forbidden pleasure

well, bad news for those who couldn't go to the loo, in Vienna, until they found a nice mouth to pour into their kidney products...

An Austrian company agreed to withdraw the toilets as you see in the pic, that were installed in a public toilet near the Opera house.

The toilet seats were considered misogynist, injurious and of very, very bad taste by the Austrian feminists who did all their best to make those seats disappear. Of course, no man pronounced himself on the issue:)

full article: here

other loo stuff here: #1, #2

shoe day!

OK, autumn is here, in the mood for shoe shopping even if I really don't need to add new ones to my huge collection...except for some flexy boots I am dreaming of but didn't find elsewwhere but at Campers .
besides that, I have to tell you the ankle boots are back!
I remember the '80s, where you could find only rubbish in Romanian shoe shops...this kind of boots you could see only in the magazines brought by friends who had the opportunity to travel outside the country...those precious magazines that were OK even if they were 5-10 old already:))) I used to play with my cousin a game called: "what would you buy if you could from this page?"and, unfortunately, we could have only one choice:( for a page

I still got some white ankle boots that I remembered the moment I saw this pair of Pennly-loves-Kenny on Zappos. ( not that they deliver in Ro)
I could only remember my mother accidentally ruined those boots by washing their interior and drying them near the stove:( anyway, they did their duty as served me for more than 3 years...
I only think of those times whenever I buy a new pair...how then u could cross a year with only one pair of sandals, one of shoes and some boots...and it wasn't poverty...but those Romanian times with grey clothes and shoes, when having bright coloured stuff was such a wonder...

Such a wonder that I cried, when I was ten, when I got some navy shoes instead of those turquoise mummy ordered at a shoe factory in Agnita that was working in lohn for I don't know whom...and I cried that hard that finally I got the turqoise pair too, and I was the happiest girl in the neighbourhood...

flexy boots I found on the web are these Esprits, those Tsubos, those Keen Londons and those Paladium Invasions, but I'm still considering ...loving those Keens( 2nd row, left), though

and finally...

since there's always a good moment to stop an obsession... with something one of your readers sent. SO: there's a no no, in Denmark, for toilets and a definitely yes!

now I remember the best toilet I've ever been into, in London, at the Cinnamon Club, the 2003 New Year's Eve..

A smiling girl waited for me to wash my hands and handled a warm towel, then the hand cream..I said no, though, to the fragrances she showed me, in case I wanted to refresh myself... they didn't have my perfume then.

somebody stop me!

I have this thing with toilets, today... jumping from link to link, I found myself in the Toilet Museum. No it's not a place where you could find pictures or reliques of antiques toilets, but a place with meaningless pictures of plain, ordinary toilets.

of course it's not a museum, since it doesn't follow any museum rule...more like a gallery of disgusting loooooooos...this is the moment I am happy you cannot send smell via internet...

pic found in the museum. Yes those are Jude Law and Ewan McGregor...Like my friend's mother used to tell her whenever she came home in love: they all pee and poo, don't climb them on a pedestal!

POLITENESS EVERYWHERE

You must have thought about me I could be mental...with all my obsessions...
but when it comes to politeness...arghhh..better not talk

well, I bumped into the International Center for Bathroom Etiquette while I was saaaaaaaaailing, and realised I know nothing! Nothing at all!

The site is the place to get help when having trouble observing proper bathroom behaviour since their mission is to educate everyone on proper conduct in the bathroom, and in so doing the bathroom experience more enjoyable for everyone, end of quote

Everything is noted there, as you will see if curiosity leads you there, and not to the loooo: talking into that room, toilet paper hanging, which sink to use, what if you have to pee Really Badly( OMG, don't remind me of my waiting in almost an hour line at the Musee du Louvre Toilet!, or the rallys I took every day in Barcelona to find The place)

of course they sell something, didn't create a web site only to talk about something we might talk every day. Not that we needed all those stuff...but come on! I just couldn't resist spending those minutes in this Center.( wow, the address ends in .org, means they are serious, aren't they?)

pic took from the site