Posted on 04/10/2014 7:16:24 AM PDT by C19fan
I remember about 10 years ago, I was watching a National Geographic show about a hunter-gatherer tribe in Papua New Guinea. The men were running around in loincloths with spears, hunting animals, making offerings to the gods — you know, typical primitive-tribe stuff. But okay, I don't judge... we're all descended from people like that.
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I suspect that the real reason we don't adopt Japanese toilets is the very fact that people are so eager to give reasons not to. We've grown used to the idea that everything good is invented in America. If it wasn't invented here, it must not be worth having, we tell ourselves. It's a toxic combination of "golden age mentality" and national chauvinism — a symptom of "Ming America."
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I read someplace that there are many sex fads in Japan, and that they are constantly changing, so as we speak, these are probably passé and something else has taken their place.
I know that women in America have marketed used panties, though. I used to clean for a mental patient who was corresponding with some. He left the letters out with lists of different things they would mail him for a fee. He also left their pictures out. I don’t know if he sent them any money. I doubt it because his money, disability and stuff, was controlled by a payee. The payee hired me but I quit because I got tired of him leaving this stuff out all the time. Most clients would put it away before the cleaning lady came over.
If you are discharged from the Army because of mental illness, you don’t get a pension, right? Just wondering.
At some point, bidet toilets will catch on like wildfire.
I realized that when a poster here said something on another thread a while back, and once that becomes part of national awareness on sanitation, it will become a trend to add bidet toilets seats and modifications.
I forget how the poster pointed it out but what was revealed to me was, “why does a modern American feel comfortable with merely wiping excrement off their skin with tissues, and leaving it at that?”
For people who use bleach cleaning products, wash their vegetables, and use antiseptic soaps for everyday washing, how quickly do you think the advertisers can make mere skin wiping with paper, gross?
We’ve had Toto’s for over 10 years. They’re a good product, but replacement parts can be difficult...all by special order. No running down to the local hardware store for a new flapper, or other common part.
I mourn for our past of innovation and achievement.
which is better...... amortizing the cost of the expensive toilet over say 10 or 15 years of paying $10 per roll of bumwad?
It’s bad enough having use Lysol wipes to get the seat and handle of our present crappers clean, which are a great improvment over the old days of having to use a cleaning rag and then wash it, or create the waste of spray cleaner and paper towels. But with hi-tech, also having to worry about germs on the panel and in the crevices of the pushbuttons on a toilet remote? No, thank you.
That illustrates the importance of a heated seat, and warm water.
Another useful device that wouldn’t work in an out house is this item, that will prevent bathroom odors and toilet misting.
http://www.jonevac.com/
I tried to talk the manufacturer into selling me one at a discount, so that I could promote his product, especially to yacht and boat owners.
Maybe it had to do with having a brick for a pillow.
That has little to do with cleaning the toilet.
Yes, thousands of Americans and our allies such as the Australians were put into forced labor camps with the results we all know of.
Anyway, I am tired of articles about how wonderful the Japanese are and how their technology, which we originally gave them is so terrific.
And I am also very tired of the U.S. defending them militarily at our cost in the billions.
Sorry if my post offended some freepers.
Last September I met with Mr. Gustav Potthoff at the Atterbury, Indiana, Bakalar Air Museum and we talked about his capture by the Japanese and imprisonment at a death camp. He gave me one of his drawings of hope.
http://www.atterburybakalarairmuseum.org/lest_we_forget.htm
Gustav Potthoff’s is “the most American of stories,” said Jon Kay, director of Traditional Arts Indiana. Kay will curate “Tell People the Story: The Art of Gustav Potthoff,” an exhibit that is part of the Fall 2011 Themester, “Making War, Making Peace.”
As an immigrant seeking freedom from financial and physical oppression, Potthoff, a World War II veteran, achieved the American dream, Kay said.
https://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=83398
In Switzerland - an advanced Western country, I came across a toilet that was a hole in the floor and two footprints - one to either side. It was utilitarian, but give me my good ole ‘Made in USA’ toilet anyday. BTW, the toilet tissue was similar to corrugated cardboard.
See, I thought of everything. ; ) (Just joking)
France still has those also, in old buildings at least, that is where I learned how practical they are.
You should have seen the toilet paper the French soldiers had, when I showed it to people in the states, they could never guess it’s purpose, because of it’s roughness.
For a long time my wife had a “collection” of toilet paper samples from Europe. In addition to the corrugated cardboard, there were some that could double as sandpaper.
Thanks!!!
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