Apparently this design was popular in Germany a hundred years or so ago. Its key advantage was allowing the user to examine their stools for signs of digestive health problems.
Dutch toilets
Submitted 3 months ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/05d1af84-81ff-49b8-8de1-c66802681aed.jpeg
Comments
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 months ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We Germans like to take pride in our workmanship.
Slovene@feddit.nl 3 months ago
*workmanshit
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I dont need to examine my stools to know my digestive heath is horrific.
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Yep, but nowadays they are losing popularity. I don’t even know if you can still find them.
MasterNerd@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I thought it would just be for less splashing
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Explains shit fetish or vice versa?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Story time: I once briefly lived in a place that had an old toilet bowl like this. You can still find them in older houses. One day I took a massive shit and then dived it that the flash wasn’t seeing enough to get it down from there. And there wasn’t a brush. Yikes. Just wanted to share that with you guys.
Spezi@feddit.org 3 months ago
The trick is to put 3 pieces of toilet paper in beforehand, that way the whole shitboat can float away.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Actually? Or are you joking?
evergreen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I like to imagine the shitboat floating away in flames like an epic Viking burial.
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Did you use the poop knife?
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
I came here to reference this, great work.
valkyre09@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Origami toilet brush made from toilet paper. Yikes
Linnce@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So what did you do next? I’m thoroughly invested in the story
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 3 months ago
So your shit just piles up on the upper part till it kisses your asshole?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 3 months ago
I have some experience with these. The only problem is that as the vertically standing excrement begins to collapse forwards, there is a chace for it to keep contact and drag its top portion across, from your anus towards the front. You can avoid this with a maneuver, pulling yourself up and slightly forward, right after the singular vertical log begins losing contact with the excretion area.
This is not a joke
AnomalousBit@programming.dev 3 months ago
Give this person an honorary degree in Turd Dynamics. Have you considered publishing your findings in the journal Nature?
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I haven’t had a nice log come out in decades. Enjoy them while you can.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Haven’t you thought of shitting backwards?
I prefer the kiss of poseidon over the casualities of deforestation
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 3 months ago
It’s trying to touch your balls isn’t it…?
TheRisingApe@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
We referred to it as the poop shelf on our last visit.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Decades ago we called this the poop shelf as well.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
It gives you the opportunity to examine it. I think that is the reason for the design.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
And to savour the undiluted aroma.
sxan@midwest.social 3 months ago
Um… if you’re holding on to that much shit, you may want you see a doctor.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’ve clearly never seen an American eat. 3 triple burgers, a large fry, and a milkshake is the standard dinner while dieting.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 3 months ago
Since it’s already coming out, is it a French/Australian kiss?
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 3 months ago
Yeah but where’s your poop knife?
Cuzscience@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s what the three shells are for.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 3 months ago
Pfffffffff he doesn’t know how the three shells work!
Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m still trying to understand which of the three shells is the correct one to use as a poop knife
AuntieFreeze@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The mashitty?
hoch@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ah, je mean de poop clogs?
jedibob5@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It sure does.
aquinteros@lemmy.world 3 months ago
aaah I get this reference
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Just use a shit stirrer.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
You should see the Dutch Oven….
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
For an extra 5€ I’ll show you a Dutch Trombone
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
What if I don’t want to observe my turd on an elevated toilet pedestal though?
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
You have to do the ‘ol’ push ‘n flush and hope you got the timing down.
Turns out your shit sitting exposed on a dry shelf smells exponentially worse than when it drops into water. Anyone still using these toilets in the 21st century is a psychopath.
Slovene@feddit.nl 3 months ago
You seat on it reverse.
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You’d be shit out of luck
Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 months ago
It’s so you can examine your stool, you might have some blood or a consistency you don’t like, that way you see it
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wake up, coffee, breakfast, shit, see how much of last nights meal was really digested, shower, shave, work
Typical morning, idk what the big fuss is
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
It also helps you gauge the poop’s internal temperature using the back of your scrote, if you are endowed with fairly loose balls.
ape_arms@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Long balls!
GBU_28@lemm.ee 3 months ago
I’ve never not been able to detect something like that with a water-under toilet
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
I know the meme is that people use it to look at the poop, but honestly the main advantage is the 0% chance of water splashing up. I will take this design over the “standard” ones any day.
shadowedcross@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Have found that putting a little bit of TP in the water before commencing the act helps a lot to avoid Poseidon’s kiss.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
I once stopped in urgent need of a toilet at the dirtiest little gas station in the middle of nowhere, with a stunningly filthy toilet. After doing my business I stood and, facing the toilet, flushed. It was an old flush mechanism where the water just kind of fell in from all sides, causing a kind of trapped tsunami to eject a single drop of fresh poop water 7 feet up in the air and down straight into my mouth.
If my many decades of life have taught me anything, it’s to close my mouth when flushing or scrubbing the toilet.
somewhiteguy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
FriedRice@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
But what about just poop on some toilet paper, make no splash, and the smell is still not so hard, as with the dutch/German toilet
supergrizzlybear@pawb.social 3 months ago
You haven’t thought of the smell!
lgmjon64@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I had these in a few houses in Germany. I call them trophy shelf toilets.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Comments on toilets from France, England, and Germany by Slaboj Zizek: youtube.com/watch?v=8mtZmBvat4k
Another good bit (not in the video) is that Zizek thinks that’s why Germans can endure great pain and sacrifices for an ideal…if you are strong enough to observe your shit for health reasons, there’s nothing you can’t do!
SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
This is how you go Dutch.
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 3 months ago
German toilets are like that too.
set_secret@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Usa drops kids off at pool, the dutch stack shelves.
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
How else are you supposed to flush your nuts
kia@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Just sit facing the wall.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
I’m confused, isn’t this a better spot for the drain hole? When you sit facing the wall? So you have a shelf for your comic books and chocolate milk?
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Ah, touché