The History of Toilets

There’s been at least one time in your life when you’ve been out at a music festival and thought about whether or not you should miss your favorite band. After all, you'd rather drive home to use the facilities you know and love than use the coffins of crap that are located on the festival grounds. But when you gotta go, and you’ve got to do what it takes to make yourself pure again. Remember, it can always be worse. If you don’t think so, take a look at this primer on porta potty history and revel in your modern ability to not have to squat over a pit.

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[NaturesRealityy]

Now this is the kind of weird history we want

[elmiragifta]

So glad i live in this century, imagine walking outside & be in a constant worry that some random person might empty their chamber pots on you

[chameleoncove]

This channel actually gave a crap about the history of toilets.

[Yasin_]

I’m glad I was born in the 21st century where I have my own clean toilet privately. I’m proud to say I lived a better life than a monarchy in the 16th century

[ferdonandebull]

A lot of my life was spent without inside plumbing.

We had a two hole toilet which was not for using by two people at a time .

The toilet was out in the pasture where we raised hogs and had a four foot hole under it. We used catalogs and sometimes phone books when family brought old phone books down.

We saved our wood ashes that we generated in the winter. We would dump a scoop of ash after we used the toilet to keep the insects out.

We could get years out of a toilet without using a new hole.

The doors of the toilet opened inward so in the summer you could sit in the hot box with the door open and if someone was coming you could kick the door closed.

In the winter the snow would blow through the crack. I would make a taper and light it to warm the seat and melt the snow. Wasps and spiders were a problem in the summer.

There was a lantern hook inside for night visits. We had a thunder mug but the only time it was used was if you were physically not able to walk to the toilet.

My grandpa had a candle that he would light at night.

I rarely used a light to get to the toilet but it was nice to burn a taper to check out the hole for spiders when you got there .

In my area the church used the diamond on a door for men and the crescent moon for women.

Our toilets had solid doors...

[user]

Next: “History of Florida Man”
You must do it.

[seandelarosa]

me: watching this while taking a dump
*instantly justifies taking long bathroom breaks*

[rommeldiche]

"Use me well and keep me clean and I won't tell people what I've seen 😂

[_Maliki]

India 2500 BC: first toilets
India 2020 AD: not all people have access to toilets...

[itsjustlukeRevive]

Just what I wanted to watch before bed. NOICE

[shade]

“In Ancient Rome it was more of a social experience” I’m just imagining people sitting directly next to each other while taking a crap casually making conversation

[NotSoCrazyNinja]

When life gives you a Crappy last name, sell toilets.

[Sciencerely]

As a biologist and researcher, I cannot appreciate the invention of sanitation systems enough. Numerous people died due to the lack of sewage systems (and there have been roughly 7 major cholera worldwide outbreaks in the last 200 years). Although you might think that cholera infections are not as prevalent anymore it is estimated that there are annually still 1.3 million to 4.0 million cases of cholera, and 21 000 to 143 000 deaths worldwide (would really love to make a video about that)! I really hope that we could raise more awareness for this issue. Feel free to ask me anything about this topic or stem cells (since I am conducting research in this field)!

[noticemesenpai]

I feel uncomfortable pooping in a stall if someone else is in the bathroom. Couldn’t imagine pooping sitting next to someone

[DawnOldham]

I use the toilet more often than most people, so I am VERY thankful for its invention! I am very impressed with people who use Nature’s Head toilets and others like it. (Lots of tiny house owners use them.) They cut down on so much water waste!

[ace]

The Roman group poop. I can’t even imagine. What if you had to push?

[tamaraturford]

Me: if I get another thousand words of my essay done within the hour, I'll be happy.
Also me: I absolutely must learn about the history of toilets.

[arthurcooperman]

No one:
Ancient Roman: bro wanna take a dump with me?

[deewesthill]

My great-grandmother called her chamber pot her "vessel". She was unable to walk and mostly blind, so my mother as a little girl under age 10 had to help her get the vessel underneath her, then pull it out again, then carried the vessel to the outhouse to empty it.

[giladfadel]

1:52
"For society that worshiped cats, its only appropriate the egyptians also used a bathroom like one."

The shaaaadddee xD