the half flush...?


I spent a lot of time in the bathroom at Currarong. Mostly because I needed to pee a lot. Now, I'm no rocket scientist, really, I'm not so I won't say I am... but I think that the reason I spent so much time peeing was because I drank so much.

In fact, we all drank quite a lot, with enough empty beer, wine, vodka and baileys bottles to create a wonderful little beer wall. Now lets be honest, it isn't the biggest line of empty bottles ever created, but when you realise that most of those were finished off by two people over two days... well. It's not a bad effort.

But back to the peeing... I spent a lot of time staring at the toilet during the Currarong weekend, and a strage and random thought hit me... about the 'half flush' on the toilets.

I don't understand the half flush system... I don't know if the half flush is the big button or the little button... depending on how you view the system it could be either. And heck, I can't tell the difference in volumes of water in the half flush. So here was my thought...

So maybe the half flush is the big button. Do you try to encourage people to save water by making the half flush the bigger and more noticable button... The rationale being that most people are kinda lazy and just hit the biggest easiest button. People don't care which flush they hit, as long as their business is gone. So could the water saving half flush be the big button?

Or maybe the sizes of the flush buttons are relative to the amount of water that rushes into the bowl. So in this case it would be the smaller harder to hit button that is the half flush and the bigger button is the full flush button.

I'm confused. Does anyone have any advice for me on this?