From the comments on http://www.banterist.com/archivefiles/000212.html:
I sent a link describing the poop-shelf technology to a friend in Berlin last year, inquiring as to the possible reason for this phenomenon. His reply:---The question of the toilet is VERY EASY to anwer. As practically every German is health-insured, we tend to go to the doctor (as recommended) at least every two years for a throrough (and practcally cost-free) check-up. For that, you will have to bring some of your, er, feces in a specialized container the doctor will give you. So how do you get at your, er, sausage if it is swimming in water? With a German toilet, this is dead easy.A second reason is the Germans' concern for health. We usually look at the, er, deposit, so see whether it is black (meaning that there is blood in it, could be cancer!) or has some other unusual colour not explainable by what has been taken in foodwise. So a light ochre means liver trouble of some kind and so forth. You may also see whether you got worms and so on.So the riddle of the German toilet is none. It's oriented towards everyday health-monitoring.---So apparently, as bizarre as this practice may seem to us foreigners, there is some reason behind it.
A second reason is the Germans' concern for health. We usually look at the, er, deposit, so see whether it is black (meaning that there is blood in it, could be cancer!) or has some other unusual colour not explainable by what has been taken in foodwise. So a light ochre means liver trouble of some kind and so forth. You may also see whether you got worms and so on.
So the riddle of the German toilet is none. It's oriented towards everyday health-monitoring.---So apparently, as bizarre as this practice may seem to us foreigners, there is some reason behind it.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Germany has awesome bakeries
I've been in France for two days & there is nothing a German bakery can show me except the quickest path to Italy
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:27 (fourteen years ago) link
Also this thread caused pretty much the worst-case-workLOLs-scenario to happen to me just now, in which my boss heard me laughing, asked why I was laughing, and then shared with me her own unrelated and horrible poop story.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:29 (fourteen years ago) link
what a disaster for poop
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:30 (fourteen years ago) link
better than pissing in the wind...
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Germany has **suprisingly** awesome bakeries, for being a place that gave us the poop shelf, and also for not being France or Italy. I expected food awesomeness from those countries.
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
the thing that makes the fragrant platform so insulting is that, normally, if your gaze happens upon the water-filled bowl as it's carrying your shit away, no big. but every time you forget to shield your eyes when you flush the shelf toilet, which you will do, because the flushing mechanism is often a button on top of the tank, you will be greeted by a very 3-D demonstration of the specific heft of your payload. the water will rush out from behind it, and the whole mound will be carried, Marshall Will & Holly on a raft style, by this flush-wave down into the lower hole. it will leave streaks. these, too, will be washed away like tears in rain. time to die.
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
these, too, will be washed away like tears in rain. time to die.
LOLOLOLOL
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:34 (fourteen years ago) link
and the whole mound will be carried, Marshall Will & Holly on a raft style,
dude.
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:35 (fourteen years ago) link
there is something achingly existential about watching a pile of your own shit get pushed off of a shelf by water, though; I felt much closer to Kafka after my first shit shelf experience, as if I had gone through my own metamorphosis, only instead of turning into a giant cockroach I turned into a dude who had to wrap his hand in toilet paper and nudge shit into a hole due to low water pressure
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:37 (fourteen years ago) link
'cept Kafka lived his whole life in Prague, which doesn't have shit shelves.
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:38 (fourteen years ago) link
instead of shit shelves, they give you this:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2810792993_77691c8278.jpg
imagine shitting in one of those
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:40 (fourteen years ago) link
exactly, what was he so miserable about
xpost
― chemical ali v. chemical frazier (m bison), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Lol! That's the bathroom in a mall. I've pissed in front of those ladies a few times.
Here's my fun (non-shit-shelf) toilet:http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Aw5TUvbjcKI/Sc_AX08cVcI/AAAAAAAAADU/SD0HQjXqsPw/s1600-h/toilet.jpg
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
the solution to this problem is obviously to shit in the bidet
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:46 (fourteen years ago) link
I was pleased to have learned so much about American light switches from the other topic, but I'm not sure I'm quite so pleased to be an expert on the shit shelf.
That said, now I have to try one at least once. Before my metaphysical suicide, presumably.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:47 (fourteen years ago) link
errr.. that should've beenhttp://i34.tinypic.com/2e3y6if.jpg
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
hey that's pretty cool
― Maria, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
secret message to thread starter:
is your belt dry yet?
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:53 (fourteen years ago) link
"for some reason, it smells like bologna"
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
Chefs, people who cook professionally, have to take I think three samples a year to be checked to make sure they are not passing on cholera or something
Is this correct? American cooks don't have to do squat (heh heh) except show up for work and not bleed in the salad. (By law anyway, individual restaurants may ask for shit samples, I don't know.)
― unused user (Jesse), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 19:57 (fourteen years ago) link
pretty certain Quiznos asks for shit samples, which they then put in the sandwiches
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:00 (fourteen years ago) link
never dry again, never forget Night of the Wet Belts 13/10/09
xpost lol Dan
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Related: pissing on your pants and underwear while taking a shit. It happens. The nozzle goes out of control and the stream shoots between the seat and the bowl onto your clothes.
― unused user (Jesse), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:05 (fourteen years ago) link
that is the stuff of nightmares
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
Does anyone else have the constant battle with the "last drop" that manages to soil yr fresh underwear no matter how much you shake?
― Fetchboy, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:07 (fourteen years ago) link
really enjoying the pisscussion here
― Andrew Kornfan, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
it's a stream of conciousness
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
there used to be a poem about it, at first a rhyming one but the free verse version was more powerful
no matter how you shake and dancethe last drop always fallslike snow on cedars
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
if you wanna talk about the "no. 1" of yore urine the right place
― Andrew Kornfan, Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Jesse you are like almost begging me to post something here that you probably don't actually want me to post.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
wow i'm just gonna savor the "yore urine" euphony y'all. goddamn.
shit's getting heated on this thread^^
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:10 (fourteen years ago) link
SPEAK JENNY SPEAK
― a full circle lol (J0hn D.), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
last drop of what?
xp - Jenny, is this related to the dimensions of my manhoodliness?
― unused user (Jesse), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
(xxpost) absolutly steaming
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
few things are worse than the morning split stream
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:12 (fourteen years ago) link
wait i just clicked 'bookmark'
― a perfect urkel (gbx), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
why did i do that
dan otm
― pariah carey (Mr. Que), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
No, it's related to a similar mishap that might happen when you are standing up to pee and accidentally poop on the floor.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Whoops.
also jesse is otm, i have had ,,this'' happen
xp wait, no, god
holy lolz
― as strikingly artificial and perfect as a wizard's cap (HI DERE), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
looooooool
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
Why would I not want you to tell everyone that you did that? I don't care.
― unused user (Jesse), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
lol to that xp
yoga flame for all time
― cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
split streamhttp://bornandbreded.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/crossed.jpg
― a gift from your mind in the form of the perfect beat (snoball), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link
when I saw that woman accidentally shit on the floor on Flavor of Love, I thought that culture had peaked. UNTIL NOW.
― FC Tom Tomsk Club (Merdeyeux), Tuesday, 13 October 2009 20:15 (fourteen years ago) link