I have thought about it as a American especially when I was a homeless drug addict once upon a time and I would use the bathroom to sponge bath myself & change into clothes which I always thought I get barely enough vut not enough privacy to do my business thanks to the bathroom door being to high n' folks being able to see what's going in the bathroom when all I wanted was pure privacy..
It's reminded me why McDonald's in the US have slightly uncomfortable furniture and are just not pleasant places to be. You'd rather take away your food than eat in, and that maximizes output as well. McDs in Europe are generally (no, not everywhere) much more stylish and comfortable places.
@@MartijnPenningswell it’s fast food the whole point is you just take your food and leave if you want more comfortable experience to go to a restaurant
@@davisdelp8131 I know, but in some places (read: France) McD failed with their standard American model franchise. French people generally rather sit down than walk-and-eat. Also it's more normal to take your family to mcD or eat with a group, so in some places they design them more as restaurants.
@@davisdelp8131here in South Asia the American FF outlets are treated as restaurants. I think this is quite common around the world. As a result most McDs, KFC, PH, BK look rather fancy and are comfortable enough a long dine in experience.
@@fjnemo democracy disagrees. If it was truly a "top comment", then people would respond as such. In reality, it's just copy paste of a line from the video. Hardly revolutionary.
@DSAhmed : you mean *by* accident. America has a literacy level of my pet tortoise 🤦♂️ "step foot" is wrong too btw : *step* literally means 'set foot', which, btw, is how to say that. And y'know when y'all are tryin' to say you *could not* care less about something, but instead you say "I COULD care less"? Idk if y'all have a carbon monoxide leak, but y'all should check y'all's kitchens because y'all sound like y'all have a brain injury - and it ain't because y'all say y'all. That's just language fluidity and evolution. The problem is y'all devolving.
The open stalls in US toilets made me super uncomfortable to use a public restroom in the US. In Sweden public toilets have their own rooms which are quite sound proof as well. You get complete privacy.
Yeah we all hate the stalls here in the U.S. as far as I know and I can't foresee workers striking for something like that lol although maybe it would help
An Ikea I went to had the best solution. A row of those isolated rooms toilets. No urinals, no open stalls, no gendered anything. Just do your shit and be at peace. It was effective and efficient and never felt awkward. Meanwhile now days back in the USA I sit in the restroom at work and stare at the shoes of the guy waiting for me to exit..........
@@p.a.g3357 Lol, meanwhile here in Europe at my work and in many public places like malls, restaurants, airports, they play loud music in the stalls so other people in neighboring stalls won't hear our noises... and you stare at some other guy's shoes :))
As a Dutch person, the toilets where your own poop lays dry under your asshole are definitely a nightmare. Luckily most of them are removed but damn, once in so many months you encounter one and I'll just say, you have to hope that your poop isnt too long
Still pretty common in many old houses in Germany. It is somewhat fascinating I have to say because many people have absolutely no idea how large their shit is compared to e.g. dog shit we see all the time everywhere (because most dog owners are assholes, it needs to be said).
In Czechia they can also be found in old houses-which is really strange consifering when they were instaled we were occupied by Soviet Union but also not so suprising because most of our history (except last less than a century) we were under German rule
I'm from the UK and nearly 40. I've never seen a UK toilet using anything like the amount of water a US toilet uses. As far as I can tell we use the flush down toilet. Despite what Slavoi Zizek says (mine even has a dual flush)
@@horatiotodd8723 I don't think we ever used them... You ever seen a Victorian toilet with that amount of water in them? I suspect Slavoi is either lazy or got confused by language as our toilets do have a Syphon in them... But within the cistern (the bit at the back for any non-native speakers)
Siphon toilets are actually illegal in the UK and as far as I'm also aware they have never been used - ironically in a video that mentions Brexit it is due to the 6 litre max flush requirement that is currently embedded in UK law which originated from the EU.
This is so interesting, I travel a lot between the UK and the US and I've always wondered why such a big difference. Also, I've never seen a siphonic toilet in the UK, it's definitely an all-American thing. Southern Europe has also squat toilets, but I'm fairly sure they're being phased as I haven't seen one in many years.
so...after 3 month i can solve the riddle... :) The siphonic toilets (american style) are banned in europe since the 1970s because of the amount of water they need. A siphonic toilet needs about 9-10 liters, an european actually around 4,5 to 6 liters fpr the "big flush", 3 to 4,5 for the "smal flush". So there is an other difference, that makes it nearly impossible to intrduce the european toilets to the US: in america most of the people are crumpling their toiletpaper, in europe they fold it. The siphonic toilet has a bit more power...and so its possible to flush the crumbled paper. Its a minor point...but not unimportant :) And before you wonder: i´m working in this industrie...its not a hobby to know that :)
Can't believe that even in a video about toilets we reach the age old conclusion: the US cares about companies and profits, while the EU cares about human beings.
@tripplefives1402you can't have companies without workers, aka human beings You can, however, have human beings without companies. In fact companies as we know them today did not exist for such a long time
@tripplefives1402this a really dumb take. If you acctually did five minutes of thinking you'd realise that you don't need companies at all. Well, not in the capitalist sence anyway
That’s not the answer, there is a gap so they can clean the bathroom easily. They can just take their mop and quickly clean it down without having to open each door.
I'm a European who lives in the UK and I don't recall ever seeing a siphon toilet here in the UK, and all the toilets in all the houses, hotels and apartments I've stayed in the UK have had wash-down models. also holy hell the toilets with shelves are the absolute worst, you still see them sometimes in Hungary in public washrooms.
Which is the reason why you find them so often in Austria. In the empire, to my knowledge, there even was an imperial decree to be able to inspect bodily outflow more easily in order to help combat diseases, because if you can register them more easily, you are able to prevent them from spreading more easily.
But they also clog way faster so for me they are a big nono. Have been there regularly taking a dump and clogging the toilet with a "new" one. Dont want to imagine what would happen if the old one was more common
the only thing that says about you, is that you shouldn't wait so long before you take a shit. they almost never clog. you just dont have a healthy way of doing your business@@Septimus1907
Interesting video, but we definitely use the same toilets as the rest of Europe here in the UK. I’ve even seen one comment saying as far as they’re aware the US style is outright illegal and that laws on the maximum volume of water allowed to be used by the toilet according to EU law is still embedded in UK law, as goes for most EU laws as of now, so Brexit is once again irrelevant in this sense.
@@herrhase5261 That Brexit has been brought up in a nonsense way, again. We have had the same toilets for the decades. Pre and post Brexit. So why is Brexit being mentioned at all.
Without enough water in the trap, sewer gasses will escape into the room from these "wash down" toilets, so there is, indeed, a minimum level of water required to keep the trap full and stop odors and critters from escaping into the bathroom.
I'm from the USA & studied abroad in the Netherlands in the mid-90s, where my student housing was graced with the old-style 'observation shelf'-type toilets. Personally I thought they were brilliant, and when I moved back stateside and, several years later, bought my first house, I eagerly looked forward to getting one installed as part of a needed bathroom renovation. Imagine my disappointment and confusion when every plumbing-supply professional I talked to had _no idea what the heck I was talking about_ -- and my consternation when some of them looked at me like I was crazy...
1. This was _really_ interesting and well-done. Thank you! 2. A huge logistical benefit of "European-style" full partitions is that they easily allow unisex bathrooms-and indeed you'll encounter these in parts of Europe. Higher-end establishments in the States will sometimes have full partitions, but I think I've only encountered 1 or 2 that were also unisex; pretty rare, at least on the West coast. It's perfectly simple: you have some number of fully-enclosed stalls, and then a row of sinks outside. This allows small establishments that only need a couple toilets to save on space and plumbing. It would also eliminate the 'gender parity' issue that we've all seen at events, or popular public spaces: huge line outside the women's bathroom, small or nonexistent line for the men's (unless it's a tech conference, in which case, flip the genders). It makes perfect logistical sense _and you get to do your business in full privacy_ , which honestly feels borderline-decadent when you first encounter it. Most people would like it, I'm telling 'ya.
Idk why people always associate something funny with toilets and expect a unserious or even a comedy speak and talk when it comes to toilets. Its literally about serious "problems" like the high usage of water. I guess you even start to smile and laugh when someone talks about... hihi. PEENIS.
@@TheRealProdeigi Well I gotta say speaking about toilets and taking a shit often is kinda related to funny thoughts, but I can imagine if youre working for the poop industry it gets bland and dull with time
5:49 “German: Metaphysics and poetry. You observe it, you think…”!!! Also, I used to have a sociology professor who used to live in a hippy commune many years ago. He mentioned that their toilets were basically benches with 6 holes spaced apart. No stalls, no nothing. He said it took him some time before he could “go” in that environment, with multiple other people from the commune sitting beside him.
Several Corrections... the UK does NOT use syphlonic toilets. We basically use the same ones as Europe, except the water inlet pipe to the cistern is almost always on the cistern base, whereas in Europe its commonly on the side. UK toilets are always pushed back against the wall whereas European one are often spaced away from the wall a little. Also the waste pipe of a UK toilet these days is almost always to the rear. In Europe they are still commonly via the base hence the need to space them away from the wall to provide some tolerance. Cubicles or stalls in the UK are usually around 15cm above the floor, low enough to provide good privacy but high enough to make floor cleaning easier.
It was the fashion in the UK to have the waste pipe on the outside of the wall. No point having indoor plumbing unless you're going go to advertise it to the whole village!
@bluerizlagirl It probably made sense back when plumbing was quite primitive... nobody wants leaking toilet pipes inside the house 😆 They usually put them around the back or side of the building... rarely on the front. I think they stopped doing external waste pipes on new buildings around the 1960s.
Joining the other UK comments here, we don't use the siphon toilets. We have the same flush down style as the rest of Europe. Surpised at the error, doesn't seem it would be hard to verify considering it's mentioned multiple times throughout the video.
Our wash down style toilets do have a siphon, but it's in the cistern. If he learned about that I can see how he got confused. It's known as a 'Pythagorean siphon' (the channel 'Steve Mould' has a video on them) as you simply initiate the flow of water with the handle and it self sustains flow until it empties the cistern, however we have the dual flush option built into this as you can hold down the handle to break the siphon effect when the water level drops to half of the cistern's capacity. Holding the handle down creates an air gap when the water level drops that far, and air entering the siphon stops it pulling water up from the bottom of the cistern. I guess this could be how ours differ from the European ones that seem to be shown in this video to have 2 separate buttons for that, where ours have a single handle like the US ones, probably adding to the confusion, or confirming in their mind that the UK's (cistern) siphon toilets are the same as the US (waste-pipe) siphon toilets. Our design also means if the float doesn't fully stop the flow of water into the cistern, it won't flood the bathroom because the path into the rest of the toilet is always open. Pushing the handle just pulls a one-way plunger style thing upwards to create a wave over the top that then falls and pulls the rest of the water in the cistern with it until air gets into that system again.
Well the main idea is that they can see the person, and thus be able to open the door using some kind of tool. Basically, if you can't see someone passed out on the floor, they might die because people politely avoid disturbing that stall.
The reason "public" stalls have the floor gap is hygiene. Its so you can mop under the partition, if you were correct the gap would be as high as possible. The upper gap is cost . Standardized panel hights greatly reduces price.
In Europe public restrooms are so much cleaner than in the USA, generally. I live in nyc. So many public toilets have toilet paper allover the floor, fecal remains on the bowl. Many guys also do not flush the urinals. When I go back to Europe I am surprised how clean the public restrooms are.
@@stefpix NYC is not very reflective of the US as a whole. If people were polled on which US cities have the worst bathrooms NYC would almost definitely make the top 5.
I agree. I'm 51, have travelled extensively within the UK and have never seen a toilet like that. As someone else mentioned, it's unlikely to even be legal within the UK.
I don't think the emergency workers thing is correct because I see a lot of stalls in the US that have the coin master key setup. Pretty sure that the comment about it being easier/quicker to mop explains the stall height.
8:05 gonna through one other reason for the raised partitions in American stalls is hygiene. It is much easier to keep clean and clean up after a explosive plumbing event, or gastrointestinal event.
I have the feeling this video should be taken with a grain of salt. While I was in school in Germany they had some of the nasties toilettes I ever encountered. Also stalls not reaching the floor and ceiling. And then there around the mediterranean you can find those traditional "crouch down" toilettes. Actually from an anatomical standpoint this is the better position to empty your guts.
@@jbbrutal6714yeah you can even get ones especially made for that (with a round semi hole in the middle so they fit snugly around /under your toilet) for 5-10€; since we got one I've been happily using it every time
I once saw a stall in a Candian public washroom where the door didn't only have a gap at the bottom it outright ended at torso level. If somebody would shit there you could have held eyecontact. Safe to say I only did the small business even though I really was in need of maximizeing raw output.
Yeah such stalls exist in some unrenovated bathrooms from the 70s at my American University (UW-Madison), the rumor goes that they cut them down to shoulder height to stop people from fornicating in the bathrooms.
Seattleite here, most of the bathrooms in Pike Place Market are the exact same way, specifically to force discomfort and make you hurry up, do your business, and GTFO. It's why I never use them.
I'm from western Canada. I've sometimes seen stalls with diminutive doors like that in older public washroom facilities - located in large parks. I would say that they're quite rare and completely absent from malls, commercial strips, or office buildings.
I'm from the UK and I've only ever seen washdown toilets locally.... I kinda feel your assessment of the UK is based on Slavoi Zizek chatting shit to create some sort of anglosphere discourse.
So thats why I've never had a cloged toilet. I seen the cloged toilet problem in so many american media and always wondered why it almost never happens to me or ppl I know. Great video!
It's not a problem here in the US either unless you have an old toilet. When I lived with my mother, both toilets she had were from the mid 90's. It was in that grey area after they implemented the 1.6 gallon (6 liter) per flush regulation, but before toilet manufacturers actually figured out how to make good toilets that use that little water. I'd clog a toilet with just normal use about once every month or two, to the point that I could tell if it was going to clog within a second of pressing the flush lever. I moved into my current house a little over 3 years ago. All three toilets were replaced in the early to mid 2010's when one of the previous owners did some mild renovation work, and in the over 3 years that I've lived here, I haven't even had to remove the plunger I bought from its packaging.
In my 30 years of using toilets in the UK, I've only seen 1 syphonic toilet out of hundreds of toilets that I have used. I have no idea where you got that info from! Also, we have both types of stalls.
I have never in my life felt pressured to hurry up on the toilet because of how exposed the stalls are. However, it does make you more aware of other people waiting. Plus having the sides be open allows for TP sharing.
I m literally impressed by how you could use such a trivial topic and still make it so interesting! It is a testament of your profound skill to make videos. Keep the good work up.
Trivial topic? Maybe just to you, not me! I have always been impressed by toilets and their design, since I use it multiple times everyday, and how miserable I'd feel being outdoor without one available when needed! Are u just gonna squat down in open space? 😂
I'm genuinely amazed at your ability to take a seemingly mundane subject and turn it into something truly captivating! Your skill in creating videos is a clear testament to your depth of expertise. Please continue producing such excellent content.
Sorry I saw someone post nearly the identical comment you posted, so I told chatgpt to re write that sentence for me and now, I'm star5ting to think everyone's a bot.
@@rickmortyson4861 The Videos of them are pure informative, have superior self crafted animations, well integrated ads and great neutral endings. There aren't any useless craptalking parts nor flashy generated exaggerated intros and outros. Also you are not supposed to skip parts or put their videos at 1.5/2.0 speed.
Fun fact: Žižek first name is Slavoj, name which in Poland is almost synonymous with toilets. Outhouse (you know, wooden, dry toilets, not connected to sewer system, often found in rural areas) in Poland is called "Sławojka" (which can be translated into English as "something owned by Slavoj", because Polish minister of Interior (and later prime minister of Poland) Sławoj Składkowski went onto crusade against defecating on ground in open air and decreed that every land lot has to have an outhouse. But because he really wanted to enforce new law he was responsible for massive government controls checking if everybody had an outhouse. Because it was quite intrusive he became object of jokes and mockery and calling outhouse with his name just stuck. Just imagine, you were a doctor of medicine (surgeon and gynaecologist), two star general, politician, minister of interior, prime minister, you took part in a coup against democratically elected government, you were responsible for illegal arrests of opposition members, but the one thing you are remember is... hehe, shithouse. :D Is this coincidence that two toilet obsessed men are name Slavoj? I don't think so. xD
@@eyeball226 It was common in the 19th century, especially in the undeveloped former russian partition. They even used human shit as a fertilizer. Fun fact: there was a pamphlet written in this period with a very funny title "The severs of city of Warsaw as a tool of Judaism and quackery aiming at destroying polish farmsteads and extermination of Slavic people at the Vistula"
funfakt zizek is a toothless eastern european antisemite There's no mention of the Splash. When shit bounces back onto your ass from the wet American toilet and your whole ass and pants are full of shit juice, you go back to the room to join the others in shame.
I have the urge to rant for 2 hours straight about the dutch style toilet after this video reminded me of it's existence. My polish grandmother had one of those in her flat and I'm convinced to this day, that a crackhead designed this toilet after his divorce
just no. it is 100% better. first of all the absolute biggest advantage, actually 2, are that you dont make a huge splash and your butt stays dry. second is you dont make noise when shitting. nobody will know. so its 100% privacy + comfort. and if you are to prude to see your shit, thats just dumb in my eyes. just flush. duh. also if you have blood in your shit, in this case you could briefly see it when flushing, meaning its quickly noticed and you can go to the doctor. and if you have so huge diarrhea that a couple marks stick to it, after flushing, my god just use the toilet brush to quickly scrub it, it has a long stick after all. and then flush for 1 sec again and its gone.
In our former apartment we had one without a cistern. The water pressure out of the pipe had to get rid of the „stuff“ but it failed with bigger tasks. We had to give it a little help with the toilet brush.
Another benefit of the American stalls with the large gaps is that you can crawl out if the door latch mechanism fails for some reason. That happened to me once with those rotating knob locks where it failed to completely retract despite being turned all the way. To this day I'm still suspicious of these types of latches especially when they get rusty, I don't get why everyone doesn't just use sliding latches which are way simpler and can't fail in a manner that locks you inside.
most bathroom stall doors in the UK (at least from my experience) use a sliding lock - so failure is rare. And in the event of one, it just means the door can't close, not that you're locked in/out.
This is the absolute best channel find ever. My brother and I are addicted and have been binging these videos. Also the sponsorship segways are immaculate. Can't wait to see future videos!
I will always remain a fan of the old Dutch / German one with a shelf for the simple purpose that it doesn’t splash while “doing the deed”. Sure, you briefly have a period of time where it probably stinks more since it’s not covered by water, and it may be a bit strange to see the waste sitting there if you’re not used to it, but those are both things you can get used to rather quickly. Cold, dirty water unceremoniously splashing up with every #2 is much more annoying than either of the downsides if you ask me.
1. I see very often toilets with the gap and i live in germany. 2. I heard that the gaps are for easier cleaning 3. With the old german model the big Business doesnt fall into the water and the water cant splash back and make you wet.
My parents renovated their bathrooms a while back, and going with the trends they put in square washdown toilets. Now my recomendation to everyone who plans on renovating their bathroom(s): Don't do it, go with normal, oval shaped toilets! Square ones are a pain in the @$$, literally and figuratively. It's hella uncomfortable to sit on and a lot harder to clean due to the corners the brush won't reach. Also it's way harder to find replacement toilet seats, as the 'basic' oval ones (obviously) don't fit. Also the nuts to unscrew that seat (as well as to mount it to the wall) are very hard to reach, if at all, as they are hidden behind a ceramic front, but that's a general stupid trend... Just spare you the hassle, and don't follow stupid trends!
Europes Stalls dont nessesarily go all the way down - we usually have 15cm gaps (6inces) as well. The old 'Flachspühler' (flat-flusher) style was common, but not the most common. Its about seeing if you're gut is healthy btw. (pro tip: if its green: you are something bad ... or greenery)
I think the Japanese "mantra" is "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." Hence the squat toilets, the fax machines and signage stamps. But once it is thoroughly broken, they design something ingenious.
Japanese toilets are just regualar toilets with more technology involved, the core fundamentals don't change, also they weren't even invented in Japan, just more widely adopted.
Lived in the uk my whole life and only ever seen the wash down toilet as in the rest of Europe, usually with a dual flush as described in the video, wonder if this info is outdated?
I imported Toto washdown toilets from Thailand w/rear-drains. I was able to adapt them to the US-style floor drains. Huge quality of life improvement. The American Standards the home came with clogged very often and were large. The master bath had a "round" model since that's all which would fit. When I went with the imported Totos, I was able to get an elongated washdown toilet, dual-flush. In 15 years, never had a clog with them.
In Europe public restrooms are so much cleaner than in the USA, generally. I live in nyc. So many public toilets have toilet paper allover the floor, fecal remains on the bowl. Many guys also do not flush the urinals. When I go back to Europe I am surprised how clean the public restrooms are.
I was in the US recently and i have to say the sciphonic toilet system is the best. It never leaves any floaters behind regardless of the size of the payload.
American here - you'll find that varies with the quality of the toilet and its age. Really old toilets tend to be good about this, and new toilets that aren't budget models are good about it too. Cheap toilets often require multiple flushes, and toilets manufactured in the 90s tend to suck because toilet manufacturers took a while to figure out how to reliably flush with a maximum of 1.6 gallons.
As an Austrian I can say that toilets that "display the result" are still completely standard here, I just got a new toilet a year ago and it's still the same as it was like 20 years ago. Also, our stalls often do have space free at the bottom like the US stalls, I have seen this plenty of times here.
You juat became one of my new favorite channels the moment you added the clip of Zizek talking about toilets. Unironically, its an amazing speech about difference in national character and social psichology and how it manifests in daily stuff that we really dont think about.
Russian toilets before 1990 all had the little shelf so you could inspect your poop before it gets wet. Ones in Moscow got changed for toilets where you poop in water after tourists informed people about toilets in other countries. Other cities still have the same old toilets and rural areas have out-houses with a seat over a hole dug in the ground. Toilets on trains poop out onto the tracks. Its an outhouse seat and you see tracks if you look in. Signs ask passengers not to use them while the train is not moving in the station.
In Australia every toilet I have seen (if you exclude things like composting toilets or other weird things and only include regular toilets) are the wash down type, not the US siphon type. Stalls in public restrooms generally have gaps at the bottom but I have never seen stalls with either huge gaps at the bottom or doors that you can see over the way they do in some parts of the US. One thing we have in some toilets in Australia (generally ones that might be open at night) is the use of blue lights to make it harder for drug users to use toilets as a place to inject their drugs.
You must be confused. Normal toilets in Australia are different from in the US, but still use a siphon - they all have a u-bend, and a small amount of water in the bottom. We don't call it a "siphon toilet", we call it a "Gravity toilet" When you google "what type of toilets are used in Australia", the summary for the very first result, "best plumbers club" says "Most households have a gravity flushing toilet where the flushing action pulls water from the bowl." The second result, "gold coast plumbing experts" lists 4 types of toilet, and: "1. Gravity toilet. It may sound a bit sci-fi, but it’s actually just the traditional toilet you’ve been using your whole life". Their "Types of Flushing mechanism" page says: "When you flush, the water supply in the toilet tank is refilled to a predetermined level. An S-shaped pipe or drainage line, the siphon, connects the toilet drain to its bowl. This pipe sits upside down and helps create pressure." "hero plumbing" says "Toilets rely on both gravity and siphoning to flush away waste." "WP Plumbing" says: "Conventional flush toilets can function without a toilet tank, mainly due to the syphoning mechanism"
As a paranoid person who grew up around a lot of broken toilet stalls I like the fact you can easily escape from an American bathroom stall. Granted, it's also easier for your stall to be invaded.
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I have never thought about toilets so deeply and for such a long time! Very interesting...
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I have thought about it as a American especially when I was a homeless drug addict once upon a time and I would use the bathroom to sponge bath myself & change into clothes which I always thought I get barely enough vut not enough privacy to do my business thanks to the bathroom door being to high n' folks being able to see what's going in the bathroom when all I wanted was pure privacy..
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The ability to create such an interesting video out of something so seemingly banal as toilets is a testament to your skill as a creator. Keep it up!
It's called overthinking.
@@HighLanderPonyYT perhaps you're right. I, however, prefer to look at it as maybe seeing the world a little differently from most.
thank slavoj zizek
@@HighLanderPonyYT literally the opposite of that
@@otakuofmine Nope
"The bathrooms are not designed to maximise the most convenient, pleasant bathroom experience, but to maximise raw output." - Got me chuckling lol
It's reminded me why McDonald's in the US have slightly uncomfortable furniture and are just not pleasant places to be. You'd rather take away your food than eat in, and that maximizes output as well. McDs in Europe are generally (no, not everywhere) much more stylish and comfortable places.
@@MartijnPenningswell it’s fast food the whole point is you just take your food and leave if you want more comfortable experience to go to a restaurant
@@davisdelp8131 I know, but in some places (read: France) McD failed with their standard American model franchise. French people generally rather sit down than walk-and-eat. Also it's more normal to take your family to mcD or eat with a group, so in some places they design them more as restaurants.
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@@davisdelp8131here in South Asia the American FF outlets are treated as restaurants. I think this is quite common around the world. As a result most McDs, KFC, PH, BK look rather fancy and are comfortable enough a long dine in experience.
7:25 "Fucking ... Bad writing."
LMAOA!
LOL That cuaght me off guard lol
Crazy this isn't a top comment lmao
I wonder if that was in there on accident.
@@fjnemo democracy disagrees. If it was truly a "top comment", then people would respond as such. In reality, it's just copy paste of a line from the video. Hardly revolutionary.
@DSAhmed : you mean *by* accident.
America has a literacy level of my pet tortoise 🤦♂️ "step foot" is wrong too btw : *step* literally means 'set foot', which, btw, is how to say that.
And y'know when y'all are tryin' to say you *could not* care less about something, but instead you say "I COULD care less"? Idk if y'all have a carbon monoxide leak, but y'all should check y'all's kitchens because y'all sound like y'all have a brain injury - and it ain't because y'all say y'all. That's just language fluidity and evolution. The problem is y'all devolving.
0:11 did anyone else hear a55 value?
check the subtitles
@@ser_igel HAHAHA That killed me!!!
Oh I get it. It was a play on "taken at face value" but you really don't want to put your fave on a toilet bowl.
You can say ass, I won't tell your mom
The open stalls in US toilets made me super uncomfortable to use a public restroom in the US. In Sweden public toilets have their own rooms which are quite sound proof as well. You get complete privacy.
Yeah we all hate the stalls here in the U.S. as far as I know and I can't foresee workers striking for something like that lol although maybe it would help
An Ikea I went to had the best solution. A row of those isolated rooms toilets. No urinals, no open stalls, no gendered anything. Just do your shit and be at peace. It was effective and efficient and never felt awkward. Meanwhile now days back in the USA I sit in the restroom at work and stare at the shoes of the guy waiting for me to exit..........
@@p.a.g3357 gendered toilets are a fucking scam. They just exist to sell more shit'n'piss stations.
@@p.a.g3357 Lol, meanwhile here in Europe at my work and in many public places like malls, restaurants, airports, they play loud music in the stalls so other people in neighboring stalls won't hear our noises... and you stare at some other guy's shoes :))
As opposed to the trough you guys piss in? You must be joking
''Brexit was a surprise to no one who understood bathrooms''
Because it was a shitstorm. Everything went down the drain.
@@RafaelW8 wow
I guess this was meant to be a joke right?
@@Sir99percent If it was it was a total failure as European/UK toilets are identical .
That sure was a sentence
As a UK native I never encountered a siphonic toilet till I went to the US
same i think
I've never seen one either and I've been here my whole life
@Shadow_ball London but lived in the Midlands too
I believe other than US countries use that too. We have that a lot here in the Philippines and even Singapore.
Agreed, another US video showing little knowledge of the UK. I’m not sure if the video is rather tongue in cheek 😂😂
As a Dutch person, the toilets where your own poop lays dry under your asshole are definitely a nightmare. Luckily most of them are removed but damn, once in so many months you encounter one and I'll just say, you have to hope that your poop isnt too long
Still pretty common in many old houses in Germany. It is somewhat fascinating I have to say because many people have absolutely no idea how large their shit is compared to e.g. dog shit we see all the time everywhere (because most dog owners are assholes, it needs to be said).
@@Umweltliteratur I'm polish & we had such a type of toilet up until 4-5 years ago but now we have the regular washdown toilet
But it's a good way to self diagnose. And I don't remember having problem with long ones.
@@Lizardry90210 yeah me neither, they'd always just fold over on themselves
In Czechia they can also be found in old houses-which is really strange consifering when they were instaled we were occupied by Soviet Union but also not so suprising because most of our history (except last less than a century) we were under German rule
'to maximise raw output' had me actually laughing out loud 8:12
I'm from the UK and nearly 40. I've never seen a UK toilet using anything like the amount of water a US toilet uses. As far as I can tell we use the flush down toilet. Despite what Slavoi Zizek says (mine even has a dual flush)
Yeah i think we stopped using them decades ago I’ve only ever seen one or two of the other type.
@@horatiotodd8723 I don't think we ever used them... You ever seen a Victorian toilet with that amount of water in them? I suspect Slavoi is either lazy or got confused by language as our toilets do have a Syphon in them... But within the cistern (the bit at the back for any non-native speakers)
Yeah, I've never seen a siphon toilet here, as far as I'm aware. Always got freaked out seeing the swimming pool of water in American toilets.
Siphon toilets are actually illegal in the UK and as far as I'm also aware they have never been used - ironically in a video that mentions Brexit it is due to the 6 litre max flush requirement that is currently embedded in UK law which originated from the EU.
Dual Flush is goated ngl
This is so interesting, I travel a lot between the UK and the US and I've always wondered why such a big difference. Also, I've never seen a siphonic toilet in the UK, it's definitely an all-American thing. Southern Europe has also squat toilets, but I'm fairly sure they're being phased as I haven't seen one in many years.
So do you normally just watch one video and believe it all?
I have lived in the uk my whole life. Seen hundreds of toilets here. Never seen a siphonic toilet.
Been living in the UK for awhile now and same, I haven't seen a siphonic toilet here. All the toilets are either pull chain or wash down.
Turkey and India have both! And even some villas have both because the squat toilet is better for the big thing.
so...after 3 month i can solve the riddle... :) The siphonic toilets (american style) are banned in europe since the 1970s because of the amount of water they need. A siphonic toilet needs about 9-10 liters, an european actually around 4,5 to 6 liters fpr the "big flush", 3 to 4,5 for the "smal flush". So there is an other difference, that makes it nearly impossible to intrduce the european toilets to the US: in america most of the people are crumpling their toiletpaper, in europe they fold it. The siphonic toilet has a bit more power...and so its possible to flush the crumbled paper. Its a minor point...but not unimportant :) And before you wonder: i´m working in this industrie...its not a hobby to know that :)
This is quite litterally a giant, well executed and very informative shitpost. Thanks fern!
Alright Mr.Kissass, got enough "t's in littterally ?
I learned almost nothing about toilets from this..
I thought the same lol.
I thought what a sh*tty video until the quote about american toilets being optimized for raw output.
@@robertkalinic335you’re funny! 😅
Perhaps, the American stall with the raised walls are easier to clean with the usual string wet mop?
Precisely
It's also easier to clean giant messes with a hose, which fun fact is part of the reason almost all public bathrooms have floor drains.
Can't believe that even in a video about toilets we reach the age old conclusion: the US cares about companies and profits, while the EU cares about human beings.
@tripplefives1402you can't have companies without workers, aka human beings
You can, however, have human beings without companies. In fact companies as we know them today did not exist for such a long time
@tripplefives1402salty american who cannot take criticism found lol
@tripplefives1402this a really dumb take. If you acctually did five minutes of thinking you'd realise that you don't need companies at all. Well, not in the capitalist sence anyway
@@bisky9105We need companies tho. No?
@tripplefives1402 - do you need to live to work, or to work to live?
Got it?
Another crazy thing at US stalls is that tooo big gap when closing the stall door, you can literally see everyone shitting while walking by
fr the gap between the door and the wall itself
This is why I always shit on the sink, I mean if everyone is going to see me anyway why bother...
Pretty sure we use washdown toilets in the UK?
I've never seen anything other than the one with the hole at the back in the UK and I've lived here forever.
That’s not the answer, there is a gap so they can clean the bathroom easily. They can just take their mop and quickly clean it down without having to open each door.
So they use the same mop for all the stalls and dont clean each toilet?
One thing to say as an advantage to the American stall design, it makes it a LOT easier to clean a bathroom.
How so?
@@GreetingsFromBlackwoodFarm The door doesn't get in the way of the mop...
This I think is the real reason. Much easier to hose out the bathroom after an unfortunate Taco Bell and/or Applebee's -induced sharting incident.
And you got people for that, Viva la. . .
@@alan5506Or a pressure washer
I'm a European who lives in the UK and I don't recall ever seeing a siphon toilet here in the UK, and all the toilets in all the houses, hotels and apartments I've stayed in the UK have had wash-down models.
also holy hell the toilets with shelves are the absolute worst, you still see them sometimes in Hungary in public washrooms.
I first saw a shelf toilet in legoland in windsor
They're very common in Germany
i call them presentation toilets, they help you to diagnose your output :) also, they prevent splash back.
I prefer the shelf toilet, they were common in the Netherlands until the '90s. Unfortunately they are hard to buy anymore these days.
they are called washout toilets.
Did you know that the old German toilet has this kind of step for medical reasons? It is there so that stool samples can be taken much more easily.
Which is the reason why you find them so often in Austria. In the empire, to my knowledge, there even was an imperial decree to be able to inspect bodily outflow more easily in order to help combat diseases, because if you can register them more easily, you are able to prevent them from spreading more easily.
+ no splash so your butt stays dry AND nobody hears when you take one. that alone makes it 200% better
But they also clog way faster so for me they are a big nono. Have been there regularly taking a dump and clogging the toilet with a "new" one. Dont want to imagine what would happen if the old one was more common
the only thing that says about you, is that you shouldn't wait so long before you take a shit. they almost never clog. you just dont have a healthy way of doing your business@@Septimus1907
This type of toilet does not squirt, which is probably its main advantage these days
Interesting video, but we definitely use the same toilets as the rest of Europe here in the UK. I’ve even seen one comment saying as far as they’re aware the US style is outright illegal and that laws on the maximum volume of water allowed to be used by the toilet according to EU law is still embedded in UK law, as goes for most EU laws as of now, so Brexit is once again irrelevant in this sense.
What are you implying?
@@herrhase5261
That Brexit has been brought up in a nonsense way, again. We have had the same toilets for the decades. Pre and post Brexit. So why is Brexit being mentioned at all.
Without enough water in the trap, sewer gasses will escape into the room from these "wash down" toilets, so there is, indeed, a minimum level of water required to keep the trap full and stop odors and critters from escaping into the bathroom.
7:32 uhhhhh f-bomb outa nowhere
Gotta say it was my favorite part!! it was really bad writing…stalls installed 😂
Most of the stalls in Europe also have a gap between the floor and the wall, but much smaller than in the USA
I wanted to say that too, its not true that the stall goes to the ground
In the netherlands the stall goes always to the ground, no gaps
Depends on where you are.
But still smaller gaps for sure.
@@thecryptochartist5506It's not true. I've been there several times and there mostly aren't.
@@jakubadamczyk1523 It is true, i live there for whole my life and they mostly are
Nice shitpost
Literally
😭
This video is art, satire and comedy at the same time. The trinity of fern.
I'm from the USA & studied abroad in the Netherlands in the mid-90s, where my student housing was graced with the old-style 'observation shelf'-type toilets. Personally I thought they were brilliant, and when I moved back stateside and, several years later, bought my first house, I eagerly looked forward to getting one installed as part of a needed bathroom renovation. Imagine my disappointment and confusion when every plumbing-supply professional I talked to had _no idea what the heck I was talking about_ -- and my consternation when some of them looked at me like I was crazy...
1. This was _really_ interesting and well-done. Thank you!
2. A huge logistical benefit of "European-style" full partitions is that they easily allow unisex bathrooms-and indeed you'll encounter these in parts of Europe. Higher-end establishments in the States will sometimes have full partitions, but I think I've only encountered 1 or 2 that were also unisex; pretty rare, at least on the West coast.
It's perfectly simple: you have some number of fully-enclosed stalls, and then a row of sinks outside. This allows small establishments that only need a couple toilets to save on space and plumbing. It would also eliminate the 'gender parity' issue that we've all seen at events, or popular public spaces: huge line outside the women's bathroom, small or nonexistent line for the men's (unless it's a tech conference, in which case, flip the genders). It makes perfect logistical sense _and you get to do your business in full privacy_ , which honestly feels borderline-decadent when you first encounter it. Most people would like it, I'm telling 'ya.
I had a smile on my face the whole video, mostly because it was so seriously spoken
Yeah, dramatically even
Idk why people always associate something funny with toilets and expect a unserious or even a comedy speak and talk when it comes to toilets.
Its literally about serious "problems" like the high usage of water.
I guess you even start to smile and laugh when someone talks about... hihi. PEENIS.
@@TheRealProdeigi ok, but the video definitely leaned into that comedy aspect with such jokes like "Amercan toilets literally suck".
@@TheRealProdeigi Well I gotta say speaking about toilets and taking a shit often is kinda related to funny thoughts, but I can imagine if youre working for the poop industry it gets bland and dull with time
The Video we didn't expected, but still needed it.
1:40 It felt as if Apple wanted to introduce the revolutionary iToilet on stage
5:49 “German: Metaphysics and poetry. You observe it, you think…”!!!
Also, I used to have a sociology professor who used to live in a hippy commune many years ago. He mentioned that their toilets were basically benches with 6 holes spaced apart. No stalls, no nothing. He said it took him some time before he could “go” in that environment, with multiple other people from the commune sitting beside him.
Several Corrections... the UK does NOT use syphlonic toilets. We basically use the same ones as Europe, except the water inlet pipe to the cistern is almost always on the cistern base, whereas in Europe its commonly on the side. UK toilets are always pushed back against the wall whereas European one are often spaced away from the wall a little. Also the waste pipe of a UK toilet these days is almost always to the rear. In Europe they are still commonly via the base hence the need to space them away from the wall to provide some tolerance. Cubicles or stalls in the UK are usually around 15cm above the floor, low enough to provide good privacy but high enough to make floor cleaning easier.
It was the fashion in the UK to have the waste pipe on the outside of the wall. No point having indoor plumbing unless you're going go to advertise it to the whole village!
@bluerizlagirl It probably made sense back when plumbing was quite primitive... nobody wants leaking toilet pipes inside the house 😆 They usually put them around the back or side of the building... rarely on the front. I think they stopped doing external waste pipes on new buildings around the 1960s.
Joining the other UK comments here, we don't use the siphon toilets. We have the same flush down style as the rest of Europe. Surpised at the error, doesn't seem it would be hard to verify considering it's mentioned multiple times throughout the video.
Our wash down style toilets do have a siphon, but it's in the cistern. If he learned about that I can see how he got confused. It's known as a 'Pythagorean siphon' (the channel 'Steve Mould' has a video on them) as you simply initiate the flow of water with the handle and it self sustains flow until it empties the cistern, however we have the dual flush option built into this as you can hold down the handle to break the siphon effect when the water level drops to half of the cistern's capacity. Holding the handle down creates an air gap when the water level drops that far, and air entering the siphon stops it pulling water up from the bottom of the cistern. I guess this could be how ours differ from the European ones that seem to be shown in this video to have 2 separate buttons for that, where ours have a single handle like the US ones, probably adding to the confusion, or confirming in their mind that the UK's (cistern) siphon toilets are the same as the US (waste-pipe) siphon toilets.
Our design also means if the float doesn't fully stop the flow of water into the cistern, it won't flood the bathroom because the path into the rest of the toilet is always open. Pushing the handle just pulls a one-way plunger style thing upwards to create a wave over the top that then falls and pulls the rest of the water in the cistern with it until air gets into that system again.
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0:10 "taken at a$$ value" lmaoo
Ikr lol
7:35 ah yes a ambulance worker having to slide through potentially piss and shit down on the floor to access a patient sounds like a good idea
Well the main idea is that they can see the person, and thus be able to open the door using some kind of tool. Basically, if you can't see someone passed out on the floor, they might die because people politely avoid disturbing that stall.
That what I tough, let the first helpers cross the piss lake before entering.
I love how this is delivered with the seriousness and tone of a crime documentary.
The reason "public" stalls have the floor gap is hygiene. Its so you can mop under the partition, if you were correct the gap would be as high as possible.
The upper gap is cost . Standardized panel hights greatly reduces price.
I mean if this is really the issue, the gap could be a good deal shorter
Just open the door?? European stalls get cleaned to and the partitions never stopped it
That makes no sense whatsoever.
In Europe public restrooms are so much cleaner than in the USA, generally. I live in nyc. So many public toilets have toilet paper allover the floor, fecal remains on the bowl. Many guys also do not flush the urinals. When I go back to Europe I am surprised how clean the public restrooms are.
@@stefpix NYC is not very reflective of the US as a whole. If people were polled on which US cities have the worst bathrooms NYC would almost definitely make the top 5.
UK here - we definitely don’t use the US style toilet very often at all.
I agree. I'm 51, have travelled extensively within the UK and have never seen a toilet like that. As someone else mentioned, it's unlikely to even be legal within the UK.
Yall use the flush toilet right
7:42 “by having master keys” - a.k.a “coins”
I don't think the emergency workers thing is correct because I see a lot of stalls in the US that have the coin master key setup. Pretty sure that the comment about it being easier/quicker to mop explains the stall height.
We absolutely don't use the siphon toilet here in the UK anymore, I have not seen one of those since I was a literal child thirty odd years ago.
Who knew that a documentary about toilets would be so interesting 😂
8:05 gonna through one other reason for the raised partitions in American stalls is hygiene. It is much easier to keep clean and clean up after a explosive plumbing event, or gastrointestinal event.
I have the feeling this video should be taken with a grain of salt. While I was in school in Germany they had some of the nasties toilettes I ever encountered. Also stalls not reaching the floor and ceiling. And then there around the mediterranean you can find those traditional "crouch down" toilettes. Actually from an anatomical standpoint this is the better position to empty your guts.
I like to keep a stool next to my toilet so I can put my feet up like I'm crouching to poop. Shit works out a lot better that way.
@@jbbrutal6714yeah you can even get ones especially made for that (with a round semi hole in the middle so they fit snugly around /under your toilet) for 5-10€; since we got one I've been happily using it every time
@@jbbrutal6714I just use my trash can or towel hamper
Schools and second world country airports are the exception. I have never seen an american stall anywhere else
I once saw a stall in a Candian public washroom where the door didn't only have a gap at the bottom it outright ended at torso level. If somebody would shit there you could have held eyecontact. Safe to say I only did the small business even though I really was in need of maximizeing raw output.
I can't edit for some reason it is maximizing of course
Yeah such stalls exist in some unrenovated bathrooms from the 70s at my American University (UW-Madison), the rumor goes that they cut them down to shoulder height to stop people from fornicating in the bathrooms.
Seattleite here, most of the bathrooms in Pike Place Market are the exact same way, specifically to force discomfort and make you hurry up, do your business, and GTFO. It's why I never use them.
I've never seen that in the US
I'm from western Canada. I've sometimes seen stalls with diminutive doors like that in older public washroom facilities - located in large parks. I would say that they're quite rare and completely absent from malls, commercial strips, or office buildings.
I am on toilet right now
Same. Glad to be West European
Happy pooping! you can do it!
At least nobody will say that you're full of "you know what."
Just take your time... and enjoy 🙃
You too! It's almost like we are in public stalls watching UA-cam at work.
It's... it's like an Apple ad for a toilet... and I... I can't look away.
I lived in germany in the late 80s, and was told the shelf was to inspect your stools for worms from high pork consumption.
As always, a high quality video
I'm from the UK and I've only ever seen washdown toilets locally.... I kinda feel your assessment of the UK is based on Slavoi Zizek chatting shit to create some sort of anglosphere discourse.
Not the video we wanted
Not the video we thought about
But the video we needed
4:18 🤣I can't remember the last time I was so blindsided by a youtube video that had me rolling like this... That was too funny 😂
2:15 Shakespeare has been real quiet since this line dropped...
So thats why I've never had a cloged toilet. I seen the cloged toilet problem in so many american media and always wondered why it almost never happens to me or ppl I know. Great video!
Yeah, I never understood that as well, but .. but Spoiler TMI ahead .. I clogged plenty of german toilets as well 😐
So... what you're saying is, selling toilet plungers is a much more profitable business venture in the US? XD
@@lasercraft32 Just like women's 0 pocket clothing and handbag sales, the plunger and a clogging toilet are in a symbiotic relationship.
It's not a problem here in the US either unless you have an old toilet.
When I lived with my mother, both toilets she had were from the mid 90's. It was in that grey area after they implemented the 1.6 gallon (6 liter) per flush regulation, but before toilet manufacturers actually figured out how to make good toilets that use that little water. I'd clog a toilet with just normal use about once every month or two, to the point that I could tell if it was going to clog within a second of pressing the flush lever.
I moved into my current house a little over 3 years ago. All three toilets were replaced in the early to mid 2010's when one of the previous owners did some mild renovation work, and in the over 3 years that I've lived here, I haven't even had to remove the plunger I bought from its packaging.
In my 30 years of using toilets in the UK, I've only seen 1 syphonic toilet out of hundreds of toilets that I have used. I have no idea where you got that info from! Also, we have both types of stalls.
Average youtube user needs to realize his own singular personal experience does not define facts
@@tomatertateOk but look at the dozens of comments saying the same thing
@@tomatertate average youtuber taking what video is as fact.
These toilets are not in the UK at all.
I love that you zoomed in on Zizek's "mouth action". Always a treat, that guy.
Slavoj Žižek, love that guy. Two movies definitely and unironically worth watching: The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema.
I have never in my life felt pressured to hurry up on the toilet because of how exposed the stalls are. However, it does make you more aware of other people waiting. Plus having the sides be open allows for TP sharing.
I m literally impressed by how you could use such a trivial topic and still make it so interesting! It is a testament of your profound skill to make videos. Keep the good work up.
Trivial topic? Maybe just to you, not me! I have always been impressed by toilets and their design, since I use it multiple times everyday, and how miserable I'd feel being outdoor without one available when needed! Are u just gonna squat down in open space? 😂
I'm genuinely amazed at your ability to take a seemingly mundane subject and turn it into something truly captivating! Your skill in creating videos is a clear testament to your depth of expertise. Please continue producing such excellent content.
Sorry I saw someone post nearly the identical comment you posted, so I told chatgpt to re write that sentence for me and now, I'm star5ting to think everyone's a bot.
@@tarantulamadness6191 hahaha as u see my post is not bot ai
its a bit sad that so many cant enjoy the german videos. these 3 channels are easily the best channels i know on this platform. i love you guys!
They're kinda lame compared to British or American content.
Simplicisimus ist ja noch ganz geil, aber deutlich zu wenig kontent.
@@rickmortyson4861tf is you talking about
@@rickmortyson4861 The Videos of them are pure informative, have superior self crafted animations, well integrated ads and great neutral endings. There aren't any useless craptalking parts nor flashy generated exaggerated intros and outros. Also you are not supposed to skip parts or put their videos at 1.5/2.0 speed.
Fun fact: Žižek first name is Slavoj, name which in Poland is almost synonymous with toilets. Outhouse (you know, wooden, dry toilets, not connected to sewer system, often found in rural areas) in Poland is called "Sławojka" (which can be translated into English as "something owned by Slavoj", because Polish minister of Interior (and later prime minister of Poland) Sławoj Składkowski went onto crusade against defecating on ground in open air and decreed that every land lot has to have an outhouse. But because he really wanted to enforce new law he was responsible for massive government controls checking if everybody had an outhouse. Because it was quite intrusive he became object of jokes and mockery and calling outhouse with his name just stuck. Just imagine, you were a doctor of medicine (surgeon and gynaecologist), two star general, politician, minister of interior, prime minister, you took part in a coup against democratically elected government, you were responsible for illegal arrests of opposition members, but the one thing you are remember is... hehe, shithouse. :D
Is this coincidence that two toilet obsessed men are name Slavoj? I don't think so. xD
I call 'em Shrek toilets.
And frankly, the Polish synonym is accurate for his politics.
He talks shit with a lisp. What do you expect
Wait... did Poland actually have an epidemic of people shitting outside or was he just a nutter?
@@eyeball226 It was common in the 19th century, especially in the undeveloped former russian partition. They even used human shit as a fertilizer. Fun fact: there was a pamphlet written in this period with a very funny title "The severs of city of Warsaw as a tool of Judaism and quackery aiming at destroying polish farmsteads and extermination of Slavic people at the Vistula"
funfakt zizek is a toothless eastern european antisemite
There's no mention of the Splash. When shit bounces back onto your ass from the wet American toilet and your whole ass and pants are full of shit juice, you go back to the room to join the others in shame.
5:38
I adore Zizek in general, but his absolute vigor when explaining toilets and why they represent their mother country is phenomenal
I love Zizeck because you never know what you get when there's an interview or presentation. Pure philosophical entertainment. Great video.
0:02 The toilet 👍
I have the urge to rant for 2 hours straight about the dutch style toilet after this video reminded me of it's existence.
My polish grandmother had one of those in her flat and I'm convinced to this day, that a crackhead designed this toilet after his divorce
If was invented to more easily access stool samples
It does that like no other
Just took a dump in a Dutch style toilet 5 mins ago. Nothing like plopping right onto the bowl
@@SoguweIt is also super poetic.
just no. it is 100% better. first of all the absolute biggest advantage, actually 2, are that you dont make a huge splash and your butt stays dry. second is you dont make noise when shitting. nobody will know. so its 100% privacy + comfort. and if you are to prude to see your shit, thats just dumb in my eyes. just flush. duh. also if you have blood in your shit, in this case you could briefly see it when flushing, meaning its quickly noticed and you can go to the doctor. and if you have so huge diarrhea that a couple marks stick to it, after flushing, my god just use the toilet brush to quickly scrub it, it has a long stick after all. and then flush for 1 sec again and its gone.
In our former apartment we had one without a cistern. The water pressure out of the pipe had to get rid of the „stuff“ but it failed with bigger tasks. We had to give it a little help with the toilet brush.
Another benefit of the American stalls with the large gaps is that you can crawl out if the door latch mechanism fails for some reason. That happened to me once with those rotating knob locks where it failed to completely retract despite being turned all the way. To this day I'm still suspicious of these types of latches especially when they get rusty, I don't get why everyone doesn't just use sliding latches which are way simpler and can't fail in a manner that locks you inside.
most bathroom stall doors in the UK (at least from my experience) use a sliding lock - so failure is rare. And in the event of one, it just means the door can't close, not that you're locked in/out.
It’s so they can be opened from the outside in case of emergency
This is the absolute best channel find ever. My brother and I are addicted and have been binging these videos. Also the sponsorship segways are immaculate. Can't wait to see future videos!
Analysing toilets like it's such big of a deal is something that only fern would do.
I will always remain a fan of the old Dutch / German one with a shelf for the simple purpose that it doesn’t splash while “doing the deed”.
Sure, you briefly have a period of time where it probably stinks more since it’s not covered by water, and it may be a bit strange to see the waste sitting there if you’re not used to it, but those are both things you can get used to rather quickly.
Cold, dirty water unceremoniously splashing up with every #2 is much more annoying than either of the downsides if you ask me.
Benefit, we have one with step at home, and two “French”, comes when you have kids and check their stool.
put some toiletpaper on top of the water, and then number two won't splash up on you :-)
@@henrikchristensen8458 the amount of wasted toilet paper is actually huge
@@neyrhustop acting like you actually care. It's not wasting it anyway.
Save old paper and use it in the toilet, big win, no wet arse or ballz.
1. I see very often toilets with the gap and i live in germany.
2. I heard that the gaps are for easier cleaning
3. With the old german model the big Business doesnt fall into the water and the water cant splash back and make you wet.
In my experience in the kindergarten, if you took a big shit, it would also not want to flush.
3 is the kiss of Poseidon ;-)
There is quite a bit of American influence in Germany. There's been hundreds of thousands of service men stationed there for decades.
My parents renovated their bathrooms a while back, and going with the trends they put in square washdown toilets.
Now my recomendation to everyone who plans on renovating their bathroom(s): Don't do it, go with normal, oval shaped toilets! Square ones are a pain in the @$$, literally and figuratively. It's hella uncomfortable to sit on and a lot harder to clean due to the corners the brush won't reach. Also it's way harder to find replacement toilet seats, as the 'basic' oval ones (obviously) don't fit. Also the nuts to unscrew that seat (as well as to mount it to the wall) are very hard to reach, if at all, as they are hidden behind a ceramic front, but that's a general stupid trend...
Just spare you the hassle, and don't follow stupid trends!
6:03 "But Brexit was a surprise to no one, who understood bathrooms" Least random thought of the video, both funny and ridiculous, love it.
come to eastern europe. you're lucky to have a working door with 80% of its original size remaining here.
We need more channels like this!
Europes Stalls dont nessesarily go all the way down - we usually have 15cm gaps (6inces) as well. The old 'Flachspühler' (flat-flusher) style was common, but not the most common.
Its about seeing if you're gut is healthy btw. (pro tip: if its green: you are something bad ... or greenery)
Would've been great to include the Japanese toilets too
absolutely
I think the Japanese "mantra" is "If it ain't broken, don't fix it." Hence the squat toilets, the fax machines and signage stamps. But once it is thoroughly broken, they design something ingenious.
My toughts exactly, what is water use, time spent on toilet, cost etc. and also the stall differences
Japanese toilets are just regualar toilets with more technology involved, the core fundamentals don't change, also they weren't even invented in Japan, just more widely adopted.
still nice to talk about them, also I like the faucet system that is integrated (non-electric) @@grandmanitou6563
why does this seem like a parody video 😭 the opening is too funny 😭😭
This is hands down the best deep dive on international toilet design that I watched in 2024.
2:53 actually the wash down is more common in the uk!
I thought the stalls were high off the ground in the US so that they are easier to clean/mop.
Yep. That's why there's also generally floor drains.
Lived in the uk my whole life and only ever seen the wash down toilet as in the rest of Europe, usually with a dual flush as described in the video, wonder if this info is outdated?
I imported Toto washdown toilets from Thailand w/rear-drains. I was able to adapt them to the US-style floor drains. Huge quality of life improvement. The American Standards the home came with clogged very often and were large. The master bath had a "round" model since that's all which would fit. When I went with the imported Totos, I was able to get an elongated washdown toilet, dual-flush. In 15 years, never had a clog with them.
In Europe public restrooms are so much cleaner than in the USA, generally. I live in nyc. So many public toilets have toilet paper allover the floor, fecal remains on the bowl. Many guys also do not flush the urinals. When I go back to Europe I am surprised how clean the public restrooms are.
Good video, but i would have wished to include some toilet designs from other regions of the world too, to paint a complete picture.
Please don't be afraid to check out your poop when you finished. It says so much about your health.
Does looking at shit stains count?
I’m watching this while sitting on an old school washout toilet with inspection shelf. 👀🤷♂️
This is my new favorite UA-cam video
I was in the US recently and i have to say the sciphonic toilet system is the best. It never leaves any floaters behind regardless of the size of the payload.
American here - you'll find that varies with the quality of the toilet and its age.
Really old toilets tend to be good about this, and new toilets that aren't budget models are good about it too.
Cheap toilets often require multiple flushes, and toilets manufactured in the 90s tend to suck because toilet manufacturers took a while to figure out how to reliably flush with a maximum of 1.6 gallons.
@@jeffspaulding9834 That explains why one city's toilet sucks and the other's unholy.
As an Austrian I can say that toilets that "display the result" are still completely standard here, I just got a new toilet a year ago and it's still the same as it was like 20 years ago. Also, our stalls often do have space free at the bottom like the US stalls, I have seen this plenty of times here.
No you can't say the truth online. That's not allowed. We rather judge hundreds of millions of people as all the same instead
@@tiffanywyatt5137I am austrian and never have I ever seen stalls with such goddamn big gaps like the US
US stalls have a gap at the bottom for the very obvious reason that it's much easier to mop throughly for cleanliness.
You juat became one of my new favorite channels the moment you added the clip of Zizek talking about toilets.
Unironically, its an amazing speech about difference in national character and social psichology and how it manifests in daily stuff that we really dont think about.
juat
@@sonicgeeksquad4g106 I'm not great writing on touchscreen keyboards.
Russian toilets before 1990 all had the little shelf so you could inspect your poop before it gets wet. Ones in Moscow got changed for toilets where you poop in water after tourists informed people about toilets in other countries. Other cities still have the same old toilets and rural areas have out-houses with a seat over a hole dug in the ground. Toilets on trains poop out onto the tracks. Its an outhouse seat and you see tracks if you look in. Signs ask passengers not to use them while the train is not moving in the station.
Next revolution in American toilets: WiFi jammers.
Watch the productivity skyrocket
Shoutout to my toilet for puttin up with my shit all these years!
In Australia every toilet I have seen (if you exclude things like composting toilets or other weird things and only include regular toilets) are the wash down type, not the US siphon type. Stalls in public restrooms generally have gaps at the bottom but I have never seen stalls with either huge gaps at the bottom or doors that you can see over the way they do in some parts of the US.
One thing we have in some toilets in Australia (generally ones that might be open at night) is the use of blue lights to make it harder for drug users to use toilets as a place to inject their drugs.
canada has france type toilettes
You must be confused.
Normal toilets in Australia are different from in the US, but still use a siphon - they all have a u-bend, and a small amount of water in the bottom.
We don't call it a "siphon toilet", we call it a "Gravity toilet"
When you google "what type of toilets are used in Australia", the summary for the very first result, "best plumbers club" says "Most households have a gravity flushing toilet where the flushing action pulls water from the bowl."
The second result, "gold coast plumbing experts" lists 4 types of toilet, and: "1. Gravity toilet. It may sound a bit sci-fi, but it’s actually just the traditional toilet you’ve been using your whole life". Their "Types of Flushing mechanism" page says: "When you flush, the water supply in the toilet tank is refilled to a predetermined level. An S-shaped pipe or drainage line, the siphon, connects the toilet drain to its bowl. This pipe sits upside down and helps create pressure."
"hero plumbing" says "Toilets rely on both gravity and siphoning to flush away waste."
"WP Plumbing" says: "Conventional flush toilets can function without a toilet tank, mainly due to the syphoning mechanism"
As a paranoid person who grew up around a lot of broken toilet stalls I like the fact you can easily escape from an American bathroom stall. Granted, it's also easier for your stall to be invaded.
It's easy to dodge the pay toilet, by crawling under the door.
I love your production values. Top notch! (And I really like the under the breath humorous comments). Well done, I’ll be back for more. 😊
I work for Our World in Data, and didn't expect our data to be featured in this video, haha!