Enjoy the gift link:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.IFA.lheQ.QnYfV8bzOQA0&smid=url-share
“Bottoms deserve to be washed, too.”
Indeed.
Tina improved and brought to another level everything she touched. That’s a high achievement considering the high bar Pete set.
But enough of the hijack, let’s talk about bidets.
Toto got into bathroom plumbing???
So, this Washlet-- is it a unit with the seat, or do you need to buy the whole toilet? and it that just the bowl, or is it bowl and tank?
I rent, and the goddammed toilet bowl is all limed up in my bathroom, so it won’t flush with enough force, because half the little holes around the rim of the bowl are scaled over.
I actually know a solution for this, which I figured out when I owned a house, albeit, I did eventually replace the bowl because I got tired of more and more frequently applying the solution-- once a year, then every nine month, then six months, and down to 2 months, and I just went and got a new one.
If anyone cares, the solution requires a disposable douche, like Summer’s Eve, and a big bottle of Santeen. (Way cheaper at Walmart.)
You dump out the vinegar and water, and fill the bottle with Santeen, then you apply the douche stick by using the small hole across from the big one (where all the “stuff” goes when it flushes)-- stick the douche end up the little hole, and squeeze. The Santeen goes up the water jackets, and flushes out all the little holes under the rim.
Santeen is WAY more powerful than Lime Away or CLR. I wear gloves when I do this.
A flush beats a full house; I don’t care what anyone says.
Anyway, not particularly worried about doing the install, and what my landlords don’t know, they don’t know. But a seat is less obvious than a whole bowl. Right now, they are not helping, because when it gets clogged up because it isn’t flushing properly, I’m stuck unclogging it, because we have a second bathroom, so we are not a priority when there are people whose heat is out.
I keep trying to explain that the real problem is that the flush isn’t strong enough because it’s so limed up, but nobody listens.
I may need Santeen and Summer’s Eve.
I remember the game Civilization but I can’t remember if I actually played. I do know that my wife loves the Elvira pinball game though.
I’ve played that; it’s a really good game, but I understand it has a lot of glitches, and the upkeep is difficult. I’ve never have the opportunity to buy one, though, so I’ve never dealt personally with the mechanics of one, nor talked to anyone who has.
But I’d like to.
There’s a place not too far from here with some fun pinball games. My husband and I went there once on a date. I was overjoyed to play Rush pinball.
If I wrote to him, and he sent me a personal one to give away, that said something like "From one Pinball Wizard to another, Mazel Tov & Yasher Koach! You’re the 5786 Maccaby Purim Pinball Champion! Love, Elton
Wow, would that ever be a great first prize!
But just a pic with “Love, Elton” that I bought from eBay, not so much. Wonder what my chances are of him actually even opening a letter I wrote?
Where are you?
Metro Detroit. I want to say this was in Novi. Maybe Farmington Hills. I’d have to ask my husband because he’ll remember and I do not. It was kind of a cool place. It had a lot of classic arcade games, sometimes really old ones. Like the old fashioned fortune teller booths and similar stuff. I remember there was a Rush and a Stranger Things pinball game.
ETA: Marvin’s Marvelous Mechanical Museum!
Thanks for reminding me about this place, been meaning to go there since my retirement. Now I know where I can go tomorrow to get out of this cold!
Weren’t we just discussing flushes in a full house? I’d like to revisit that.
I believe that a straight flush beats a full house.
That looks like a place my parents took me to when I was about 8. I don’t remember much about it, except it was unexpected, and tangential to some other trip, which I don’t recall. I see this place is about 30 minutes from the airport. I wonder if we were flying out to one of my grandparents, and couldn’t get a direct flight, so my parents chose a stop with a long enough layover to do something with us (my brother and me).
If not, then there is another place like this some place. It’s 5hs+ drive from where we used to live, and I seriously doubt my parents would haul an 8 & 3-yr-old in a rented car that far.
I have very clear memories of this place, though, and nothing whatsoever about where exactly it was or what brought us there.
My parents aren’t around to ask, and my brother wouldn’t remember.
If I put this in a nice frame, and after I knew the name of the winner, had a little plate cut that could be affixed to the frame (had a slightly larger job many years ago that cost about $20, so this probably wouldn’t be more than $50 now), wow, would that be be super.
Seriously, if I could track down an address, and offered to pay for it, or make a charitable contribution in his name (I can’t pay anything that would make a dent in his net worth, and I’m sure he knows that), what are the odds?
My brother was the is kind of but not necessarily that to do for others but he we will be the ones to go if asked. I won’t elaborate other than to say we don’t say much these days.
I wonder how many Dopers are estranged from their siblings?
Never estranged from either sibling. My brother-in-law and I ruptured over politics, but my sister told us to knock it off, and we were both so intimidated by her we never talked politics again.
Yeah, my sister’s the same way, way out back, where the calla lilies grow. Grow and grow. Grow over the road, where the goat explodes all the O’s, and the crow flies low. Flies low and moan and moo. Moon Mullins. Mulling over the Mueller Report, reporting for duty, duty calls, who’s there? I don’t know.