The Strange Design of American Toilets
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2023
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Have you ever visited the United States or Europe and noticed that there's something different about the toilets?
This is a video uncovering the hidden complex reasons behind why bathrooms are different.
Toilets, engineering, Zizek, Europe, USA, Comparison
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''Brexit was a surprise to no one who understood bathrooms''
Because it was a shitstorm. Everything went down the drain.
@@RafaelW8 wow
I guess this was meant to be a joke right?
@@Sir99percent If it was it was a total failure as European/UK toilets are identical .
That sure was a sentence
I have never thought about toilets so deeply and for such a long time! Very interesting...
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Welcome to plumbing 😭
ruclips.net/video/hy_fElYFzI8/видео.htmlsi=uM1tzC71DQPwHpuw
link to the grand unified toilet theory
I have thought about it as a American especially when I was a homeless drug addict once upon a time and I would use the bathroom to sponge bath myself & change into clothes which I always thought I get barely enough vut not enough privacy to do my business thanks to the bathroom door being to high n' folks being able to see what's going in the bathroom when all I wanted was pure privacy..
I have
This is so interesting, I travel a lot between the UK and the US and I've always wondered why such a big difference. Also, I've never seen a siphonic toilet in the UK, it's definitely an all-American thing. Southern Europe has also squat toilets, but I'm fairly sure they're being phased as I haven't seen one in many years.
So do you normally just watch one video and believe it all?
I have lived in the uk my whole life. Seen hundreds of toilets here. Never seen a siphonic toilet.
Been living in the UK for awhile now and same, I haven't seen a siphonic toilet here. All the toilets are either pull chain or wash down.
Turkey and India have both! And even some villas have both because the squat toilet is better for the big thing.
so...after 3 month i can solve the riddle... :) The siphonic toilets (american style) are banned in europe since the 1970s because of the amount of water they need. A siphonic toilet needs about 9-10 liters, an european actually around 4,5 to 6 liters fpr the "big flush", 3 to 4,5 for the "smal flush". So there is an other difference, that makes it nearly impossible to intrduce the european toilets to the US: in america most of the people are crumpling their toiletpaper, in europe they fold it. The siphonic toilet has a bit more power...and so its possible to flush the crumbled paper. Its a minor point...but not unimportant :) And before you wonder: i´m working in this industrie...its not a hobby to know that :)
I'm a European who lives in the UK and I don't recall ever seeing a siphon toilet here in the UK, and all the toilets in all the houses, hotels and apartments I've stayed in the UK have had wash-down models.
also holy hell the toilets with shelves are the absolute worst, you still see them sometimes in Hungary in public washrooms.
I first saw a shelf toilet in legoland in windsor
They're very common in Germany
i call them presentation toilets, they help you to diagnose your output :) also, they prevent splash back.
I prefer the shelf toilet, they were common in the Netherlands until the '90s. Unfortunately they are hard to buy anymore these days.
they are called washout toilets.
The open stalls in US toilets made me super uncomfortable to use a public restroom in the US. In Sweden public toilets have their own rooms which are quite sound proof as well. You get complete privacy.
Yeah we all hate the stalls here in the U.S. as far as I know and I can't foresee workers striking for something like that lol although maybe it would help
An Ikea I went to had the best solution. A row of those isolated rooms toilets. No urinals, no open stalls, no gendered anything. Just do your shit and be at peace. It was effective and efficient and never felt awkward. Meanwhile now days back in the USA I sit in the restroom at work and stare at the shoes of the guy waiting for me to exit..........
@@p.a.g3357 gendered toilets are a fucking scam. They just exist to sell more shit'n'piss stations.
@@p.a.g3357 Lol, meanwhile here in Europe at my work and in many public places like malls, restaurants, airports, they play loud music in the stalls so other people in neighboring stalls won't hear our noises... and you stare at some other guy's shoes :))
As opposed to the trough you guys piss in? You must be joking
"The bathrooms are not designed to maximise the most convenient, pleasant bathroom experience, but to maximise raw output." - Got me chuckling lol
It's reminded me why McDonald's in the US have slightly uncomfortable furniture and are just not pleasant places to be. You'd rather take away your food than eat in, and that maximizes output as well. McDs in Europe are generally (no, not everywhere) much more stylish and comfortable places.
@@MartijnPenningswell it’s fast food the whole point is you just take your food and leave if you want more comfortable experience to go to a restaurant
@@davisdelp8131 I know, but in some places (read: France) McD failed with their standard American model franchise. French people generally rather sit down than walk-and-eat. Also it's more normal to take your family to mcD or eat with a group, so in some places they design them more as restaurants.
@@davisdelp8131 it's explained here: ruclips.net/video/zmIczg6a0WQ/видео.htmlsi=iLEcLwpjzdNmyp08
@@davisdelp8131here in South Asia the American FF outlets are treated as restaurants. I think this is quite common around the world. As a result most McDs, KFC, PH, BK look rather fancy and are comfortable enough a long dine in experience.
UK here - we definitely don’t use the US style toilet very often at all.
I agree. I'm 51, have travelled extensively within the UK and have never seen a toilet like that. As someone else mentioned, it's unlikely to even be legal within the UK.
Yall use the flush toilet right
0:10 "taken at a$$ value" lmaoo
Ikr lol
Can't believe that even in a video about toilets we reach the age old conclusion: the US cares about companies and profits, while the EU cares about human beings.
@@tripplefives1402you can't have companies without workers, aka human beings
You can, however, have human beings without companies. In fact companies as we know them today did not exist for such a long time
@@tripplefives1402salty american who cannot take criticism found lol
@@tripplefives1402this a really dumb take. If you acctually did five minutes of thinking you'd realise that you don't need companies at all. Well, not in the capitalist sence anyway
@@bisky9105We need companies tho. No?
@@tripplefives1402 - do you need to live to work, or to work to live?
Got it?
The ability to create such an interesting video out of something so seemingly banal as toilets is a testament to your skill as a creator. Keep it up!
It's called overthinking.
@@HighLanderPonyYT perhaps you're right. I, however, prefer to look at it as maybe seeing the world a little differently from most.
thank slavoj zizek
@@HighLanderPonyYT literally the opposite of that
@@otakuofmine Nope
Nice shitpost
This video is art, satire and comedy at the same time. The trinity of fern.
As a UK native I never encountered a siphonic toilet till I went to the US
same i think
I've never seen one either and I've been here my whole life
@@Shadow_ball London but lived in the Midlands too
I believe other than US countries use that too. We have that a lot here in the Philippines and even Singapore.
Agreed, another US video showing little knowledge of the UK. I’m not sure if the video is rather tongue in cheek 😂😂
I'm from the UK and nearly 40. I've never seen a UK toilet using anything like the amount of water a US toilet uses. As far as I can tell we use the flush down toilet. Despite what Slavoi Zizek says (mine even has a dual flush)
Yeah i think we stopped using them decades ago I’ve only ever seen one or two of the other type.
@@horatiotodd8723 I don't think we ever used them... You ever seen a Victorian toilet with that amount of water in them? I suspect Slavoi is either lazy or got confused by language as our toilets do have a Syphon in them... But within the cistern (the bit at the back for any non-native speakers)
Yeah, I've never seen a siphon toilet here, as far as I'm aware. Always got freaked out seeing the swimming pool of water in American toilets.
Siphon toilets are actually illegal in the UK and as far as I'm also aware they have never been used - ironically in a video that mentions Brexit it is due to the 6 litre max flush requirement that is currently embedded in UK law which originated from the EU.
Dual Flush is goated ngl
Joining the other UK comments here, we don't use the siphon toilets. We have the same flush down style as the rest of Europe. Surpised at the error, doesn't seem it would be hard to verify considering it's mentioned multiple times throughout the video.
Our wash down style toilets do have a siphon, but it's in the cistern. If he learned about that I can see how he got confused. It's known as a 'Pythagorean siphon' (the channel 'Steve Mould' has a video on them) as you simply initiate the flow of water with the handle and it self sustains flow until it empties the cistern, however we have the dual flush option built into this as you can hold down the handle to break the siphon effect when the water level drops to half of the cistern's capacity. Holding the handle down creates an air gap when the water level drops that far, and air entering the siphon stops it pulling water up from the bottom of the cistern. I guess this could be how ours differ from the European ones that seem to be shown in this video to have 2 separate buttons for that, where ours have a single handle like the US ones, probably adding to the confusion, or confirming in their mind that the UK's (cistern) siphon toilets are the same as the US (waste-pipe) siphon toilets.
Our design also means if the float doesn't fully stop the flow of water into the cistern, it won't flood the bathroom because the path into the rest of the toilet is always open. Pushing the handle just pulls a one-way plunger style thing upwards to create a wave over the top that then falls and pulls the rest of the water in the cistern with it until air gets into that system again.
Another crazy thing at US stalls is that tooo big gap when closing the stall door, you can literally see everyone shitting while walking by
Did you know that the old German toilet has this kind of step for medical reasons? It is there so that stool samples can be taken much more easily.
Which is the reason why you find them so often in Austria. In the empire, to my knowledge, there even was an imperial decree to be able to inspect bodily outflow more easily in order to help combat diseases, because if you can register them more easily, you are able to prevent them from spreading more easily.
+ no splash so your butt stays dry AND nobody hears when you take one. that alone makes it 200% better
But they also clog way faster so for me they are a big nono. Have been there regularly taking a dump and clogging the toilet with a "new" one. Dont want to imagine what would happen if the old one was more common
the only thing that says about you, is that you shouldn't wait so long before you take a shit. they almost never clog. you just dont have a healthy way of doing your business@@Septimus1907
This type of toilet does not squirt, which is probably its main advantage these days
This is quite litterally a giant, well executed and very informative shitpost. Thanks fern!
Alright Mr.Kissass, got enough "t's in littterally ?
In my 30 years of using toilets in the UK, I've only seen 1 syphonic toilet out of hundreds of toilets that I have used. I have no idea where you got that info from! Also, we have both types of stalls.
Average youtube user needs to realize his own singular personal experience does not define facts
Fun fact: Žižek first name is Slavoj, name which in Poland is almost synonymous with toilets. Outhouse (you know, wooden, dry toilets, not connected to sewer system, often found in rural areas) in Poland is called "Sławojka" (which can be translated into English as "something owned by Slavoj", because Polish minister of Interior (and later prime minister of Poland) Sławoj Składkowski went onto crusade against defecating on ground in open air and decreed that every land lot has to have an outhouse. But because he really wanted to enforce new law he was responsible for massive government controls checking if everybody had an outhouse. Because it was quite intrusive he became object of jokes and mockery and calling outhouse with his name just stuck. Just imagine, you were a doctor of medicine (surgeon and gynaecologist), two star general, politician, minister of interior, prime minister, you took part in a coup against democratically elected government, you were responsible for illegal arrests of opposition members, but the one thing you are remember is... hehe, shithouse. :D
Is this coincidence that two toilet obsessed men are name Slavoj? I don't think so. xD
I call 'em Shrek toilets.
And frankly, the Polish synonym is accurate for his politics.
Most of the stalls in Europe also have a gap between the floor and the wall, but much smaller than in the USA
I wanted to say that too, its not true that the stall goes to the ground
In the netherlands the stall goes always to the ground, no gaps
Depends on where you are.
But still smaller gaps for sure.
@@thecryptochartist5506It's not true. I've been there several times and there mostly aren't.
@@jakubadamczyk1523 It is true, i live there for whole my life and they mostly are
Pretty sure we use washdown toilets in the UK?
'to maximise raw output' had me actually laughing out loud 8:12
Another benefit of the American stalls with the large gaps is that you can crawl out if the door latch mechanism fails for some reason. That happened to me once with those rotating knob locks where it failed to completely retract despite being turned all the way. To this day I'm still suspicious of these types of latches especially when they get rusty, I don't get why everyone doesn't just use sliding latches which are way simpler and can't fail in a manner that locks you inside.
most bathroom stall doors in the UK (at least from my experience) use a sliding lock - so failure is rare. And in the event of one, it just means the door can't close, not that you're locked in/out.
7:35 ah yes a ambulance worker having to slide through potentially piss and shit down on the floor to access a patient sounds like a good idea
Well the main idea is that they can see the person, and thus be able to open the door using some kind of tool. Basically, if you can't see someone passed out on the floor, they might die because people politely avoid disturbing that stall.
I had a smile on my face the whole video, mostly because it was so seriously spoken
Yeah, dramatically even
Idk why people always associate something funny with toilets and expect a unserious or even a comedy speak and talk when it comes to toilets.
Its literally about serious "problems" like the high usage of water.
I guess you even start to smile and laugh when someone talks about... hihi. PEENIS.
@@TheRealProdeigi ok, but the video definitely leaned into that comedy aspect with such jokes like "Amercan toilets literally suck".
@@TheRealProdeigi Well I gotta say speaking about toilets and taking a shit often is kinda related to funny thoughts, but I can imagine if youre working for the poop industry it gets bland and dull with time
In the UK I've never seen an American style toilet and many of them do have 2 buttons so I don't think you're right in saying we use syphonic ones unless the high water is optional
"American toilets, literally, suck."
3:04
We absolutely don't use the siphon toilet here in the UK anymore, I have not seen one of those since I was a literal child thirty odd years ago.
Interesting video, but we definitely use the same toilets as the rest of Europe here in the UK. I’ve even seen one comment saying as far as they’re aware the US style is outright illegal and that laws on the maximum volume of water allowed to be used by the toilet according to EU law is still embedded in UK law, as goes for most EU laws as of now, so Brexit is once again irrelevant in this sense.
What are you implying?
@@herrhase5261
That Brexit has been brought up in a nonsense way, again. We have had the same toilets for the decades. Pre and post Brexit. So why is Brexit being mentioned at all.
Lived in the UK my whole life and, to the best of my knowledge, I have never seen a US style toilet in my life, never seen a bowl full of water except when it is clogged lol
same in canada
I m literally impressed by how you could use such a trivial topic and still make it so interesting! It is a testament of your profound skill to make videos. Keep the good work up.
Trivial topic? Maybe just to you, not me! I have always been impressed by toilets and their design, since I use it multiple times everyday, and how miserable I'd feel being outdoor without one available when needed! Are u just gonna squat down in open space? 😂
I'm genuinely amazed at your ability to take a seemingly mundane subject and turn it into something truly captivating! Your skill in creating videos is a clear testament to your depth of expertise. Please continue producing such excellent content.
Sorry I saw someone post nearly the identical comment you posted, so I told chatgpt to re write that sentence for me and now, I'm star5ting to think everyone's a bot.
@@tarantulamadness6191 hahaha as u see my post is not bot ai
The Video we didn't expected, but still needed it.
1:40 It felt as if Apple wanted to introduce the revolutionary iToilet on stage
You juat became one of my new favorite channels the moment you added the clip of Zizek talking about toilets.
Unironically, its an amazing speech about difference in national character and social psichology and how it manifests in daily stuff that we really dont think about.
7:42 “by having master keys” - a.k.a “coins”
I am on toilet right now
Same. Glad to be West European
Happy pooping! you can do it!
At least nobody will say that you're full of "you know what."
I once saw a stall in a Candian public washroom where the door didn't only have a gap at the bottom it outright ended at torso level. If somebody would shit there you could have held eyecontact. Safe to say I only did the small business even though I really was in need of maximizeing raw output.
I can't edit for some reason it is maximizing of course
Yeah such stalls exist in some unrenovated bathrooms from the 70s at my American University (UW-Madison), the rumor goes that they cut them down to shoulder height to stop people from fornicating in the bathrooms.
Seattleite here, most of the bathrooms in Pike Place Market are the exact same way, specifically to force discomfort and make you hurry up, do your business, and GTFO. It's why I never use them.
Not sure where this RUclipsr got the idea from that the UK uses the same toilets as the US because I'm nearly 40 and have never come across one that isn't a flush down toilet. I've even come across some of those old Victorian ones with the tank way up in the air (can't remember what they are called whilst typing this).
Only time I've ever seen a syphonic toilet that's full of water is in the US and always thought they were blocked because they had so much water.
(Dutch here) I was told we have a "platform" in our toilet to examine our poop before it goes down. To check, when you're feeling bad, if it's a healthy one or if something's off.
Please don't be afraid to check out your poop when you finished. It says so much about your health.
I have the feeling this video should be taken with a grain of salt. While I was in school in Germany they had some of the nasties toilettes I ever encountered. Also stalls not reaching the floor and ceiling. And then there around the mediterranean you can find those traditional "crouch down" toilettes. Actually from an anatomical standpoint this is the better position to empty your guts.
I like to keep a stool next to my toilet so I can put my feet up like I'm crouching to poop. Shit works out a lot better that way.
@@jbbrutal6714yeah you can even get ones especially made for that (with a round semi hole in the middle so they fit snugly around /under your toilet) for 5-10€; since we got one I've been happily using it every time
@@jbbrutal6714I just use my trash can or towel hamper
Schools and second world country airports are the exception. I have never seen an american stall anywhere else
In the analyses of US versus European enclosures, what wasn't taken into account was cleaning, maintenance and labor time of custodial people. The European model involves a large number of corners and reduced access areas. Think about how much easier it is to mop and clean across the whole floor. Frank Loyd Wright's Larkin Building was noted for innovations that included suspended toilet partitions and bowls. I haven't found it, but I suspect in the age of the flowering of efficiency studies, someone analyzed the restroom cleaning and hygiene problems and concluded that getting rid of things on the floors and cleaning can be done quickly and effectively.
exactly. with a gap at the bottom it is much easier to mop the area. You can even use a water hose to just rinse the entire floor and let it drain into the floor drain.
I love Zizeck because you never know what you get when there's an interview or presentation. Pure philosophical entertainment. Great video.
As always, a high quality video
Not the video we wanted
Not the video we thought about
But the video we needed
My parents renovated their bathrooms a while back, and going with the trends they put in square washdown toilets.
Now my recomendation to everyone who plans on renovating their bathroom(s): Don't do it, go with normal, oval shaped toilets! Square ones are a pain in the @$$, literally and figuratively. It's hella uncomfortable to sit on and a lot harder to clean due to the corners the brush won't reach. Also it's way harder to find replacement toilet seats, as the 'basic' oval ones (obviously) don't fit. Also the nuts to unscrew that seat (as well as to mount it to the wall) are very hard to reach, if at all, as they are hidden behind a ceramic front, but that's a general stupid trend...
Just spare you the hassle, and don't follow stupid trends!
I love how this is delivered with the seriousness and tone of a crime documentary.
So thats why I've never had a cloged toilet. I seen the cloged toilet problem in so many american media and always wondered why it almost never happens to me or ppl I know. Great video!
Yeah, I never understood that as well, but .. but Spoiler TMI ahead .. I clogged plenty of german toilets as well 😐
So... what you're saying is, selling toilet plungers is a much more profitable business venture in the US? XD
@@lasercraft32 Just like women's 0 pocket clothing and handbag sales, the plunger and a clogging toilet are in a symbiotic relationship.
I'm from the UK and I've only ever seen washdown toilets locally.... I kinda feel your assessment of the UK is based on Slavoi Zizek chatting shit to create some sort of anglosphere discourse.
Love your content and the subtle humor embedded in them.
The reason "public" stalls have the floor gap is hygiene. Its so you can mop under the partition, if you were correct the gap would be as high as possible.
The upper gap is cost . Standardized panel hights greatly reduces price.
I love that you zoomed in on Zizek's "mouth action". Always a treat, that guy.
I will always remain a fan of the old Dutch / German one with a shelf for the simple purpose that it doesn’t splash while “doing the deed”.
Sure, you briefly have a period of time where it probably stinks more since it’s not covered by water, and it may be a bit strange to see the waste sitting there if you’re not used to it, but those are both things you can get used to rather quickly.
Cold, dirty water unceremoniously splashing up with every #2 is much more annoying than either of the downsides if you ask me.
Benefit, we have one with step at home, and two “French”, comes when you have kids and check their stool.
put some toiletpaper on top of the water, and then number two won't splash up on you :-)
@@henrikchristensen8458 the amount of wasted toilet paper is actually huge
@@neyrhustop acting like you actually care. It's not wasting it anyway.
Save old paper and use it in the toilet, big win, no wet arse or ballz.
This is the absolute best channel find ever. My brother and I are addicted and have been binging these videos. Also the sponsorship segways are immaculate. Can't wait to see future videos!
Some of the descriptive commentary for the toilets is so nearly in shit post territory but just about gets away with it and I love it! It's the perfect balance of sincerity and humor that I love. Keep it up
I have the urge to rant for 2 hours straight about the dutch style toilet after this video reminded me of it's existence.
My polish grandmother had one of those in her flat and I'm convinced to this day, that a crackhead designed this toilet after his divorce
If was invented to more easily access stool samples
It does that like no other
Just took a dump in a Dutch style toilet 5 mins ago. Nothing like plopping right onto the bowl
@@SoguweIt is also super poetic.
just no. it is 100% better. first of all the absolute biggest advantage, actually 2, are that you dont make a huge splash and your butt stays dry. second is you dont make noise when shitting. nobody will know. so its 100% privacy + comfort. and if you are to prude to see your shit, thats just dumb in my eyes. just flush. duh. also if you have blood in your shit, in this case you could briefly see it when flushing, meaning its quickly noticed and you can go to the doctor. and if you have so huge diarrhea that a couple marks stick to it, after flushing, my god just use the toilet brush to quickly scrub it, it has a long stick after all. and then flush for 1 sec again and its gone.
In our former apartment we had one without a cistern. The water pressure out of the pipe had to get rid of the „stuff“ but it failed with bigger tasks. We had to give it a little help with the toilet brush.
its a bit sad that so many cant enjoy the german videos. these 3 channels are easily the best channels i know on this platform. i love you guys!
They're kinda lame compared to British or American content.
Simplicisimus ist ja noch ganz geil, aber deutlich zu wenig kontent.
@@rickmortyson4861tf is you talking about
@@rickmortyson4861 The Videos of them are pure informative, have superior self crafted animations, well integrated ads and great neutral endings. There aren't any useless craptalking parts nor flashy generated exaggerated intros and outros. Also you are not supposed to skip parts or put their videos at 1.5/2.0 speed.
US stalls have a gap at the bottom for the very obvious reason that it's much easier to mop throughly for cleanliness.
I wished you got into more details about the differences of the toilet thrones and how they work and differ.
I still own the old german style of toilet, and I will so until it eventually breaks underneath my butt load.
On the toilets that have a pool of water right underneath your butt, I always need to put in some toilet paper first, so that I don't get the nasty drops of sh!t water splashing towards my butt when the dump falls down into the water.
So yea, with the old "inspection"-style toilet, such thing won't ever happen to me. And there is an easy way to deal with the smell...
Open up a window, flush right after you done your business, and then start wiping your butt.
As a paranoid person who grew up around a lot of broken toilet stalls I like the fact you can easily escape from an American bathroom stall. Granted, it's also easier for your stall to be invaded.
It's easy to dodge the pay toilet, by crawling under the door.
your storytelling talent is uncommon! i love how you keep me interested about toilets
As an Austrian I can say that toilets that "display the result" are still completely standard here, I just got a new toilet a year ago and it's still the same as it was like 20 years ago. Also, our stalls often do have space free at the bottom like the US stalls, I have seen this plenty of times here.
No you can't say the truth online. That's not allowed. We rather judge hundreds of millions of people as all the same instead
@@tiffanywyatt5137I am austrian and never have I ever seen stalls with such goddamn big gaps like the US
Thank you so much for always including sources. I was able to quickly look up that 'working hours' graph only half-seen at the end.
1. I see very often toilets with the gap and i live in germany.
2. I heard that the gaps are for easier cleaning
3. With the old german model the big Business doesnt fall into the water and the water cant splash back and make you wet.
In my experience in the kindergarten, if you took a big shit, it would also not want to flush.
3 is the kiss of Poseidon ;-)
here in Germany, even though the washdown toilets are definetily kind of annoying at times, one really nice benefit of them (especially in medical institutions and the like) is that they allow for easy sampling of the poop, both by separating it from the pee and placing it higher up which allows for easier access, this is one of the reasons why alot of hospitals and nursing homes here actually refuse to transition away from them
One thing to say as an advantage to the American stall design, it makes it a LOT easier to clean a bathroom.
Lived in the uk my whole life and only ever seen the wash down toilet as in the rest of Europe, usually with a dual flush as described in the video, wonder if this info is outdated?
We need more channels like this!
Good job. Not sure if it’s just you, or if you have a team. But quality content. This is the second video I’ve watched by you, im subscribed, and hooked.
2 germans 1 nl
2:15 Shakespeare has been real quiet since this line dropped...
Europes Stalls dont nessesarily go all the way down - we usually have 15cm gaps (6inces) as well. The old 'Flachspühler' (flat-flusher) style was common, but not the most common.
Its about seeing if you're gut is healthy btw. (pro tip: if its green: you are something bad ... or greenery)
Would've been great to include the Japanese toilets too
absolutely
I think the Japanese "mantra" is "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." Hence the squat toilets, the fax machines and signage stamps. But once it is thoroughly broken, they design something ingenious.
My toughts exactly, what is water use, time spent on toilet, cost etc. and also the stall differences
Japanese toilets are just regualar toilets with more technology involved, the core fundamentals don't change, also they weren't even invented in Japan, just more widely adopted.
still nice to talk about them, also I like the faucet system that is integrated (non-electric) @@grandmanitou6563
I was so impressed on a business trip to the US based HQ of a very large Asian company, that the restrooms were fully enclosed with high end Toto's with all the bells and whistles, including a rock wall waterfall and live plants in the bathroom. It was such a nice experience from what usual US business bathrooms are like.
I learned almost nothing about toilets from this..
Good video, but i would have wished to include some toilet designs from other regions of the world too, to paint a complete picture.
I think this video is a bit superficial, because I think there is both a lot of use of the washdown toilets in the UK and in Germany often stalls have like a 5-10 cm gap.
Edit: I guess they do mention there can be small gaps in the European stalls.
Ease of cleaning is the main reason American bathroom stalls have gaps at the bottom. My parents owned a restaurant when I was a child, and when I asked why the bathroom stalls didn't reach all the way to the floor they said the reason would be obvious to anyone tasked with cleaning a "public" restroom: the open spaces at the bottom make it MUCH easier to properly clean the floors! Without room to sweep and mop under the stall walls and doors, each stall becomes its own private germ-collecting chamber that requires scrubbing the floor along all four walls (door included). With such limited space in each stall, this could need to be done on hands and knees, meaning it gets "forgotten" more often since the dirt and grime is not as obvious without the gap. I wonder if this is the reason a lot of Europeans I've met have said American public restrooms tend to be much cleaner than those in their home countries.
In Australia every toilet I have seen (if you exclude things like composting toilets or other weird things and only include regular toilets) are the wash down type, not the US siphon type. Stalls in public restrooms generally have gaps at the bottom but I have never seen stalls with either huge gaps at the bottom or doors that you can see over the way they do in some parts of the US.
One thing we have in some toilets in Australia (generally ones that might be open at night) is the use of blue lights to make it harder for drug users to use toilets as a place to inject their drugs.
canada has france type toilettes
I’ve lived in the UK my whole life, and I’ve only ever seen French models here.
Thanks guys, for such great videos!
Great video title, @Simplicissimus! Suits really well!
Well that just sucks. Even companies found a way to mess with the only thing that keeps regular employees from having a mental breakdown between shifts.
Interesting yet somewhat inaccurate. in the UK, the syphonic toilet was a brief fad in the 70s and 80s, but now accounts for a trivial number of BTUs (British Turd Units). I've also been hanging around toilets for half a century and have never heard mention of 'the French Model.' B-. Keep on flushing.
Shoutout to my toilet for puttin up with my shit all these years!
I have never in my life felt pressured to hurry up on the toilet because of how exposed the stalls are. However, it does make you more aware of other people waiting. Plus having the sides be open allows for TP sharing.
As a Dutch person, the toilets where your own poop lays dry under your asshole are definitely a nightmare. Luckily most of them are removed but damn, once in so many months you encounter one and I'll just say, you have to hope that your poop isnt too long
Alternative title: 8 minutes of trashtalking toilets
This is the most some bizarre over-produced toilet humor I've ever witnessed. I'm sure there are some very important socioeconomic points that could be read between the lines in this piece, but I couldn't notice them due to the laughter.
I love your production values. Top notch! (And I really like the under the breath humorous comments). Well done, I’ll be back for more. 😊
so many great, deadpan one liners in this one, appreciated.
I’m watching this while sitting on an old school washout toilet with inspection shelf. 👀🤷♂️
7:27 too good
I don't think their narrator likes the script 😂
you guys are the only youtubers creative enough to think of something besides the apple vision pro. thanks❤
I thought the stalls were high off the ground in the US so that they are easier to clean/mop.
I'm one of the few lucky people to own one of those older bad boys. Great in case your doc wants a sample of your "waste" it's easy as hell AND you won't get your booty wet AND the hole is right under your exit for small waste so it wont sprinkle if your experiencing a high pressured release of liquid waste. Simply amazing
I have one of those too, and I approve this message.
I also had one of those, the problem was that the water wasnt strong enough to push if off sometimes...
@@teclistm9606 Yeah, that sucks bad. Since these toilets are pretty old, so are the pipes in the wall n stuff.
But I must say at my last AirBnB in the netherlands I've had 2 booty-wetmaker toilets and they had the same problem
Awesome content. I expect a part 2 with Asian squat toilets.
For the short time that I worked in the US i also felt like the toilet at the office was really uncomfotable. I asked a friend of mine who pointed out that it was a bit tilted so that you would always need to use your legs a bit to not slide down thereby reducing the amount of time somebody would "relax" on the toilet.
If I could design a public building, the restrooms would have siphonic toilets in european-style stalls. Music would always be playing to provide a sense of audio privacy. In the men's bathrooms, the urinals would have partitions between them, so you don't see another man's member out of the corner of your eye. The partitions would protrude at least 2 feet from the wall. I've been to places where they only protrude 6 inches, and to other places with no partitions at all between urinals. In the elevators, the Portal Radio Tune would be on a constant loop at all times.