American toilet design?

Yes.

There's not enough drop between ass and water surface to create a splash.

Cindy Hamilton

Our's splash as well, I always line it with toilet paper. In Germany there is a platform at the bottom of the bowl, thus preventing splashbacks.

You could keep your penis fish in one ready to stick up your arse.

There's probably a lot of nasties like that in the Aussie outdoor Dunnies. Rod?

Sit further forwards, then it'll lose most of its momentum hitting the bit in front of the water. I never get splashed.

That's not why they have that platform there. You're meant to inspect (ugh!) what you've done to see if you have any diseases. I would think that's a damn good way to CATCH diseases!

Does this have some complex mechanism? How does it tell the bowl to empty? The UK ones just drop a load of water into the bowl via the inside of the rim, and it flows down the drain. You must have some kind of valve actually in the disgusting part.

Ah I didn't think of that. Whereas actually with ours if you aim badly you can get a big splash.

Mind you, if you have explosive bowels (is that the right term? You know, some gas at the same time?) then you'd get a damn big splash.

Cindy Hamilton

The American toilets I've used seem to use the syphonic system that used to be available in the UK in the 1970s.

The American ones generally do have more water. I’m not sure about the sequence of emptying. They used to favour a flap mechanism in the cistern but that wouldn’t change things in the bowl.

The platform in German ones is so you can examine your waste, I kid you not. Apparently the Germans,at least in the past thought, this was a good idea.

The newer 1.6 and 1.2 really do a good job. The first ones were terrible but they figured it out.

They do something with suction in aeroplanes and trains, but I've never heard of it in a domestic toilet.

Something must command the bowl to empty first.

OCD gone WAY too far.

Some parts of you are not supposed to get stuff from other parts. Do you seriously think if you ate your own s*it (if that was even possible without puking) that you'd not get very very ill?

Gravity. If new water comes in, the old water must leave, and it carries any solids with it.

You can flush a toilet by pouring a bucket of water into it, although most people only do that if there's some problem with the water supply to the toilet. Cindy Hamilton

Only? Wikipedia says "The redback is one of the few spider species that can be seriously harmful to humans"

It has been confirmed by Americans in this thread that it is actually true. And I originally saw a photo of it on Quora (but can't find it now) where a Brit had visited an American hotel and thought it was blocked up.