Does anyone want to organize a globally synchronized toilet flush here on Reddit?

MustStopMasturbating · 3 months

You are messing with powers which you do not fully understand.

8Cowboy · 3 months

This will be the most anti-climatic coordinated stunt ever.

NorthWestJudas · 3 months

Meanwhile, in Africa.

ForNoRaeson · 3 months

As a graduate physicist I can confirm, gravity WILL turn off or something. I'm in.

NowInOz · 3 months

I have a mate that works for sewage treatment plants. This is a bad idea. Really bad.

MrDork · 3 months

This is the dumbest idea I've ever heard. When do we do it!?

06fg2 · 3 months

"I'm busy on the 12th. I have to flush my toilet. "

I_hijack_threads · 3 months

I say we should flush, and then wait exactly 60 seconds and all jump as high as we can at the same time. We might just make the earth wobble.

ftmk · 3 months

This is a perfect setup for a South Park episode. Just saying...

galexy · 3 months

On a tour of a water treatment plant, I learned that this essentially happens during half time of the super bowl. Shit gets crazy. By far and away the most popular time to flush a toilet all year.

MelisSassenach · 3 months

Some men just want to watch the world burn...

philbert247 · 3 months

Should we poop first or not???

Rumeye · 3 months

Made a Poster. Enjoy!

Habeas · 3 months

I'm definitely down. Let's make this happen. What better way is there to make the news than "Reddit organizes synchronized toilet flush".

dotdotd0t · 3 months

I wonder how many people will accidentally participate.

LittleMissAmy · 3 months

Best case scenario: Minor media coverage

Worst case scenario: Total sewage meltdown

JTDeuce · 3 months

So this is how the world ends...

olsmobile · 3 months

I heard somewhere that during halftime of the superbowl the average amount of water pressure drops dramatically in the US because everyone waits till halftime to use the bathroom because they don't want to miss the commercials.

kruksog · 3 months

This is fucking stupid.

I'm down.

Xune531 · 3 months

I'm DTF. Down To Flush

jga96 · 3 months

Good idea, we'll do it sunday at 8PM GMT, i think that is a good time to do it. Most of europe should be awake there, and the most of america should be awake at that time.

Ready?

Edit: Large or small flush?

Patternicity · 3 months

I'm scared for Australia.

itismrnick · 3 months

Well this is probably one of the biggest wastes of water.

bisonmilk · 3 months

Would Australians flushing their toilets at the same time be appreciated or counter-productive? I want to feel included, but I don't want to prevent the end of gravity. (For east coast Aussies this is Monday morning at 7am. I'd like to thank our American friends in advance for potentially destroying the world just before we all leave for work. You are true heroes.)

rwhite2366 · 3 months

In light of this discussion: On Average, how many people in the world do you think flush the toilet at the same exact time in any given day?

SirBerrington · 3 months

We will recreate the Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide episode. Count. Me. In.

RandianHero · 3 months

You fool! You'll kill us all!

mediatitan · 3 months

Technically, this could be pretty dangerous. Water pressure could drop dramatically so if there was a fire at the same time - no bueno.

lambdacomplex · 3 months

STOP! I am from the future. This single event has altered time and space as we know it. The streets are waterlogged with sewage and peoples houses are destroyed. The economy is no more. World govenments have collapsed. Barack Obama decided to join in, and his flush alone in his secret hot tub size white house toilet created a resonance cascade. Weird aliens have started entering our world via the portal, all seemingly controlled by one master alien, the Shithilanth. Turtle-head crabs are roaming the streets attacking people, the Poobine are harvesting the sewage water for their own dirty doo-deeds. DO NOT GO AHEAD WITH THIS! I am Morepoo Flushman, leader of The Reshitstance. Take my word for it. The P-Man is guiding me to safety by being here. Stop me having to take on these enemas by preventing this event!

DragonHunter · 3 months

OK, Reddit, my very close friend is an engineer. Her job is to make sure that shit gets flushed, correctly.

I asked her about this stunt. Her response, after reacting strongly that this is a stupid thing to test, was to say, "Why not everyone cut off their foot at exactly the same time and test the emergency health system?"

Many cities have combined sewer and stormwater systems. For those cities, if it's not raining, it's unlikely that this stunt will produce any noticeable results.

For cities that don't have CSOs, you are risking pressurizing the low elevation sewer pipes, causing back flow into people's homes. This is not a good idea.

DrunkNFunky · 3 months

You'll open up a hole to oblivion unleashing the fury which is cthulhu... I would advise against this because mint berry crunch isn't real...

JD580 · 3 months

So basically, at 3:00 PM Est everyone is to flush their toilet once? Then just go back about our day?

ceri23 · 3 months

I heard something on the radio along these lines this morning, but unintentional. Apparently some water treatment plant in New York had a 13% demand increase during the first post-Super Bowl commercial break. They said the facility's water storage dropped several inches almost instantly.

powersofterror · 3 months

Please take a shit first. it will not be a waste of water then and be the smelliest flush of 2012. The oceans will be clogged with your bullshit.

PietFriet · 3 months

"BIG THANKS TO PENISWAFFLES"

Only on Reddit.

bot0004 · 3 months

This is such a shit idea...

My_Name_Too · 3 months

I bet we could make this political... Should we plan it for a big election day?

haltline · 3 months

Very bad idea. Johnny Carson did this on television one night, he asked everyone in his home town to go flush. Of course, lots of people did. Water levels all over the country dropped, there was some damage and water outages caused in his home town. The next night he appologized profusely and told his audience to never do that again. Let us learn from history.

clickity-click · 3 months

i doubt the mayans could've predicted that this is how the world would end.

the Big Flush 2012.

cive666 · 3 months

This happened in Boston in 2010 when the every toilet was flushed during the half time of the Nintendo Power Bowl Championship. It caused the Nuclear power plant to lose water pressure and the core had a melt down.

Video proof of the aftermath

Tetsujin1138 · 3 months

This was possibly the most anti-climactic event of all time, and I loved every second of it!

GodOfAnusWorms · 3 months

And this is how humans finally destroy earth's ability to sustain life. Good job Redditor nebfeega.

Dsch1ngh1s_Khan · 3 months

Can someone put together a quick website that has a simple countdown timer on it?

Everyone needs to be in perfect synchronization on their flushing for maximum effect.

neighborcat1-scratch · 3 months

As amusing as this sounds, as a Reasonable Person (tm) who has not started drinking yet this evening, I have to oppose it and provide the following;

When a municipal sanitary sewer system is overloaded, manhole (You there! Stop snickering. I'm being serious...) manhole covers will be lifted by columns of sewage several feet high, and the lower portions of streets and other areas will be flooded, as will basements. Gaming will be interrupted. Bongs and Kind will be spilled. In the days of my youth, album collections would be ruined.

Also, many municipal sewer systems (in violation of federal law) still have what are called combined sewer overflows, which dump the excess sanitary sewer water into the storm sewer system. Eventually, all of these gallons of untreated sewage wind up in the natural waterways, the streams and rivers that surround us. In my humble, cautionary opinion, this is not cool.

Being un-original is not cool either. Stunts like this have been pulled in various areas in the past. The authorities and judges take a very, very dim view of it. Individuals who can be linked to organizing such pranks have been prosecuted and convicted of being dumb-asses. If fatalities occur (think traffic accidents) you can be convicted of being a dumb-ass who commits manslaughter. Being un-original and in jail for it is possibly as uncool as you can get. From there, things get serious.

Still, I'll bet you will get serious props from the other guys in the county lockup.

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