How a World War II German sub captain used the toilet wrong and sunk his vessel

boing
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All right, in your case, it seems unfair to blame the designer.

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I’ve been blamed before. But I don’t give a shit. Get it? Haha. Give a shit? I don’t even give two shits.

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Gaw, just try replying to that without crossing a line…

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Someone will flag me and then totally blow out my chances of becoming regular. ( haha, agin.)

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“Oh Schlitt!”

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Or, just told from another point of view: “How an engineer so poorly designed a toilet that a slight misuse sank a submarine.”
Man I hope we didn’t give asylum to THAT guy after the war.

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It’s been made. Didn’t you see Das Braun Boot?

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“Why do we even have that lever???”

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He didn’t know how to use the three shells?

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A better approach. Like only the Irish can.

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Using either is a kinda shitty experience.

The three shells were introduced after this accident, as a design risk reduction response.

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everything is a chemical reaction

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Now I feel that my own life has been such a failure.

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War is hell.

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Unless you’re a weapons merchant.

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Captain’s Log: I feel lighter but the boat is sinking. Odd.

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Making something seemingly simple, like a toilet, gets very complicated when you’re confronted with the problem of getting water mixed with bodily waste off the ship, when that ship is underwater and squeezed on all sides by mind-boggling tons of pressure. Can’t just open a hatch and dump it out - that lets the outside water in, under pressure, as that U-boat captain found out. So instead of a simple gravity flush like what’s in your house, it has to have chambers and airlocks and boost pressure from the ship’s supply of compressed air to solve the problem of getting your shit outside from inside the sub.

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Well, no schlitt, Schlitt-lock. :joy:

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so that’s why we rather go to space, nowadays.

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