Yes, I’m sure we’re not the only ones who have noticed the problem.
I just hope that no-one begins to ask such things as diet and ‘consistency’!
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Yes. Two different things.
Watts refers to power consumption.
Lumens refers to brightness.
Funny you should say that, JBR, because about a fortnight ago I had the pleasure of having a blocked sewer to sort out.
I had to get the local water authority to come in, and the lad that came said the newer toilets with the daft dual flushes cause a lot of blockages because they don’t flush enough water through properly.
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The trouble is that on the dual flush toilets, in my experience only one flush of the bigger flush is often inadequate.
Consequently, their silly water saving idea actually causes even more water use. Typical EU bureaucrats.
Or perhaps poo is different on the continent!
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That’s just not true, De Gaulle was still saying “Non” when I started learning metric at school in 1961/2. Perhaps the EU told Britain to stop stuffing it up over a decade later.
We’ve had dual flush toilets for decades they work well and do the job intended. Perhaps you have the wrong toilet bowl for the cistern installed. There is a difference in water requirements for older style toilets and there are dual flush cisterns to match. Another stuff up?
Well that jsnt what the sewer man said here, Bruce.
I wonder if all the thick quilted loo papers used nowadays contributes to blockages too?
When I was an apprentice bricklayer we started to learn the craft using feet and inches, but halfway through the course we went all metric which really took us back to basics again! However, construction is really much simpler using metric measurements (although I still mentally convert to feet and inches), and please don’t take us back to pounds shillings and pence…
Do weigh yourself in metric, Barry?
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I was going to say that the small flush is only for urine so no paper involved but I realised that isn’t quite true. Bloody women 
To be honest the only problems that I am aware of with sewers is over flowing during floods but that has nothing to do with blockages.
Stones and pounds usually @Mups ,unless I’m going to the doctors who like height and weight in metric… Oh, and 11st8lb or 75kg… 
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That’s a very good point. Bring back IZAL then, or even use the Daily Mail.
The sewer man found lots of paper blocking these pipes JBR.
My neighbour lost his wife a few weeks back, and he said that in her last few weeks she had been using loads of paper, so maybe that contributed to the blockage - dunno.
See it’s alright for you blokes, because you wee without needing paper! So us genteel ladies are bound to use more. 
Why do you need toilet paper when you go for a pee?
Serious question.
Well I would have thought a man of your vast wordly knowledge would have the answer to that!
To put it as delicately as I can, we aint exactly got anything to shake about like you men!.
Nuff said! 
Now I think we’d better get back to metrics.
that’s not true I always read the Guardian when I’m having a pee?
Ah, pardon my ignorance. I’ll have to ask Marge if she has the same problem!
Yes, Marge’ll put your right, I’m sure. 
Probably does. When I get my annual check up the nurse weighs me - in kg of course. The nurse was about to do the Imperial conversion for me. I told her that kg was fine.
We’re talking at cross purposes here. I was being taught the metric system at school at the same time as you, Bruce but, in my post, I was talking about loose foods, vegies, etc. Adopting metric units for things such as weights and measures was one of the requirements to join the EEC, but the UK was able to negotiate temporary exemptions to the rules which meant it could still use some imperial measures. This exemption initially lasted until 1989, but was then extended to 1995. Units which were exempt included miles, yards, and pints.
The law was brought into UK law through the Units of Measurement Regulations in 1994. This made it a requirement for goods to be sold using SI units (such as kilograms, metres etc) but left certain imperial measures in place, such as beer served in pints and road signs in miles.
Not necessarily. Our toilet bowl and dual flush cistern were both installed just over a year ago. They were from the same supplier.
I wondered when the UK adopted SI units, thanks for that.
I’ve never quite understood why they made exceptions or the need for exceptions, when we went metric the beer volume remained exactly the same, ie a schooner was 15 fl oz but it became 426ml (from memory) . A schooner of beer is still a schooner, a pint is still called a pint even though it is measured in ml and a midi (ex half pint) is still a midi.
SA has always been different - what every other state calls a schooner they call a pint (even though it isn’t either a Uk or US pint, I think this just illustrates the point, they are just names not measurements.
In other details over time things got rounded up or down, Milk is sold in litres but as an example what used to be a pint carton became 300ml which is pretty close anyway (instead of 275ml)