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I fucking knew it
Greatly enhances the defecation experience. 💩/10
This is clearly a woman’s toilet. Everyone knows women don’t poop.
I LOVE these because:
- No splash (aka Poseidons kiss)
- No chance of dangling genitalia to touch the bowl
Toilets are hygiene facilities and this is the most hygienic design IMO
No chance of dangling genitalia to touch the bowl
I’d say that depends on the degree of dangle
good point. A greatly diminished chance :D
good point.
More like a tip.
Not for ol’ taffy-scrote Pete.
shudders
splash (aka Poseidons kiss)
Toilet paper beforehand.
Btw, swiss here (north of germany), never seen this type in the photo. Likely more in the north.
i can’t hot-swap replace the sheet of toilet paper between each turd, not to mention the waste of TP :P
I’m German and these toilets are much more common in the Netherlands in my experience.
Unless you make a high enough mountain it comes up and touches you. Ask me how I know l…. Or rather, don’t.
btw this is far from common. only seen in a fraction of old homes
Living in germany for 30+ yrs. this WAS the norm everywhere but nowadays these are no longer built usually. So in fact only in badly maintained homes.
Basically, any house that had it’s bathrooms renovated in the last thirty years or so won’t have those any more
I’m a bit nostalgic for the good old Flachspüler.
… I’m getting old, aren’t I?
Grüße von einem alten Sack zum anderen.
Hey, mit fast Mitte 30 bin ich doch noch kein alter Sack!
Oder?
Oder…Wenn solche Kloschüsseln bei dir Nostalgie auslösen, bist du zumindest geistig alt.
Naja, Oppa hatte sowas halt bei sich im Haus.
Und bei Oppa war immer gut.
In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. […] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. 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. […] 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.
- Slavoj Žižek
Damn an actual shit post.
Maybe eat less fat so the poop will sink. It goes under water so it doesn’t stink. It doesn’t plop against the porcelain so nothing sticks
American toilet is best because in the typical poop there’s less stink, less mess, toilet doesn’t need to be cleaned …… except for those days where you dump a monster load
Really expected something about the undertaker and throwing mankind or the like to pop up in this.
Kinda disappointed we didn’t get one
Ok that is actually Slavoj Žižek. I had to check.
It’s genuine.
From “The Plague of Fantasies (Wo Es War Series)”
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1219966-in-a-traditional-german-toilet-the-hole-into-which-shit
That is an absolute positive because it makes you able to see if you are eating healthy/if your gut is healthy
In the UK we call that the “continental shelf.”
Easier to poop knife
Apologies for the link to the other side -
https://www.originalpoopknife.com/pages/the-story-of-the-poop-knife
There is a writer who has commented on toilet designs and cultures where the Germans like to study and understand the world thus have toilets like this. Where the French are more about getting rid of waste fast and efficiently much like their love for revolution. And the English are more of a diplomatic middle ground. Can’t remember his name and couldn’t find him from a quick search. I’m sure you can.
Us Germans, we take pride in our workmanship.
wtf is germanic culture? you mean every group the romans encountered towards the north?
It means German, like from the current county of Germany
current county of Germany
County? Wtf happened? I look away for five minutes and they’re back on the old HRE shit, exploding their country into hundreds of smaller ones???
I’m german and i only ever see that word used by linguists or racists
No German means German. Germanic refers to historic tribes of people in Northern Europe or a language family spoken in Northern Europe.
The downsides are the smell if you don’t flush quickly after and having to brush the smear off more often.
There was a German tip above that you throw down some toilet paper on the shelf to make things easier. Good to know if we ever encounter one of these.
it will be a trip to Nessus to clean this toilet after a big one
