"If it's yellow, let it mellow"

[IGotWorms 4,059]

So I heard this expression for the first time the other day. "If it's yellow, let it mellow." As in, when you take a piss in the toilet, don't flush it afterward. Apparently you just keep on pissing in there until some point in time when it is appropriate to flush (when the toilet is about to overflow with urine?).

 

Now the flip side to that is, "if it's brown, flush it down." So when you take a poop you don't let that sit, you flush it immediately. But not so with pee. Maybe because pee doesn't usually smell as bad?

 

My question is, does anyone adhere to this code? If so, why? Is it to save your pipes from work? To save money on the water bill? To save the environment? What the heck is the purpose?

 

Personally, I think it's gross. Especially if you live with other people. But even if I lived by myself, I don't want to go to the can to take a leak, only to be greeted by my own urine which has been fomenting in the toilet bowl for hours.

 

[IMMensaMind 462]

The preceding policy brought to you by eco-freaks. They think - somehow - that flushing less saves water.

 

As though the toilet is directly connected to a pipe which takes it to outer space.

 

[shotsup 832]

Yeah I did it in the 70's when (then) Mayor Ed Koch asked NYC to do so during dry spells.

 

and personally I think it is grosser that you have worms.

[Me_2006 14]

I know lots of guys who do this. Not for any kind of reason, everyone at the house is just too lazy to flush.

[IGotWorms 4,059]

I know lots of guys who do this. Not for any kind of reason, everyone at the house is just too lazy to flush.

 

I always assumed people were too lazy, but my friend and I stopped by his parents' house the other day (they're old hippies) and while I was there I used the bathroom and flushed. Well somehow the old bat knew I went number one (probably because it didn't take me long, but really she shouldn't be timing how long her guests are in the bathroom). So when I came out she says "if it's yellow, let it mellow." Then the old man said something about the pipes so I thought maybe it had to do with the plumbing.

 

I don't know, the whole thing is odd to me. I guess maybe it would make sense if you lived in the desert but we were in the middle of a rainforest.

 

Why do I feel like GFIAFP right now?

[NorthernVike 2,087]

With two little boys in the house this is the norm. H3ll, my five year old thinks it's funny to leave a huge turd in there for me to find.

[Big Blue 06 195]

With two little boys in the house this is the norm. H3ll, my five year old thinks it's funny to leave a huge turd in there for me to find.

 

That is pretty funny.

[MDC 7,494]

No, because pizz smells bad and it stains the toilet if you let it sit there.

 

Gross.

[patweisers44 848]

With two little boys in the house this is the norm. H3ll, my five year old thinks it's funny to leave a huge turd in there for me to find.

because SOMEONE had to walk into the bathroom drop their pants turn around maybe spread their butt cheeks apart with their hands and squeeze out a chocolate hot dog. M'Kay, you might has well have just dropped your pants and laid a turd right on Mr. Northernvikes's head.

[hdaddy 18]

With two little boys in the house this is the norm. H3ll, my five year old thinks it's funny to leave a huge turd in there for me to find.

 

 

I have a three year old that yells out the door of the bathroom, "Dad, dad, come see, come see..." When I get to the door he points in the pot and says, "look, look, it's a big one!" I give a congratulatory "Good Job!" and we move along.

 

This 40 pounder can drop some large ones. I actually carried a photo of one, on my phone, that was at least 14 inch long to show to friends and family

[sheadtoo 1]

Do it in the motor home all the time. Usually do to lack of water supply

[GettnHuge 2]

when actuall yinside, yeh

[MedStudent 56]

So I heard this expression for the first time the other day. "If it's yellow, let it mellow." As in, when you take a piss in the toilet, don't flush it afterward. Apparently you just keep on pissing in there until some point in time when it is appropriate to flush (when the toilet is about to overflow with urine?).

 

Now the flip side to that is, "if it's brown, flush it down." So when you take a poop you don't let that sit, you flush it immediately. But not so with pee. Maybe because pee doesn't usually smell as bad?

 

My question is, does anyone adhere to this code? If so, why? Is it to save your pipes from work? To save money on the water bill? To save the environment? What the heck is the purpose?

 

Personally, I think it's gross. Especially if you live with other people. But even if I lived by myself, I don't want to go to the can to take a leak, only to be greeted by my own urine which has been fomenting in the toilet bowl for hours.

 

 

I've been on vacations where we rented an old cabin where they have signs that say that hanging above the toilet. I never really followed the rule. But I would sometimes just pee outside because we were in the middle of nowhere and it seemed like a cool thing to do.

 

 

 

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

I've been on vacations where we rented an old cabin where they have signs that say that hanging above the toilet. I never really followed the rule. But I would sometimes just pee outside because we were in the middle of nowhere and it seemed like a cool thing to do.

 

I used to just pee out the back door of my house because it was closer than the bathroom. Only had to stand up and open the sliding glass door really. Then I got married.

[IGotWorms 4,059]

I've been on vacations where we rented an old cabin where they have signs that say that hanging above the toilet. I never really followed the rule. But I would sometimes just pee outside because we were in the middle of nowhere and it seemed like a cool thing to do.

 

Peeing outside is very liberating.

[penultimatestraw 473]

The preceding policy brought to you by eco-freaks. They think - somehow - that flushing less saves water.

 

As though the toilet is directly connected to a pipe which takes it to outer space.

 

So the water/sewer bill is the same if you flush once or a thousand times? Are any resources used in the process to treat waste water? Any byproducts of wastewater treatment which may be harmful to the environment? I think there are both economic and environmental justifications for this policy. Lazyness probably trumps all of these, however.

 

I tried it for a while, and in practice it is gross - smells bad, stains the toilet, hell, it may even promote infection as stagnant urine is a great place for bacteria to breed. If you desire to be ecorabid these days, there are self-composting toilets for the home which make humanure...

[NorthernVike 2,087]

I have a three year old that yells out the door of the bathroom, "Dad, dad, come see, come see..." When I get to the door he points in the pot and says, "look, look, it's a big one!" I give a congratulatory "Good Job!" and we move along.

 

This 40 pounder can drop some large ones. I actually carried a photo of one, on my phone, that was at least 14 inch long to show to friends and family

I know what you mean. It is simply amazing that so much shiot can come out of such a tiny person.

[hdaddy 18]

I know what you mean. It is simply amazing that so much shiot can come out of such a tiny person.

 

Agreed

[patweisers44 848]

I know what you mean. It is simply amazing that so much shiot can come out of such a tiny person.

Where has Gutterboy been, anyway?