This to me is the real reason. White will never look dated.
Dude, thanks for making me relive my parents renovation again…
I love it that if you click the different color swatches - white, biscuit, almond, Mexican sand - you get images of the urinal in those different colors, but if you click the black swatch, you get this image. It just seems…weird…to have a naked woman in a bathtub pop up with a seductive “fuck my head off” look when you’re trying to compare colors for piss-pots. (There must be a Delany reference here but I’m not seeing it.)
You’ve got to be kidding… toilets can come in “biscuit”?
Sure! You know when people put creamed chipped beef on toast and call it “shit on a shingle”? It’s kind of a variation on that theme. . .
All this “why white?” talk makes me wonder when porcelain veneers for teeth will stop being installed in bright white.
It’s an excellent question, and I agree with the premise behind the question. It’s now been largely or partly answered (at least in theory), but it’s still an unsatisfactory answer - more on that later (the color issue).
What I want to say and ask now is regarding the other huge giant defect in the design of toilets besides the white color, and that is this.
Why in the name of all holy hell is the front of the bowl high, with a low slope down to the back of the bowl where the water is, instead of immediately dropping deeper toward the front, such that the water also is located much farther forward (by at least 2 or 3 more inches, preferably 4 more inches).
It really seems like it’s designed as a big joke - the engineers sat around discussing it … “OK, guys, how can we design the modern toilet and foist it on the public so that when you take a shit - this is gonna be particularly awesome when you’re a guest in someone else house and there’s no toilet brush by the toilet – when you take a shit, the turds, sharts, and diarrhea must all FIRST hit the ghost-white porcelain at about a 30 degree angle (closer to flat than vertical), where no water is at all, and then may or may not slide down into the water – that way, we can absolutely MAXIMIZE the length, width, thickness, and contrast of skid marks and turds stuck up there on the shelf, and stuck halfway on the shelf and halfway in the water? Can do you that for me? - You have your mission, gentlemen - Go!!”
Whiskey tango?!?!?!?!?!
You’ll be sorry you ‘got me started’ on this forum - I hate doing things for tradition’s sake, and always look for the better way…
I don’t have this problem. Try sitting farther back on the toilet.
ETA: Or maybe, face away from the toilet tank.
Lol… I’m already at the very back. Tried that and ended up with poo brushing and catching on the back of the seat. It’s a real problem (presumably for a lot of people). Maybe it’s the anatomically-based angle of exit from the rectum - a genetic variance.. ??
Coincidentally, one of the funniest short articles ever written in the history of the universe… Clear the floor and prepare to roll on it…
http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000212.html
Quite a welcome to the forum entrance topic.. Might even say I’m ‘making a splash’… lmao, sorry…
And “almond”, and “chocolate” - yeah, I know, not the best names…
OMG…make sure you read all the comments to that article; funniest thing ever. Poop and farts don’t stop staying funny when you hit middle age, evidently… With any luck, same will hold true in my geezer years.
Believe it or not, one of the main reasons my parents chose the house I grew up in was the yellow toilet/tub/sink in the front bathroom. This really impressed my mother as being so “modern”.
The half-bathroom had a pink toilet and sink.
:eek: :eek: :eek:
if the toilets are a darker color, then you wouldn’t how dirty it was. And that crap will be stained all over, causing a plethora of bacterial vermin and disease.
:eek:
So, out of sight, out of mind is your preferred approach to sanitation?
A doctor told me toilet bowls and sinks should be white, so you can identify blood where it’s not supposed to be. What I’m really looking for, though, is a splash proof toilet. Anyone seen one?
For the same reason that hotel towels are all white* - so that they can be clearly seen as clean or otherwise.
*yes, I’m sure you can find a hotel that does not have white towels, but I haven’t seen one since the 1970’s.
I quite like the stainless steel terlets you sometimes see in bars.
And prisons
Just want to point that the sense of “cleanliness” or “sanitaryness” was maintained in 19th century hospitals by the doctors’ wearing black. Blood, vomit, etc, would show far less than on any white material.
I don’t know when that switched over to white smocks. That would be interesting to find out…
Bolding mine.
So the answer to: **Whose idiotic idea was it to make all toilets white? **
God. (Or your preferred alternative.)