How you crappin'?

[Internet Apex]

And DWD.

Are you serious? An inspection shelf? Come on, Europe! We send our troops over there twice in the last century to stop you lot from immolating one another and this is what you decide to do? Build a fucking shelf in your toilet so that you can inspect and evidently touch your own feces? Sweet Jebus. I feel like a son whose father has been living alone with Parkinsons or some other dreadful thing. He keeps telling you he's fine, he's fine, don't put him in that nursing home. But then you come to visit one day and...

He's not fine.

I hope you lot take this revelation into account the next time you decide to question our superiority in this god-forsaken world.

[Richard Chuggar]

Hmph. From a comment at scienceblogs.com:

We do have some strange habits in that department in Europe too, though. I was in Austria recently, and the airport toilets are designed so that your crap does not fall into the water, but instead sits out on a shelf in the air, where it can be closely examined before being flushed away. This has the delightful effect of allowing a large deposit to pile high enough to touch the buttocks.

All the toilets in my house (and indeed, all the toilets in all my previous homes in NL and DE) have this inspection shelf.  The hit rate for putting my hand in my own poo when I reach down to wipe my arse is around 30%.

What the fuck is wrong with you?
Can't you take the shelf out?  Break it?  Get a new toilet?

[Shooter]

Hmph. From a comment at scienceblogs.com:

We do have some strange habits in that department in Europe too, though. I was in Austria recently, and the airport toilets are designed so that your crap does not fall into the water, but instead sits out on a shelf in the air, where it can be closely examined before being flushed away. This has the delightful effect of allowing a large deposit to pile high enough to touch the buttocks.

All the toilets in my house (and indeed, all the toilets in all my previous homes in NL and DE) have this inspection shelf.  The hit rate for putting my hand in my own poo when I reach down to wipe my arse is around 30%.

What the fuck is wrong with you?
Can't you take the shelf out?  Break it?  Get a new toilet?

An example of the landing shelf.

[Internet Apex]

How in hell do you piss on that without soaking your entire bathroom with splashback?

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

How in hell do you piss on that without soaking your entire bathroom with splashback?

Euros probably sit to pee.

[Tonker]

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about :



As you can see, the shelf is an integral part of the toilet itself.  You can't take it out or break it off.  And you can, of course, buy a new toilet but it will look exactly like the last one because in Continental Europe, this is all we know.

I presume it's to try and avoid poo-splashback, which is a risk with your non-inspection toilet - although the judicious use of a pap baffle would solve that problem, too.

In any event, I'm not trying to justify it - I'm merely telling you how it is.

[SKO]

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about :



As you can see, the shelf is an integral part of the toilet itself.  You can't take it out or break it off.  And you can, of course, buy a new toilet but it will look exactly like the last one because in Continental Europe, this is all we know.

I presume it's to try and avoid poo-splashback, which is a risk with your non-inspection toilet - although the judicious use of a pap baffle would solve that problem, too.

In any event, I'm not trying to justify it - I'm merely telling you how it is.

This is why you lost the war.

[Tonker]

How in hell do you piss on that without soaking your entire bathroom with splashback?

Euros probably sit to pee.

I have encountered a great many more Sitzpissers in mainland Europe than I ever did in the UK, that's for sure.

[Internet Apex]

How in hell do you piss on that without soaking your entire bathroom with splashback?

Euros probably sit to pee.

I have encountered a great many more Sitzpissers in mainland Europe than I ever did in the UK, that's for sure.

So the UK doesn't use this kind of atrocity? I feel lots better about that. And "Pap Baffle?" Please explain. You may redeem yourself yet.

[Tonker]

How in hell do you piss on that without soaking your entire bathroom with splashback?

Euros probably sit to pee.

I have encountered a great many more Sitzpissers in mainland Europe than I ever did in the UK, that's for sure.

So the UK doesn't use this kind of atrocity? I feel lots better about that. And "Pap Baffle?" Please explain. You may redeem yourself yet.

You will occasionally come across an inspection-shelf-karzi in the UK but it's a rarity.  Most of them are of your common-or-garden fire and forget variety.

And how, if you all have plunge-toilets, can you not know what a pap baffle is?

[Dr. Nguyen Van Falk]

And how, if you all have plunge-toilets, can you not know what a pap baffle is?

Wow... Have the Brits finally given us something useful?

[Tonker]

And how, if you all have plunge-toilets, can you not know what a pap baffle is?

Wow... Have the Brits finally given us something useful?

You mean, apart from the flush toilet?

[Waco Kid]

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about :



As you can see, the shelf is an integral part of the toilet itself.  You can't take it out or break it off.  And you can, of course, buy a new toilet but it will look exactly like the last one because in Continental Europe, this is all we know.

I presume it's to try and avoid poo-splashback, which is a risk with your non-inspection toilet - although the judicious use of a pap baffle would solve that problem, too.

In any event, I'm not trying to justify it - I'm merely telling you how it is.

I'm just wondering how much of a wave of water that thing would need to push crap off the shelf. Especially, if you put down a good, heavy one.

[Richard Chuggar]

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about :



As you can see, the shelf is an integral part of the toilet itself.  You can't take it out or break it off.  And you can, of course, buy a new toilet but it will look exactly like the last one because in Continental Europe, this is all we know.

I presume it's to try and avoid poo-splashback, which is a risk with your non-inspection toilet - although the judicious use of a pap baffle would solve that problem, too.

In any event, I'm not trying to justify it - I'm merely telling you how it is.

You should get your wife to scrub your toilet.  Not a euphemism.

[Oleg]

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about :



As you can see, the shelf is an integral part of the toilet itself.  You can't take it out or break it off.  And you can, of course, buy a new toilet but it will look exactly like the last one because in Continental Europe, this is all we know.

I presume it's to try and avoid poo-splashback, which is a risk with your non-inspection toilet - although the judicious use of a pap baffle would solve that problem, too.

In any event, I'm not trying to justify it - I'm merely telling you how it is.

You should get your wife to scrub your toilet.  Not a euphemism.

I'm pretending it is.