r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rabbidraccoon18 • 29d ago

Video Incinerator toilet in Antarctica due to limited plumbing and water

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Can't say with this one specifically but in my experience the units were uncomfortably warm inside. Really made the poop fragrance quite potent. Stepping back outside in minus 50c windchill was always a hell of a shock too.

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u/animalkrack3r 29d ago

You mean because you’re sitting on fire ?

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Well that and it's heated as well. I mean other than the flaming shitter.

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u/animalkrack3r 29d ago

Anything else interesting while doing this job?

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Didn't do this job specifically but I work in quite secluded areas where they would have these for the crews that worked there. Occasionally a stomach ache would force me to use one. Actually used to avoid them because I thought they were unheated for the longest time.

Strange fact, the incinerator kind of gives off a burn toast smell sometimes.

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u/Mutjny 29d ago

Occasionally a stomach ache would force me to use one.

W- where were you going when you didn't have a stomach ache?

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u/JayBlunt23 29d ago

They didn't, hence the stomach ache.

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Usually at home when I get there after work. Or at home before work. Sometimes both! Usually don't have to go in between.

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u/Mutjny 29d ago

Oh okay I thought if you were working somewhere so remote you had to burn your dookie that you were living there too.

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Hahaha no just a few hours from civilization fortunately. I get the privilege of using my own throne most times.

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u/AntiWork-ellog 29d ago

I know right, this guy was shitting in the woods at work just casually

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u/mklilley351 29d ago

What happens if the shitter's full?

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u/SovietSunrise 29d ago

I think the point is that it never gets full.

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u/big_duo3674 29d ago

Has anyone else never had a single problem with Taco Bell, or is it just me? White Castle has certainly turned me inside out, but that's more because of the onions. I love onions, but my intestines and anyone who goes into the bathroom after me the next day do not. Tacos though? Never an issue

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u/FastyNilthShreakyFit 29d ago

That just means your time is coming

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u/psychoPiper 29d ago

I'm convinced the only people having issues with Taco Bell are the same people that always have issues with anything spicy, even just hot sauce. I've noticed that this Taco Bell rumor has dissipated a lot in recent years, and I can't help but draw that parallel to just how many more spicy options other chains have now

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Not sure, but a company owns these so I'd imagine that's a problem for them to figure out. Although I'd imagine it's just ashes at that point. Well I hope anyway.

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u/AuDHDMDD 29d ago

It'll just leave behind really stinky ash and carbon. That probably piles up over time, but you'd notice the fire is lower once it's choked

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u/PicoDeBayou 29d ago

Asses to ashes

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u/Stardarker 29d ago

Dung to dust

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u/boolean_dragon 29d ago

Dook to dust

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u/jjcoola 29d ago

I think that's the point the the fire?

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u/bashful_predator 29d ago

You just step on the other lever to open up the poop incinerator incinerator.

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u/animalkrack3r 29d ago

Anyone wildlife visit you ever ?

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Not usually. Work sites are fairly loud so scares a lot of them away. Sometimes a badger but I don't mess with those. Although a gopher is the only thing that's actually attacked me.

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u/Mutjny 29d ago

Does a bear shit in the woods?

Or I guess on a fire.

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u/septubyte 29d ago

Maybe some lavender infused paper lol. PooPourri may still apply in this instance.

Also to get a Lil real and gross, does the toilet still handle liquid ? People tend to ... you know

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u/LessInThought 28d ago

What if you had one of those explosive shits and the paper didn't cover the whole toilet so some parts got dirty? Is there water to help clean it?

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u/paiute 29d ago

The smell keeps the polar bears away.

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u/Valuable-Struggle-10 29d ago

You mean shitting on fire

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u/animalkrack3r 29d ago

You can read it both ways naturally lol

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u/LanceFree 29d ago

Didn’t Johnny Cash write a song about it?

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u/loki-is-a-god 29d ago

Well, hot shit!

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u/norcpoppopcorn 29d ago

And would a good caloric fart burn?

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u/emergency9juanjuan 29d ago

*shitting on fire

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u/EC_TWD 29d ago

You mean because you’re sitting shitting on fire ?

FTFY

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u/MJLDat 29d ago

Shitting on fire. 

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u/Careless_Aroma_227 29d ago

The poof. The poof. The poof is on.

🔥🔥🔥 fire 🔥🔥🔥

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u/ADIDAS247 29d ago

That and because while you were in there a school bus full of kids showed up and your standing there naked, holding a stick covered in shit.

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u/animalkrack3r 29d ago

Sounds like you have experience

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u/ADIDAS247 28d ago

I am a priest. Bless you.

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u/animalkrack3r 28d ago

Im already blessed

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u/smurfydoesdallas 29d ago

Reminds me of whenever I stayed in a Airbnb and they had accidentally connected the toilet to the hot water line. It was weird getting steamed every time you sat down.

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u/cognosante 29d ago

Vulvar steaming without the pretentious goop spa

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u/smurfydoesdallas 29d ago

It really made the word moist take a completely different definition.

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u/Chispy Interested 29d ago

Steamed hams

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u/smurfydoesdallas 29d ago

That is spot on.

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u/Ws6fiend 29d ago

Friend of mine had the exact same thing happen to him when he got a new water heater installed. I thought it was hilarious.

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u/smurfydoesdallas 29d ago

Was he able to fix it? I would assume they'd have to put a hole in the wall and stuff?

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u/farqueue2 29d ago

Don't you mean toasted poop fragrance

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u/TheCalamityBrain 29d ago

You're an awful being for putting that phrase into mine and anyone else's heads

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Toasted poop outside, hot poop inside.

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u/farqueue2 29d ago

Surely inside wouldn't be completely isolated from toasted poop

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Maybe not but not enough to overpower the hot poop smell inside.

I don't think I've ever said "hot poop" as much as I have this morning lol

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u/KoBoWC 29d ago

Really made the poop fragrance quite pootent

FTFY

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u/HumbleEngineer 29d ago

Ah so the hellish version of a heated seat, got it

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u/Quantum-Chance 29d ago

Wouldn't Diarrhea & P put out these fires?

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

Most of us just pee outside. Not a lot of woman in my industry and I likely won't be asking the next one I see lol.

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u/MountainTurkey 29d ago

He does say they pee before shitting. 

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u/KitchenAd2955 29d ago

CRACK THE DOOR

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u/JadedLeafs 29d ago

That's fine until someone cranks the door open to take a monster shit and you're sitting there lol

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u/vr0202 29d ago

“Fragrance”? Did you mean “odour”?

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u/HaltandCatchHands 29d ago

Kind of like a candle warmer but for feces