[jimmybob @ Jul 25th 2007 12:46AM]

i've never used a toilet that took more than a second to flush

[Shaun MacLean @ Jul 25th 2007 12:48AM]

Same here. Weird.

[chaosrain @ Jul 25th 2007 1:21AM]

Actually, many basement toilets require that you hold the lever for a "complete" flush. I think it's due to the fact that gravity does not assist a basement toilet in the same way it does an above-ground loo.

[Alvin @ Jul 25th 2007 1:23AM]

Have you ever used an old toilet? Many times the flush valve will fail to stay open long enough for the bowl siphon to carry the waste water out, unless you manually hold it open (i.e. flush the handle) for at least two seconds.

[John Doe @ Jul 25th 2007 1:44AM]

Ditto. 2-5 seconds to flush and for those who say ewwww. You are touching the handle that everyone else is touching to flush.
You should be washing your hands after to hit the can you disease carrying sicko. :-P ;-)

[John Doe @ Jul 25th 2007 1:50AM]

Alvin,

I've used toilets from the 1950's from the looks of it. These toilets still take about 2-5 seconds to flush once the water drops to a level where the floater can...well float. Again nowhere near the 10 seconds or so suggested by the article. But lets be honest here. Its a blog. Which was probably written in aprox the same amount of time it takes to flush a faulty toilet, so I'm not suprised that there are exaggerations in it. Engadget's bloggers have a solid history of pulling stuff out of....thin air for their posts. *shrugs* Whatever.