Is technology taking over our lives?!?

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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,458
    Meltdown99 said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    it's hilariously over the top. 

    I've never used one, and I can't imagine how long I'd have to sit there waiting for everything to be sufficiently dry. 
    Well, that one has a dryer built in.  If it's a Dyson dryer, you'll be good to go in time...lol
    I saw that, I just can't see it being high powered enough for my comfort level. HAHA
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  • Meltdown99
    Meltdown99 None Of Your Business... Posts: 10,739
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    it's hilariously over the top. 

    I've never used one, and I can't imagine how long I'd have to sit there waiting for everything to be sufficiently dry. 
    Well, that one has a dryer built in.  If it's a Dyson dryer, you'll be good to go in time...lol
    I saw that, I just can't see it being high powered enough for my comfort level. HAHA
    I get you on that.  I just it was funny.  I'll stick with old fashion crapper.
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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    it's hilariously over the top. 

    I've never used one, and I can't imagine how long I'd have to sit there waiting for everything to be sufficiently dry. 
    Well, that one has a dryer built in.  If it's a Dyson dryer, you'll be good to go in time...lol
    I saw that, I just can't see it being high powered enough for my comfort level. HAHA
    You've used those dyson hand dryers though, right? You'd be blown off the seat.
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,458
    oftenreading said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    Meltdown99 said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    it's hilariously over the top. 

    I've never used one, and I can't imagine how long I'd have to sit there waiting for everything to be sufficiently dry. 
    Well, that one has a dryer built in.  If it's a Dyson dryer, you'll be good to go in time...lol
    I saw that, I just can't see it being high powered enough for my comfort level. HAHA
    You've used those dyson hand dryers though, right? You'd be blown off the seat.
    no kidding. I don't want that either. I just don't think there would be a good middle ground here. LOL
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  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,367
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    '05 - TO, '06 - TO 1, '08 - NYC 1 & 2, '09 - TO, Chi 1 & 2, '10 - Buffalo, NYC 1 & 2, '11 - TO 1 & 2, Hamilton, '13 - Buffalo, Brooklyn 1 & 2, '15 - Global Citizen, '16 - TO 1 & 2, Chi 2

    EV
    Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    Interesting, Ben.  And I hope your visit was before the nuclear power plant melt-down, not after.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,367
    brianlux said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    Interesting, Ben.  And I hope your visit was before the nuclear power plant melt-down, not after.
    It was last year, but the impact of the meltdown doesn't spread that far thankfully. 
    '05 - TO, '06 - TO 1, '08 - NYC 1 & 2, '09 - TO, Chi 1 & 2, '10 - Buffalo, NYC 1 & 2, '11 - TO 1 & 2, Hamilton, '13 - Buffalo, Brooklyn 1 & 2, '15 - Global Citizen, '16 - TO 1 & 2, Chi 2

    EV
    Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    benjs said:
    brianlux said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    Interesting, Ben.  And I hope your visit was before the nuclear power plant melt-down, not after.
    It was last year, but the impact of the meltdown doesn't spread that far thankfully. 
    Good to know!  I'm fascinated by Japanese culture.  My girl friend in high school had parents who were born in Japan and were detained in a camp in WWII.  I learned a lot from her but there is so much more!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    That is awesome.
    Yes, the Japanese are full of good ideas, and they actually follow through with them.
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    oftenreading said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    I really really wish toilets like this would come to mainstream Canada. Our toilets are so boring. And I really do like this sound-making idea. Not having that puts so many people into such awkward and/or unpleasant situations. I really really hate it when someone comes to my house and had a diarrhea shit in my bathroom and I'm hearing every awful minute of it in my living room. And you know how insanely embarrassed they are in there. Sometimes they try to run the faucet and cover the noise with the fan, but it doesn't work at all. :lol:
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    I really really wish toilets like this would come to mainstream Canada. Our toilets are so boring. And I really do like this sound-making idea. Not having that puts so many people into such awkward and/or unpleasant situations. I really really hate it when someone comes to my house and had a diarrhea shit in my bathroom and I'm hearing every awful minute of it in my living room. And you know how insanely embarrassed they are in there. Sometimes they try to run the faucet and cover the noise with the fan, but it doesn't work at all. :lol:
    No buffer zone! Every home needs one. 
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    edited February 2019
    hedonist said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    I really really wish toilets like this would come to mainstream Canada. Our toilets are so boring. And I really do like this sound-making idea. Not having that puts so many people into such awkward and/or unpleasant situations. I really really hate it when someone comes to my house and had a diarrhea shit in my bathroom and I'm hearing every awful minute of it in my living room. And you know how insanely embarrassed they are in there. Sometimes they try to run the faucet and cover the noise with the fan, but it doesn't work at all. :lol:
    No buffer zone! Every home needs one. 
    It is pretty hard when you live in an open concept one bedroom apartment! The washroom isn't actually right off my living room, but it's still only about 20 feet from it, lol!
    Post edited by PJ_Soul on
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    I really really wish toilets like this would come to mainstream Canada. Our toilets are so boring. And I really do like this sound-making idea. Not having that puts so many people into such awkward and/or unpleasant situations. I really really hate it when someone comes to my house and had a diarrhea shit in my bathroom and I'm hearing every awful minute of it in my living room. And you know how insanely embarrassed they are in there. Sometimes they try to run the faucet and cover the noise with the fan, but it doesn't work at all. :lol:

    I've read, though i can't confirm, that Japanese women are so embarrassed by the fact that they are functioning biological beings that if they don't have access to this sort of noise-generating toilet they just repeatedly flush, to cover up even more typical bathroom noises. 
    my small self... like a book amongst the many on a shelf
  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,664
    oftenreading said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    I really really wish toilets like this would come to mainstream Canada. Our toilets are so boring. And I really do like this sound-making idea. Not having that puts so many people into such awkward and/or unpleasant situations. I really really hate it when someone comes to my house and had a diarrhea shit in my bathroom and I'm hearing every awful minute of it in my living room. And you know how insanely embarrassed they are in there. Sometimes they try to run the faucet and cover the noise with the fan, but it doesn't work at all. :lol:

    I've read, though i can't confirm, that Japanese women are so embarrassed by the fact that they are functioning biological beings that if they don't have access to this sort of noise-generating toilet they just repeatedly flush, to cover up even more typical bathroom noises. 
    I don't think North American women are any different TBH. Many women will sit in a public washroom and hold it until nobody is in there, even if it takes 15 minutes for the place to clear out, lol. Everyone always knows it too. The still silence that comes out of a stall containing a woman waiting desperately to shit is the most silent silence in the world. :lol:
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
  • benjs
    benjs Toronto, ON Posts: 9,367
    oftenreading said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    I really really wish toilets like this would come to mainstream Canada. Our toilets are so boring. And I really do like this sound-making idea. Not having that puts so many people into such awkward and/or unpleasant situations. I really really hate it when someone comes to my house and had a diarrhea shit in my bathroom and I'm hearing every awful minute of it in my living room. And you know how insanely embarrassed they are in there. Sometimes they try to run the faucet and cover the noise with the fan, but it doesn't work at all. :lol:

    I've read, though i can't confirm, that Japanese women are so embarrassed by the fact that they are functioning biological beings that if they don't have access to this sort of noise-generating toilet they just repeatedly flush, to cover up even more typical bathroom noises. 
    At least anecdotally I heard that in Japan as well. On the topic of figuring out how to flush - there are so many buttons on some of these toilets it's absolutely astonishing (and of course all in Japanese). Rinsing pressure options, choosing between 'front and rear', song choices, some of them even have glowing light options, how hot you want the drying function. On the topic of boring toilets, keep in mind that the toilets themselves are usually standard, and then you just buy a digital toilet seat that has those features. So PJ_Soul, if you so desire, you too could have your very own butt-rinsing, song-singing Toto toilet too!
    '05 - TO, '06 - TO 1, '08 - NYC 1 & 2, '09 - TO, Chi 1 & 2, '10 - Buffalo, NYC 1 & 2, '11 - TO 1 & 2, Hamilton, '13 - Buffalo, Brooklyn 1 & 2, '15 - Global Citizen, '16 - TO 1 & 2, Chi 2

    EV
    Toronto Film Festival 9/11/2007, '08 - Toronto 1 & 2, '09 - Albany 1, '11 - Chicago 1
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    PJ_Soul said:
    oftenreading said:
    benjs said:
    oftenreading said:
    It's an overwrought commercial, but it's just a bidet for god's sake; it's not like they're anything new. The Japanese have had similarly involved machines for years as part of their societal views on cleanliness, body odours and noises. 
    It's true. When I went to Japan, I visited a Japanese family in the remote countryside in Fukuoka Prefecture, and even there the toilet still drowned out my noises with various elevator music tracks to choose from. Fascinating culture!
    I used to have Japanese neighbours in my former neighbourhood. Although they had been in Canada for decades, they kept some Japanese traditions, including have a fantastic (and fantastically expensive, I assume) toilet that did all of what that bidet did and more, along with music or a variety of different sounds. It was a little frightening to the unitiated - I couldn't even figure out how to flush it the first time I was invited over to their house :lol:
    I really really wish toilets like this would come to mainstream Canada. Our toilets are so boring. And I really do like this sound-making idea. Not having that puts so many people into such awkward and/or unpleasant situations. I really really hate it when someone comes to my house and had a diarrhea shit in my bathroom and I'm hearing every awful minute of it in my living room. And you know how insanely embarrassed they are in there. Sometimes they try to run the faucet and cover the noise with the fan, but it doesn't work at all. :lol:

    I've read, though i can't confirm, that Japanese women are so embarrassed by the fact that they are functioning biological beings that if they don't have access to this sort of noise-generating toilet they just repeatedly flush, to cover up even more typical bathroom noises. 
    I don't think North American women are any different TBH. Many women will sit in a public washroom and hold it until nobody is in there, even if it takes 15 minutes for the place to clear out, lol. Everyone always knows it too. The still silence that comes out of a stall containing a woman waiting desperately to shit is the most silent silence in the world. :lol:
    OMG I laughed so hard at this, lol!!!!!
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    If what this article says is true for many people, it is proof positive that technology is taking over our lives- or more accurately stated,  that many people are allowing technology to take over their lives:


    The article does make a good point about how interconnected many on-line sites are, but to say it is "almost impossible to function with the five big tech giants"?  That says a lot about how humans today function as well as about how pathetically poorly many would function in an all out power grid shut down lasting more than a few days.  Our species has become rather delicate and weak.


    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,359
    brianlux said:
    If what this article says is true for many people, it is proof positive that technology is taking over our lives- or more accurately stated,  that many people are allowing technology to take over their lives:


    The article does make a good point about how interconnected many on-line sites are, but to say it is "almost impossible to function with the five big tech giants"?  That says a lot about how humans today function as well as about how pathetically poorly many would function in an all out power grid shut down lasting more than a few days.  Our species has become rather delicate and weak.


    I saw this first hand during Sandy here in NY.  The level of incompetence by people, first responders, and voted officials following the aftermath was just mind blowing.


  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    tempo_n_groove said:
    brianlux said:
    If what this article says is true for many people, it is proof positive that technology is taking over our lives- or more accurately stated,  that many people are allowing technology to take over their lives:


    The article does make a good point about how interconnected many on-line sites are, but to say it is "almost impossible to function with the five big tech giants"?  That says a lot about how humans today function as well as about how pathetically poorly many would function in an all out power grid shut down lasting more than a few days.  Our species has become rather delicate and weak.


    I saw this first hand during Sandy here in NY.  The level of incompetence by people, first responders, and voted officials following the aftermath was just mind blowing.


    That must have been hell to go through- I can't imagine.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

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