What is it with British toilets

Oh, man...our toilet in London, I could NEVER flush. And we met in that house. When you're trying to impress a new man, nothing says smart and sexy like being unable to flush the flipping toilet all by yourself.

"Honey -- come see the terrific thing I just did!"

Um, no. So I'd struggle with it.

"FL --"
"FL --"
"FLU --"
"FL --"
"FLUS --"

It was like starting a lawnmower. By that time, I'd've used so much water in my mini-flushes, I'd have to wait for the tank to refill before I tried again. He must've thought I had some appalling woman issue.

Our current toilet is pushbutton. Big ol' shiny chrome button on the top -- whoosh! Though it does have two buttons, big flush and little flush. I can never remember which is which.

Seriously, big flush and little flush?

Seriously, big flush and little flush?

  be grateful you have a flush ... and also that you can now buy soft toilet paper ... when I was a lad, this was the stuff you had to use: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/household-products/izal-toilet-paper/1055868/

Read the review ... says it all really!

  be grateful you have a flush ... and also that you can now buy soft toilet paper ... when I was a lad, this was the stuff you had to use: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/household-products/izal-toilet-paper/1055868/

I remember that stuff -- especially in public loos! Probably the first time I ever visited the British Isles as a tourist. For me it was a kinda you-know-you're-in-a-foreign-country thing. But glad they have the soft kind now 

I remember that stuff -- especially in public loos! Probably the first time I ever visited the British Isles as a tourist. For me it was a kinda you-know-you're-in-a-foreign-country thing. But glad they have the soft kind now 

We had that toilet paper in my primary school as well... I'd forgotten about it until just now!

We had that toilet paper in my primary school as well... I'd forgotten about it until just now!

Some things, that are too horrid to remember get "wiped" from your memory ...

Hahahhaha I could not for the life of me flush the toliet in Abbey Road studios and I immediately thought of this thread! In fact, I was in an old men's room marked 'ladies toliet'-   You'd think somewhere that hosts so many famous people would have much better loos, but no, they were pretty much the standard abomination of loos in a pub 

I'm catching up on some old threads and I just gotta stop the presses here on this bit! You gotta tell me- why were you in Abbey Road studios??? SO jealous, I cannot even tell you!!