Shrinking World
We are living in a world of cost cutting. As years pass by, we find the amount of food we get for each meal keeps getting less while the price keeps getting higher. Even the wash basins and toilet bowls have decreased in size substantially. Particularly, the diameter of the toilet bowl has decreased at least by an inch or two.
To be mathematically correct, the shape of the toilet bowl is not a circle, so I should not use the term diameter. It is shaped more like an ellipse and so I should use the term axes (major and minor axes).
The Current Toilet Bowl Is Too Small
The current size of the toilet bowl is impractical. For an average asian adult, you will find that when you position your butt slightly behind the minor axis (horizontal line across the centre), you may just end up with your private parts touching the inner rim of the bowl which is extremely unhygienic especially when you are using a public toilet. So if you position yourself a little further back, what you egested may end up on the inner rim towards the back of the bowl. In fact you will probably end up messing up not just on the inside of the bowl but on the outside as well.
Now that is just for an average asian adult. What if you are a little fatter? There is no way where you can position both your anus and your private part simultaneously in the interior of the bowl. So if you are doing your business, you better do them one at a time and not both at the same time. Otherwise, either some solid or some liquid is gonna end up outside the bowl. You will find yourself moving forward and backward like a pendulum while you are doing your business. What’s going on in the mind of those people who designed these mini toilet bowl. They certainly do not have the toilet cleaners in mind.
A note to the readers: This article is transferred from my other blog to this current blog for consolidation.
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