Social

In this post I will look at the range of social associations with the toilet including slang and etiquette.

Urination

• To go and spend a penny
• Answer the call of nature (or nature's call)
• Breaking the seal
• Change water on the goldfish
• Do a wee
• Expel urine from my sack of pee 
• Go pee pee
• Going to water my horse
• Hosing the porcelain
• Make one's bladder gladder
• Number one
• Pee
• Pee Pee
• Piddle
• Piss
• Pit stop
• Point the Pink Pistol at the Porcelain Firing Range
• Relieve yourself
• See a man about a horse
• Taking a slash
• Taking a whiz
• Training Thomas on the terracotta
• Visit Uncle Charley
• Visit the urination station
• Watering the flowers (outdoor)
• Take a Chinese singing lesson

Defecation

• Back one out
• Backing the big brown motorhome out of the garage
• Building a log cabin
• Curling one off
• Dirty squirties
• Doo-Doo
• Download a brownload
• Dropping logs
• Dropping some friends off at the pool
• Feeding the toilet
• Filing some papers
• Going to number two
• Hanging a rat
• Laying a brick
• Laying a cable
• Releasing the chocolate hostages
• Taking a poo
• Throwing up backwards
• Unloading a batch of cigars

Facts found from around the web!

http://listverse.com/2009/06/15/15-fascinating-facts-about-toilets/

• The film “Psycho” was the first movie to show a toilet flushing – the scene caused an inpouring of complaints about indecency

• The first toilet cubicle in a row is the least used (and consequently cleanest)
• Lack of suitable toilets and sanitation kills approximately 1.8 million people a year, many of them children.
• An average person visits the toilet 2500 times a year, about six-eight times a day. You spend about three years of your life in the toilet!

• In 1890, the Scott Paper Company manufactured toilet paper on a roll, much as we know it today.

Source: Random Quick Facts

Toilet Etiquette game: 

http://www.purely-games.com/toilet_etiquette_game.html

The International Centre for Bathroom Etiquette:

http://www.icbe.org/the-ideal-situation/

World Toilet Day:

http://www.worldtoilet.org/WTD/

World Toilet Crisis:

This documentary looks into parts of India and Indonesia where more than half the population do not have a toilet and what effect this has on health, sanitation and living conditions

http://current.com/shows/vanguard/92482205_worlds-toilet-crisis.htm

At the end of the documentary a man who's aim it is to get everybody in the world access to a toilet says that the toilet is much more than what we would think of it, it represents quality of life, affects your entire wellbeing and emotional health

This is the website featured in the Documentary!
http://www.sulabhtoiletmuseum.org/pg01.htm

The toilet situation in India is very interesting, some of the quantitative data from these websites could be used to make some useful info graphics:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article2992061.ece

http://www.iol.co.za/news/politics/sa-toilet-crisis-to-take-top-priority-1.1378716#.UE-dJe1pbao

http://www.globalnews.ca/Pages/Story.aspx?id=6442697787

Reinventing the Toilet:

"Here are some sanitation facts and figures, according to the World Health Organization. 

• An estimated 1.5-million children die each year due to diarrhea caused by poor sanitation
• Proper hygiene education and hand-washing can reduce cases of diarrhea by 45 per cent
• Approximately 1.1 million litres of raw sewage is dumped into the Ganges river in India every minute
• About 115 people die every hour from diseases linked to poor sanitation, hygiene and contaminated water in Africa
• World Toilet Day, aimed at improving sanitation conditions for people worldwide, falls on November 19th "



The content of my graphic response is going to be centred around raising awareness for 'World Toilet Day' and will give people an idea of why this exists and what it is about as well as informing of the history of the toilet. The Vanguard Documentary and this PDF:(http://www.worldtoilet.org/WTD/wtd_brochure.pdf) Will contribute largely to the content and tone of voice of my graphic response. 

Instructions on how to use a squat toilet:
http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Squat-Toilet