Re: When I was a lad ....
"I remember my dad telling me of an acquaintance in primary school who (after holding it for a day) was capable of (and proud of) hitting the ceiling."
We didn't have ceilings in the school urinals - just open air above our heads.
The Australians in the 1990s had a very non-PC approach to such matters in their children's TV programme series "Round The Twist". It even reached the BBC - and apparently appealed to kids' sense of outraging adult sensitivities.
Here's a sample relevant to the quoted comment Little Squirt. See 21m37s denouement if you don't have time to get the full story.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
