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Report from the US, a nice but somewhat backward country.
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 -- http://loraltravel.blogspot.com Latest: Two Indian Hotels: to Sleep, Perchance... |
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