I for one am enchanted with creating a continuous pipeline of creation and destruction, with myself at the nexus of it all. Mind you, it works better with water, as I have an unusually non-latent reaction to fluid intake, and feel the need to pee pretty much immediately after drinking.
Well, my uncle has got around this for the past seventy years by just not installing plumbing at his house. Visiting him is an interesting experience, since the outhouse also abuts the goose yard, and has slats falling off at inappropriate heights.
My grandfather read the bible 6 times as a young man. They only had an outhouse. He always said that no matter how cold it was, he tried to finish the page before he tore it out and used it.
Your grandfather must have been a highly literate man of high moral standards to have insisted on using a bible instead of the Sears cataloge like his more pagan neighbors.
Archaeologists have found that in Mesopotamia there was indoor plumbing 4,000 years ago. But of course, it was invented in America. Like everything else was.
And Cowboy Bug is awesome with his little cowboy hat with antennae holes!
Actually, the modern flush toilet was invented in England in the mid-1800s by John Crapper. Not really, it was actually a guy named IIRC, Harrington but John Crapper did sell a lot of them.
While the flush toilet was not invented in America, the pressurized water system it depended upon was perfected here and just as with electrification, we shot ahead of the rest of the world. One of the reasons is that we were building new infrastructure on empty land while everyone else was having to do the construction equivalent of brain surgery by retrofitting 500 year old buildings and sewers without causing everything to collapse into randomly positioned a plague pits.
My grandfather had outhouses and was incredulous at the idea that someone would want to poop inside his house. His compromise was to put a “flush toilet” on the back porch and close it in. Then, another on the side porch closer to his bedroom. Technically, they weren’t “in” the house.
This really was a thing, folks came from as far away as Visalia to Dinuba to see the place my crazy Jack ancestor was building, WITH AN INDOOR OUTHOUSE!
Indoor plumbing is VERY popular anywhere it is cold. Either you get frostbite on your butt or you have chamber pots that sit there and stink till you empty them.
John D. Fitzgerald’s “The Great Brain” books have a story about when his father got the first indoor toilet in their town and the various reactions of the townspeople. Pretty interesting, actually. “You poor guy, your house is going to stink and no one will come visit you..”
You eat while sitting on the toilet?
Well, it saves time, doesn’t it?
I for one am enchanted with creating a continuous pipeline of creation and destruction, with myself at the nexus of it all. Mind you, it works better with water, as I have an unusually non-latent reaction to fluid intake, and feel the need to pee pretty much immediately after drinking.
Speak to Randall Munroe, he’s got an experiment he’d like you to try.
Sanctum Maiori Excrementum! What were you thinking when you came up with the concept of pooping where you eat?
The bathroom and the kitchen are in the same house, right?
… and both have a sink?
Well, my uncle has got around this for the past seventy years by just not installing plumbing at his house. Visiting him is an interesting experience, since the outhouse also abuts the goose yard, and has slats falling off at inappropriate heights.
I’ve known some geese, and that sounds seriously dangerous.
My grandfather read the bible 6 times as a young man. They only had an outhouse. He always said that no matter how cold it was, he tried to finish the page before he tore it out and used it.
Too much information … but creative use for the otherwise useless extra thin paper!
And explains the great success of bible-salesmen then!
Your grandfather must have been a highly literate man of high moral standards to have insisted on using a bible instead of the Sears cataloge like his more pagan neighbors.
Progress + Gross = PROGROSS!
Yeah, that pretty much sums it up. Despite advances in modern architecture…we’re still just living in huts built of sticks covered in mud generally.
Archaeologists have found that in Mesopotamia there was indoor plumbing 4,000 years ago. But of course, it was invented in America. Like everything else was.
And Cowboy Bug is awesome with his little cowboy hat with antennae holes!
Actually, the modern flush toilet was invented in England in the mid-1800s by John Crapper. Not really, it was actually a guy named IIRC, Harrington but John Crapper did sell a lot of them.
While the flush toilet was not invented in America, the pressurized water system it depended upon was perfected here and just as with electrification, we shot ahead of the rest of the world. One of the reasons is that we were building new infrastructure on empty land while everyone else was having to do the construction equivalent of brain surgery by retrofitting 500 year old buildings and sewers without causing everything to collapse into randomly positioned a plague pits.
Toilet themed week!?
No. Felt gross enough posting this one.
My grandfather had outhouses and was incredulous at the idea that someone would want to poop inside his house. His compromise was to put a “flush toilet” on the back porch and close it in. Then, another on the side porch closer to his bedroom. Technically, they weren’t “in” the house.
This really was a thing, folks came from as far away as Visalia to Dinuba to see the place my crazy Jack ancestor was building, WITH AN INDOOR OUTHOUSE!
Indoor plumbing is VERY popular anywhere it is cold. Either you get frostbite on your butt or you have chamber pots that sit there and stink till you empty them.
And now I feel old for even knowing that.
John D. Fitzgerald’s “The Great Brain” books have a story about when his father got the first indoor toilet in their town and the various reactions of the townspeople. Pretty interesting, actually. “You poor guy, your house is going to stink and no one will come visit you..”