Tinting the toilet bowl water

I know that when my brother was really little, my mom put some of those blue tablets into the toilet, and when he peed and the water turned green, he came out of the bathroom thinking that he was dying of something terrible...It was pretty funny.

I don't know how great they work, but the blue color isn't bad.

Love it, Matrix. Never thought about that. Never realized it would actually change color. What was the child drinking?????

Basic science, bandylu...yellow+blue=green.

Duh! My problem is I drink so much and go so often it's not concentrated enough to make a difference (which is why I never noticed it).

Cannot add anything to the toliet bowl water as it is Carlottas preferred watering place. And she gets really angry if I put the lid down, icky, but true.

bandylu2- I IS supposed to keep the water free of the stuff that causes gunk in toilet bowls. There is a problem with those things though. You willfind that it will corrode the rubber flappers in your tank, and you will have to change the flappers more often.

Well, now they don't tell you that on the label, Phoenix (but then why would they). I suspect this is a short lived thingie, anyway. Just happened to see them in the food store and figured I'd give them a try. It is a pretty shade of blue (of course it doesn't go with any of the bathroom color schemes, though).

And Joanne, we always keep the lid down. I trained hubby and both kids from the very beginning. Nothing worse than getting up in the middle of the night and having the seat up when you don't expect it to be.

Joanne...

Have you seen that soap commercial on TV where the dog is drinking out of the toilet and then hears his people at the door? He comes down to greet them with kisses all over their faces and the announcers asks something to the effect of, "Are you really as clean as you think you are?"

Yes, but you know Carlotta is a cat and she does not give out with many kisses thank God.

I used to have a Manx cat. She'd go into the bathroom if I was taking a bath and walk around the edge of the tub...Sometimes she'd fall in. A couple of times, when someone had left the toilet seat up, she walked around the rim and fell in there...

She didn't want to get a drink. I don't really know what she was doing, except she wasn't being very smart for a cat.

Oh, Nermal does that, Matrix. He also lays in the bathroom sink - even while I'm brushing my teeth. I was expecting him to panic when I turned on the water, but instead I got a wet cat reluctantly leaving. Understand that Nermal is not quite Normal.

The above brings me into a saying we use to have when skiing & I imagine it is still used-- being "Don't eat yellow snow".

roger...

I think when talking about cats, we need to keep the word normal out of the conversation, don't you?


Smitty...

I wouldn't go eating any blue snow, either...!

It was an odd word choice, now that you mention it.

Blue color of the toilet tablets has a psychologic effect, to my mind. It makes the bowl seem cleaner than it is (even when it is absolutely clean). Besides this, tablets contain deodorating and desinfecting substances. Some of the brands contain substances that dissolve scale that results from high bicarbonate contents in water in certain areas.

Back in olden times, they made Santa Flush, which probably crimped his style somewhat, in addition to bogging him down. So he started leaving these little touches of a blue Christmas in all the homes in which he went.

I guess it was Sani-Flush, I was recollecting.

http://site.yahoo.net/worldwideretro/saniflushgal.html


But it seems they do in fact make Santa Flush.


http://www.passionup.com/christmas/html/christmas121.htm

Good grief!!!

For the record, we don't tint the water. The lid is generaly down but for specific periods involving excretory functions. the commode is a chair in the bathroom more often than it is a flushing appliance.


In the warmer months, it wears a bright, frilly upholstery, in the cooler months it gets more of a comfy furry sort of dressing. The throw rugs and curtains in the room are coordinated accordingly. I play no part in this.


The references to pets compel me to add one of my own. I have been around dogs my entire life. I love them, respect them, and and am quite considerate of them. However, I do not lose touch with the fact they are dogs. I am aware that a dog would be quite perfectly content to spend the day sleeping on dirty laundry, eating from the garbage can, drinking from the toilet, rolling in decomposing animal remains, and wading in mud puddles, perhaps doing a little upholstery chewing or installing a new hole in the garden by way of distraction at the odd moment here or there. From a dog's point of view, the water in the toilet bowl, changed as it is several times a day, is doubtless the freshest, coolest, most refreshing water in the house. Do your pets a favor. Be certain water is freely available to them, and change their water several times a day.



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