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My wife has relatives who claim to be South Polish.

All learning is like this. Tiny layers of understanding building to form a more comprehensive whole. How can we know which bits led to our most profound realizations? If we look instead at a sensory mechanism like hearing or smell, and the much larger layer of detail and understanding you would miss without it, we can more easily see how important it all is.

And you'd probably heard the joke about the guy who wandered into the ladies and wondered what the ATR button did....

A buddy of mine has a new toilet with something that increases the flush power, but it starts out with this terrible hiss, like it's a tiny nozzle trying to force too large a flow. It scares the hell out of you. The first time I stood in front of it and flushed, I hadn't quite finished, so I found out what aiming and being startled simultaneously was all about. Not good if you want to be invited back. I've never sat on his toilet, but it makes me wonder now if the water isn't being aerosolized somehow to make it more efficient in flushing, with the inadvertent effect of causing plumes.

And that's the real point. If you're seated, you're making the water even worse by definition. Having that water touch any part of you once it's fouled is NOT desirable. Perhaps some authoritative letters pointing out the public health risks of not using elongated toilet bowls would persuade local councils of the merits of changing building codes to ensure new construction is elephant-friendly. Any male councilmembers enthusiastically voting for such a measure might gain a reputation for their huge commitment to civic doody.

It makes it difficult to avoid the humor when you lob these taters across the plate.

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Water levels could probably be adjusted. I wonder if the front design isn't to facilitate flushing? Perhaps if the bowl is deeper in front the water doesn't swirl correctly, or might splash up, or take a significantly greater amount of water. There's also the "sticky" factor to think of. The design attempts to minimize any waste that sticks to the porcelain, and a deeper front may not have as pleasing a result. There has to be a factor we aren't considering. In my experience, when men want something fixed, it gets fixed, especially if it's something they use a lot, and doubly especially if it involves their penis and its wellbeing. If a woman wants something fixed and can't do it herself, she needs to convince the men somehow that they want it fixed too.

Supercooling was my first thought, but I thought the water had to be fairly pure to prevent the nucleation of ice crystals.

! Moderator Note I edited the title to reflect the OP, and this seems like good advice.

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I can see that. Criticism can seem more like judgement when it comes from close range. And those who know you should know better, right? They know the buttons to push, and sometime that's exactly what we think they're doing.

Air Between the Notes has been banned permanently for continued preaching, and using the same refuted arguments for everything, ad infinitum. "Science is a religion" is too weak to support more than one discussion.

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My comments so far have been about superficial judgements. When it comes to the need for tolerance, it always improves my life to be sure about my decisions, and being tolerant for long enough to form a reasonable judgement about a situation or person improves that surety.

That's a great way of putting it. Acceptance into the pack was the way I've always thought about it. "You've been a consistent driver as long as I've been following you, but this guy coming up on my right is threatening to upset all that with his unknown driving ways, so I'm going to speed up so he can't come between us." Even brief membership in the pack endows you with lots of leeway in my book. But it is more accurate to use the glass analogy. If I've observed you doing one thing I didn't approve of, you'll have a slightly harder time getting a favorable judgement from me. And for most people you don't know well (which seems to be the OP target), they hover at that half full/half empty status until you observe their behavior. It's up to each of us to figure out how much slack to cut everybody.

I don't think it's benign at all. I think we tend to see ourselves in the best light because we understand our own motivations best. Next is those you know well, who usually share much of your world and motivations, and you trust to be headed in more or less the same direction. Everyone else is shades of unknown. If I don't recognize the voice of someone yelling outside my house late at night, the conclusions I reach will almost always be very different than if I do. Have you ever made a negative judgement about someone's behavior before you realized you knew them? Like hearing someone speak way too loudly in public (and thinking what-a-jerk!), only to then recognize a neighbor (and suddenly change to thinking oh-that-Kevin!)? What really changed?

You're going to need to show why it's medically required. Like, because the depression in the toilet bowl isn't deep enough to prevent your discomfort, it's affecting the quality of your work. You have... Depression Depression Syndrome. We're not doing enough as a society to help those who suffer from DDS, and what little is done just goes right down the drain.

Because all my mistakes have good intent, whereas you seem to do these things with malice in mind. If I swerve over three lanes and cut you off, it's just because I didn't want to miss my highway exit, not because I'm an uncaring driver like you. If I drive erratically, it's more likely because there's a bee I'm trying to shoo out the window, whereas you're probably drunk. If I don't hold the door for you as we're both entering the store it's because I'm running late, whereas if you don't hold it for me you're probably just rude. If I spell something differently, I'm being clever. You, on the other hand, purposely misspelled your title because you knew it would bug me. What an arsehole!

How about one of those inflatable hemorrhoid rings? Raise you up instead of lowering the toilets? I'm trying to think outside the bowl here.

When was the last time anything used by the public got bigger and more comfortable? I think it's much more likely that you'll need to change rather than changing all the toilets slightly. Most people will see this as a personal danglesomeness problem. How about an individual engineering fix? Something with pulleys and gears, possibly attached to the pubic hairs, that lifts as you sit?

Before modern medicine, I think the idea was to keep you off the wounded part that's causing pain, to force you to do all the things that will aid healing. Now though, the wound is treated and dressed appropriately by medical professionals, so the need to be reminded to stay off it is less important. I also remember hearing that modern painkillers aren't going to mask the kind of pain you'd expect from something like a burst appendix. It's doubtful you would be unaware of the pain leading up to the moment, but you may misjudge the severity and not get treatment in time. There are certain parts of the body's recovery process that actually hamper modern doctors. When you get a wound, some of the early steps after hemostasis are designed to flush the wound of any dirt that may have gotten in, but modern procedures do a better job. If the wounded tissue didn't become inflamed from being flushed with fluids, it wouldn't be such a pain trying to suture the wound.

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