I’ve heard of it posted on high voltage electrical panels, but never seen it myself (I’m not an electrician). I don’t know if I got the wording exactly right, but it sounds good.
Their ability to actually build things. The amount of construction projects I saw while visiting was insane, and they get it done fast.
Not overly high tech but such a good fit for the culture and extremely convenient:
Self-filling, self-warming baths
Put the plug in during the day, press the button to fill the bath at the remote keypad in the kitchen. Baths fills and a little jingle announces that the bath is ready at the perfect temperature.
sorry this is gross:
i do not understand american’s aversion to the bidet. why would i want to wipe my ass with dry fucking paper rather than water? why why why. like it’s somehow ‘gross’ to use water. but scraping at wet shit with fucking tissue paper is hygienic and normal?
Pretty much every thread we have in this community, someone comes along to say “you should pressure-wash your asshole”. I’m mildly bemused that this is what Lemmy obsesses over.
They’ve become increasingly common in recent years. I don’t think there’s as much of an aversion as you appear to imagine.
American with bidet for 2.5 yrs. I hate shitting anywhere else now. Need a shower to get a new ass. Day is ruined.
Same.
My ass is squeaky clean at home.
pro tip: get a mobile one. Its basically just a plastic bottle with a nozzle screwed on. Some even come with little travel bags.
Yeah, I have one of these for backpacking. Works great.
Pro tip: Those are called douches, pretty sweet huh?
I am not carrying around a tube for my asshole
Certainly not a 2nd one!
Installed one for my Filipina wife. Never used it myself. I have shit on that pot for months, still forget it’s there. Old habits die hard.
Dude. Do it. Go. Right now. Don’t even need to drop heat. Just go freshen up.
Yeah I gave it a go. Not a fan. Took a lot of drying and I’m not very messy.
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For the sake of your septic system, please don’t flush those! Not even the ones that lie and say they are “flushable”…
OK guys – Think about this – What if you got shit on your hands or anywhere else on your body. Would you make this argument? Would you think that would be OK if someone told you they just wiped it off with a paper towel and went on about their day? no.
Just use 2 squares of paper
I love how you’re being downvoted for having a personal opinion that harms no one but dares to go against the circlejerk.
Yeah 2 of my close friends told me it was the greatest thing they’ve ever bought. I was very disappointed to say the least.
Because dry wiping doesn’t actually clean your ass, it just picks up most of the shit and smears the rest into you.
I understand why you like it. I don’t understand why the other person isn’t allowed to dislike it. Does it harm anyone if he “smears shit into the rest of him”?
I got one with a dryer that makes that a lot better. It does take too long to fully dry it though, so it’s this middle ground of not too wet to dry off, and not waiting forever for the dryer.
Do you not use any toilet paper? That’s gross. You need at least a tiny bit, it helps to dry too
Sorry my bad. Yes a little toilet paper. Much less because of the dryer.
I think we got our bidets at the same time
Woot deal?
Completely agree. I was raised with bidets/ water cleaning. TP That’s just a dry off or catch those last few drops
they’re afraid they’ll enjoy it…
I enjoy mine…
scary
It’s like having a second toilet seat. Takes more room.
Not from the US and live in a condo, so I’m speaking from a purely practical standpoint. My condo is not that big and having a bidet would mean that I have no place to put my washer and dryer at.
You’ll enjoy this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=crDMkN8TZ8k
I suppose there’s also a mini electrical boiler in there somewhere, so the water’s not cold when it hits my ass.
Cool though, will look into this, seems like a nice soltion, toilet paper is getting more and more expensive.
there’s also a mini electrical boiler in there somewhere
Correct!
Some of them have it, but that complicates the installation. I bought one without a heater ages ago, thinking I’d hate it. I actually hardly notice the cold water. Your butthole isn’t great at sensing hot vs cold.
Here, it was below -25C (-13F) last night, and it has generally been below -20C at night for weeks now. Our water is now very cold. Believe me when I say your asshole will notice that.
I will say tap water at this temperature is fantastic to drink though.
My butthole is pretty good at sensing temperature. During the winter I have to try and use the bidet fast with the room temp water before the cold outside water gets to my turd cutter.
I call dibs on first shit
Really? Hm… might try that as an experiment 😂.
the bidet is an attachment to your toilet, not a separate thing
Oh… well, it was a sparate thing back in the day, haven’t looked up new designs.
Check out the new ones. They fit right between the toilet seat and the bowl lip. Super slim. Plus, always clean ass.
You know those poops you take when you wipe once and it’s already clean? It’s like that but ALL THE TIME.
Damn… this does seem like the way to go.
I will most definitely look this up, seems like a real time and money saver 👍.
That’s not really traditionally true. Modern ones are integrated into the toilet seat, but they used to be a standalone fixture.
Yes, I was thinking about the old designs, haven’t brushed up on new designs.
Sure, in that case, I would consider it, why not.
This is also gross. There’s a lot of men in the US that thinks touching there ass is gay so they never clean them.
So they don’t even jerk off?
That’s gay
I have heard this so many times, but I absolutely refuse to believe that it is real.
It’s not a problem to touch there ass. It’s touching here ass that makes someone gay.
I’d argue anything past the first knuckle is on the spectrum.
Why are we getting my ISP inolved in this imaginary ass play?
$5/mo credit on your bill if you let them install a toilet cam.
Is that $5 per knuckle?
Its a sliding scale.
Where ass?
I don’t know! Wherever the there ass is that the other guy was talking about, I guess
N O-
Surely that’s an urban legend, like truck nutz and decent beer.
It is serious, and don’t call me Shirley.
I used them while visiting Europe. They made my ass incredibly itchy. I’m good with the paper and washing my hands.
Uhhm, I’m not a doctor and this is not medical advice, but. You should talk to a proctologist about hemorrhoids or other blood circulation issues. Anuses are not supposed to itch when lightly sprayed with water, or ever for that matter, and that sensation might be a sign of tissue inflammation. Don’t ask me how I know this.
This was many years ago. The itching didn’t happen immediately. Good advice to not take medical advice in social media comments.
How does water make your butt itchy?
He was applying the water with a dildo 😞
A very itchy dildo?
Ahh yes, deep cleaning.
Like someone at the bar whose seat is too far from the counter, he was trying to push his stool in
Somebody once said it to me like this: “If you faceplant into a pile of shit, would you rather wipe your face with a dry paper, or use water for cleaning”
Fear of the Koch bros?!
Water coming from the nastiest thing in the building in contact with the part of my skin that’s got a low barrier to things passing through it? Get fucked.
I own a BioBidet 2000. My friend Brian has one at his house and he convinced me to just try it. I did. And then I ordered one for myself before I left the bathroom.
I don’t understand this either, toilets already require running water and have plenty of room to integrate bidet function. It’s not fancy tech or anything… in North America that’s sort of how they’re marketed though, with an emphasis on the settings, like its something you have to learn to use.
I live in Japan. My wife and I recently went to visit my family in the US and I hated every minute of the toilet situation.
Cultures who use bidets and not the bum gun will always confuse me. Ones a robot strapped to the toilet that does a medicore job at one thing, then other is a cheap water gun you can use for all sorts of shit (pun intended).
Automated underground bike storage
I’m amazed how people in Japan have some small squares instead of genitals, that must be advanced technology I haven’t seen in other countries.
Bathroom mirrors that don’t steam up after taking a shower.
Vending machines that are competent at accepting cash. Everywhere else that I’ve been to, you have to smoothen the bill and make sure it has no wrinkles or bended corners, and even then the machine would sometimes give you a hard time. In Japan, you just insert a stack (!) of bills, and the machine will count them within seconds, and also give you change in bills, and not a gazillion of coins.
Gates at the train stations are also better than everywhere else. You don’t have to wait for the person in front of you to pass the gate, you just insert your ticket and go. You also don’t need to look for arrows or notches or whatever on the ticket to insert it correctly.
Electric kettles that are very quiet and keep the water hot for a very long time.
Trains where all seats face the front, so you don’t have to sit against the direction of travel.
If you select the wrong floor on an elevator, you can deactivate it by pressing the button again.
Useable transit
mcdo with their cellphone cleaners
wrt US, I guess they shoot butts and not children?
also I heard Japan recycling laws are effective compared to US counterparts.
People from the US will be surprised how far the rest of the western world, and high tech eastern Asia, are ahead of the states in terms of recycling and infrastructure.
Seriously, even Europe is so far ahead it’s not even funny
Europe is probably furthest in recycling, but again, it’s very different from country to country.
Eh, we separate a lot of our trash, but what actually gets recycled (and whether you consider incinerating waste to generate electricity as ‘recycling’) can be disappointing.
I was in Toronto’s Union Station during civid and they also had UV phone disinfection machines. It was impressive.
Refrigerators that make way less noise than the ones we have here. Japanese more often live in small apartments so noise is a bigger nuisance. But, those refrigerators are ridiuclously expensive by our standards. I had been interested in buying one, oh well.
Japanese more often live in small apartments
Cries in NYC
Another big difference is the apartments are actually very affordable. Two minimum wage earners could afford a
32 bedroom apartment in 6 of the 23 wards in Tokyo.EDIT: 2 bedroom, not 3.
You do realize a 3 bedroom appt is like 40-60m2 over here right?
40m^2 seems small. 60m^2 is 645 sq ft, so a bit smaller than we’re used to, but not enough to make up the price difference.
Yeah that’s honestly insane.
An average apartment in Tokyo is less than 200sq. ft, less than a third of New York’s average apartment size of ~700sq. ft.
How much is that in communist units?
When I looked into it a few years ago, I found that, contrary to the stereotype, Japanese homes are surprisingly big. Smaller than the US or Canada, which are some of the biggest in the world, but actually bigger than most of Europe.
The result of a quick search: the average Tokyo apartment is 65.9 sq m (710 sq ft). The modal apartment size is 19.7 sq meters (212 sq ft), so maybe that’s what you’re referring to. But that’s only 21% of Tokyo apartments.
There are tons of silent and near-silent refrigerators in the US
Got a url? Not the very inefficient ammonia type, or the Peltier type that won’t freeze stuff. Thanks.
Doesn’t anyone check the dB an appliance makes? It’s one of the first things I check, as I hate loud devices.
From what I see joked about in tv and film: toilets.
From what I know from people who have actually been there personally: Vending machines.
Also they have the most advanced KitKat flavors in the world. I want them. But they’re like specialities of specific regions kinda like Pokemon. It’s wild.
I wanted to try all KitKat flavors until I found out about Nestlé.
Fuck Nestlé!
KitKat is Nestle. Fuck that, never give those cunts any of your hard earned money.
I’ll just use my 5-finger discount.
Doesn’t really hurt Nestle. The supermarket will buy more inventory, giving Nestle money
Well it’s moot anyway; I’m in the US where Nestle sold all their confectionary brands. I just noticed all the kitkats at the store I shop were branded by Hershey now and had to look up wtf. I noticed this before with another candy not too long ago, too. Didn’t realize it was literally all their candy brands in the US.
Too bad I want them Japanese ones… 😩
That’s the spirit
They have more drink vending machines than you’ll believe, with a huge variety ofcold and hot drinks and even soup, but essentially no food vending machines.
There’s a sampler you can get on Amazon with like 30 Japan flavors or something, but I don’t really like Kit Kat so I’ve never tried it.
The bidets, of course. Ultra fast responsive vending machines for commuters on the go.
I came into this thread expecting to see toilets all the way down.
That’s just the lid…usually the toilets are about knee high.
But I would never NOT have a bidet in my house ever again. And yes, I’m in the U.S.
Good livestock conditions so that food is actually edible raw
There are places in Japan that actually serve chicken sashimi.
I’ve tried it, and I ate the whole plate, but I wouldn’t do it again.
Raw chicken tastes like it smells, and it’s just inferior to every other sashimi - not outright repulsive, but just not as good.
I honestly don’t understand how those specialty chicken sashimi places stay in business. I guess there must be an audience for it, but I can’t imagine why.
That’s nasty and I ate bad sushi from Publix last week.
You have to be in the South. Now that I think about it, Florida sushi sounds like a euphemism for gator roadkill. Florida gas station sushi sounds terrifying.
Haha I did get some gator from a truck stop tiki bar, it was not good either… I’ve lost control of my life.
This is what we heard. So when visiting my brother, the whole group tried it. Everyone got salmonella poisoning and had explosive diarrhea for two days. That was an interesting shinkansen trip.
Your intuition is right on this, don’t eat raw chicken.
I googled.
“When cooked, chicken can be a nutritious choice, but raw chicken can be contaminated with Campylobacter, Salmonella, or Clostridium perfringens germs. If you eat undercooked chicken, you can get a foodborne illness, also called food poisoning.”
Yeaaaaaah, no way I’ll try it.
It’s completely normal for stores to keep cooked, deli style chicken on non-refrigerated shelves all day. I don’t trust it.
Then I think I would like to try cookie dough sashimi
What if you get salmonella!?
Japan currently doesn’t have this in the more normal sense. That Japan is still super high-tech is more of a PR move. I literally had to send a fax to get my current internet (though it is fiber-to-the-home).
Where Japan is innovating is in robots and also its crossovers with an aging population. Possibly also some space stuff.
But for an everyday person, I don’t really see anything that doesn’t already exist somewhere else. I was raised in the US and have been living in Japan most of the last 10 years.
