does the toilet REALLY flush the opposite way in AUSTRALIA ??>?
403844
radon360 is correct, dont listen to the others.\n\nThe way water drains just depends on which way you pour it down.\n\nIf toilets flush the other way in australia it is entirely due to australian toilet manufacturers or some sort of australian plumber conspiracy.
19808
My psycho mother used to go bezerk if we put the toilet paper facing the wall rather than the user growing up. To that I say who the heck cares what way toilet paper goes on the roll? It all goes down the same place anyways...
990484
I really agree.\nSome are opinion, and that's ok.\nBut some are like "How do you fix a toilet leak?" and such, and you can easily just find it online, or go to hardware store and they'll be glad to help you! \nAnd some people put their question in the heading and those normally don't make sense if they're 3 words or less. And they don't put any details in either!
618190
Hmm...I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with wiping backwards.\nA gross question, but still interesting.
766134
Dunno, Australia? (joking!)
223771
This is not true, but widely circulated as fact.\n\nI quote verbatim from snopes:\n\n"Because  \n\n   the Earth is a globe spinning on an invisible axis, a point at its equator will make a circuit of 25,000 miles in the space of a day, but any point not on the equator will make a shorter round trip; the closer that point is to either of the poles, the shorter its trip will be. Put another way, a pencil     at the equator travels 1,030 miles an hour, whereas another at Sarasota, Florida, moves at 930 miles per hour, and one at the North pole doesn't move at all. \n\n This apparent difference in speed results in the Coriolis force, an effect that imparts a twist to largish events happening away from the equator. Best known is its effect on air masses: as they move away from the equator, their speed (which matches that of where they started from) appears to be faster than that of the surface over which they are traveling. This sets them turning in a clockwise twist in the northern hemisphere and a counterclockwise twist in the southern. (Before you complain we have that backwards, please click here.)  Likewise, a cannonball fired due north will veer a teeny bit to the east, and one fired to the south will deflect ever so slightly to the west, something a skilled gunner would make an adjustment for. \n\n The twisting effect of the Coriolis force is real and does influence certain large things like the movement of air masses, but the effect is so small that it plays no role in determining the direction in which water rotates as it exits from a draining sink or toilet. The Coriolis effect produces a measurable effect over huge distances and long periods of time, neither of which applies to your bathroom. Toilets and sinks drain in the directions they do because of the way water is directed into them or pulled from them. If water enters in a swirling motion (as it does when a toilet is flushed, for example), the water will exit in that same swirling pattern; as well, most basins have irregular surfaces and are not perfectly level, factors which influence the direction in which water spirals down their drains. The configuration of taps and drains is responsible for the direction of spin given to water draining from sinks and bathtubs to a degree that overwhelms the slight influence of the Coriolis force. \n\n The belief that the Coriolis force influences the direction in which water drains from plumbing fixtures is widespread and has been repeated as fact in a number of venues, including popular television shows (such as world traveler Michael Palin's Pole to Pole) and even in textbooks.  We can only speculate on why people are so enamored of this snippet of misinformation, guessing that it has something to do with the desire to find some of the mysteries of science in the realm of the everyday. "
1112198
LOLOL thats kinda nasty. And I personally use normal toilet paper & do have a juicy booty lol......
183794
It's not true. The phenomenon is true but you would need massive amounts of water to see it and the toilet , sink and bathtub doesn't suffice.
716851
The overhead cistern toilets don't really end up giving you 2m head in flushing. It all empties into the bowl, and the effective head you have is the change in water level in the bowl.
457685
I beleive the shiney side and dull one still more to it...mean the shiney side is to waxy soo it will slide more... but most of the restrooms i have to use...dont carry toilet seat papers!!!....its nasty though... thats why i try to avoid touching them!!!
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The bit of knowledge I do have would suggest it should go straight down, but as never been to the equator have no proof.\n\nThese are some comments I have found:\nIt is scientifically proven it will go directly down without spinning unless you are just a bit over to one side of the equator.\n\nThe way your toilet flushes is completely random.\n\nMichigan University teamed up with Victoria University (In Wellington) to test it. They got a really big tank, drilled a hole in it, filled it up and watched the way the water spun as it drained. It was a fifty-fifty split in both places.\n\nMy science teacher went to the equator and did it and it said it went straight down when PERFECTLY on thr equator.
282404
In the northern hemisphere the toilet bowl water circulates counterclockwise, and in the southern hemisphere it circulates clockwise.\nThe water in the toilet moves in the same manner as the air in a hurricane or tornado. The effect causing the rotation is the Coriolis effect, and is not a force, although it is sometimes referred to as a force.\n\nConsider the situation in the northern hemisphere.\n\nLiquids or gases nearer the equator are traveling faster as the earth turns than the liquids and gases nearer the poles, because everything nearer the equator must travel a longer linear distance each day to make the 360 degree rotation from west to east. If liquid/gas nearer the equator must head toward a target (low pressure) in the direction of the poles, it finds that the target is not traveling as fast west to east as it (liquid/gas) is traveling, and if it stays on its direct polar-bound route it will overshoot the target to the east (right on a map). To hit the target the liquid/gas must correct its flight and turn west (left) as it travels poleward. Such corrective action creates a curved path of travel which leads to circular flow. Liquid/gas poleward of the target (low pressure) is traveling west to east slower than the target (the diameter of the earth measured perpendicular to the earth rotation axis decreases as one moves toward the poles), and in its travel towards the equator, will undershoot the target to the west(the target moved faster). To reach the target from the pole side the liquid/gas must turn to the east in a curved path, and this leads to circular flow in the same counterclockwise direction as the liquid/gas coming from the other side of the target (low pressure).\n\nIn the southern hemisphere the case is the same, but because poleward bound and turning west means circling clockwise, as does equator-bound and turning east.\n\nNow in a toilet bowl the target and low pressure is the drain (a sink hole), so the drain operates the same as a hurricane. Ditto for the tornado.
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It doesn't make a difference. While the Coriolis effect does make hurricanes turn anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern, that's because hurricanes are such huge, slow-forming systems.\n\nFlushes (and sinks for that matter) are way too small for the same effect - the direction of your flush is simply dependent on how the toilet is manufactured. The force of the Coriolis effect is really small compared to the force of the rushing water in your toilet or sink.
153241
No, the Coriolis force can have an effect on other things, but not water rotating in a toilet
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synchronized toilet flushing
1117163
Come on! Not all of the girls do that. I would never go to the toilet and do the NR 1 with a friend just standing there. And neither of my friends would do that.\nBut I know that other girls do that since they want a private conversation.
289183
Due to the effect, cyclones rotate counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, contrary to popular opinion, it has no noticeable effect on the rotation of water in sinks and toilets - see the toilets/bathtubs section below.