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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsI'm a proud owner of a chamber pot. Yes I am.
I ordered it through Amazon for a scavenger hunt event, but the item didn't come in on time. Seriously, it was one of those horror stories of promised but lost packages. So I went to return it and discovered it would take 16 to 101 dollars to return it to GB.
I called customer service twice and finally reached a supervisor. "We don't want it. Consider it a good will gift from Amazon."
So, that's how I became the proud owner of a free chamber pot.
Now, why couldn't it have been something like a foot massager?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)I hope it wasn't a used one.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Just in case, I think I will turn it into a flower pot. It certainly won't hurt anything.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)I am a real estate photographer. A month ago, I was hired to shoot a home that was built in 1862. The "bathroom" had a arm chair, with a very nice cloth cover on the seat, and a matching skirt....the seat could be lifted off to reveal the chamber pot, which of course would slide easily out between the front legs for emptying.
We have it so easy now with our bidets.
hlthe2b
(102,351 posts)I'd have thought you would have had to buy that at an antique store.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Make up a story, sell it on eBay & donate the proceeds or keep it around so you'll always 'have a pot to piss in'.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)You just never know when it will come in handy.
rurallib
(62,445 posts)just pull it out and hand it to them.
Should be a great way to get rid of unwanted guests
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Hmm...
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)braddy
(3,585 posts)yonder
(9,671 posts)A drunk guy comes home and his neglected wife tries explaining what he is seeing. The chamber pot reference being in towards the end of the third verse. Funny song actually, this version from Steeleye Span:
"Four Nights Drunk"
Now as I come home so drunk, I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a horse, no horse should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the horse there, no horse should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a milk cow me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Saddle on a milk cow I've never seen before.
And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw boots, no boots should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the boots there, no boots should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a flower pot me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Laces on a flower pot I've never seen before.
And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a hat, no hat should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the hat there, no hat should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a chamber pot me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Sweat-band on a chamber pot I've never seen before.
And as I come home so drunk I couldn't see, oh
There I saw a man, no man should be there
I says unto me wife, tell this to me, oh
How come the man there, no man should be there
You old fool, you silly fool, can't you plainly see, oh
Nothing but a baby me mother sent to me, oh
Miles I have travelled a thousand miles and more, oh
Whiskers on a baby I've never seen before, oh.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Good one.
Ptah
(33,034 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Turbineguy
(37,364 posts)in the winter, in a drafty house without central heating. You need a plate to cover it.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)house had inside plumbing. Old habits, I guess.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)They were very ornamental. You would never have guessed what they were used for if you didn't know already.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)When I was young, her mother's death my grandfather would visit. Dad would set up a cot in the dining room and Granddad had a chamberpot to use during the night. Mom would clean it out every morning.
That chamberpot had been used daily by Granddad's father and grandfather before they had indoor plumbing.
I'm not sure who is going to end up with it, but I am not volunteering to take it!
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)Mom was a RN - she was used to cleaning bedpans after patient use. A chamber pot was just a larger version.
Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)Just being silly.
csziggy
(34,137 posts)I visited someone who proudly displayed a "ewer and basin" that she had inherited. I didn't have the heart to tell her it was actually a chamber pot and pitcher for rinsing it.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)No running water, the outhouse is COLD in the winter in Interior Alaska....
Honeybuckets!!!
lastlib
(23,278 posts)Rich man has a canopy OVER the bed......
-- -- -- -- ...
(Poor man has a can o' pee UNDER the bed!)
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Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)heh heh.
RockRaven
(14,991 posts)I hear he likes this sort of thing...