What exactly is this man doing?

[Lamp]

Fresh Air Breathing Device - Toilet Snorkel
US Patent Issued In 1982 No. 4320756

Sucking those special gasses out of a toilet's u-bend ? Communicating with his neighbors using his new Toilet Phone?

Well the correct answer is None of the Above. This guy is using the new breath easy, Toilet Snorkel, formulated to provide a fresh air source during fires in high rise buildings.

In most fires, it's the smoke that will get you, and a source of fresh air can be a life saver. So our inventor designed a way to snake a snorkel through the zigs and zags of your toilet, so you can breath sewer air instead of smoke.

Nice.

 

[Aesgir]

I can't see it catching on.....

 

[Overdriven]

You'd have to do alot of spitting to get the water than goes into the tube out..

 

[tris-]

but iut may well save your life

 

[pikeh]

but iut may well save your life

if you happen to be carrying one around with you at the time of a fire...

 

[Aesgir]

You mean you don't carry a big straw on you at all time in case of fire? I'm kinda curious how he came up with the idea....i know, the house is on fire, i'd better stick my funny straw in the toilet. Not exactly an obvious one is it

 

[Lamp]

Imagine the hotel's on fire. There's thick poisonous smoke billowing into your room. You have moments to act. Any delay may mean you'll die. Quick ! What do you do ? I know ! I'll get my toilet snorkel

*heads to the toilet. dum dee dum*
*lifts up the seat*

Jesus ! Your wife forgot to flush the chain and has sprayed the inside of the toilet bowl with lashings of turds. Hundreds of tiny floaters on the surface of the water. A good 4 inches of excrement on the bottom of the pan

*You hastily flush the toilet*

OMG ! The flush is broken. There's smoke coming under the door. No choice. Time to use the toilet snorkel.

AAAARGGGRKK cough cough splutter....as you suck sewage instead of air

 

[Nate]

I always carry a pocket size Yorkshireman, there like mini macgyver's and can solve an emergency with any everyday house hold object(although they require 3 hours of farm work a day to keep them from becoming evil)! Theres one around the forums if any of you are looking for one under the alias swords. His recently known whereabouts are Kent, I'd recommend starting your hunt in any farm in the area..to capture use any kind of technological device nearby it will incapacitate them for a long time until the batteries are removed(note, if batteries are not removed within 1 hour scratching of head will occur)

 

[Kami]

Imagine the hotel's on fire. There's thick poisonous smoke billowing into your room. You have moments to act. Any delay may mean you'll die. Quick ! What do you do ? I know ! I'll get my toilet snorkel

*heads to the toilet. dum dee dum*
*lifts up the seat*

Jesus ! Your wife forgot to flush the chain and has sprayed the inside of the toilet bowl with lashings of turds. Hundreds of tiny floaters on the surface of the water. A good 4 inches of excrement on the bottom of the pan

*You hastily flush the toilet*

OMG ! The flush is broken. There's smoke coming under the door. No choice. Time to use the toilet snorkel.

AAAARGGGRKK cough cough splutter....as you suck sewage instead of air

You'd cover the mouth end to keep the water from entering the end you push under water, then push it through to the air and BLOW into it. Doubt it'd matter if there was shit in the bowl, my worry is that you'd breathing air that's full of all sorts, you get rescued from the fire only to have some of awful disease and die

 

[Lamp]

OK so here's the score. The hotel's on fire. Lets assume you're on the third floor. The corridor outside your room is on fire. There's smoke billowing under your door. You have no emergency exit you can use (unless you want to run through an inferno). Your wife / girlfriend is hysterical. By a stroke of luck, you've packed 2 toilet snorkels. The windows in your room can be broken, but its a 3 storey drop onto the streets below.

What do you do ?

 

[Nate]

Get my PSY out, he then makes a hanglider out of bed sheets, sticky tape and metal poles that are holding up the building..that can carry the three of us to safety. He also brings my cd collection+porn in his own mini hanglider.

Oh and ofc we burn the toilet snorkels

 

[Bugz]

OK so here's the score. The hotel's on fire. Lets assume you're on the third floor. The corridor outside your room is on fire. There's smoke billowing under your door. You have no emergency exit you can use (unless you want to run through an inferno). Your wife / girlfriend is hysterical. By a stroke of luck, you've packed 2 toilet snorkels. The windows in your room can be broken, but its a 3 storey drop onto the streets below.

What do you do ?

Throw her down first to break my fall! :d

 

[liloe]

repped ^^

 

[Alan]

this was on QI ages ago but guess no one else watches it

 

[Nate]

got a dog yet btw alan?

 

[Dukat]

Surely if you've got time to do all of this toilet oriented derring-do in the middle of a fire, you would have time to smash a window, throw the 'fresh air snorkel' out of the window and use it that way??

Or, even better, instead of buying a toilet snorkel, buy one of those small hand held oxygen rebreather things and use that instead?

Frankly, I'd rather take a fall from three stories up than use one of those bloody things, I might survive, but my ego would die a horrible death!

 

[Lamp]

this was on QI ages ago but guess no one else watches it

I watch QI. Downloaded the first 4 series. Fantastic program.