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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by freeflight on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @10:36PM (#16761331)
I'm sure submerging it in water makes some difference, but I'm not sure it's really that big of a difference. The odor is there whether submerged or not because the odor doesn't just come from the "product" itself.

Considering the kind of odor we are talking about here, I just don't think the difference is really that huge because when it stinks it stinks, and it pretty much always stinks.

Tho, how to quantify odor sounds like an interesting question.

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by smallnamespace on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:23PM (#16761528)
> but I'm not sure it's really that big of a difference

Isn't filtering volatiles through water part of the logic of a water pipe/bong/hookah?

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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by xienze on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:40PM (#16761578)
It’s mainly about cooling the smoke.
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Re:What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper? by newnewpdro on Wednesday April 04, 2018 @11:51PM (#16761618)
Not all diets produce such odoriferous feces. When I'm eating mostly plain raw produce like a vegetarian, a typical western flush toilet is pretty successful in minimizing poop odor. Meat in my diet makes odor suppression a whole lot more challenging.

For the last few months I've been using a urine-diverting style waterless toilet, where the solids land in a bucket with dirt. This means the solids are uncovered until completion, when more dirt gets poured over. The dietary feedback in this arrangement can be brutal, odor being a significant component until covered.

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