• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    If toilet paper can cause scratches on that hard material, it must also be causing damage to the skin. Does it really need to be that tough a material to do its job?

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    7 days ago

    Do these designers not have children? Wiping pee off the seat is like an every time thing; seems silly not to just use a bit of toilet paper.

    Even I have to clean up when I miss; which happens max, max, 95% of the time.

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      7 days ago

      And if paper that immediately dissolves when wet scratches the seat; maybe use better materials.

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        Toilet paper is wood, while the seats are plastic. Wood is a 2.5-ish on the mohs scale, and plastics tend to be too. So they scratch at a 2.5 with deeper grooves at a level 3, even on a micro scale. The alternative is to use ceramics for the seat, but the fragility means one rough drop of the seat and it could shatter. Metals are generally no better.

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      7 days ago

      Do these designers not have children?

      Their children are furry and meow. But in all seriousness, I would consider it an engineering oversight for not considering how their product is being used in real households.

      Even I have to clean up when I miss; which happens max, max, 95% of the time.

      You miss a max of 95% of the time? 🙃 On a related note, most people are bad with percentages.

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      6 days ago

      Pee sit down, like when you shit, give it a try, not reason to not do it and saves a loooooooooot of burden, including time.

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        WoW! Judging the current net negative downvotes I assume that the voters were not ready for my proposal, but I swear that I enjoy several orders of magnitude less mess and higiene in my toilet seat since I did it without any drawback… good luck!

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      7 days ago

      the only thing I’ve ever had to wipe off the seat is condensation. I’ve no doubt children find a way to get pee on it but anyone with two braincells to rub together knows the seat moves out of the way

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    7 days ago

    You should instead use Toto brand toilet wipes. 39.99 for a value pack of 15!

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      (un)expected factorial? 1,30767e12 wipes seems like a lot. I guess you never specified currency, but at an average cost of 3,0581e-11 per wipe, I’ll assume that that’s a pretty decent deal.

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        Well, that would be good value! (there’s also an Excel joke just there but now I’ve ruined it). In this case, I was using the symbol to denote emphasis in linguistic terms and not embiggen a number.

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          Yeah I figured you meant the linguistic rather than the mathematical sense of the !, but I chose to intentionally misinterpret that for comedic effect.

          Would you mind explaining the excel joke? I’ve spent very little time using that program (I’ll leave it up to you to decide how fortunate I’ve been), so I don’t really get it

          • r00ty@kbin.life
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            7 days ago

            Well I cannot check, I’m in Linux right now. But I’m fairly sure when there’s an invalid value for conversion or other function the cell shows the text “VALUE!” in it.

  • Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Every public bathroom I’ve used has pee all over the toilet seat. I don’t understand why guys don’t either use the urinal or sit on the toilet, why piss on the seat?

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      I always wondered why too; maybe they think it’s “gay”? Or possibly playing Fireman Sam or something?

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      7 days ago

      I’ve seen evidence of people doing long range pee with the seat down in the UK when I went to visit.

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      7 days ago

      Probably also kids. The urinals tend to be to tall for them to use and they don’t have great aim.

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      7 days ago

      Or at the very least lift the seat.

      Guessing they also don’t close the lid so they get to spray themselves with whatever’s in the bowl when they flush. And then don’t wash their hands before leaving.

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      It isn’t necessarily intentional.

      A lot of dudes have no idea how to actually aim their junk. Other times, you might get an unexpected spray. They might be in a hurry and just not aim beyond facing the toilet. And you’ve got splashes from usually forceful urination. There’s probably people that do it intentionally.

      The real question is why the fuck they don’t clean up after themselves.

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      7 days ago

      Or just, you know, sit to pee like a civilized person.

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      7 days ago

      Because men are disgusting horrible creatures who should be shot into the sun without trial. In the men’s room, that is.

      At home they’re probably fine. Maybe. It depends.

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      Urine is sterile. And by washing the seat with piss, you’re performing an antibacterial favor for the next guy.

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    7 days ago

    The Washlet, Toto’s flagship bidet toilet, includes features like an automatic lid, an air dryer and pressure controls for the bidet’s water stream.

    For some reason I read “Hair dryer” and started picturing people putting their head in the toilet to dry their hairs

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      My bald uncle once said he had to go dry his hair.

      He had just recently gotten a bidet.

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    7 days ago

    I personally love the sensation of sitting in cooled yellow liquid when I crap. Its the only reason I eat at McDonald’s.

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    7 days ago

    Toto management: By replacing customer service with AI, we’ll save millions!

    Also Toto management: How could this PR disaster have happened??