‘We may have to rethink the toilet seat altogether’: How the coronavirus could change bathrooms for the better

Fast Company ^ | 11 May 2020 | LARA SOROKANICH

[FoundinTexas]

What about RV style toilets? You use a hose to wash out the bowl while opening a valve with a foot pedal. I would think less aerosolized material.

[FreedomPoster]

See my previous.

But likewise, guilty too.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

(but ended up trapping and hosing down homeless people)

They have the self-cleaning public toilets in Europe, I always thought they were a terrific idea. Unfortunately, our massive population of drug-addled homeless immediately take to using them as crack-houses or places to sleep and so the rest of us can't have them.

[FreedomPoster]

They have big manufacturing operations here in the USA. I met their plant manager at a tennis event, he was there with the CEO of a gas company. They use a LOT of natural gas to fire those clay thrones.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

a disastrous experiment by the city of Seattle to install self-cleaning public bathrooms—which sprayed disinfectant and power-washed floors after every use (but ended up trapping and hosing down homeless people)

That is not a bug. That is a feature.

[Old Yeller]

Get rid of the automatic flush. Not only does it flush about 4 times, but also never when you’re ready for it to flush.

[lurk]

Government trying to fix stuff is like a surgeon operating with poo on his fingers.

[mosaicwolf]

"Squat toilets only. And where do they use squat toilets? CHINA where this virus came from."

They are widely in use on the streets of San Fran Nan's district.

[DUMBGRUNT]

You need a Norden bomb sight to use them!

Not needed with the footprint type.

[SJackson]

New idea from liberals. Squat toilets only.

Why not, it works in China. And bring your own toilet paper

But no, there's still the flush problem. Airborne liquid, just from a lower level. To avoid the, we need to adopt an American solultion.

[DUMBGRUNT]

specify flush valves with a tall tailpiece

I hope the plumber closely read the specs before running the supply lines.

[Zack Attack]

Kickin it throwback style!

[EvilCapitalist]

I’d like to know how to use them. It was never explained in the movie.

[EvilCapitalist]

Are you a Brit? The only people I know who use WC(Water Closet) are Brits.

[Mr. Rabbit]

I just start cursing and swearing. There’s these convenient toilet paper dispensers that give me TP along with some strange messages about a “verbal morality code”. :)

[absalom01]

No, an architect.

We use the term because it refers to a specific plumbing fixture. The generic “toilet” can be imprecise.

My brain must have still been in commercial construction mode...

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

And when the city crew gets around to cleaning with the high-pressure washer???

Oh no you can't do that. High pressure washers are racist!

[dfwgator]

‘We may have to rethink the toilet seat altogether’

"We may have to rethink the toilet seat."

[SaveFerris]

“We may have to rethink the toilet seat.”!!

[Songcraft]

Get farther away from that nasty plume...