Currently sitting on my toilet trying to be quiet and this damn thing is making my ass sound like a brass only orchestra
Because it’s beautiful.
You described it very poetic.
ass only orchestra
Indeed
Well, it’s not like it’s made of wood and have strings
New idea, combination toilet/egg slicer
I’m not shitting in Pinocchio
Do you think Pinocchio farts would sound more like a woodwind instead of a trombone?
It’s Pinocchio, a lyre, perhaps a duet.
Slide whistle
Look dad! I’m a real toilet!
That’s what she said
EDIT: I’ll see myself out. What the fuck is wrong with me. I have to go. I’m going. Sorry, everyone! I’m leaving.
It is to teach people to be proud and loud
Yes they’re made of pure trombonium.
factoid: Three modern toilet improvements were invented and patented in the late 1800s by Thomas Crapper, including the floating ballcock.
The material and shape serve the primary function. Reducing noise probably wasn’t a factor while designing it, as it doesn’t really matter.
Idk if I’d say it doesn’t matter as blowing the butt trumpet has been an embarrassing thing for millennia but I get from an engineering standpoint it’s negligible
blowing the butt trumpet has been an embarrassing thing for millennia
This is not correct. There is a Martin Luther qoute (around 1500) that goes something like “why don’t you burp or fart? Wasn’t the meal to your liking?” The Romans made the latrine a social gathering. The need for butt trumpet privacy is fairly recent.
I might be wrong but I’m like 80% sure historically people have been killed for farting at inopportune moments
Me and my roommate in Iraq were in our 1st Seargents office getting chewed out when I farted and stopped him from speaking to glare at me. Then my roommate farted and it was baaaaad. He started speaking in tongues for a bit before relearning English and told us both to get the fuck out. That’s probably the closest I’ve come to dying for a fart.
Everyone farts. If you want to be embarrassed about it, that’s really on you. It’s not a problem that requires a technical solution.
Ask my father, he has never triumphed as loud and as long as he ever has on a steel one as he has on a ceramic one. He was a music teacher, so the resonance is important to him.
I’m presuming triumphed is a misspelling of trumped rather than some obscure colloquialism.
It’s a silly pun, don’t think about it too loud.
The hard surface is resonant but also easier to clean.
If you can figure out a non resonant material that is suitable for the job, you could be very rich very fast.Here you go, a quiet toilet with built in tp holder. And its free.
I’d love this if winter wasn’t a thing 😭
Its even quieter in the winter. Fewer mosquitos too.
Fewer testicles too.
Since they are so small and fall right off from the cold. If you don’t rip them off when they are stuck to something.
Naw. You just gotta poop quick.
The metal latrine seats are a bad idea in winter, though.
If done correctly, the boys don’t touch anything. Tested at -25°C. I didn’t have a lemmy account back then so YMMV.
That’s advanced yoga to reach the toilet paper during business there.
But if I take a shit in the forest and the bear hears it, do I get to meet the pope?
No, but you do get to meet Saint Peter.
Thats what the stick is for. Best bet is to hit him in the papal tiara or zucchetto.
Or bring JD Vance with you every time you poop.
bring JD Vance with you every time you poop.
JD should get this instead of a prison sentence
(A rusty one?)
The simple answer is, porcelain is fairly durable, nonreactive and, well, smooth. You don’t want a material that’s prone to sticking in any way. The shape needs to be a certain way for the water to do away with… things, and not go everywhere.
That sucks when you have one of the THBPLTPLTBPHLTHLPTHPLTPPL ones in company, though.
Shit and piss, mostly, I don’t know what else you put into toilets
Ooh and sick and blood occasionally
Did you accidentally get the wrong post here? Or are we playing Jeopardy or something
You avoided saying “things”, I detailed what for you
Try that in a wood toilet.
It also needs to be cheaply mass producible. So making stuff from literal dirt is a pretty smart idea.
That’s part of the fun!
Because porcelain, in the shape of a bowl, is incredibly good at staying relatively clean and being easy to clean when it eventually does get dirty. Those are the most important properties you want for something that you literally shit into.
Nah, that’s important for something you eat out of.
Something you shit into can be dirty. It doesn’t need to be clean to accept the next shit.
You don’t eat out of your toilet?
It also usually self-cleans quite nicely through the flushing mechanism. Hence the noise, since it pushes water down the sides to clean it.
Tell that to the hard water in my town. I’ve tried everything short of a water softener (rental) and basically all it does is delay the rings from one week to about 2 1/2.
I’m surprised the water softener didn’t help more — is there a specific mineral that is extremely present in the water?
That I don’t know, other than we have a large aquifer under the county that serves basically just our county, that has a cap of clay over it. Supposedly we have some of the best tasting water in the country but it is very heavy.
But no, I said I haven’t gotten a water softener, because I live in a rental. But I’ve done the little hangry things, the blue pucks in the reservoir, even this damn device that works like a bidet for the toilet that shoots an amount of cleaner with every flush. Nothing works. A water softener likely would.
Edit: ok so it’s not a large aquifer. It’s actually very small now that I think of it lol
You might be able to get an inline softener for just the toilet. I know they make them for shower heads too.
Really?!? Thanks for the info. I’ll have to look it up. Thanks!
Also, vinegar is great at removing hard water stains, if you haven’t tried it.
Couldn’t enamled metal work just as well? It’s not like you shit into bare porcelain; it’s enamaled. My fear is that the porcelain breaks. That can be lethal, and nobody wants to die on the toilet.
Yeah, you can buy metal toilets. They have them in prisons and public restrooms, usually. I think people don’t buy them because they don’t like the look. I certainly wouldn’t want a metal toilet.
They said enamled metal, like a non-plastic bathtub. Basically metal with a porcelain coating.
Yeah, I understand. I don’t know if they’re enameled, but you can buy metal toilets.
Metal toilets would be much harder to keep clean than porcelain. The main reason porcelain is used is because the surface is extremely flat, on a microscopic level, and extremely hard so it resists scratching. Its also impervious to most cleaning agents.
You can get metal really smooth, but compared to porcelain it’s like sand paper up close. And most of the affordable stainless stuff is fairly easy to scratch.
Enamel can get chipped and scratched, and if you don’t clean it regularly it will stain and disintegrate.
Source: rented places with enameled bathtubs and sinks.
You can get them clean again, but I think you basically have to scour them with pumice, which you can probably only do so many times.
Edit: Oh, you’re talking about enamel, I’m talking about porcelain.
They’re the same thing. Enamled in this case means there’s a porcelain coating.
It’s the smoothness of the surface that’s ultimately responsible for the acoustics. That’s why walls are typically textured to some degree.
Part of me thinks metal would.only transmit sound even better than porcelain.
You already got your answer, so I’m gonna be sarcastic… sorry.
It’s a skill issue, stop playing the brown notes.
Yes, comedy.
You’ve already gotten your answer, but also I mean at some point you gotta own your farts.
Oh look, a shit post.
