Saturday, January 06, 2007
All we are saaaaaying,
is give pee a chance...
Most people might find it disturbing to have a toilet talk to them. Not so in Japan, the home of the futuristic commode. The country’s toilets are now packed with enough high-tech wizardry to rival a James Bond movie. They have infrared sensors, microprocessors, and light-emitting diodes. The upscale ones will deodorize the room, play music to drown out unwanted noise, spray your buttocks, cleanse the bowl, and close the lid after you’re done.
...The breakthrough came after Toto researchers discovered the optimal angle for sprayers—43 degrees from horizontal—and dreamed up a catchy slogan (Oshiri datte arattehoshii, or “Even your buttocks want to be cleaned").
..."There’s a saying in Japan that if you keep your toilet clean you’ll have beautiful, healthy children,” says Junichi Hirata, vice-president of the Japan Toilet Assn.
...And, yes, some even talk. In the bathrooms at Tokyo Station, the toilets will remind you there’s no need to flush. That’s done for you automatically after you stand up to leave.
... “etiquette point” lamp [model]. The dot of light acts as a guide for men who can’t always find their mark.
...The idea was first tested in Japan at Kansai International Airport, near Osaka, where officials discovered that putting stickers inside toilet bowls kept the bathroom cleaner.
“who won da second world war you so smaht?!?"
So… was I hallucinating or did I actually hear on the raadio that somewhere in the EU a buncha woyminz is passing a law to force men to be seated when answering nature’s call?!?!? ...because standing is such an act of male aggression and superiority?
Too much coffee?
Found It!!!
Young women in Sweden, Germany and Australia have a new cause: They want men to sit down while urinating. This demand comes partly from concerns about hygiene—avoiding the splash factor—but, as Jasper Gerard reports in the English magazine The Spectator, “more crucially because a man standing up to urinate is deemed to be triumphing in his masculinity, and by extension, degrading women.” One argument is that if women can’t do it, then men shouldn’t either. Another is that standing upright while relieving oneself is “a nasty macho gesture,” suggestive of male violence.
A feminist group at Stockholm University is campaigning to ban all urinals from campus, and one Swedish elementary school has already removed them. In Australia, an Internet survey shows that 17 percent of those polled think men ought to sit, while 70 percent believe they should be allowed to stand. Some Swedish women are pressuring their men to take a stand, so to speak. Yola, a 25-year-old Swedish trainee psychiatrist, says she dumps boyfriends who insist on standing. “What else can I do?,” said her new boyfriend, Ingvar, who sits.
And just for balance…
“Do you know why there will never be peace?” [Ariel Sharon] once asked a young journalist, ... “Because the best thing that has happened to the Arabs in the past 100 years is that they learned to urinate standing up."
Friday, January 05, 2007
"A New Direction"
sorta...
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Well, *I* feel safer, now
howza’bout you?
And, as a Cahleefohrneeiahn, I would like to say to the rest of the nation: I’m sorry.
"Culture of Corrrrruption!!!"
who didn’t see this coming?
The House ethics committee has told Detroit Congressman John Conyers to do what he should have been doing all along: obey the rules on using his congressional staffers. Conyers has said he will.
In essence, the congressman got a very light tap on the wrist. He was accused of improperly ordering his staffers to work on political campaigns and to do personal chores for him, including baby-sitting.
He has said he “accepted responsibility” for a “lack of clarity” in communications with his employees....The report was issued just before a holiday weekend during a national mourning period for the late President Gerald R. Ford...
Thank You Shaddap, Nancy.
This Pic has More Chins than a Chinese Fonebook
did Naaancy swear in each and every other member—or is Keithy spayshul?
Yeesh—don’t simper, Nancy; makes ya look condescending fat.
Canadian Humour, eh.
so goin’ to H-E-double-hockey-sticks
Cracker
GoreBots! to the White Courtesy Telephone, Please
gorked
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you The Concourse of Hypocrisy, courtesy of Zombietime.
raz0r
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
wow.
sense o’ wundah
*clicky*clicky*
TBK
But wait!! THERE’S MORE
A Snark Too Far?
"Oh. Well. That changes everything. ...err ... doesn’t it?"
Rep.-elect Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to Congress, found himself under attack last month when he announced he’d take his oath of office on the Koran—especially from Virginia Rep. Virgil Goode, who called it a threat to American values.
Yet the holy book at tomorrow’s ceremony has an unassailably all-American provenance. We’ve learned that the new congressman—in a savvy bit of political symbolism—will hold the personal copy once owned by Thomas Jefferson.
... rare book and special collections division at the Library of Congress,
...Jefferson’s copy is an English translation by George Sale published in the 1750s; it survived the 1851 fire that destroyed most of Jefferson’s collection and has his customary initialing on the pages. This isn’t the first historic book used for swearing-in ceremonies—the Library has allowed VIPs to use rare Bibles for inaugurations and other special occasions.
...Ellison will take the official oath of office along with the other incoming members in the House chamber, then use the Koran in his individual, ceremonial oath with new Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Well, iddn’t that a fine kettle of chitlins, chillinz…
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Today'Z BINGO!!!
The root cause of terrorism is its success.
--Merovign
Monday, January 01, 2007
Ya never Know whatcha don't Know 'til ya Know, yanno?
from the dept of Unknown Unknowns
So my friend J and I are re-doing her little apartment so her mom, F can move in. [F is off visiting the brother for the holidaze] Amongst alla the painting and scraping and sanding and shopping we got to talking about New Years dinners.
I learned to eat the black-eyed peas from my Dad’s Texas side of the fambly. O’course with lots and lots of corn bread. mmmmmm....
Her family, however, had a much more complex set of required foods: pork *something*, pickled herring, cabbage, donuts and a whole list of other things. We remarked on what an odd combination that all was and moved on to other matters.
Today she informed me she’d found out the reasons behind some of the foods: cabbage [duh] means cabbage as in $$$. Donuts is for something sweet. The fish is still a mystery but the one that caught me was the pork.
Pork is for moving forward, because when pigs root they move forward. Neat, huh?
Now we know why pork isn’t halal.
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