5 ms·

A toilet is a place where people go take a shit or piss.

credit_guy 4y ago
Before the invention of flushing toilets, the place where people were going to shit or piss was generally outside the house, also known as an "outhouse". A "domestic dwelling that contained a toilet and a kitchen" does sound unusual.
- prmoustache 4y ago
  Hell no. People have never been ok to stump on someone else shit and feces have been used in the past as construction material and fertilizer. There are still old dry toilets in my grandparents old farm. Basically a cabin with a toilet seat made of wood on top of a big hole. Wood chips and saw dust was kept in a bucket for the user to cover his shit with. Mixed with compost the end result was used as fertilizer.
  - somedangedname 4y ago
    >...a cabin with a toilet seat made of wood on top of a big hole. In Australian slang this is called a 'long drop' after a particular style of judicial hanging. And yes, there are spiders.
    - speed_spread 4y ago
      I would have guessed long dropbears instead of spiders.
    - HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
      I have never given outhouses a second thought before this, but I wonder how often people fall in.
  - fahadkhan 4y ago
    Or as fuel for fire. (Once dired)
- dghughes 4y ago
  The Indus Valley Civilization had toilets that could be flushed using a pipe coming from a water source above it. That's from about 6,000 years ago.
- ztrww 4y ago
  The Romans had indoor toilets. They also existed in medieval times but only the very rich had them. most castles had a toilet or two. of course it was probably reserved for the lord and other high ranking individuals.
ElfinTrousers 4y ago
[writes that down]
pbhjpbhj 4y ago
It can be an item into which one deposits bodily waste, or an area/room where one goes to defecate and/or micturate. The earlier meaning, very occasionally still used, is a place for dressing and/or grooming (eg powdering a wig).
photochemsyn 4y ago
Hmmm... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toilet https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toilet > "1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge": "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."

Before the invention of flushing toilets, the place where people were going to shit or piss was generally outside the house, also known as an "outhouse". A "domestic dwelling that contained a toilet and a kitchen" does sound unusual.

prmoustache 4y ago
Hell no. People have never been ok to stump on someone else shit and feces have been used in the past as construction material and fertilizer. There are still old dry toilets in my grandparents old farm. Basically a cabin with a toilet seat made of wood on top of a big hole. Wood chips and saw dust was kept in a bucket for the user to cover his shit with. Mixed with compost the end result was used as fertilizer.
- somedangedname 4y ago
  >...a cabin with a toilet seat made of wood on top of a big hole. In Australian slang this is called a 'long drop' after a particular style of judicial hanging. And yes, there are spiders.
  - speed_spread 4y ago
    I would have guessed long dropbears instead of spiders.
  - HeyLaughingBoy 4y ago
    I have never given outhouses a second thought before this, but I wonder how often people fall in.
- fahadkhan 4y ago
  Or as fuel for fire. (Once dired)
dghughes 4y ago
The Indus Valley Civilization had toilets that could be flushed using a pipe coming from a water source above it. That's from about 6,000 years ago.
ztrww 4y ago
The Romans had indoor toilets. They also existed in medieval times but only the very rich had them. most castles had a toilet or two. of course it was probably reserved for the lord and other high ranking individuals.

ElfinTrousers 4y ago

[writes that down]

pbhjpbhj 4y ago

It can be an item into which one deposits bodily waste, or an area/room where one goes to defecate and/or micturate. The earlier meaning, very occasionally still used, is a place for dressing and/or grooming (eg powdering a wig).

photochemsyn 4y ago

Hmmm... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toilet https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toilet > "1917, Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge": "It is a quarter-past two," he said. "Your telegram was dispatched about one. But no one can glance at your toilet and attire without seeing that your disturbance dates from the moment of your waking."