MetaFilter posts tagged with toilets

Flussssshhhhhh ...

jbickers — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 09:35:34 -0800

Two and a half pounds of carrots. Four complete chess sets. Three pounds of gummi bears. Eighteen large hot dogs. Three and a half pounds of grapes. Twenty golf balls. This toilet is awesome. If you try this at home with your toilet, kids, you may need the help of Toiletology to unstop the works. You should also get a basic idea of How Toilets Work before flushing a blender full of plastic letters and numbers. You might also enjoy learning about the history of the toilet. Stump your friends at the pub with some toilet trivia. And view the toilet of tomorrow! There's an incredible new self-cleaning toilet that is the scourge of cokeheads everywhere. And did you know you can potty-train a cat? Spellbinding. Finally: Mr. Bean uses the toilet.

Insert your favorite euphemism

aliceinreality — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 12:26:00 -0800

Rose George wants you to start talking about waste. And no, she isn't concerned with your recycling habits, your fluorescent light bulbs, or the packaging on your electronics. She's concerned with your, ahem, human waste. Ms. George has written a book on the way both first and third world societies deal with sewage, and now Freakonomics is talking with her about it.

Talkin' Sh*t

nevercalm — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:42:45 -0800

Let's talk crap. An interesting interview about toilets (NSFW, music, talking, interesting) and bathroom habits and expectations. Greasemonkey script for Salon premium-pass.

Toilet Confessions

dhammond — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:36:24 -0800

Tired of getting busted for illegally peeing* in New York City? Try Diaroogle.com, a toilet search engine that "helps you find quality public toilets from your mobile phone." *This post is really just a roundabout way of linking to the very excellent Courthouse Confessions blog while simultaneously satisfying my urge to post about toilets.

I Just Might Turn To Smoke But I Feel Fine

fandango_matt — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:56:49 -0800

The Incinolet (possible product name: The Crap Zapper!) is a waterless toilet which, according to its fans, is cleaner, less expensive, and more eco-friendly than its counterparts because it uses fire instead of water.

large johns

me3dia — Thu, 23 Dec 2004 19:52:21 -0800

Big John vs. Great John.

The Art Of Hover Pissing

livingsanctuary — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 17:23:00 -0800

A lesson every woman needs to learn. I myself practise "hovering" and what the article leaves out is how it can work wonders for one's thigh muscles (ha ha). Seriously, for women, going to the bathroom is a complicated process.

We know where this WTO sits on the issues...

gimonca — Fri, 19 Nov 2004 18:42:18 -0800

"A WTO conference has begun in Beijing." No, not that WTO. This WTO. Love that logo...

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reklaw — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:50:43 -0800

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The Australian National Public Toilet Map

hama7 — Tue, 06 Jul 2004 07:03:44 -0800

The Australian National Public Toilet Map.

Profanity is the crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.

anastasiav — Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:38:44 -0800

The Writings on the Stall :: a new compendium of bathroom graffiti

Toilets of the World - a Photoblog

anastasiav — Mon, 05 Apr 2004 11:13:31 -0800

Toilets of the World :: a photoblog, sort of...

World Toilet Day

Pressed Rat — Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:21:06 -0800

Climb on Board Seemingly in line with the tenor of much of the discussion here lately, I present for your delectation World Toilet Day 2003 on Nov. 19, brought to you by the folks at the World Toilet Organization . My good buddy AL's on board....

Flush!

angry modem — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 12:49:46 -0800

Antique Loos from the Thomas Crapper Company.

Shitting on art

mathowie — Tue, 16 Sep 2003 17:39:49 -0800

You've got to be impressed by Smith College's Brown Fine Arts Center. Not only do they have traveling shows, permanent works, and student installations, they've got one thing few other museums can boast: Restrooms As Functional Art. Check out the photos to see the different ways the men's and women's rooms became works in an of themselves.

Toilet Habits

MiguelCardoso — Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:07:18 -0800

Hey, Asswipe! Sadly, there's a dearth of literature on toilet hygiene. Here in Portugal, being a clean-living people, after wasting a forest of bunched-up paper, we thoroughly wash our arses/asses in a bidet after - pardon my French - taking a dump. Men, it must be said, carefully wipe their dicks with toilet paper after a pee and flush twice. Women, though deprived of dicks in the tradition of old Freudian "penis envy", do the same. I wonder whether this is a universal tradition. Pray tell. Ugh!

Hygiene in the Middle Ages

eyebeam — Fri, 13 Jun 2003 12:13:33 -0800

Filthy secrets of medieval toilets: Featuring the Royal Water Closet of French King John the Fearless. "Lesser mortals of course had less sophisticated apparatus... Some were no more than holes built into the wall, others were primitive outhouses perched with wooden supports onto an upper story. A series of mediaeval illuminations at the exhibition shows that accidents in these contraptions were common." Mon dieu!

Urinal Interface Design

kirkaracha — Sat, 18 Jan 2003 23:05:36 -0800

Urinal Interface Design. Our aim is to keep this place clean. Your aim will help. [via guuui]

patrickje — Mon, 23 Sep 2002 13:19:41 -0800

The demise of the honey bucket. Many of us take running water and sewage services for granted. The Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation is slowly converting rural Eskimo villages from a "fill and haul a bucket" sewage/water system to modern services. A fascinating look into the logistics required to bring these services into remote Artic villages.

acornface — Thu, 01 Aug 2002 08:12:49 -0800

Diary for a New America: Because a toilet seat is a terrible thing to waste. Poison drummer Rikki Rockett says the "days of useless acts of hotel destruction are over." Now he's leaving his artistic mark in hotel loos nationwide. See for yourself in the gallery.

Spoon — Sat, 11 May 2002 15:47:20 -0800

Toiletology 101. Everything you wanted to know but were too busy to ask.

Su — Sat, 20 Apr 2002 14:09:12 -0800

The iToilet. Oh, it's not like you weren't expecting it. I'm surprised it took this long, actually.

fleener — Sun, 23 Dec 2001 10:53:35 -0800

Do you support the WTO? No one protested the WTO 2001 Summit. Perhaps because you were too busy going to the bathroom 10 times a day. Don't miss the thousand names contest.

jonnyp — Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:18:01 -0800

American Standard 6.0L type R Exploring the dark side of heavily modded porcelain. Check it out!
Hurst plunger
Recaro racing seat
50hp dry methane shot
Carbon fiber flush handle
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redhead — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:41:16 -0800

Restrooms of the future! Ladies, now you too can stand up and pee in a urinal. What a concept, where's that piss on Osama screen when you need it?