This creates a mildly disinfecting solution that can be used to flush the toilet.

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Then, hearing the boy flush the toilet in the cubicle behind her, she scooped up the nasty mess with some paper towels and dropped it into the black bag she had with her for rubbish, so that he would not have to see it.

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The dual-flush toilet I used had a cheap, plastic flushing mechanism that was already broken.

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People flush a lot of oestrogen down the toilet.

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You may have to flush your toilet twice because of the low flow standards from the Department of Energy, and when you go downstairs for breakfast, even the size of the holes in the Swiss cheese that you grate into your omelet are regulated by the Department of Agriculture.

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More people now have mobile telephones around the world than have access to a flush toilet.

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After several cups of tea, I was directed to a large tiled bathroom with flush toilet and working sink unthinkable luxuries for the people living just outside his palace gates.

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Why is it that nations that find themselves in the toilet bowl of debt become seized with the impulse to pull the flush chain of austerity?

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