Submitted By: Jennie S
Favorite Comment: Fixer kpg says, “Just a little extra support for when you drop off the kids at the beach.”
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All I can think about is how icky it must get around that little foot.
I’m thinking somebody exceeded the 300 pound limit.
Wait, what would be the benefit of this toilet’s original design?! Works fine for folks under 300lbs (i.e. Europeans), but here in America we need extra reinforcement? WTF?
No benefit at all save saving on material. It’s not like you’re going to use the space under the toilet bowl for anything.
That’s a crappy kludge.
I have to admit that I never really understand this toilet design. I mean . . . why use gravity to support the toilet AND dispose of the waste, right? Much better to have it float out of the wall, right?
Like mopping.
I know if I went into a bathroom and saw that it would be a load off.
Just a little extra support for when you drop off the kids at the beach.
This looks like an accessory for a pole dancer with loose bowels.
Hey, safety standards change! Just keeping up with the times, y’know.
I love the PVC half pipe cradling the toilet. Devil is in the details, right?
CAUTION: WIDE LOAD
Poley Crap!!
Depends entirely on what’s under the floor vs what’s behind the wall.
Also as Dono points out, there is a significant cleaning advantage.
Also note that a well known way to make a small room appear larger is to make more floor visible.
For some reason, I suspect that this fine establishment might be a fast food joint.
@dono1
Well they are doing a piss poor job of it…
“I told my wife I was jacking in the bathroom… She was thinking something else entirely.”
I am 11 and I think that a dude in my class would break that LOL!! No offense Chip… I love that design..
These stands are actually fairly commonplace, generally in hospitals. The toilets are secured to the walls to make cleaning underneath them easier. These stands are brought around and swapped from room to room depending on whether or not they’re required. Generally, for patients over 300 pounds. They’re called bariatric toilet stands, the slang term would be “ass crutches”
I’ve actually had a few cases where people have cracked the bottom of the toilet due to their weight. That’s probably why the PVC pipe is there.
Either that, or they’re just trying to be superclassy.
@kpg
You don’t drop the kids off at the beach, you drop them off at the pool.
This kinda deal obviously was because of the smart janitor realizing that the toilet was sitting on the floor, with water going everywhere and fat Uncle Martha (don’t ask me…) walking away with her 340 lb butt wet. (ewwww…..) (nightmares….)
I used to work at a 500+ bed hospital in Florida. In the late 90′s, toilets were constantly being torn from the walls and water would gush everywhere when a morbidly obese individual would sit on a toilet that was not reinforced.
Hospital administrators used this exact set-up in hospital rooms for people having gastric bypass surgery. The solution worked perfectly. No more toilets were torn off the walls.
I have broken this style of toilet before, very necessary fix