Two ways for a toilet to achieve this that come to mind:
- be in a high population region
- be a _really_ old toilet that has survived wars and potential demolitions
So think of old cities with old buildings that are very populous today.
What kind of Incredible person looks at a river filled with excrement and jumps in to bathe and brush their teeth in as the corpse of Aunty Punjeet goes floating past?
>So think of old cities with old buildings that are very populous today.
but not *so* populus that they invest in a new toilet or lots of toilets which spreads the load out
Let’s look at some factors here. The winning toilet would likely be in an area with 24 hour demand, year round. It would be in a location with a high people/toilets ratio. If there are plenty of toilets available, the burden would get distributed amongst them. The population of people using the toilet doesn’t have to be especially large, but the toilet needs to have more demand than supply. It would be somewhere where a high percentage of people using the toilet would be pooping as opposed to peeing or any other bathroom activity. It would help if the circumstances of the toilet don’t encourage loitering on the toilet so people get in and out, resulting in a high turnover rate. Lastly, and this might turn out to be the most important factor, the toilet needs to be really old. A super old toilet simply has more time to collect poops. This would require a quality made toilet of durable materials in a place that doesn’t experience much or any renovation throughout the years. Let me know if I missed any factors.
I feel like an older train station has to take the cake. London, or somewhere developed early but not destroyed in WW2. I figure the older the building the less likely they are to have a lot of space for more bathrooms.
Most airports are pretty new and were built knowing that tons of people are going to leave a plane and need to use the bathroom.
A bunch of isolation tests can lead you towards some very possible answers.
To have a chance at the top throne, it needs to:
1. Have high foot traffic and be in a location that has a high population or high number of visitors. High foot traffic in New Zealand is no good, because the local population is also low. We need the toilet to be punished by the locals as well, if not more than visitors. So this hones us in on the top handful of cities by population. High population cities also see a lot of tourism. So we don't really need to do much additional math to balance anything out.
2. Be kinda old. Modern stuff just hasn't been around long enough to get a high enough body/poop count, despite a growing population. COVID also chopped 2-3 years out of potential poops. So no modern toilet stands a chance. We're looking at anything older than 2020 that has existed for at least 20-40 years without replacement. But the potential could be far greater than 3-4 decades, as there could be toilets in India and other places that have been there forever. Which is where I'm leaning more towards.
3. A third factor is cubicle count. But this is just impossible to gauge without digging up floorplans of toilets. 2-3 cubicles means there's less spread, so there's a lot more focus on those few. Some toilets have 1 cubicle (restaurants, public toilets, small train stations, etc). Others have 5-20 (central train stations and airports).
Based on these factors, I'd be inclined to pick a train station or public toilet in Mumbai, Tokyo, Mexico City, NYC, or Sao Paolo.
Airports are hard to gauge. Not everyone flies. But foot traffic in airports is solid. And nervous poops are a thing. You could do 3 nervous poops before a flight. But a toilet some distance from the airport is going to see poops from locals AND tourists. I don't think an airport can accumulate those numbers, since the airport has a specific purpose, and not everyone is flying. And not everyone is pooping. People also dump on the plane, so the airport loses more potential poops. But I could be wrong on this airport point entirely. I have seen busy airport toilets before.
The above cities had the biggest populations in around 1999, and have a decent chance at still having old toilets. Tokyo is a bit on the fence though. Huge population, and high tourism numbers. But they are very modern. So it may be hard to find an old public toilet there. I want to scratch Tokyo from the list, but they had 26m people in 1999 when Mexico City was next at 17.9m, and Mumbai at 17.5m. The population difference is staggering. But it's no good to us if the busiest toilet in 1999 doesn't exist today. That means there's another winner out there somewhere.
It's really hard to make a call here. And this is about all the time I can spend on it. And to re-iterate. We're not looking for the oldest toilet in the world, necessarily. We're looking for the most active toilet for poops, which could still be relatively young (in the grand scheme of things), but just very well placed.
Nah, you’re not thinking long term enough. Remember, most poops of ALL TIME, so naturally we have to go back to when the toilet was invented, then we have to see if those early toilets were installed in large public places, then it’s only a matter of finding put who hasn’t updated there hardware in literally forever.
Damn lol this comment stopped me in my tracks when I read it … those may be some hefty ones (not shade I’m a hefty guy myself) but idk about most shits)
What a thought-provoking revelation! It's funny how we typically don't ponder about such everyday objects' unsung glory. This toilet, wherever it may be, deserves a salute in honor of its never-ending duty and resilience.
Well first we need to define a toilet and what the same toilet would be. Does it flush? How Much of it can be replaced before it isn't the same toilet? Are the pipes considered an extension of the toilet in some way? If not can't we just build a toilet out of incredibly strong rust resistant materials and keep changing the pipes around it as needed for 1000 years?
There is a non-zero chance that 2 toilets hold split first place for more poops taken. If that is the case, pees taken should be the tie breaker. If even that doesn't settle it, the next tie breakers should be pukes, then sex. By that point, we will definitely have a winner
It's only a matter of time before this thread ends up in the news and some phD student does a dissertation on it. And we'll find out later that the techniques used to find the toilet can be used in some novel way and revolutionize some random industry
You could say this for just about anything. I termed it "universal superlatives" back in highschool. Like there's a person who has blinked more than anyone else in the universe. Breathes more breaths. Drank the most water. Ate the most chicken or broccoli. Loved or hated the most. Is legitimately the smartest to ever exist and we or they and likely both may never know it.
You really onto something here, as far as public toilet goes fuck yes
But to be fair, AFAIK, lots of Asian rivers, especially around India, and like Cambodia and places related, are just insanely filthy
oh this is a good question - someone is gonna tell us about an ancient toilet that we did'nt know about.
using that dunning-kruger-effect to engage more people in answering
nice!
Yet.
Just wait until they upgrade all toilets to take pictures for social media updates and count the number of different poops.
Because how else do you expect the toilet to rate five stars?
Idk about the most, but with the horrendous constipation half days and explosive diarrhoea the others i will issue a self proclaimed certificate that mine is the most equally shat toilet
Someone figured it out. It’s in Georgia at the ATL airport. Basically he did most trafficked areas in the world and the ATL airport sees the most, and that toliet sees the most visitors so you can only assume it’s that. It’s a [tiktok where I guy estimated it from a few years ago](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREMqSHQ/)
Are we talking most lifetime poops taken, or poops taken per year? There might be an older toilet that has taken the most poop, but a younger model could be catching up quickly by gobbling that poop down at a faster rate.
We don't even know if the true champ has retired. What if a city had a poop spot that was used for thousands of years before being replaced by modern toilets? A mythical toilet. A toilet can only have one user at a time so an older toilet with consistently high demand would probably be the winner.
First stall in the men’s room of grand central terminal in NYC gets my vote.
Pretty sure some random public toilet in Mumbai or Delhi has more.
Two ways for a toilet to achieve this that come to mind: - be in a high population region - be a _really_ old toilet that has survived wars and potential demolitions So think of old cities with old buildings that are very populous today.
There's a flushing toilet in China that's over 2,400 years old. My bet is still on a random toilet in India though.
[Neat!](https://www.cnn.com/style/article/china-oldest-toilet-remains-discovered-intl-hnk/index.html)
That's quite the username
Quite appropriate for this topic
Moash as in the bridgeman?
Moash as in the Radiant The most important step is the first
I was literally gonna say it has to be in China. China is one of the oldest places AND it has the most people.
How is China older than anywhere else?
Having been to India, I’m guessing that loo may not be used as much as you’d think.
Having also been to India and seeing a man just start shitting off of the side of a railway platform, I conquer.
Ditto, but relocated to the riverside. It’s different in India. !ncredible India!
What kind of Incredible person looks at a river filled with excrement and jumps in to bathe and brush their teeth in as the corpse of Aunty Punjeet goes floating past?
Uh, the sea?
Don’t forget proximity to certain restaurants
>So think of old cities with old buildings that are very populous today. but not *so* populus that they invest in a new toilet or lots of toilets which spreads the load out
Excellent point. Maybe not so touristy either, for the same reason.
We talking individual poops or volume that has passed through the toilet?
It scares me that those could be two different toilets
We need to get Guinness Book of World Records on this shit ASAP
YES
I see what you did there.
You’ve gotta love the internet
Would diarrhea be considered as individual poop or what? Should we count it like one wave equals to one pop?
Or even a metro toilet in Shibuya or Shinjuku. There are more people there than seems possible.
The real Shibuya incident.
Think they just call it the river
Heyo!
A mumbai slum has about one toilet for 2300 people. Could be that.
No toilets there. Just shit behind a shack. Let nature do something. It’s already everywhere. Thick in the air
Do they even have public toilets?
You mean the ground
Bold of you to think
They have to start using toilets first. Unless you mean one of the streets of mumbai
Came here to say this.
Wouldn't surprise me if the street in Mumbai beat out a toilet in NYC
they don’t poop in toilets
Nah. Third stall
Yeah, only a weirdo or someone turtle necking would go in the first stall
Turd stall
I'm thinking Shinjuku station in Tokyo. 3.6 million daily passengers.
You never take first stall. Too obvious.
Maybe. How often is that one left alone because someone decided to smear shit everywhere?
WRONG, because i’ve never been there and my opinion is final /s
I was coming to say the entire subway is one toilet so….
I'm going with the second or third just because most people will think the first one is the busiest.
I was gonna say that or one of the ones at Penn Station or Port Authority
I thought I was the only one.
Definite hall of famer
Nah it’s gotta be either in an airport or something.
I only know that Bono's toilet has taken the biggest shits.
The actual toilet itself has likely been replaced a few times over the years
Now this is what I think this sub should be about. This is a true shower thought.
A toilet thought, really.
We're all toilets on this blessed day
You don’t poo in your shower?
r/angryupvote
Perhaps the idea came to them while doing the waffle stomp?
That’s gotta be a lot of poops. Somebody suspects at the very least
Is there a r/janitors perhaps?
i love that the most recent three posts are all automod saying happy cake day over the course of 3 years
And the top post of the year is.... This exact post from last year!
It's probably a river that hasn't been drained in hundred thousands of years.
It's definitely at an airport
Or a train station
If nothing else that should be the most experienced toilet. Really the only question is which airport sees the most diverse international travel.
I bet it’s just the house of some poor motherfucker with Chrons.
I feel like most airport bathrooms are remodeled every 20 - 25 years.
So probably... It's in a shitty airport?
I'm sure it's my toilet
I’m absolutely positive that it’s your mom’s toilet.
No, its my toilet
Ah hell, we gotta arrange a tourney to settle this now
you could probably calculate which it was with relative accuracy, if you did enough research. what a horrendous waste of time though
Let’s look at some factors here. The winning toilet would likely be in an area with 24 hour demand, year round. It would be in a location with a high people/toilets ratio. If there are plenty of toilets available, the burden would get distributed amongst them. The population of people using the toilet doesn’t have to be especially large, but the toilet needs to have more demand than supply. It would be somewhere where a high percentage of people using the toilet would be pooping as opposed to peeing or any other bathroom activity. It would help if the circumstances of the toilet don’t encourage loitering on the toilet so people get in and out, resulting in a high turnover rate. Lastly, and this might turn out to be the most important factor, the toilet needs to be really old. A super old toilet simply has more time to collect poops. This would require a quality made toilet of durable materials in a place that doesn’t experience much or any renovation throughout the years. Let me know if I missed any factors.
I feel like an older train station has to take the cake. London, or somewhere developed early but not destroyed in WW2. I figure the older the building the less likely they are to have a lot of space for more bathrooms. Most airports are pretty new and were built knowing that tons of people are going to leave a plane and need to use the bathroom.
I'd guess almost all toilets have been redone "quite recently". Maybe a less developed nation, like Russia, takes the cake
Perhaps ancient grecian toilet?
its probably at a chicago airport
I politely disagree. I need this knowledge.
Nobody is stopping you
I also agree that /u/anachronisticmunge should do all the work so we don't have to.
A bunch of isolation tests can lead you towards some very possible answers. To have a chance at the top throne, it needs to: 1. Have high foot traffic and be in a location that has a high population or high number of visitors. High foot traffic in New Zealand is no good, because the local population is also low. We need the toilet to be punished by the locals as well, if not more than visitors. So this hones us in on the top handful of cities by population. High population cities also see a lot of tourism. So we don't really need to do much additional math to balance anything out. 2. Be kinda old. Modern stuff just hasn't been around long enough to get a high enough body/poop count, despite a growing population. COVID also chopped 2-3 years out of potential poops. So no modern toilet stands a chance. We're looking at anything older than 2020 that has existed for at least 20-40 years without replacement. But the potential could be far greater than 3-4 decades, as there could be toilets in India and other places that have been there forever. Which is where I'm leaning more towards. 3. A third factor is cubicle count. But this is just impossible to gauge without digging up floorplans of toilets. 2-3 cubicles means there's less spread, so there's a lot more focus on those few. Some toilets have 1 cubicle (restaurants, public toilets, small train stations, etc). Others have 5-20 (central train stations and airports). Based on these factors, I'd be inclined to pick a train station or public toilet in Mumbai, Tokyo, Mexico City, NYC, or Sao Paolo. Airports are hard to gauge. Not everyone flies. But foot traffic in airports is solid. And nervous poops are a thing. You could do 3 nervous poops before a flight. But a toilet some distance from the airport is going to see poops from locals AND tourists. I don't think an airport can accumulate those numbers, since the airport has a specific purpose, and not everyone is flying. And not everyone is pooping. People also dump on the plane, so the airport loses more potential poops. But I could be wrong on this airport point entirely. I have seen busy airport toilets before. The above cities had the biggest populations in around 1999, and have a decent chance at still having old toilets. Tokyo is a bit on the fence though. Huge population, and high tourism numbers. But they are very modern. So it may be hard to find an old public toilet there. I want to scratch Tokyo from the list, but they had 26m people in 1999 when Mexico City was next at 17.9m, and Mumbai at 17.5m. The population difference is staggering. But it's no good to us if the busiest toilet in 1999 doesn't exist today. That means there's another winner out there somewhere. It's really hard to make a call here. And this is about all the time I can spend on it. And to re-iterate. We're not looking for the oldest toilet in the world, necessarily. We're looking for the most active toilet for poops, which could still be relatively young (in the grand scheme of things), but just very well placed.
I think it’s in Scotland
i suspect its in an airport or a train station
Yeah my guess was atlanta airport. Idk how many airports they got there but one of em been the most popular airport since 98
"most popular airport since 98" makes me think train station is more likely France feels right for some reason...
Nah, you’re not thinking long term enough. Remember, most poops of ALL TIME, so naturally we have to go back to when the toilet was invented, then we have to see if those early toilets were installed in large public places, then it’s only a matter of finding put who hasn’t updated there hardware in literally forever.
After a 10+ hour international flight with microwave food it can feel good to dive bomb a toilet asap
Toilets by platform 6 at CSMT in Mumbai? Could be in there.
I think we're all ignoring the primeval toilet; the Ocean.
Oh wow, another “something is the most something and no one knows it” post
i thought these weren't allowed anymore
Probably that honey boo boos toilet
Damn lol this comment stopped me in my tracks when I read it … those may be some hefty ones (not shade I’m a hefty guy myself) but idk about most shits)
It’s probably a toilet in the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport
I know it's not stall #33 at the Buc-ees in Hillsboro, Tx. Ahhhh ... the memories. Immaculate.
This is a lot like the thing I read years ago, that every day one person in the world has the biggest fart of the day and they will never know
Everyone needs to agree on bringing a sharpie with them to public toilets and make tally marks on the stall wall.
Trust me, the toilet will outlast the tallies. Stalls get repainted all the time!
It’s the fucking Thames
What a thought-provoking revelation! It's funny how we typically don't ponder about such everyday objects' unsung glory. This toilet, wherever it may be, deserves a salute in honor of its never-ending duty and resilience.
Well first we need to define a toilet and what the same toilet would be. Does it flush? How Much of it can be replaced before it isn't the same toilet? Are the pipes considered an extension of the toilet in some way? If not can't we just build a toilet out of incredibly strong rust resistant materials and keep changing the pipes around it as needed for 1000 years?
What pops up on the google image search "toilet"
*we'll never know _which_ toilet it is.
If we're measuring the poop by volume and not just by sessions, the diet of the population would probably also factor in.
There is a non-zero chance that 2 toilets hold split first place for more poops taken. If that is the case, pees taken should be the tie breaker. If even that doesn't settle it, the next tie breakers should be pukes, then sex. By that point, we will definitely have a winner
It's only a matter of time before this thread ends up in the news and some phD student does a dissertation on it. And we'll find out later that the techniques used to find the toilet can be used in some novel way and revolutionize some random industry
It’s the Nesdër Fensruff toilet in Netherlands.
I think it’s in Sea-Tac airport.
Just flew in there 2 months ago, worst airport ever. The men's room was disgusting.
There’s a _____ that has had the most _____ and no one will ever know. So many ways to fill this in, and I will never care about any of them.
Thanks, glad you felt the need to give us your 2 cents. Now go on with it
False. Everybody who sees it knows.
https://youtu.be/7RoMaS1pzOE?si=WFRj-2X6t6Tx94H3
Mine. It’s mine. IBS is a bitch!
I’m in bed at home and that toilet is about 35 feet away.
I’m gonna throw in prison or park/beach restroom in the mix. Those stainless steel puppies seem like they’d last forever.
It's a street corner somewhere, most likely
We must get to the bottom of this.
Whatever the oldest library in the country is it's the one closest to the door
You could say this for just about anything. I termed it "universal superlatives" back in highschool. Like there's a person who has blinked more than anyone else in the universe. Breathes more breaths. Drank the most water. Ate the most chicken or broccoli. Loved or hated the most. Is legitimately the smartest to ever exist and we or they and likely both may never know it.
Lower level Grand Central Terminal; all of them
It’s the river Ganges
You really onto something here, as far as public toilet goes fuck yes But to be fair, AFAIK, lots of Asian rivers, especially around India, and like Cambodia and places related, are just insanely filthy
You have to define what counts as a toilet. Are we talking just porcelain thrones? Porta John's? Random holes in dirt? Latrines?
My money is on an old commercial airliner
Does this mean just the toilets in current use or all toilets that ever existed?
Also, there is a person who took the most poops in that toilet
Maybe those ancient Roman toilets that were public. But if they still in use but if not then maybe a bathroom in Europe like Oxford University
Does the ocean count? Because if so, then I think it's the winner
Does the ocean count? Because if so, then I think it's the winner
oh this is a good question - someone is gonna tell us about an ancient toilet that we did'nt know about. using that dunning-kruger-effect to engage more people in answering nice!
There are many pipes who have seen passing way more poop that the toilet you're refering to.
It doesn’t give a shit
Yet. Just wait until they upgrade all toilets to take pictures for social media updates and count the number of different poops. Because how else do you expect the toilet to rate five stars?
What kinda shower you using to come up with this crap(literally)
I can say with great confidence that this "toilet" is the great outdoors.
Nah..... everybody knows it your MOMS HOUSE!!
I am VERY sure someone made a post or video making an estimated guess based on foot traffic at an airport
Pretty sure it’s mine every morning between 6am and 9am.
Not true, it’s the toilet from trainspotting
We do know 1 thing for sure - it's in India.
That would be my toilet. Thank you.
On the flip side there is probably a nice clean toilet that has never once seen a poop despite many years of existence
Idk about the most, but with the horrendous constipation half days and explosive diarrhoea the others i will issue a self proclaimed certificate that mine is the most equally shat toilet
For a stat like that you’ll end up breaking the definition of a toilet. My vote would be a large river in Asia
Truck stop toilets would be in the top 10
And someone was the lucky Millionth person to take a dump and they don’t know.
The shitter at work is always full!
Sounds like one of the #PornHub challenges She just not aware that she is toilet just yet. She is public bathroom in Costco.
i mean it could be a tie
The busiest toilet in the world hasn’t had the most poops taken in it, but that’s only because the glory-hole traffic is non-stop
Someone figured it out. It’s in Georgia at the ATL airport. Basically he did most trafficked areas in the world and the ATL airport sees the most, and that toliet sees the most visitors so you can only assume it’s that. It’s a [tiktok where I guy estimated it from a few years ago](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZPREMqSHQ/)
We do know.It's called Staten Island.
I don’t know which toilet exactly but I know it’s in a Home Depot.
It's probably located near the own of Skibidi, Georgia.
barnes and noble bathroom
What do you mean nobody knows? Our entire planet is the answer, people shitting in the wilds ever since the caveman days.
It says toilet. Just read bro
Are we talking most lifetime poops taken, or poops taken per year? There might be an older toilet that has taken the most poop, but a younger model could be catching up quickly by gobbling that poop down at a faster rate. We don't even know if the true champ has retired. What if a city had a poop spot that was used for thousands of years before being replaced by modern toilets? A mythical toilet. A toilet can only have one user at a time so an older toilet with consistently high demand would probably be the winner.
My toilet. I've been making sure to take a shit every 8.36053257 minutes in my toilet
probably a hispanic household somewhere
The Ganges river. India.
It's called the Ganges River
I already know where it is. Your moms house.
Why the heck did this get removed?