Toilets in the Past
The comprehension text in my english paper today is pretty interesting. It’s about toilet, washroom or in other words, WC. Well, this text is about toilets in the olden days, before the modern toilet is created.
Long before my time, during my parents time, i think, there’s the floating toilet. Made of woods, planks, and logs, with holes at the bottom. This toilet is “floated” over a river. Then, if you feel like ease yourself out, just go to the floating toilet, then just start “bombing” there. Your waste will go through the hole and drops directly to the flowing river. Ahhh… how creative, “all natural flushing system”….
That’s for people who lived by the river. How about those who live inlands? Well, they have a toilet called the pit latrines. This pit thing, is dug very,very,very, deeply to store waste. A small hut is build over this pit, with holes in the bottom, just like how the floating toilet works. Your waste will actually filled up the pit, so the pit will be covered manually with soils. That’s the bad thing about this type of toilet, no flushing system. That’s why this type of toilet is built far away from home, because of the smell. And obviously, when you looked down to the pit, you will see maggots… Ewww…. When I read that, i can just imagine how disgusting it is and how can people that time stand to ease themselves with this type of toilet?
Those who live in town, there’s no river, no lands, yikes!! What do they use?? They have their own version of pit latrines toilet, only instead of deeply dug pits, buckets is used. Now, the pit is disgusting enough, man, i can’t imagine how disgusting is this bucket one. Of course, since buckets is small, so it fills up very fast!! Yikes!! What are they going to do with it? Throw it away just like that? Well, actually no, cos at that time, there will be a person, so called “the night soil collector”. This night soil collector will go around town, getting the buckets of waste. Then this waste is sold to farmers to used as fertellizers.
Interesting huh?
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August 3rd, 2004 at 8:31 pm
hah! u know wat, a funny thing happen when i read that article. At the time i had like an upset stomach and then i read it! Guess what i did next, go on a bombing mission in the school toilet, Haih. The power of psychology and an upset stomach!
August 4th, 2004 at 4:38 pm
Yikes?? So effective huh?? Hmmm…. I just hate to “bomb” at the school toilet, it is just too…..
August 6th, 2004 at 1:42 pm
well when u gtg, u gtg! heh heh.