"Have any of you ever used a real outhouse?"

[Nevilledog]

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Christopher David
@Tazerface16
Have any of you ever used a real outhouse?

Bear with me here.

If you have, have you ever felt the urge to look down and see what's beneath your butt?

You know you shouldn't, but you do it anyway and your worst fears are confirmed?

That's a Rudy press conference.

12:18 PM · Nov 20, 2020

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. OK, that caused enough of a LOL to startle my cat.

[Sneederbunk]

2. No, but have used several fake outhouses.

[Laha]

57. Are you sure they weren't just other peoples' sheds?

[woodsprite]

3. I'm a Dem. I check it out before I go :)

I looked because I was afraid of a black widow spider or copperhead. Maybe with Rudy's hair dye, he's more a brown recluse.

[OLDMDDEM]

4. From what I can remember

My grandparents had an outhouse. This was 60-70 years ago. Sears catalog instead of toilet paper. I never looked down, but I can imagine, from the smell, what his press conference was like.

[Shermann]

22. Sears catalog? That's harsh. Literally. nt

[OLDMDDEM]

25. I remember

That it was - - literally.

[Harker]

42. It used be called "The Wish Book"... as in

wish you had some t.p.

[OLDMDDEM]

87. I like that.

I remember is joking about there not being staples in the catalog.

[sarge43]

67. It wasn't the smell or the visual; it was the rats banging around down there.

Not unlike the Trump administration

[Hoyt]

5. While I was too little to sit safely on the cut out in an outhouse, as a 4 year old, I remember

looking in the hole. As one would imagine, it was disgusting. It's something I can't forget.

I also fell in a cesspool at about 2 years old.

[LeftInTX]

13. OMG!!!

I can't imagine!!

[MyOwnPeace]

14. Oh, Hoyt!

I'm amazed that you didn't support those that wanted to "Drain the Swamp!"

[ProfessorGAC]

39. You Knew The Trump Family When You Were Two?!?

Sorry, natural mistake. You said cesspool & I thought trump!

[AllaN01Bear]

6. never , but used portapoties . ugh.

[Blue_true]

54. I can't do number 2 in a ports-pottie, too disgusting. I can do

Number 1, but try to exit as fast as possible.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. I have, my grandmother and great grandmother had outhouses where they lived at. Let me tell

you ... Rudi and his press conf. was far worse.

[doc03]

8. Yep my grandmother in WV had an outhouse

it always had WASP nests. You know bottle collectors look for old abandoned outhouses. They dig them up for bottles people threw in them. A few years ago a local bottle collector got killed digging one up when it collapsed on him. Anyway it reminds me of Rudy's shit stained face.
Spell checker capitalizes WASP

[csziggy]

35. Spellchecker probably thinks you meant White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

Silly thing.

The Spell-Checker Poem

More than an exercise in homophonous humor, "Candidate for a Pullet Surprise" endures as a cautionary tale for all those who place too much trust in spell checkers.

Candidate for a Pullet Surprise
by Mark Eckman and Jerrold H. Zar

I have a spelling checker,
It came with my PC.
It plane lee marks four my revue
Miss steaks aye can knot sea.
Eye ran this poem threw it,
Your sure reel glad two no.
Its vary polished in it's weigh.
My checker tolled me sew.
A checker is a bless sing,
It freeze yew lodes of thyme.
It helps me right awl stiles two reed,
And aides me when eye rime.
Each frays come posed up on my screen
Eye trussed too bee a joule.
The checker pours o'er every word
To cheque sum spelling rule.
Bee fore a veiling checker's
Hour spelling mite decline,
And if we're lacks oar have a laps,
We wood bee maid too wine.
Butt now bee cause my spelling
Is checked with such grate flare,
Their are know fault's with in my cite,
Of nun eye am a wear.
Now spelling does knot phase me,
It does knot bring a tier.
My pay purrs awl due glad den
With wrapped word's fare as hear.
To rite with care is quite a feet
Of witch won should bee proud,
And wee mussed dew the best wee can,
Sew flaw's are knot aloud.
Sow ewe can sea why aye dew prays
Such soft wear four pea seas,
And why eye brake in two averse
Buy righting want too pleas.

https://www.thoughtco.com/spell-checker-poem-by-mark-eckman-1692348

[doc03]

73. I tried to type "Al Gore" earlier today it kept changing Al to Ol I think after about five tries

it let me type Al. Like WASP it would not let me type wasp so I finally gave up. That was on my cell I am on my laptop now.

[csziggy]

81. I think I turned spell checker off on my cellphone browser

It's still on for texting and it is a PITA.

[smirkymonkey]

9. Yes. As a young girl I had some friends whose father decided to go live off the grid in the woods.

He built up a little compound in upstate NY which was actually pretty cool with bridges and paths and a few cottages and yes, outhouses. Everything was completely natural. They had a pump for water and bathed in the stream. There were wood stoves and it was so cozy and charming. Of course, I only stayed there in the summer. I am sure the winters must have been a bit tougher.

As for the outhouses, I never looked. I was kind of scared, so I just went and ran away as fast as I could. That was the least pleasant aspect of the whole experience but the rest was great. It was really kind of amazing now that I look back on it. They are still there and have built it into something quite sophisticated, yet still off the grid. Solar panels and all that. It's really an amazing place and I feel very fortunate to have had that experience growing up.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

10. Lordy yes, hundreds of times.

The tumblebugs were entertaining for us country kids along with reading the old Sears catalog.

That cold winter wind blowing out the hole up yer ass makes me think of a Republican's disposition.

Never saw anything as ugly as Rudy down there, though.......

[murielm99]

11. My grandparents had an outhouse.

We had one when I was a little girl. We lived in a trailer that had no indoor plumbing. We moved away from there when I was six.

[mopinko]

12. did a lot of camping.

and a lot of birdwatching in county forest preserves.
i try not to look.

[marie999]

61. My husband and I did a lot of hiking in the mountains around the country.

There weren't any outhouses so we made do. If you don't know what leaves to use, you better bring toilet paper. Either that or a bowl of water and your left hand.

[Biophilic]

15. Actually, yes, and they were in way better shape than Rudy's press conferences

I spent 7 years in south central Missouri with outhouses as the main thing. They were orderly, clean, sweet smelling (most of the time) using ash and wood shavings. As I said, way better shape than Rudy's press conferences.

[Klaralven]

16. They don't smell so bad in the winter when it's well below freezing

[ProfessorGAC]

43. Fun With Physics!

Well, fun might not be right word!

[Klaralven]

74. Shoveling the path from the back door to the outhouse was a task for a small boy

[ProfessorGAC]

76. My Grandpa Had An Outhouse

Oddly though, he lived only 7 blocks away from us, both houses in the middle of the near west side of a 75,000 person river city.
No indoor plumbing at all. A hand pump mounted on the sink hooked to a cistern
In the 60s!
I think my mom grew up pretty poor, but somehow she went to private schools G1 to 12.
When I was 10 or so, I'd put his clean clothes in my bike baskets & ride them over.
If I needed to go, I'd just ride faster & wait until I got home!
The kids next door did shovel that sidewalk for him!

[CRK7376]

83. My father in law

talks about shoveling snow to get to the outhouse. He got a scooter in the late 1929-30 for Christmas and had to shovel a path from his house to the outhouse so that he could ride on his scooter until spring and thawed out streets occured.

[Tommymac]

72. Until that frozen poopcycle pokes you when you sit.

Not a good feeling. I know.

[Midnightwalk]

17. While 20 degrees below zero

You don't need any reading material...

[handmade34]

18. Yes...

I currently have an outhouse I built on my property and have used plenty when out hiking... and No. Using an outhouse doesn't even come close to witnessing the shit coming out of Rudy Giuliani

[central scrutinizer]

19. Yes, for 7+ years I lived off the grid

No electricity, no running water, no propane. Wood cook stove, kerosene lamps. The outhouse was an old truck cab on railroad tie skids. Every few months I’d dig a new hole, drag the outhouse over it, fill the previous hole.

[ismnotwasm]

20. Or a portapotty at a Metallica concert..

[Gothmog]

21. I have used an outhouse and I agree with the sentiment

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. Good comparison, and yes I have.

I stayed with a cousin of my mother, and his outhouse was within the fence for his bull for whatever reason. So we had to avoid the bull for the privilege of using his outhouse with a wasp's nest on it.

[sinkingfeeling]

24. Yes. Both at my grandparents' and when my parents were

building our farm house in the early 1960s.

I know what he's talking about.

[OregonBlue]

26. Yep, grew up in the country and we had an outhouse until I was about 8. Then my parents put in

an indoor bathroom and septic. My parents kept it very clean and there was toilet paper so not really terrible. We also took baths in a great big wash tub in the kitchen. And yes, Rudy press conferences and his mind are worse than anything I ever saw down that hole.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

27. Yeah I have used actual out houses on my families farm .

Back in the mountains of north carolina in the 70's..They had toilet paper in there a chain holding it to the wall
with nails and an eyehook to change the roll. Yes I looked below my butt but it was so dark all I saw was dark.
It was a long ways down.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

29. Yeah I have used actual out houses on my families farm .

Back in the mountains of north carolina in the 70's..They had toilet paper in there a chain holding it to the wall
with nails and an eyehook to change the roll. Yes I looked below my butt but it was so dark all I saw was dark.
It was a long ways down.

[Midnight Writer]

30. We did not have indoor plumbing when I was a kid. Outhouse and well water at our farmhouse.

My family lived there just a few months. We rented it from my uncle whose parents had lived there until they passed. A lot of our daily lives involved hauling water in from the well. Taking a bath was quite an operation, especially with four kids.

And just down the road from me is a tourist attraction. A two story outhouse. A friend of mine bought the land it sits on and built a little park and garden around it. He maintained it, kept it painted and clean. People think it's a joke, but folks used to use it.

[Ms. Toad]

31. Yup -

There was an outhouse on the farm when I grew up - we had indoor toilets, but we used the outhouse when the electricity was out since it could be days before it came back on again. Just missed the outhouse in the one-room-country school I attended until 7th grade. They build an addition with a toilet just before I started kindergarten (but the outhouses were still on the property and were also used when the electricity was out).

Rudy, and what he, Trump, and others are doing to democracy is far more disgusting.

[TNNurse]

32. Bought an old house years ago that had never had plumbing.

There is a lot to be done to get an inside toilet. A well, a septic tank and field and all the indoor work to connect them, so yes for way too long.

After we had things functional indoors, we invited friends who had helped us to a party. After piling scrap lumber in for a very long time, we shot bottle rockets at it and set it on fire.

Yes, we has an outhouse burning party. The only one I ever attended, burying the pit was a special event.

[CTyankee]

33. At every Ivy League football game at the Yale Bowl that I attended had outhouses in the parking

lots. Our tailgate group was in one of those lots so I HAD to use them. the regular bathroom was a bit of a hike away but in nice weather it was a pleasant enough stroll. The outhouses were awful.

[58Sunliner]

34. Yes, and it wasn't as bad. Need to use lime.

[gibraltar72]

36. And got stung by a wasp.

[DanieRains]

37. I Own And Use A Real Outhouse Up The Twisp River

Gotta geter pumped once a year....

[Old Terp]

38. My mother's family lived in Southwest Virginia. Family that lived out of town often had outhouses

up until about 1970 when they got indoor plumbing. We did a lot of camping, especially on our cross country trips. The National Forest campgrounds often had outhouses, especially the smaller, more remote ones. Ah, those were good days.

[democrank]

40. Yes, a three-joker.

Way out at the end of the barn. No lights at night.

Still better than Rudy’s lie-fest.

[Stuart G]

41. Yes, and I looked down...Also I had to clean the outhouse..It was at boy scout camp

It was in 1959 or 60. For 10 days, , I was at scout camp. We lived in large tents..2 to a tent,
and it was everyone's job, to clean the outhouse once. So my turn came, and took the bucket and
water, and soap, (or was it ammonia) and cleaned the entire area in the outhouse - seat, floor, etc...And
yes, I did look down..it was a long way down, and saw nothing...I suspect it was a long way down, and I don't remember throwing the ammonia down the hole..(maybe I did)...What does one say? After a few days,
I got used to taking a s**t in the outhouse. Not the best experience, but as I look back, not the worst
either.

[Ilsa]

44. Yes, and I've also had less than an outhouse.

When you hike in the wilderness for five days, you make do with less.

[Jirel]

45. Lol, yes I have.

I can't say I've felt the urge to go look down. But then, I've used one on the ranch so many times that I don't really care much as long as there isn't a daddy longlegs plague in in there, and the TP is dry.

[paleotn]

46. Yes, I have and that is a perfect analogy.

[2naSalit]

47. Well, now that you mention it... nt

[Evolve Dammit]

48. A shit-show for sure. The hair dye was cringe-worthy priceless.

[hunter]

49. My great grandma didn't believe in indoor plumbing.

She was a cattle rancher in the Wild West.

When her grandson bought modern plumbing from Sears Roebuck & Company for the big house, to please his bride, my great grandma was convinced it would be the ruination of them all.

It wasn't.

We'd stay with my great grandmother, about 500 yards from the big house with Sears Roebuck & Company plumbing, in the small cabin with the outhouse out back.

As a kid waking up in the middle of the night having to pee, I usually didn't get so far as the outhouse. I'd go out the back door, take a few steps, and pee anywhere.

[BusyBeingBest]

50. Vault/pit toilets and porta potties--ugh.

I once pulled down my shorts to pee in a vault toilet at a trailhead in New Mexico and was bitten on the behind by a deerfly or horsefly that came up out of the overly-full toilet mess below me. I still cringe at the memory of that disgusting moment.

[tinrobot]

51. Except at the Press Conference, it isn't below your butt, it's running down his face.

[lastlib]

52. YOMANK!*

(*"You Owe Me A New Keyboard&quot

These should come with a warning to cover it!

A trumpDump (portable toilet) has the same effect.

[demigoddess]

53. in the 50s at the great grand parents place. They did not

have indoor plumbing. Also I remember when I was small watching my grandfather build an outhouse in his backyard. My earliest memory. Don't know how old I was. But I remember it.

[marble falls]

55. Ironic post: today is International Toilet Day.

[DemoTex]

56. It is part of working in a wilderness fire lookout ..

One of the nicer outhouses, from my six years at East Butte fire lookout in Oregon.


Outhouse at Lemmon Rock fire lookout in Arizona.

[trof]

58. I HAVE, THEY WERE, IT IS.

[Wounded Bear]

59. Ok, that got a chuckle...

Kind of a disgusting weird one, but yes...

[BumRushDaShow]

60. I'm glad I wasn't sipping my coffee when I read this

or else -->

Used them at camp. Called them "latrines" to give them some "class".

[Chipper Chat]

62. Great grandparents farms.

As I remember they didn't smell. But looking down was crappy (pun intended). I canstill hear the sound of the flies buzzing. And yes to the sears catalog.

[Cheviteau]

63. Is There A Fake Outhouse Somewhere?

Late 30's - late 40's, Very rural Texas on my grandfather's ranch where I was born and reared. And yes, I did look down occasionally. Not bragging here, but the scene below was much more pleasing to the eyes than Rudy's press conference. Dare I say, in all likelihood, it probably smelled better.

[Ms. Toad]

68. I'd call port-a-potties fake outhouses. n/t

[Kaleva]

80. LoL! i was going to ask something like that myself.

[pnwmom]

64. Once. It was the first day of a Girl Scout day camp. For that and many other reasons

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I decided I didn't need to return.

The idea of taking my turn at cleaning the outhouse had zero appeal. It was bad enough having to sit at tables, working on badges for hours. School was better than Girl Scout day camp.

[BMW2020RT]

65. Yes, visiting maternal grandmother in eastern KY.

We also bathed in big metal tub on the porch.

[ChazInAz]

66. Oh, yes...

Not only have I used a "Real outhouse", I have braved the Portapotties at Burning Man and Saguaro Man!

[Marcuse]

69. And then the tank cleaner said, "Hey Lady! You're in my light!"

[3825-87867]

70. Yep as a pre teen at friend's camp.

Later years as post teen, lots of wide jungle flora.

[warmfeet]

71. Yep, many times.

Rudy is an outhouse, the contents of the bottom of one anyway.

I would not call what he did, a press conference.

I would characterize it as shitting down your own face while lying your ass off. Just another typical republican.

[Hassler]

75. lol

I once used an outhouse that was so out, it didn't have walls. In Minnesota's BWCA. Just a throne in the woods. Nicest view ever for a sit-down.

[ThoughtCriminal]

77. That goo running down the side of his head

Made me think of the scene in "The 5th Element" when Zorg was on the phone with "Mr Shadow".

[LeftInTX]

78. We went camping in Texas in 105 degree weather. We only had an outhouse

I kept closing the stupid door to the thing, but couldn't breath and couldn't go either.

Finally, I just left the door open...heck with that....

[Captain Zero]

79. yes, yes, and yes

hahaha

My grandfather's farm in Ohio was my first memory of one. I was less than 4.

It was a 2-Holer ! So you could sit on one hole and look down the other !

[CRK7376]

82. When we bought our small

10 acre farm surrounded by another 300 plus acres of woods and farmland 32 years ago with what is now a 105 year old famhouse that we have raised 3 kids in, last kid in Paramedic school now....Anyway our farm came with a good barn, good granary, a rock biddie house for baby chickens, a large chicken coop 12x30 on a concrete slab, a collapsing pig pen also on a concrete slab, a 2 level corncrib full of the old farmers shoes, the original cookhouse, not attached to the farmhouse, the cookhouse had a very nice woodshed attached and beside the woodshed an outhouse. It was a perfectly functional outhouse that I used multiple times while we were refininshing floors (heartpine) and chesnutt chair railing, chesnutt beadborad paneling grown, cut and sawmilled on the farm. Anyway, the outhouse was a prefectlly useable outhouse. My wife was not happy with it, the house had updated plumbing and septic tank etc...We were also doing some work on the well and plumbing....we kept the outhouse for about six months until we got the well, plumbing and new fixtures fixed. Prior to moving in we tore down the outhouse, filled in the pit and now have a beautiful red maple gowing. The outhouse tin roof was saved to be used as needed. The rest of the outhouse, we burned it ontop of the pigpen killing two birds with one stone, 2 eyesores gone, the corncrib followed a week later. It's time to replace the barn, it's on the verge of falling down after the massive storm that rolled through here a few weeks ago. If we still had that outhouse I would gladly use it daily to dump on Trump!!!

[IsItJustMe]

84. Outhouse or portable potty, all the same to me.

Given that, the portable pottys are worse, especially at state fairs when hundreds of people are using them. For now on, I will think of Rudy every time I use one. Thanks for the memory, not. LOL

[Lars39]

85. I was fortunate in that both sets

of grandparents lived near gullies. A well built and periodically limed outhouse really doesn’t stink.

[colsohlibgal]

86. I Did

My Maternal Grandmother lived on the Ohio Side and about a football field East of the “Silver Bridge” that collapsed into the Ohio River in 1967. She eventually put in a modern inside bathroom but before that had an outhouse. I remember stressing my leg muscles when I had to before my bladder burst.....but I was not going to touch any part of it.