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Toilet chair. A close stool was an early type of portable toilet, made in the shape of a cabinet or box at sitting height with an opening in the top.The external structure contained a pewter or earthenware chamberpot to receive the user's excrement and urine when they sat on it; this was normally covered (closed) by a folding lid.
The toilet seat functions as a comic standby for sight gags relating to toilet humor. The most common is someone staggering out of a toilet room after an explosion with a toilet seat around his neck. In the television show Dead Like Me, George Lass, the main character, is killed when a zero-G toilet seat from space station Mir re-enters the ...
A commode chair sometimes has wheels to allow easy transport to the bathroom or shower. Most commode chairs have a removable pail and flip-back armrests. Historically, similar pieces of equipment were the close stool and the chamber pot. The commode chair evolved from these in the 18th century and became also known as chamber chair, necessary ...
A commode chair from Pakistan Museum collection of toilets, bed pans, hip baths, etc. The modern toilet commode is on the right. 19th century heavy wooden toilet commode. In British English, "commode" is the standard term for a commode chair, often on wheels, enclosing a chamber pot—as used in hospitals and the homes of disabled persons. [1]
This closet was also designed with a special opening through which deodorising material could be scattered over the top of the pit. A ventilation shaft was also installed. The design offered a significant improvement over the less advanced midden-privy, but the problems of emptying and cleaning such pits remained and thus the pail system, with ...
Breakfast foods like processed meats, bread, pastries and fried potatoes should be replaced on the breakfast plate instead of good-for-you eggs, says a certified holistic nutritionist. Here's why.
We know it’s going to happen soon enough. The 12-team playoff will expand to 14 or 16 schools, and probably 24 or 32 after that. It’s happened before.
After opening the season at 4-2, Chicago has lost eight straight games and fired head coach Matt Eberflus after a disastrous Thanksgiving loss to the Lions, the first time in the franchise’s ...