Aussie wrote on Dec 13^th, 2014 at 8:16pm:


It's probably a German thing.

Chinese neighbours probably ask the builders to bore a hole in the floor. Stir-fried toilet insects are a favourite in Chinese households so it's quite possible these toilets are built as latrines instead of with piped and flushable plumbing.

Did you read the Sunday paper? 'Wet-Wipes' are now being used instead of toilet paper in the Sydney area to such an extent that sewer-pipe blockages are happening all over town with the 'plugs' being the size of small cars. They actually have to use chains-and-cranes to drag and haul these massive lumps out of the sewer system.

Nice work if you can get it. 

And then how about that legion of 'night-soil' men who used to carry removable tanks of s*** on their shoulders in the nighttime hours while the rest of the city slept?

If I had my way I would have a monument erected to those unsung heroes of yesteryear.

A giant turd with all their names inscribed on it like a war memorial.