I’m actually serious, which button is the right one? Why are there two?
Also should a Pic of a toilet be considered NSFW?
IT IS FOR WATER CONSERVATION: The larger lever is to flush out around 6 to 9 liters of water, whereas the smaller lever is to flush out around 3 to 4.5 liters of water. Clearly, the larger one is to flush solid waste and the smaller one is to flush liquid waste.
I thought it was one for pee, two for poo.
Yes, in practicality, this is it.
The one at my gas station is labelled I and II.
That’s very informative thank you! Might have to look into these myself for when/if I have the chance to buy a house in The future.
Get a bumgun/bidet hose, best thing ever for butt cleanliness and general ring health.
Gotta say if you’re going far enough to do some additional plumbing, you might as well go the whole way and get a Japanese toilet.
No other toilet compares since
I still prefer the pipe, for flow and power alone.
It’s quite difficult to find them in the west though. Depending on where you live.
I just push both, to be safe.
I just pushed both buttons because I didn’t know how this thing worked
Seriously had to make a post to figure this out?
One of the buttons might have been the “evacuate bowl onto floor” option. Aren’t all toilets like this? Flushing was a fun adrenaline-fueled adventure the first time before I knew which button was which.
I read that as “evacuate bowel onto floor” and I was confused as to what sort of technology can achieve that sort of an effect.
Yeah I pretty much only see these nowadays. In my youth it was more common for there to be a knob you had to lift.
A man needs to know how to flush after a good log.
Sure, sure, I can respect that.
But when did “trial and error” go out the window for humanity in favour of “I should post about this”?
I’ve seen those at people’s houses, but it’s inappropriate to sit there and play with their toilet. I press whichever button I hit first and if it works, I go about my business.
…. Having no idea whether it was correct
It’s funnier to ask.
Fair’s fair, that’s honest and I believe you. I would probably also find some toilets somewhere in the world slightly amusing due to what I’m personally accustomed to.
I never knew I would stumble upon these wise words on such a difficult night
I hope my wisdom has made your night just a little better.
There is this other line of thinking. Most frequently used should be more easily accessible hence bigger. That is what is causing confusion here.
I say we should call this Game Cube controller’s logic.
This made me realise that this kind of flush must not be the defacto standard in some parts of the world
It is the defecal standard though.
Even if it wasn’t, it should not require instructions.
I can kinda understand. Perhaps op pressed the low flush button trying to get rid of a massive turd and panicked.
OP: “How do I push a button?”
With your finger you fuckin weirdo.
Which one? I have so many!
A lot of the comments are making the assumption that the buttons are telling the truth about being different sizes, but I’ve flushed plenty of toilets where both buttons do a full flush. If you can’t tell the difference after experimenting, it might just be broken or cheap tat.
The way these flush mechanisms work is adjustable. It’s entirely possible that someone adjusted them to have both have similar volumes for whatever reason
Actually, after using the toilet, only the big button works, the smaller one does nothing and both doesn’t change anything.
Edit: Spelling
ITT: A lot of Lemmy users showing their true colors. Someone asks for help, for information, and y’all decide to mock.
OP: one button does a full flush, the other does a half flush. In your picture, the button on the right, does the half flush. Button on the left, does the full flush. Full flush is usually just x2, though I don’t think that’s a hard rule.
I explained it to my kids like this:
1 button for #1.
2 buttons for #2.TIL, I always pushed both
The point of these things is to save water on a smaller flush when you only pee.
ITC: username checking out. It was a really dumb question
Ultimately I think my question, being smart or dumb is irrelevant, it brought activity to the community and that’s a great thing I think. The bad thing was the memes. The ‘how do I flush this’ posts kinda got wild.
A question is a question… Just answer the damn question without judging it.
Better let someone know what the thing does instead of forcing them to experiment with it and (possibly) break it.
It was a very low stakes experiment. I wasn’t going to say anything until the high and mighty came to shame those razzing them about it
Looks like this one breaks the rules. Only the big button works.
Actually the little button sends an SOS to local authorities, so chances are the little button works fine and you have an incoming SWAT raid with paramedics and police surrounding the building.
These swat raids are getting out of hand!
This is boringly not always true, for a while some genius, probably Elon Flush, decided to invert the functions so that when you pushed the bigger button you got the small flush.
Nothing like developing trust issues after taking a massive shit I suppose.
It’s a smaller button inside a larger button (sort of), the smaller (right) button you push to flush your urine and the larger (left) you push to flush your excrement. I’ve used these many times but if I’m honest I’ve never actually been sure if they work.
Bigger button is for solid waste, smaller button uses less water for liquid waste.
“I took a double button press of a dump.”
If you only need the little button for your shits you need more fibre in your diet.
Is that common?
Nowadays I just don’t know anynore. I find toilets where it’s swapped.
I also want to say that I grew up with toilets where the bigger button is the one for your more common usecase - liquid waste. Oftern the smaller button is set up to push the bigger button as well - to clean solid waste.
If using a new toilet, I always try out the bigger button first, since it’s easier to press and typically uses less water.
The small one’s Stun, big one’s Kill
Are you american or what?
Yeehaw, I sure am.
Welllllllll howdy!
Perhaps you could say how American toilets flush… presumably they’re sufficiently different that they don’t work like what you posted ?
Lever on the side usually, internals for residential and commercial comodes are very different. Most arn’t super water efficent, but maintenance can be done by just about anyone. (American here, Euro style toilets are just better)
Allow me to introduce you to the scientific method.
Observation: The buttons are different sizes. Hypothesis: The size of the buttons could indicate the amount of flushing that occurs when the buttons are pushed. Experiment: video record the amount of flow resulting from the pushing of the one of the buttons. Wait 60 seconds. Record the amount to flow resulting from the pushing of the other button. Wait 60 seconds. Record the amount of flow resulting from the pushing of both buttons simultaneously. Then compare videos. Conclusion: __________________
don’t
Big button = big flush
Little button = little flush
