Comments on: CHANCES AN AUTOMATIC TOILET WILL FLUSH

By: tp

tp — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:31:29 +0000

By: Lauren L.

Lauren L. — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:02:54 +0000

I wish the automatic flushers would wait like 10 seconds after you’ve finished so you can be out of there as soon as it flushes.

By: Jessidork

Jessidork — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 12:15:47 +0000

I love that my university retrofitted almost every single toilet on campus to ones that were auto flush in order to save water (we’re in a level 4 critical drought with no relief in sight), but I’m pretty sure they had a quadrupling in water use.

Don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t really like having a moist butt thanks to the splashback from auto flushes…

By: hjhjb

hjhjb — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 04:11:33 +0000

By: Jake

Jake — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:08:43 +0000

Wow, that is so true!

By: Simnos

Simnos — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:18:35 +0000

Ummmm.. Hi my names Simon and I sit on public toilets..

By: emily

emily — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:22:34 +0000

i find the use of the “doing your business” euphemism on this graph kind of charming!

By: noway

noway — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:57:49 +0000

Weird- I was just thinking of creating this same chart this morning!!

By: IBKC

IBKC — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:09:58 +0000

I agree!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 19:12:49 +0000

Most automatic toilets have a button you can press to manually flush the toilet. I don’t mind early courtesy flushes as long as I am able to make sure it flushes when I’m done.

Those that don’t have the button are extremely frustrating.

By: LHLD

LHLD — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:03:07 +0000

i’m sorry, i don’t sit on public toilets. and i know very few people who admit to it in the first place. so why sensor in the seat?

By: Marluxia Kyoshu

Marluxia Kyoshu — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 17:46:54 +0000

Pressure sensors in toilets: welcome to Europe. ^.~

They’re pretty cool.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:12:23 +0000

I work in a theme park and was working outside the restrooms one day whilst the park was closed, when someone approached me and told me there was a duck inside the female restrooms. Not knowing which department to seek for my duck emergency I decided to tackle the problem myself. It was very difficult as the duck kept flying off and smashing into the ceiling. Eventually I came up with the ultimate plan to corner it in one of the cubicles, unfortunatly there was a gap under the stalls big enough for a duck, but not for me. I had to use sanitary bins to block off these gaps. The duck was still putting up a fight, jumping INTO the toilets, I decided this would be my best chance to catch it as the space was so limited, managed to get my hands around the ducks neck and held it’s wings down with my arms, carried it outside and set it free, unharmed but slightly disorientated.

By: Destin

Destin — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 16:06:45 +0000

Let me guess, you’re that guy who needed more than 360 degrees on his pie chart.

By: ema

ema — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 15:08:58 +0000

They spoil you for other restrooms!!

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:51:04 +0000

You forgot “While pulling pants down”! I suppose that could be “In the middle of doing your business” but not really…

By: Nicole

Nicole — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:21:34 +0000

Sadly this is the most relevant chart I have ever found on this site as far as my life is concerned.

At work the toilets flush repeatedly while you are on them. Finish, stand up–no flush.

Ridiculously badly-engineered.

By: Castfire

Castfire — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 05:40:07 +0000

OMG, stepping on his neck?

By: Amygo

Amygo — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:39:03 +0000

I dunno, for me it usually happens when I’m trying to get the stupid toilet seat cover onto the toilet. It’s like every time I put one down, the toilet flushes. I went through like three seat covers every time I went into one of those things, so now every time I go to an automatic flush, I have to act like I’m diffusing a bomb to put the seat cover on without the toilet immediately flushing it down. GAH!

Thanks for letting me get that off my chest.

By: Spazmo

Spazmo — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 03:16:09 +0000

I must be cursed because auto-flush toilets NEVER work for me at any point in the process of me using one. I always have to use the back-up button or handle or whatever.

By: Jujube

Jujube — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:45:32 +0000

Okay, no one has replied to you yet so I just HAVE to. How did a duck get there in the 1st place? And why did YOU have to catch it? There’s a very good story here & I want to hear more. This would’ve been hilarious to watch & having a catch a duck once myself (outside in our yard), I know how hard it can be. I had to end up stepping on his neck to get him.

By: Benny

Benny — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:46:34 +0000

Being someone who hates auto flushers I do see humor here. My experiences with them is they flush everytime you move except for when you want them to flush.

By: The L

The L — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:32:48 +0000

Because there are stupid people out there who won’t bother pushing it. That’s why auto-flush was invented in the first place.

They ought to make it based on a pressure sensor in the seat, instead of a motion detector. Or else have it rigged to the stall door so that when you re-open the door, it flushes. That way, you don’t waste nearly as much water. (I’ve been in auto-flush restrooms before and had the toilet flush 3 or 4 times while I was in there.)

By: The L

The L — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 22:30:51 +0000

9_9 It’s evaluating separate probabilities. While you are in the middle of your business, you have a 60% chance of the toilet flushing, and a 40% chance of the toilet NOT flushing during this time.

In a separate, unrelated event, there is a 100% chance of the toilet flushing during the time in which you are getting toilet paper.

The probability of a flush during one event does not in any way affect the probability of a flush during the other. Thus, the separate probabilities do NOT have to add up to 100%.

Probability fail!

By: D-Mac

D-Mac — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:57:12 +0000

Goddamn how I hate auto-flushing toilets. If they’re that concerned about being sanitary, why not make it so the flush is activated by a button on the floor you press with your feet?

By: bocephus

bocephus — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 21:44:24 +0000

HAHA that is exactly what i was thinking

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 20:11:04 +0000

I once had to catch a duck in a restroom. Duck kept jumping in the toilets and setting off the automatic flushes, good times!

By: keshet

keshet — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:59:28 +0000

If the toilet flushes multiple times while a person is doing their business, then it is possible.

By: BenTheMan

BenTheMan — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:42:11 +0000

BAR GRAPH FAIL!

By: TS.

TS. — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:26:45 +0000

So apparently there is a 160% chance of the toilet flushing?

By: Ghost

Ghost — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:42:41 +0000

The key is putting tp over the sensor, works every time.

By: dingb!tch

dingb!tch — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:38:01 +0000

Its because you cant afford to sit your a$$ on an automatic toilet.

By: BAM

BAM — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:22:08 +0000

It’s never happened to me….