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Would not surprise me at all if it turned out there was some truth in that joke.

Couldn't find an account of the reaction to the Evil Gubmint Overreach (TM) toilet mandate of 1848 (sadly there was no Supreme Court then to block the law), but according to this, it did take 200 years from the invention of the flush toilet to it being widely used (presumably because they were waiting for someone to invent sewers) :


A Brief History of The Flush Toilet | The British Association of Urological Surgeons Limited

www.baus.org.uk www.baus.org.uk


It is a widely-held belief that Thomas Crapper designed the first flush toilet in the 1860s. It was actually 300 years earlier, during the 16th century, that Europe discovered modern sanitation. The credit for inventing the flush toilet goes to Sir John Harrington, godson of Elizabeth I, who invented a water closet with a raised cistern and a small downpipe through which water ran to flush the waste in 1592. He built one for himself and one for his godmother; sadly, his invention was ignored for almost 200 years: it was was not until 1775 that Alexander Cummings, a watchmaker, developed the S-shaped pipe under the toilet basin to keep out the foul odours.
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In 1848, the government decreed that every new house should have a water-closet (WC) or ash-pit privy. "Night soil men" were engaged to empty the ash pits. However, after a particularly hot summer in 1858, when rotting sewage resulted in "the great stink (pictured right in a cartoon of the day)", the government commissioned the building of a system of sewers in London; construction was completed in 1865. At last, deaths from cholera, typhoid and other waterborne diseases dropped spectacularly.
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Also found this (about that 1848 act that made WCs mandatory)



In 1848, a new wave of cholera was sweeping westwards
across Europe. By June an epidemic was raging in Moscow and
by September it had reached Hamburg and Paris. Watching its
spread with anxiety, the British Government, after several failed
attempts, passed the Public Health Act on the last day of August
1848, establishing a General Board of Health for a provisional
five-year period. George Rosen notes that the activities of the
Board of Health were, from the beginning, resisted by “vested
interests” who opposed the new regulations in the name of
property rights and human freedom (3). As the criticism be-
came more vociferous and the Board of Health increasingly
unpopular, Parliament refused to renew the Act after the first
five years and the National Board of Health, at least in that
form, came to an end. Chadwick was forced into retirement,
albeit with a generous government benefit.
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Is it just me... doesn't that look confusing as hell at first glance?
I assume at ground level with good signs it's probably not as confusing.
Is that a bicycle lane going over everything?
 
skyking

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Zorba said:
That would literally never work in the US.
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It is happening all over. It still has traffic lights which seem to the thing here in the US.
Friday, I went over this redesigned overpass to a job. The driver ahead of me did need a blast of my air horn as encouragement though.
They swapped the lanes so there is much less crossover and left turns to get on the interstate.
https://goo.gl/maps/DgESjLiWw1Nk7XkBA

I watched this pedestrian and bicycle overpass get build in north Seattle.
https://www.seattle.gov/transportat...idges/northgate-pedestrian-and-bicycle-bridge

As a bike rider it is truly a game changer to get off the streets.
 
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skyking said:
It is happening all over. It still has traffic lights which seem to the thing here in the US.
Friday, I went over this redesigned overpass to a job. The driver ahead of me did need a blast of my air horn as encouragement though.
They swapped the lanes so there is much less crossover and left turns to get on the interstate.
https://goo.gl/maps/DgESjLiWw1Nk7XkBA

I watched this pedestrian and bicycle overpass get build in north Seattle.
https://www.seattle.gov/transportat...idges/northgate-pedestrian-and-bicycle-bridge

As a bike rider it is truly a game changer to get off the streets.
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I really wish they would do more stuff like this in my area.... would get me back on my bike in nice weather.

Right now traffic in New Haven is like riding through a giant meat grinder and trying to dodge the blades!
 
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skyking said:
It is happening all over. It still has traffic lights which seem to the thing here in the US.
Friday, I went over this redesigned overpass to a job. The driver ahead of me did need a blast of my air horn as encouragement though.
They swapped the lanes so there is much less crossover and left turns to get on the interstate.
https://goo.gl/maps/DgESjLiWw1Nk7XkBA

I watched this pedestrian and bicycle overpass get build in north Seattle.
https://www.seattle.gov/transportat...idges/northgate-pedestrian-and-bicycle-bridge

As a bike rider it is truly a game changer to get off the streets.
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I don't mean the bike over pass. I meant the auto part of the interchange. Americans can barely handle divergent diamonds or one lane rotaries.

ETA: The Google maps link is a divergent diamond interchange. They are so much better than the typical diamond, but people fight against them like crazy.
 
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It took a blast of air horn to move the jackhole through ahead of me, so yes there is resistance. Since this is a picture thread here is the truck I was driving, after it got bashed by a 944 loader on a crowded jobsite last week. He was apparently driving by braille.
Here is the lineup.
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The bumper got Taco Belled
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scab patched. when you work with plumbers, everything can be fixed with plumber's tape.
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Zorba said:
That would literally never work in the US.
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Even the simplest of traffic circles here are completely beyond the ability of the simplest of drivers to negotiate. I don't mind the circles, they could improve traffic flow, except for the stupid fucking morons that can't grasp the concept.
 
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skyking said:
@Zorba
It took a blast of air horn to move the jackhole through ahead of me, so yes there is resistance. Since this is a picture thread here is the truck I was driving, after it got bashed by a 944 loader on a crowded jobsite last week. He was apparently driving by braille.
Here is the lineup.
PXL_20220104_200339688_2-1.jpg


The bumper got Taco Belled
PXL_20220104_234110306.jpg


scab patched. when you work with plumbers, everything can be fixed with plumber's tape.
PXL-20220106-222116466.jpg
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You know I was the first person where I work to notice that neat little japanese arch in that place....
 
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