I’m actually serious, which button is the right one? Why are there two?
Also should a Pic of a toilet be considered NSFW?
People are joking about this but I have a toilet where the large button is for a half flush. Pressing the small button depresses both buttons performing a regular flush. I have never found another toilet like this, thank the stars!
I think your button had been rotated
Pure anarchy.
I am also in the large button, small flush gang. I assume it’s that way so the flush you use most frequently is bigger, but it does seem counterintuitive.
This is insanity.
Small flushes are more common, so it makes some sense to make that button larger.
From my experience, the large button does the flush, but the size of the flush depends on how far you push it down. The small one simply pulls the large flush button down with it, but stops it from going more than half-way, resulting in a smaller flush.
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: __________________
Small one for a #1, big one for a #2 and both for a #3.
#3 is for what comes out your three-hole.
This is your standard dual flush. One is flush, the other is eject. Which is which depends on the manufacturer. Just be careful, the eject can be quite forceful.
As for which button is the right one, it’s definitely the one on the right. The other is the left button.
The little one is impulse power, the big one is warp speed. Press both for Stargate.
Yeah but which one engages the hyperdrive?
Only a filthy Star Wars nerd would want to use hyperdrive!
/uj Star Wars has some good and interesting themes, and none of it has to do with FTL technology. If you want a superior version of the same technology with more depth and dramatic implications, look at Halo. If you want what George Lucas was trying and failing to plagiarise, look at Dune. If you want to arbitrarily move around at whatever speed the plot demands or instantly, look at Stargate. And if you want a military fantasy, look at Star Trek. Hyperdrive is an inferior compromise between all four of these better written FTL techs that fails to execute any one idea well. Which is perfectly fine, because Star Wars isn’t about hyperdrive. It’s about taoist/buddhist philosophy, political commentary on fascism, and the power of individuals in the face of overwhelming systems and impossible odds. None of that has anything to do with how fast a ship moves, the hyperdrive is just a plot device that lets us skip the boring stuff and have more of the stuff Star Wars is actually good at.
Make it so number two
Gnnnhhhh …engage! Sound of water splashing
Indeed.
You can also turn the knob to enter the nether for 8 times faster travel.
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.
NSFW is short for not safe for work. The tag is to be put on pictures or texts that shouldn’t be viewed when there’s a chance of someone else glancing at your screen. I think a picture of a toilet while could raise some questions does not fall into that category.
The toilet I am currently sitting on has a very similar set up. The toilet came with the house, and I haven’t been able to discern a difference in the 8 years I’ve lived here.
NSFW would be if you haven’t closed the toilet.
I just pushed both buttons because I didn’t know how this thing worked
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.
Welp. Isn’t it obvious? The smaller one for your pee and the bigger one for your brown colored dump
But ONLY if it’s brown. Any other color has a corresponding button under the tank.
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.
Actually, after using the toilet, o KY the big button works, the smaller one does nothing and both doesn’t change anything.
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
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.
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.
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
