(Dunny)

Just a quick post today, as the subject is not so hot: dunny is Aussie slang for outside toilet. I have never seen one in the US between 1992 and 2009, but as in countryside Romania, the dunny is still being used in remote places in Oz. I even found out from some friends that in the eighties, houses in Melbourne’s suburbs commonly had dunnies. The difference is that in Romania people dig a very very deep whole and don’t have a tank, just do their business in the whole. They do throw disinfectants though, which makes the stench get a hospital-like flavour, but in Oz, dunnies consist in a tank that is replaced and disposed of somewhere else. The job must be unpleasant, but the dunny’s hygiene is probably better. Done! More attractive post subject tomorrow. I confess the dunny in the picture is actually from Romania…