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    Hi JOhn of Oz, check out the Australian film, "Kenny" all you ever have to know about the portable loo industry and very funny. Always remeber, if younare serving curry, double the number of portalooos you willneed.

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    There is a company in Northumberland who provide a septic tank and portaloo service; name - OWEN PUGH, some regional accents pronounce it differently.

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    Remember in the 50-60s, and maybe even later, London Docks, ships toilets locked, only shore ones available, not a nice experience as i recall. If you needed a dump in the night, paddle down the gangway etc. When i joined the Durham Trader Oct 1962, she had just arrived from Cuba, with a full cargo of sugar. She was berthed at the Tate and Lyle berth on the Thames, and was also discharging into barges, so the river side ships toilet were not in use. Someone in the middle of the night had to have a dump, and used one of the offside toilets, and it landed right in the barge full of sugar, not a pretty sight. We were told the whole barge load was condemned , but one has to wonder!! kt
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    I was on the Sugar refiner, loading sugar from barges in Trinidad. I was watching the loaders spreading the load with shovels in the hold, when one dropped his pants and skittered merrily on the sugar. I said to the bosun, "hey look, that blokes crapping over there", he told me not to worry, because it all gets treated back at Tate's. Nothing was done about it, and I often saw them peeing into the load.
    The first time I used the shore toilets in London, I went into the Asian by mistake. Standing doing a pee, wondering why the feet marks were facing the wrong way, an Asian came in, dropped his pants, turned around and squatted. I found it very difficult to finish my pee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colin Wood View Post
    Hi JOhn of Oz, check out the Australian film, "Kenny" all you ever have to know about the portable loo industry and very funny. Always remeber, if younare serving curry, double the number of portalooos you willneed.
    Saw that some years back, very funny.
    We have a company here that specialises in cleaning blocked toilets etc.
    Ther call them selves as on the side of the trucks
    'The Turd Burglars'
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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Kieran View Post
    I was on the Sugar refiner, loading sugar from barges in Trinidad. I was watching the loaders spreading the load with shovels in the hold, when one dropped his pants and skittered merrily on the sugar. I said to the bosun, "hey look, that blokes crapping over there", he told me not to worry, because it all gets treated back at Tate's. Nothing was done about it, and I often saw them peeing into the load.
    The first time I used the shore toilets in London, I went into the Asian by mistake. Standing doing a pee, wondering why the feet marks were facing the wrong way, an Asian came in, dropped his pants, turned around and squatted. I found it very difficult to finish my pee.
    Going ashore in Puerto Plata you had to walk past a huge sugar warehouse; they were driving large CAT wheeled loaders on the huge piles of sugar, dripping oil all over, rats running freely over it so I doubt a little more human contribution would make a lot of difference.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith Tindell View Post
    Remember in the 50-60s, and maybe even later, London Docks, ships toilets locked, only shore ones available, not a nice experience as i recall. If you needed a dump in the night, paddle down the gangway etc. When i joined the Durham Trader Oct 1962, she had just arrived from Cuba, with a full cargo of sugar. She was berthed at the Tate and Lyle berth on the Thames, and was also discharging into barges, so the river side ships toilet were not in use. Someone in the middle of the night had to have a dump, and used one of the offside toilets, and it landed right in the barge full of sugar, not a pretty sight. We were told the whole barge load was condemned , but one has to wonder!! kt
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    This truck was spotted in the carpark of the Maersk building in Victoria Island Lagos about 20 years ago. The drilling company I worked for at the time rented one of the floors in the building for office space. At the time Maersk were building a couple of floors on top of the building and I think this truck came in to empty the porta loos of the building workers.

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    hi j gowers #58
    good afternoon , that was my impression the first time i went there, and i doubt if anything has changed since.
    tom

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    I did a bit of internal travel in Nigeria and one thing I learned was how to queue at the domestic airports, just push to the front with elbows out.
    I spent a few years working there though on a rotation status and I quiet enjoyed it but would not like to live there on a permanent basis due to security issues, I was doing 5 weeks in Lagos and 5 weeks at home.

    One of my mates got a Tee shirt made, as going through the airports your were always asked the same three questions :-

    How are You?
    How are the family?
    Have you anything for me?

    On the Tee shirt he had printed the three answers.
    I am fine.
    The family is fine.
    I have nothing for you.
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