Incense In The Bathroom: A Generational Divide?

[mingc]

I'm 60 and grew up in the tropical 3rd world. Man, all we had in our bathrooms were giant cockroaches, spiders, and the occasional bat.

Damn, you people RICH!

 

[Chasing Embers]

My house is over 50 years old and the bathroom has an exhaust fan. Is that no longer a thing?

 

[Chasing Embers]

I'm 60 and grew up in the tropical 3rd world. Man, all we had in our bathrooms were giant cockroaches, spiders, and the occasional bat.

Damn, you people RICH!

I grew up on a farm. Rattlesnakes and black widows love outhouses.

 

[anotherbob]

My parents and grandparents never burned incense of candles in the bathroom after getting down to business and I often thought as a kid while using the bathroom in my grandparents house after one of them that "that's how old people smell" but now that I am older I realize that if it were not for incense or candles burning in the bathroom after more or less anyone using the facilities in a major way the bathroom will have that aurora of what I thought when I was young, was the unavoidable smell of old age. If incense or candles were commonplace in bathrooms when I was a kid I think I would of had a very different perception of certain things related to getting old. If you wouldn't mind participating in my informal survey could you please answer the following:

1.) year you were born
2.) do you have incense or a scented candle in your bathroom?
3.) do you have Norman Rockwell decorative plates hanging anyplace in the house?
4.) have you bought sticks of palo santos in the last 12 months?
5.) have you ever been caught in the supermarket squeezing the stray roll of 89% recycled paper toilet tissue?

I look forward to your answers.

Good day to all

1 I don't remember to be honest. Everyone tells me it was 78 but I don't start remembering anything until the 80's.
2 no no no. I firmly believe that bathroom plus something that is pleasant but does not cover up the scent just makes a new worse scent. I still smell that you blew up the commode and you only made it worse you savage dull sensed fool!!!
3 no First while a decent painter I do have one massive problem with the guy... Not only does he not rock well I don't think he rocks at all. Which may seem like a stupid quibble but I firmly believe that as a society letting that slide is what allowed for Pat Boone. Also I am far too much a minimalist to have decorative plates. Honestly if someone gave me such plates and I couldn't sell them quickly for a some nice change, well they'd quickly be converted into frisbees. Or conversely if I had small children in the house it could be used for their intro to skeet shooting.
4 not only have not bought sticks of Palo santos in any span of months, years, or decades, or even centuries.... I don't know what that is.
5 nope just a few very friendly coworkers .

 

[keith929]

1. 1951
2. yes
3. no
4. wtf ?
5. no

 

[canucklehead]

Do I win a prize for knowing what palo santo is?

 

[SBC]

I jested, but I do know what palo santo is, only because Dogfish Head put out a high gravity ale which had been aged in/on palo santo wood.

I was aging some in my beer cellar (...cupboards in my basement), but after trying it and not caring for it, I gave the rest to a friend who loved it.

 

[anotherbob]

My house is over 50 years old and the bathroom has an exhaust fan. Is that no longer a thing?

yes it is still a thing. In fact so much so I am shocked when I am at some ones house and they don't have one. Kind of like the cover scent thing of the original question. Ages doesn't seem like the biggest factor. It seems like it's one of those things that some have or do and some don't whether old or young.
One of my favorite stand up jokes is about exhaust fans. And I can't find the clip right now.

 

[mingc]

I grew up on a farm. Rattlesnakes and black widows love outhouses.

I assume open flames and wooden outhouses don't go well together?

 

[Chasing Embers]

I assume open flames and wooden outhouses don't go well together?

That's the purpose of the sun or moon cut out of the door, gender and ventilation.

 

[Streeper541]

My house is over 50 years old and the bathroom has an exhaust fan. Is that no longer a thing?

I hope so because finding a newspaper to fan the room with is becoming tough.

 

[Chasing Embers]

I hope so because finding a newspaper to fan the room with is becoming tough.

Tablets are getting bigger.

 

[brian64]

I'm rather surprised I have so much data already and I don't have a clue what to do with it.

You don't have to do anything with it...it's already on the internet and being fed into "AI" along with everything else...which is why "it" is already a full-blown psychopath.

 

[kcghost]

1. 1947
2. No
3, No
4, WTF??
5. No

Nothing wrong with a fart fan in the bathroom except we forget to turn it on.

 

[ThermionicScott]

1. 1980
2. Only if it's a doozy
3. No
4. Any relation to George Santos?
5. Not convicted, anyway

 

[instymp]

I remember many kept a book of matches on the toilet.

 

[ashdigger]

My house is over 50 years old and the bathroom has an exhaust fan. Is that no longer a thing?

Anybody with an exhaust fan needs to put a timer instead of the switch. Those little motors can cause fires.

I’m starting to sound like a nanny. Sorry folks.

 

[Chasing Embers]

little

Last time I did any ceiling work, I noticed that its motor was the same size and rating as those of my ceiling fans.

 

[puff_not_snuff]

You don't have to do anything with it...it's already on the internet and being fed into "AI" along with everything else...which is why "it" is already a full-blown psychopath.

I hope AI gets IBS from this thread.

 

[TN Jed]

1.Summer of Love
2.Thats what the courtesy flush is for
3.My wife has some Delft plates on a bookshelf that I'm not allowed to eat on
4.I don't do drugs
5.I don't do drugs