Thank You, John Crapper - The History of the Toilet

Thank You, John Crapper – The History of the Toilet

*shivers* H-h-he-ll-o-o... I’m sorry; but I am FREEZING! I don’t know what has been happening! Texas has been EXTREMELY COLD! I mean, it’s colder than standard cold in Texas!!! I woke up to 17 degrees OUTSIDE!!! (-8 C) I don’t know what we did to Texas to piss him off so much but MAN, whatever it was, he’s getting his revenge on us! Today’s high was 38 degrees... (3 C) Not only is the air cold, it’s WINDY too... Just peachy, ain’t it? It’s the first time I’ve ever worn a scarf to school and kept it on all day. The power had gone out in some parts of my city; which was worrying me sick. What if I went to school and came through the front door and it was as cold as it was inside the school as OUTSIDE! I would be in my own personal hell. It isn’t normally this cold in Texas and my science teacher says that it’s because of El Nino. *whi-cha-whi-cha* All of the cold air that’s suppose to up in Canada, is being pushed down here. Thanks a load, Canada... (No offense to those peeps that are Canadian. I personally like Canadians a lot :) )

Okay, let’s get to the overview of my day:

Spanish –

For some reason, Spanish was a blur to me... Oh no! I remember something! We watch these really dumb Spanish videos that go along with our books and this one was about Spanish vocabulary about places at school. Most of the time, I can’t follow their conversations word for word but if I hear a word or two, I know what they’re talking about. They just talk so fast! D: Anyways, this video started out with people wearing school uniforms streaming out of a classroom. There was a girls standing outside watching all of the peeps stream out and she had her hair up in a high bun and really... dorky looking glasses...
So, she catches one of the dudes coming out of the classroom and I THINK their conversation was her asking him about where he was going...? It went through like the library, gym, cafeteria, and... auditorium. But at the VERY END, she said something and then took down her hair, it like fell down and she also took off her classes and said, trying to be seductive, “Adios,” She walks away and the guy is looking into the camera and he’s staring at her with a face that’s a cross between shock, awe, and confusion. He raises an eyebrow, shrugs, and then walks away. I couldn’t stop laughing. Spanish peeps trying to be sexy. XD

Reading –

Okay, I was so stupid, we have this thingy in Reading class called IRT – I think I already told ya’ll what IRT is but anyways, we basically get to read whatever we please. And this morning, I looked at the book I usually read for IRT and decided not to bring it because I thought I wouldn’t get any time to read it... So, I was forced to pick a book off the loaded shelf of books my teacher had... I just closed my eyes and chose one. It ended up being a book called “A Corner of the Universe”. At first, I thought, “Once IRT is over, I’m going to put the book back,” But it actually turned out to be really interesting! It’s like 189 pages and won’t take me long to finish. I guess I’ve secretly told myself that I’m going to broaden my horizon... Sweeett. Plus, since I restrict myself to reading science fiction, those books are slowly diminishing so, go me?



Math –

The last class, we had taken a test and you know, I felt so good about it. And I don’t normally feel good about MATH tests, espeically them, and I felt so good about! I had a good frame of mind, “Oh, I bet I got like a 90 on that! Pssh! I totally did awesome!”
WRONG!
My teacher hands back on my test and there’s no smelly sticker to congratulate me. There’s a big, fat 7-0! I made a 70 on a test that I thought I had totally aced... -_- Math has NEVER been a good subject of mine. Maybe I should EXPECT myself to fail and I’ll get good grades? Eh, it’s worth a try. But we worked with BLOCKS TODAY! :DDD I don’t know about you; but I was uber excited!! There aren’t any playful-reliefs in school and this was pretty darn close to one. We are working with shapes – or the fancy word GEOMETRY! So, that was fun but I got a packet for homework... -_-

Science –

Okay, I know I aced the test we took today in Science, I know I totally aced it. I haven’t been doing very good in Science this year and I have no idea why but I’m very happy because I get to sit with my bestie Megan! :D (her blog, check it out: cuzucare.blogspot.com) That’s always fun. But anyways, the test was easy and we both brought scarves to school! And since the edges are kind of fringed, my other bestie Lisa said they looked like dreadlocks! And then we started to sing the chicken-dance-song and flapped the fringe really fast. It was hilarious. Okay, but you know what was really ironic? You know how I blogged about 2012 a couple days ago? Well, we read an article in science and answered some questions about it; it was talking a bit about 2012. The person said, “We’re just being human. The human species it’s a pattern-making species. It’s a strong survival mechanism. We try to make patterns out of things,” AHA! SEE! I’m not crazy! Lol.

All righty, peepos and peepas. (Spanish and Chelsea-Language mixed! It’s Chels-Mex!) Let’s get down to business. This little personal research project has always been one of those things I’ve told myself to blog about but never gotten around doing... I’m going to be researching:

THE HISTORY OF THE TOILET!

Please, no pictures... Anyways, here’s what I’ve found out:

Let’s start from the beginning, I type in google.com and type in “history of the toilet”. The first site to come up has a website address as “tolietology,” OH MY GOSH! The Study of Toilets? What if this happened to you:

You: What do you do for a living?
Man: I’m a certified doctor.
You: Oh, really? What are you certified in?
Man: Toiletology.
You: O_O

I looked at that page briefly and found it was just a plumbing companies site. Darn... Aha, but this one sounded promising: The Long, Unglamorous History of the Toilet. So, I commenced reading.

Okay, apparently, some indian tribes – to solve the problem of flushing - were smart enough to dig holes and the... poo would drop into a clay chamber they dug. Now THAT is worth recognition. That’s very... smart... a lot better than the English peeps did... which was just poo in a hole. C’mon, seriously? Lol. People have a lot more common sense NOW than back then; the Medieval lifestyle is a prime example.

Romans made chambers to poo in and you got to sit on a huge slab of rock and poo into the hole, with... like five others around you. I’m sorry, but I like poo and peace and solitude.

Ooh, it looks like I’m wrong, it’s THOMAS Crapper, no John. HA! But still CRAPPER!!! :DDD Imagine a judge convicting you to prison with a name like that, “You have been sentenced to 20 years in Prison, Mr. Thomas CRAPPER!” XD

And Mr. Thomas CRAPPER was a plumber and designed the first, flushing toilet.

ROFL! XD “Some scientists believe that merely sitting on the toilet bends our innards in a way we were never meant to be while relieving ourselves, leading to hemorrhoids, and other gastrointestinal maladies.” Well, guys, we’re pooing wrong... that’s shocking.

The articles is rather short but... I am satisfied, I don’t know about you. But, guys, we need to take a moment, to thank those who saved us from pooing in holes... Thank you, THOMAS CRAPPER for you divine help for flushing our turds to the between tank system that is buried underneath all of ours houses...

Thank you, Thomas Crapper.

~Chels
RATE BELOW, COMMENT, FOLLOW, and continue to do... whatever it is... you do... And here is the link to that article: http://gizmodo.com/5622088/the-long-unglamorous-history-of-the-toilet