What direction does your toilet go?

Iain · Post by **Iain** » 07 Jun 2005 08:07

The water in mine goes counter clockwise

Jeremy · Post by **Jeremy** » 07 Jun 2005 09:43

Well I'll assume mine goes clockwise then but let me go check

Hard to tell - I'd say it went counter clockwise too

Seath · Post by **Seath** » 07 Jun 2005 09:46

I was pretty sure what way but I still went and checked. It still goes down...down.down.. then back up, then it shuts up

brian relly · Post by **brian relly** » 07 Jun 2005 09:49

I would check, but I don't have to go right now, and my family's not exactly in the financial situation to be wasting water right now.

edit: I went, and it didn't spin at all, just sunk down into the bowl.

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 07 Jun 2005 11:28

i heard that was only a myth...that location affects direction of water into drains...or is it actually different just based on the toilet?

Moxie · Post by **Moxie** » 07 Jun 2005 12:39

People need to watch more Simpsons.
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Anz · Post by **Anz** » 07 Jun 2005 13:02

Water really spins to other directions on other sides of earth... because earth rotates.

One great mystery has been troubling me... Which direction does it spin exactly at equator?

I can't sleep if I don't solve this dilemma!

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 07 Jun 2005 13:56

it doesnt...it just sits there

heh heh, and i stole that from...some comic strip. funnier in the actual strip. sorry.

edit-just remembered, i think it was dilbert

blackcrown · Post by **blackcrown** » 07 Jun 2005 14:20

I've used toilets in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres and the water drained in the same direction.

Eric

slapdash21 · Post by **slapdash21** » 07 Jun 2005 14:36

blackcrown wrote:I've used toilets in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres and the water drained in the same direction.

Eric

bam! i knew it was a myth.

just for reference, mine went counter-clockwise

footjoe · Post by **footjoe** » 07 Jun 2005 15:16

mine goes counter clockwise , I think its because the gravity with the neutron deseptor and the atom feild makes it go in a non frictionated dillema

NotHisRealName · Post by **NotHisRealName** » 07 Jun 2005 15:20

I think the best option is to fill a sink with water, then pull the plug.

My toilet doesn't drain, as such. When I flush, the new flow of water into the bowl pushes the waste out through the bottom and into the 's' bend.

So try the sink thing and you'll solve the problem.

C-Fan · Post by **C-Fan** » 07 Jun 2005 15:52

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect

HG · Post by HG » 07 Jun 2005 16:51

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 07 Jun 2005 17:26

Mine clearly flushes counter-clockwise, but I think the direction has more to do with the fact that the jets of water from below the rim of the seat are angled, and spray, in that direction.

professor · Post by **professor** » 07 Jun 2005 17:34

Counter-clockwise