The Toilet: An unspoken History (1 hour) Documentary filmed for BBC Four. Originally filmed in 2012. I actually watched this whole thing a few weeks ago. It keeps you on the edge of your seat.
One cannot have a national toilet day without some sort of ode to commemorate the event, now can we...... I might also alert the men here to listen closely.
Fascinating link, @Nancy Hart! Thanks for posting that. Having lived in Japan for a couple years, in brought back memories.... It also brought to mind this book that was gifted to me by a fellow backpacker a number of years ago. https://www.amazon.com/How-Shit-Woo...8815&sr=1-1&keywords=how+to+shit+in+the+woods
I can remember when we got indoor plumbing. Before that, we had an outhouse, and we had a pump in the yard for water; the kind that you had to actually pump, not an electric one. For as long as I was at home, we still had the outhouse because there were winters when the plumbing would freeze and if we were working or playing outside, it was sometimes easier to use the outhouse than to go indoors - or, in my case, having to walk past my mother who might put me to work.
We didn't have a pump in the kitchen the water was piped in from a spring behind the house. The spring also fed a milk cooler in the barn and kept an old castiron hog kettle filled for the cattle to drink from in the pasture. I think that the indoor toilets were put in the summer of 1957 when I was still a toddler. The biggest holdup in installing them was deciding where and how to install them without ruining some of the rooms in the old farmhouse. We still had the old outhouse for several years and used it when we had family reunions or other outdoor gatherings. My grandmother also kept the old oak commode complete with thunder mug in the corner of her bedroom right up until she died in 1972.
Thankfully, I found this old thread before we all missed this important holiday completely!!! Happy World Toilet Day to Everyone!!!