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The American prank is very funny in a Dadaesque way. The Japanese prank is just infantile! Still funny...feel sorry for the "victims"...Jeff
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Now those were pretty funny....but I have a question that may sound stupid or naive...
Do Japanese port a pots not have actual toilet seats to sit on like the American ones we have?
I mean it looks like they are squatting?Mrs. Wallnut a.k.a (the head nut).Comment
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Squatting: That is the typical Japanese toilet. In the last 30 years, it has been disappearing in homes but still prevalent in parks, expressway stops, stores, public toilets and youth hostels. Most areas that have three toilet bins or more will have one "Western" style. Most hotels have western style toilets/commodes with the rooms.
One unusual (from the American perspective) but great trend in "commodes" for Japan in the last 10 years has been the electronic bidet type of seat. $300 to $1500 seats that need a rocket scientist mentality to figure out. Many hotels now have these and many new homes are supplied with these too.
The toilet area of most homes do not have direct heat or air conditioning supplied. That means toilet seats are typically "cold" in winter. A long time market has been the "terry cloth" sleeves that fit or snap over the seat. But since the late '80s, the market has been toward electronically warmed seats - small heating coils in the seats themselves.
Click here! and scroll down to see one of the simple electronic bidets. This one is about $450/$475 (with current exchange) for just the seat. Toilet bowl is extra!
Some of the more expensive ones have the cover lid open as one enters the room. If you walk in and stand in front, the seat lid opens too! Women love this because of lazy husbands; and men like it too because it "recognizes" them.Last edited by leehljp; 08-29-2007, 10:55 PM.Hank Lee
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I spent some time in China and they are still a big fan of the "squatty potty". Just a hole about the size of a dinner plate in the floor.It was a good time to just sit near the bathrooms at the great Wall and watch the disgust on the face of most western women as they would come out.spellling champion Lexington region 1982Comment
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I have only been in one that did that, and it was a "demo" house for a particular neighborhood in which one of my co-workers moved. Those toilet seats are available at large home and electronics centers. I just took it as "saluting" me as I walked in!
Actually, I think it raises and the ladies have to touch-push it and it goes down. OF course, knowing the penchant for options in the electronics here, it has a setting to cut it off if the woman wants it that way.
Another co-workers moved into a new home 10 years ago that had an LCD TV (about 6" by 8") in the bath/hot tub. And that was not an "expensive" home by Japanese standards. In addition to the TV, the panel doubled as a door bell monitor. If someone rang the door bell, you could see them on the screen and of course talk to them while in the ofuro/tub. (No, they couldn't see you.)
We have the screen panel monitor in our kitchen so that we can "see" who is at the door. Those have been around for 10 years or so in home centers for self installation.Last edited by leehljp; 08-30-2007, 10:14 PM.Hank Lee
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