The Toilet Question

[Anissa T]

So, on their special behind the scenes show, they ask the actress who plays Teyla (Sorry, forget her name) how they use the bathroom.

She laughed so hard and then said "who the hell asked that questoin", then started laughing again.

So, alas, we still don't know how they use the bathroom.

[Colonel Carter]

I know how they use the bathroom. Well, Teyla and Weir use it like I do. The guys, well, they can go standing up. I'm not sure where they go though, but I assumed there would be restrooms around. It's not like we see restrooms in SG-1, we assume they're around though. :thbt

[cheriewren]

Ahhh, but different cultures have different methods. Did you read that some university (not in the US, thank whoever-you-worship) is installing strip pit style 'toilets' (in the loosest sense of the word) to accomodate students from some other country (somewhere in Asia I think) that prefers to squat.

Perhaps Teyla's people have a different method. They looked like they lived pretty roughly on hteir home world... I doubt they had the flushing kind of equipment we are used to. And who knows what 'improvements' the ancients have made to that particular problem of upright quadropeds...

tongue firmly in cheek... :rollin

cherie

[Colonel Carter]

There may be a reason for why they prefer to squat. I went to a Southeast Asian country once and upon arriving, we were told never to sit on a public toilet but to squat over it and go. The reason being that no one ever cleaned public toilets in that country which I learned one day in a McDonald's.

It was a third world country. Clearly the Ancients were much more advanced than that, they were more advanced that Americans are today. So we would assume they would have had top notch restroom facilities. Although I don't think the question was what kind of restrooms they had, but if there were any. I would assume the Ancients had to dispose of waste somehow while they still had physical, mortal bodies.

Um... yeah. :teagun

Now Teyla and her people given their living conditions probably didn't. It's kind of hard to build a sewer system when you're living in tents. The city near where they lived probably did have restrooms, but they were all too chicken to go back to it. I would imagine they went in bushes or streams or however people went before they built toilets. :teyla