Poo Poll

Do you put your toilet paper in your sea toilet and flush into the sea?

  • No. I put it in a separate bin and remove from the boat.

    Votes: 83 45.4%

  • Yes. It's just toilet paper and it will biodegrade.

    Votes: 99 54.1%

  • No. But I do put it over the side.

    Votes: 1 0.5%
  • Total voters
    183
Presidente ?
Refueler said:
Never forget I had a night to lose before flying out one time instead of straight to airport ... so they put e up in the hotel along the seafront ... Royale ?

Anyway ... sat down in restaurant ... waiter comes with Menu ...

I'll have ... xxxxx

No - we have not today ..

Ok - I'll have ...

No we have not today ...

Ok .. what about ...

No we have not today ...

What do you have ?

Whatever it was - it was hardly recognisable and inedible !!
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Never to be forgotten by the visitor to Shanghai in Mao's time is what the author John Harris calls the Bouquet d'Orient, the smell of the foo-foo boats carrying away the city's night soil out to the surrounding vegetable farms.
 
Beneteau381 said:
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Similar story, a Mid West Geologist came in, never been out of the States before. He stayed in the same hotel, told me he asked for "Eggs over easy" and got fish head and rice! I had to gently explain to him that first of all the guy wouldnt have spoke english, especially his version, and even if he did, eggs over easy? what does that mean?
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Last job I did there .... was coming up to Christmas and Client promised to get me home for Xmas or I could double my fee. Wife said OK - do it ....

Flight home :

Cabinda Gunship out to Cabinda Airstrip.
Airstrip turboprop to Luanda Revolution Airport.
Luanda to Rwanda
Rwanda to Bugun Bura .... that was interesting ... people were on runway pulling up weeds / cleaning as the plane landed / took off !
Bugun Bura to Addis Adaba --- off plane to board next.

We got back on same plane !! but now supposed to be different airline !

Addis Adaba to Cairo.
Cairo to Heathrow.

Wife met me at LHR .... I drove home to Cowplain Hants.

At 2345 Xmas Eve I phoned Client ... yes I'm that blo**y honest !! To which he replied ... silly man - why didn't you wait a few minutes and call me after 2400 ... but OK ... there'll be a bonus for job well done anyway ...
 
Poignard said:
Never to be forgotten by the visitor to Shanghai in Mao's time is what the author John Harris calls the Bouquet d'Orient, the smell of the foo-foo boats carrying away the city's night soil out to the surrounding vegetable farms.
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In Merchant Navy there was an old saying .....

River OOgli is ars*** of the world
Calcutta is 50 miles up it ...

My sincere apologies to those I may have offended ... but it was true - you could see the haze over the horizon as you approached and the smell changed ....
 
JumbleDuck said:
Which is, of course, basically wood. You should see the number of trees and branches which go down my nearby river on their way to the sea.
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One of my crew, who is a sort of professional woodsman, tells me to beware of the pine logs which make a rough and spikey paper. He recommends his poplars, much smoother and less likely to cause discomfort down below..........
 
FlyingGoose said:
5 pages on poo:poop::poop:
How come this:poop: gets the same accolade as an anchor thread or one about battery's what is wrong with you people :p:sick::sick:
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In a way, it explains why there was a mindless rush on toilet paper and pasta, all caused by flu.
 
Beneteau381 said:
The, what we call "woke" today, gang that used to pi ss me of were the Save the Children lot, again as you say Land Cruisers, theirs were white. Playing at saving the world in their then equivalent of a gap year!
In the meantime we got on with the job!
Flying in to Luanda on UTA or Sabena was an eye opener with first class and business oversubscribed. Most of them were NGOs!
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Which NGOs use first class? Just so I strike them off my list!
 
Refueler said:
Bog paper in bins is also the Soviet way ....

Many of the housing blocks were built by military and they would use any material they could get hold of to complete on time. Not unusual to find different sized pipes joined to complete a run ... stairs with different step heights .... etc
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DPRK hospitals were the same... but they copied Soviet methods. A total nightmare especially in unheated wards with minus 20 deg outside, and minus 10 deg inside. ?
 
LadyInBed said:
and a man of your ingenuity could fit a micro webcam to it and do an internal inspection at the same time! ? :)
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Stealing a few ideas from the locals... :)
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I'd be too scared to use that!
I can see a big button with a red square on it - presumably emergency stop. But what sort of emergencies might a satanic contraption like that be capable of? The mind boggles.

Then there's a button with a pictogtam of a bum with a geyser underneath - self explantory I suppose.
But what's the next button? It washes your hair??? eeeuww!

And it says Panasonic too. So what else does it do? Film the event? Broadcasts it? Records in glorious surround-sound? Buttons for slo-mo (geddit?) and time lapse perhaps? Store in the cloud? (Worse than a holding tank if that bursts!)

Nah, I'll stick with Izal, thanks!
 
Poignard said:
Never to be forgotten by the visitor to Shanghai in Mao's time is what the author John Harris calls the Bouquet d'Orient, the smell of the foo-foo boats carrying away the city's night soil out to the surrounding vegetable farms.
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Similar thing in Africa, we used to call it Essence d’Arm Pit.
 
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