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has anyone ever had this problem?

By lostincali in lostincali's Diary
Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 11:19:11 AM EST
Tags: technology and culture from the trenches, toilets, pooping, life, muh dick, potential for hideous infection, etc, user diary, k5 is dying (all tags)
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Of course, I'm referring to shallow toilets.


So at this house that I just moved into, the toilets are really shallow. It seems like they were made for kids or something. I don't know if anyone has ever experienced such a thing, but believe me when I say that it's horrible.

I'm sure everyone is familiar that when you're pushing hard to shit, sometimes you pee a little bit too. This normally isn't a problem since you can just point your dick downwards into the toilet and voila, everything is right in the world. But not in this toilet. You see, this toilet is too fucking shallow for that.

Instead, you're faced with a terrible decision. You can either let your dick hang downwards into the toilet, terrifyingly close to either the sidewalls of the toilet bowl or the toilet water itself, OR, you can hold your dick up and out of the toilet, risking urine drippage. Neither one of these is really a very appealing option. I really don't want to open myself up to a terrible infection by dipping my cock in that water, nor do I want to spray urine around the bathroom.

Alternatively, I guess I could squat, but it's still a little worrisome, because I'd have to maintain the squat or my dick would be dipped in toilet water. Even were the tip to barely touch, I'd be thoroughly freaked out. That's where the opening is anyways, so I'd assume it's the part most vulnerable to infection.

I try to poop as often as I can away from home these days. It's weird because when I was little, I only wanted to poop on my own toilet. Of course that toilet didn't confront me with this awful dilemma. Everybody poops. But what is the man with a shallow toilet to do?

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has anyone ever had this problem? | 18 comments (18 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
LoL..build an outhouse out back and (none / 1) (#1)
by dakini on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 11:25:01 AM EST

make the hole really deep..or install a newer toilet that gives you "depth"..

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PEE IN A CUP (3.00 / 2) (#3)
by Mathemagician on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 11:35:13 AM EST

Then wash the cup when you wash your hands, if it's not disposable.

my take (none / 1) (#5)
by khallow on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 11:51:43 AM EST

I gather you are renting otherwise you'd be replacing the toilets. See if you can get the landlord to replace the toilets. Else move out, do nothing, or replace one yourself. Even if you can't get all of them, replacing one that gets used a lot might work for you.

Stating the obvious since 1969.

Smash a toilet (3.00 / 7) (#6)
by Water on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 11:54:31 AM EST

then you will have to buy a new one. If you just go to buy a new one you might be apprehensive about spending the money. But if you smash it now you won't have to make that decision.

Get an elevated toilet seat (3.00 / 3) (#12)
by localroger on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 02:18:47 PM EST

They make seats that add 3 or 4 inches to the height of the toilet for use by handicapped people. These are much cheaper than entire new toilet bowls and installation is just the two screws on the hinges at the back. Sounds like one of these would solve your problem.

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You could use it as an incentive to not do that. (none / 1) (#14)
by livus on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 05:11:10 PM EST

I'm sure it's better for you to not give in and piss while shitting.

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It could be worse. (3.00 / 5) (#15)
by The Diary Section on Sat Nov 25, 2006 at 08:22:56 PM EST

I was once giving a talk at a conference somewhere in deepest darkest Europe. 10 minutes before my slot, I felt discomfort and knew I had to act. Was it a change of water? Overindulgence in seafood? Nerves? So I ran off to the toilet. So far, I realise now, I'd been lucky, staying in an international chain hotel and dining at fairly upscale eateries. Imagine my horror when I was confronted with a utilitarian "squatter", the first I'd ever seen. So I attempted to figure out a way of crapping in it and to this day I'm not sure whether I was technically astride it backwards, sidewards or not. Was I too low? Too high? Appropriately braced or gambling with certain humiliation? I will never know. One problem with the squatter is trouser management. I got lucky as a blast of liquid dioreah narrowly missed the waist band of my kecks. And thank god, there was no splash back. But a couple of centimetres either way, and frankly who can aim projectile emissions of that nature apart from tubgirl, and I'd have been in real trouble. One used to a "throne" has no natural notion of the spatial nature these things.

The thought of it still brings me out in a cold sweat. But I certainly feel your pain, a toilet incompatible with one's requirements is a terrible thing.

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