Pooping

[Susan]

Well, yes, there's that...but there's a more practical reason, and given your abhorance of even the WORD "germ," i thought you should be aware that when you flush, the contents splash.  Closing the lid keeps everything inside.

I know people who leave their toothbrushes out and don't close the lid, and while i'm nowhere near the germaphobe that you are - hell, i figure a few germs help build a natural defense! - THAT makes me gag.

So...i'm glad you close the lid.

[punkinhead]

wow, never thought about the library books...pretty sick thought

[Aegir]

I produce an obscene amount of saliva, and therefore I don't normally read while on the toilet because I always end up drooling on my books, because when I'm on the toilet reading I keep the books on the floor and then just lean over to read (as opposed to holding the book the entire time) and the saliva just comes pouring out onto the pages.

As far as the whole flushing thing goes, I sit on the toilet while flushing so all the splash just ends up hitting my butt anyway.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

Just how far does this "splashing" reach? 

[Artie]

I produce an obscene amount of saliva, and therefore I don't normally read while on the toilet because I always end up drooling on my books, because when I'm on the toilet reading I keep the books on the floor and then just lean over to read (as opposed to holding the book the entire time) and the saliva just comes pouring out onto the pages.

As far as the whole flushing thing goes, I sit on the toilet while flushing so all the splash just ends up hitting my butt anyway.

I've gotten a cold water soaking from this before. Usually happens during the courtesy flush.

[Charles LePage @ ComicList]

Doesn't a courtesy flush take place while you are still sitting on the pot?

I've never seen any evidence that toilet water splashes out, and I've certainly seen no evidence it's splashed as far as the sink.

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Anti_20splash_20toilet_2e

[Susan]

Doesn't a courtesy flush take place while you are still sitting on the pot?

I've never seen any evidence that toilet water splashes out, and I've certainly seen no evidence it's splashed as far as the sink.

http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Anti_20splash_20toilet_2e

It was something i read in Reader's DIgest several years ago; this guy put food coloring in the toilet to illustrate his point, then put tissue paper over the seat, and flushed...and the tissue showed a whole lot of tiny blue specks.

I've also read elsewhere - can't remember where - that toothbrushes, if left uncovered on the counter, should be at least 6' from the toilet.

That's all i got.

[Artie]

Doesn't a courtesy flush take place while you are still sitting on the pot?

Yep. Hence the soaked bee-hind.

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

You guys are gross.

I went on a poop strike last night. After some unfortunate events, leading to this sign:

"Toilet is temporarily out of order. Will fix when union strike has ceased."

So, I'm done with pooping. It's such a shitty thing to do.

[donald]

Library books often appear to have been soaked by something.  The pages appear wrinkled and stained.

Much like the magazines in the basket next to the crapper.

It never occured that I have been handling used blotter paper exposed to everything imaginable.

I'll remember to avoid eating while reading and to keep a large bottle of hand sanitizer nearby.

Speaking of reading in the john, have you seen any good bathroom grafitti lately?  I think it may be a dying literary form.

Here I sit broken hearted, paid to .......................................

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

The bathrooms in my school are under some very strange policy. Apparently to cut down on teen smoking in school bathrooms doors must be left WIDE OPEN to the viewing passers by in the hallways. Of course this only applies to the male bathrooms. Nobody thinks twice about that, but if it were required of every female bathroom to be doors open there would be a ton of controversy.

Bathroom graffiti, a very dying art indeed. It's only art in my mind when it's not some vulgar, dead serious, pathetic message. Hate crimes, gross sexual things, are all disgusting to read in stalls. But once in a while a genuinly funny persion sits down in there, this person leaves his mark in a hilarious way.

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

http://www.thewritingsonthestall.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bathroomgraffiti/

[donald]

HILARIOUS.......some that I've not seen

[Aegir]

The bathrooms in my school are under some very strange policy. Apparently to cut down on teen smoking in school bathrooms doors must be left WIDE OPEN to the viewing passers by in the hallways. Of course this only applies to the male bathrooms. Nobody thinks twice about that, but if it were required of every female bathroom to be doors open there would be a ton of controversy.

The door to the bathroom itself, or the door to the stall? If it's just the bathroom, I don't see the problem with the female door being open..

As far as bathroom grafitti goes, I usually like drawing a Chad (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_%28graffiti%29) accompanied by the phrase "WOT, NO TOILET PAPER?", knowing that none of my fellow Americans will understand the reference.

[Reverend Joshua Sloane]

The door to the bathroom itself, or the door to the stall? If it's just the bathroom, I don't see the problem with the female door being open..

As far as bathro

Just the main door, not the stall.

I find it pretty weird for both male and female restrooms. Who on earth wants to walk past a bathroom with its door open and hear the sounds that come from it? Flowing sounds of urine splashing against the inner interiors of urinals or toilet bowls, the explosive sounds of mammoth sized poops launched against the toilet bowl tunnel, etc. I'd rather have kids sit in there with a bonfire than here those noises.  I think people should be given much more privacy than allowed in this circumstance; especially within a public school of 3000+ kids and teachers.