Mythbusters - Part 1

Well, my last post consisted of a lot of ranting, so I figured I needed to have a fun post that shows I actually am enjoying Australia. From now on, I am gonna be posting a lot of the fun and interesting differences between America and Australia. Don't worry though, I'll keep you up to date on all the adventures that I go on.


The first thing you are all probably wondering about is the toilet flush situation. The word in America is that the toilets in Australia flush backwards, or counter-clockwise. To start, toilets in Australia have two buttons. The smaller button (or half-moon button) is for the liquid stuff. The larger button (or full moon button) is for the other stuff. The first time I flushed the toilet, I was utterly confused at this complex mechanism. After all, toilets are only supposed to have one option, flush. The make toilets this way so that they don't waste as much water because droughts are quite frequent here (I don't know how with all this rain). I, however, am not saving them any water because the half-flush button in my room doesn't flush in my my opinion.

Nevertheless, I'm going to let you watch a video of an Australian toilet flushing so that you can see for yourself the mechanism of the Australian flush:



Okay. So I think we can call this nice little myth about Australian toilets BUSTED.


I was very disappointed to see the Australian flush for the first time. Not only was I taken aback by the sheer force of the flush (well compared to American home toilets), but I was extremely disappointed to find out that they flush with virtually no directionally flow at all. What a buzz kill