Why America Is Losing The Toilet Race

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xpost so jealous. I looked into putting in the toilet seat but a nearby electric source was the problem. I am fully going to make this the number 1 priority at my next place.

Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:41 (four years ago) link

Not a number 2 priority?

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link

there it is

totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:48 (four years ago) link

insert *low hanging fruit* joke

Being cheap is expensive (snoball), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link

some call those "dingleberries"

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link

Every time I go to Japan I say I’m gonna install one in my flat, but the butt has a short memory. There are even ones made here in France! I just gotta doo it.

pet friendly (Euler), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 20:55 (four years ago) link

he pushed the spray button and had a joyous sensation

is this another reason they have white noise/music features?

sarahell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:12 (four years ago) link

I like the oscillating sprayer option. Google translate tells me it is called ショッカー

Yerac, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:19 (four years ago) link

after reading about the fancy ceiling storage units in the other thread, I am kinda liking the fact my toilet is just a bedpan with a drain.

sarahell, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link

yeah, i'm looking at my old rolled up fabric softener poopsock that i've been using for the last few years, and it's starting to seem kind of shabby in light of this thread

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:34 (four years ago) link

related question: can any of these bidets double as a doob tube?

But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link

Update: i just used the oscillating sprayer today and it came with the ability to set different pressures. The water was very warm.

Yerac, Friday, 28 February 2020 16:55 (four years ago) link

I kind of want a turbo technology toilet

totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 28 February 2020 17:03 (four years ago) link

I just doublechecked again that we can't put one in easily. I can't believe the US is 40 years out of touch with Japan's toilet game. That heated toilet seat is *chef's kiss*.

Yerac, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link

I have a conceptual problem with heated toilet seats in that I always feel like they're warm because the previous person farted them all up to be damned

totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 28 February 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link

i feel like there's a fvckton of internet-of-things malarkey potentially embedded in this tech and the robots are just playing us for sitting ducks

mark s, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link

OTOH a Twitter account that posts every time I took a dump would be amazing

totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 28 February 2020 17:24 (four years ago) link

Hello, this is container 102145100010148 in Farsund, Norway. I am 3% full.

— Trashcan Life (@trashcanlife) February 27, 2020

mark s, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link

yeah i was against the toilet seat being warm at first for that reason and THEN I WARMED UP TO IT.
It's very soothing now.

Yerac, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link

it would be really awesome for first thing in the morning, that’s for sure

brimstead, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link

omg lol @ “farted them all up”

brimstead, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link

It's like being embraced upside down.

Yerac, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link

I should try to get a job at Toto.

Yerac, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Lifehack: if everyone in town has panic-bought all the toilet paper, get a bidet

DJP, Monday, 16 March 2020 07:40 (four years ago) link

one month passes...

All I can see coming out of the young progressives/radicals on ILX these days is that they don't deal well with disappointment. I was as prepared as any of them to both act, donate, and vote in favor of Warren, if she survived the primaries or Sanders, if he survived. They didn't. I'm disappointed, too.

Biden has a good dozen or more black marks on his record. Major ones. I don't overlook them. I see them very clearly. The recent accusation by Reade is gaining and Biden's denials are losing credibility as further facts are gathered and aired. That is a wretched fact to face up to, but none of this is going to change the basic calculation of who, of the two choices who will occupy the office will do the least harm. Not harm to me. I'm granted enough privilege that is not a major concern, short of a catastrophe even beyond Covid-19. Harm to the least privileged. Harm to the earth. Harm to the nation's future. Between Biden and Trump, that is an easy choice.

I didn't fucking vote for Biden, give money to Biden, ask for Biden, and I don't exactly look forward to a Biden presidency. But I do feel an obligation to act in a way that will do the least harm.

And as I recall from November 2016, a lot of ilxors were seriously sick to their stomachs, even desperate at the prospect of four years of Trump. DJP started a serious thread about "Are you going to buy a gun?" We may not be able to swallow Biden with anything other than nausea and trepidation, but for god's sake, remember 2016 and 2017 and 2018 and 2019 and 2020, and figure out which illness is likely to be worse.

Dismissing Biden in precisely the same terms and with the same vehemence as you dismiss Trump is unsettlingly like equating them as equally politically bad. If you think that, you have not been paying attention to McConnell and all of Trump's allies, as compared to Sanders and the allies Biden will need to rely on. FFS, this isn't about inviting Biden to supper or a beer. It's politics.

Sorry. I had to say all that. Now I will bury it quietly somewhere.

A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 03:28 (four years ago) link

*soft water spatter noises*

let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link

I think Aimless misspelled bidet

Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 04:23 (four years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/TN3n0VK.gif

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 28 April 2020 05:53 (four years ago) link


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