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Most restaurant bathrooms have some sort of
venting, but it
never seems sufficient to vanquish the smell. The
meager
exhaust fan vents to the outside, drawing from
the restaurant proper.
The exhaust fan could draw partially from a small
duct
connecting the kitchen to the bathroom,
overlaying
the
putrid odor in the next stall over with the pleasant
aroma of
whatever's cooking before it all gets vented.
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It wouldn't be that restful either. |
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Lord help you if the fan's wired backwards. |
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Ugh, Lynx. That stuff is just wrong. |
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How much is it societal brain training and how much is not
having the equipment to identify all the different complexes
of notes? |
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[bigsleep] I am convinced that you have smell sensitivity too,
and that it isn't pleasant. What I can't figure out is why you
stated it three times...? |
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I wonder if learning neurons in a baby go through the
'tinnitus' phase? |
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I understood the title, "Alternate Restaurant
Bathroom Venting", to mean that the venting of air
into the restaurant bathroom (although I too have
never been in a restaurant with a bath - maybe it's a
new thing) would be from the restaurant next door. |
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Apparently the American term 'bathroom' doesn't translate
well abroad. Toilet? But in America the toilet is the actual
appliance, not the entire room it is located in. Perhaps
lavatory. |
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The correct word is 'loo' |
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I assumed that the venting would alternate, so that half the time the air would be vented from restaurant to bathroom, and half the time from bathroom to restaurant. That way, people bathing would get the scent of steaks and champagne, while people dining would get the scent of bubble bath and soap, but each only half the time. |
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mmmm, yes, that makes sense |
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//The correct word is 'loo'// Agreed. Unless you're terribly upper-class, in which case it's 'bog'; or terribly lower-class (or five), in which case it's 'toilet'. |
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Incidentally, it is noteworthy that there is no common term for a loo which is not actually a euphemism, including the word 'loo'. |
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Cloakroom, from Latin, Cloaca, sewer. |
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//Agreed. Unless you're terribly upper-class, in which case
it's 'bog'; or terribly lower-class (or five), in which case it's
'toilet'.// |
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The truth of [MB]'s statement made me laugh, but it did
make me wonder whether the same applies to 'bog-roll',
which I think is standard parlance? |
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//Agreed. Unless you're terribly upper-class, in which case
it's 'bog'; or terribly lower-class (or five), in which case it's
'toilet'.// |
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The truth of [MB]'s statement made me laugh, but it did
make me wonder whether the same applies to 'bog-roll',
which I think is standard parlance? |
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"Bog roll" is decidedly upper class. |
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In general, it works like this: people who were poor in the 1960s or earlier are keen to be seen as well-spoken, clean and refined. Hence they use "toilet tissue" and "toilet". People who have had money for at least a couple of generations do not have anything to prove except, perhaps, their connection to the earthy rest of humanity, and hence use "bog roll" and "bog" with a sense of irony. People who fall in between those two extremes use "loo paper" and "loo", because "toilet" is clearly below them, and they don't have the inverted snobbery needed to carry off "bog". |
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