us in 2019. </div><div>Here is, at any rate, an amusing sign from whichever part of Asia that <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Feisty%2520French%2520Friend?m=0">Feisty French Friend</a> is currently gracing with her presence and which demonstrates the universally acknowledged truth that on this subject, <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html">there is only one possible position, morally as well as intellectually</a>.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back then already, in the hunting and gathering wilds of the Stone Age, when folk had all the space and time in the world to chat in long and complex and variously specific and crazily inflected words, with subtly or unsubtly different endings by the myriad, back then already in our proto-language, in the nominative/vocative, THE NEUTER PLURAL OF ADJECTIVES WAS THE SAME AS THEIR FEMININE SINGULAR!!! (Well, at least in the relevant declension type; but that's the one that would elbow the others out and over time spread everywhere. And so this weird thing got passed on to Latin, and separately to Old Norse as well, so that Icelanders are actually affected too, by the same thing in the same way.)</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>WHY???</i></div><div class="gmail_default"><i>And was that a good thing or bad, anyway?</i></div></div><div><br /></div><div>The key to retaining some minute shred of sanity, we find, is to give up all attempts at finding answers to impossible questions and instead focusing on imbibing as much gin as possible while the world burns.</div><div><br /></div><div>Today's Festive Video suggests itself to us by virtue of its relation to time zones, ghosts, caffeine, and Oscar Wilde's mother.</div><div><br /></div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/JPz6mm26h74" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div> </div><div><div><b>Festive Video</b>: The Smiths, <a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JPz6mm26h74"><i>A Rush and a Push and the Land Is Ours</i></a> </div><div><br /></div><div><b>Related Reading</b></div> </div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2017/07/friends-who-send-toilet-pictures-and.html?m=0">Friends Who Send Toilet Pictures, and Other Literal Life Savers</a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2017/07/in-which-privy-counsel-goes-ballistic.html">In Which the Privy Counsel Goes Ballistic</a> </div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html">Echoes of Edgar Allan Poe</a> </div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%2520Mum">Our Mum</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Feisty%2520French%2520Friend">Feisty French Friend</a> </div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny">Jonny</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Tudor%2520Friend">Tudor Friend</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Intellectual%2520Friend">Intellectual Friend</a></div><div>If musings on Proto-Indo-European are your thing, here's your chance to really let yourself go: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/07/moving-heaven-and-earth-polarisation.html">Moving Heaven and Earth: Polarisation and Proto-Indo-Europeans</a></div><div>Should you have an inexplicable fondness for petrol stations, here's another one: <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2017/10/at-your-service.html">At Your Service</a> </div>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-42329529227685332572022-07-21T22:08:00.001+01:002022-07-21T22:57:35.728+01:00The Devil You Know - Toilets of Tasmania, Part IIWe won't go so far as to say that our journey through Australia (read the previous instalments of our intellectual yet thrilling epistolary bog blog tour <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/07/a-daring-dive-into-bogs-and-beer-of.html" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-best-toilet-in-australia.html" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-devil-you-know-toilets-of-tasmania.html" target="_blank">here</a>) was of heroic, Herculean proportions, though we would argue that it contained rather more excitement than we had bargained for - and that's not even counting the Biblical floods, the plague, or the fact that there were free snacks at the pub quiz. 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must have so many pics of me in toilets. You could do a bonus '12 Days
of Cistern' around Christmas time." Reader, are you already dreaming of
the festive Twelve Days of Cistern? We are! </span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"></span></div><div><br><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh18Jah1F_Gx2LASzU0V9N_-zvDsJ1voH680yvuTIZo0vXmHTU1_Q24KDH-dlKBs06Z-uGwvBhT5oDXh4nYjl_vOz4rHLwsN5pNLwxuWOe-bDW_nbQek2XEZpRdykv7O-OOQoAuRYzNbsPTltteMs5vgTL21xLHQMCG187RI0T0Yt54qfKlfwrY-e8i/s1824/289164624_723633302294278_426384053672487756_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1368" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh18Jah1F_Gx2LASzU0V9N_-zvDsJ1voH680yvuTIZo0vXmHTU1_Q24KDH-dlKBs06Z-uGwvBhT5oDXh4nYjl_vOz4rHLwsN5pNLwxuWOe-bDW_nbQek2XEZpRdykv7O-OOQoAuRYzNbsPTltteMs5vgTL21xLHQMCG187RI0T0Yt54qfKlfwrY-e8i/w300-h400/289164624_723633302294278_426384053672487756_n.jpg" width="300"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">For the moment, behold: The Holy Trinity of Jonny.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto"><br></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQMSSkVemQQ-VqXyNFvXxFYKXqohLYv0wumZFUDMGoyT9BE-YgBkCQIo_Fw6C1tvK8UuBDL3QvkrB1-ljMhly-y5iCJV2GvHvLSrA1lG4net2kSCfRjzyHPI4Ouu1Jm5bd9e_jBe6E7pXZTdeycQNc_AiRpq4mt3DlpH87i6FSXP-Hesm5y7dzNpb/s1824/288535885_564375368612865_4166509777962422599_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1824" data-original-width="1368" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilQMSSkVemQQ-VqXyNFvXxFYKXqohLYv0wumZFUDMGoyT9BE-YgBkCQIo_Fw6C1tvK8UuBDL3QvkrB1-ljMhly-y5iCJV2GvHvLSrA1lG4net2kSCfRjzyHPI4Ouu1Jm5bd9e_jBe6E7pXZTdeycQNc_AiRpq4mt3DlpH87i6FSXP-Hesm5y7dzNpb/w300-h400/288535885_564375368612865_4166509777962422599_n.jpg" width="300"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We fear that nobody cares about the pictures of toilets that Jonny sends us, his fans having eyes only for Jonny himself (we hear Jonny is know as "the Marlon Brandon of toilet selfies" - at least round <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/08/jonny-and-public-toilet-treat-for.html" target="_blank">the Hyde Park area of Leeds</a>), but bless him for trying!<br></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><br></div><div>In a final piece of exciting news, we have it from an authoritative source that this elegant mixer tap can be found in Battersea:</div><div> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeEO9Q_kXVtw5dQ-kruWs2bSs6-dWTOKhfl4VvIHEV8ZSvHIvFOVU3FjZN1pHHXQ53iLMmkF1Ym43NuNZa7blaZkIf1TnCMDto4yY-uYOuH54JUJT_Sv9ZjjSuUuQOcf5N3coHzZuxNUuN_Bgm2VXr7OgJ6XTl9TTwgyE6tZw9UqlAtk5mXDQ_B-h/s1600/294166157_1228913651195446_5184211405517795436_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1107" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNeEO9Q_kXVtw5dQ-kruWs2bSs6-dWTOKhfl4VvIHEV8ZSvHIvFOVU3FjZN1pHHXQ53iLMmkF1Ym43NuNZa7blaZkIf1TnCMDto4yY-uYOuH54JUJT_Sv9ZjjSuUuQOcf5N3coHzZuxNUuN_Bgm2VXr7OgJ6XTl9TTwgyE6tZw9UqlAtk5mXDQ_B-h/s320/294166157_1228913651195446_5184211405517795436_n.jpg" width="221"></a></div><br></div><div> </div><div>Does it remind us of anything? Reader, it does! It is the spitting image of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/08/oh-for-shame-how-mortals-put-blame-on.html" target="_blank">the tap that Tudor Friend named "Prettiest Mixer Tap in Britain" in 2014</a>, and which can be found in York.</div><div><br></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiriXe94eVjT5jVXm9CSoVmu5sJc2pNbJr3Bq6tJEvnYgQP4N-YxQcAXOVBi82vZc7T4xqYWcpE2sfhddwsyMGhIyTT2Q6pf3C0TRtaH1EdzHg2MSX0d1adOHv5B2RJIGMKnLZL8f_Lb28--6Wi-tDrAsKKijjZv73t3dJGxCuoYoHeaFXMY92nWSmA/s960/10590064_10152195002520738_1349009444_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiriXe94eVjT5jVXm9CSoVmu5sJc2pNbJr3Bq6tJEvnYgQP4N-YxQcAXOVBi82vZc7T4xqYWcpE2sfhddwsyMGhIyTT2Q6pf3C0TRtaH1EdzHg2MSX0d1adOHv5B2RJIGMKnLZL8f_Lb28--6Wi-tDrAsKKijjZv73t3dJGxCuoYoHeaFXMY92nWSmA/s320/10590064_10152195002520738_1349009444_n.jpg" width="240"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tudor Friend's legendary tap from 2014. At the time, we noted:<br>"Behold! The prettiest mixer-tap in Great Britain! <br>
Its legendary healing powers are in no way exaggerated!"</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Today's Festive Video channels the spirit of the Tasmanian devil.</div><div></div><div> </div><div> </div><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/c2Z9j3Y_CHk" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><div> <div>Festive Video - Anjelah Johnson, <i>Bon Qui Qui King Burger</i></div></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Related Reading</b></span></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australia" target="_blank">Australia </a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australian%20Friend" target="_blank">Australian Friend</a> <br></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Public%20Toilets" target="_blank">public toilets</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny?m=0">Jonny</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Tudor%20Friend" target="_blank">Tudor Friend</a></div>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-14660300571294828562022-07-17T03:11:00.001+01:002022-07-21T21:34:16.341+01:00The Devil You Know - Toilets of Tasmania, Part I<div>The good people at Qantas probably meant well. (Hashtag: Famous Last Words.) Nonetheless, our sojourn in Adelaide Airport, though lengthy, was entirely unintended. Still, it yielded this gem of a sign.</div><div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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prove that we're not</a>. If, however, we have understood the main argument against the theory that we are all figments of a simulation (and we are not at all sure that we have), there would - if we were all stuck in a giant simulation - not only be glitches, leading to weirdness like gravity suddenly malfunctioning and pigs becoming airborne, there would also be no way that whoever made the simulation would omit leaving some sign to his or her or its creation that it existed in an artificial production. Simple smugness demands it. Being something of a virtuoso in the matter of smugness ourselves, this argument seems inexorably logical, and we see no reason to probe more deeply into the matter.<br /></p><p>What caused us to reflect on the simulation problem is that it has recently dawned on us that <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a> gives us advice not according to what she, on close reflection and with balanced judgement, considers to be the best course of action, but according to what would provide the best entertainment for her. In other words, Shewee Fiend Friend might potentially be a benevolent if capricious puppet-master, setting us off bumping hither and thither like a rather gorgeous dodgem car, then sitting back to enjoy the ensuing chaos and drama, spiced with the occasional distressing hangover and/or heartbreak. </p><p>Considering that Shewee Fiend Friend has been our close friend for over a decade, this gives rise to some rather curious, not to say nervous, reflections. Has Shewee Fiend Friend been manipulating us for her own amusement for twelve years? What about that time when we had <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-girl-bartenders-hate.html" target="_blank">three near-death experiences</a> (at least - it is quite possible that we lost count due to alcohol and terror) in the course of twenty-four hours? Or has an unsettling symbiosis developed, in a manner that would be slightly worrying if one were a Freudian, where we ask advice in the knowledge that we will be told what we want to hear (except of course in the case of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html" target="_blank">looking at pictures of Justin Trudeau</a>), meaning we are likely to soon be doing something unwise but entertaining? Possibly we will never know. But bear this possibility in mind, as we take a disconcerting virtual stroll through an ancient prairie hotel.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrvOSvD-ylR16xB1QwC1Ifc-9lt1s95WqIQavRW09g9B2KvnehLqVvTQJy1_oAEKz7LvsCEoeNqmcnHIpf4HTTaSFYhIEKQ4-vjg1aHXIFJiaTtMdGmlFWvplKiMn0321kvyzbxyhPvGgDsY_XDeyXI0T3C4NwsoDbSOVIUj_0tBCbALdYy-1ZRu0/s644/1.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="644" data-original-width="619" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUrvOSvD-ylR16xB1QwC1Ifc-9lt1s95WqIQavRW09g9B2KvnehLqVvTQJy1_oAEKz7LvsCEoeNqmcnHIpf4HTTaSFYhIEKQ4-vjg1aHXIFJiaTtMdGmlFWvplKiMn0321kvyzbxyhPvGgDsY_XDeyXI0T3C4NwsoDbSOVIUj_0tBCbALdYy-1ZRu0/w385-h400/1.PNG" width="385" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does this remind us of something? Why, yes, it reminds us of the <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/dracula-sinister-gurglings.html" target="_blank"><i>Sinister Gurglings</i> Toilet Tale</a>. (If you perk up at the thought of charging across the steppe on a noble steed, nostrils flaring, while roaring "Bij, morduj!" and attempting to decapitate your enemies with a sabre, you should definitely click on the link.)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy901h9tYKjH-DZBTW0h_n2x5wO190UJKGO9xVDATDqfmNomBCuJ3gR5pyKLb8ISDAWHkZ6QeMiFxeYgynxx5jvcc2tSo3Y4ahf95po9lrvGFahn6wA8PZPx2cKch5URGah1hOVpmucK4um7Neyq7z1D4-Ao2o0NZ-78UKHHl7FiVZW2gVnF_J8yta/s679/2.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="679" data-original-width="579" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy901h9tYKjH-DZBTW0h_n2x5wO190UJKGO9xVDATDqfmNomBCuJ3gR5pyKLb8ISDAWHkZ6QeMiFxeYgynxx5jvcc2tSo3Y4ahf95po9lrvGFahn6wA8PZPx2cKch5URGah1hOVpmucK4um7Neyq7z1D4-Ao2o0NZ-78UKHHl7FiVZW2gVnF_J8yta/w341-h400/2.PNG" width="341" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2u6RyJ9tKvr3nRmvNgs3eKDrhK2dj_r1-d6Agd12kG503qE9lxPAJGwIEFIEUQFNHxsr4l2f179mrA_psCuqWYXsYliia0_OHh9ILbm9d9uFPv6rGGxePIvuUJGzFyvm3WQ-elxG2LGpTJvzO5atAGnEJ65VMC2vmDcvMyVQ75BkMdvj7N6vU0kvX/s681/3.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="681" data-original-width="577" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2u6RyJ9tKvr3nRmvNgs3eKDrhK2dj_r1-d6Agd12kG503qE9lxPAJGwIEFIEUQFNHxsr4l2f179mrA_psCuqWYXsYliia0_OHh9ILbm9d9uFPv6rGGxePIvuUJGzFyvm3WQ-elxG2LGpTJvzO5atAGnEJ65VMC2vmDcvMyVQ75BkMdvj7N6vU0kvX/w339-h400/3.PNG" width="339" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does your heart swell with pride at this dedication to the Privy Counsel Standards of Source Criticism (PCSSC)? Ours does.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfrbo0DCaIRanBlH2X3YTb_lTHMe0ZNO1_gW_PwxDMZMYSPktRPMfMYaJLLPsT7HpA7Eeve4FjIkejb7e_rGAPhRsPesoe7BQ0l0kWmpy0DPzPOldbNKibwO90vDoH4B30fL_kWmoaOa7L4T3JhzWerLJk-Qsa_3_GUuxQd_Wp_UKDx4R0Ew6qKQd/s670/4.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="578" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfrbo0DCaIRanBlH2X3YTb_lTHMe0ZNO1_gW_PwxDMZMYSPktRPMfMYaJLLPsT7HpA7Eeve4FjIkejb7e_rGAPhRsPesoe7BQ0l0kWmpy0DPzPOldbNKibwO90vDoH4B30fL_kWmoaOa7L4T3JhzWerLJk-Qsa_3_GUuxQd_Wp_UKDx4R0Ew6qKQd/w345-h400/4.PNG" width="345" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mmm. Who doesn't!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iBmy_YMmpdrregb04j0yKmqR51DfWT_Ok2ldvhIznDGHgZ5qgtH9hvqoXnXq17STCaXzMYxYssVIqmitt-mLa5HIWUa1iPdipHLoDsyCzuMtpVYT0AGKhCUdLcTNNtzzBTtxZSirI17Q6BTVriPzHCDX6VgJRYHzxl2qSwx9fNQp9s4dObtg-Dbw/s580/5.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="580" height="371" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8iBmy_YMmpdrregb04j0yKmqR51DfWT_Ok2ldvhIznDGHgZ5qgtH9hvqoXnXq17STCaXzMYxYssVIqmitt-mLa5HIWUa1iPdipHLoDsyCzuMtpVYT0AGKhCUdLcTNNtzzBTtxZSirI17Q6BTVriPzHCDX6VgJRYHzxl2qSwx9fNQp9s4dObtg-Dbw/w400-h371/5.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxIMYPMbRfD9pD8ubcuF_GgwtQYexmmdpjt_Eq904m4UM55IxiKMIPOXR4fxKXuKSjjtqyVCGnk9ai1WStyiDpvsUkkn3_iOvPNudm6LVUHmovZqR0uK8jyC5Oe0tEVm770utMn3957-CrYWBIm_9f-2pcfxgBV-DnTufx_egHwosJpxcM-sbGULW/s612/6.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="612" data-original-width="585" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicxIMYPMbRfD9pD8ubcuF_GgwtQYexmmdpjt_Eq904m4UM55IxiKMIPOXR4fxKXuKSjjtqyVCGnk9ai1WStyiDpvsUkkn3_iOvPNudm6LVUHmovZqR0uK8jyC5Oe0tEVm770utMn3957-CrYWBIm_9f-2pcfxgBV-DnTufx_egHwosJpxcM-sbGULW/w383-h400/6.PNG" width="383" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Shouts from the gallery: "Boo!"<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-eTcRZFeHFDxvAmnpk1hcYywwTiMmV3eQ_RinhERY4fNKYTrr19rk2YmE1yR-HVB8lLo9Ml5eo9_-sqQfuMqHzM4fbzP1Fm2oOGcueRrURW0eZIlaKYc0RpdZPBDmhehtkyiYM2EOzMG9UH00IpGFa8g2YxMFhDqdmvn-4vlQAhTOeohOptaTW5sy/s618/7.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="618" data-original-width="580" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-eTcRZFeHFDxvAmnpk1hcYywwTiMmV3eQ_RinhERY4fNKYTrr19rk2YmE1yR-HVB8lLo9Ml5eo9_-sqQfuMqHzM4fbzP1Fm2oOGcueRrURW0eZIlaKYc0RpdZPBDmhehtkyiYM2EOzMG9UH00IpGFa8g2YxMFhDqdmvn-4vlQAhTOeohOptaTW5sy/w375-h400/7.PNG" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8FumrCGoMGPIevJX0PDnamIQt3-7_pw1ghIIcFBQlOyvUDaTnzQkkzBcJZudhu6_BBXF4W3cMtC9TG3iSRY1SK2BOPPOw1QKrkJtW70484EfF7GIrX-7FEwbcbi2zHy_bM305E6aTQmotCfp6ZOSq3ueEy5WcXA4e625l-bTvOTyXS7HI6Ze5LlG/s591/8.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="401" data-original-width="591" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8FumrCGoMGPIevJX0PDnamIQt3-7_pw1ghIIcFBQlOyvUDaTnzQkkzBcJZudhu6_BBXF4W3cMtC9TG3iSRY1SK2BOPPOw1QKrkJtW70484EfF7GIrX-7FEwbcbi2zHy_bM305E6aTQmotCfp6ZOSq3ueEy5WcXA4e625l-bTvOTyXS7HI6Ze5LlG/w400-h271/8.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMmkhRdHAbFL0j6RGcal9P65mzbq_FImSb_p3-DcbfAeVX7KkaATke72mAotso5BAOBjw7569XgV7swjXZ3AsTDjkgUkbawatIp_CO0GcvbcdyK-dP29r9b_N2reiezDzFrFYvhIhAeFKRpHvXSyzJUiSQI_pITb5Z-7Dhwt6UEvP9f42jNpUi9X7/s671/9.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="671" data-original-width="580" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYMmkhRdHAbFL0j6RGcal9P65mzbq_FImSb_p3-DcbfAeVX7KkaATke72mAotso5BAOBjw7569XgV7swjXZ3AsTDjkgUkbawatIp_CO0GcvbcdyK-dP29r9b_N2reiezDzFrFYvhIhAeFKRpHvXSyzJUiSQI_pITb5Z-7Dhwt6UEvP9f42jNpUi9X7/w346-h400/9.PNG" width="346" /></a></div><br /> It is perhaps lucky, all things considered, that one's hopes never really lifted off the ground. At best they flapped about for a bit then crashed drunkenly.<p></p><p>Speaking of crashing drunkenly after flapping, we've had communications from <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a> (who counts as a friend for administrative reasons). What follows below are photos from the gents' toilets at the Hereford Rowing Club. You heard it here first!</p><p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmAIGAjnhAWueQgzRI3lxCYjV56z8ZJxftDZyeYdGYX2CPV97HEamLlUJLCYZCylnVjkbYUJ-n5Zu8ANJqY53k1f7muKNbqUy82nOMyWlFWtBD0W-dwGZsRlaRmqg4haEAXZ7Bw27WQ6E1ZAUBkT0gvEDQa38NVpgrQLGg7FIHxr-zAEc1EgL1G4M/s2048/279503842_508933147607404_4513289244347946263_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCmAIGAjnhAWueQgzRI3lxCYjV56z8ZJxftDZyeYdGYX2CPV97HEamLlUJLCYZCylnVjkbYUJ-n5Zu8ANJqY53k1f7muKNbqUy82nOMyWlFWtBD0W-dwGZsRlaRmqg4haEAXZ7Bw27WQ6E1ZAUBkT0gvEDQa38NVpgrQLGg7FIHxr-zAEc1EgL1G4M/w300-h400/279503842_508933147607404_4513289244347946263_n.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are the sinks and taps weirdly reminiscent of those in the Banff Springs Hotel? Are we too distracted by Jonny's essential hunka-hunka-ness to commit to any deep reflection on this topic? Yes, yes, and yes.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5AU51pVyb01jBNblSOfTCNWncWUkZ3S8B0A8LTi1ZiF5rraCQ8QCqhTQjJzwW1NhPoYBuAIAFx69alZYMfE76ziHyL1i_Kc5moNwU31KMCMjYmUR05Nee6TaW44__lI8Ow7CTqE-HpcPVPBBwvZnG96kpYeUQSVlR8Xl3BPiPuYtPL51rZZ8wkZ_B/s2048/279883539_363367189144707_498399412415334900_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5AU51pVyb01jBNblSOfTCNWncWUkZ3S8B0A8LTi1ZiF5rraCQ8QCqhTQjJzwW1NhPoYBuAIAFx69alZYMfE76ziHyL1i_Kc5moNwU31KMCMjYmUR05Nee6TaW44__lI8Ow7CTqE-HpcPVPBBwvZnG96kpYeUQSVlR8Xl3BPiPuYtPL51rZZ8wkZ_B/s320/279883539_363367189144707_498399412415334900_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This, according to Jonny, is a "fancy James Bond-style keypad".<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktUKUTjcvMBsQODNEc8XZB_U1mzREcswU247Bw2WGILx3h5KJKk9xIVGXje-vxy-FBodT8UsYQRwNJRZgFCWT_crYH2vSdJAV7kcrEyZWPurx7rHBvBQwpBEqca14DDatuDaVBdyUQkJWa9QhXKcmAvZyrcQIEzSAK24ihPc_iTN7OA8T9WvZ4-SZ/s2048/279963327_1689779201381786_4155409128829649915_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjktUKUTjcvMBsQODNEc8XZB_U1mzREcswU247Bw2WGILx3h5KJKk9xIVGXje-vxy-FBodT8UsYQRwNJRZgFCWT_crYH2vSdJAV7kcrEyZWPurx7rHBvBQwpBEqca14DDatuDaVBdyUQkJWa9QhXKcmAvZyrcQIEzSAK24ihPc_iTN7OA8T9WvZ4-SZ/s320/279963327_1689779201381786_4155409128829649915_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Don't you love this avant-garde angle of these urinals? Does it remind you of something? <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/brownian-motion-or-brownout-or-brown.html" target="_blank">Of course it does</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9s9YatFyjH0j89jn-5VSrzbQI6RvNvYCnIlTzH6ce53c2GVtCFbMpqjaHh-mvDcQQlIX-0RRbFPciKZP65l_8ZnrUpKzglvvxUDC2HAR0nE96rkVxghYHQxu-_TvZBTE7-Bwi4-IR4RB5_f3rmLZNblxSWSQoRors3Vc3SyWPvJxFiKqI8_2IGd0d/s1920/281287550_974962679757554_4360337662533868365_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9s9YatFyjH0j89jn-5VSrzbQI6RvNvYCnIlTzH6ce53c2GVtCFbMpqjaHh-mvDcQQlIX-0RRbFPciKZP65l_8ZnrUpKzglvvxUDC2HAR0nE96rkVxghYHQxu-_TvZBTE7-Bwi4-IR4RB5_f3rmLZNblxSWSQoRors3Vc3SyWPvJxFiKqI8_2IGd0d/s320/281287550_974962679757554_4360337662533868365_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We don't know where this is and do not want to know, but Jonny calls it a "Tetris toilet". As you were.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> We will not of course let you go before we have foisted a Festive Video on your already fragile state of mind.<p></p><p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EfheTfLDgFY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe> <br /></p><p> Festive Video: Caitlin Rose, <i>Pink Rabbits</i><br /></p><p> </p><p><b>Related Reading</b></p><p>Are we all stuck in a giant simulation? Are our robot overlords amusing themselves by implanting
false memories into our brains? <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/04/springing-leak.html" target="_blank">We can't
prove that they're not.</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a> </p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Canada" target="_blank">Canada </a></p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-girl-bartenders-hate.html" target="_blank">The Girl Bartenders Hate</a><br /></p><p>The <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/dracula-sinister-gurglings.html" target="_blank"><i>Sinister Gurglings</i> Toilet Tale</a> - a hearty vampire story</p><p> More fainting couches to be had here: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html" target="_blank">Echoes of Edgar Allan Poe</a></p><p>You may also enjoy <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/a-limited-rush-of-air-or-thursday.html" target="_blank">Fires! Floods! Philology! God help us all. </a> <br /></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny </a></p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/brownian-motion-or-brownout-or-brown.html" target="_blank">Brownian Motion, or, Brownout, or, A Brown Study - Semi-Intellectual Friend's Shower </a><p> </p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-89102008595804454192022-04-17T16:50:00.008+01:002022-04-18T10:03:40.143+01:00Fires! Floods! Philology! God help us all. <p> We mentioned the concept, <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2022/04/echoes-of-edgar-allan-poe.html" target="_blank">in our last post</a>, of <i>themes</i>. The word theme, of course, as every school child knows, <a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/theme" target="_blank">comes from from the Greek <i><span class="foreign notranslate">thema</span></i></a>, "a proposition, subject, deposit," literally "something set down," from PIE <span class="foreign notranslate">*dhe-mn</span>, suffixed form of root <a class="crossreference notranslate" href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/*dhe-?ref=etymonline_crossreference" title="Etymology, meaning and definition of *dhe-">*dhe-</a> "to set, put". We have a custom, at the Privy Counsel, of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/04/whether-you-believe-in-jebus-or-not.html" target="_blank">waxing lyrical on the subject of philology round Easter-time</a>, no doubt for sane and normal reasons. In fact, if one is being honest, we have a custom of waxing lyrical on the subject of philology at many other times of the year as well - <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/07/moving-heaven-and-earth-polarisation.html" target="_blank">our summertime treatise on proto-Indo-European verb roots</a>, for instance, has become something of a classic among a certain substratum of what we might loosely term the intelligentsia.<br /></p><p>Be that as it may, one might argue that holidays are a kind of theme. At the northern latitudes where the Privy Counsel HQ graces its environs, holidays are of course mostly an excuse to consume vast quantities of alcohol, rather than any custom, tradition or festivity of religious significance. One drinks schnapps at Christmas, to celebrate <a href="https://outoflinesblog.wordpress.com/2017/03/25/read-it-and-weep-why-the-virgin-mary-is-creepy/" target="_blank">the birth of some dude</a> two thousand years ago, then, three to four months later, one drinks schnapps again to celebrate the same dude's brutal torture and death. At midsummer one drinks schnapps to celebrate the heathen gods of old, in a drunken and undignified spectacle that the Church should definitely be more embarrassed about, considering that the efforts to Christianise the populace have continued unabated for over a thousand years. In August one drinks schnapps while consuming crayfish, for reasons that are not entirely clear but are probably related to either nineteenth-century nationalism or a touching devotion to the noble grain, which has of tradition been the alternative to the exotic southern grape in these boreal climes. Then everything goes dark and at Christmas one starts over again.<br /></p><p>The Privy Counsel might be the only openly atheist bog blog, having announced as early as 2014 that <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/04/whether-you-believe-in-jebus-or-not.html" target="_blank">"we don't even believe in Jebus"</a>. Still, we appreciate tradition as much as the next person, and will happily lift a pitcher of Easter ale skywards in honour of Jebus and his heavenly escalation, if custom so demands. As far as we understand, Holy Writ is full of stories of not only brutal torture and death, but also of many other types of calamities and disasters, there not being much call for writing at length about everything being fine. While we would personally happily sit down to a tale that went something like, "And lo, the Lord's chosen people learned to appreciate mixer taps, entirely stopped the heathen practice of making doors that don't go all the way down to the floor, and lived in peace and relative sanity until the end of time, yea," we understand that this style of narrative lacks the drama and tension that makes for <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/jane-eyre-plunging-into-passion.html" target="_blank">a great work of literature</a>. If instead one desires tales of devastation and carnage, there is apparently no better place to look than <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australia" target="_blank">Australia</a>. <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australian%20Friend" target="_blank">Australian Friend</a>, in a feat of unparalleled toilet drama, has sent us the following screenshots, telling a gruesome story of Australian plumbing ineptness: <br /></p><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnHX5BNeS8ucSsS_JMPjE5D-kjt0tBO8AxK3uUqKSHgG4FZHgbDR3WQbDU9lKMAcvaN5jfMmqC4FLtnKyXrvRYg3xj6abanS7ZqwfS4jS2BT0dNCKUdCUFUO86lnnQgsTipGBrT_fua7KH-EGXo6oXkfo7bobX4d9uHfP_XWh7I1kDfbmOevfwIdl/s1792/277998989_693625038456271_7475160895663610551_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDnHX5BNeS8ucSsS_JMPjE5D-kjt0tBO8AxK3uUqKSHgG4FZHgbDR3WQbDU9lKMAcvaN5jfMmqC4FLtnKyXrvRYg3xj6abanS7ZqwfS4jS2BT0dNCKUdCUFUO86lnnQgsTipGBrT_fua7KH-EGXo6oXkfo7bobX4d9uHfP_XWh7I1kDfbmOevfwIdl/w296-h640/277998989_693625038456271_7475160895663610551_n.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTtw-jhRJlRXL-FHIip1RMceDzfJZMAXlQ-4Y04xUscVxZHfANI2PX4pkjvPfsEpc0T1yCcF-leBObF1fIi3_Pd3_ZQgGjkxrBMZAOdLXbSmvCVH8nHKsPry6LC1awFujBG0_MWsJLLMzBuxi0ScLymlV_QXxTWV5-_b1-jQ9HHdl-P9_p4iUL_-m8/s1792/277855795_1370467993381785_8776667571742838250_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTtw-jhRJlRXL-FHIip1RMceDzfJZMAXlQ-4Y04xUscVxZHfANI2PX4pkjvPfsEpc0T1yCcF-leBObF1fIi3_Pd3_ZQgGjkxrBMZAOdLXbSmvCVH8nHKsPry6LC1awFujBG0_MWsJLLMzBuxi0ScLymlV_QXxTWV5-_b1-jQ9HHdl-P9_p4iUL_-m8/w296-h640/277855795_1370467993381785_8776667571742838250_n.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0JaSIPvWi5onVkoCIx_ftWXFxUzZLqH4zvs4VKLHJS5TdgVkCcfD4XQQgOERptSbbPv9Q3CbI8aLr_ccIq47V0IB3FreuQ2XuW02zGdFG2ONGpXEoNsgwRN8Nqk5AyjZv_k7GupOXrXPbvADRLGJeMtpQaInBFB1ywZVWl8CRTFsK7hQlKm97tiZG/s1792/278324474_409234353895468_1083927234390888415_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0JaSIPvWi5onVkoCIx_ftWXFxUzZLqH4zvs4VKLHJS5TdgVkCcfD4XQQgOERptSbbPv9Q3CbI8aLr_ccIq47V0IB3FreuQ2XuW02zGdFG2ONGpXEoNsgwRN8Nqk5AyjZv_k7GupOXrXPbvADRLGJeMtpQaInBFB1ywZVWl8CRTFsK7hQlKm97tiZG/w296-h640/278324474_409234353895468_1083927234390888415_n.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAXzZ5brNLwSZve-X-g72K8HZfZNsAN-kI3AMhz9Diya3wZ4FcGAD-6T1gms2ii2cbcVwWl7d_HD9HXqRbQHKfrJRVzqADiFfuUkOT7qipSKXq_Fy5H9P3TMeZaMrtsta0nIojOrBCZsXvwZkJhYX0LNtK3mqZTfeLMLztqeEjpz9T-a4haIvGcK9/s1792/277698002_505944417837706_7083585303006318216_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHAXzZ5brNLwSZve-X-g72K8HZfZNsAN-kI3AMhz9Diya3wZ4FcGAD-6T1gms2ii2cbcVwWl7d_HD9HXqRbQHKfrJRVzqADiFfuUkOT7qipSKXq_Fy5H9P3TMeZaMrtsta0nIojOrBCZsXvwZkJhYX0LNtK3mqZTfeLMLztqeEjpz9T-a4haIvGcK9/w296-h640/277698002_505944417837706_7083585303006318216_n.jpg" width="296" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Our sincerest sympathies to Ms Fielding.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">However, the drama, reader, does not end there! Behold, the nigh-on biblical phenomenon of the burning portaloo! <br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9veJO2Qz_uEg3rmrkEH7huH0NQsT4d_xewMEQ69DrBwUri-Q2IBLPfTyq9bfi6BYGtD8lVoR__6F-hxblMT5_be27Tor3h5FIv7ZjDGfDjsuDYNjNvbR1L_s2XuxX8VHlDEAjcyG47XK0jizR1xeDTpc96DZ8I4_UY0bK7KjU9BA6JoiUlKJweXtY/s1792/274196323_640451357220588_2857523480989856020_n.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="828" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9veJO2Qz_uEg3rmrkEH7huH0NQsT4d_xewMEQ69DrBwUri-Q2IBLPfTyq9bfi6BYGtD8lVoR__6F-hxblMT5_be27Tor3h5FIv7ZjDGfDjsuDYNjNvbR1L_s2XuxX8VHlDEAjcyG47XK0jizR1xeDTpc96DZ8I4_UY0bK7KjU9BA6JoiUlKJweXtY/w296-h640/274196323_640451357220588_2857523480989856020_n.jpg" width="296" /></a></div><p>You will of course remember, from your youthful Bible studies, that the book of Exodus tells us that:</p><p class="chapter-1"><span class="text Exod-3-1" id="en-KJV-1581"><span class="chapternum"></span></span></p><blockquote><p class="chapter-1"><i><span class="text Exod-3-1" id="en-KJV-1581"><span class="chapternum">3 </span>Now
Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian:
and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the
mountain of God, even to Horeb.</span></i></p> <p><i><span class="text Exod-3-2" id="en-KJV-1582"><sup class="versenum">2 </sup>And the angel of the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>
appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he
looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not
consumed.</span></i></p> <p><i><span class="text Exod-3-3" id="en-KJV-1583"><sup class="versenum">3 </sup>And Moses said, I will now turn aside, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.</span></i></p> <p><i><span class="text Exod-3-4" id="en-KJV-1584"><sup class="versenum">4 </sup>And when the <span class="small-caps" style="font-variant: small-caps;">Lord</span>
saw that he turned aside to see, God called unto him out of the midst
of the bush, and said, Moses, Moses. And he said, Here am I.</span></i></p> <p><i><span class="text Exod-3-5" id="en-KJV-1585"><sup class="versenum">5 </sup>And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.</span></i></p></blockquote><p><span class="text Exod-3-5" id="en-KJV-1585"></span></p><p><span class="text Exod-3-5" id="en-KJV-1585">We sincerely hope that the fireys kept their shoes on!<br /></span></p><p><span class="text Exod-3-5" id="en-KJV-1585">A post from your favourite intellectual bog blog just isn't complete without a confused bog selfie from everyone's favourite toilet correspondent, <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a>.</span></p><p><span class="text Exod-3-5" id="en-KJV-1585"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgziSK7wwmD7WG0DVfqfcB-VptUtRkF3vEf2zT4hXfRBlf0Ti1MtT0BB4Y9YCjysfhqBryrQhzVtuEiqso8ontgYZRNB-Llj741YRP6H4AWznonteaRryfRFjf1DCmxE8io3vFS6VJG62hyD0Gg4DHh6-6IISEKpl3YEaZ55tMYF85tfO6FSv1yjumH/s2048/277455932_1556127978092969_6522434580870707413_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgziSK7wwmD7WG0DVfqfcB-VptUtRkF3vEf2zT4hXfRBlf0Ti1MtT0BB4Y9YCjysfhqBryrQhzVtuEiqso8ontgYZRNB-Llj741YRP6H4AWznonteaRryfRFjf1DCmxE8io3vFS6VJG62hyD0Gg4DHh6-6IISEKpl3YEaZ55tMYF85tfO6FSv1yjumH/s320/277455932_1556127978092969_6522434580870707413_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonny doing his bit for religion by consuming two drinks at once and, by the looks of things, experiencing some minor calamity - possibly of Biblical proportions.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="text Exod-3-5" id="en-KJV-1585"><br /></span><p></p><p>Finally, here is a Festive Video that seems to us suitable for Easter.<br /></p><p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2Km_2KhMvyQ" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p>Festive Video: Miranda Lambert, <i>For the Birds</i><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Related Reading</b></p><p>Our classic post on Easter, Polish etymology, implausibly intransitive Germanic verbs, and Biblical latrine trenches: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/04/whether-you-believe-in-jebus-or-not.html" target="_blank">Whether You Believe in Jebus Or Not: Unbelievably Rampant Linguistic Musings! </a></p><p> </p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Easter" target="_blank">Easter</a></p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/07/moving-heaven-and-earth-polarisation.html" target="_blank">Moving Heaven and Earth: Polarisation and Proto-Indo-Europeans</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australia" target="_blank">Australia </a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australian%20Friend" target="_blank">Australian Friend </a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny </a><br /></p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-32796535507876089062022-04-13T07:18:00.002+01:002022-05-19T21:01:58.539+01:00Echoes of Edgar Allan Poe<div>In terms of literary devices we're big, as all regular readers are aware, on <i>themes</i> here at the Privy Counsel. One of our main themes, after plumbing-horror-induced handwringing and unstructured ranting, is friendship. (Please note however that Jonny counts as a friend for administrative reasons only.) We have had occasion to note recently that true friends are those who make it a point of honour to take the piss out of one whatever one happens to be doing, whether one is of sound mind or not, and indeed irrespective of whether one happens to be suffering from acute gastric distress due to ingesting too many weird pink shots in <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-girl-bartenders-hate.html" target="_blank">a godforsaken prairie bar</a>.<br /><br />The concept of constructive criticism gets a bad press in these times of <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/cancel-culture-makes-you-stupid/" target="_blank">cancel culture</a> and groupthink. However, telling people when they're wrong is crucial to maintaining public order and a civilised society. Ponder this very bog blog, for instance. How many plumbing heathens have we converted to the true faith by gently yet inexorably pointing out the horrors of separated taps, doors with large scary gaps, and sticky spots on the floor? Well, we haven't strictly counted them, but there are quite a few people by now who send us weird photos.<br /></div><div> </div><div>Constructive criticism, however, presupposes the ability to hold unusual or unpopular beliefs. If one were, for instance, to repress all mention of hanging bog rolls arse-backwards, one would never, if one is to believe John Stuart Mill, have the pleasure of insufferable smugness in a heated debate about <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/12/rocking-rolling-ranting.html" target="_blank">toilet roll orientation</a>. Now obviously, on this subject, there is only one possible position, morally as well as intellectually. However, it is only when heterodox views are tolerated that one gets to hear ideas which, though ludicrous, may be challenging and inspirational. Moreover, it is only when dissent is encouraged that one gets to hear valid critique of one's own delusional notions - which, however smug one may be feeling in the moment, may be constructive in the long run. If, for instance, one happens to have spent - to pick an example at random - all of 2015, 2016 and 2017, most of 2018, and possibly even parts of 2019, perving on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eySDeBdqxGY" target="_blank">Justin Trudeau</a>, it does feel better, when he goes full-on tin-pot dictator in 2022, to know that Shewee Fiend Friend spent all those years regularly informing one that one was being an arse. <br /></div><div><br />As Aristotle probably said, we disapprove of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/TOTAL%20TAP%20INSANITY" target="_blank">your awful non-mixer taps</a>
but would suffer mild burn injuries for your right to keep
constructing them. Thus, when people whose judgement we for some reason still trust insist on hanging toilet rolls back to front, we resist the urge to call for their heads to be cut off. Instead we graciously tolerate their aberrations, taking great pleasure in our own magnanimity, and encourage them to send us toilet photos, in the hope that they will one day see the light. </div><div> </div><div>On the subject of toilet photos, we received these from <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a>, who wrote:<br /><blockquote> <i>I was in a prize winning public loo tonight<br /><br />I was in this restaurant for a </i>[information redacted for the sake of public decency]<i><br /><br />So that was weird. I only have very broken stressed memories of that night<br /><br />I think it checks all the boxes</i><br /></blockquote> <br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgglgbxlNb4po_BRWWyueRyPNzflqRHNdtvrIXBmUobz8ldZqgaBr9hMiR03U5z3QD_uWRG7geZdlblzMXpuEWEcTQDscv3GFpjJTrn8KABxTf94JymicrQHesrroGIdCvdDHiEWfqYFiMsYkT-HaNgBeY3VKA6ur4aZeWy4pcfX5BNz8zpPDBGu-zu/s800/index.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgglgbxlNb4po_BRWWyueRyPNzflqRHNdtvrIXBmUobz8ldZqgaBr9hMiR03U5z3QD_uWRG7geZdlblzMXpuEWEcTQDscv3GFpjJTrn8KABxTf94JymicrQHesrroGIdCvdDHiEWfqYFiMsYkT-HaNgBeY3VKA6ur4aZeWy4pcfX5BNz8zpPDBGu-zu/s320/index.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Resting being one of our favourite activities, we heartily approve of this piece of furniture, so charmingly named, by those quaint North Americans, a <i>fainting couch</i>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj41GmBmNhMS5CacFD7lQ0k2ZoiD9w0GdroiI2CzxKIrWXfmi8wGAgQqTobSFsjHj-LATBlCQlLWaOCJcMs2JirGdHeb8v7MrVSQ0tIPosz9rrancHt2NXQ1pd_FGS3k0UeKee_wh3NAOQXhWYHxz1ZokilvKCtVQh5D_RdNVr4qPVFxAnbtdQa3QyL/s800/index2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj41GmBmNhMS5CacFD7lQ0k2ZoiD9w0GdroiI2CzxKIrWXfmi8wGAgQqTobSFsjHj-LATBlCQlLWaOCJcMs2JirGdHeb8v7MrVSQ0tIPosz9rrancHt2NXQ1pd_FGS3k0UeKee_wh3NAOQXhWYHxz1ZokilvKCtVQh5D_RdNVr4qPVFxAnbtdQa3QyL/s320/index2.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of our top five activities is <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Almost%20Seeing%20People" target="_blank">almost seeing people</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimFgACVe9hr6j-dpdI6Io7TLFERsO5I7oIEREf6CEFrSRivW-3VxHK82YDXVmQ0DJoRpm-obin-dba880rAK2nJy2CSew9b4SdcU04nHE46V8tSXjP3DRx3OVqRTTEvU7n42rNWE3f2qDVQ7k2Vyh1TmNt-DLl9TpUM1iqdprwKKtojxgXSBWcLlHe/s800/index1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimFgACVe9hr6j-dpdI6Io7TLFERsO5I7oIEREf6CEFrSRivW-3VxHK82YDXVmQ0DJoRpm-obin-dba880rAK2nJy2CSew9b4SdcU04nHE46V8tSXjP3DRx3OVqRTTEvU7n42rNWE3f2qDVQ7k2Vyh1TmNt-DLl9TpUM1iqdprwKKtojxgXSBWcLlHe/s320/index1.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Behold! The reassuring sight of spare loo rolls! Rejoice, for there may be some hope, however small, for mankind after all.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div style="text-align: left;">These toilets can be found at the <a href="https://sauceitalianmarket.com/" target="_blank">Sauce Italian Kitchen & Market</a> in Calgary - queen of Canadian cities - and made the top five list in the Canada's Best Restroom competition in 2016, <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3771137" target="_blank">as reported by CBC</a>.<br /><blockquote> <i>I couldn’t hear anyone else peeing though two other ladies were while I was in there<br /><br />It has everything you could want. Floor to ceiling doors, solid hooks, pompous art and a fainting couch</i></blockquote><blockquote><i>I guess they were just nominated. Still, top 5!<br /><br />The gas station won that year</i></blockquote></div><div> </div><div>Speaking of gas stations, Jonny - everyone's favourite Toilet Babe - has also been in touch with some photos. "I hope you're ready for this," he wrote. </div><div> </div><div>Reader, we were not ready!</div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4FnkF-IXA-cvgk6INJAPwDZzoRKxbrv86s5zNHP9gRVwVYBvBk1ZJwoygnj68ylAjRSFhd7jaZbXrLud3iffw5z_j6m0zPeJxNMdbEC27JcKemmBOSkt-kAeVrfHnSMN3N5fTZ0odmW7GPuvyFwZrcTWxvtI_rtqrxNY-2Sb-ju8rSdLG78qcrhm/s2048/277925683_395924358719180_3850598501059882519_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB4FnkF-IXA-cvgk6INJAPwDZzoRKxbrv86s5zNHP9gRVwVYBvBk1ZJwoygnj68ylAjRSFhd7jaZbXrLud3iffw5z_j6m0zPeJxNMdbEC27JcKemmBOSkt-kAeVrfHnSMN3N5fTZ0odmW7GPuvyFwZrcTWxvtI_rtqrxNY-2Sb-ju8rSdLG78qcrhm/s320/277925683_395924358719180_3850598501059882519_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is Jonny the Marlon Brando of toilet selfies?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyF5Dhyxc8zRPnGsx9Kb22clP3xIKIZ7hur2AsIG-x4GHeMsxzMCeBvTDPVD_WY4xCKOwVTwSMYNW33JxI0bka2nEbsal5aJVG7vgqm3Ul_d9RGFEZ3VrC5xJm9faEpu9Er0lQMW3yv69j5_2xW12dcqu7_rs-2fys-WKisFrQPO7U4WNaYYV4Rffb/s2048/277941853_1785380525149042_4466589643994690036_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyF5Dhyxc8zRPnGsx9Kb22clP3xIKIZ7hur2AsIG-x4GHeMsxzMCeBvTDPVD_WY4xCKOwVTwSMYNW33JxI0bka2nEbsal5aJVG7vgqm3Ul_d9RGFEZ3VrC5xJm9faEpu9Er0lQMW3yv69j5_2xW12dcqu7_rs-2fys-WKisFrQPO7U4WNaYYV4Rffb/s320/277941853_1785380525149042_4466589643994690036_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is supposed to be a hygienic seat. We keep getting distracted by the <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Poor%20Aim" target="_blank">sticky spot on the floor</a>, however, and find ourselves unable to concentrate on the alleged hygiene. Does one hear echoes of Edgar Allan Poe?<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8372JtEXPaGCCh_ldQAuRi9OAi6A4_006CPd4fWeLKJAAFa4bY7yFkfFETH-gx4aqTWArLKXCApfFqcVTWfZLm2nSFRymtCsHABjqNQsSU0rzw7_LB1fRcFJV7wIvjVv00BD7PAKivZuQu4tnQbx3r7lN4bRDlsyGyJQ6sKYlUwcJJz4a0RV0Mgzr/s2048/277965684_769080387391409_8344220639721051118_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8372JtEXPaGCCh_ldQAuRi9OAi6A4_006CPd4fWeLKJAAFa4bY7yFkfFETH-gx4aqTWArLKXCApfFqcVTWfZLm2nSFRymtCsHABjqNQsSU0rzw7_LB1fRcFJV7wIvjVv00BD7PAKivZuQu4tnQbx3r7lN4bRDlsyGyJQ6sKYlUwcJJz4a0RV0Mgzr/s320/277965684_769080387391409_8344220639721051118_n.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are always in favour of not touching things, and heartily approve this door! It reminds us of <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2015/11/caitlin-moran-really-does-make.html" target="_blank">that time we went to hear - and also see - Caitlin Moran in Copenhagen in 2016</a>.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDEwgypIfenzn_LNIEaDj2MdFH_PYL-pprSbsymMybs5Jpe4coHW1qn-gC13-QW0XsodXABSmab-POnBhKcVKpsV4p2FryDQxAt4ojAHJ-ba0tT20qgIdn4nsglkhXWZv69UUxVC8-51RqDBU7NVP2g2-4ZvdNbNj1ipxHDNBk51aF-mw-hRhq5Fg/s2048/277974114_487619673152507_5402282019651407620_n.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitDEwgypIfenzn_LNIEaDj2MdFH_PYL-pprSbsymMybs5Jpe4coHW1qn-gC13-QW0XsodXABSmab-POnBhKcVKpsV4p2FryDQxAt4ojAHJ-ba0tT20qgIdn4nsglkhXWZv69UUxVC8-51RqDBU7NVP2g2-4ZvdNbNj1ipxHDNBk51aF-mw-hRhq5Fg/s320/277974114_487619673152507_5402282019651407620_n.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Other things we are in favour of are helpful <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Signage" target="_blank">signage</a> and clear instructions.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div><br /></div><div>For anyone who finds him- or herself straining at the leash to use these facilities, they can be found at the <a href="https://motorwayservices.uk/Toddington" target="_blank">Toddington motorway services</a>.</div><div><br /></div><div>If your heart yearns rather for <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/05/terminator-toilet.html" target="_blank">Terminator</a>-level toilet horror, you may appreciate <a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/weve-upgraded-your-toilet-to-a-subscription-based-model" target="_blank">this piece of satire from McSweeney's</a>, sent to us by <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Tudor%20Friend" target="_blank">Tudor Friend</a>.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Let there be a Festive Video.</div><div><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tKuJHLRx4AY" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></div><div>Festive Video - Sarah Shook and the Disarmers, <i>No Mistakes</i><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><b><span style="font-size: large;">Related Reading</span></b></div><div><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/05/the-girl-bartenders-hate.html" target="_blank">A godforsaken prairie bar</a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend </a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/TOTAL%20TAP%20INSANITY" target="_blank">TOTAL TAP INSANITY </a><br /></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny </a><br /></div><div><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2015/11/caitlin-moran-really-does-make.html" target="_blank">Caitlin Moran Really Does Make Everything Better</a></div><div><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/05/terminator-toilet.html" target="_blank">Terminator Toilet </a></div><div>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Tudor%20Friend" target="_blank">Tudor Friend </a></div><div>Why <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/cancel-culture-makes-you-stupid/" target="_blank">cancel culture makes you stupid</a><br /></div>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-82481256122799617312022-03-08T17:49:00.001+00:002022-03-08T18:00:16.944+00:00Going with the Flow<p><i> Panta</i>, as someone in our near vicinity is fond of saying, <i>rei</i>. Everything flows; sometimes in the direction of the sewer, sometimes in the direction of your favourite intellectual toilet blog. Some rather exciting photos flowed our way recently from <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Tudor%20Friend" target="_blank">Tudor Friend</a>, who says:</p><p><i><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></i></p><blockquote><i>Hark! A creative urinal! Apparently in a Ford garage in Florida (friends are wintering there) </i></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgweGff26g9g2_IspCxzLOVfnMMsROHG6GWbsHYvo6iVECwbPQ9vfOCJkxjvwCh7VtU3v6b8yeQrpaER5IBhZfnxZ8dkM2trea8NUdB7vblg2Y20jWDT1XGM_JrW9XvCDiOM6nHkv9ONHUfD-LtzhF7dsxb9Rn4nYOI4PNXOB-UXExsYxNEwl-MLenl=s1491" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1491" data-original-width="1125" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgweGff26g9g2_IspCxzLOVfnMMsROHG6GWbsHYvo6iVECwbPQ9vfOCJkxjvwCh7VtU3v6b8yeQrpaER5IBhZfnxZ8dkM2trea8NUdB7vblg2Y20jWDT1XGM_JrW9XvCDiOM6nHkv9ONHUfD-LtzhF7dsxb9Rn4nYOI4PNXOB-UXExsYxNEwl-MLenl=s320" width="241" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How delightful to a) be wintering in Florida and b) come across this amusing and innovative urinal!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Tudor Friend continues:</p><p><i><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></i></p><blockquote><i>The sinks that go with the keg/barrel urinal.</i></blockquote><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsgRcgrKJeqcFgK4tzY7Y2gGyR2wd3LaR9TDEVlH8vBrIj8HQ0L3FDzU7jsexJy07CvySVt-ZGVUlUHwEbSt0ntk4puXi_qBgEcANpFkqTb1KJHjdHTQG6VunGT8WJVWk-eaVG9hsMAvUfavsV4ejRzhR_LXiHVIVQzK7tC7_5LCaIt_Bt7lT9RP4N=s1125" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="863" data-original-width="1125" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsgRcgrKJeqcFgK4tzY7Y2gGyR2wd3LaR9TDEVlH8vBrIj8HQ0L3FDzU7jsexJy07CvySVt-ZGVUlUHwEbSt0ntk4puXi_qBgEcANpFkqTb1KJHjdHTQG6VunGT8WJVWk-eaVG9hsMAvUfavsV4ejRzhR_LXiHVIVQzK7tC7_5LCaIt_Bt7lT9RP4N=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We've <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/08/aaaaaaaaaaaaargh-air-dryers.html" target="_blank">made our views on airdryers</a> clear and that view is not a vista of mountains on a sunny day with goats frolicking in the valley, but rather a postmodernist industrial hellscape with machines that can tell when you're feeling sad and report you to the authorities. However, these sinks and also taps - which we assume are mixer-taps - are to be applauded. At length. With a <i>da capo</i>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>We would also like to take this opportunity of alerting our readers to the existence of this article from CNN about a <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/ancient-toilet-jerusalem-scli-intl-scn/index.html" target="_blank">2,700-year-old luxury toilet in Israel</a> which Tudor Friend sent us with her usual intellectually stimulating kindness.<br /></p><p>In an effort to expand our horizons we recently went to a Thai restaurant and, in an effort to save time while there, used the gents' toilet. Did we regret this decision? Reader, we did.</p><p> </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiauyjmRbttfK3xnlHjBSvCz4EtiFzWsd8kkAhuMRQENkDXLrJFQbs5Gzk6Iz9KBsxYi3PK4MeuU6e7bTZxKIvqUqApjjj7xLiJMxtF6KUb32NUzX3mO-2RvRC4UQ_fEESaNZEUwpVmMXU51g08IAylZ_2USUKVBwoGVJb-ENu7F-my7r3lgD6rFaZO=s2000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiauyjmRbttfK3xnlHjBSvCz4EtiFzWsd8kkAhuMRQENkDXLrJFQbs5Gzk6Iz9KBsxYi3PK4MeuU6e7bTZxKIvqUqApjjj7xLiJMxtF6KUb32NUzX3mO-2RvRC4UQ_fEESaNZEUwpVmMXU51g08IAylZ_2USUKVBwoGVJb-ENu7F-my7r3lgD6rFaZO=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Does this sticky spot remind us of anything? It absolutely does: it reminds us of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2010/10/oh-horror-halloween-special-british.html" target="_blank">the SCREAMING BLOODY HORROR British workplace post</a>.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOkRV0NE_Wz2m7gjd5zwQZnr6rlG5TOCbzLuIC0uYHSjvD-gnprN1B2bzP-3sfUX1uFNT3BHuOd-6RjLNtW9BW6-UXwE9azEJPXOPrSplOQ_aT_pwSMrYq3aiX4j2Ne3jVJDTWW4DtLHRPgkp8W-aiBM4y4H1mWHxq3dqglyhrRhYmjRIka3gWrNLg=s2000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiOkRV0NE_Wz2m7gjd5zwQZnr6rlG5TOCbzLuIC0uYHSjvD-gnprN1B2bzP-3sfUX1uFNT3BHuOd-6RjLNtW9BW6-UXwE9azEJPXOPrSplOQ_aT_pwSMrYq3aiX4j2Ne3jVJDTWW4DtLHRPgkp8W-aiBM4y4H1mWHxq3dqglyhrRhYmjRIka3gWrNLg=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We lack the skills to read this <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Signage" target="_blank">sign</a>, but are assuming that it is informative and helpful. We are also intrigued by what is either a mini radiator or a radiator cunningly hidden behind a wall. Unfortunately we were too horrified by the sticky spot on the floor to want to touch or explore anything in this loo, or we would most likely have investigated this for the benefit of our regular, and also less regular, readers.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiljkSFPH_uNq7hD7FI0vkcUy5iUEuqu540ahwkVgqCkCilWflpOZr8mxiWPnMwk_VFjE7BqI3NC5NvRODQ6HI5DePwAu_aCKcmCwEeB-Lf9lobQEWlQhFbe6HmELM1fxMvrr7uPgqTGC9oj6snXhHCjzIeI76mKqJJDY3CDMU-weeccLa6E0mc83bw=s2000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiljkSFPH_uNq7hD7FI0vkcUy5iUEuqu540ahwkVgqCkCilWflpOZr8mxiWPnMwk_VFjE7BqI3NC5NvRODQ6HI5DePwAu_aCKcmCwEeB-Lf9lobQEWlQhFbe6HmELM1fxMvrr7uPgqTGC9oj6snXhHCjzIeI76mKqJJDY3CDMU-weeccLa6E0mc83bw=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Perhaps we were not in an ideal place, physically, intellectually, or alcoholically, to take useful and productive toilet pictures at this point, but it seems that we thought the hand-washing and -drying arrangements at least satisfactory.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br />We would like to take this opportunity of reminding everyone of Semi-Intellectual Friend's reporting from <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/brownian-motion-or-brownout-or-brown.html" target="_blank">the dreamy, hyper-realistic plains of a post-post-modernist Thai shower</a>. <br /></p><p>Last, but not least, let there be <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a> toilet selfies. Jonny says:</p><p></p><p><i><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></i></p><blockquote><i>It was at a Dog Disco in Vodka Revolution!</i></blockquote>We're not sure we understand a single word of that sentence, but trust that whatever was happening, Jonny remained hygienic throughout.<br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBNa9Q0kY7TEcDp9yWdgLJoArC8U3WldTpTWyijedKywRBiOv2vnlqCXeySHv-KRFXhKrfKT5Z7LFNYrw1iFJwvAD27R6tUdvkLtiHnA8_r4tVnUL_sE60wyRbayJmCyhnnaPTomywPpnp2wuCGToYNm3W2sOZCtQ0yGYIkoq3FY5rvvqpSZ9RVE0P=s912" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBNa9Q0kY7TEcDp9yWdgLJoArC8U3WldTpTWyijedKywRBiOv2vnlqCXeySHv-KRFXhKrfKT5Z7LFNYrw1iFJwvAD27R6tUdvkLtiHnA8_r4tVnUL_sE60wyRbayJmCyhnnaPTomywPpnp2wuCGToYNm3W2sOZCtQ0yGYIkoq3FY5rvvqpSZ9RVE0P=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is, apparently, a dog disco - whatever that might be - happening on the premises.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>For our less discerning readers, here is an amusing photo of Jonny appearing to be wearing a Tin Man-style hat.<br /><b> </b></p><p><b></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRMAm9WwbCL7s_WFMDzg8fQZW6jtNPh6r46Dg6R6MqLXqIvwM3SWX8CBrweub9ljDm6c0LYBJHkUFrbHDxSUU1rhhHdcZ_qoUdJeLE4br9GhsBfWZX9hYsTByg7IPbaHPxil_2bqkB1ANsi8j44ge1x0TDYHVCGK7W4t2lXN8iQn41IQgWzdiNgWc_=s912" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRMAm9WwbCL7s_WFMDzg8fQZW6jtNPh6r46Dg6R6MqLXqIvwM3SWX8CBrweub9ljDm6c0LYBJHkUFrbHDxSUU1rhhHdcZ_qoUdJeLE4br9GhsBfWZX9hYsTByg7IPbaHPxil_2bqkB1ANsi8j44ge1x0TDYHVCGK7W4t2lXN8iQn41IQgWzdiNgWc_=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonny: cultural icon and babe.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b></b></div><p><b> </b> Today's Festive Video is an amusing excerpt from the kind of high-brow cultural expressions we cherish here at the Privy Counsel.<br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Festive Video</h3><div style="height: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 56.25%; position: relative;"> <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="100%" src="https://www.dailymotion.com/embed/video/x7z78ck" style="height: 100%; left: 0px; overflow: hidden; position: absolute; top: 0px; width: 100%;" type="text/html" width="100%"> </iframe> </div><p> Festive Video: An uplifting excerpt from the <i>Barber of Seville</i>.<br /></p><h4 style="text-align: left;">Related Reading<br /></h4><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">Tudor Friend</a><br /><br />The original post outlining our views on air-dryers: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! AIR-DRYERS!</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Poor%20Aim" target="_blank">poor aim </a><br /><br />The original workplace toilet post: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">Oh! the horror! SCREAMING BLOODY HORROR HALLOWEEN SPECIAL: The British Workplace</a><br /><br />The charming and hygienic toilet at King's Manor, University of York: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">Let's Get Medieval </a><br /><br /> We have had reason recently to reflect on the <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">military base at Catterick</a><br /><br />A post summarising our work on workplace toilets: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">Les Conduites Dangereuses </a><br /><br />All posts featuring <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">interesting signage </a></p><p>Semi-Intellectual Friend's reporting from <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/11/brownian-motion-or-brownout-or-brown.html" target="_blank">the dreamy, hyper-realistic plains of a post-post-modernist Thai shower</a> <br /></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Thailand" target="_blank">Thailand </a><br /><br />An article from CNN about a <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">2,700-year-old luxury toilet in Israel</a><br /><br />All posts featuring <a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#">Jonny</a> <br /><br /></p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-87456759134425832592022-02-20T11:32:00.005+00:002022-02-20T21:58:11.633+00:00Passing Time, Passing Comment<h3 style="text-align: left;">Preamble: Finding, If Not Yourself, Then the SEO Spam Efforts of the Populace<br /></h3><p>It is when you discover that you have three hundred un-curated comments on your angry toilet blog that you realise the <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/11/ten-year-jubilee-extravaganza-decade-of.html" target="_blank">terrifying speed</a> at which life, the universe, and everything, is hurtling through the darkness. It is when you further realise that a full one per cent of these comments are genuine that you pour yourself another large gin and tonic and firmly resolve to, one day, display the most startling specimens in a gorgeous gallery of whimsy and waggishness. Reader, that day is today!</p><p> We have divided our magnificent examples of reader input into the categories "Ludicrous and misguided", "Unintentional humour", and "Actual genuine comments". In order to make this intellectual bog blog post intelligible we had to kill a few darlings, but we trust that the reader comments displayed will leave you with feelings of, if not delight, then at least apprehension bordering on curiosity, which might, if one were feeling generous, be approximating pleasure.</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Ludicrous and Misguided</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrgbcVEXLyLHT1h_WgU8uVJ5m5SfgCUWtezRjC_m4rar-PDj_Jy809Ix-SntplQTd8p_IsKvTF7baQbepX_QX2S0Dich3fEWnL2A5Cxy2sh-cHa2L-Z_t8FqljbjtpkYR899ktS-JzlO41euOj4V0nKpWpsm320NvEL3AN-PVLEeFQU9j5E1X5OVpH=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="1080" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrgbcVEXLyLHT1h_WgU8uVJ5m5SfgCUWtezRjC_m4rar-PDj_Jy809Ix-SntplQTd8p_IsKvTF7baQbepX_QX2S0Dich3fEWnL2A5Cxy2sh-cHa2L-Z_t8FqljbjtpkYR899ktS-JzlO41euOj4V0nKpWpsm320NvEL3AN-PVLEeFQU9j5E1X5OVpH=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p><br />Ah. This no doubt charming and intelligent person has gone to the post <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/07/coming-soon-celebrity-toilets.html" target="_blank">Coming Soon: Celebrity Toilets</a>, looked at the picture of Patsy and Edina from AbFab being even more bizarrely sozzled that usual, and concluded, on very shaky evidence, that the information provided is "interesting and useful". We would perhaps, however, in defence of both us and this anonymous commenter, argue that many of the actual <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Celebrity%20Toilets" target="_blank">Celebrity Toilet posts</a> are rather delightful. (Especially the ones featuring the dusky beauty of <i>Emmerdale</i> fame!)<br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeorS8ZwRo3u24f3kGuBebl-V-e5eOL2W1pSxHkQqSiv_6VfsNz3fclhK6tdrk2jt9o414dGgQH-t3woFJaNOHwis7-Ko7az7uR44rMkxh1143fsxVEpn0b5janygbLhvL3ZkT3Gkei9kfNss-SyJXr8FFEYoRtN3iXUgJttuteuE3ehG4oUEdIV38=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="840" data-original-width="1080" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeorS8ZwRo3u24f3kGuBebl-V-e5eOL2W1pSxHkQqSiv_6VfsNz3fclhK6tdrk2jt9o414dGgQH-t3woFJaNOHwis7-Ko7az7uR44rMkxh1143fsxVEpn0b5janygbLhvL3ZkT3Gkei9kfNss-SyJXr8FFEYoRtN3iXUgJttuteuE3ehG4oUEdIV38=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>What can we do except agree? Once upon a time, in the halcyon days of 2013, we wrote a post entitled <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/08/jonny-and-public-toilet-treat-for.html" target="_blank">Jonny and a Public Toilet - A Treat for Single Ladies</a>. It does what it says on the tin. "Cool" and "helpful" are two adjectives that we find singularly apt.<br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikp4U0qtaVLOf1AOpwxdao_j0llAgOyagTr8q-oPigsbE31wqhvRTMSwhVHPCrdsHSegH3Tax3blryhkwVm6gnALgAuSr59EnVWjEeHUFleedMRFqzD3uYNxYk_tSgjqf7SHiUkeG6ZvcTqJAuItBXbBD0p-jhuACRQfWPVZtH-ILRqwbINzPrZ6Z4=s320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikp4U0qtaVLOf1AOpwxdao_j0llAgOyagTr8q-oPigsbE31wqhvRTMSwhVHPCrdsHSegH3Tax3blryhkwVm6gnALgAuSr59EnVWjEeHUFleedMRFqzD3uYNxYk_tSgjqf7SHiUkeG6ZvcTqJAuItBXbBD0p-jhuACRQfWPVZtH-ILRqwbINzPrZ6Z4" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Jonny, in 2013, showing off one of his his many talents.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx-rkY0grjgzGmth5JjvTxOjthJ4l1IVOML1LwNfGaTAfIzH-g5ouH_4vR1_FVdrQm-mArCGG4r_SqM8zCYek7FMmdNBSUsYxU6XM-zUXkHQIeztL3g5rtk_Vxn6jzkBg1yNvDTqnrnKrOUvH2jCKetOEuqWhSbkhw1G6QngkunxV3jbeXrqaNXX5m=s1055" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="705" data-original-width="1055" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhx-rkY0grjgzGmth5JjvTxOjthJ4l1IVOML1LwNfGaTAfIzH-g5ouH_4vR1_FVdrQm-mArCGG4r_SqM8zCYek7FMmdNBSUsYxU6XM-zUXkHQIeztL3g5rtk_Vxn6jzkBg1yNvDTqnrnKrOUvH2jCKetOEuqWhSbkhw1G6QngkunxV3jbeXrqaNXX5m=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>Is "fellows" an honorific or a slur? We're buggered if we know. Either way, the post <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/08/foul-play-also-fowl-issues.html" target="_blank">Fowl Play, Also Fowl Issues</a> contains this immortal line of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Semi-Intellectual%20Friend" target="_blank">Semi-Intellectual Friend</a>'s:</p><p><i></i></p><blockquote><i>Irony exists for a reason and that reason is to be slathered over
everything spoken or written like grease on a fat man's belly when he's
being thrown down a hill</i>. </blockquote><p></p><p>"Remarkable for people experience"? Indeed!</p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Unintentional Humour</h3><h3 style="text-align: left;"> </h3><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbcfeCiZX-ebSFGvHtHeX7xWHliOWFDm0Rek4TzIUxTG2BJ90XkDcFRPwWPR2N6hzqe190KU83Aem-O6-u8dakBFZLCF_KhV44ivXfqNn0mGcNj4auAqUnYmwTm_2FGciB0sKtUeL_-mwDHnYmlI2tzr8v26Xpdor-Jj6fq-dIEuGCxKev1Pbb2Eae=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1006" data-original-width="1080" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhbcfeCiZX-ebSFGvHtHeX7xWHliOWFDm0Rek4TzIUxTG2BJ90XkDcFRPwWPR2N6hzqe190KU83Aem-O6-u8dakBFZLCF_KhV44ivXfqNn0mGcNj4auAqUnYmwTm_2FGciB0sKtUeL_-mwDHnYmlI2tzr8v26Xpdor-Jj6fq-dIEuGCxKev1Pbb2Eae=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p><br /><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/01/viking-poo.html" target="_blank">Viking poo</a> is inarguably exciting, whatever your background, age, or education level, and everyone, rich or poor; young or old; sane or barmy, should endeavour to get the dangle of it.</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ6Gnl6ZU85A-22L_ceQRRHV1p1lyMvZJeKZ9b5fUV8gMjD8UZ8BASWZIH7mHYk_mQoNWWj8-wL67R6ZhE99D71cvmnBOE_zZ7c4LcI8XC75-QEygJbYY5Dummav_Iuj7iecdcMC0bPKjwYsWIzUTSOxQXZV2CJZxfxDjLcUPF8crMCQc4F3nvd8Py=s1200" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="1200" height="147" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiZ6Gnl6ZU85A-22L_ceQRRHV1p1lyMvZJeKZ9b5fUV8gMjD8UZ8BASWZIH7mHYk_mQoNWWj8-wL67R6ZhE99D71cvmnBOE_zZ7c4LcI8XC75-QEygJbYY5Dummav_Iuj7iecdcMC0bPKjwYsWIzUTSOxQXZV2CJZxfxDjLcUPF8crMCQc4F3nvd8Py=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Lloyds Bank coprolite from York: Well worth your time.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1080" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgRo2Vhe3dlo9ezT7qRmlNbOsbprnGhNMoLrzwBXqGY_UQstDv4O965y16-Fnwq5dhyD8ErQjjfVhUGJWoAxcCXEV_YZh2D9EDcFeSjWfbQ9zxnhKMc-kA8lhfNzjZa9HW0fQFn8ZyypEAeOieD3SwB_dT4vpaK2cjZhSd3l71R93GrzS9TppkfAjsT=s320" width="320" /></p><p> </p><p>Well. If you've read <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/02/what-yellow-rubbery-fuck-stephen-fry.html" target="_blank">What the Yellow Rubbery Fuck: Stephen Fry Acts as Pin-Up Again!</a> and you're eager for more information on intravenous cocaine, may we recommend <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-mystery-mysterious-case-of.html" target="_blank">A Christmas Mystery: The Mysterious Case of the Curse at Crapper Castle; or; Put a Lid on It; or; No Shit, Sherlock</a>? A most elucidating post, if you're a Freudian. </p><p></p><p><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Actual Genuine Comments</h3><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd62xDFrHJCfmjUO2RS2bIw4alzVOUldlpW25GBQMOhKeEAXDxPFg3cYlLIGCXRa7UgDwZQSACbMQXrlH3cr8aF7Jau61upe_RqOmQrt_T9HBBP4ppWWICLT_iMT0pooBJ3Xi2IAsDmFSOA-V9FThyFAignc-i2Oj3r7CSnseXfTEZFQNw3WzmQ00R=s1740" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1740" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgd62xDFrHJCfmjUO2RS2bIw4alzVOUldlpW25GBQMOhKeEAXDxPFg3cYlLIGCXRa7UgDwZQSACbMQXrlH3cr8aF7Jau61upe_RqOmQrt_T9HBBP4ppWWICLT_iMT0pooBJ3Xi2IAsDmFSOA-V9FThyFAignc-i2Oj3r7CSnseXfTEZFQNw3WzmQ00R=w249-h400" width="249" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRUXVMw86KrIRmty1Uvx_-jbqJo2M7QpwoN7y5ScTipXdfjUzBesAOzWLyCgzEWbvi_Jgn04px1q48ALUqZ_dWXF057KgrToUKThWpCMBtzgRIh7LhInbc4HCOkWvAGT3X_e-haNCqu7eAzycktuW91VOhIJpJIs4EW2TXkEQV7F19YpD3_vWOofns=s1160" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1160" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRUXVMw86KrIRmty1Uvx_-jbqJo2M7QpwoN7y5ScTipXdfjUzBesAOzWLyCgzEWbvi_Jgn04px1q48ALUqZ_dWXF057KgrToUKThWpCMBtzgRIh7LhInbc4HCOkWvAGT3X_e-haNCqu7eAzycktuW91VOhIJpJIs4EW2TXkEQV7F19YpD3_vWOofns=s320" width="298" /></a></div><p><br /> We've all had a <a href="https://artincontext.org/hitler-paintings/" target="_blank">woke phase</a>, but we'd like to argue that, at the Privy Counsel, we are not prone to cancellations and dogmatic dictates, being rather in favour of an open and honest discussion, even on stances we disagree on (the exception being <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/12/rocking-rolling-ranting.html" target="_blank">toilet roll orientation</a>, for obvious reasons). Here is a comment that makes two good arguments in favour of designing toilet doors that don't go all the way down to the floor, in response to our post <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/04/springing-leak.html" target="_blank">Springing a Leak</a>. Personally we'd always favour the privacy argument, but we can see the merits of this line of reasoning, and thank Unknown for the constructive comment!</p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrMc6_rzT_zfYRVio5r3P1B_JmRBYEyJK2KbT4W2MvxvfPLkPNEXPBt6m3LOVAus0111yBvZy_CJI-bDgrxnvsyMOuCA5aWu0wqVgoBM1uQKU9e1NiXECWTAyhd8NmdyuVndcCyJawP9RIYAL7IA0ln3plntxhoVa1amtyinEcmrJD5Ig-FgvnfLh6=s320" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="320" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjrMc6_rzT_zfYRVio5r3P1B_JmRBYEyJK2KbT4W2MvxvfPLkPNEXPBt6m3LOVAus0111yBvZy_CJI-bDgrxnvsyMOuCA5aWu0wqVgoBM1uQKU9e1NiXECWTAyhd8NmdyuVndcCyJawP9RIYAL7IA0ln3plntxhoVa1amtyinEcmrJD5Ig-FgvnfLh6" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Subject of debate: The curious "Wild West Saloon"-like doors of the Vancouver Airport toilets.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> <p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqiW0fKDdh2Tk7Qek3qLcrVOZ2c547MN0VPdO2zMu-0jFIHAnoIcyzN94lXdE6Ndy45TgMayNSDB0LdyzepKlUw2o399WTEKHqt9HXUER-MqwpUybmBChlQ0URq0pgpnUWKYdQMecpJ4Rc19FVYhOECKCEAyhhd91NLq9fNJ63kHXqax_5xc7drd5z=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="1080" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqiW0fKDdh2Tk7Qek3qLcrVOZ2c547MN0VPdO2zMu-0jFIHAnoIcyzN94lXdE6Ndy45TgMayNSDB0LdyzepKlUw2o399WTEKHqt9HXUER-MqwpUybmBChlQ0URq0pgpnUWKYdQMecpJ4Rc19FVYhOECKCEAyhhd91NLq9fNJ63kHXqax_5xc7drd5z=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>To be perfectly honest this might be sarcasm, but then again it might not; we're choosing to take it as a compliment. </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPu-qg2AX69mvCsbumTYq1NZXyBh003XVhbK85VV4EDrfQF8HU07KTMxTucw5364MELWv6a6vofCO-Ipi1C_UOZrge3EnI1NbmgJdZUfSMgrnO8x8M5tL4-jjm2yq0_WmEKIfORHDOLyYromZ7NmA7GR6IgmU76Ze9r7BFwknaAdQ2yoJCO1xXxg_f=s1080" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="982" data-original-width="1080" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPu-qg2AX69mvCsbumTYq1NZXyBh003XVhbK85VV4EDrfQF8HU07KTMxTucw5364MELWv6a6vofCO-Ipi1C_UOZrge3EnI1NbmgJdZUfSMgrnO8x8M5tL4-jjm2yq0_WmEKIfORHDOLyYromZ7NmA7GR6IgmU76Ze9r7BFwknaAdQ2yoJCO1xXxg_f=s320" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>We wrote a post called <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/12/dunnies-down-under-or-everything-you-do.html" target="_blank">Dunnies Down Under, or, Everything You Do Is Futile, or, Self-Medicating with Car-Sickness Tablets Is Not Hip</a>, featuring many delightful photos sent to us by <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australian%20Friend" target="_blank">Australian Friend</a> - who wrote a comment! We would like to push back, to use a colloquialism, on this line of reasoning, however. You say "being under two duvets with a hot water bottle" like it's a bad thing?</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgt1fbAK4EYBzvZyz-CQmwWdT_b8aWZui1q0yARiySFzIPomR0kXxmKzyKnpMxnBmsF7Mr4drdd9xB57J__lu--SvTe3etIb7yGwIuDy_5AQTHJQP4rnK-thwyvzcuTDgUImAQe-xOT-7EZW-aEE5K_ynDlcUDAsLpiRGqFc6svVUSiBRTr86xwaiO1=s1161" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1161" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgt1fbAK4EYBzvZyz-CQmwWdT_b8aWZui1q0yARiySFzIPomR0kXxmKzyKnpMxnBmsF7Mr4drdd9xB57J__lu--SvTe3etIb7yGwIuDy_5AQTHJQP4rnK-thwyvzcuTDgUImAQe-xOT-7EZW-aEE5K_ynDlcUDAsLpiRGqFc6svVUSiBRTr86xwaiO1=s320" width="298" /></a></div><p>Finally, a kind reader from Belgium has left this most helpful comment! Thank you, Jannes, for your kind words and splendid suggestion.<br /></p><p>Would a bog blog post even be a bog blog post, without a picture of Jonny looking weirdly handsome in a toilet? We'll leave the question to the philosophers to hash out, and hasten to simply enjoy this vista:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikXGnJH4zxJSpW_Lf6LWVVnnfAVKI8Swe733Ca-iWMJiQpcdLezuvF-VVi4vbFdpWeuoes-Ymm7ZC8Pfpf2pwxrLJlyFi1_jjQGYjlB7DH9Tj2A99ADqJn3qN-q0Z5k4qz5wVvTGdbAj38brvRIwneh6p3tUoVZ4YRmquX9O-LTymTJrMw_D9CzmIz=s816" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="612" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikXGnJH4zxJSpW_Lf6LWVVnnfAVKI8Swe733Ca-iWMJiQpcdLezuvF-VVi4vbFdpWeuoes-Ymm7ZC8Pfpf2pwxrLJlyFi1_jjQGYjlB7DH9Tj2A99ADqJn3qN-q0Z5k4qz5wVvTGdbAj38brvRIwneh6p3tUoVZ4YRmquX9O-LTymTJrMw_D9CzmIz=s320" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p>If we were a Renaissance artist we'd name this composition something like <i>Temptacionne Leadeth the Sinner to Hys Ruinne</i>.<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZAfFC1f_HkyhyNliPRJz5F7XODN1mM5IojddOnVGizgm8Km-I4EM97gchMM_TQ7cBLHXNe_sjjwi1org5z6uy_-UTPLujbHN19Evmxo6ZjJSvJH--5B98V-7JmLfspqZss2ZG1qlqnXchh6AxAZXsgLemgkn4ZZf03ym_gtGfrmUcNeDdttODrXz1=s912" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="684" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZAfFC1f_HkyhyNliPRJz5F7XODN1mM5IojddOnVGizgm8Km-I4EM97gchMM_TQ7cBLHXNe_sjjwi1org5z6uy_-UTPLujbHN19Evmxo6ZjJSvJH--5B98V-7JmLfspqZss2ZG1qlqnXchh6AxAZXsgLemgkn4ZZf03ym_gtGfrmUcNeDdttODrXz1=s320" width="240" /></a></div><p><i>Thysse Hondle Ys Well Blinge</i>.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now let us forsooth have a merrie video!</p><p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ic3g8Xnf7LI" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></p><p>Festive Video: Screamin Jay Hawkins, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic3g8Xnf7LI" target="_blank"><i>Constipation Blues</i></a>.<br /></p><p><br /><br /></p><h3 style="text-align: left;">Related Reading</h3><p><br />Musings on time: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/11/ten-year-jubilee-extravaganza-decade-of.html" target="_blank">Ten-Year Jubilee Extravaganza: A Decade of Enlightenment!</a> </p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/07/coming-soon-celebrity-toilets.html" target="_blank">Coming Soon: Celebrity Toilets</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Celebrity%20Toilets" target="_blank">celebrity toilets</a></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Celebrity toilets belonging, specifically, to the dusky beauty of Emmerdale fame: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/07/celebrity-toilet-premiere.html" target="_blank">Celebrity Toilet Premiere</a> and <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/09/rejoice-for-we-bring-you-another.html" target="_blank">Rejoice, for We Bring You Another Celebrity Crapper!</a></p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/08/jonny-and-public-toilet-treat-for.html" target="_blank">Jonny and a Public Toilet: A Treat for Single Ladies</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny </a></p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/08/foul-play-also-fowl-issues.html" target="_blank">Foul Play, Also Fowl Issues</a><br /></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Semi-Intellectual%20Friend" target="_blank">Semi-Intellectual Friend</a></p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/01/viking-poo.html" target="_blank">Viking Poo</a></p><p> <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2013/02/what-yellow-rubbery-fuck-stephen-fry.html" target="_blank">What the Yellow Rubbery Fuck: Stephen Fry Acts as Pin-Up Again!</a> <br /><br /><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-mystery-mysterious-case-of.html" target="_blank">A Christmas Mystery: The Mysterious Case of the Curse at Crapper Castle; or; Put a Lid on It; or; No Shit, Sherlock</a> </p><p>An elucidating post on <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/12/rocking-rolling-ranting.html" target="_blank">Toilet-Roll Orientation </a><br /></p><p> <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/04/springing-leak.html" target="_blank">Springing a Leak</a></p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/06/whether-you-want-it-or-not-super-summer.html" target="_blank">Whether You Want It Or Not: Super Summer Extravaganza</a></p><p> <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/12/dunnies-down-under-or-everything-you-do.html" target="_blank">Dunnies Down Under, or, Everything You Do Is Futile, or, Self-Medicating with Car-Sickness Tablets Is Not Hip</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australian%20Friend" target="_blank">Australian Friend</a></p><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/08/lucy-worsley-and-jane-austen-historical.html" target="_blank">Lucy Worsley and Jane Austen: Historical Toilet Etiquette </a> <br /></p>Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-44715845057199263312021-12-31T14:04:00.004+00:002022-01-01T09:42:45.419+00:00Mnemosyne, Mother of the Muses, Washes Her Hands of This Mess<h2 style="text-align: left;">Introduction - we rant, unproductively <br /></h2><p> It is, a reliable source informs us, <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Year%27s%20Eve" target="_blank">that time of year</a> again. <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/11/ten-year-jubilee-extravaganza-decade-of.html" target="_blank">The fourth dimension of the universe</a> is currently getting its customary seasonal media attention, which causes us to feel our habitual <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/08/ennui-new-ease-from-now-on.html" target="_blank">ennui</a>, though it is fascinatingly intermingled, this year, by an energising strand of panic related to certain duties we need to perform as a consequence of having been elected, by a party of lunatics, treasurer of a committee. Never mind that, however. As we stated, <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/12/dunnies-down-under-or-everything-you-do.html" target="_blank">last year</a>, we're averse to joining in the general jollification of recollections and memories of the year gone by:</p><p></p><blockquote>Being bored to the point of taking actual car sickness tablets - in the
hope of being knocked out for twelve to fifteen hours - by the
retrospectives and accounts of "highlights" that plague media as the
calendar year approaches its end, we're not going to indulge in anything
resembling either a) nostalgia or b) hand-wringing over the horrors of [the past year].</blockquote><p></p><p> We haven't changed our mind on this - indeed, <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/04/springing-leak.html" target="_blank">belligerently sticking to unpopular views</a> seems to have become our forte - and continue being eager for escapism. The one thing that has changed, perhaps, is that rather than attempting to knock ourselves out with car sickness tablets, as we did in 2020, we've spent most of 2021 either being sedated by morphine, or wishing we were sedated by morphine. The fact that we still managed <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/" target="_blank">four bog blog posts</a> before our traditional New Year's Eve post (which we somehow continue to churn out despite our much-publicised ennui) speaks, we like to think, to the strength of our character and remarkable fortitude under unreasonable circumstances. </p><h2 style="text-align: left;">We present some old photos we happened to find, using much irrelevant guff and too many sub-clauses<br /></h2><p> If we could blame our lack of organisation and failure to intelligently catalogue the various photos that kind people send us of exciting toilets from the world over on our aforementioned dependency on analgesics, we would. Unfortunately, however, our addle-brainedness in this area is <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/12/frame-of-mind.html" target="_blank">well documented</a>. Thus, on this subject, we have nothing more to say, and no other apology to offer. However, when stumbling, the other night, barefoot, bedraggled and benumbed by [the modern equivalent of] laudanum, wearing a linen nightshirt with lace cuffs, through one of the dark, dreary crypts peopled by randy monks, dead nuns and nervous pheasants that constitute our archive, we found some rather festive photos! They are of a sink in a pub in Goodramgate in York - possibly, according to <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO3lVxtA9sQ" target="_blank">some notes we apparently made, at some point in the past, which had been hidden in an intricately carved wooden chest</a>, and which we just managed to get a glimpse of before a gust of wind dramatically blew out our candle, the King's Arms! However, research indicates that the pictures are most likely from the <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/01/royal-oak-we-revisit-dear-old-pub-with.html" target="_blank">Royal Oak</a> pub, which we reviewed, without much enthusiasm (indeed, we went so far as to claim to have been "bludgeoned by the baseball bat of disappointment"), in 2011. This, we don't need to tell you, is a neat decade ago, and displaying these images now seems rather apt, n'est ce pas?<br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgTWqG0qZtDJD6tN1AlwBlmLLUPoM6si-OqI_GwrL1JtmUHPY_Hqwp3Sgvxdk6N7NZ6RK6Layo2PAo95tlsl1jtInF1v3V-fsI9ZmtdJYcMmdwwasKaKexXrbVCd8gz1gnPnnJ7QA6vZB3G3Yo3kwPIztp73lbX1yqD0MXq_8Ve6tXiLKHoRC9jtkb=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhgTWqG0qZtDJD6tN1AlwBlmLLUPoM6si-OqI_GwrL1JtmUHPY_Hqwp3Sgvxdk6N7NZ6RK6Layo2PAo95tlsl1jtInF1v3V-fsI9ZmtdJYcMmdwwasKaKexXrbVCd8gz1gnPnnJ7QA6vZB3G3Yo3kwPIztp73lbX1yqD0MXq_8Ve6tXiLKHoRC9jtkb=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To be fair to this atrocious arrangement, there is a helpful sign informing one that one, if one attempts to wash one's hands in hot water, is about to be scalded.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpcKBtNhs5HvXdsJNMyWRRJ8BLOhpZR3lkUzQjRX3at-O6pxAsKC_37sRdkmFXtPEzO6-9ttKP3MTp4YVDmMG8YtZM27Iv3KvtT1_GEvPhGsxKM5TzMmMG1OfOyKnyc7pAW1J64fCOEWLRlKlmB4xy0ylVXfjwx98HP1PWy4hsSTTxNbGrRIDJQzdj=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgpcKBtNhs5HvXdsJNMyWRRJ8BLOhpZR3lkUzQjRX3at-O6pxAsKC_37sRdkmFXtPEzO6-9ttKP3MTp4YVDmMG8YtZM27Iv3KvtT1_GEvPhGsxKM5TzMmMG1OfOyKnyc7pAW1J64fCOEWLRlKlmB4xy0ylVXfjwx98HP1PWy4hsSTTxNbGrRIDJQzdj=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">To add one tiny grain of fairness to the desert of disappointment and despair that is the world as we know it, hand moisturiser is always welcome, and a friendly sign even more so.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv73SWHBlJWDi1LBXhXxSVPHRBrf3McIX18mHJVvu0PWuddzqZ7QGX3dmcpj49s-UCeJ39aoyXHff2aEtJuemQ1D_5nHZzzKeapZiR5Lz0eebUjHGocazI6gY1HxMb5O7i84qdnIhvcpNJ6G0DQqOvm8Uxa-iQtUaa6vurM15Ahn3CGyhfoJftgDmP=s1133" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1133" data-original-width="1080" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjv73SWHBlJWDi1LBXhXxSVPHRBrf3McIX18mHJVvu0PWuddzqZ7QGX3dmcpj49s-UCeJ39aoyXHff2aEtJuemQ1D_5nHZzzKeapZiR5Lz0eebUjHGocazI6gY1HxMb5O7i84qdnIhvcpNJ6G0DQqOvm8Uxa-iQtUaa6vurM15Ahn3CGyhfoJftgDmP=s320" width="305" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is a screenshot of our dank-dreary-crypt-slash-archive. Are you rather impressed with this attempt to catalogue pictures of a pub sink in Goodramgate? We are.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><br /></p><p>The insistence by Brits to <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-note-on-desperate-measures.html" target="_blank">continue being scalded</a> when attempting to wash their hands baffles the civilised world. <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Taps" target="_blank">We have written extensively on this subject</a> and won't go into further detail at this moment.</p><p>Now we really do have nothing more to say and no other apology to offer. We are, as we are prone to exclaim, in an affected, Fry-esque manner, mongrel-bitch tired and our fist cannot form letters any more. Thus we request that you fuck off, darlings, and leave us alone. But not before we indulge in a festive retrospective of the posts of 2021! Yes! Here we go!</p><h2 style="text-align: left;">A festive retrospective of the posts of 2021 <br /></h2><p>In February, we reached new - indeed, perhaps unprecedented - heights of pretentious academese bollocks, lamenting the increasing lack of literacy and arguing that we are all hurtling, in a little cart, towards a pre-modern state of not having a standardised written language (much as we abhor post-modernism, not to mention post-post-modernism, we would appreciate being allowed to stay in a sane and predictable state of not modernism (the horror!) but perhaps, if we were allowed a portion of presumptuousness, modernity):</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/02/has-newtonian-physics-been-unfairly.html" target="_blank">Has Newtonian Physics Been Unfairly Maligned?, or, We Are Arguably Hurtling Down an Incline towards the Seventeenth Century, or, In Defence of Boffins</a></span> <br /> <br />The next time we drew breath to rant was in July, when we railed against the proposed energetic predisposition of the proto-Indo-Europeans, which we argued was related to the horrifying tendency of Indo-European verbs to indicate motion, when everyone knows that what one really wants is to be still, with a gin and tonic:<br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/07/moving-heaven-and-earth-polarisation.html" target="_blank">Moving Heaven and Earth: Polarisation and Proto-Indo-Europeans</a></span></p><p>We then piped up again in August, when we ranted, arguably cleverly foreshadowing this post, about ennui, the properties of time, and the correct orientation of toilet rolls:<br /></p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/08/ennui-new-ease-from-now-on.html" target="_blank">Ennui; or, A New Ease from Now On</a></span><p> Finally, in December, we felt briefly enthusiastic about life, the universe, and everything, largely thanks to a photo of <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a>, wearing a beige trenchcoat, in a gold frame:</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2021/12/frame-of-mind.html" target="_blank">Frame of Mind</a></span></p><p>There are more links to other festive posts from your favourite intellectual bog blog at the bottom, under the Festive Video, but for now we think we really will fuck off - after having linked to <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/12/dunnies-down-under-or-everything-you-do.html" target="_blank">last year's new year's post</a> (a masterpiece of pessimism and misanthropy), and also all posts with the label <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20Year%27s%20Eve" target="_blank">New Year's Eve</a>, which for some reason continue to litter the universe.</p><p>If memory serves, we started this bog blog post by describing our refusal to indulge in reminiscences and retrospectives. Well, we have never claimed to be lucid. Please bear this in mind if you have the misfortune of being affected, next year, by our book-keeping.<br /></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sBhJRNYN1Lc" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe></p><p>Festive Video - Jakob Hellman, <a href="https://youtu.be/sBhJRNYN1Lc" target="_blank">Tusen dagar härifrån</a>. </p><p>(There is also <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41MMCwwdNyU" target="_blank">a rather festive, if somewhat blurry, video version</a> of this song. We would also like to suggest, as an alternative Festive Video to this post, watching the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLtFWiTzH7Y" target="_blank">Going Up to Merthyr!</a> song from our post <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2014/10/wales-cannot-wait.html" target="_blank">Wales Cannot Wait</a>.)<br /></p><h2 style="text-align: left;">Related Reading</h2><p>One of many occasions when we stuck, belligerently, to our opinion on hand-dryers, while breathlesslly showcasing <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Shewee%20Fiend%20Friend" target="_blank">Shewee Fiend Friend</a>'s photos from Vancouver Airport:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2019/04/springing-leak.html" target="_blank">Springing a Leak</a></span></p><p></p><p>Since apparently this post is, despite our initial protestations and insistence on the contrary, about reminiscences, let us enjoy the memory of that time, in 2016, when an anonymous Friend made an honest effort to expand her mind by reading <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/jane-eyre-plunging-into-passion.html" target="_blank"><i>Jane Eyre</i></a> (and hated every minute):<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2016/06/kicking-ass-of-ignorance.html" target="_blank">Kicking the Ass of Ignorance</a></span><br /><br />We remain rather pleased with our Toilet Tale version of Jane Eyre:</p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/03/jane-eyre-plunging-into-passion.html" target="_blank">Jane Eyre - Plunging into Passion</a></span></p>The original review from the Royal Oak:<a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/#"></a><br /><p><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/01/royal-oak-we-revisit-dear-old-pub-with.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Royal Oak: We Revisit a Dear Old Pub with New Toilets </span></a><br /></p><p>There are some rather festive posts, bordering on the mind-boggling, hiding under the TOTAL TAP INSANITY label:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/TOTAL%20TAP%20INSANITY" target="_blank">TOTAL TAP INSANITY</a></span></p>Finally, a couple of our classic posts on British plumbing:<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/03/are-you-british-does-tap-sanity-elude.html" target="_blank">Are You British? Does Tap Sanity Elude You?</a><br /><br /><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-note-on-desperate-measures.html" target="_blank">A Note on Desperate Measures</a></span><br /><br />If you're still managing to maintain the will to live: congratulations, and happy sodding new year.<br /><br /><br />Privy Counsellorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11364472793010526963noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2001569168982806084.post-6614268852240258922021-12-21T18:24:00.013+00:002021-12-22T09:30:58.934+00:00Frame of Mind<p> If you'd asked us, just yesterday, if there is any hope for, point to, or reason behind, anything, our answer would have been an expression of pessimism, articulated with our characteristic wit and espièglerie. However, that was before we received the following message from <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Lithuanian%20Friend" target="_blank">Lithuanian Friend</a>:</p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></p><blockquote><p><i><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">It arrived!!!</span></i></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4_RmxyvQKr2izhWBq25Kq43_c7J461AqkxxckrDHEsOrJg3S8LzsnnbDWrSWh0-q4rt_IHcpse7I7LE8EjFilUoy6pEFmu9TL6z5q39sJNN7UeRf-f3kP5QGB8QRQvHR53IlkfMgA9cuJujqpoCP_8ZaZFu-VYkxjLv7vdZqT7zrtKakE_Ue6wMdn=s1440" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><p></p></blockquote><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4_RmxyvQKr2izhWBq25Kq43_c7J461AqkxxckrDHEsOrJg3S8LzsnnbDWrSWh0-q4rt_IHcpse7I7LE8EjFilUoy6pEFmu9TL6z5q39sJNN7UeRf-f3kP5QGB8QRQvHR53IlkfMgA9cuJujqpoCP_8ZaZFu-VYkxjLv7vdZqT7zrtKakE_Ue6wMdn=s1440" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="1080" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh4_RmxyvQKr2izhWBq25Kq43_c7J461AqkxxckrDHEsOrJg3S8LzsnnbDWrSWh0-q4rt_IHcpse7I7LE8EjFilUoy6pEFmu9TL6z5q39sJNN7UeRf-f3kP5QGB8QRQvHR53IlkfMgA9cuJujqpoCP_8ZaZFu-VYkxjLv7vdZqT7zrtKakE_Ue6wMdn=w300-h400" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Did Jonny put the photo in a gold frame ("more bronze", according to Lithuanian Friend, but we're definitely not going to be splitting any hairs on this issue) and include a message written on a piece of toilet roll? Reader, he did.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"><br /><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu"></span>This message, and our reaction to it, will of course only make sense if one remembers the events of the 2017 era, when we advertised <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2017/11/lithuania-land-of-luscious-loos.html" target="_blank">a toilet graffiti competition</a>, announcing that the prize for the lucky winner was a signed photograph of <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a>, wearing his rampantly attractive trench-coat. <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/01/our-hearts-desire-for-nazis-to-fuck-off.html" target="_blank">The winner was announced</a>, in due course, and waited, and waited, and waited, for her prize. She then waited some more. Then forgot all about it. Then briefly waited a bit more maybe two years ago when Jonny had a fleeting stint of remembering and attempted to send the photo, then forgot again, then waited some more, then forgot again - until yesterday! When this treasure of treasures finally arrived!</span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"> We
don't know if Lithuanian Friend is actually </span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">clasping
this photographic record of the hunka-hunka-hotness of Jonny (who we count as a
friend for administrative reasons) to her heart at this very moment, </span></span><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">but since it's
the only reasonable course of action, considering the circumstances,
were going to assume it.</span></span></span></p><p><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql lr9zc1uh a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb d3f4x2em iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id" dir="auto">This just proves
that you literally never know what's waiting behind the U-bend! Usually, of course, it's a work meeting set in a muddy field strewn with landmines, bear traps and horror clowns and peopled entirely by self-aggrandising half-wits spouting inane business-speak clichés at each other in grating voices while you fantasise about jumping in front of a train; or a letter from the tax office. BUT. But, but, but. Sometimes it's a picture of Jonny, wearing a trench coat, in a gold frame! (Feel free to read any meaning you like into this delightful metaphor.)</span></span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">In order to make up for all the self-aggrandising half-wits and horror clowns, the Fates have filled our world with kind people who send us exciting toilet pictures which we have, for eleven years, consistently failed to find a good way of organising. (There was a period when we had what we optimistically referred to as <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Pheasant%20Situation" target="_blank">an archive</a>. It ended with us imagining this would-be organised collection of files as a medieval crypt, bursting with <a href="Ten-Year Jubilee Extravaganza: A Decade of Enlightenment!" target="_blank">dead nuns</a>, randy monks and, no doubt for good reasons, pheasants.) So thanks, everyone, for all the photos, but we're fucked if we know where any of them are. In an attempt to fill your hearts with a modicum of joy this Christmastime, here are instead some photos we've taken ourselves. </span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">First up, from <a href="https://www.kyrkogatanfem.se/" target="_blank">Kyrkogatanfem</a> in Lund, which calls itself, excitingly, Negroni- and wine bar:</span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"> </span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK7VTU5YOLWUPM4TJfYCFeKjBNA29mPeJ7DAPfuKqiKEX1GPUDGcrA29hn9FTCN7fbelzjMJbd2nXKMHbe7CMB4_8IQ7c2BEEdyOBY_04IbMOqURDQO4XVQOx_P0LtUvCGMPfgJNSSMZOxpyz5j644vu1QEDdDKKmeTCwmEyIE-ciUmTBccvUmebYS=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgK7VTU5YOLWUPM4TJfYCFeKjBNA29mPeJ7DAPfuKqiKEX1GPUDGcrA29hn9FTCN7fbelzjMJbd2nXKMHbe7CMB4_8IQ7c2BEEdyOBY_04IbMOqURDQO4XVQOx_P0LtUvCGMPfgJNSSMZOxpyz5j644vu1QEDdDKKmeTCwmEyIE-ciUmTBccvUmebYS=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We seem to remember discussing the concept of the Apérol Spritz once with an educational friend of ours from Italy, and also drinking Apérol Spritz in conjunction with Our Favourite Aunt and <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australian%20Friend" target="_blank">Australian Friend</a>, one sunny day in Copenhagen.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinbWTebUuI6IkQ-4Ss3jaGQbBlwZIeGPcy7sLkxNRdb5EIylphos_T85eU-i-YwFDs4INFb_FG91Ok8UsxGM3aTTtgTOMTvxB5E1cCb9doYu-vgSdOPlmaU8KcBT8dyIP5ObHHPPU89Do3cilFqQHn1z1crg1MfU1lGN9SyFOuWCmRlP4SyqtEDQ0T=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEinbWTebUuI6IkQ-4Ss3jaGQbBlwZIeGPcy7sLkxNRdb5EIylphos_T85eU-i-YwFDs4INFb_FG91Ok8UsxGM3aTTtgTOMTvxB5E1cCb9doYu-vgSdOPlmaU8KcBT8dyIP5ObHHPPU89Do3cilFqQHn1z1crg1MfU1lGN9SyFOuWCmRlP4SyqtEDQ0T=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This toilet has it all: It's clean, it's stylish, it's disability friendly, it's got a mixer tap, it's got pleasant soap, it's got paper towels, it's got a festive poster. This one, friends, goes up to eleven. (We could apply our long-forgotten toilet-marking scale to this toilet, but believe us, you really, really don't want us to. (Let us know if you'd like us to start using the long-forgotten toilet-marking scale again.))<br /></td></tr></tbody></table> <p></p><p>If memory serves we went<span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"> to this delightful Negroni- and wine bar with <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Favourite%20Aunt" target="_blank">Our Favourite Aunt</a> some time ago, in order to enjoy, believe it or not, a Negroni, and wine.<br /></span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">As a special treat because we're nearing Christmas (celebrated, as all right-thinking people (ie basically the populations of Scandiwegia, and Colombia) know, on the 24th of December), here are pictures of the toilets in another place in Lund called <a href="https://klostergatan.se/" target="_blank">Klostergatans Vin och Delikatess</a> where, believe it or not, you can get served both wine and delicious food, and where we enjoyed the festive environs with Our Favourite Aunt. As delightful as the food and drink in this place is, however, the highlight is clearly the toilet. We seem to remember there being a queue, but said queue was peopled, as far as we can recall, entirely by delightful people bursting with wit and (probably; it's hard to give expression to the higher reaches of human virtues in a toilet queue) sophistication.<br /></span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"><br /><span class="pq6dq46d tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me sf5mxxl7 gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu"></span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqdegepM5oBChhG6fsjfCyr_QtvDO6LUf68YrrnqX-ASWUDhun8_nJCDHWu8DFMY-WJsEm8nt8FtNEH1tmgvZIXQ0ymweuWuYiDF8EAn5hIjIUH8aXp1sjRLkyLozdAviK8yyC01-qqMOXnKsbuk4t8pVpsZyOvV_NLiKS4jBINfmpOvW4Zs_lbd8M=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiqdegepM5oBChhG6fsjfCyr_QtvDO6LUf68YrrnqX-ASWUDhun8_nJCDHWu8DFMY-WJsEm8nt8FtNEH1tmgvZIXQ0ymweuWuYiDF8EAn5hIjIUH8aXp1sjRLkyLozdAviK8yyC01-qqMOXnKsbuk4t8pVpsZyOvV_NLiKS4jBINfmpOvW4Zs_lbd8M=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Is this, basically, a gold toilet with a mixer tap and a wholly inoffensive bin? Reader, it is!<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfFCWTmhz39kV43jItcE0Z8WfHuQqy4Tafp6S43c0vXyJr23J9pQT-2tNuNLCpKYiaCSGnAacuaZ9zKT0Gm1vUD9XWmH58pewPkK6lwLqiOiaUioRbsGrvpXODmBoeu9lUk3f0jKScGBgXSF2Z3ocWqbAcWm85SGcwZGKYWSAGdDBo9j-jfP2wdAyS=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="750" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhfFCWTmhz39kV43jItcE0Z8WfHuQqy4Tafp6S43c0vXyJr23J9pQT-2tNuNLCpKYiaCSGnAacuaZ9zKT0Gm1vUD9XWmH58pewPkK6lwLqiOiaUioRbsGrvpXODmBoeu9lUk3f0jKScGBgXSF2Z3ocWqbAcWm85SGcwZGKYWSAGdDBo9j-jfP2wdAyS=s320" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What a door! What a night! (As <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Elvis" target="_blank">Elvis</a> would no doubt have exclaimed, huskily, had he ever seen this door.)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxTbg7X1rg6iMmpr_oAJnmSOTYV3bQUncBD0qOctv1prNgxqO6T2jzOzvhHfurAfmz5HE_l3LO0DP-p89Ikv6oR7hhECqt-soeZXvTL5k9k6dK5LVt0nEHAnIJge110g6pMICe1e1et0ZadvlsK-WGMGjtFKRffU3H42AAQceQiGuf8pmWPL2RIjjc=s1000" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1000" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhxTbg7X1rg6iMmpr_oAJnmSOTYV3bQUncBD0qOctv1prNgxqO6T2jzOzvhHfurAfmz5HE_l3LO0DP-p89Ikv6oR7hhECqt-soeZXvTL5k9k6dK5LVt0nEHAnIJge110g6pMICe1e1et0ZadvlsK-WGMGjtFKRffU3H42AAQceQiGuf8pmWPL2RIjjc=s320" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A disability friendly bog, a friendly chair for resting, and <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2011/09/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know.html?m=0" target="_blank">a hygienic toilet-roll holder</a>. Come what may, we have experienced this.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">We're going to leave you now, but not before blessing your evening with a Festive Video. Here is a song to listen to on repeat while you wait for your metaphorical golden-framed photo of Jonny, and/or drink your liver to smithereens.</span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"><br /><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TF-sTdXe3Co" title="YouTube video player" width="560"></iframe><br /></span></p><p></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">Festive Video: Pistol Annies, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF-sTdXe3Co" target="_blank">Make You Blue</a></span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"><br /></span></p><p><b><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">Related Reading</span></b></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Lithuanian%20Friend" target="_blank">Lithuanian Friend</a></span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41">All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Jonny" target="_blank">Jonny</a></span></p><p><span class="tojvnm2t a6sixzi8 abs2jz4q a8s20v7p t1p8iaqh k5wvi7nf q3lfd5jv pk4s997a bipmatt0 cebpdrjk qowsmv63 owwhemhu dp1hu0rb dhp61c6y iyyx5f41"><a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2017/11/lithuania-land-of-luscious-loos.html" target="_blank">Lithuania, Land of Luscious Loos</a></span><br /></p><p><a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2018/01/our-hearts-desire-for-nazis-to-fuck-off.html" target="_blank">Our Heart's Desire: For Nazis to Fuck Off, and for There to Be More Signed Pictures of Jonny</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Our%20Favourite%20Aunt" target="_blank">Our Favourite Aunt</a></p><p>All posts featuring <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/search/label/Australian%20Friend" target="_blank">Australian Friend </a></p><p>A summary of all the dead nuns and pheasants: <a href="https://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2020/11/ten-year-jubilee-extravaganza-decade-of.html" target="_blank">Ten-Year Jubilee Extravaganza: A Decade of Enlightenment!</a></p><p> </p><p>A list of all right-thinking countries: <a href="http://theprivycounsel.blogspot.com/2015/12/balls-its-christmas.html" target="_blank">Balls! 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