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In today's issue of Toilet Fancy...
Toronto Star | Submitted by: athenstexman poop!
"The divide is not insurmountable. The Japanese were once paper people who , after years of persuasion, have become water people... For George, the preference is clear: Paper cultures use the least efficient means of cleaning the dirtiest part of the body. "It's just a habit, really," she says on the phone from London, and not a very effective one. "How clean are we? I suggest we're not."
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From: gargoyle1
Date: 17-Nov-2008 20:12
Must've been a shitty day at Rotten HQ. Make the toilet have a farting sound when it blows the hot air on yer ass, that'd make some people jump
From: diarrheaomelette [with corn]
Date: 17-Nov-2008 20:56
Best rotten story of the year. ----------- "In India, where open defecation is still practised (though with embarrassment), 180,000 tonnes of human feces are left in the open and, the author observes, often deposited beside filthy public toilets." ---------- But if you're one of the few who can make it up Mt everest, and you need to drop a duke, by God, you better haul it off that mountain.
From: gingerbrown [as in sh!t]
Date: 17-Nov-2008 21:28
Hey, Ms. George, stop encouraging anthropologists and sociologists to 'infest' public toilets. Between the cockroaches, pedophiles, spiders, flashers and Peeping Toms, there's hardly room to take a dump now!
From: absintheredux
[Green Death]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 02:07
I would never even consider wiping my benighted rosy arse with any dry paper product except in a dire emergency. Filthy! I have one of those Japanese toilets (won at a poker game) and it is extremely pleasant. The lack of bidets in most US bathrooms is quite disconcerting, as we place such a high value on personal cleanliness (and use it as a weapon against other cultures we deem inferior or inimical to us). Problem is that in many cases (not ALL, so don't bother making lists) they are more advanced than we than we are in that respect, being less psychologically "constipated" on the subject. We are, alas, socialized into hysterical scatophobia which gets in the way of progress.
From: scatoligist [scatoligist]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 05:12
lots of poop storys around today.
From: sp00k
Date: 18-Nov-2008 09:33
"Anthropologists and sociologists should be infesting public bathrooms," ==== Guess its better than gays, child molesters and politicians infesting public bathrooms. 
From: loveto
[Jill Awf]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 13:47
Sometimes paper just isn't good enough. When ya have to get a new coupl'a squares, wet them, and do the job again, ya might as well just have used water in the first place.
From: carolina
[Carol]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 14:07
if paper isn't enough use vaseline to help scrape it all out. then use the flushable toilet wipes.they are very cleansing. how do you know the nozzle on the spray is perfectly clean? i would think someones piss would be shot at my ass with the spray.as for india why can't they at least use a ceramic pot like they did here years ago.here they would empty it out in the outhouse the next day.thank God for modern plumbing.
From: tower [of babel]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 16:34
i'm usually suspicious of articles suggesting that westerners, or specifically americans, are on the objectively wrong side of some cultural divide and could come across, if only we were a little more enlightened-- BUT, here, i must say, i wish this country would adopt the bidet. there's always a somewhat tense post-dump moment just before the extent of the cleanup task is revealed, a situtation that would be largely (and gently) ameliorated by a handy stream of water.
From: other [unclassified]
Date: 18-Nov-2008 18:50
and then the water heater went nuts...Welcome to Dr.Dorkmeyer's Steam Enema Clinic.
From: groundnpound [Ghillie Sinclair]
Date: 19-Nov-2008 11:43
Woohoo, whoohoohoo, woohoo, whoohoohoo...gotta love Japanese shitters. 
From: wuppy [Wuppy Puppy]
Date: 19-Nov-2008 13:34
http://www.tomthinks.com/walking.html
Updated: 19-Nov-2008 13:42
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