At Home by Bill Bryson

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• alexpotato · 2026-08-25 in Where did all the public bathrooms go?

  > But of course, there is one key clue missing from the photograph: the smell Have been re-reading At Home by Bill Bryson [0] and just started the chapter on the bathroom. He mentions that home bathrooms often smelled b/c the "u bend" [1] hadn't yet been invented. Couldn't a public urinal be designed with a water flush function + u bend to avoid the smell? PS Highly recommend the book if you are …