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."
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