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	tarash 2008-10-22 04:22 pm UTC (link)
	Get those arguers one of those French toilets you have to squat over to pee or take a dump. It has no lid anyway! (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sneer 2008-10-22 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	Even better: get them a Japanese toilet. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2008-10-22 05:23 pm UTC (link)
	Pardon my density, but you mean like one of those toilets you need a degree to use? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sneer 2008-10-22 05:53 pm UTC (link)
	Well, the rocket science toilet also qualifies, but mostly I was talking about this. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	plazmah 2008-10-22 06:52 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. And I thought the Indian toilet was tricky; at least I don't have to worry about falling into my own poodoo. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	brennalarose 2008-10-23 01:42 am UTC (link)
	D: Oh my sweet Aunt Carly... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	undomielregina 2008-10-23 02:11 am UTC (link)
	They're really not that bad...much worse is having to shell out money for a few squares of toilet paper. If you need more, well, there's a water bucket next to the toilet with a cup in it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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brennalarose, 2008-10-24 05:36 pm UTC

	platedlizard 2008-10-24 09:12 pm UTC (link)
	Oddly enough there's a toilet like that at my local community college. Which is near Portland, Oregon. Only one I had ever seen like that in person. (That bathroom also had normal Western toilets.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chaimonkey 2008-10-22 09:42 pm UTC (link)
	/snags link and forwards to Japanese teacher Mwahaha. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	eleutheria 2008-10-22 10:32 pm UTC (link)
	So there's no seat? Guess you're screwed if you can't squat for very long without falling over! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ayezur 2008-10-23 04:45 am UTC (link)
	Honestly the hardest part is peeing without getting it on your jeans. I never mastered it, and therefore had to take my pants off to use them. Quite the inconvenience. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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caito, 2008-10-23 05:21 am UTC

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	braidedbaka 2008-10-23 06:03 am UTC (link)
	There's usually a pipe or something else nearby that you can hold onto if your balance is shaky. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	tarash 2008-10-22 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	...What's so special about a Japanese toilet? googles it Wait, there's a jet of water for cleaning? Hee! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2008-10-22 06:49 pm UTC (link)
	When you're a rampant button-pusher ("Hey, what does this do? Let's poke it and find out!") like I am, those high-tech Japanese toilets can be an adventure. >.> My favorite, though, is the button that makes a toilet-flushing noise, so as to cover any unseemly sounds without wasting water. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sneer 2008-10-22 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	I can't look at a picture of one of those toilets without thinking of the joke about the man using a fancy toilet--he pushes a button marked "WW," it sprays warm water on his butt; he pushes a button marked "PP," it pats him on the butt with a powder puff; he pushes a button marked "ATR" and wakes up in the hospital later... "ATR" = "automatic tampon removal." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	skeleton_key 2008-10-22 08:29 pm UTC (link)
	snort I have never heard that joke before. Nice. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	hangingfire 2008-10-22 08:31 pm UTC (link)
	Bwah. Yes, someone told me that joke before I went to Japan, I think... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	brennalarose 2008-10-23 01:44 am UTC (link)
	D: (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wolfsamurai 2008-10-22 07:46 pm UTC (link)
	A friend of mine went to Japan and confessed that he spent almost an hour playing with the toilet at the place he was staying at in Tokyo. He seemed torn between being embarrassed about it and wanting to encourage everybody he talked to do the same thing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hangingfire 2008-10-22 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	I don't blame him. The fanciest one I encountered was at a ryokan in Kyoto -- it had all the various bidet-type functions, plus the noisemaker, plus dual-flush, and best of all, a heated seat. That may not seem like much, but when it's November and you're getting up at 7:00 AM and the bathroom isn't particularly well-heated... (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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caito, 2008-10-23 05:24 am UTC

sailorcoruscant
2008-10-22 11:20 pm UTC (link)

They have similar toilets in the hotels in Korea as well. We were all too chicken to play with the button collection until our last night, when the entire group gathered in one bathroom and took turns pressing them to see what would happen.

Our joy when we saw that one of them sent a jet of water 2 metres into the air and straight towards the bathtub was indescribable.

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	caito 2008-10-23 05:23 am UTC (link)
	I DID THAT TOO. In my defense, I was really too jet-lagged to accomplish much else. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	aerobot 2008-10-23 06:19 am UTC (link)
	Dude, I don't need encouraging, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I've always wanted to travel to Japan, and the very first thing on the top of my list would be 'find awesome Japanese toilet; spend rest of day playing with it'. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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tofuknight, 2008-10-23 06:14 pm UTC

	telophase 2008-10-23 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	I know someone who, when we were in Japan, played with the buttons and accidentally hit the one that summons help. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gunshou 2008-10-23 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	I finally get to use this icon! (Reply to this)(Parent)

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