Here’s a bit of YouTube humor to go with this thread: Scottish Mum Tells Girls Off For Not Flushing Toilet - YouTube (NSFW language)
I’m an Aussie, but the first place i ever heard that little saying was on an episode of King of the Hill.
This is what I was talking about earlier. Most times it’s not the people, but the toilet itself.
The fact is, people are dumbasses. Most of the people in this thread included. Instead of jumping to the conclusion that the problem is the person who used it last, wonder if the thing works in the first place.
But nobody does that, and that’s why you are all dumbasses.
It’s still the person who used it last - if the autoflush doesn’t work, push the button on the side.
It is not flushing, ya idiot! It’s broken, but because it’s in a public space it’s "somebody else’s problem".
Yes, generally mine - when I find these little gems, I flush the toilet and 99% of the time, it works just fine.
It’s not flushing automatically, but it can still *be *flushed.
Floating stools explain this phenomenon.
How do you mean? That a floater would be less offensive if it was covered with a few sheets of TP?
That there’s a ginormous turd that wasn’t wiped after whoever dropped it - or the TP went down but the turd didn’t, because it’s a floater.
Ah. Yes, that is what happens. The TP gets flushed away, the floater stays behind.
Many people may not even know they’re the ones responsible for floaters. You do your business, you flush, you walk away without checking, right? So then, when you read the angry notes about " Goddamn flush already" you think: “So who are these assholes that don’t flush? I know *I *flush”. But flushing isn’t the problem.
And with toilets skimping on water for green and budget reasons, and people eating less healthy, floaters may happen more often these days.
It usually does, after a time. Gassy stools lose some of the gas; fatty stools become waterlogged and heavier. So when you flush, ten minutes or so afterwards, the stools do flush away more easier and you think: “why didn’t the rightful owner flush the damn thing, then? Does he want to offend me, like in the stories of burglars leaving steaming piles of shit for home owners to find?” But ten minutes earlier, you wouldn’t have been able to get it to flush, either.
Hey, thanks curlie! I’d tried all sorts of search terms but couldn’t for the life of me find the offending thread: again it came down to regional language differences…we call the ‘room’ where shitting and pissing takes place a toilet. Had I used bathroom, it would have been shitloads easier.
Still a very funny thread all the same…wonder whatever happened to S(h)at on Cookies?? 
yes but ONLY at home (or during drought condition). And for the folks worried about wasting that potable water - It’s going to be potable water again eventually where it will go through someone’s kidneys again and on and on and on.
Indeed nearly all water goes around and around in a cycle. But let us take that 5 or so gallons of water. First we have to pump it in, and perhaps over hills, etc. Energy. Then filter it, add chlorine etc. Energy. Then to your house. Energy. Then you flush, and it goes to the waste plant, which uses energy to clean it a few stages, then piped out into the ocean, which can have other consequences. The average family saves about 3000 gallons of water a year thru the “if it’s yellow, let it mellow…” mantra. How much energy that saves depends a LOT, but it is not insignificant. As a rough guess, about 15% of the overall energy generated is used for water.
http://www.rivernetwork.org/water-energy-toolkit-understanding-carbon-footprint-your-water
I’m not sure if I should admit this, but I have it bookmarked …
I will admit right here and right now that I am a victim (perpetrator?) of floaters and sometimes have to flush 3 or 4 times to get it to all go down. It’s mainly because I’m partially lactose intolerant, yet I refuse to cut out the dairy from my diet, so it gets very gassy and soft, and a lot of it floats.
But I promise when I do have to use a public restroom (which isn’t often), I always check to make sure it is all flushed down. I don’t just get up and walk away at the moment I hear the flushing begin.
The need to make public restroom doors locks autoengage and not open until the toilet has been flushed.
Try a few probiotics, they have really helped me with my lactose intolerance.
knel3030: yeah so when the plumbing breaks down you’re trapped in there with it. :rolleyes:
I’ve seen some in a highway gas station here in France. Instead of a chain or button or lever or whatever on the water cistern, there was a sort of rubber pedal or pressure plate on the floor.
Took me a good 5 minutes to figure it out, too. At first I thought it was a weirdly placed smoke alarm.
There seems to be unwonted pride of pee as well.