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    Bacteriologicaly, who cares it is a #######, ya wash your hands after you use it.
    Besides your computer keyboard and mouse almost certainly are more dirty.

    Unless you get some sort of twisted thrill from sitting on a dunny with wild life in it......PUT THE @#$#@&% LID DOWN.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    Bacteriologically I think it's supposed to closed only when you flush to minimize the spray of stuff out of the pan and then it's better if it is opened so it dries out.
    Agreed.

    The fit of the seat and lid are rarely a perfect seal (that's not another creature that can get in) and closing the lid to exculde frogs, snakes and spiders would be fanicful.

    In fact I have just checked three toilets and all have at least a considerable gap where the seat hinges and one, the most modern, has rubber pads under the seat which leaves a 12mm gap!

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    Quote Originally Posted by soundman View Post
    Bacteriologicaly, who cares it is a #######, ya wash your hands after you use it.
    Besides your computer keyboard and mouse almost certainly are more dirty.

    Unless you get some sort of twisted thrill from sitting on a dunny with wild life in it......PUT THE @#$#@&% LID DOWN.

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    Having lived in bush regions for close on 25 years, frogs in the toilet don't seem to be an issue with one possible exception.

    We had a "resident" frog. We would grab him and throw him outside, but he kept returning. Anyhow one day I heard a small stifled scream from SWMBO. She had been in the loo when she felt something on her foot. She looked down to see a red bellied black snake slithering across her instep. It took me half an hour to chase him out of the house because he kept hiding behind a pile of packing boxes.

    Unfortunately, when I got him out he made the cardinal error of trying to return to the house via the laundry and at that point I lost my patience with him.

    The red bellied black snake is very docile and is the natural enemy of the brown snake. I have walked over the top of the red bellied blacks in the bush. They pay no attention to us. Having said that, after 30 minutes of being prodded with a stick he did flatten his head at me, but not flared as in the original picture. My understanding is only the cobra can do that.

    Oh yes, after the RBB was removed I noticed the frog was no longer there either.

    Redbacks: Very retiring with small mouths. Not aggressive and we are not particularly likely to be bitten by them without serious provocation despite all the hype, and then I suspect it has to be a big one.

    Cane toads. I have never actually seen one in the flesh, but they seem to me to be a hideously unfavoured creature, the amphibian answer to the mammilian wilderbeast.

    I would not want one of those in my loo. However, I think I might look to shutting the screen doors first. Besides, the size some of them get to, it wouldn't surprise to hear they can lift the seat by themselves

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bushmiller View Post
    Agreed.

    The fit of the seat and lid are rarely a perfect seal (that's not another creature that can get in) and closing the lid to exculde frogs, snakes and spiders would be fanicful.

    In fact I have just checked three toilets and all have at least a considerable gap where the seat hinges and one, the most modern, has rubber pads under the seat which leaves a 12mm gap!

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    Yep I agree a complete waste of time where we lived in the country. At the beginning of summer a half a dozen frogs from a large drying swamp across the road would invade our dunny every night even if the pan was closed. The smaller ones loved that little gap between the seat and the lid, We kept a hand broom in the laundry and dunny to sweep them off the seat - sometimes they dive bombed into the pan - we must have flushed hundreds of them away every years. When things got really dry they would also sit on the taps in the laundry and bathroom and lean down to suck the drips from the tap. We did have a dugite in the pan once , scared the daylights out of mum and she got the next door neighbor in to get it out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BobL View Post
    . We did have a dugite in the pan once , scared the daylights out of mum and she got the next door neighbor in to get it out.
    dugite?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dugite
    There was a band called the Dugites. Didn't seem that venomous to me!
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    Quote Originally Posted by tea lady View Post
    dugite?


    Venomous snake. Don't feel bad. I had to look it up when BobL first posted, but I wasn't going to tell anyone.

    The real sadness is that there are so many things that can bite you and that's not counting those on two legs

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    That settles it ... after reading all of these posts
    I am never going to the dunny ever again.

    Not sure what the consequences will be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Allan at Wallan View Post
    Not sure what the consequences will be.
    Allan
    You could wear continence pads?

    BTW, drive through Wallan today on my way to Tallarook; lovely part of the world.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Allan at Wallan View Post
    That settles it ... after reading all of these posts
    I am never going to the dunny ever again.

    Not sure what the consequences will be.

    Allan
    Allan

    Critical mass will have nothing on you and the fallout will something to behold. The best place to be at that moment will be anywhere you can still say "S**t."

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