After so many years!
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... they are supposed to get quite..., well..., messy...right? π€
... they are supposed to get quite..., well..., messy...right? π€
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I never want to know.
shareThat would be more "barbaric" and unhygienic than using regular toilet paper (which was ridiculed in the movie).
I think the shells supposed to be some kind of buttons and it's strange that Spartan didn't even try to push or turn them randomly to figure out how they work (after all it's probably not rocket science - and if someone has to take a dump it makes him much more creative :D).
But this way the scene wouldn't be as funny as it was in the original movie, either.
The whole 'three seashells'-thing is a joke.
Nothing can ever -really- beat toilet paper, as it's the easiest, simplest, cheapest way to keep things sanitary and intuitively easy to use as well. I think it's natural for bipedal sentient entities to wipe a dirty part of their body with something, it's like a DNA-reflex or even multi-incarnational learned sub-conscious routine.
Even if you try to replace toilet paper with something, it would never catch on, unless it's -more- intuitive and simpler than toilet paper, more comfortable, more easy to learn and easier to perform completely thoughtlessly and routinely.
Obviously THREE of anything is way more complicated and thus more cumbersome - any rational individual would never exchange the simplicity, ease-of-use and comfort of toilet paper to something new, cumbersome and complicated - especially hard to learn.
However, knowing all this, I am still willing to make a jab at what (maybe in a 100% different world, like 97520 years into the future, or another planet) 'the three seashells'-type rear-cleansing method could be.
One thing would be that the three seashells are used to operate and guide some kind of semi-automated rear-washing system - japanese toilets already have some kind of water-based washing systems implemented, and apparently some people are happy with those.
Each seashell could be responsible for one aspect of the experience - one could control the strength of the shower, another could be length in time, and so on. Perhaps you could position the 'showerheads' from one seashell, or you could adjust the spread, how thin or widely spread the shower is or showers are.
Of course this begs the question; why call them seashells instead of something more accurate, since they're no longer seashells if they're part of some machinery - and I don't have an answer. There's just no logical way to explain 'three seashells' replacing toilet paper without drastically changing what the word 'seashell' means.