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Old 06-21-2011, 12:16 PM
 
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Well they seem to be getting along quite fine regardless of the cancer they are living in
This cancer tastes like Applebee's.
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Old 06-21-2011, 12:47 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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As an example of what I'm talking about, a friend of mine bought a house in Brighton Heights. I found out why it was only worth $96K when he bought it: it only had one and a half bathrooms. The full bathroom was on the top floor with the bedrooms, and the half-bathroom was in the basement. There was no guest bathroom on the main floor of the house. It was a nice, well-kept house, but it was also inconvenient if I, or more than one person, for that matter, had to use the bathroom.
I know that this is the reality for so many people, but really have we gotten so lazy as a society that we can't climb stairs? I just find the "need" for a bathroom on every floor or one for each person in the house to be an interesting development. (I watch House Hunters and am always surprised by the single people house hunting that "need" more than one bathroom because God forbid they have to share a bathroom with the occasional house guest...) My mother was born in 1923. The house she was born in had an outhouse. It hasn't really, in the long scheme of life on this planet, been that long since indoor plumbing itself was a luxury. Now every house has to have at least 3 bathrooms. We are a soft, soft people.
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Old 06-21-2011, 12:58 PM
 
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I know that this is the reality for so many people, but really have we gotten so lazy as a society that we can't climb stairs? I just find the "need" for a bathroom on every floor or one for each person in the house to be an interesting development. (I watch House Hunters and am always surprised by the single people house hunting that "need" more than one bathroom because God forbid they have to share a bathroom with the occasional house guest...) My mother was born in 1923. The house she was born in had an outhouse. It hasn't really, in the long scheme of life on this planet, been that long since indoor plumbing itself was a luxury. Now every house has to have at least 3 bathrooms. We are a soft, soft people.
That "House Hunters" show and others like it make me angry. "Oh, no, I only have fifty grand to renovate my guest bathroom! Help us, HGTV!"
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Old 06-21-2011, 01:00 PM
 
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That "House Hunters" show and others like it make me angry. "Oh, no, I only have fifty grand to renovate my guest bathroom! Help us, HGTV!"
Has the Pittsburgh episode aired yet?
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Old 06-21-2011, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Squirrel Hill
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You could also still live with just an outhouse, but why would you given other options are readily available?
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Old 06-21-2011, 01:02 PM
 
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Has the Pittsburgh episode aired yet?

Haha, they can run an episode about those toilets that are in the middle of the room in the basement.

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Old 06-21-2011, 01:13 PM
 
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Haha, they can run an episode about those toilets that are in the middle of the room in the basement.

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I've seen "Pittsburgh" toilets (and showers) in Ohio and Michigan. We just called them basement toilets, though.
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Old 06-21-2011, 01:19 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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You could also still live with just an outhouse, but why would you given other options are readily available?
I was not suggesting we should revert to outhouses, just musing on how, in less than 100 years, we go from outhouses to a house with one and half bathrooms being totally substandard. Our households get smaller and smaller in terms of number of inhabitants whilst the perceived need of square footage gets larger and larger. I'm not totally not guilty of this either. I live in a 1920s house with 1920s sized closets and constantly wish for more storage space. But the reality is that I just have far too much crap.
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Old 06-21-2011, 01:24 PM
 
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I've seen "Pittsburgh" toilets (and showers) in Ohio and Michigan. We just called them basement toilets, though.
Yeah, a friend of mine in Akron used to have one in his old house.
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Old 06-21-2011, 01:50 PM
 
Location: Virginia
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Haha, they can run an episode about those toilets that are in the middle of the room in the basement.

Pittsburgh toilet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oh my! Have you guys already done a thread on this? Because if not, that actually might make an interesting thread topic.
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