Great Balls o’ Fire!
Tokyo, Japan — Japan’s leading toilet maker Toto Ltd. is offering free repairs for 180,000 bidet toilets after wiring problems caused several to catch fire, the company said Monday.
The electric bidet accessory of Toto’s Z series caught fire in three separate incidents between March 2006 and March 2007, according to company spokeswoman Emi Tanaka. The bidet sent up smoke in 26 other incidents, the company said.
“Fortunately, nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were no injuries,” Tanaka said. “The fire would have been just under your buttocks.”
The model is not sold overseas. – South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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April 17th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I don’t think Toto is sold in Kansas, Dorothy.
April 17th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Such was our standard of civilization before 1959 that all Cuban bathrooms had bidets. When I first came to this country that was what most shocked me — the absence of bidets (well that and the fact that your penny was bigger than your dime). It seemed inconceivable to me that any people on earth (much less the chosen) would rub paper lint on feces rather than wash their beshittedness. It still makes my skin crawl.
Sign me unassimilated.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:11 am
I’m with you on this one, Manny. There’s no substitute for water in this matter. Especially when one’s diet is rice and beans!! Anyway, please see today’s post: the theme continues, a fitting retort to the Don Anus incident.
April 18th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Leave it to the creator’s of the world’s kinkiest sex practices to invent electric bidets! Why electric, mind you? A regular one isn’t good enough? Does it moisturize your hiney or something?