BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: Bobert
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 08:30 PM

Danged...

I read the titale of this thread and thought to myself, "Geeze, I shoulda started this thread" so then I opened it and...

...I did start this thread!!!

Deja vu and this flush is for you...

Wooossshhhhh!!!!

B~

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: Barry Finn
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 09:22 PM

If your old style works well & you want to conserve on water just keep adding a brich at a time to the tank till it doesn't do a good job then back up a brich or 2.

Here's a song perfectly seated for this thread (in the DT)

I'M GLAD I'M WORKING DOWN BELOW
(Words & Music by John M Garrett)

Oh a sewerman am I and my trade I deftly ply
As underneath the city streets I go
And my hope for paradise is to wade up to my thighs
Oh I'm glad I'm working down below

CHORUS:
Down below, down below
Oh it's dark but it's home to me, you know
It's the only place, I find, I can get some peace of mind
Yes I'm glad I'm working down below

There are rules to the trade that have to be obeyed
And every movement must be made just so
You must watch just where you stand, and just where you put your hand
Still I'm glad I'm working down below

There was cause for alarm at a nearby sewage farm
When a man fell down a pit some years ago
Since the accident occurred he's been lying there interred
Oh I'm glad I'm working down below

Oh in Paris I have found they take tourists underground
And even charge a small fee for the show
While in Venice I've heard tell they sail boats on it as well
Oh I'm glad I'm working down below

Oh it is a wonderful life, you can hide here from your wife
And leave behind your every care and woe
I may be a sewer rat, but I'm not to be sniffed at
Oh I'm glad I'm working down below

Barry

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 21 Sep 08 - 09:44 PM

We just got new toilets, Toto brand, and they do the job efficiently with little water, albeit a bit noisily. Very satisfactory! The city gave us $100 for replacing our old ones.
Not the cheapest, but excellent quality.

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: mouldy
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 06:16 AM

I got two slick, modern new'uns in last year, as part of my prettyfying of the house before I sell it. One is a "compact" cistern job for my own personal use off the bedroom. They are both Italian, I think, and I don't know if it's anything to do with the mediterranean diet, but they aren't as wide at the bendy bit! The one in my "en suite" has bordered on the wire coathanger treatment a couple of times. It also has this weird plastic float and mechanism thing in it, (it works on dual flush buttons from the top), and it's constantly dribbling down into the pan, even after I have had a good poke around. However, despite having a very small capacity, compared with the trad English version downstairs, it somehow mostly seems to do the job reasonably well. The other new one has a lever.

By the way, anyone worked out why the German toilets all have a shelf in the pan?

Andrea

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: quokka
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 07:29 AM

Great Australian movie on this topic called 'Kenny', shot documentary style about a bloke who has a "Port-a-loo" business, (temporary toilets)and it is hilarious! Kenny goes to a convention in (I think) Las Vegas on the subject, and has all sorts of adventures on the way.

Cheers,
Quokka

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Sep 08 - 01:09 PM

Sign in one toilet at work (it has a macerator and small bore outflow)

"Please do not flush anything except toilet paper down the toilet"

Not that I obey!

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 01:12 AM

Ah Mr Red, you finally found a toilet for tight-arses?! :-P

Regarding the Aussie "Kenny' character, he is currently doing a TV series on toilets round the world...

Subject: RE: BS: New Toilets Ain't Worth Crap...
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 23 Sep 08 - 02:48 AM

In the UK there is a glut of portable toilets which look like Dr Whos 'Tardis'........ our family changed a letter in the name to suit....... 'Turdis'... is such an earthy sounding name.