Push Button Flush

[+ Lucky]

For my money, there is no handier way to pee than to use a urinal, unless, of course, the guy you are with is into watersports. But a friend of mine recently upgraded his bathroom and chose a spiffy-looking toilet that has a push button instead of a lever. What's the advantage of this? Anyone else have this? What kind of toilet do you prefer?

http://www.midvalleyplumbing.com/images/Toto/toto_toilet_prominence.jpg

[Guest EuropTravl]

Most other countries in Europe and Latin America have the push button.

I like the Japanese toilets - who doesn't like to play with buttons and dials?

(Homer Simpson in Tokyo: "Which restaurant should we go to? The toilet recommends the one down the road.")

 

I thought this new style was cool - saw it in a commercial, until I learned it was called "The Hatbox" of all things:

 

http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/350x400/aaa24251.jpg

[MindThe Gap]

It's actually a Ralph Woods model. What you believe to be a "flush button" is actually a retracting dildo that raises out and up from the porcelain tank. Once properly mounted, you can fuck yourself and piss into the bowl at the same time. You'll find them in many European cities.

[beefeater]

>What kind of toilet do you prefer?

 

Lucky, Great topic! I'm sure it will get thousands of hits. :-)

 

As for me, I prefer the piss-n-go automatic flush urinals. You walk away and it flushes all by itself. Many public rest rooms are now installing them. No need to touch anything but what belongs to you.

[+ deej]

Lever, push button, pull-rope, it doesn't matter.

 

The damn chain will still break and you'll still have to reach into the tank to get it to flush. Keep a towel handy. ;-)

[MindThe Gap]

>I thought this new style was cool - saw it in a commercial,

>until I learned it was called "The Hatbox" of all things:

>

>http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/350x400/aaa24251.jpg

 

It's versatile. If you carry alot of junk in the trunk, you sit sideways. If your trunk is empty, you sit forward.

 

Personally, I'd be more worried about falling off the damn thing reaching for the toilet paper. Obviously, I don't have alot of junk in my trunk.

[Guest novabear22031]

>I thought this new style was cool - saw it in a commercial,

>until I learned it was called "The Hatbox" of all things:

>

>http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/350x400/aaa24251.jpg

 

That thing costs $3100US!!!! Yikes....

[Louis]

I was in a restaurant in France in 83. For a toilet, they had a square piece of porcelain, with two areas that were raised up for you to stand on. Then just behind and in between them was a hole roughly six inches in diameter. The flush lever was on the wall, and you pulled it down.

Never saw anything like it before or again.

A friend of mine also has a push button on his toilet, but its on the side of the toilet.

[Rick Munroe]

>No need to touch anything but what

>belongs to you.

 

But it's more fun to touch what belongs to the guy at the next urinal! }(

[OneFinger]

For my money, there is no handier way to pee than to use a urinal, unless, of course, the guy you are with is into watersports.

 

Hey Lucky, I've got to disagree. I'm really a urinal kind of guy and I'm not into watersports.

 

Here's a couple of pictures of my favorite urinals. Until recently, they were located in the restroom of the Vienna Opera House in Austria.

 

http://www.urinal.net/vienna_opera/P1010149.med.jpg

 

http://www.urinal.net/vienna_opera/urinal.JPG

 

Still trying to figure out why they put a bar in the restroom. But, I "think" I understand the reason for the piano. It's for those of us that like to "tinkle" the ivories. :+

[Guest EWC]

Then there is what I call "the angry woman's toilet". It has a magnet built into the tank and seat cover, and in order to flush you have to put down the seat cover.

[Louis]

I'd say this discussion is going down the toilet...:-)

[AdamSmith]

>The damn chain will still break and you'll still have to reach

>into the tank to get it to flush. Keep a towel handy. ;-)

 

Many of these pushbutton models use a pressurized system that has no chain. But when they break they're a shitload (gotcha) more expensive to fix than the standard flushball-and-chain or flapper-and-chain models.

[AdamSmith]

>What kind of toilet do you prefer?

 

One house I renovated, the architect spec'd an electric crapper with a 2-way button -- miniflush for peepee, megaflush for No. 2. First time the electricity went out I cursed him to the skies.

 

My interior-designer friends say Toto is the best toilet on earth for never stopping up. "Technologically advanced and aesthetically pleasing, our industry-leading toilets offer legendary flushing performance."

 

http://www.totousa.com/consumer_landing.asp

 

Lucky, you're a genius at launching a thread with legs.

 

Bidets, anyone?

[Guest novabear22031]

>>The damn chain will still break and you'll still have to

>reach

>>into the tank to get it to flush. Keep a towel handy. ;-)

>

>Many of these pushbutton models use a pressurized system that

>has no chain. But when they break they're a shitload (gotcha)

>more expensive to fix than the standard flushball-and-chain or

>flapper-and-chain models.

 

The Hatbox model goes further and uses IIRC a 2HP motor to do the work.

 

I wonder if it like the pressurized system used on the Caribbean Princess cruise ship? Would not want to be sitting on that toilet while flushing!!! <EEEK> LOL

[OneFinger]

>...My interior-designer friends say Toto is the best toilet on earth for never stopping up.

 

And I always thought Toto was a cute, little dog. :+

 

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/6396/toto1.jpg

 

But, Mr. Smith, I went to the website and was amazed at this product. I especially liked the Washlet.

 

http://www.totousa.com/washlet_features.asp

 

It combines the automated seat/flush with the convenience of a bidet. (I'm all aquiver just thinking of the possibilities.)

 

http://www.totousa.com/washlet/images/wash.gif http://www.totousa.com/washlet/images/wand-clean.gif

 

For those who don't want to bother checking out the site, here's their carefully-worded explanation of the Washlet.

 

How does the Washlet work?

 

The Washlet is designed to introduce you to a level unprecedented comfort, while delivering on the promise of maximum cleanliness. At your command, an integrated, self-cleaning nozzle extends to release a warm, soothing stream of aerated water to provide the ultimate in personal cleansing.

[Guest n2colour]

RE: Toto Washlet

 

I've used the Toto washlet while in Japan. It works surprisingly well. Also comes with a heated cushion - particularly nice when staying in someone's lagely unheated home in the middle of winter. :-)

[Louis]

RE: Toto Washlet

 

The one my friend has does have two different flows...one for fluids the other for solids....It is manual and has no solenoids so it does not depend on electricity.

It keeps the water bill down a bit.

[+ Lucky]

Now who here would want a toilet like this one?

 

http://www.buffaloschips.com/Crazy%20Toilet%20Seat.jpg

[AdamSmith]

>And I always thought Toto was a cute, little dog. :+

 

Nobody will confirm my notion that the brand was so named because Toto himself could easily pass through ("feed out" in the industry lingo).

[AdamSmith]

>Now who here would want a toilet like this one?

 

Ouch!

 

...a Dada toilet seat.

 

http://www.johnelkington.com/weblog/Paris%20Da%20Da%20iron.jpg

[+ Charlie]

I bought a house that had a very impressive-looking Kohler custom toilet. But when the toilet seat broke, I discovered that a new one had to be special-ordered, and it cost $200! I was very careful about how I treated the new one.

[+ deej]

>Many of these pushbutton models use a pressurized system that

>has no chain. But when they break they're a shitload (gotcha)

>more expensive to fix than the standard flushball-and-chain or

>flapper-and-chain models.

 

And as you said, they still break.

 

The flapper-and-chain model in my guest bedroom broke in the worst possible way not long ago. During the day, the spring-loaded piece that makes water stop flowing into the tank went BOING and the tank went on perpetual fill.

 

When I stepped through the front door that evening, the carpet went SQUISH!

 

I sloshed into the bathroom long enough to turn off the water valve to the toilet, and then noticed the guest bedroom. There, in a corner, stood my brand new X64 computer in an inch of standing water. It was running.

 

Second floor floods are not that common, but we had one that day!

 

I developed a healthy distrust of toilets. ;-)

[AdamSmith]

>There, in a corner, stood my brand new X64 computer in an inch

>of standing water. It was running.

 

A brick shithouse!

 

>I developed a healthy distrust of toilets.

 

Are you an Essene?

 

Toilet tied to tale of Dead Sea Scrolls

'Bioarchaeology' sheds light on earthy side of scriptural lore

 

http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061112/06112_q-site_hlg_3p.hlarge.jpg

 

This panorama shows the Qumran site on the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea, on the West Bank. At upper left, a black triangle indicates a bluff, behind which the Qumran community may have designated a latrine.

 

One of the less sanitary aspects of life in Jesus' day has come into play in the debate over who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, how they lived and how they died.

 

The latest evidence comes from a site that two researchers have identified as the communal latrine for Qumran, the ancient settlement near the caves where the 2,000-year-old scrolls were found...

 

It all started with Tabor's reflection on historical texts: The book of Deuteronomy, as well as the Dead Sea Scrolls themselves, considered bathroom duties to be unclean in the sight of God. Thus, the faithful were told that their latrines had to be placed far enough away from the community to be out of sight. Various references specify distances of 1,000 to 3,000 cubits (1,500 to 4,500 feet, or 457 to 1,370 meters), preferably to the northwest of the community.

 

According to the 1st-century historian Josephus, the Essenes in Jerusalem strictly observed this custom. He marveled at the Essenes' religious and intestinal fortitude, noting that they refused to "go to stool" on the Sabbath — and Tabor speculated that this was because the latrine was farther away than Jews were allowed to travel on the holy day...

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15689591/

[+ Lucky]

It was after long walks such as this to the latrine that the Essenes developed an early version of the diaper.

http://www.hisholychurch.net/study/images/essene.jpg

 

Where would NASA be without it?

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