Comments on: Toilets

By: jusitn bates

jusitn bates — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:15:04 +0000

i like your web site. its nice too see other people fill the pain.

By: jusitn bates

jusitn bates — Tue, 29 Mar 2005 21:13:59 +0000

i like your web site. its nice too see other people fill the pain. please send me some stuff on toliets i am doing a report at school on it. well it is really a speech but there are about the same.

By: jp

jp — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:42:07 +0000

I’m sure there’s a book here somewhere… quite apart from the German inspection shelf, does anywhere else share Finland’s passion for the “bidet wand”? – Even on trains they have this pressure hose thing for inimate rinses. The Nordic region generally seems to have invested much R&D in developing urinals that minimise splash-back.The French menawhile wouldn’t dream of putting the loo in the same room as the bath, cf the Brits who are quite happy to put it right next to the head end of the tub. Yet the French still yearn for the hole in the floor – what’s going on here?

By: denkpass

denkpass — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:40:06 +0000

What you describe here is called in Germany a “Flachsp?ler” – translated probably as flat flusher. We also have the american version, the “Tiefsp?ler” – translated as deep flusher.

Both have their advantages and disadvantages. Splashing is a problem of Tiefsp?ler which can be countered by putting toilet paper into the toilet before (and after) you put your “organic waste” into it.

Sticking in Flachsp?ler can be countered by the same counter measure, I guess. Of course sticking material can be cleaned by using a certain tool.

Problem was, once in a hotel in France there was no such tool. That what causes tension, I learned.

By: denkpass

denkpass — Fri, 04 Mar 2005 18:39:03 +0000

What you describe here is called in Germany a “Flachsp?ler” – translated probably as flat flusher. We also have the american version, the “Tiefsp?ler” – translated as deep flusher.

Sticking in Flachsp?ler can be countered by the same counter measure, I guess. Of course sticking material can be cleaned by using a certain tool.

Problem was, once in a hotel in France there was no such tool. That what causes tension, I learned.

By: dsquared

dsquared — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 15:17:57 +0000

I believe that this design is known as “The Continental Shelf”.

By: craig neudorf

craig neudorf — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:36:42 +0000

If an extra “step” or addition was added to american toilets, all sorts of possibilities woudl exist.Toilet shapes could be rearranged too.

Say flushing took two steps (it is automatic in many public places)…. a device with volume such as a ball could be added or taken away from water tanks in the pre-flush stage. Everything moves to a non-splash location…then the flush occurs… possibilities are endless…

Or a device blocks the exposed area during the flush…..

Or a suction comes with the flush, pulling a disposable scrubber with it….

Just trying to get the engineers started….

Why do everyday sinks not always have water spouts that are dead center in the sink but well above the sinks upper rims so that pots could easily fit in for rinsing, and items needing filling be allowed to fill fully?

By: craig neudorf

craig neudorf — Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:24:30 +0000

It is strange that a simple toilet splash eliminator was never designed.

Now, who will design a proper ironing board? I suggest this every chance I get, since I have a dream to see it before I die, and am willing to give this one away, such as it is…..

The only way the present shape of the ironing board could have survived this long is the predominance of male engineers..

They still need to fold up and be light… they need to have shelves/pegs to support clothing weight..need long narrow shoots of varying sizes, wide flat areas, concave areas…..so pant legs, sleeves, backs of shirts, shoulders and such can more efficiently be ironed…..you get the idea…need some good ironing people and some good engineers to get together.

By: Guy

Guy — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:49:28 +0000

What about French toilets, especially on the highways, where they just have a hole in the floor and you need to perform serious acrobatics, squatting and simultaneously holding on to sidebars, in order not to slide and hit the pile-up. Ewww.

I remember we had toilets with platforms in The Netherlands… I won’t go into details, but a pile-up could have serious consequences.

By: Georg

Georg — Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:33:48 +0000

On which issue, we must mention a short video featuring Slavoj ?i?ek at the East Art Map project website – reachable via the Satin Pyjama-Best Weblog, Glory of Carniola:
http://www.carniola.org/theglory/2005/01/the_east_art_ma.html