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PaperclipPerfector  11mo ago (text post)   3184 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 17, 2023

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Ukrainian toilets are so much better than American toilets. I've literally never clogged one. Except one in Balakliya that was a different kind. Isn't it interesting how there are different types of toilets? I wonder why.

I've lived in America my whole life and have never clogged a toilet. I tend to have soft poop though, so maybe that's why? Or maybe it's being average weight instead of obese.

I have had two roommates whose excrement is the radius of the average cheap water bottle. Neither was obese. I, on the other hand, am obese, but mine is closer to the radius of the plunger handle I got to know all too well when they lived with me.

All three of us are Americans of mixed British Isles and Swiss/German extraction.

Well, I also use a lot of toilet paper.

I've never had a toilet clog on me in India, or seen a clogged one for the matter, and believe me I've dropped some timber. I would wager it's all the TP gumming up the works in most of the West.

Well, that's also a weird thing. I've noticed Ukrainians sometimes don't put their toilet paper down the toilet, but I always do, and I've never had a problem except in America.

I remember reading an askreddit thread of a European or possibly Australian asking why there was so much toilet clogging in their media when it literally never happened to them. Some people who had experience in America and different countries explained that American sewage pipes were an inch or more smaller than European sewage pipes.

I couldn't find that specific reddit thread but there was a thing that had this link: https://pottygirl.wordpress.com/2011/01/30/why-do-american-toilets-clog/

Which suggests the clog factor is mostly about different design.

Or Americans are taking mega shits.

Interesting!

Moving away from plumbing and washroom discussion: what are you doing in Ukraine? Do you live there?

I came as a humanitarian volunteer, but I haven't been doing much lately, so I'm going back to the US soon.

Probably the absence of low-flow design downstream of environmental regulations.

No, even with the old ones.

I remember gags in sitcoms about people buying Canadian toilets to get around regulations

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(The toilets in Canada suck now too -- maybe Ukraine can get some funding for the war effort by exporting blue & yellow versions?)

Sorry if this is culture war. It didn't occur to me at first.

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