On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 18:50:32 +0100, Frank Slootweg
wrote:

[Disclaimer: I can't believe I'm actually reading/writing this stuff! :-)]

Mike O'Sullivan wrote:
John Kulp wrote:

The Dutch should talk. I have never seen so many different types of
toilets as I have in The Netherlands. You think you're turning on the
light and the toilet flushes.

Their toilets are strange. When you take a crap, the turds sit on a sort
of shelf, so you can contemplate it for a couple of minutes before
flushing. (BTW, Flushing is in Holland too)

Your description doesn't compute. With 'shelf' do you mean a moving,
probably metal, plate in the 'output pipe' (don't know the right term
for the latter? Or do you mean the bottom of a US-style toilet, but
without the few gallons of water, i.e. the 'shelf' is not a seperate
component, but just the bottom of the ceramic toilet?

I found them to be common in parts of Germany and parts of
the Nederlands near the German border.

This guy describes it in detail:
http://www.asecular.com/~scott/misc/toilet.htm

I had the same aversion to that design as he did. I presume
they were designed to allow some anally-obsessed people to
check stools for health purposes on a daily basis.

If the former, then those kind of toilets are *not* common in The
Netherlands, i.e. there might be some in some places, but they would be
an exception.

As to strange, *we* find having them float around in a few gallons of
water both strange and disgusting!

The American system of the bernoulli suction effect was
equally strange to us, with their high waterline and an
unfortunate tendency to block easily. Again, someone else
has described it better than I could:
http://www.alldownunder.com/oz-k/rea...an-toilets.htm

Cheers, Alan, Australia
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