Posted on 01/26/2019 1:16:01 AM PST by vannrox
My order at my favorite Chinese takeout was taking too long. I stopped into the men's room. There I witnessed a common scene: the modern toilet disaster. An otherwise clean business had a restroom calamity on its hands, one so grim that I hesitate to describe it.
The conjectural history is not difficult to reconstruct. The toilet apparently had trouble flushing. There was a plunger by the toilet, of course, as we see everywhere today. The toilet was plunged to get rid of the obstruction, while the obstruction itself spilled all over the floor and stuck to the plunger too.
The customer probably left the ghastly scene in a rush. Management knew nothing. But now customers were coming and going into this bathroom, surely losing all inspiration to eat or order food.
It would be easy to blame the restaurant owners. What is with these people and why can't they at least have a clean restroom? But reacting this way would be unjust. The hidden hand behind this unsanitary calamity is the US government. The true origin of the mess was not in the hour before I arrived but back in 1994, after Congress passed the Energy Policy Act (passed in 1992).
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Last night, I woke to a toilet flushing. It wasn’t me. It wasn’t Mr. b. Convinced myself a cat had jumped on the handle but was still freaked out.
Once had a six foot racer snake shoot out of a toilet hitting me between my eyes.
Low flow toilets are putting my plumber’s kids through college...
The flow restrictor on my kitchen faucet is what pisses me off.
Al Bundy’s “Ferguson”
BAWOOOOOSH! Now that’s a man’s flush!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL2YRDzpTL4
As I mentioned a while back, I walked into the plumbing supply and told them I need a toilet that can flush a basketball shoe. They sold me a Toto. I am satisfied.
That would have killed my wife. She is deathly afraid of snakes.
BTW The racer snake's taxonomic name is Coluber constrictor priapus.
Priapus is the name of a minor Greek god of fertility, The son of Dionisius and Aphrodite.
Priapism is an unwanted persistent erection which, if it should last more than four hours, one should seek urgent medical attention.
What brand, model did you buy? One of the problems with low flush toilets is the splash factor. Yuck! How does the one you bought do on that?
I have never understood why toilets have so many curved areas around the sides. Just makes them harder to clean.
Exactly... yiu could use a gallon if you put the tank up higher... but that would take some intelligence.
It could be worse.....!
Wolowitz Zero-Gravity Waste Disposal System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBZrXuHmrtM
The Big Bang Theory Season 02 Episode 22 Best Moment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXJgXPxTzRg
ISS Toilet Malfunction
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfdGyzTa_gc
Get a new one they work and I never have to double flush even tho the toilet has that feature. I use one of the new one piece models with a 4 inch flapper valve. They now make stools in 3 or more heights and as we got older the next size up matters. I also installed a Bidet lid now available for a couple hundred, I think I payed $#50.00 or so for mine 3 or 4 years ago but they save on toilet paper.
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