Toilets with a Poo Shelf

Nothing gives you a greater insight into a nation than its toilet culture: The English and Americans like to adorn their bathrooms with pink fluffy rugs, noxious perfumes and bizarre toilet roll-holding contraptions in an attempt to take your mind off any ongoing “bum activity”, the French like to hover above filthy holes in the floor, presumably to perten their arse muscles, the Greeks we won’t go into, and the Germans, most peculiarly of all, like to rump-dump their sump onto a pre-flush shelf so that they can examine their “output” for…well I don’t know really.

Would any of our German members care to tell us exactly why it is that they like to poo-stare? All comments welcome below…