El Diablo for 2+2 Forums President '08

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ElD,

The residence time of the last turd in the whirlpool is longer than the flush time for your toilet. This happens because the outermost turds are moving at the lowest velocity, but also have the greatest distance to travel before being flushed away. Increase the volume of water during the flush, which will increase the flush time, and the last turd will happily go away.

Bitch.

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You left out the most important factor in these qualitative calculations. Buoyancy.

There are 3 types of turds:
1. Floaters (TM)
2. Sinkers (TM)
3. Hangers (TM) (specific gravity equal to water)

If you don't think this matters for turd-toliet bowl evacuation. Please try flushing a balloon down your hopper.

Another important factor is the velocity of water-from-toliet evacuation. Take for example a toliet on the 3rd floor of the Bellagio. When those toliets are flushed, not only would it suck down any and all turds (regardless of buoyancy), but any small children, dogs, or any small tolietries within a 8 foot radius of the toliet.

Conversely, places with poor plumbing [read slow toliet bowl velocity] like elementary schools, McDonalds, and apparently El D's residence, will have a much harder time removing toliet bowl contents to the septic system.

So like many answers on 2+2, the real answer is "it depends".