The History of Toilets
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- Опубликовано: 11 янв 2020
- There’s been at least one time in your life when you’ve been out at a music festival and thought about whether or not you should miss your favorite band. After all, you'd rather drive home to use the facilities you know and love than use the coffins of crap that are located on the festival grounds. But when you gotta go, and you’ve got to do what it takes to make yourself pure again. Remember, it can always be worse. If you don’t think so, take a look at this primer on porta potty history and revel in your modern ability to not have to squat over a pit.
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Now this is the kind of weird history we want
He probably thought of this episode while taking a dump
zippitydoda day wouldn’t you??
LMAOO 😂
Amen!!!
i kinda want a episode about the fall of horse wagons and the rise of cars
So glad i live in this century, imagine walking outside & be in a constant worry that some random person might empty their chamber pots on you
Eh, in some parts of the world you still do. Either that, or you have to side step the dude taking a dump in the middle of the walkway.
Elmira Gifta thank god for 20th 21st century but that would be historic to live on but one problem “ Lots of disease during those days “
I'd never go outside lol
@@Jess-xn9xq honestly me too. I'd be too afraid to come out, what's outside is hardly worth the risks 🤢
@@kari7403 Parts like San Francisco? They serioualy have poop map so people can try to avoid it.
I’m glad I was born in the 21st century where I have my own clean toilet privately. I’m proud to say I lived a better life than a monarchy in the 16th century
You live like King 🤴
@@piratesmurf4251 even better than a king!
@@rafangille very true
2000 years from now aliens will laugh at your poo poo time
@@browsingfloor62 lol
I feel uncomfortable pooping in a stall if someone else is in the bathroom. Couldn’t imagine pooping sitting next to someone
Yes ! Seriously, same here
Jail! It sucks lol
@@FloridaMan786 LOL
People were more social back then.
Fair enough, but I'd imagine if it was something you did since birth it wouldn't be so strange.
This channel actually gave a crap about the history of toilets.
badum tisss
Yeah, it finally got its shit together..
Booo
LoL
Nice
Next: “History of Florida Man”
You must do it.
Agreed 😂
No love for Florida.
"Oh I know what would be DREADFULLY hilarious. The history of florida man!"
- That's you
I mean, fuck florida man. Fuck him! Video exhausts the meme.
What is the Florida man?
Kevin O 😱
India 2500 BC: first toilets
India 2020 AD: not all people have access to toilets...
Irony
EPIC
Actually 95% indians now have access to toilets
some just prefer manuring crops by own
not 95% but 93.3%
@@jithinrangani866 according to all govt sources it's 100%
Different sources different result
A lot of my life was spent without inside plumbing.
We had a two hole toilet which was not for using by two people at a time .
The toilet was out in the pasture where we raised hogs and had a four foot hole under it. We used catalogs and sometimes phone books when family brought old phone books down.
We saved our wood ashes that we generated in the winter. We would dump a scoop of ash after we used the toilet to keep the insects out.
We could get years out of a toilet without using a new hole.
The doors of the toilet opened inward so in the summer you could sit in the hot box with the door open and if someone was coming you could kick the door closed.
In the winter the snow would blow through the crack. I would make a taper and light it to warm the seat and melt the snow. Wasps and spiders were a problem in the summer.
There was a lantern hook inside for night visits. We had a thunder mug but the only time it was used was if you were physically not able to walk to the toilet.
My grandpa had a candle that he would light at night.
I rarely used a light to get to the toilet but it was nice to burn a taper to check out the hole for spiders when you got there .
In my area the church used the diamond on a door for men and the crescent moon for women.
Our toilets had solid doors...
what decade was this?
@@velvetkori
Probably on the older side, but even then it took longer to get indoor toilets if you lived out in the sticks. My mom was born in a house without indoor plumbing and didn't move into one until she was a teenager.
"Use me well and keep me clean and I won't tell people what I've seen 😂
LOL 😂
🤣🤣❤
Nice poem, it could've been done better but it'll do
Ha ha.
You're an excellent poetry
me: watching this while taking a dump
*instantly justifies taking long bathroom breaks*
Sean Dela Rosa same
number 1 or 2 😄
I also was on the toilet
I'm pooping while watching this, too!
Ayyyyeeeee
Just what I wanted to watch before bed. NOICE
👹👹👹
Jake Peralta is that you?
Lol
Space lizard?
LoL
A man named Crapper, and sells Toilets? Universe have good sense of humor.
“In Ancient Rome it was more of a social experience” I’m just imagining people sitting directly next to each other while taking a crap casually making conversation
And your knee accidentally touches your neighbor's
*Crapper #1* : Hey buddy, how's the wife and kids?
*Crapper #2* : They're good. 💩💩 What about you?
*Crapper #2* : Hey are you good, you sure seem constipated?
*Crapper #1* : Yeah, I'm good man.
*Crapper #3 Steps in* : Hey d'you guys feel anything biting your thing
*Crapper #1* : That must be the rats
*Crapper #3* : Ah, well do you guys smell something burning?
*Crapper #1*:
*Crapper #2* :
*Crapper #3*: Or is that just me?
Still happens in boot camp.
@@DANIAC262 and jail.
Dueling farts has a historical context here
When life gives you a Crappy last name, sell toilets.
Mark Reaves like smuckers😊
@Brix Broox really? To you maybe. lol
Lol
My great-grandmother called her chamber pot her "vessel". She was unable to walk and mostly blind, so my mother as a little girl under age 10 had to help her get the vessel underneath her, then pull it out again, then carried the vessel to the outhouse to empty it.
I use the toilet more often than most people, so I am VERY thankful for its invention! I am very impressed with people who use Nature’s Head toilets and others like it. (Lots of tiny house owners use them.) They cut down on so much water waste!
Yes! There are great compostable and cartridge toilets that have carried over to the tiny house movement from the RV and travel trailer industry. I thought the dry toilet shown here would make a great improvement over the traditional outhouses along many hiking trails -- all they'd have to do is add a bucket of sand or soil next to the hole so you could add a layer and cut down on the stink... :-)
water never gets used up. the total amount of water in the world is the same as its
always been. water changes form, then changes back, gets re-directed, but you
only use water, you never really use it up. some areas have less, some have more
but the Earth never lacked for water.
@@danielkokal8819 Yes.
But what happens is the POLLUTION of water.
Like in CHina where several lakes are chemical polluted.
Maybe the total amount of water stays the same. but the amount of clean water shrinks down.
That shade on Florida. 🤣
honestly though I crap on my own state lol
Leave us alone 😳... figuratively, only ofc
Tesseract 14 lol I went to college in Pensacola for a year. On the Brent side though, the not-so-much Florida man side lol.
Ikr bahahahahahaha
Everly Nevins I just moved out of Florida - I thought it was pretty shitty 😀
As a biologist and researcher, I cannot appreciate the invention of sanitation systems enough. Numerous people died due to the lack of sewage systems (and there have been roughly 7 major cholera worldwide outbreaks in the last 200 years). Although you might think that cholera infections are not as prevalent anymore it is estimated that there are annually still 1.3 million to 4.0 million cases of cholera, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide (would really love to make a video about that)! I really hope that we could raise more awareness for this issue. Feel free to ask me anything about this topic or stem cells (since I am conducting research in this field)!
I'm on dialysis. Any hope stem cells can repair my kidneys ruined by T1D? Eyes benefit? Feet? Also sewers with acid that dissolve waste good, or speacial humans that have unique bacteria and very strong stomach acid that don't poop?
you've seen the toilet culture from the Turks. The reals
What is Cholera?
Due to RV parks illegally dumping waste into the river in Cherokee, NC and Bryson city's ( town beside) sewage company broke down temp and dumped into same river.... They pisted NO warnings and my dog has permanent fur loss from a bacterial infection.... A woman became blind in one eye from it and many other infections reported. And this is a MAJOR tourist spot for swimming, rafting and fly fishing.
This happened about 7 years ago.
My questions got answered why I never saw cherokees or other locals using the river. I got warned by an Indian too late... Weeks after dog infected. I had just moved to the area.
The remainder of year I lived there I warned every tourist and parents acted fast to get their kids out etc.
FU to those responsible.
Yes, the invention of Plumbing save more lives than doctors did
1:52
"For society that worshiped cats, its only appropriate the egyptians also used a bathroom like one."
The shaaaadddee xD
Ohhhh the smells I don’t want to imagine how life in general smelt back then!
@The Caring Adolf Hitler uP
You're telling me ,I could imagine how it could be.........very smelly
It smells yummy, chocolate and flies
@@princealharthy6674 my favorite 😍
Me: if I get another thousand words of my essay done within the hour, I'll be happy.
Also me: I absolutely must learn about the history of toilets.
Hey you're still being educated!
I do NOT miss that about school. Looking back, just a useless waste of time!! So many more productive things that can be done.
@@missylou725 .
The Roman group poop. I can’t even imagine. What if you had to push?
Then others would cheer you on you can do it!
"Getting the wrong end of the stick" comes from when they used a sponge on a stick to clean themselves. Imagine getting the wrong end when they passed it around. Argggh.
@@zippitydodaday6037 what if i was constipated?
@@charlynegezze8536 Wow! You learn something new everyday! lol
@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen better question what if you had diarrhea.
It's dumb to laugh at people's names, but Thomas Crapper almost killed me.
I laughed so hard I started crying.
@@anthonydesroches8897 me too 😂
@@anthonydesroches8897 we are all turning into 10-year old children
I'm watching this from taiwan before I go back to the States, and i'm laughing
Ironically, RUclips recommended this video to me while I am on the toilet. :/
😖😂😂😂
I'm 64 years old and got my first smart phone from my daughter last summer. And now I just finished watching a video on toilets at 3:30 in the morning! Just plain crazy! If you told me 10 years ago that this would happen, I would think that you were crazy! 😋😀
😂🤣😂🤣😂
🙏🏾😄
No one:
Ancient Roman: bro wanna take a dump with me?
The real reason women all go to the "powder room" together 😂
Taken my poops sidebyside with my bro while camping. Talkin shit while takin a shit. 😆
@@Kryynism
"Bro, you heard what mommy told 'prrooott' dad the other night 'poot' "
"Nah, 'bbrrrroootttt' i was in my room playing 'ppoot' fortnite"
" 'pppfffffhhhhhh poo pppooo' Dad's about to take us to Disney 'ppooott' land"
Thomas Crapper is just the most amazing name for a man selling toilets. This is the most beautiful event in all of history.
I love how you warn everybody it's going to get weirder.
Please do the history of toothbrushing, i wonder how people clean their mouths/ teeth back then.
they didn't, that's why they had such horrible teeth
Ancient Egypt used eggshells and ash
The did do a video of the history of teeth not exact title but it was about teeth
That and hair brushes plus shaving
they've briefly discussed this before. Chewing sticks and creating a paste. (it was medieval peasant and pirate hygiene video
The dry toilet sounds oddly like a modern composting toilet.
Only, in this case, instead of using sand, doesn't the composting toilet use a special type of bag?
YOU DIDN'T MENTIONED THE OTT HOUSES. WE EVEN USED THEM IN THE 1950'S BEFORE WE GOT PLUMBING IN OUR HOUSE.
I had to write an essay on something weird, or different, so I chose the toilet. My teacher thought my essay might not be that interesting. I got a A+. Thank you for this video!
I'm really thankful for those people that invented the toilet because I can crap peacefully in a private room...
Welcome
It's the people that created the "water closet".... who you should be thanking.
It's difficult to imagine going back to the dark ages after growing up with regular toilets but I would manage I suppose
Now they just gotta make it comfy
@@88_TROUBLE_88 you never been in the military lol.
*”Everybody poops. And almost always in a toilet....*
*Unless they are in California, where people freely shit on the sidewalks.”*
Bitter Comments just San Francisco
Yeah it’s just San Francisco, live here only seen it once in all my years in San Fran area
I love Angelique ikr
Or china,lol
Or in my city of 40,000 in Ohio, we may be small but we've got a high number of homeless without access to a public toilet.
Watching this while sitting on the toilet has given me a newfound appreciation of toilets.
Anybody else have to point out when someone says "do do" in a sentence? Like "well if you do do it..." "You said do do!" I laugh every time.
Egyptian history is always impressive.
Thankful to live in a society with nice comfortable bathrooms! I’ve been all over and used every toilette and it can get disturbing for sure!
Hands down the best channel on RUclips! I just found it today and I'm SO thankful!
"Everybody poops"
The best intro to a video ever you have my full attetion
What about “ History of showers? Perhaps Cars?
Toilets are more interesting!!
that'd be awesome as long as they do not ignore the century long history of steam cars that predated the internal combustion engine car
History of showers is a really interesting one! Or in general, how houses/flats and their amenities changed over the centuries.
vroom vroom beep beep
"Everybody poops." - Weird History, Circa 2020
Stardust - Profound,genius, a visionary if you will.
Women don't poo
Spoiler alert!
There is a children's book w/that title.
The fact that pigs were fed anything and everything is why the Jewish dietary laws forbade pork - ultimately you were consuming what they had eaten. Modern pigs (in Michigan anyway) are by law required to be corn-fed, so bacon and ham are probably better for you today than they were then.
Same for Islam, that also carries to alcohol for being mostly harmful to the individual and society as a whole
That is why I don't eat pork. Pigs eat anything...anything.
In Britain, old people still say "I'm going to spend a penny" as a euphemism for going to the toilet.
That’s because it used to cost a 1d to use a public toilet. Now it cost a lot more!
"The Big Necessity: the wonderfull world of human waste and why it matters", by Elizabeth Rose George. A history of latrines, toilets, sewers, sanitation and the struggle to end "open defecation". A fascinating read.
Me: *has an assignment worth 30% of my grade due in 2 days*
Also me: *watches the history of toilets*
omg same
Good luck!!!
Love all of your history shows even this one. Great info - never thought about toilets - super job, a crappy situation.
I feel like not enough people talk about just how dangerous toasters were when they were first invented. They were one of the most common causes of house fires.
If you wanted to know about the history of Toilets. Well, urine luck!
ashton houran HA!
You’ve been waiting your whole life to use that one joke huh?.
Ouch........and I mean it
@@jessicaconner1242 : probably true, but I still laughed!!
Next: History of faucets
Please make a video about the history of:
- condoms
- braces
- dentures
- pornography
- sex toys
Introverted Traveler ...so sex and teeth basically. This I find funny
I read somewhere that dildos are very old. Could be interesting 😊
Wtf??
The Welsh invented the condom, they made it out of sheep intestines. But, the British improved it by taking the intestines out of the animal first.
@@nyx4081 yes they are very old
When I clicked on this video I wasn’t expecting a thorough dragging of Florida but I’m not disappointed
"Everybody poops, and almost always in a toilet"
*INDIA WOULD LIKE A WORD WITH YOU*
he said 'ALMOST' dont you see
@@d.batiloy9435 he sure did!
Our 95% population have toilet cover
And when they used to don't have it still we didn't pooped on side walks
I’ll take things I didn’t know I wanted to learn about for 500 Alex.
You win!!!
Having 2 toilets, I feel wealthy than a medieval nobleman
These videos and narration are addicting. I cant stop watching these videos !
The history of air conditioning would be interesting.
I’m surprised he didn’t mention that Kit Harrington (Actor who plays Jon Snow In the show Game Of Thrones) Is a Descendent of John Harrington.
This channel and the Hollywood Graveyards channel really get to me.
I can’t stand Hollywood gossip sites, because of the mean spirited nature of them, so this channel is really a treat.
I love the sense of humor to these videos. That's what hooked me. 😁
Thomas Crapper 😂😂 omg history can be amusing sometimes
He was born for the job 😂
Even with the wealthy in medieval Europe, they were nasty in this area. Castle’s had “bathrooms”, but all the waste ended up in the moat. The Kings did their business and sat in their own waste and didn’t wipe.
Perfumers were making mad buck among aristocrats cuz they would use the "crap" out of them to conceal their body odor due to them not washing themselves... They were nasty
We are still nasty wiping with paper instead of proper washing.
Eljan Rimsa bidets finished off with a pice of toilet paper to get rid of the moisture is the best way. Using dry paper to clean your rear is like doing the same thing to clean mud off your arm or face.
"the potential of rats on fire..."
That'll be enough RUclips for today I think. Yep.
The simple things we take for granted today are unmeasurable. Imagine having to go out on a cold winters night to a outhouse just to leave a deuce? We have become spoiled pampered human beings.
@Mark Dibble Only if you weren't smart enough to have a bucket in your bedroom. Or to eat dinner early in the day, lol.
Who else is watching this while sitting on the toilet 😂
Cristian Santos same
Cristian Santos me too. I had lunch not too long ago.
Sanitise your phone.
Cristian Santos legend says you’re still on the toilet
Lol jk
ew
Egyptians woke af with water conservation 🤣
Well researched and well documented. Congrats 🎊
Next: would like to hear about the history of Italian bath houses including the cold plunge pool.
"Use me well and keep me clean and I'll not tell what I've seen." Isn't that something prostitutes say?
You should know well
*sex workers don't use that derogatory term
@@Isichernit Really??? Damn. I had no clue. Please, tell me more about me. You must be some kind of internet psychic!
I wouldn't say it's a derogatory term. I mean, people don't get charged for "sex work." The legal term is prostitution. When an individual is being charged for the services rendered by these sex workers, the charge is called solicitation of prostitution.
I don't use that term in a malicious way. If I had meant any true animosity, i would have referred to them as whores, which I find to be an extremely derogatory term, and personally, never use it in reference to the ladies (or gentlemen) of the night. In reality, I've no ill will towards those individuals. It's not an envious job, and they often get just as much abuse, if not more, from people outside of their job, as from their clients. Even though their profession is one of the oldest in human history, and as much as most people don't want to admit, it was at times, a necessary profession. And one that contributed a lot to the building of young nations and settlements. There are a number of wars that would have been lost, or won, because of their work. They raised morale, even if some were also spreading STIs while doing so. They have always been a part of human culture, and they always will be. I see no point in thinking any less of them as people because of how they earn money. I'm aware that they arent all dirty junkies, who do quick tricks for $5-$20. There are plenty of average middle class individuals, who you would never guess their work. And there are those extremely high end companions, that as so worth their exorbitant fees.
I made a simple joke. Doesn't mean I have an ill will towards people of that profession. But some people may not understand, believe, or accept that. And that's okay. I cant change them, nor do I care to. I only wanted to make it clear that if anything, I respect those who work in that field, not look down on them.
@Colleen I love how you can accuse another of being, "uneducated," and yet, you can't even build a simple, intelligible sentence.
Still, I think I understand what you are getting at. And all I can say is that, that's a lot of assumptions that likely stem from anger, and NOT from any actual evidence, or argument of any substance. Plus, your assumptions are in fact, all incorrect.
I know a few people who work, or have worked, in that particular field. 2 of them are very dear to me. So next time your panties get too twisted, maybe try digging them out, and finding out the actual cause, before you go spouting off nonsense and looking the fool because of it.
If you are ever sad in life, remember the blessing of being born AFTER the invention of modern toilet paper
..which is still nasty. Wiping just smears residue all around. People who use bidets are cleaner.
But before the pandemic of 2020. Remember trying to get toilet paper in 2020?
Ajax is a cleanser for cleaning toilets and sinks and tubs.
It was just a humble hut. The door was never shut. And a man could get inside without a dime.
We had an outhouse when I was a kid. It was totally clean and safe.
@Cloroz Bleach Do you know how many spiders were in there? Did you have a wooden one? Three holer? I could still imagine the smell of my granda's for decades.
The humor is impeccable!
Recommended for you: The History of Toilets
*instantly clicks on video*
“And wash your hands”
.....ok mommy.
I never imagine doing poop in a group 😵
In boot camp we didn’t have doors on our stalls so when someone sat directly across from you and you locked eyes with them we would play a game called battleshits
There's Something Beautiful about watching this video while taking my Sunday morning poop!
When I was a young child we visited relatives that only had an outhouse. They had a lot of children so they had an outhouse with four holes. I still preferred to go by myself, except after dark. Yep, those were the days!! And when you have to go you have to go!!
My grandparents used an outhouse til about 1965.
Our country church still had an outhouse until they added on a foyer, nursery, a water fountain and two single restrooms in 1975. Oh, and it was only about 40 minutes from Nashville. Yep, 1975.
Love the narrative! Great video and information!
What better way to spend my time on "the porcelain throne " 😂
kinda ironic how the first toilet started up in India.
K G how???
@@basquehound1999 People still crap on the street in India.
@@Mondo762 no one shits on the streets in India... mostly its the already filthy beaches.
Yeah after the loot and Everything India was left with nothing . No revenue to build up sewage system . Think before making a statement and be thankful to us . Peace .
@@swastikasaha7166 well, I only said it was *ironic*, nothing else, why go all defensive on it lol. Anyways, also I thought it was a religious thing that Indians cannot build toilets at homes or even in the cities... something like that, I think I saw it in some Bollywood movie where the protagonist's dad almost disowned his son when he built a toilet for his modern wife... it was a pretty awesome movie but I can't remember the name.
Edit* google searched... the movie name was "Toilet: Ek Prem Katha"
The people who lived in my house prior to me were the first people in my hometown to get water toilets. They stole it from a german storage during the war.
But the house was renovated in the 80's so the toilet was gone before I even moved in :(
I thoroughly enjoy your humor. It made my lunch!
Yeah I was constipated but this video helped me through the tough time I was having. Thank you very much! 😊
Ironically, this was the one time I wasn't watching one of your videos on a toilet.
Crapper. What a last name lol
Who needs a magazine when we got this great video?
Thomas Crapper....
OOOHHH- that might be where that word came from😂😂
i was watching this and just bursted out laughing when i heard the dude's last name was crapper, i had to apologize while crying tears and say ''IM SORRY IM 12'' (im 25 btw)
Did you ever stop to think that maybe the reason we use crap so much or call toilets the crapper is because his name was so synonymous with the toilets he popularized? That's a fucking legacy.
I literally read the name before he said it and still burst out laughing when he said it
Don't be, he may or may not have any descendants
Talk about toilet humor
"Everyobody POOPS!" Best opening phrase EVER!!! 😂😂😂😂😂
Just started watch videos. Funny yet informative. Have you done one on how people wiped their bottoms back then or with what? Always wondered😂!
The flush lavatory is what ultimately led Liverpool, London and other major cities in Britain to build a modern sewage system- which is still in place. It started In Liverpool and then London got on the bandwagon after the 1858 Great Stink. The problem was the toilets were causing the cesspits to overflow, allowing sewage to seep into the water supply- the Thames in London’s case.
Another fun fact was that, during this time a scientist in London (I forget his name) used a study of an area dealing with a cholera outbreak to prove that it was a waterborne disease- disproving the “miasma theory” that had prevailed for centuries. It was one of the first instances of the use of scientific research disproving a commonly held belief.
The way some of these toilets are described almost makes diarrhea sound like a convenience... plenty of weird thoughts to go with weird history.
I'm going to *SO* regret posting this later..
One time when I was young, I was in an Asian airport and I really need to do a no. 2. But when I went in, all the proper toilet stalls were occupied and there was a vacant *"floor toilet"* left. So there I did no. 2. whilst trying to squat.
After that, I boarded the plane and sat in my seat, but I smelled something really bad... I found a small stain on the bottom of my shirt. 😬😭
THANKS FOR REMINDING ME, WEIRD HISTORY (!).
Squatting toilets are pretty common in Asian countries. I've been to Japan a few times, and while they mostly have advanced western toilets (often with features like heated seats and built-in bidets), there are still some squatting toilets for those who are used to using them. On top of that, you might sometimes see signs in public restrooms showing how to properly use a western toilet, and while they tend to look hilarious with images of all the wrong ways to do it, they're there for a reason.
Great video. Thanks for posting.👍
Love the humor & the stories.
Reminded me of the time I went to the toilet museum in Korea, very interesting. Did you know there is a world toilet organization which works to promote proper toilets and their sanitation throughout the world, especially in third world countries?
@Adam Ziel to be serious for JUST A MOMENT. Can you imagine all the disease and deaths that will be prevented? People are so careless with sanitation even when they have the most modern facilities.
6:00 when my grandparents would visit from Kentucky I remember them putting and using these pots under their beds. I never asked but I always knew what it was used for
@Orlando Sanchez My grandma had one. If you had to go in the middle of the night, a "chamber pot" or a BUCKET beat going all the way to the outhouse!
In my experience, the toilet system that was in the Han dynasty seems to still be in effect for chinese villages. Except the one I used was 2 structures: one structure was the outhouse with cinderblocks that ran down a slope, the other structure being the pig pen 😬.
I spend a lot of time camping in the woods. My toilet is a small garden trowel. I don't poop on it but I use it to dig a small hole in the ground to poop in. Works every time.