Push Button Flush

[+ Lucky]

What do you read on the toilet?

 

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http://www.muscleandstrength.com/images/magazine/covers/august2006.jpg

 

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[Guest zipperzone]

>Most other countries in Europe and Latin America have the

>push button.

>I like the Japanese toilets - who doesn't like to play with

>buttons and dials?

>(Homer Simpson in Tokyo: "Which restaurant should we go to?

>The toilet recommends the one down the road.")

>

>I thought this new style was cool - saw it in a commercial,

>until I learned it was called "The Hatbox" of all things:

>

>http://www.us.kohler.com/onlinecatalog/350x400/aaa24251.jpg

 

Why would the name put you off? Actually I've tried one of these and found that there was not any room for your heels.

[Guest zipperzone]

>For my money, there is no handier way to pee than to use a

>urinal,

 

I agree. I have often wondered why they are not standard equipment in all new homes.

 

I also maintain that the flush toilet is the most important invention of the last two centuries.

[foxy]

I'm Lucky's friend who just had the bathroom done over. It wasn't fun but the end result was worth it. I try not to think about the price when I'm sitting on my Porcher Veneto push button toilet. I think this falls into the TMI category.

[+ Lucky]

Foxy- Did you get the toilet cam up and running again?

[AdamSmith]

What price glory (hole)?

 

>the end result was worth it.

 

Boooo! However...

 

>I try not to think

>about the price when I'm sitting on my Porcher Veneto push

>button toilet.

 

...you have to amortize it:

 

Retail $799.

Assuming you got some kind of break, est. $650 paid.

Assume 15-year service lifetime.

Assume 1 dump/day (just you; added value if others use it; occasional diarrhea will sweeten the economics further).

Equals 5487 dumps minimum.

 

Thus you will only have paid $0.12/dump max. A bargain, without even factoring in Number One!

[Bilbo]

RE: What price glory (hole)?

 

One thing that no one has mentioned. How many of us even know anyone who doesn't have something or other balanced on the top of his toilet tank? Even those designs here with tanks to have a top on seem to be rounded and smallish. And that first design - you'd have to move something, often magazines, to one side just to flush!

[foxy]

RE: What price glory (hole)?

 

Holy s__t! What a great way to look at it.

 

Can we talk about my shower that holds 4 people? Think of how cheap that will be if I can just round up 3 dirty people a day. I can see the ad now on Craig's List. This new bathroom is starting to seem like a real bargain!

[Louis]

RE: What price glory (hole)?

 

Just hire Scott and Company. He has two great looking friends that he has introduced to us recently, so there's your fourway....:-).

I am sure the boys could get a bit dirty for you if you wanted to test out how well the shower works....:-)

[poiuyt]

All this reminds me of the public toilet whose walls were one-way mirrors that some artist came up with a couple of years ago.

 

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[+ Lucky]

That's a great toilet for the exhibitionist! He thinks he is exposing himself, but no one can see him, so no harm done!

[AdamSmith]

>Where would NASA be without it?

 

...up shit creek? :7

 

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17034568/site/newsweek/

[AdamSmith]

>What do you read on the toilet?

 

One of my favorite bits of literature on the toilet...

 

The Geography of the House

by W.H. Auden

(for Christopher Isherwood)

 

Seated after breakfast

In this white-tiled cabin

Arabs call the House where

Everybody goes,

Even melancholics

Raise a cheer to Mrs.

Nature for the primal

Pleasure She bestows.

 

Sex is but a dream to

Seventy-and-over,

But a joy proposed un-

-til we start to shave:

Mouth-delight depends on

Virtue in the cook, but

This She guarantees from

Cradle unto grave.

 

Lifted off the potty,

Infants from their mothers

Hear their first impartial

Words of worldly praise:

Hence, to start the morning

With a satisfactory

Dump is a good omen

All our adult days.

 

Revelation came to

Luther in a privy

(Crosswords have been solved there).

Rodin was no fool

When he cast his Thinker,

Cogitating deeply,

Crouched in the position

Of a man at stool.

 

All the arts derive from

This ur-act of making,

Private to the artist:

Makers' lives are spent

Striving in their chosen

Medium to produce a

De-narcissus-ized en-

During excrement.

 

Freud did not invent the

Constipated miser:

Banks have letter boxes

Built in their façade

Marked For Night Deposits,

Stocks are firm or liquid,

Currencies of nations

Either soft or hard.

 

Global Mother, keep our

Bowels of compassion

Open through our lifetime,

Purge our minds as well:

Grant us a kind ending,

Not a second childhood,

Petulant, weak-sphinctered,

In a cheap hotel.

 

Keep us in our station:

When we get pound-notish,

When we seem about to

Take up Higher Thought,

Send us some deflating

Image like the pained ex-

-pression on a Major

Prophet taken short.

 

(Orthodoxy ought to

Bless our modern plumbing:

Swift and St. Augustine

Lived in centuries

When a stench of sewage

Made a strong debating

Point for Manichees.)

 

Mind and Body run on

Different timetables:

Not until our morning

Visit here can we

Leave the dead concerns of

Yesterday behind us,

Face with all our courage

What is now to be.