Roman toilets

Around 400 BC Ostia Antica was a seaside port (now 4 miles inland) and it had a thriving city with plumbing in the bath and toilets. Yes these were really the toilets that were set on 2,400 years ago.

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• roman
• rome
• Ostia
• Antica
• toilets
• plumbing
• baths
• public

[jiveroxiv]

Q:

How could you poop if someone is looking straight at you?

A:

CLOSE YOUR EYES...

[MrBonaanzaa]

i really have to stop clicking on random videos

[kingcamilo]

this is where i met my wife. its was so i let her have my seat even tho i didnt finish

[larwa556]

Toilets for REAL men

[pompi71]

fuuuuuuj



[DarkSickie]

@burnzorz

wow, now I read it.. dunno how that grammarmistake did happen..

Oh, wait, now I know what happened.. I somehow did not type some words..

[burnzorz]

@DarkSickie

Are you high?

It was probably because it was easier to commission stone masons to all carve the same type of hole when it serves a purpose on both sides. Romans are crafty like that, I don't see a reason to believe otherwise. It works so you can pee standing up or sitting down. Until then stop getting high and making comments with horrible grammar, I don't really understand what you're saying.

[DarkSickie]

@burnzorz I doubt they can hit the hole when they're standing. According to toilets these there's where they miss with an even bigger hole...

[burnzorz]

@jiveroxiv Considering the rich ate until they vomited repeatedly. And they loved having orgies, and it didn't matter if you were gay, straight, or liked little boys. Their highest form of entertainment was watching people fight to the bloody end. I think the last thing on their mind was "omg is this guy watching me poop". To them it was an every day part of life. That's Rome.

[burnzorz]

@DarkSickie

So men can piss standing up. Why else?

[sabrinac1]

@jiveroxiv worse yet: How could you WIPE YOURSELF with someone looking straight at you? :-D LOL I wouldn't mind to be watched. It's the clean up part that would agitate me. But, maybe back then people were more comfortable with this than today's man.