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".

[durron597]

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LOL, El D isn't black you noob, he's a Chinaman!

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[censored] i thought he was french.

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stabn,

el diablo =

[El Diablo]

d,

Word.

[Phat Mack]

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Zeno,

All you guys are too old. But you are crazy enough to be Emperor. F Andy Fox, he's too nice.

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Too true. Not only is Andy Fox too nice, but he is a visionary when the job clearly calls for a machiavellian. Nice guys don't make good despots the way misanthropes do. Let me think, which name springs to mind...

[[Phill]]

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NT,

You realize that "thumbs turned" was actually a good sign from the emperor. The downward pointed thumb suggested that the victor of a gladiatorial fight should thrown down his weapon and spare the loser his life.

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Knew you werent 100% right. Last sentence is pretty close to what you say though. Methinks you researched this post first.

"It is known that the audience (or sponsor or emperor) pointed their thumbs a certain way if they wanted the loser to be killed (pollice verso, literally "with turned thumb"), but it is not clear which way they pointed. The clear "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" image is not a product of historical sources, but of Hollywood and epic films such as Quo Vadis. They may have pointed their thumbs up if they wanted the loser to live, and down to die; or, the opposite. Or, they may have raised their fist with thumb inside it (pollice compresso, literally "compressed thumbs") if they wanted the loser to live, and pointed down to signify death. One popular belief is that the "thumbs down" meant lower your weapon, and let the loser live. The thumbs up sign pointed towards the throat, signaling the gladiator to stab him there. An imitation of the downward thrust of a sword, without the sword in the hand, naturally has the thumb in a downward position and also compressed into the first finger. One of the few sources to allude to the use of the "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" gestures in the Roman arena comes from Satire III of Juvenal (3.34-37)[1] and seems to indicate that, contrary to modern meaning, the thumbs down signified that the losing gladiator was to be spared and that the thumbs up meant he was to be killed."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator