Japan's super toilets are the solution to a cleaner world

[Vetalia]

Ayy, finally someone agrees with me!

I really don't see the issue unless people somehow imagine tap water comes from pristine streams and springs in the forest (which are also contaminated with animal shit...take a swig from a stream if you want to lose 5 pounds and have a nice parasite living in your intestinal tract). I wouldn't fill up my bottle at a tap on the toilet for obvious reasons but if the water is being sourced from wastewater, who cares? At one point or another I'm just going to return it anyways.

[Aggicificicerous]

Why would anyone want to drink water in a smelly public washroom that's full of microscopic fragments of fecal matter? There's a reason drinking fountains are outside washrooms.

[Ethel mermania]

As the guy living in Japan...

I love my washlet. I get depressed when I have to leave Japan and leave it behind (Pun SO intended).

Yes, we DO have combo-sinks/toilets here. They make handwashing after the fact a bit easier and save on water.

NO ONE DRINKS FROM THEM! They are not safe drinking water!

Truly a civilized society.

[Vetalia]

Truly a civilized society.

I may be a little too barbaric for that society....I am very lax on hand washing unless it's a particularly gnarly, million-wiper kind of deuce. I utilize the elbow flush for less serious matters at the urinal or the foot-flush for those requiring the throne, though.

[Bluelight-R006]

Why would anyone want to drink water in a smelly public washroom that's full of microscopic fragments of fecal matter? There's a reason drinking fountains are outside washrooms.

This ^^

Bacteria flies through the air unto the water that spills out of the water cooler that you drink.

[Walkerfort]

mmmmm Pee pee water



dies

[Bluelight-R006]

mmmmm Pee pee water



dies

I mean, it’s not exactly urine. The water is contaminated with waste germs.

[Alvecia]

Look on the bright side, at worst you might be drinking dinosaur urine. If you're in Europe, that water might have also been drunk by a great Roman emperor and in the USA by George Washington!

Is that how weather and global water cycle works?

It's super simplified, but it's possible

[Risottia]

I'd take the carefully recycled wasterwater over what I get from treated Lake Erie water ...

Say what? You drink water from a LAKE? You don't have wells over there?

[Pax Nerdvana]

I wouldn't drink toilet water.

Not enough electrolytes?

Not because of that. I think its pretty gross.

[The Two Jerseys]

I'd take the carefully recycled wasterwater over what I get from treated Lake Erie water ...

Say what? You drink water from a LAKE? You don't have wells over there?

Or water treatment plants apparently...

[Rojava Free State]

Can we take time to admire the irony that Japan and India are on the same continent

[Araraukar]

Can we take time to admire the irony that Japan and India are on the same continent

Japan is an island chain. And technically India is on the same continent as all of Asia, Europe and Africa. (Look it up, it's one big landmass.)

And for anyone crying about germs flying through the air, fecal bacteria are spread in droplets of water, not on their own. So anything that squirts water or causes strong stream of air to hit something wet, is bad news. That's why the hand-dryers that work with airflow, are much worse in terms of germs than any kind of towel-dispensing machine (the cleanest are paper towels). I can't imagine that a water-first-then-air-squirting bottom-cleanser can be better in those terms than paper followed by handwashing, because it sounds like it's going to cause a lot more airborne fecal droplets. However, public toilets at least get washed with antibacterial soaps and such often enough that as long as you wash your hands, it doesn't matter much. (A germaphobe would want to avoid touching a door handle when exiting, through, because many people don't wash their hands.)

On top of which, the fecal bacteria of people who live in the same area as you, are relatively harmless, and your own are totally harmless (unless you're acutely sick with something like Salmonella, but then you got that from somewhere else), in small quantities.

[WayNeacTia]

I'd take the carefully recycled wasterwater over what I get from treated Lake Erie water ...

Say what? You drink water from a LAKE? You don't have wells over there?

Grow up on a farm sometime. You learn to get by drinking dugout water.

[East African Unitary State]

Can we take time to admire the irony that Japan and India are on the same continent

Ugh, India is on its own subcontinent, don't put Asia on one big pile like that. There's as many difference from Delhi to Tokyo as Delhi to Paris.

[Bluelight-R006]

Can we take time to admire the irony that Japan and India are on the same continent

Japan is a chain of islands, India takes up a whole subcontinent. Asia is diverted, too. Don’t forget about that.

Like someone already said, too, India is also part of the Afro-Eurasia ‘supercontinent.’

And why not just admire that the United States and China are on the same planet?

[Walkerfort]

I think the brine disappeared....

[Bluelight-R006]

I think the brine disappeared....

(S)he ended the topic. We wanted to discuss, but (s)he didn’t. So it’s his/her every right to leave the conversation.

[-Ocelot-]

Can we take time to admire the irony that Japan and India are on the same continent

Japan is on a different continent, on a different planet, in a different universe.

[Ayissor]

Can we take time to admire the irony that Japan and India are on the same continent

Japan is on a different continent, on a different planet, in a different universe.

Japan is what happens when you try to merge universes but fail spectacularly.

[Risottia]

mmmmm Pee pee water



dies

I mean, it’s not exactly urine. The water is contaminated with waste germs.

Urine would be safer.

[Bluelight-R006]

I mean, it’s not exactly urine. The water is contaminated with waste germs.

Urine would be safer.

Why’d you say that?

[Alvecia]

Urine would be safer.

Why’d you say that?

It's sterile and I like the taste

[Risottia]

Urine would be safer.

Why’d you say that?

Because the urine of a healthy human is sterile, at least.

[Risottia]

Japan is on a different continent, on a different planet, in a different universe.

Japan is what happens when you try to merge universes but fail spectacularly.

Anything featuring tentacle hentai is no failure.