Defend the indefensible: People who don't flush the toilet at night

I have never been awoken by a flushing toilet in my life, but fuck if I wanna look at your human excrement when I get up in the morning!

rev bringing LAW

I'll flush if I'm disposing of solid waste, but if it's just liquids I'll leave it, because the pipes in our house make such a noise.

would never not flush the toilet with shit in it...but might not flush it at night if i've just had a piss...esp if I'm drunk and have gotten up a few times...

well, only LAW if we're talking poop! but that's what i assume he meant

if it's yellow let it mellow
if it's brown flush it down

people who don't flush and leave their products visible in a bathroom shared with others = disgusting savages

I'm talking everything. Flush the fucking toilet! The fact that I have to stare at a bowl of your piss is doing me the disservice, not some sound that won't even wake me up.

Rev otm

the smell of stale piss after asparagus for dinner = instant death.

depends on the place whether it'd wake you up or not...personally I'd prefer not to be woken up, for any reason, ever. but i work at 6am half the time...

flushing wastes water though. he's saving you money.

Choose your housemates better next time. Seriously, that yellow-mellow jingle only works for private restrooms. If you have to share, you should always leave it cleaner than you found it. Its the only way to live in harmony.

next housemate interview: "do you flush *every* time?"

is it actually possible to leave a toilet cleaner than you found it? unless it's dirty beforehand

(xxxpost) really save water and just go out the window...

Edmund: Well, what we're talking about in, erm, privy terms is the very latest in front-wall, fresh-air orifices, combined with a wide-capacity gutter installation below.
Mrs Pants: You mean you crap out of the window.
Edmund: Yes!

Doesn't matter if it saves water because I will flush anyone else's waste before I use it. It seems extremely unsanitary not to.

nonflushers are artists whose work will not be understood in their time

piss artists?

"But I'm making art!"

http://s56837.gridserver.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/piss-christ.jpg

If I lived with a roommate I didn't know that well, I would probably flush every time. Since I live with my girlfriend, though, I don't bother flushing if I pee in the middle of the night, and neither does she. Doesn't seem all that unsanitary to me -- it gets flushed first thing in the morning -- and it does save on water.

dammit Stan

flush your turds folks.

morning-after urine looks like Blue Moon

gross

if i had only peed there was a while where i wouldn't flush, mostly cause the toilet was fucked up and i had to spend a lot of time fixing the valve cover, oh AND I LIVE ALONE. but now the toilet's fixed and tbh (and tbgross) pee stains the bowl pretty easily.

i would never ever not flush in a place i shared.

Sorry - didn't mean to offend. I just think there's something indescribably beautiful about that image (and THEN you find out what it is and it has the potential to become An Issue).

what about people who flush but leave a shit streak on the bowl.

no, I was in the process of posting the exact same joke and you beat me >-(

yeah flush everything imo...is this "leave the piss for the next guy" another disgusting british thing?

(xpost) I too was thinking of the same thing.

(xxpost) That's a whole other area of debate. People who leave streaks are truely disgusting.

is this "leave the piss for the next guy" another disgusting british thing?

It's a disgusting "save the Earth" thing that transcends borders.

Leaving the streaks is no crime, and uncontrollable -- it's the people who don't CLEAN the damn streaks who should be throttled.

I think maybe put a brick in there instead?

is this "leave the piss for the next guy" another disgusting british thing?

you can just let the piss drain off the dishes, there's really no need to rinse

Is that an adage?

it's an order

none of you complaining type people have ever lived on a well, clearly. Especially not in a dry season.

Given a choice between "flush the toilet 20 times a day" and "actually have enough water for a shower in the morning" I'll always pick the latter.

I grew up with a well and I would have likely gotten the world's worst whipping had I not flushed the toilet every time I went to the bathroom.

let's not turn this into a thread about corporal punishment

corporal punishment, unflushed toilets, britishers...truly this thread has it all

it doesn't have pizza in it yet

jesus you guys

it doesn't have pizza in it yet

omg lol'd so hard

Let's poll this.

So it's you who's been blocking up the toilet with pizza...

Nope, it doesn't have oiled up Turks. Not until we've oiled some wrestling Turks will we have *everything* on this thread.

http://kirkpinar.jpn.org/Main/images/ed014.jpg

also needs a pronunciation component

TS: pizza vs flushing the toilet

This is the Everything Hash of ILX threads

on balance, I have to choose flushing the toilet; the pizza will take a while to get as rank and foul unless it's got fish on it

what's wrong with fish on pizza?

What is the correct way to oil your Turk?

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JrPsVxy9rHs/SIhUt6qbZwI/AAAAAAAACj4/uL_n-mdl4xk/s400/turk1.jpg

what's wrong with fish on pizza?

okay you really are LJ in a pantsuit

anchovies are fish, and go well on pizza, ffs

what's wrong with fish on pizza?

album unfairly left off of best funk album poll imo

anchovies are vile, and go well down the toilet which should always be flushed

http://www.completeshite.com/davethewave-adverts-3/castrol-gtx.jpg

anchovies are awesome

Defend the indefensible: people who befriend people who eat anchovies

if a person masturbates in a room with an anchovy pizza in it are the anchovies traumatized

ok I really should have taken that nap I was thinking about

WTF @ people pouring yellow liquids over each other on a thread about pee :(

The traumatized anchovies leave streaks of tears.

anchovies are like Shakey Mo - they just don't care, guys

what about prawns?

good on pizza and also don't care

what's wrong with fish on pizza?

okay you really are LJ in a pantsuit

― The Book of Outhere (HI DERE), Monday, October 5, 2009 3:08 PM (11 minutes ago)

and to think i was somewhat sympathetic to the plight of your Dr. Who books, your wife should flush them down the toilet

RIP anchovies.

Have we not done this in some depth before?

We have plumbed these depths before, yes...

I make a pasta sauce that involves anchovies, bread crumbs, butter, a ton of garlic, olive oil, parsley, pepper and white wine reduction; have found liberal handfuls of chopped parsley taste great and eradicate the whole iffy breath scenario, while making dish look amazing.

In one of my shared houses a short-lived lodger invited his hippie girlfriend to stay quite a few times. This girl was clearly on a fiber trip and on several occasions laid such lengthy unflushed items that a) it was as if they were leering up out of the bowl and b) others in the flat were forced to break them up to be able to flush 'em down. Nobody can remember her name, but it hardly matters because we rechristened her Log Lady and it sort of stuck.

http://i38.tinypic.com/jb0kuf.gif

Okay this dude just went and did not flush. The what the fuck?

you need to have a talk with this dude

hahahahah zs

I feel weird complaining about this because it's his house and dude has lived here for years and I just moved in but ewwwww you fucking savage.

just ask the dude why the dude does not flush and tell him you'd appreciate it if he did

he's probably got some weird reason--it's probably a "thing"

it's just a phase

You should find some youtube videos of pets flushing toilets and keep saying "wow, even animals can do it"

totally

he probably doesn't think it's gross and thinks you are weird

my bf & i run a business in the same building as this other dude who has a store, and there is one bathroom. The dude who runs the store does not flush after he pees in the toilet, which we see as totally gross.

if talking to him doesn't work, pee on his pillow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2W8XKK-3Rk

"wow, there must be some mammalian instinct to flush. shit, now that cats are flushing we humans are gonna have to up our game a little bit to make sure those felines don't get big heads. I guess until we invent something that's better and more difficult, we'll just have to make sure we flush every time, because I bet those cats forget every once in a while. Yep, we have to flush every time."

btw, that's just my advice for advancing your flush the toilet position. In real life I'm totally a if it's yellow keep it mellow kind of guy, at least around people you're comfortable with.

Given a choice between "flush the toilet 20 times a day" and "actually have enough water for a shower in the morning" I'll always pick the latter.

Kate OTM, try living in a country thats been in drought for over 10 years. When I was a kid and we'd visit our cousins farm we werent ALLOWED to flush unless it was a #2. And at one point things were so dire (their water supply was the river at the bottom of the property which at one point was mostly a trickle of mud) we had to flush using a bucket of (possibly reused from the dishes) water.

Its easy to be finicky about this when you've the luxury of plumbing. When we're all out of water you'll have to cope.

no i'll be dead by then

Fair enough!

ilx pee chronicles vol xxxii

try living in a country thats been in drought for over 10 years.

i'll pass, thanks

lollll

Its hardly Road Warrior out here you know.

Mores the pity, perhaps.

u__u

it's cool trayce we've the '2nd best quality of life in the world'

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/australia-ranked-no-2-for-quality-of-life-20091005-gjfg.html

..even if we cant flush that poop away

I live in a city surrounded by fresh water on two sides that gets plenty of rainfall. Don't think we're going to run out of life-giving water anytime soon.

breaking news in ireland this morning- schoolkids are being told to bring their own loo roll.

not flushing is disgusting, particularly if the lid's been left down for it to 'stew' for a while.

Its hardly Road Warrior out here you know.

Thunderflushdome...

"(xxpost) That's a whole other area of debate. People who leave streaks are truely disgusting."

Well, I get annoyed by it when my husband does it but then I realize his eyesight is very limited (he has congenital achromatopic cone dysfunction, hope I said that correctly). So there you go... Also we don't flush (when we peed) because my daughter sleeps next door and her door is open so she could hear it. Then again I think I'll lift the "no flush" ban cause she sleeps quite soundly.

tbh I'll take someone who doesn't flush at night over someone who dribbles all over the place, depositing fluoroscent B-vitamin yellow dots anywhere and everywhere.

Great thread

^ Dom P RIP

TS: Dom P vs anchovies

sometimes you're just too tired to flush. hell, half the time i'm too tired to wipe my ass.

i'd shit the bed if my wife would let me.

skidmarks on the sheets: classhit or dud

okay we are firmly in "disgusting savages" territory now, yeesh

You are a guest in someone's home. You go to pee at 2am in the bathroom adjacent to your host's bedroom. Do you flush and risk waking your host or leave the pee in the toliet til morning.

what hath god wrought?

I understand the water conservation point, even if I don't think not-flushing is the right answer to that problem, but I really DON'T understand the "Flushing would wake someone up" point, or at least "Flushing would wake someone up more than I've already done by walking around opening and closing various doors."

^^ seriously!

good christ....who doesn't flush the toilet? i understand leaving the seat up but not flushing the toilet? that shit's for truckstops and bathrooms at crappy subway stations.

if you're awakened by a flushing toilet and can't get back to sleep, you can fuck right off imo, you didn't deserve sleep in the first place.

I really DON'T understand the "Flushing would wake someone up" point, or at least "Flushing would wake someone up more than I've already done by walking around opening and closing various doors."

^^^this

People moving around to go to the bathroom might (might, probably won't) wake me up, but I sure as hell don't begrudge it. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

if it's pee let it be
if it's poo flush it fool

i rarely if ever need to take a nightly dump/pee tbh.

an enormous ripping fart is probably louder than flush anyway imo

if you're awakened by a flushing toilet and can't get back to sleep, you can fuck right off imo, you didn't deserve sleep in the first place.

― omar little, Tuesday, October 6, 2009 7:11 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this should have been the first commandment and the opening line of the US Consitution

and the Silmarillion, just so we have all the key texts of western civilization covered

fuck, i forgot The Rules

He's just not that into flushing ...

It could be worse. You could have A MIDNIGHT FOOT FLUSHER in your house.

i fucking HATE farts. on the loo is fine but outside i will detest you if you fart

FOOT FLUSHER

I did a search for this before posting "wtf," but still wtf? I had never heard of this before reading that thread, apart from toilets that have actual foot-operated flushing mechanisms.

Yeah, I know. That is the single most WTF concept that ILX has ever brought into my brain.

I'm going out to a show tomorrow night. I think I'm gonna ask everyone I know there whether they do this or have even heard of it.

I think that may be the thread where I ranted about people whose blend of germ-phobia and complete solipsism leads them to spread even more of their germs and filth over public surfaces if it might possibly prevent them touching anyone else's: people who don't wash hands in case the taps are dirty, people who hover 2" above the seat spraying everywhere rather than touch the seat, etc.

And I feel a bit bad, because obviously I'm not in much of a position to criticise other people's mental disorders, but please to stop and think for a moment "what if other people might exist too? would it not be kind of horrifying to me if some of them did this, and does that mean that I shouldn't do it to them?"

Back to this thread: it reminds me of living at home, when any noise or movement after 1am would sometimes wake and summon my mother to drop hints about me being up late again, and I would have to pretend that I had been asleep for hours when awoken by bodily inconveniences, and definitely not titting about online until 3am.

Also, flush, people. Though my new toilet seems to have trouble flushing the paper, so don't come round if that offends you, because after the second flush I tend to give up on it.

I did some foot flushing research last night with some really surprising results.

Of a sample of 12 people - five women, seven men:

2 women were regular foot flushers, 2 women were not foot flushers, 1 made a bemused joke, which I counted as "not a foot flusher"

Of the seven men: 3 were regular foot flushers, 2 were not foot flushers, and 2 (including my bf of 11 years, this came as quite a shock) were occasional foot flushers

one of the female participants in the survey told me a story about her sister moving in with a boyfriend, who was surprised at how her presence in the household significantly increased the rate of consumption of toilet paper. The boyfriend asked the girl, "Do you wipe when you pee or something?"

dude probably didn't have any sisters though--to be fair

I have never -- NEVER -- not foot-flushed a public toilet unless the handle was like significantly higher than most. Why in the WORLD would you use your hand on something in a public restroom that's positioned lower than your knee??

I mean it simply never once occurred to me that everyone didn't use their foot. Feet.

I learned today that there are few things worse than hearing noises coming from a bathroom stall that sound like someone taking a horsebristle brush to his asscrack.

xp - oh yeah, the guy was also pre-med

Haha. I can't remember the last time I foot-flushed -- the toilets in my office are all automatic flushers -- but the only times I've done it were with those toilets where the flushing mechanism sticks out, like this:
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/31/f5/bd/industrial-toilet.jpg

i dunno, if he'd never had a real tight girlfriend or wasn't close friends with a girl in high school or college, i can see not knowing that

it's kinda necessary for hygiene based on anatomy, though.

yesssssssssssssss i agree but what i am saying to you is the one reason i knew that girls wiped when i was a youngster is i have sisters, etc--it doesn't seem like super common knowledge

but the only times I've done it were with those toilets where the flushing mechanism sticks out, like this

Wait, what other kind is there?? The ones with the little button the wall? Those I don't use my foot because, like, it's a tiny rubber button at the height of my waist.

there are toilets with buttons on the top of the tank.

But public toilets have the tanks in the wall, so the flush mechanism has to be on the er commode part itself. Right??

The thread title had me thinking of somnambulists and mental cases who get up in the middle of the night just to flush their toilets.

http://www.carbonpoker.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/toilet-flush.jpg

i'm thinking of ones like this ^^^

Whoah that is...whoah. I've seen toilets w a button in the middle of the tank for DOMESTIC/private use, but not in public settings.

I think all of the toilets in the SF MoMA have buttons like that one.

I hate the loos in japan: i always have to look for the button or whatever the FUCK should be activated for flushing. one time i accidently pushed the "shower" button (used when you don't want others to hear how much farting/loud shitting/peeing you do)

... and not when you want to, like, take a shower?

(although I guess, upon reflection, taking a shower from your toilet is a bad idea)

It's the sound of water splishsplashing about. Not shower, I guess. too tired to express myself correctly (in English) :-)

I'm just saying, if your toilet has a "shower" button you REALLY want to get your order of operations correct.

how about peeing in the shower? multitasking!

There are lots of public toilets with attached tanks and flush handles -- not in offices or airports or stadia, but in cafes, restaurants, bars, etc.

peeing in the shower = most disgusting savages

But no one would flush a "domestic"-style toilet with their feet. Would they?? Have I misunderstood all this outrage?

people do lots of crazy shit when the door's closed

better than when the door's open

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o_O

who says i keep the door closed? (j/k unless my kid opens the door ... urgh)

http://tinyurl.com/yzo8dfy ??????? nsfw

I flush public toilets with my wrist or forearm if possible.

I used to foot-flush for a brief spell, but realized I was being a disgusting savage, so I stopped.

what's the life expectancy for cooties on cold metal?

I am a total foot flusher and I have no shame. everyone should be one! I pity you people and your disgusting hands!

especially since the crud on your shoes isn't helping keep toilets clean and sanitary

i only foot flush if the stall is clearly scummy as hell, i wash my hands well afterward and use sanitaizer all the time iirc

Results 1 - 10 of about 1,550,000 for toilet licking

Results 1 - 10 of about 28,900 for "toilet licking".

More accurate, but only a little less O_o

If you're not concerned enough about germs to actually touch a public toilet's flushing mechanism with your hands, then why are you complaining about foot flushers? I mean jesus, are you worried about germs or not? If you are, than you obviously flush with your foot and you begrudge no one the right to do the same. Like you really only get disgusted at touching a public toilet flushing mechanism when it occurs to you that it might have been touched by someone's foot??? That's insane. Those things are disgusting.

"Mummy mummy can I lick the bowl?"
"No dear, flush it like everyone else"

Thread of Howard Hughes

ILX, yesterday:

http://www.danieledwardcraig.com/blog/uploaded_images/Howard-Hughes-709258.jpg

Poster that got put up where I work a few years ago.

Dear A) Paranoid Loo Paper on Seat Man, B) Stand Up And Piss All Over The Seat Man and C) Do A Big Shit On Top Of Loads of Bog Roll and Block The Toilet Man.

We, the rest of the people who have to use these khazis on a regular basis, wish to inform you that you are either the most stupid, selfish individuals working in this building or you are just plain fucking mad.

Please desist from these peculiar activities because;

Man A) If you're so concerned about getting germs on your arse, please rid us of the germs you've left on the ABSORBENT FUCKING PAPER, you shit for brains.

Man B) You're just fucking lazy and thick.

Man C) You are a pervert.

And

Men A-C) if we find out who you are, you will have a whole new bizarre lavatorial experience when the shit is LITERALLY KICKED OUT OF YOU.

Yours, the normal men of [...].

(Oh, before this thread I had no idea that foot flushing was even a thing. What do foot flushers do when confronted with an elevated cistern and chain device?)

http://www.houdini2.net/houdinibungee.jpg

Why in the WORLD would you use your hand on something in a public restroom that's positioned lower than your knee??

Are US flushes in a different place to UK ones (not intended as touchpaper for yet another mutual transatlantic disgust session) or is this just not making sense to me because I'm really short?

If US flushes are 15 inches lower than the ones I'm used to then foot-flushing begins to make a bit more sense, and yes, I really did think some people might be crazy enough to lift their foot far enough to operate a flush near the top of the cistern. I'll be relieved if those people don't exist, but since every other imaginable kind of toiletary craziness seems to...

Poster that got put up where I work a few years ago.

Dear A) Paranoid Loo Paper on Seat Man, B) Stand Up And Piss All Over The Seat Man and C) Do A Big Shit On Top Of Loads of Bog Roll and Block The Toilet Man.

We, the rest of the people who have to use these khazis on a regular basis, wish to inform you that you are either the most stupid, selfish individuals working in this building or you are just plain fucking mad.

Please desist from these peculiar activities because;

Man A) If you're so concerned about getting germs on your arse, please rid us of the germs you've left on the ABSORBENT FUCKING PAPER, you shit for brains.

Man B) You're just fucking lazy and thick.

Man C) You are a pervert.

And

Men A-C) if we find out who you are, you will have a whole new bizarre lavatorial experience when the shit is LITERALLY KICKED OUT OF YOU.

Yours, the normal men of [...].

(Oh, before this thread I had no idea that foot flushing was even a thing. What do foot flushers do when confronted with an elevated cistern and chain device?)

― GamalielRatsey, Saturday, October 10, 2009 8:38 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

just think, in all this time he wasted putting together this note he could have brushed his teeth for the first time in probably a month

lol

What do foot flushers do when confronted with an elevated cistern and chain device?

I do some crazy karate backflip move and pull the chain with both of my feet clamped together

I studied toilet mystification with Uri Geller. I pull the chain with my mind.

I am not that bothered by what others do with their hands, feet (or other body parts) in the toilet (or outsiden just as long as you keep it out of my eyesight) but what I do get annoyed/mystified: putting the toilet roll the wrong way So please, if you need to put a new roll up (and boys that include YOU as well):

http://images.smarter.com/blogs/kohl%20memoirs%20roll.jpg

I don't need those folds. Just THAT SIDE PLEASE. The other does NOT MAKE SENSE AT ALL.

who in this bitch likes icey pee?

did you guys see that pic of the woman who was killed by a.... pee stick? It apparently fell from a plane or something. Totally didn't buy it.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.gadling.com/media/2007/05/frozurine.jpg

tbh I don't get how the roll makes more sense that way or the other or why it matters

I mean if it's really that much of a struggle for you to pull out a piece of toliet paper when the roll is in backwards, your life must be filled with many, many challenges

otm

More like: LOL for taking me so seriously

JUSTIFY WHY ONE SIDE IS BETTER THAN THE OTHER

I am curious really! I dunno it seems such a non-issue to me

How the TP unrolls is less important than not having the dispenser so inconveniently placed that you have to twist around uncomfortably to get at it.

I just have to wrangle when it's on the wrong side. WHen it's "on top" I can just rip it off. My oldest kid always does it the wrong side. I have of course spanked her into a coma.(J/K!!!)

this is possibly a thing for merkins because they have the lightswitch to contend with INSIDE the room. fascinating.

foot flushers. ok then.