Comments on: If you build it, they will go? Not in NYC’s newest toilet.

By: Poop Culture | by Dave Praeger | the blog » Seattle to close its public toilets (and why this is good for poopers everywhere)

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:56:42 +0000

[...] If you build it, they will go? Not in NYC’s newest toilet. [...]

By: Roland

Roland — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:32:15 +0000

This is new? I thought that NYC was the first to offer the French , J.C. Decaux automatic toilets. They have been adopted here in San Francisco.

The original French design gave one just enough room between the bowl and the wall for ones knees. After defecation, the seat rotated into a cleansing bath and a new, clean, dry seat awaited the next occupant. However, since handicapped people couldn’t use this model, the S.F. modification is four times as big, with plenty of room for hypes to shoot up with a friend and hookers to accommodate clients. The street people have also discovered the way to defeat the automatic lock-and-clean cycle so that they don’t have to pay for each use.

Naturally, nobody uses them now but the homeless. The attraction of a reliably clean commode has been replaced by a repellant, filthy, insecure crapper.

I know that on those rare occasions that I have to use a public toilet, I go into the nearest office building, go up a few floors on the elevator, and ask the receptionist for directions to the nearest mens room. Since I look “right”, they always accommodate me.

The notion of using a J.C. Decaux toilet is nightmarish. Imagine sitting on the bowl, pants down to your ankles, and having the door suddenly flung open, “exposing” you to foot traffic, by one of the street people whose home turf you have invaded. If he doesn’t order you out, he is just as likely to do what he intended to do when he opened the door, whether you are there or not.

By: Alex Fall

Alex Fall — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 03:48:04 +0000

robert, you’re absolutely right about the american diet being at blame for our oversized loads, and now that io think about my canoe trips in scouts you’re right about nothing sticking. However, you forgot that Boy Scouts shake hands with our left hands… (brings back memories of some good pranks we pulled on eachother in my troop)

By: Robert Adkins

Robert Adkins — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:53:21 +0000

The paper issue brings up the uncomfortable subject of over-eating in modern society. A balanced diet, consumed in moderation, produces relatively small, firm waste, needing little paper. Contrast that with the average Joe who just ate two double whoppers as an appetizer before his 2800 calorie cheese fries at Outback, plus whatever he orders for the main course. A turd the size of a man’s arm can’t help but leave a mess on the way out, and a greasy one at that.
Perhaps the new world can benefit from an old world solution: The infamous “Arab wipe”, or, your finger. What Americans don’t realize is that you dip your finger in water, wet your hole, drop that deuce, re-wet the finger and knock off anything that stuck through the water. Wash your finger off, and you’re ready to go. Besides, four squares will surely result in your finger poking through, anyway, and it’ll stick to your dry finger. If you’ve ever laid cable in a river in the Boy Scouts, you remember how nothing stuck. Of course, the left hand is preferred, freeing up the right for eating, hand-shaking, etc.