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 1 month ago by sjmarf@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
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AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 1 month ago
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
We Germans like to take pride in our workmanship.
Slovene@feddit.nl 1 month ago
*workmanshit
Agent641@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I dont need to examine my stools to know my digestive heath is horrific.
alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yep, but nowadays they are losing popularity. I don’t even know if you can still find them.
MasterNerd@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I thought it would just be for less splashing
TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Explains shit fetish or vice versa?
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
The trick is to put 3 pieces of toilet paper in beforehand, that way the whole shitboat can float away.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Actually? Or are you joking?
evergreen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I like to imagine the shitboat floating away in flames like an epic Viking burial.
someguy3@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did you use the poop knife?
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
I came here to reference this, great work.
valkyre09@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Origami toilet brush made from toilet paper. Yikes
Linnce@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So what did you do next? I’m thoroughly invested in the story
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 1 month ago
So your shit just piles up on the upper part till it kisses your asshole?
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month 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 1 month ago
Give this person an honorary degree in Turd Dynamics. Have you considered publishing your findings in the journal Nature?
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I haven’t had a nice log come out in decades. Enjoy them while you can.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Haven’t you thought of shitting backwards?
I prefer the kiss of poseidon over the casualities of deforestation
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s trying to touch your balls isn’t it…?
TheRisingApe@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
We referred to it as the poop shelf on our last visit.
apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Decades ago we called this the poop shelf as well.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
It gives you the opportunity to examine it. I think that is the reason for the design.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
And to savour the undiluted aroma.
sxan@midwest.social 1 month ago
Um… if you’re holding on to that much shit, you may want you see a doctor.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
Since it’s already coming out, is it a French/Australian kiss?
walter_wiggles@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
Yeah but where’s your poop knife?
Cuzscience@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That’s what the three shells are for.
Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 1 month ago
Pfffffffff he doesn’t know how the three shells work!
Pantsofmagic@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
The mashitty?
hoch@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ah, je mean de poop clogs?
jedibob5@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It sure does.
aquinteros@lemmy.world 1 month ago
aaah I get this reference
I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just use a shit stirrer.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You should see the Dutch Oven….
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For an extra 5€ I’ll show you a Dutch Trombone
PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
What if I don’t want to observe my turd on an elevated toilet pedestal though?
i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca 1 month 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 1 month ago
You seat on it reverse.
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You’d be shit out of luck
Nikls94@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
Long balls!
GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’ve never not been able to detect something like that with a water-under toilet
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago
FriedRice@lemmy.ml 1 month 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 1 month ago
You haven’t thought of the smell!
lgmjon64@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had these in a few houses in Germany. I call them trophy shelf toilets.
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month ago
This is how you go Dutch.
Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world 1 month ago
German toilets are like that too.
set_secret@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Usa drops kids off at pool, the dutch stack shelves.
Sabre363@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
How else are you supposed to flush your nuts
kia@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Just sit facing the wall.
ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 1 month 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 1 month ago
Ah, touché