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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: drlmg on January 29, 2013, 09:16:26 PM
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Smelly French family 'ordered to leave Musee d'Orsay'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9834828/Smelly-French-family-ordered-to-leave-Musee-dOrsay.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9834828/Smelly-French-family-ordered-to-leave-Musee-dOrsay.html)
Surely not!!! For example..... Paris..... such a clean odor free city! And the people are all of impeccable personal hygiene, friendly, and courteous!! :laugh: :::D :laugh:
I have a friend that ran out of deodorant in France...... tried to find some at the local market....... they didn't even know what it was..... and treated her as if she was an idiot for wanting something so absurd!
In all of France she could not find any..... England had none as well..... had to go deodorant free till she got home to the US.
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Don't they call it 'Toilet water'?
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Eau de toilette
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I wonder who these "decent" and "properly dressed" so called "french family" are?
And what the hell is "hard-up"? Is that turd-speak for rape?
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I thought Eau de Toillete was perfume or cologne.
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I thought Eau de Toillete was perfume or cologne.
Think he meant pew de toilette
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I thought Eau de Toillete was perfume or cologne.
It is a grade of diluted perfume. But I think it literally means toilet water.
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It is a grade of diluted perfume. But I think it literally means toilet water.
I don't speak french but usually when I think of toilet in terms of cosmetics I think of it in terms of "toiletries" like grooming accessories. You know, toothpaste, deodorant, soap, etc. and not literally the toilet you put solid and liquid waste into.
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I don't speak french but usually when I think of toilet in terms of cosmetics I think of it in terms of "toiletries" like grooming accessories. You know, toothpaste, deodorant, soap, etc. and not literally the toilet you put solid and liquid waste into.
Yes of course. That's due to the evolution of languages, and technology:
Toilet
The word toilet came to be used in English along with other French fashions. It originally referred to the toile, French for "cloth", draped over a lady or gentleman's shoulders while their hair was being dressed, and then (in both French and English) by extension to the various elements, and also the whole complex of operations of hairdressing and body care that centered at a dressing table, also covered by a cloth, on which stood a mirror and various brushes and containers for powder and make-up: this ensemble was also a toilette, as also was the period spent at the table, during which close friends or tradesmen were often received.[34] The English poet Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock (1717) described the intricacies of a lady's preparation:
“ And now, unveil'd, the toilet stands display'd
Each silver vase in mystic order laid.
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These various senses are first recorded by the OED in rapid sequence in the later 17th century: the set of "articles required or used in dressing" 1662, the "action or process of dressing" 1681, the cloth on the table 1682, the cloth round the shoulders 1684, the table itself 1695, and the "reception of visitors by a lady during the concluding stages of her toilet" 1703 (also known as a "toilet-call"), but in the sense of a special room the earliest use is 1819, and this does not seem to include a lavatory.[35]
Through the 18th century, everywhere in the English-speaking world, these various uses centred around a lady's draped dressing-table remained dominant. In the 19th century, apparently first in the United States,[36] the word was adapted as a genteel euphemism for the room and the object as we know them now, perhaps following the French usage cabinet de toilette, much as powder-room may be coyly used today, and this has been linked to the introduction of public toilets, for example on railway trains, which required a plaque on the door. The original usages have become obsolete, and the table has become a dressing-table.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet#Etymology_of_Toilet.2C_and_alternative_names
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I thought Eau de Toillete was perfume or cologne.
Yeah it's perfume ;D