USA's Loos

[Dot]

Can anyone tell me what the difference between our flushing and the yanks flushing systems are?? I know their loos are bigger (of course) but their water filling & flushing is different.

[Jim]

I found out (in 2000) that they had more water sitting in the loo. Bit too close for my liking when anything was dropped in. Splash!!

[SteveW]

Best I can come up with is self diagnosis.

[homeless]

Jim is that just plain bragging or are you trying to say something.
Regards
Brian

[Jim]

Jim is that just plain bragging or are you trying to say something.
Regards
Brian

I only sit on a loo for one reason - I assume you do the same?

[Izabarack]

Can anyone tell me what the difference between our flushing and the yanks flushing systems are?? I know their loos are bigger (of course) but their water filling & flushing is different.

Yank loos are bigger because the average American arse is quite large, OK? The pedestals are also braced to handle a much heavier average body. Architects guidelines for elbow room design in toilet cubicles were recently upgraded to accord with the larger average size of the American citizens.

The Yank toots I have had experience of are already full of water when you lift the seat. Great for teaching little boys accurate aiming because you throw in one of those puffed wheat target fish shapes and make a game out of it. Adults who sit, do their best to not wash their backsides as they deliver to the bowl. At the end, the user averts their eyes to the greatest extent possible and flushes. The soup in the bowl disappears and is replaced with a mostly clean recharge of water. A lot harder to leave skid marks on Yank toots but you can if you really try.

One common myth about American toots is that you use them by going forward in then back out. A recent South Park episode addressed the issue of how to use the toot properly. Forward in, back out is Russian style and used by Russian woman who often wear multiple layers of skirts and heavy coats but no underwear. A bit like the Scots and their kilts, no toilet paper is used and no need to wash your hands afterwards.

Why the interest, Dot?

Iza

[Dot]

The instigating conversation that lead to this question is for around the campfire but the yanks loos seem to miss the "force" of disposal that our loos have!!

[RussellB[SA]]

The yankee loos are a big bowl of water as described, the flushing action is also strange, water jets set up a vortex and eventually flushes, quite strange.

I spent 6 months in good old Texas and thats the only type I came accross.

[T1 Terry]

The Aust toilet was designed to use much less water, intially for septic systems but also adopted for the sewer system as a water saving device. When the dual flush appeared back in the '80's the toilet had another make over with even less water in the trap and a larger outlet to improve the speed of waste removal.
The story goes that fowler made a study of why the westerner hemisphere toilets didn't work well in Aust and a redesign to create a swirl action was developed. when they attempted to break into the export market it was discovered the swirl needed to be in the opposite direction for use in the southern hemisphere. No idea if there is any truth to the theory though.
Anyone who has listened to Bob Hudson's Newcastle song LP might remember the track about the invention of the urinal

[supersparky]

I've got that LP somewhere, now for the location??? And I am pretty sure we have a turntable somewhere still.