Wednesday 25 February 2009

Toilet humour

Childish but it made me laugh!  In case you didn't know how to use a western style loo, here are the instructions.  Interestingly there were no instructions on how to use the other style!  

I guess I couldn't be here without mentioning the loos.   Like many things in Japan, they are unlike anywhere else.  We have 3 in our house and each have a number of facilities, on which we in the West are missing out.  Heated seats for one, and with a temperature control, so you can warm your bottom on a cold morning.  They have different flushing sound effects, bidet style showers with different spray heights, again with temperature control.  Flushing can be hands free or manual and even the bowl clearing is a completely different design, using two separate flows, one in and out, thereby achieving success every time.  Our home ones have nothing on the more expensive models which can be found in public places and hotels, which have a whole level of other options.   Of course, I would struggle with the control buttons as they are labelled in Japanese, but luckily, each has a small illustration of the function in use, to help clarify.  Let face it, a bottom looks like any other bottom, no matter where you come from!



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