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Old 28-04-2004, 23:36   #318
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Re: [Merged] NTL Increasing BB Speeds

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Originally Posted by erol
Thanks. I am glad someone enjoyed it.

Hopefully the analogy also highlights the idea that a heavy exacuator (heavy user) can only ever be causing one bowls worth (one users worth) of congestion and never any more than that and that anytime you are on a bowl and all the other bowls are also in use, you are causing one bowls worth of congestion, along with all the others, regardless of how little you may have been using the toilet before and regrdless of how little volume you may have exacuated before or on average. The idea that one user (no matter how much volume they evacuate) can cause more than one bowls worth of congestion is just not correct - but widely believed to be the case (in the idea that 3% of users account for 60% + of congestion for example).
Have you never seen a toilet that has had so much flushed down it by one person that it completely blocks the sewer pipe serving dozens of toilets?

A very novel and extremely amusing analogy though.
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