Post #4449680
2026-08-08 19:49 UTC
@sandorspruit@mastodon.nl @Sassinake@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space
people would want to look at their poop for health reasons. so you poop on a shelf in the bowl for inspection
it's fading away, it's mostly historical and a curiousity nowadays in old houses. new builds in the netherlands don't have it. and it's not unique to the netherlands
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@slothrop@chaos.social 2026-08-08 20:24
@benroyce@mastodon.social @sandorspruit@mastodon.nl @Sassinake@mastodon.social @alice@lgbtqia.space I’ve spent most of my life in poop-shelf-happy Central Europe, and I swear that I only learned about the shelf’s purpose a few years ago. While the shelf itself is omnipresent in older toilets, I don’t think it’s widely known here that you’re supposed to check your turds.