for germans or for people who have been to germany?

Question

why do some paces i germany, many other countries also, have those stupid toilets with the "shelf" so that if you happen to have a large poo the water doesnt flush it all the way and you have to move it down with a tool or leave it there.
I think its reatded and disgusting. I ahve heard that this design is old but its totally rediculous.
any explainations?

see in california a toilet has a bowl of water and your poo goes into the water and that suppresses the stench. then you flush, then depending what kind of toilet you have, the water swirls and get all the "dirt" of the bowl, or at least most of it and it goes down the drain. Or if you ahve the awesome high pressure toilet like found commonly in restuarants a jet stream blows its all down the drain.
some toilets, enough for me to comment on it, have little water and almost every toilet has a brush and you are expected to scrub the crud off the bowl and then put the same brush back into the "dirty water" for the next person. it just seems ineffiecient, time and water wise.

Answer 1

I used to live in germany...I was told it was so you could use your poo to fertilize your gardens with! They dont wast nothing!

Answer 2

the bathrooms in the airport in Germany were working fine. some toilets are just slow and stupid. LOL. it's probably the plumage or something.
the fast jet stream thing scares me. LOL. it makes such a LOUD noise. i live in Cali too and i've encountered some stupid toilets.

there are some toilets that are just wack. u do your business and all, and there's no flusher...so you have to get a HUGE bucket of water, and dump it down the toilet so your feces and all that goes down. it's really a pain...but i'm grateful that my toilet has a flusher thing.

Answer 3

nope - but i faced that situation in england where waterpressure is sometimes really low....