And if you somehow disagree with flushing it down if it is brown, I suppose I would like to hear about that as well.
It fucking smells after a few hours. If you have more than one toilet in your house, this can be a real issue if you invite people over.
Whoever came up with “if it’s yellow let it mellow” is a disgusting person. Piss smells. Yes, yours too. Flush the damn toilet!
I went through a period where I was under doctor’s orders to treat any fluid produced by my body as a biohazard. That meant any time I urinated I had to close the lid and flush twice. So yeah, there was no mellowing in that case.
Flush every time. Piss stinks and leaving it in the toilet causes those nasty water-level rings of scum on the toilet bowl. Fucking disgusting.
I grew up in a household that rarely flushed and never in my life did I see those rings. Maybe my mom just cleaned the toilet more often? She still doesn’t flush pee but she has her own washroom so it’s a her problem.
Increasing water efficiency is likely to result in reduced demand for water, with less water therefore flowing through drains and sewers. Some parties have suggested that this could lead to blockages, drainage problems and homes flooding due to backed up sewerage systems.
In Germany our toilets usually have two buttons, one for the yellow which flushes but with a lower amount of water and the bigger button for the big brown business and maximum water flow.
Depending where you live and depending on drought being a thing in your place of the world, using less water can have unwanted side effects:
- backed sewerage systems
- not enough water can lead to environmental problems if the sewage isn’t watered down enough for your sewage treatment plant to deal with it or if it goes straight to a river it is worse than with more water (that one is always really bad but definitely extremely worse with less water)
Always flush. I have a septic tank and if you don’t make sure to run some minimum amount of water into it, it’ll get crusty and start to have clog problems. As long as we’re running water though it’s great for 8-10 years between pumps.
Better to just run more water when possible.Also it’s nasty if someone goes to take a dump and there’s piss chilling in there. If you get hit with Posideon’s kiss it’s gonna be double nasty. So you flush it before doing your business and now the net effect is zero anyway, wasting the effort. Blech.
Posideon’s kiss
I believe at that point it’s Pissideon’s kiss.
8-10 years between pump… As in emptying it or as in replacing the pump? Because if it’s the former then that’s way longer than it should!
yes, 8-10yr between emptying it. It’s a fairly large tank (1800gal iirc?) for a small family. The last time we had it done the local guy said it looked great and there weren’t any problems. so something must be working right.
however a rental with a smaller tank constantly had problems with clogging. find out tenant was from california and brought all their water saving fixtures with them and took military style showers so the tank never got any real thru-flow. plus was a very heavy tp user… yeah. gotta have water moving, put original fixtures on and told them to start throwing their tp in a trash can. no problems since.
Septic tanks should be emptied every two years, the tank might look great, it’s your drain field that will be ruined way more quickly. People not draining their tank often enough is the reason why municipalities have started just adding it to their taxes and taking care of it themselves instead of letting people contaminate their lot.
yeah that was probably true 30-40 years ago when small tanks without baffles and straight outlet pipes were common. if you have an old property that hasn’t had the tank replaced, do that. but these days bigger tanks have baffle separators between settling compartments, an output baffle, and a strainer on the output. you almost never get any solids going out to the leech field unless the strainer collapses and the input will clog long before that is likely to happen.
If you have to throw your toilet paper in the trash instead of flushing it in order to not have issues then yeah, you’re not emptying it often enough.
But hey, you do you and you deal with the issues, I mean, what’s a new septic system when you can save the equivalent of 100$ a year, right?
Piss in the sink. Wash hands. Problem solved!
Delete the sink, hit hands, problem up.
better to piss in the sink, than sink in the piss
Always flush. I don’t want to drop a log and have that piss water splash on to me. Not to mention that it just stains the bowl and sometimes smells. Just flush, cause if I see it’s not clear water, I’m going to flush anyway.
But you’re a cat and cats poop in a box. Can we really trust your opinion on this important matter?
Fax.
Exactly. It does happen; you’ll only do it once…
Just a few sheets of toilet paper on top of water prevents Poseidon’s Kiss.
Allways flush, leaving pee in the bowl will cause stains and make it look disgusting
The more it mellows, the more it smells, especially if you have a healthy diet. The person following has to deal with that smell which worsens the moment the water is agitated.
It’s also a breeding ground, so you’ll be cleaning much more frequently.
Only if your city has directed saving water in a drought scenario should you be not flushing your waste.
Just flush the fucking toilet. 😬
Just flush the toilet. Get a water efficient toilet if need be, problem solved
Because a water efficent toilet suddenly don’t need water anymore.
When the house is sleeping, let it mellow quietly.
When everyone is awake flush, every time.
I live in a desert and have my water trucked in every 3 weeks at significant cost.
Flush every time. Piss smells.
Grew up on a farm with limited water. Flush a shit, always, and piss only after it started to smell.
Fast forward 20yrs, living in town, have a family and we still do the same.
Water is a valuable resource everywhere; a bit of piss in the dunny really isn’t a big deal.
Water is not valuable everywhere. Where I’m at water is very common and cheap. We all live in different situations.
My city flooded because we had too much of it and big rains hit. The dam had to be released which swelled the river and spilled into suburbs along it.
In hindsight, we all should’ve been under direction to waste as much water possible in the months leading up to it.
