Back in 88, I went to visit my father in Holland, where he was teaching English as part of a teacher's exchange program. I stayed three weeks. Great place. I'd love to go back. One of the things I remembered, in addition to the mayo on their fries, the great beer, and the lack of drinking age, was the shape of Dutch toilets. Unlike every other toilet I'd seen where there's a deep bowl filled, to some level, with clean water, Dutch toilets had a small bowl in the front, and a large, flat shelf taking up the rest of the space. I always assumed it was some half-baked water-saving idea. Turns out, the shelf has other uses.
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I guess I could use some rearranging
the shelf is precisely how i’ve described it, years hence. apparently you can’t walk into a bathroom in the netherlands without a toilet brush placed suggestively in view. the shelf. good lord that shelf.
i always figured there was some fascination with the display of feces allowed by these toilets, but I thought that was a too obvious conclusion. really, they don’t want to look at it. this is europe. they built the great cathedrals. what are they doing with a toilet like that.
wow. thank you for shedding light where the sun don’t shine.
After crashing in several A’dam flats equipped with such things I realized the best way to dookie is to sit facing the tank, so the doopers go into the water, and the best way to pee is to either sit (preferred) or point Mr Willy straight down and hope for the best.
beware of Sitzpinkel, which is funny because as many times as I’ve been to Germany I have never seen a shelf toilet; only in the Netherlands.