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Try using a toilet in Germany. Without being too crass, you deposit your excrement onto a dry shelf, whereupon it may be inspected, or not, and then a rush of w
by mberning 14y ago
Try using a toilet in Germany. Without being too crass, you deposit your excrement onto a dry shelf, whereupon it may be inspected, or not, and then a rush of water slides it off the shelf to its destination.
- iso-8859-1 14y agohttp://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilette#Porzellanstandardbecken http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilette#Porzellanstandardbecke...
- LVB 14y agoThanks. Up until 10 seconds ago, my memories of those had been nearly completely purged.
- kghose 14y ago1. Uses less water 2. No splash back
- daralthus 14y agoAlso it is designed to facilitate stool examination, as it was invented when huge dysentery epidemics spread through Europe.
- smackfu 14y ago3. Smells worse.
- kalleboo 14y agoThis cannot be understated. They smell really bad. Have a friend who lived in Prague and his bathroom wasn't ventilated and he had a german shelf-toilet. Day after a big drinking session, it was unusable since the room smelt so bad.
- scotty79 14y agoDouble plus for no splashback. I don't get how people can suffer through this. I hate so much being splashed by dirty toilet water. And this happens like 50% of times for me while using non-german style toilet.
- acheron 14y agoI saw that in Spain, too.
- pcrh 14y agoI never understood the point of those things...
- ZoFreX 14y agoThey have really advanced toilet seats in some public bathrooms, though! Totally different angle to the Japanese - some of the toilets I used in Germany rotated the entire seat 360 degrees through a cleaning mechanism. Very hygienic!
- Tobias42 14y agoYou only find those toilets in many decades old bathrooms.