Portable toilet hire in Brisbane is a booming business thanks to the all the construction, festivals, weddings and parties that take place every week. Most people you meet will have experienced the joys of using a portable toilet at some point in their lives. Just ask the crowd at your next dinner party – everyone has a story!
Rumour has it that the esteemed poet Alfred Lord Tennyson enjoyed entertaining guests with impersonations of someone on the lavatory. No matter how high your brow, there is nothing like a few toilet tales to take several decades off your mental age! Bum puns and tall tales of toilet paper woe, especially mixed with a glass or two of your favourite tipple, are sure to have everyone giggling and snorting with laughter as they release their inner cheeky teen.
Next time you find yourself scratching around for a humorous dunny anecdote, why don’t you try wowing the crowd with these 5 weird but wonderful facts about portable toilets?
1. The chamber pot
Things have come a long way since the humble porcelain pot or wooden bucket was the portable toilet of choice for nobles and commoners alike. Traditional chamber pots were stored under the bed and the contents thrown out the nearest window in the morning. Some stories claim the word ‘loo’ has its origins in the phrase ‘look out below!’
If you’re at a busy festival these days you might grizzle at the smell or wet seats in modern, plastic portable toilet units. But be thankful! That puddle you walked through on the way to the toilet queue was just an innocent muddy puddle thanks to the under appreciated holding tanks on modern hire toilets.
2. Environmentally responsible flush
Most people would not think to use the terms ‘environmentally responsible’ and ‘portable toilet hire’ in the same sentence, but a portable toilet uses around 90% less water than a conventional toilet. You can impress others with your environmentally sensitive and caring side while indulging in some good natured toilet humour when you pull out this little know factoid. Portable toilets are, in fact, the green superheroes of the toilet world.
3. It’s a dirty job
Did you know that a portable toilet cleaner is a real job title? If using the portable toilets hired at your next Brisbane event has you pale faced, sweating and dry heaving, spare a thought for the poor soul whose job it is to clean the plastic units and trailers at the end of the night. These hard working and long suffering men and women turn up after the party is over to ensure sparkling clean plastic for the next day.
A special truck literally sucks the unmentionable waste from the toilets’ holding tanks. Then, with vacuum wand and high pressure hose in hand, cleaners tackle the inside of the portable toilets before restocking the loo paper and odour control. Portable toilet cleaners – we salute you.
4. Avert your gaze!
Portable toilets took on a more human aspect during the medieval era in England and Scotland. These were the days before public toilets existed and it was common to simply squat and relieve yourself by the side of the road. If you’re a person who suffers from public toilet stage fright, you can imagine how difficult life must have been for anyone of a slightly shy or gentile disposition. Thankfully, sensing a gap in the market, entrepreneurial men and women roamed the city streets with billowing black capes and buckets. For a farthing they would shield you from prying eyes with their capes while you made good use of their bucket.
5. The birth of the humble portable toilet
You may easily be forgiven for thinking that portable toilets were invented solely for festivals, sporting events and construction sites. In actual fact, they were invented in the 1940s for the comfort and convenience of ship yard workers. These early portable prototypes were still a far cry from the comfortable and odour resistant units we all know and love today. It wasn’t until the 1960s that a man called George Harding received a patent for a plastic portable toilet. The rest, as they say, is history and a booming business in portable toilet hire was born.
There’s nothing weird about Dinkum Dunnies portable toilet hire in Brisbane
Need to hire portable toilets for your next big job or event? Call the team at Dinkum Dunnies. They’re the experts at putting bums on seats at work sites, weddings, parties, festivals and sporting events. They specialise in portable toilet hire, Brisbane to Sunshine Coast and Ipswich. Give them a call on 07 5495 5733 or enquire online. They might even tell you a story or two!
Choose Dinkum Dunnies when you need portable toilet hire in Brisbane that’s no joke!