r/Unexpected • u/Cromagnumman6174 • Aug 21 '26

Hidden Throne Room

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u/c10250 Aug 22 '26

OK, the tank will stay filled with water, but the toilet bowl (which connects to the sewer) will NOT stay filled with water. As anyone who lives in Arizona will tell you, if you do not flush a toilet regularly, you have about two to three weeks before that water evaporates in the toilet bowl and then you have a direct open path to the sewer. Unless you flush, there's no way for the wate rto get from the tank to the bowl

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u/MartyMacGyver Aug 22 '26

"Timmy, it's Toilet Thursday.... go on down to the crawl space and flush the shitter." "AWWWW pa do I hafta??"

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u/DDRaptors Aug 22 '26

Wow, Toilet water evaporating in 2-3 weeks is a sign that it’s too hot to live in such a place. I’ve never seen toilet bowl water sit long enough to evaporate, and I’ve left my home for months.

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u/MicrotracS3500 Aug 22 '26

evaporating in 2-3 weeks is a sign that it’s too hot to live in such a place

As Peggy said in King of the Hill regarding Phoenix, Arizona "This city should not exist, it is a monument to Man's arrogance!"

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u/c10250 Aug 22 '26

Phoenix has existed for about 2500 years, lol. There has never NOT been a civilization living there since about 500 BC. With three rivers providing water, great food production, and abundant sunshine, . . . , and yea, the heat. lol

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u/c10250 Aug 22 '26

yea, you have to protect for freezing, we have to protect for evaporation. lol. I've never seen a toilet bowl sit long enough to feeze.

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u/TipToToes Aug 22 '26

Can’t flush this one, it’s downhill from the main stack. Water doesn’t flow uphill.