Cold Hard Plumbing Facts

[WaterTight]

Only submit those which are cold and hard. I don't know what that means. Just make it happen.

The Harappan civilisation in what is now Pakistan and northwest India had flushing toilets in houses linked with drains in 2500 BC.
-Spiked Online, 30th Oct 2007

Most toilets flush in E Flat.
-US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention

 

[Dotty]

In Japan, some urinals have voice-activated flush mechanisms. According to wikipedia, these urinals respond to as many as 30 different languages and several terms, including “fire.”

 

[Dotty]

3 years is the average time that a person will spend on the toilet in their lifetime.

Everyone has a one in 10 000 chance of being hurt by a toilet in their lifetime.

 

[AlexGas]

Taxman is unavoidable.

 

[stevetheplumber]

social housing plumber are yet to grasp the theory that water will only drain away downhill

 

[kay-jay]

Elvis died on the crapper.....

 

[village idiot]

I got injured by a toilet last week

 

[Ray Stafford]

3 years is the average time that a person will spend on the toilet in their lifetime.

Thats got to be wrong surely?

If you live to be a hundred, 3 years would be 3% of your life.

In minutes per day, thats 24 x 60 = 1440 divided by 100 = 14.4 x 3 = 43.2 minutes.

Who on earth spends 43.2 mins a day on the crapper?

(Unless they have eaten Adam's wife's cooking, obviously)

 

[hammers4spanner]

Elvis died on the crapper.....

A high percentage of heart attacks occur on the crapper

 

[Dotty]

A high percentage of heart attacks occur on the crapper

By all accounts the first indication of an imminent heart attack is the sudden need for a huge pony.

 

[hammers4spanner]

By all accounts the first indication of an imminent heart attack is the sudden need for a huge pony.

No dignity in death heart attack in public and end up with soiled pants

 

[kay-jay]

Who on earth spends 43.2 mins a day on the crapper?
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Conservative estimate that ray. 43.2 mins is just the morning.

I suspect mike Jackson outdoes me though

 

[Dotty]

Conservative estimate that ray. 43.2 mins is just the morning.

I suspect mike Jackson outdoes me though

It's the only time we get a bit of peace and quiet.....

 

[Ermintrude]

It never smells of roses and it wasn't ever her

 

[CES]

The average human will excrete about two pounds of Shiite a day anally. Verbally very much depends on what line of work they are in.

 

[JCplumb]

The average human will excrete about two pounds of Shiite a day anally. Verbally very much depends on what line of work they are in.

If you're an 'engineer' you can safely treble that weight as an estimate of daily verbal excrement :/