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Imponderable #48: Dongyang China

1 Jun

June 1, 2012

I warn you, this may be too gross for some of my readers.

Far be it from me to meddle in the affairs of other nations, but damn China! What’s up with that????

There is a lot to talk about here, but they gather the “discharge” from the toilets of local schools? I don’t know about China, but have you ever seen a public school toilet? I have. No way would you want to boil an egg in anything that came out of there.

Of course, there are some real benefits from drinking, er, discharge. From wikipedia which I swear is just gross: Urine was used in several ancient cultures for various health, healing, and cosmetic purposes, practices which are still used by some people of these cultures today. In Western culture, these practices are known as urine therapy, a form of alternative medicine.

There are also no real drawbacks: Consuming one’s own urine (or the urine of a healthy person, if participating in urolagnia involving urophagia) is relatively low in risk.

Of course the biggest drawback is that it is just totally disgusting.

On the other hand, if they videotape it they may just be on to something:

WARNING: THIS GETS EVEN GROSSER
(Saarah, if you have read this far please leave now.)

2 Girls 1 Cup is the unofficial nickname of the trailer for Hungry Bitches, a 2007 Brazilian scat-fetish pornographic film produced by MFX Media. The trailer features two women conducting themselves in fetishistic intimate relations, including defecating into a cup, taking turns ostensibly consuming the excrement, and vomiting it into each other’s mouths. “Lovers Theme” by Hervé Roy, from the movie Delusions of Grandeur, plays throughout.

This one-minute preview is a viral video that became a well-known Internet meme in itself, and for the reactions its graphic content elicited from viewers who have not seen such films before.Around mid-October 2007, video sites such as YouTube were flooded with videos depicting others’ reactions to watching the video for the first time. Many other reaction videos have now appeared for similarly shocking and extreme videos.

And no, I am not posting a link. This is not the Late Night Movie House of Crap, Literally.

Why would people be so into drinking pee?

The question is Imponderable. To me, anyway.

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Allan Keyes Is On The Toilet

30 May

May 30, 2012

Mr. Blog’s Tepid Ride has a long history of toilet-related posts:

No Toilet No Bride
Priorities First
Imponderable #34
The American Restroom Association
A New York Legend 3

That’s just a few. And don’t get me started on Mr. Know-It-All. His posts started and ended in the toilet.

It must run in the family, because here is Mr. Blog’s brother, Allan Keyes, reporting on some curious Japanese plumbing.

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Of all the high-tech gadgetry I saw in Tokyo, perhaps the one that stays with me the most was the toilet in the first hotel I stayed in.  It really was kind of amazing. First of all, the actual toilet was separated off in a small room away from the actual wash room. Ok, fair enough I suppose. When I opened the door to the toilet, three things happened simultaneously:

1)      The light automatically came on
2)      Water in the toilet started to run
3)      The lid of the bowl popped open invitingly.

 Seriously. That toilet was giving me a “come give me what I need big boy” kind of vibe. But I had my fun with it- I got so that by opening and closing the toilet room door rapidly, I was able to manipulate the lid into basically singing along with the radio (and the flashing room light was just like a strobe!)

But here’s the thing that I still can’t wrap my head around – the control panel. Yes, that’s correct – the control panel. What kind of toilet needs a control panel?  One that features this:

Heated toilet seat
Three levels of flush intensity
“Massaging seat” (!)
Deodorant
Bidet

Here’s the control set:                       

 Compare this to my Xbox controller:

 

MY TOILET WAS MORE COMPLICATED THAN MY XBOX.

But then again, my Xbox never really heated my ass either.  At least not willingly.

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