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I'm actually serious, which button is the right one? Why are there two?

Also should a Pic of a toilet be considered NSFW?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hi!

It's a dual flush toilet! They give you an option to make the toilet do a full flush or a half flush. The smaller button operates the small flush, while the larger button operates the bigger flush! The smaller flush is better suited to use when you pee, since it requires less water to flush away.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sorry for asking, but are you American?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I prefer the term 'Murican.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Push both until the shit is ALL GONE. Don't be like my housemate :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Push both of them in and hold it until the flushing finishes

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Little button = peepee

Big button = poopoo

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Both buttons for a toilet clogging doo doo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

The right button is the right button.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Big button = big flush

Little button = little flush

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The toilet I am currently sitting on has a very similar set up. The toilet came with the house, and I haven't been able to discern a difference in the 8 years I've lived here.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I just pushed both buttons because I didn't know how this thing worked

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It's a smaller button inside a larger button (sort of), the smaller (right) button you push to flush your urine and the larger (left) you push to flush your excrement. I've used these many times but if I'm honest I've never actually been sure if they work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A lot of the comments are making the assumption that the buttons are telling the truth about being different sizes, but I've flushed plenty of toilets where both buttons do a full flush. If you can't tell the difference after experimenting, it might just be broken or cheap tat.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The way these flush mechanisms work is adjustable. It's entirely possible that someone adjusted them to have both have similar volumes for whatever reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Actually, after using the toilet, only the big button works, the smaller one does nothing and both doesn't change anything.

Edit: Spelling

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 month ago (4 children)

ITT: A lot of Lemmy users showing their true colors. Someone asks for help, for information, and y'all decide to mock.

OP: one button does a full flush, the other does a half flush. In your picture, the button on the right, does the half flush. Button on the left, does the full flush. Full flush is usually just x2, though I don't think that's a hard rule.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I explained it to my kids like this:

1 button for #1.
2 buttons for #2.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

The point of these things is to save water on a smaller flush when you only pee.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks like this one breaks the rules. Only the big button works.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Actually the little button sends an SOS to local authorities, so chances are the little button works fine and you have an incoming SWAT raid with paramedics and police surrounding the building.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

These swat raids are getting out of hand!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is boringly not always true, for a while some genius, probably Elon Flush, decided to invert the functions so that when you pushed the bigger button you got the small flush.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Nothing like developing trust issues after taking a massive shit I suppose.

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