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Republicans invade Europe! Pt. 2 | 38 comments (38 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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The bathrooms in the Strasbourg train station... The mens' room consist of a bucket next to the janitors closet.

Heh, that must have been some secondary bathroom or even just an employee's WC. I have been in a men's room at the Strasbourg train station that was just like the women's room described.

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 04:42:18 AM EST

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A lot of these observations make sense in the frame that all other countries are the third world. If your expectations are very, very low you'll piss in a bucket, take an unmarked, unmetered taxi, etc.

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 04:52:30 AM EST
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I think he was being snarky?

"Pretending that you already know the answer when you don't is not actually very helpful." ~Migeru.

by poemless on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 11:22:59 AM EST
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I did take "bucket" to be snarky, but a snark aimed at comparing the men's room negatively to the women's. When I was there it was just like Jeannie's: a counter with tainted glass wall like on an airport, a milk glass sliding door, and spacious clean WC rooms behind. (And no, the other people inside weren't female :-) )

_{*Lunatic*, n.

One whose delusions are out of fashion.}

by DoDo on Fri Oct 17th, 2008 at 11:36:02 AM EST
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