In the toilet...when its windy out..

heavymental
heavymental Posts: 2,094
edited April 2008 in The bottom bracket
How come the water moves around? Does the air really move around that much in the sewers because of wind blowing over the covers!?

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  • McBain_v1
    McBain_v1 Posts: 5,237
    Who knows, maybe someone else is doing a really big fart elsewhere on the system :lol:
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  • doobie919
    doobie919 Posts: 119
    McBain_v1 wrote:
    Who knows, maybe someone else is doing a really big fart elsewhere on the system :lol:


    HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHA quality laughs right there.

    Ahhhh it's good to never be too old to enjoy fart jokes.
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  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Every toilet connects to a vertical "soil pipe" that carries away your little offerings to the sewer - the soil pipe must be vented to the air, either by way of a terminal on the roof or via a one-way air admittance valve otherwise when you flush there would be a vacuum and nothing would flush away.

    So when the wind blows down the open top of the soil pipe up on the roof, it moves the water in the pan.
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  • doobie919
    doobie919 Posts: 119
    Bronzie wrote:
    Every toilet connects to a vertical "soil pipe" that carries away your little offerings to the sewer - the soil pipe must be vented to the air, either by way of a terminal on the roof or via a one-way air admittance valve otherwise when you flush there would be a vacuum and nothing would flush away.

    So when the wind blows down the open top of the soil pipe up on the roof, it moves the water in the pan.

    Enlightening.

    ah the irony.
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  • portuguese mike
    portuguese mike Posts: 695
    Bronzie wrote:
    Every toilet connects to a vertical "soil pipe" that carries away your little offerings to the sewer - the soil pipe must be vented to the air, either by way of a terminal on the roof or via a one-way air admittance valve otherwise when you flush there would be a vacuum and nothing would flush away.

    So when the wind blows down the open top of the soil pipe up on the roof, it moves the water in the pan.

    You would also run the risk of 'pulling the traps' (if you didn't vent the drainage) which means that the water in the u bend gets sucked away which results in a very stinky loo :cry: .
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    Well, well! That's that mystery solved!
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    You have to pedal harder when it's windy........becareful not to stand from the seat when doing this :shock: :wink: :!:
    bagpuss
  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Useful information all this. I always get quite nervous when I go to drop anchor and see the water swishing about of its own accord.

    "What the hell is down there?!" :shock:
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    Look here.....
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMLFO6TsFM
    bagpuss
  • hammerite
    hammerite Posts: 3,408
    doobie919 wrote:

    HAHHAHAHAHAHAAHA quality laughs right there.

    Ahhhh it's good to never be too old to enjoy fart jokes.

    I noticed the other day that I wasn't the only one too.

    Sat on a public toilet with another cubicle occupied next to me, all I could hear was farting, and then the man laughing loudly at his own farts!!
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    I always get quite nervous when I go to drop anchor and see the water swishing about of its own accord.
    Well, ii's either the wind or a damn big rat just to pop up and see what's going down, so to speak.
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  • CHRISNOIR
    CHRISNOIR Posts: 1,400
    Bronzie wrote:
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    I always get quite nervous when I go to drop anchor and see the water swishing about of its own accord.
    Well, ii's either the wind or a damn big rat just to pop up and see what's going down, so to speak.

    Don't say that - I was just starting to get over my dump-ophobia. Oh well, back to thirty second power poos...

    :wink:
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    CHRISNOIR wrote:
    Oh well, back to thirty second power poos... :wink:
    No newspaper / ProCycling mag for you eh! Wonder how much of any one ProCycling I've actually read "from the saddle" so to speak - probably +95% :oops: .
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    I'm rarely on the loo for much longer. I can't understand these folk who spend minutes on the loo. I want to clean up and move on rather than sitting over my own filth for ages!
  • Bronzie
    Bronzie Posts: 4,927
    Heavymental wrote:
    rather than sitting over my own filth for ages!
    :? :shock: :?: - I usually manage to fit mine down the big hole in the seat. Do you make sure you lift the cover each time?
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  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    This thread is really going down the pan........
    bagpuss
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    Bronzie wrote:
    Heavymental wrote:
    rather than sitting over my own filth for ages!
    :? :shock: :?: - I usually manage to fit mine down the big hole in the seat. Do you make sure you lift the cover each time?

    :shock: well....I sit on the flat bit. Do my business then wipe it all of into the bin. Thats what you're supposed to do isn't it? :lol:
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    Really HM You must stop keeping the lid on things :lol:
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  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    hurhur...this toilet humour is just too much.
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    Something of a paper chase ......$h%t look at the time .I had better go to work.
    bagpuss
  • heavymental
    heavymental Posts: 2,094
    bagpusscp wrote:
    Something of a paper chase ......$h%t look at the time .I had better go to work.

    ...at the Comedy Store, or Jongleurs!?
  • bagpusscp
    bagpusscp Posts: 2,907
    I have a walk on part in Star trek ....as a clingon.....
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  • Pirahna
    Pirahna Posts: 1,315
    Heavymental wrote:
    :shock: well....I sit on the flat bit. Do my business then wipe it all of into the bin. Thats what you're supposed to do isn't it? :lol:

    Almost. You're supposed to put it in a paper bag, leave the bag on a neighbours doorstep, set it alight, knock on the door and run away.

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