Forgetting How To Wipe
Posted on | September 22, 2006 at 8:05 pm | 2 Comments
I forgot to mention two additional smile items in yesterday’s post:
1) On Monday night, I got to see the Colorado Rockies totally clobber the San Francisco Giants at Coors Field, 20 runs to 8. It could very well be the only time I’ve seen the Rockies win in person, and having it be such a decisive victory was that much better. I know their season was about over and the game didn’t mean much, but it was sure cool to see. It was doubly cool that I got to watch it from a corporate suite and have free beer and food. Definitely the cheapest and best Coors Field experience ever.
2) The other day, my co-worker Pilto and I were discussing this review (reprinted in our local paper that day) of the automated Brondell Swash 800 toilet, which not only has a heated seat, but it also cleans you off like a bidet and then dries you with hot air, thus supposedly alleviating the need for toilet paper. As the review says, these sorts of high-tech toilets are apparently very popular with the Japanese people. Pilto’s comment (paraphrased) was “I don’t like the idea of it – it would make you too reliant on technology and you run the risk of forgetting how to administer proper toilet hygiene. When the Apocalypse comes, there’s going to be a lot of Japanese people running around with dirty bottoms.”
Latre.
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2 Responses to “Forgetting How To Wipe”
September 23rd, 2006 @ 10:11 pm
If nobody else is gonna jump on this –
> ["] When the Apocalypse comes, there’s going to be a lot of Japanese people
> running around with dirty bottoms.”
… I’ll be submitting it to the “Most Tempting Straight-lines of 2006″ world championships before the end of the month.
September 24th, 2006 @ 4:53 pm
Google’s HQ in Mountain View has those Japanese toilets. The heated seat would be nice in wintertime, but I’ll be honest, I don’t like the, uh, more bidet-like functions. I guess I’m just an old-fashioned gal that way. TP does the job. (Luckily, they also supply that.)