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Are we supposed to bash this? Sorry, as long as it's the laundry's gray water going into the toilet, and not vice-versa, I think this is a pretty good idea.

When one sock, out of a pair, disappears, at least we'll have some idea of where it probably went.

I thought you 'coonservatives' are genetically predisposed to bitch about the government spending any amount of money on anything... well, this may come as a shock to the members of this interesting little fringe community, but water treatment costs money!

Do you really see some meaningful reason to be snarky about what amounts to a reasonable way to conserve resources?

God I hate 'conservatives'. No matter how reasonable an idea is, you will spend the energy to oppose it... even if literally only for the sake of complaining.

Must clarify my previous post. I'm not saying it's a good idea because it would "saving the planet," but it definitely could help reduce the water bill.

"save the planet"

sheesh!

"Do you really see some meaningful reason to be snarky about what amounts to a reasonable way to conserve resources?"

I don't see anyone being snarky, fella.

Looks like kind of a pain in the ass to get the laundry in & out. Maybe not so bad for the toilet if you don't get dirty much, but I have a 13yo son and I do a lot of yardwork. It would be hard to tell whether the toilet had been flushed or not sometimes. Have to clean the damn thing out enough as it is.

. As our water reserves continue to be depleted...

Our water is being depleted? Oh noes! What's happening to it? I mean, gee, you mean once I wash my clothes, the water disappears through a wormhole into another dimension? And, gosh, the Earth's surface is only about 70% water, so every drop is precious.

This get-up looks like it would fail any reasonable cost-benefit analysis, but whatever...

As all good liberals know, water used by humans escapes through a drainpipe in the bottom of the planet to disperse into outer space, never to be reclaimed.

HAHAHAHA!! Spot-on. This just made my day.

An Endless Loop? Now THAT'S funny.

Don't these moonbats now how many *gasp* phosphates *faint* it will take in their detergent to wash feces out of their clothes?

Actually when I consider how many hippies already smell like bodily waste, I suppose nothing will really change.

The right doesn't get "snarky" over ideas like this. What we get snarky over are the laws which inevitably follow which will mandate the use of items like this.

3 gallon toilets are against the law. If a plumber removes a working one from a home, he MUST DESTROY it lest it be reinstalled in another location.

The right is all about personal decisions on what is right for the individual. The left is about coercion so they can realize their utopian egalitarian society.

so, what may i ask are you to do about all the soapscum buildup in the terlet?

Seems like one could just run a hose from the outlet on the washing machine to the tank on the toilet. Probably cost all of about $7. But screw practicality! Give us a big expensive showpiece to brag to greentard friends about.

I'm not sure that I could get used to having my washing machine over my toilet, but in general this is a reasonable idea. If nothing else it would cut my water/sewer bill down. If you have a well and/or septic then there's no point. If you have a large family then this probably doesn't help you much, since the capacity can't be very large or it wouldn't fit in the bathroom. Anyway, it is a bit strange but not a terrible idea.

It's going to come as a real shock to our cadre of lefty trolls that "we conservatives" don't uniformly bash this, not that that will change their religious belief that conservatives are against anything new. Based on the comments so far, we may bash the "we're running out of water!!!!" enviro-panic nonsense, and we may point out what we see are flaws in the idea or implementation (V the K's cost-benefit comment, for example), but we do at least pause to consider the idea before writing it off.

Also, is there a bypass? Do you have to run a load of laundry every time you need to flush? I mean, I run a good bit of laundry, and that looks like it takes a pretty small load, but I also have really regular bowels. Oh, and where's the dryer? Is that hooked up to your blowdryer so you can style your hair while the clothes dry?

Posted by: Anonymous at August 27, 2009 2:10 PM

Snarky? Snarky? SNARKY!?

What were you just acting like? What, are you a Kennedy?

Stuck up ass hole is what you sound like.

"God I hate 'conservatives'"
And you point the finger at us and call us haters?
Anon you are a moron.....

I happen to think this is a good idea as far as space saving and water saving is concerned. Any thing to bring my utility costs down.

Anon you keep forgetting that this is a satire blog. But to speak to your points:

"...No matter how reasonable an idea is, you will spend the energy to oppose it... even if literally only for the sake of complaining."

The combination toilet and washing machine does not decrease the need for water treatment. It just concentrates the SAME amount of gunk into LESS water.

Anon, reasonable ideas are still subject to the normal process of evaluation...even utopian ideas. The humor we see here is that this idea is representative of Liberal politics, summed up perfectly by this device:

1. An broad, vague initiative that either is sensible, or sounds sensible enough for both sides to agree with; i.e. "saving the planet" or "eliminating poverty".

2. If the initiative is not compelling enough, just create a Problem for it to solve, like Stimulus, Global Warming, or Lack of Healthcare.

3. Present a Solution that sounds great. On further inspection it does not work, cannot work, and would never work.

4. But because the Problem is important, the Solution must be provided anyway for the greater good. Consequences? That's for naysayers.

This is the most important point:

5. Since the Solution has a great Purpose, those who question the specifics of the Solution must not really care about the Problem.

This brings us back to your quote Anon:

"...No matter how reasonable an idea is, you will spend the energy to oppose it... even if literally only for the sake of complaining."

It's the same way Libs spin our opposition to Healthcare Reform. Because on further inspection it does not work, cannot work, and would never work.

I am not ever washing my f!@#$%^ clothes in a f!@#$%^ toilet. This is America not some Third World sh!t hole.

Looks good for the single person or a couple as far as laundry is concerned, what? one or two loads a week??
Working at home, I use the WC more than a few times a day using a lot more water than laundry would provide. So? What then? Don't flush 'til you're done with the laundry on Thursday? Then one big swish?
Great, I'll (we'll) just lounge/work around the stench of a bowl of piss & shit for a few days. No problem for liberals since their shit don't stink anyway! My working class shit stinks, though and if you libs want to save Gaia that much you're welcome to come over and scoop it up and take home!
Sorry, you can go back to dinner now.

What it you need to wash 2 or 3 loads of clothes but only use the toilet once in that time? What if you only do laundry once a week? Eeww!

This is America not some Third World sh!t hole.

Just more than three years left for the great leader and teacher to make America the most socialist Third World sh!t hole the world ever saw.

No matter if you like this idea or not expect to lose in the end. It's a rigged game.

If you use less water the only result will be that your water rates and taxes will increase because of the lost revenue to your local municipalities.

Green ideas always lead to us paying more for less.

Should I post my Douche Bag/Water Pik combination gadget?

...no, maybe not.

LOL Sylvia...wanna see a picture of my Colon Cleaner/Aquarium Pump?

no, sorry. I do not want to be cleaning my clothing in the direst room in the house.

If you use less water the only result will be that your water rates and taxes will increase because of the lost revenue to your local municipalities. Green ideas always lead to us paying more for less.

I think that is the most succinct way to describe the intrinsic problem with "green" solutions.

In principle, there may be some merit to recycling gray water through the toilet. I can imagine better mechanisms for doing so, ones that don't include the risk of dropping your laundry in the commode or having your washer leak hot or cold water on you in the midst of one's... um... private time.

I also have to wonder, also, if the chemicals in the detergent would damage the toilet.

Finally! Now I can recycle all of those used up dryer sheets. Anti-static and April fresh too!

As Ann Coulter put so well, only liberals could claim we are running out of something that falls from the sky.

This really seems more like a space conservation measure then water conservation, but I guess if you're a neat single person living in a tiny apartment, this could work.

PETA needs to speak out against this monstrosity....after all cats & dogs drink from toilets!!!!

How does this contraption square with the environmentalists' demand that we only flush the toilet once a day or every few trips. Maybe the idea's to save water by making laundry such an unpleasant task that we stop washing clothes. Or to get us to just go back to outdoor clothes lines! But wait, that will interrupt the wind flow, which could reduce power to wind farms. However, with the money saved on water, we can buy more turbines. So it all works. As long as the local SEIU isn't affected adversely, in which case you will have to remove this device, have it destroyed, and replace it with a one-pint capacity toilet.

At least this would insure that you have clean towels after your bath!

There, I said something nice about it. Happy now, anony?

This is a great idea.

Under the UPC, it's currently illegal to use greywater for indoor applications.

I was looking for a painting called "the sad polar bear" and came upon your site.

it's really weird that people actually flock to high five themselves on how awesome and patriotic they are, weirdest thing?

how inhumane you all sound, I mean, I just read the stuff about Kennedy...that's pretty paranoid, I guess that people on extreme sides of any political spectrum are actually terrified of anything that doesn't gel with their views.

on the upside, it's called "fringe" for a reason, so...enjoy....I guess.

"I guess that people on extreme sides of any political spectrum are actually terrified of anything that doesn't gel with their views."

As indicated by your comment, i.e. "how inhumane you all sound".

Fuck yourself, troll.

A good thing for hollywood they can clean up their dirty words and flush the langage

It's not a bad idea in principle. But as been suggested - this particular model isn't attractive OR logical. It would be simpler to rig up a holding tank to catch brown water from the shower, dish washer, clothes washer, & sinks with a simple low-cost pump plumbed to not only the toilets but the flower garden and lawn as well. Most soaps and detergents now days are environmentally friendly so can be used to water the yard - but I wouldn't water the vegetable garden with gray water.

I also like the idea of having roof gutters drain to rain barrels - something though of long before liberals began attempting to take credit for being the only environmentally-minded people on earth.

All in all, 1/2 a thumb up for principle, 1-1/2 thumbs down for being a dumb design.

Oh - and yes - I've been in engineering for well over 30-years.

Stoooooopid idea. A Rube Goldberg contraption, another ecomarxist solution in search of a problem. The earth is a CLOSED SYSTEM. Water gets used, drains away to be treated, condenses, falls as rain. Is that too hard to understand?

Liberals, ecomarxists, progressives, and other assorted statist-types, LISTEN: If you're really worried about water scarcity, overpopulation, global warming, saving the whales, polar bears, the delta smelt, and so on, then do the only sensible thing - KILL YOURSELF.

I'm fortunate enough to have some friends and contacts in interesting places, and have sent this idea to the supervisor at my County Dept of Health, Water Division. I'm awaiting his opinion on this... this... concept.
My own verdict? Thoughtful- but insane.

This isn't "thoughtful" or "ingenious" or anything but STOOOOOOPID! Jeebus! The first time the washing machine breaks down . . . what? Hold it in until after the repairman fixes it and leaves? Do you want your clothes to smell like your own excrement? Even a dog knows that you don't sh!t where you eat. Why would anyone defecate where they wash their clothes? IT'S STOOOOOPID! IT'S INSANE! IT'S MORE LIBERAL LUNACY!

NO, no, no. Look, moonbats - If you truly apoplectic about the state of planet earth, you have only one option available: KILL YOURSELF. You'll be doing all of us a big favor by removing yourself from the pool of earth parasites greedily gobbling up her precious resources. And we won't have to endure your endless screeching anymore.

Dr. Kevorkian? Paging Dr. Kevorkian?

LOL! "The Sad Polar Bear"?! That's precious.

That thing is nothing more than an oddity. It certainly is not practical that I can tell.

What if that thing fell on someone while they were using the john?

Here in liberal earthquake country, we'd probably be required to pull a permit from the city and pay to have it safely installed by a union contractor. Then when it falls on us during an earthquake and floods the house, our homeowner's insurance would be revoked. That reminds me, when will government be subsidizing my homeowner's insurance?!

There should be a compartment above the toliet to wash your hands before you flush!lol!

"You people are weird at August 27, 2009 8:48 PM"

You were looking for a painting called "The Sad polar Bear" and you call US wierd?

Wash your clothes while taking a crap? Nope i just cant imagine it