Can you do a topic on Electricity on the Olympic Class?

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

That's a great idea!

@dannydel4214

Жыл бұрын

Please do

@kaiserjosiahtheC53claughton

Жыл бұрын

Oh yes i wanna know how electricity was used in the Titanic!

@alexanderwhite8320

Жыл бұрын

I also would love to know the electrical system used AC or DC, Voltage and frequency if AC was used. Socket types used, total electrical power of ship and so on. I find these Victorian/Edwardian technologies really interesting. How much can be achieved without using plastics, cheap chinese manufactured parts and computers/microcontrollers.

@glyndaley5844

Жыл бұрын

The electricity was powerd by the centre screw and then into the electricity power plant the each deck had local generators reason when she was sinking the lights remand on until.her break up and even after that some were still on according to some survivers but that's highly unlikely hope this has helped .

3:24 the reason "American" bathroom stall divider walls and doors don't go "all the way down" to floor level is for 2 reasons: It's is easier to keep the floor clean without damaging the stall walls/doors if the these are cut short above the floor. And short cut walls/doors enhance room ventilation and air circulation. hope this helps 🙂

@christystewart4567

Жыл бұрын

Thank you. I’ve never really understood the complaints of these types of dividers myself but it’s nice to get an explanation for them.

@hkkhgffh3613

11 ай бұрын

Muhaha! It's to prevent immoral stuff in a stall....

@williamhendrix3253

11 ай бұрын

nowhere else do they have those

@bumblbesss

10 ай бұрын

easier to clean up over flow toilets

@williamhendrix3253

10 ай бұрын

interesting rest of world doesn’t think this way

Hey, great video! Just one thing: the illness you want to be talking about is typhoid, which is caused by Salmonella Typhi. Typhus, which you mention, is a rickettsial disease spread by fleas. Also a problem in crowded environments, but not one solved with better toilets.

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I'll have to go back and check my source on that one.

@abbevogler2619

Жыл бұрын

Some come here to sit and think, others come to shit and stink...😂

On ships, the toilet is referred to as the "head" because in the sailing days, the toilet was at the head of the ship; a latticed platform I believe under the bowsprit. And those lever flush devices I believe were invented for ships, as a tank could easily splash as the ship rolled. Basically they are hydraulic timers - two chambers separated by a diaphragm. Flushing empties one of the chambers which causes the diaphragm to move opening the flish valve. There is a small hole that lets the emptied chamber fill up again to shut off the flush. Some one of my books on ocean liners (reproductions of magazine articles about the liners) explained how they work. Maybe Mauretania or Lusitania.

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

Yes, they are referred to as "the head" on a ship. I've been trying to make my videos more user-friendly if you will, so I decided no to go with that terminology in this video.

@skovner

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove I understand. I was using this example to show how bad the sailing ships were; something you mentioned at the beginning.

@ironmatic1

10 ай бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove Flushometers are very much the standard and not "outdated" btw

@coderider3022

10 ай бұрын

And officers mess /cabins were opposite end

It's easier to clean a restroom when you can sluice the whole floor with a bucket or hose and mopping is easier when you have fewer spots where walls meet floor.

@Centurion04

Жыл бұрын

There's also the problem that the public is notorious for flooding restrooms and having walls that go all the way to the floor would be difficult to keep from becoming waterlogged and full of mildew and other harmful things.

@bentboybbz

Жыл бұрын

Also in case there is a medical problem...the person falls to the floor and guess what? You immediately know the person on the floor leg hanging out under the door something is wrong lol.

@JWRogersPS

Жыл бұрын

That may be the excuse why it's done that way in the US, but I doubt that it is the reason. Many many other countries have no issues with stall doors that go all the way to the floor.

@seanseoltoir

Жыл бұрын

Exactly... Combine that with a drain in the floor for the water to go plus tiled walls and you can just hose it down... And if you combine that with the commercial type toilets that mount on the walls instead of on the floor plus partition walls that hang from the ceiling and do not touch the floor, you have an entire floor that is open and can be easily flooded when being cleaned without any corners to trap things...

@randallbevansr5200

Жыл бұрын

Or, you could just dump the whole thing in the ocean

Actually, wooden, "tall" ships DID have a place to relieve one's self. The captain, and officers had a hole over the water. Located at the bow, there were a couple of places with holes in boards for the crew, and passengers. It's why that place got the name "head". These heads existed as far back as ships like Golden Hind, and other ships of that era. Victory had them, too, as well as Constitution, I think. But no, they were definitely not as sanitary as ships built around, and after 1910. Thanks for sharing this.

@tonyringo6309

Жыл бұрын

No, not true...on these ships, crew would sit on ships edge to relieve themselves, only captain has his, own hole...

@ThomasGrillo

Жыл бұрын

@@tonyringo6309 On the older ships, true, but ships like Victory, Constitution, and others from the 1600s, onward, they had the holes in boards, located in the bow, just below the bow sprit.

@JeffDeWitt

Жыл бұрын

@@ThomasGrillo "Seats of ease" kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZoKmk6OgecnHmqw.html

@magnemoe1

10 ай бұрын

@@ThomasGrillo Vasa had these toilets to, don't think it was based on rank, you had it or not. Viking ships did not as to small but I guess anything with an superstructure did.

@ThomasGrillo

10 ай бұрын

@@magnemoe1 Indeed. I had a model of a Viking ship, and yeah, one would've had to use the side of the vessel. Nope. Rank was not much of a factor, except for the captain's private facility (Victory, or other large ship).

Welcome back

Now this is quality content.

@raven4k998

Жыл бұрын

why we don't do this today is beyond me love it🤣

Toilets, the more things change the more they stay the same, sit--poop-wipe-flush. Great narration and information, "To the point."

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@TheAllMightyGodofCod

Жыл бұрын

Wipe? Don't you mean "wash"?

@TheAllMightyGodofCod

Жыл бұрын

@@jetsons101 there is a question? 🤯

@jetsons101

Жыл бұрын

@@TheAllMightyGodofCod A online quote: "you may want to use a small amount of toilet paper to dry yourself." But during a power failure it's back to T.P. lol

@TheAllMightyGodofCod

Жыл бұрын

@@jetsons101 I usually use cloth towels to dry myself. I can't imagine using toilet paper and get it all sticking to my back and living small pieces all over. I imagine that would be very annoying.

1:06 looks to be a temporary deck mounted outhouse with canvas tubes directing the poop and pee down to the water. Often times in Civil War era photos of ships at anchor you can see a canvas enclosure on the edge of the deck used as an outhouse, especially in photos of ironclads.

The Cameron movie gave the impression that everyone in first class was a millionaire in opulent suites, which was completely inaccurate. As you said, most of the first class cabins didn't even have private bathrooms and were actually quite modest. The first class tickets started at around 30 pounds (about $3300 in our money), so while you'd have to be of some means, you certainly wouldn't have to be a millionaire to afford that.

@Aleksandr017

Жыл бұрын

I think Cameron just focused on the richest of the rich, instead of trying to give the accurate view of the class overall. I guess the juxtaposition of the guy from the poorest section and the girl from the richest was needed for the dramatic arc. He also showed the third class passengers being lock away in their section during the sinking, but a little research would show that it wasn’t the case. But again, Cameron did not make a documentary, hence, like any movie, it should not be viewed as fully accurate.

@stuffchat

Жыл бұрын

I also picked up that unfortunately Cameron was trying to push class wars with his narrative. Notice how when Rose tells Jack who everyone is in first class, she does so with snide remarks to picture them all as evil and scandalous. Yet when Rose goes to party in Jack's part of the ship, they cut to Rose partying like a drunkard and skip any introductions completely. What kind of characters may have lurked in third class? Cameron will have us assume there were only perfect underdogs who commit no sin but somehow suffer all the time - note how the staff of the ship are depicted to talk to 1st class versus 3rd class passengers, not to mention 3rd class get locked up to drown. According to Cameron's propaganda anyway. Nice movie but I found it sad he couldn't keep his childish extremist emotional politics out of it.

@singbike5832

Жыл бұрын

@@stuffchat yes, definitely agree with you about the class warfare thing. I also think it's ironic you have people like Cameron pushing this while they are the 21st century version of the elite which they criticize.

@ironjohn5914

11 ай бұрын

@@stuffchat first class people can buy whatever they want and afford the best lawyers so there are perks to extreme wealth 💰 🤑 💸 💲

@stuffchat

11 ай бұрын

@@ironjohn5914 Actually no. Usually people with wealth can't "buy whatever they want" - ironically that's what poor people live by, which is why they are poor in the first place. To build up a fortune, one has to manage one's money carefully and wisely and set up a regular budget to plan where your money goes. Only a preplanned portion of your income will go towards leisure and luxuries, while the rest goes towards savings, investments, charity and necessities. That is how rich people become rich - sound financial management. If they, as you suggest, just "buy whatever they want" they'll just end up poor because anything that's a number works on the principles of math - either it's being added to or subtracted from and it goes without saying it can not only reach zero but go into the negative (debt). It's not about how much money you make or have, but about whether your money overall makes you more money, or ends up spent faster than it's coming in until finished.

Yesssss your back! We’ve missed you so much!

High end restaurants and hotels in the US have similar stalls. The reason why most public restrooms in the US have "walls" and doors that don't go all the way down to the floor seems very obvious. First, it's cheaper to buy and install a standard size stall rather than having to custom build to the room's size. Second, it's easier to clean/mop with the walls and doors not going down to the floor. Third, you can see if the stall is occupied, rather than having to knock and/or try the door to see which stall is available.

Re narrator comment about public toilet stall doors in the U.S. not extending to the floor, the reason for this AND most public toilet stall WALLS also not extending to the floor is quite simple. It facilitates cleaning the stall floors more quickly and easily using spray hoses or longer-handled mops that can reach under the truncated stall doors and walls. In addition, stall doors or walls that do extend to the floor create additional joints and crevasses where the door/walls meet the floor...hard-to-clean places for mold and mildew to grow.

@michaelplunkett8059

Жыл бұрын

And the floors dry quicker with more air flow.

@johnjarvis3455

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelplunkett8059 Yes...that is also true 🐾

@7478iboeing

Жыл бұрын

Plus it’s part of the ADA manual to shrink the stall size to allow for a toe space for wheelchair users to rotate around.

The reason that most bathroom stalls so not have walls and doors that run down to the floor is actually simple - it’s much easier to clean the bathroom floors this way. As you can imagine, during constant use there are occasionally some pretty gross ‘accidents’ and fully enclosed stalls would make for a cleaning and disinfecting nightmare.

@buffrogers6650

11 ай бұрын

No, its so you could pass notes under the wall to the guy next to you

Temporary new title for the channel: "The Great Big Movement"! 😉

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

I'll take it under advisement

Good to see you back making videos mate!! Keep it up!! Love the way you explain things!

I'm glad you're back. Thank you. I missed these

Well this is a topic that I’ve never really thought of, though i guess it is helpful. Thanks for another video Great Big Move!

I can watch Titanic content for days and not get bored

Staying aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach gives visitors an idea what this would be like. The toilets in the original first class cabins are _Shanks_ with the lever flush valves as shown in this video. The surviving _public_ toilet stalls have the wood stall doors right to the floor. The toilets were piped to sewage tanks port and starboard in the turbo generator rooms which pumped to the ocean when full, when the ship was in service. Today, a similar sewage tank system is used, but pump out through hoses to the wharf to connect to the municipal sewage system. The 87 year old plumbing fixtures on the QM are so impressive, I have made videos of the incredible rate the *huge* bathtubs fill and drain, and also the flushing power of the _Shanks_ toilets.

Nice video. Please do one on air conditioning of pre and post imperator class

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

Air conditioning is a great idea!

@davef.2329

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove I've long looked for details on refrigeration, or any air conditioning mechanisms on the Olympic class ships, only to find a real dearth of information is available. The heating system is documented somewhat.

LOL at the dumbass at 1:52 putting his hand on a greased cable, and props to his buddy for lending him his rag. Little stuff like this is why I love old footage.

I imagine there were both Great Big Moves and Great Quick Moves through the facilities of the Titanic 🥁

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

Y'all are full of jokes

Wall hung fixtures and stalls facilitate cleaning. As do a spigot, properly pitched floors, and a working floor drain.

A 'delicate' subject, done well. Bravo. Like how you avoided describing the forecastle 'seats of ease' of the 18th century. Again, well done.

Just gotta say your content is pretty cool and interesting sir.. The topics you cover I have never even thought about...you deserve some credit for channel..keep doing what you...

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that!

Ahh😍😍😍 Welcome back!

Good job for making toilets an interesting topic! I wonder if there would be enough to say about the introduction of the wireless on ships and its impact. How the private messages from titanic probably cost lives as the California switched ofd. There are probably other interesting stories where it actually made a difference.

Another reason for partitions between toilet cubicles to start well above the floor is ease of detection of dual occupancy.

He's finally back!

I enjoyed your video, thank you. I’ve always been fascinated with Titanic and Olympic😊

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

We don't put the stall walls all the way to the floor for two reasons: Hygiene. It's easier to keep the floor clean and you don't have dirty mop heads spreading germs up the walls. Ventilation. Keeping the stall walls short of the floor and ceiling allows fresh air (and heated/cooled air as applicable) to flow through the stall space.

Finally, a video that suits the name of this channel.

The lack of pvt toilets on Olympic was one factor in the decision to scrap the ship in 1935. Yes, she had undergone several upgrades over the years and more private toilets were added but more modern ships had these in every cabin.

A very very important accommodation! An absolute must!

We’ll look who decided to finally post something

Amazing! How did you get that footage?

You've obviously never been the military or worked in some other capacity as a janitor. The reason why toilet stalls do not go to the floor is because otherwise, the stalls would be 20 times harder to mop and keep clean. If the stalls went down to the floor, you'd not only have to mop every individual stall, but you'd have have long cracks and tight corners what would be a janitor's real bitch to fully keep clean. What's true in some restrooms. People take janitors so much for granted, you don't know how hard they work or how important they are to today's world. They should get $36 an hour.

The reason is that the floors are much easier to clean when they are exposed as opposed to having a wall all the way down in the bathrooms.

Yeah I always wondered what "poop deck" means and I think I'm finally getting the picture...

@MontyCantsin5

11 ай бұрын

The name originates from the French word for stern, la poupe, (derived from Latin puppis).

Really interesting video, btw 3:28 once I’ve heard there are big gaps in public restrooms in the case of emergency when someone loses their counscience

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

I've heard a lot of different theories in this comments section!

Back in the 60's and 70's .when you went in to use the toilet in grocery stores and stores like Kmart and Zayres .you had to depost a dime into the lock on the stall door .then twist the knob to open the door .as kids we used to just slide under the door and use the toilet for free

4:50 I heard that the toilets in third class were set to automatically flush (because of third class passengers not being so familiar with them) while all other toilets had to be flushed manually, not sure how true that is though!

@mikeh2006

Жыл бұрын

They were automatic in the sense that you pushed a lever and the waste went away, as opposed to having to physically deal with it.

@Lucius_Chiaraviglio

Жыл бұрын

I don't know about on ships, but I have seen this on land in Europe in the 1970s.

@maubunky1

Жыл бұрын

Yes Sabrina, I read this somewhere as well, just as you said, that on Titanic third class passengers had automatic flushing toilets because they assumed those people had never used a high tech thing like a flushing toilet before, and so there was no need to teach the person how to push/pull a lever. I can only imagine that this was just on a round the clock repeating flush at 3 minute intervals mechanism whereby a tank slowly fills with water and when it reaches a certain level a float arm equipped valve triggers the flush and drains the tank and resets the flapper valve, or perhaps it was just even simpler than that, whereby water continuously flowed through the waste area at all times.

@rupe53

Жыл бұрын

@@maubunky1 ... in many older boats, it was just a continuous flow of seawater, moved by the ships forward motion. The toilets dropped straight down into this moving river, and everything was gone in seconds. Not sure if they used this system or something else.

@faithlesshound5621

Жыл бұрын

I can quite believe that. Ordinary people in that era had outside toilets, which probably did not have piped water or any flushing mechanism. Many of those remained in use up to the 1950's and 60's. They also would not have had a fixed bath in their house, and would not have expected to take a bath in the time it took a ship to cross the Atlantic.

In Washington state there was up until recently a ferry boat to move cars and passengers from the Tahlequah dock to PT. Defiance dock on Vashon Island. One of the Washington state ferry boats was the Rhododendron. I rode that ferry many times and its head had a toilet in the men's room and a trough that was about six foot long for men to pee in. I never used it. That ferryboat has since been retired from the Washington state ferry fleet.

Anybody caught pissin in a corner will immediately walk the plank.

Loves truck stop bathrooms stalls go all the way to the floor and have a solid door. It is quite a treat for folks pooping on the go.

3:25 The reason the doors don't go all the way down in stalls now is for safety because it isn't uncommon for there to be injuries inside them. From elderly or drunk people for example

@TheAbderaman

10 ай бұрын

The reason for easier cleaning and ventilation as in use today in today's offices closets

I was flush with excitement when I saw this video pop up!!

Loved the video. Just like todays ships with Noro virus.

Please make a video on the beverages and parties aboard the westbound transatlantic ships of the era

This topic never gets old.

As a mainteance guy, I can tell you why the doors on modern WC's don't go all the way down. It's so if some joker jimmies the door or vandalizes the place, we poor cleaners can still get at the mess. A popular trick is to lock the door and then shimmy through the gap so it stays locked as a prank. Easily overcome with a long stick to hit the latch.

You and George Costanza, would see eye to eye on stall door length. Great minds think alike.

Ever head of the term "died on the shiter"? The valsalva maneuver occurs during constipation and is the reason why so many people die of heart attacks while pooping. When you finally poop, your blood pressure drops so low your heart stops. For this reason, stalls in the USA do not go from celling to floor, cause how we gonna know if someone is dead or in distress, and as a nurse, I cant tell you how many times I or an paramedic has had to crawl under a door to do CPR or the amount of times I have gotten an EMS cause someone was on the toiliet and had a heart attack.

another question is how do Thier tickets work for every class, I know third class is per person I think, but how bout 1st and 2nd? is it per person too

interesting video

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

I liked the video just becuz of the title

At 5:12-:22, what/where is that scene from? I've never seen that shot before. Thanks.

Toilet partitions that go all the way up and down would be more difficult to clean and more expensive to ventilate.

wow i had no idea 😮

The boy's washroom in the oldest part of my elementary school, I started school in 1970, had a urinal trough instead of individual urinals. The school is still there. I wonder after watching this if the washroom is still the same.

@gasfarts3

10 ай бұрын

Same for me in the 70’s no dividers. Other schools later had floor length urinals next to each other no need for modesty or privacy back then.

can you do about the menu on the Olympic Class I'm still confused on how first class eat, either buffet or ordering on a menu

@eat_a_dick_trudeau

Жыл бұрын

They ordered from a menu.

@matthewmozingo3625

Жыл бұрын

From what I understand, in the restaurants they had traditional menu ordering, but in the dining saloons they had something called silver service. It’s sort of like a buffet, but all the food is brought by the table and you order right off the serving tray. Here’s some videos that explain it better. m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/nKps17Nqqs-_m9I.html (4:00) m.kzread.info/dash/bejne/do1_rZOih9jIYbQ.html

@yangjungwonniee8760

Жыл бұрын

@@matthewmozingo3625 thank you!

Also, is there an Airships: Part 2 coming?

fact: titanics toilets are still full of water

One of the reasons public bathroom doors aren't ceiling to floor is economic in nature. When installing multiple doors even a small savings per door adds up.

@clockbuilderhg

Жыл бұрын

The biggest reason they stop short of the floor is because it's easier to mop the stalls. When the stalls go to the floor, the corners collect dirt and in a building with many many toilet stalls that adds a lot of cleaning labor. With the stalls clear of the floor, it's easy to mop clear under them and keep the floor clean. Many commercial bathrooms have wall mounted toilets for the same reason.

Just taking this opportunity to ask people to stop using the word “bathroom” for rooms with a toilet but no bath. Yes, I know a lot of houses have a toilet in their bathroom and people say “going to the bathroom” when going to use the toilet in there but if there is no bath in a room, or at least bathing facilities, then it’s not a bathroom.

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

It's probably too late to change this. Language changes over time, and it has changed in this case.

@gaemlinsidoharthi

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove It does. Not all change is good. Degeneration is also change. So let’s reverse the degeneration and change it back. It’s so stupid. It’s as idiotic as saying, “I’m going to the bedroom”, when what you mean is, “I’m going to watch television”, or calling any room with a television, “a bedroom”, even if it has no sleeping facilities, just because a lot of places have a television in the bedroom.

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

@@gaemlinsidoharthi I've never heard of calling a room with a television a bedroom. Must not be a thing in the US.

@gaemlinsidoharthi

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove No. I just made that up as an analogy to illustrate the idiocy of calling a room with a toilet “a bathroom”, even when there is no bath. Toilet Television. Bath Bed.

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

@@gaemlinsidoharthi I see. Well I wish you the best on your mission. Keep fighting the good fight.

Can you please do a video of the kaiser class?

@TheGreatBigMove

Жыл бұрын

I would like to.

@JShips46

Жыл бұрын

@@TheGreatBigMove cool thanks

What are the first two words spoken in this video? I have replayed it a bunch of times and can't make it out.

The true questions!

Hey, if I were a cleaner, I’d be glad to show anyone how to use the facilities! Better than cleaning pee or worse from the corners! Should have hired two attendants, one male, one female, for the third class passengers since some them lived without indoor plumbing and had no knowledge of how to use the toilets. You could also improve the personal hygiene of some who probably didn’t know or bother to wash their hands! That’s still important today! It really does cut down on spread of disease, especially the dreaded norovirus! There’s no quicker way to ruin your cruise! Few die of it, but most will wish they were dead at its worst!

By 1935, Olympic was considered outdated

I'm guessing doors don't go floor to ceiling is for better ventilation. Might not be the best experience following someone into a sealed enclosure...

0:46 LOL. I wonder how many people try to pause the video to see the flashed text.. It reads.. "PAT'D AUG. 31. 1897

The Civil war Union iron clad “Monitor “ actually had a flush toilet! It might have even been thee first flush toilet on a ship.

5:27 It looks like he's getting pissed on.

Communal bathtubs for all classes except the few suites on board and Captain Smith’s bathroom, communal flushing toilets for first and second class and crew, except for the few suites on board and Captain Smith’s bathroom, and auto flushing toilets (plus chamber pots) for third class, who were mostly separated by sex

You just took a dump on the poop deck. That's what Rose was doing when she almost fell to her death.

3:09 Sure they would, you only have to be 3 miles off shore to legally pump sewage directly into the ocean.

3rd class on titanic was very luxurious when it comes to 3rd class/steerage

Great Big Move Please Reply: Why Were You Gone For So Long

were do you go to take a ship?

I guess the Titanics toilets truly live up to the title of 'water closet'!!

So essentially they were perfectly modern but not quite accessible for everyone

From the richest king to the poorest peasant; who doesn't enjoy a good shit?

@LakeNipissing

Жыл бұрын

The debate would be if in a plane, train or boat is best...

2:53 That's called a flush-o-meter (rhymes w thermometer)

Man I bet it stunk walking around these ships.

What about Titanic life boats, did they have toilet too. This would be good idea.

Wow this is a weird topic but okay, let's dive in

3:24 I believe that it’s a safety thing. Anything like that. Doors. For cops to be nosy. Stuck behind doors. 😐

Since the third class had only 2 bathrooms, they could only shower once a week. Also, before boarding Titanic third class were checked to see if they were carrying diseases

@timothyreed8417

Жыл бұрын

3rd class had only 2 tubs….

Hope dysentery never broke out on the Olympic. It would be a disaster. Btw did they use sea water to flush?

The toilets worked exactly the same as today. Not outdated at all beyond aesthetics

You don't know why modern toilet partitions don't go to the floor? Really?

The toilets had unsinkable floaters.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone was thrown off the John when the ship hit the iceberg. Probably didn’t happen, but it would be comedic if it did

@litamtondy

Жыл бұрын

With 2200 people on board, I feel like it's very likely this happened.

@joelandobutterfield5837

Жыл бұрын

I bet it did happen,I'm pretty sure someone didn't wipe either.

Everyone always wonders why American public toilets' doors don't go to the ground. It's simple. For emergencies. That is, in case someone has some kind of medical emergency while in the toilet stall. Say they have a heart attack or stroke. Or, okay, an overdose. How would one help them otherwise if they could not access the area? The doors and overhead areas are specifically put there so emergency personnel can crawl underneath, get inside and unlock the door. And, of course, this narrator is also forgetting the inimitable chamber pot. A chamber pot was, literally, a pot into which one could relieve themselves during the night and which was cleaned out each morning. Because it was routine to have one in every bed chamber at the time, even in poorer homes and country homes, I'm sure they were standard in all cabins. So forget the idea of public urination -- which, Hello!, why wouldn't men at least go up on deck and do their business overboard? -- and lose the image of having to run to an outhouse in the middle of a winter's night, too. Here's a thought. And I am serious, not being nasty. Do some research and a video on chamber pots. I believe they were used as far back as the Egyptian times. It's one of those things that were seldom recorded yet very common. (I even saw a video sometime back in which it was claimed people visiting Versailles in the 15th century relieved themselves in the halls and stair wells... like pigs. I think not.) It's like salt. People wonder why salt was so valuable in the old days-- and jump to the conclusion that it was because salt seasoned food. NO. I mean, it did season and preserve food, yes. It still does. But Salt, FYI, is also a very effective disinfectant and was widely used for all sorts of cleaning and sanitation purposes. (BTW, that's one for the survivalists out there. Salt is a key element in surviving. During the pandemic, when we were hoarding TP, we should have been hoarding salt.) So much is forgotten. So many critical details. It leads to many totally erroneous conclusions and it makes me sad.

Interestingly, the toilets on Titanic dumped right overboard, even in port! No filtration or treatment.

The toilets must have been over flowing after the Impact

I've heard that passengers were taught how to use a flush toilet, because it was thier 1st experience.

@ron3557

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Probably third class only