Merde
I apologize for posting about shit for my first post. But maybe geeky internet humor requires it.
I will write an introduction in a later post.
I am not sure I will ever understand how and why the French live the way the live. They are a very traditional people, and as a consequence, sometimes a very irrational people. Take, for instance, shit. The French are generally as hygienic as Americans, but each culture seems to have a very distinct attitude towards shit. First, some background: the American toilet bowl is at least quarter-filled with water so the shit hits the water and not the bowl. The French toilet bowl has very little water filled only near the drain so the shit indeed hits the bowl. The French remedy this with a much more vigorous flush than the American one. The American flush just sends enough water down the bowl to send everything down the drain. The French flush attempts to clean the bowl with powerful water flow. Side note: Which system uses less water per flush? Another bit of background: Both American and French people love dogs. The love is especially strong in New York City and Paris, where one supposes that a dog soothes the alienation of city life. The problem with dogs in the city is that they cannot just go shit in the woods. Hence, dogs shit on sidewalks or streets. Now, New Yorkers, being a pragmatic and sensible people, pick up their dog shit with some apparatus and dispose of it properly. Hence, on any given day, New York City streets are clean. Parisians, on the other hand, being a prissy and inefficient people, just leave their dogs' shit on the streets and sidewalks. I guess Parisians just don't give a shit. Hence, on any given day, Parisian sidewalks are filled with shit. I haven't taken a statistics class recently, but I would say that there is at least one pile of shit every 5 meters. Not only that, but at least 1 out of 5 shit piles has been trampled and smeared everywhere. Sometimes one pile of shit has been smeared all the way to the next pile of shit. It is disgusting. The Parisian solution to their dirty sidewalks is the requirement that the supers of every building (residential, commercial, governmental, museums, schools, whatever) to occasionally wash the sidewalk with a hose.
Back to the toilet bowls. Because the French toilet flush method sucks shit, one is usually left with shit stains on the bowl even after the "vigorous flush of water." Hence, every single French toilet that I have seen has a brush that you are supposed to use to clean the bowl after each use. Moreover, not only are you supposed to brush the bowl, but you are also supposed to use some sort of toilet bowl cleaner. I'm not sure the exact chemical, but it is most likely a bleach compound. I have been scolded because I haven't always left the bowl spotless after dropping the boys off at the pool. Now, I think this is retarded and wasteful. It's a good damned toilet bowl. Of course there is going to be shit there. It's its natural place. And it's hardly a hygienic problem. Bacteria from the bowl is not going to suddenly jump from the bowl to some place of human contact. Copious dog shit on the streets, on the other hand, inevitably comes into human contact.
One can probably infer that Parisians think the best way to clean shit is to wash it away with water. However, it is totally ineffective in the toilet bowl and the sidewalk setting. A better (more efficient, hygienic, simpler) solution: Don't let the shit from staining either setting in the first place!
Now let me ask you this, my kind readers: which is more disgusting: leaving dog shit on the street or leaving human shit residue inside a toilet bowl?
I will write an introduction in a later post.
I am not sure I will ever understand how and why the French live the way the live. They are a very traditional people, and as a consequence, sometimes a very irrational people. Take, for instance, shit. The French are generally as hygienic as Americans, but each culture seems to have a very distinct attitude towards shit. First, some background: the American toilet bowl is at least quarter-filled with water so the shit hits the water and not the bowl. The French toilet bowl has very little water filled only near the drain so the shit indeed hits the bowl. The French remedy this with a much more vigorous flush than the American one. The American flush just sends enough water down the bowl to send everything down the drain. The French flush attempts to clean the bowl with powerful water flow. Side note: Which system uses less water per flush? Another bit of background: Both American and French people love dogs. The love is especially strong in New York City and Paris, where one supposes that a dog soothes the alienation of city life. The problem with dogs in the city is that they cannot just go shit in the woods. Hence, dogs shit on sidewalks or streets. Now, New Yorkers, being a pragmatic and sensible people, pick up their dog shit with some apparatus and dispose of it properly. Hence, on any given day, New York City streets are clean. Parisians, on the other hand, being a prissy and inefficient people, just leave their dogs' shit on the streets and sidewalks. I guess Parisians just don't give a shit. Hence, on any given day, Parisian sidewalks are filled with shit. I haven't taken a statistics class recently, but I would say that there is at least one pile of shit every 5 meters. Not only that, but at least 1 out of 5 shit piles has been trampled and smeared everywhere. Sometimes one pile of shit has been smeared all the way to the next pile of shit. It is disgusting. The Parisian solution to their dirty sidewalks is the requirement that the supers of every building (residential, commercial, governmental, museums, schools, whatever) to occasionally wash the sidewalk with a hose.
Back to the toilet bowls. Because the French toilet flush method sucks shit, one is usually left with shit stains on the bowl even after the "vigorous flush of water." Hence, every single French toilet that I have seen has a brush that you are supposed to use to clean the bowl after each use. Moreover, not only are you supposed to brush the bowl, but you are also supposed to use some sort of toilet bowl cleaner. I'm not sure the exact chemical, but it is most likely a bleach compound. I have been scolded because I haven't always left the bowl spotless after dropping the boys off at the pool. Now, I think this is retarded and wasteful. It's a good damned toilet bowl. Of course there is going to be shit there. It's its natural place. And it's hardly a hygienic problem. Bacteria from the bowl is not going to suddenly jump from the bowl to some place of human contact. Copious dog shit on the streets, on the other hand, inevitably comes into human contact.
One can probably infer that Parisians think the best way to clean shit is to wash it away with water. However, it is totally ineffective in the toilet bowl and the sidewalk setting. A better (more efficient, hygienic, simpler) solution: Don't let the shit from staining either setting in the first place!
Now let me ask you this, my kind readers: which is more disgusting: leaving dog shit on the street or leaving human shit residue inside a toilet bowl?
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