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mini-baller
12-15-2007, 01:30 PM
i have a really old house. belmont, holla!

the house originally had only one crapper (the tank is mounted on the wall above it. you pull a chain to flush it. like really old. it's also attached to some archaic plumbing.) the thing about this old ass pot is that when you flush it it goes and goes and goes and goes. it's kind of scary. i do not trust it so it's a water fountain for my dogs.

had a handyman by this morn. he got realy excited when he saw it. some interesting facts:

- it's an antique. obviously. there are antique toilet collectors that i could sell my old ass crapper to.

- it has an 8 gallon tank. to give you some perspective here the other crappers in the house have 1.6 gallon tanks. in some states the crapper would be illegal to operate, lol.

- in the pipe under the toilet there is an 8 ft vertical drop before it goes horizontal. this would account for the horrible post flush waterfall sound that makes me paranoid.

- it is designed to deliver huge hydrostatic pressure. it drops 8 gallons of water in pretty much a 13 ft uninterrupted line. it can flush anything. he called it a 'bowl winder'.

- he offered to buy it and replace it at a discount with a newer model. a win win offer for me. i told him no.

miguelito
12-15-2007, 01:48 PM
I think curiosity would get the better of me. I'd hold it in for a week, eat lots of fiber, grab a handful of magazines, and see just how much those 8 gallons can handle.

wide-e-wide
12-15-2007, 02:13 PM
Drug dealers would love that thing.

FREEZE! DEA!!! ha!! hold on I'm flushing half of Columbia down my prehistoric shitter.

shamewood
12-15-2007, 02:37 PM
http://www.funsansar.com/Funnypics/images/toilet_elephant.jpg

shamewood
12-15-2007, 02:39 PM
http://images.smarter.com/blogs/toilet.jpg

hornimal
12-15-2007, 05:54 PM
the shitters in madrid are rectangular

tx 3 putt
12-16-2007, 12:17 AM
Argentina is big on square shitters also. Damn wanna be Europeans.

mdmost
12-16-2007, 10:53 AM
In some parts of Italy, you just get a large hole in the floor to piss/shit into. You also have to pay an attendant to use the bathroom if they actually have plumbing.

tx 3 putt
12-16-2007, 03:54 PM
Mini, how does this antique rate with the comfort factor ?

mini-baller
12-16-2007, 04:35 PM
dunno, putt.

we use it as a water dish for our dogs.