Reply to: The turd thread

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Oh My GOD - really?

I'd forgotten about those - first saw them in Austria, my mate called them "inspectalog" the stench is real special

[Mich the Tester]

There is a full, frank and very detailed discussion of the merits of this design and others here .

Enjoy

"Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. In terms of the predominance of one sphere of social life, it is German metaphysics and poetry versus French politics and English economics. The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.



Priceless. Apparently it's all about philosophers sitting on the bog.

[DaveB]

There is a full, frank and very detailed discussion of the merits of this design and others here .

Enjoy

[Mich the Tester]

Across Europe. Most Brits find them quite a shock/laugh on first encounter. Novelty wears off.
Not yet been presented with the inspection fork, apparently they stopped doing that some time ago.

[The Lone Gunman]

I think they are fairly prevalent in NL.

Across Europe. Most Brits find them quite a shock/laugh on first encounter. Novelty wears off.
Not yet been presented with the inspection fork, apparently they stopped doing that some time ago.

[Mich the Tester]

Oh My GOD - really?

Yep, Dutch and German bogs have an inspection shelf where the deposit is caught and temporarily held before flushing. It can be used by interested parties for searching worms, examining the colour and consistency and even searching objects which may have accidentally been swallowed. There are tales of people finding their wedding rings on the inspection shelf as the turd hits the shelf with an uncharacteristic 'ting'. Quite why anyone would swallow a wedding ring is beyond me, but stranger things have happened.

Anyway, our bogs are the ones that were fitted when we bought the house 9 years ago and I shall shortly be rebuilding the bathrooms; I shall be seeking shelfless models.

[oracleslave]

Oh My GOD - really?

I think they are fairly prevalent in NL.

[Pogle]

Beef steaks can make it quite sticky, thus requiring vigorous use of the rather unhygienic looking brush to remove stains from the shelf.

We've got those shelves as well but they're a nasty piece of work and when we rebuild the bathroom I'll not be having an inspection shelf.

Oh My GOD - really?

[The Lone Gunman]

Beef steaks can make it quite sticky, thus requiring vigorous use of the rather unhygienic looking brush to remove stains from the shelf.

We've got those shelves as well but they're a nasty piece of work and when we rebuild the bathroom I'll not be having an inspection shelf.

The novelty wears off rapidly. I am renting and it came with the flat. BTLers over here are as likely to replace a working item as anywhere else.

[Mich the Tester]

or leave a big enough sticky enough log that acts like a dam and backs up enough water so that when it breaks it goes for a long jump record................. not that..................I...........have ever had that happen to me...........................of course...............ummmmm.

Beef steaks can make it quite sticky, thus requiring vigorous use of the rather unhygienic looking brush to remove stains from the shelf.

We've got those shelves as well but they're a nasty piece of work and when we rebuild the bathroom I'll not be having an inspection shelf.

[The Lone Gunman]

It must be possible if you raise the cistern high enough to produce such a rush of water so fierce that the turd is forced upwards by the lip on the shelf, a little bit like a ski jumper, and out of the pot onto the floor.

or leave a big enough sticky enough log that acts like a dam and backs up enough water so that when it breaks it goes for a long jump record................. not that..................I...........have ever had that happen to me...........................of course...............ummmmm.

[Mich the Tester]

I have one of those German toilets that catches ones output on a sort of shelf (historic for tape worm). I had to flush twice this morning just to keep my feet on the floor.

It must be possible if you raise the cistern high enough to produce such a rush of water so fierce that the turd is forced upwards by the lip on the shelf, a little bit like a ski jumper, and out of the pot onto the floor.

[The Lone Gunman]

I have one of those German toilets that catches ones output on a sort of shelf (historic for tape worm). I had to flush twice this morning just to keep my feet on the floor.

[Mich the Tester]

My marks for this morning;

Size 9/10
Consistency and solidity 8/10
Stench 11/10

Perhaps helped by the braised beef and the second helping of bread and butter pudding from last night.

A good one.

[gingerjedi]

Guinness sludge this morning.