Apparently this design was popular in Germany a hundred years or so ago. Its key advantage was allowing the user to examine their stools for signs of digestive health problems.
its so annoying having to use tongs :/
You don’t have a knife?
Not “a” knife. “The” knife.
I know the joke and all, but recently the local theme park has replaced their toilet brushes with toilet rubber shovels. They work surprisingly well. They can both hack’n’slash a log, but also the back side is also ripped so you can use it to brush out the regular shit from the sides, while avoiding the dreaded paper clutter and other issues with a toilet brush being used by thousands of people daily.
It’s like toilet brushes evolving into poop knives. Looks like this: https://pin.it/OKHBRlxjI
Culture shock #2. A public American toilet may require “thousands” of toilet brushings daily.
Tell me you were exaggerating… Right?
Yeah well, I’m not counting. On busy days, the toilets have queue lines all day long. Depending on the length of the visit and the willingness to use the brush, it’s probably in the hundreds, or at least a lot more than anywhere else.
Hmm maybe brushed by staff once every 1-3 hours if visibly dirty?
This guy cleans commodes.
Amazon’s on Pinterest, then?
Neat design - could be quite effective under the rim. Just wonder about longevity of the hinge.
We Germans like to take pride in our workmanship.
*workmanshit
*arbeitungmannscheiß
A fellow Sprecher, I see! Happy cake day!
I dont need to examine my stools to know my digestive heath is horrific.
I thought it would just be for less splashing
It’s definitely for less splashing. I hate the North American bowls that spray your ass when your turd dunks.
You just need to adopt the American diet so that you either spray the toilet or your turd is so large that it enters the water before falling and doesn’t splash.
Yep, but nowadays they are losing popularity. I don’t even know if you can still find them.
Explains shit fetish or vice versa?
Story time: I once briefly lived in a place that had an old toilet bowl like this. You can still find them in older houses. One day I took a massive shit and then found out that the flush wasn’t strong enough to get it down from there. And there wasn’t a brush. Yikes. Just wanted to share that with you guys.
The trick is to put 3 pieces of toilet paper in beforehand, that way the whole shitboat can float away.
I like to imagine the shitboat floating away in flames like an epic Viking burial.
Try eating more hot sauce
Only if you had spicy food beforehand
Actually? Or are you joking?
Actually. Source: We has this style of toilet at my parents house.
My shits at my grandma’s would’ve been more comfy had I known this. I was always worried it wouldn’t flush (which happened on occasion).
Did you use the poop knife?
I came here to reference this, great work.
Origami toilet brush made from toilet paper. Yikes
So what did you do next? I’m thoroughly invested in the story
Got a bucket of water to flush it. After that I always had the bucket ready before starting the business. Luckily I didn’t stay there very long.
You wrap Your hand in toilet paper and give it a little push. That’s what toilet paper is for.
Yeah but where’s your poop knife?
That’s what the three shells are for.
Pfffffffff he doesn’t know how the three shells work!
Wait, so I’m not supposed to throw them at other cars in traffic?
Well, I’d never want to rain on someone’s parade.
Lob away!
I’m still trying to understand which of the three shells is the correct one to use as a poop knife
All 3 held between the fingers, with a punching action.
That brings up a question; if Wolverine claws at a poop and retracts his claws, does the poop get wiped off by his gloves and skin or does the poop go into his forearm?
These are the important questions that need to be addressed. We cannot let this go unanswered by the creators.
We all are. It’s one of the bonds that keeps civilization alive. Keep searching !
ah, je mean de poop clogs?
It sure does.
The mashitty?
aaah I get this reference
Just use a shit stirrer.
I had these in a few houses in Germany. I call them trophy shelf toilets.
Did you have the light switch outside the bathroom too? That way your friends can make you poop in the dark
Still better than a light sensor in a communal bathroom… outside of the stalls. That’s how it is at my workplace. If I spend a bit too long pooping, and nobody else comes in to poop at the same time, I end up in the dark. Then when I have to wipe, I have to either risk opening the stall door and wave into the room, with my dirty ass hanging out, hoping nobody happens to enter the bathroom at that time, or wait patiently for someone to come in and reactivate the light. Makes me wonder how blind people check their wiping: do they go on flavor or smell?
Haha, buy some of those super cheap pop lights for closets and use double-sided M3 tape to put one inside every stall 🤣👍🏻
Or turn the flashlight on your phone on
Or EDC a Warrior 3 and turn on THE SUN…but nah, I was going for the commentary of the lights being installed more than the actual function of them.
Surely you mean poop lights?
I do now! 🤣👍🏻
Oh, is that not a thing some places? I think the majority are outside here in the UK, generally electricals are not allowed inside the bathroom (although I’m not sure this actually covers light switches as I’m sure some of them are in there…)
I thought the pull-string light switch inside the bathroom was the standard in the UK?
I’ve only seen switches outside bathrooms in the last 5 years, in recent “having the bathroom re-done” cases.
It might be an age of house or regional thing though.
I think it’s against electrical code. You can have a pull string because the wires are on the ceiling which carries the same risk of getting water in it as the light itself that is also on the ceiling. A wall switch would be lower on the wall and has the risk of wet handed people coming directly in contact with it
Sometimes you’ll see those “shavers only” sockets in bathrooms, which are different from your typical wall outlets in that they have a GCFI (also called RCD), and/or a built in fuse to limit current, and have a floating ground.
The light switch and light is likely tied to a “live loop” system which runs 230V, and has a 5 or 6 amp non-GCFI breaker on it. That is considerably more dangerous for a wet human to come in contact with.
PICK-PONGGG….
In the US, it’s extremely rare to have a light switch outside if yhe room with the light. Usually there’s a lights witch and a couple sockets in the bathroom by the mirror.
Of course.
The Germans call them “Flachspüler”.
Germans call a lot of things weird names
How is “flat flusher” weird?
Goddamn I love me some Butters
8 into a backflip midair wipe for me.
#11 is called an upper decker.
You should see the Dutch Oven….
For an extra 5€ I’ll show you a Dutch Trombone
American toilets gave me culture shock
They’re so shallow that you can’t even sit down without your balls touching the bowl or the water
I hated them, they made me anxious. But much worse were the low stall walls. Why america, why? When I take a shit I want a wall that actually serves the purpose of not having people see me taking a shit.
On another note, the Dutch style toilets were very common in Germany up until the 90s. Rare nowadays. I think they are actually superior. You see it, if you have a problem with your shit and even the largest shit doesn’t splash water all over your intimate parts. On the other hand, you have to protect your balls from the large shit, when it goes “timber”.
I’ve always known that our stall walls in the US were shit, but then I visited Sweden and saw how truly horrible we were.
Over there, there are no men’s rooms or women’s rooms. There are just several doors each to a private bathroom and so it doesn’t matter who uses which one.
I’m sure our “single room with flimsy stall dividers” design is the cheapest, plus it’s not as convenient for all the drug addicts and homeless people our society creates, so it will never change.
I think you might want to get your balls looked at.
Which will be easy to do, considering they’re dangling out of his pant legs
Are you proposing something?
How you doin’?
We all do.
You got long balls, Larry.
Those are actually French toilets. They were designed like this so you can check for blood and other abnormalities. British toilets were designed so the poop would fall in the water, reducing the stench. The British design proved more popular, yet the French design is better with less splashing and for checking. It’s important to check, to find out if there’s something wrong with your intestines like cancer (black blood) or a tapeworm. The British didn’t find this important, just like washing hands after pooping.
You guys just like looking at poop
You guys just like the splash
It’s important to check, to find out if there’s something wrong with your intestines like cancer (black blood) or a tapeworm.
Hungarian here, many in this country prefer the “betegvécé” (French), yet cannot say anything about what they should check for. It’s just virtue signaling, no matter how much people have been abusing that term.
reducing the stenchsplashing your testicles with the urine shit surface cleaner mixtureAre you unable to see blood if it falls in the water?
You can absolutely see your poop in the water and the water would turn red or a darker color if there was blood which is probably more obvious lol
If you don’t wipe so it isn’t covered with toilet paper, sure.
You can look before you throw toilet paper. How does a poop shelf act any different when you throw toilet paper on it
You throw the paper in the water
They had these in Germany, too. If you took a particularly massive shit sometimes the water pressure wasn’t enough to shove it into the hole.
These toilets also don’t help with covering the smell of shit.
I mean, you flush it down regardless, so I never noticed a difference as far as that goes.
If it drops right in water it’s much less smelly. I’ve used em all over different times, if you’ve got a real bad smelling poo you don’t want that on no shelf!
Not if you take your time.
Pedophiles in the olympics, our strange toilets with the “poop shelf”; I just can’t win today.
Edit: it’s so you can inspect it. How is everyone else inspecting their poo?
I think for most people it’s kinda a shit n forget situation. As soon as I have dropped the load I want to disown it and forget it faster than you can say “shit”. You know just like pa did it.
Comments on toilets of France, England, and Germany by Slavoj Zizek: https://youtube.com/watch?v=8mtZmBvat4k
Another good bit (not in the video) is that Zizek thinks that’s why Germans can endure great pain and sacrifices for an ideal…if you are strong enough to observe your shit for health reasons, there’s nothing you can’t do!
French toilets are BIS. Large, deep bowls with great pressure and a second commode for the greatest modern invention, the bidet. The French don’t fuck around with their shit.
Using “bis” for toilets is funny, like you’re grinding a raid at the hardware store hoping for an epic toilet drop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZQr0DVHU2o
Producer is French. Alléz figure!
I know the meme is that people use it to look at their poop, but honestly the main advantage is the 0% chance of water splashing up. I will take this design over the “standard” ones any day.
Have found that putting a little bit of TP in the water before commencing the act helps a lot to avoid Poseidon’s kiss.
I once stopped in urgent need of a toilet at the dirtiest little gas station in the middle of nowhere, where the one guy on duty directed me out back to a foul, stunningly filthy toilet. After doing my business I arose and, turning to face the toilet, flushed. It was an old flush mechanism where the water just kind of fell in from all sides, causing a kind of trapped tsunami to eject a single drop of fresh poop water 7 feet up in the air and down straight into my mouth.
If my many decades of life have taught me anything, it’s to close my mouth when flushing or scrubbing the toilet.
thanks I hate it
Yeah thats the strat, but it wastes a bunch of toilet paper…
But what about just poop on some toilet paper, make no splash, and the smell is still not so hard, as with the dutch/German toilet
You haven’t thought of the smell!
What kind of rock hard dookes are you laying?
Probably standard European fibre rich turds.
It’s so you can examine your stool, you might have some blood or a consistency you don’t like, that way you see it
Wake up, coffee, breakfast, shit, see how much of last nights meal was really digested, shower, shave, work
Typical morning, idk what the big fuss is
It also helps you gauge the poop’s internal temperature using the back of your scrote, if you are endowed with fairly loose balls.
Long balls!
I’m a bit shocked with reactions I read. You’ve probably never heard of figure shitting. I tried to figure shit some letters of the alphabet. I’m great at the letter P and R.
Its hard but not impossible to do German umlauts ä,ö,ü.
I’m always involuntarily umlauting.
I can do the poop emoji
Hero!
