Flushing the toilet twice...

[661-Pete]

Apparently this is now considered a 'terrorist threat':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49764305

The reason, the agent allegedly said, was that Mr Abdallah "went to the restroom and... flushed twice".

Well - I can't speak for others, and this isn't something I often speak about - but, if I've been for a Number Two, I sometimes do need to flush twice to get it all down....

Perhaps "No.2"s are not permitted on aircraft?

Of course the racial stereotyping speaks volumes in this case. Otherwise, it'd be funny.

Yet another reason why I don't ever want to go flying again. Can I live up to this pledge?

[mercalia]

I thought like the old trains they just dumped it over board. Glad I dont live under Heathrow flight path
Now that would be a news worthy item. "Man killed by falling *********""

[kwackers]

Some loo's are a bit crap and just swirl stuff creating a centrifuge.
Don't know how many flushes you'd need before it was worth replacing with a new one but...

Aircraft loos are a bit different, they're just vacuums. Bottom drops out (literally), there's a whoosh and everything is gone no matter how floaty it is.
Shouldn't be any need to flush one twice ever.

But I digress, proof of terrorism? That is more than a little stretched.

Having said that, obviously there's something newsworthy about such a story when done from this angle, but could it be there is more information we've not had?
Crew members are going to be well used to flying with Asian looking people (presumably with beards for that full on terrorist look) so I'd be surprised if it was only that they'd flushed twice and the crew member hanging around the loo had already had their suspicions aroused? Even if it's merely that another passenger was bigging up their suspicions.

[kwackers]

I thought like the old trains they just dumped it over board. Glad I dont live under Heathrow flight path

Not any more. Don't think they've done that for decades.

[Mike Sales]

I thought like the old trains they just dumped it over board. Glad I dont live under Heathrow flight path
Now that would be a news worthy item. "Man killed by falling *********""

Wasn't Billy Connolly's Jobbie Wheecher joke about that?

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Jobbie%20Weecha

[661-Pete]

I thought like the old trains they just dumped it over board. Glad I dont live under Heathrow flight path
Now that would be a news worthy item. "Man killed by falling *********""

Don't know about aircraft, but I believe some trains with older rolling stock still flush straight onto the tracks.

Isn't there some story about tomato plants springing up between the rails? Something to do with the seeds only being able to germinate once they've passed through a digestive tract?

[rjb]

I thought like the old trains they just dumped it over board. Glad I dont live under Heathrow flight path
Now that would be a news worthy item. "Man killed by falling *********""

Iirc someone sunbathing in their garden was almost hit by a body falling from a plane on the Heathrow flight path recently.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/h ... 83671.html

[reohn2]

Ridiculous stereotyping on the face of it.

[Cunobelin]

When we give patients I131 therapy they are given this instruction!

[Cyril Haearn]

Flush once with grey water, use the brush to push the product down if necessary

[rjb]

If it's brown flush it down. If it's yellow let it mellow.

[wrangler_rover]

Don't you flush the toilet just before you sit down in public toilets?
The reason for this is to try to cover embarrassing noises you may make with the sound of the cistern refilling.

[mercalia]

this thread is getting disgusting, needs some laxitive and should be terminated

[661-Pete]

When we give patients I131 therapy they are given this instruction!

Well I suppose it'll kill the rats down in the sewer...

[661-Pete]

this thread is getting disgusting, needs some laxitive and should be terminated

I quite agree. Pull the chain on it...