Normal, let me take you and RastusX TRD on a tour of Cairo Airport lavatories.

You get an indentation in the floor, with a hole in the bottom, and 2  mouldings with footprints indented.

Then there's an "s" shaped pipe with a nozzle pointed upwards at 45 deg. Feet in the mouldings, turn on tap, and water is supposed to hit the target area. Not if you're 6'+ with extremely long legs.

 But, a life time in boarding schools taught me cunning. Take off trousers, and skiddies, and socks. Room to manoevre. Egyptians are very clean and leave disinfectant.

Then when all's done, you look through the open door of the next bog and find it's a normal western one.

Normal, they use the left hand for cleaning themselves.  That is all that they use it for and that is why you eat with only the right hand, and usually only the thumb and first two fingers of the right hand to eat with.  Takes some practice but it is an insult to do otherwise.

Tell me this is a joke right ? If not all my suspicions about foreigners are horribly confirmed.

No. The man's right. There is an Arabic name for the left hand which corresponds to the "Dung Hand"

You never smoke left-handed either.

As Lew says, much of Arab food is rice from a platter moulded into a ball with the top of your thumb and index and other finger  dipped into a sauce with shredded meat, and flicked into your mouth with your thumbnail. KFC was very big in Kuwait.

I use my left hand for other things..  I call it the "poker choker"

Christ. King of the Cross-hand Boogie is alive and well.......

I hope the head was Navy slang for the bog, and not the base pervert.

I wonder how many men were swept away using the heads?

 

2 planks' width. either side of the bowsprit, a rope to hold onto, the sea breaking over it in bad weather, and Normal clinging onto the futtock (no 'b' in that word) shrouds ready to leap.

 

We've all seen those lovely beak-heads on the old ships, curving below the bowsprit. Well just think what was going on behind them while the poor old artist was painting away.

 

Reality   (The Vasa). Heads would be below the  rope bowsprit lashings. 4 for a crew of 600 odd. 

 

 

Normal's dream ship (the French roi Soleil) Bowsprit has not yet been shipped see circular hole and wooden wedge middle of vertical woodwork.)

 

 

Enjoy

On-line, Normal. check beak head and go for images.

The only mammal I have ever seen do this was a monkey at the Houston zoo who was upset with some kids that thought they were doing a good turn and throwing it some peanuts and popcorn. I guess it thought it was being attacked.

I've seen chimps at the zoo do it, but only by scooping it up off the floor. A bloke in a whhelchair got some of it when his "carer" fled.