Thank you for saving me from a day of oral coliform.
This was fun in its own right, and it conjured memories of that day, several decades ago, when I attended a editor's retreat at the Kohler complex in Wisconsin. In between sessions and speeches, we toured the showcase for Kohler products, where a half-dozen of us, middle-class, mid-westerners all, stood in a circle around one particular appliance, trying to understand it. It looked like a toilet but functioned more like a drinking fountain, maybe for dogs. Someone more sophisticated than us finally told us it was a bidet and explained how (though not why) it was used. The experience left me with a mental tableau of the six of us standing around the thing, scratching our heads--it was the perfect definition of what it meant to be a midwesterner in the 80s.
Can't get over the four toilet bathroom lined up one next to the other. I keep trying to imagine the story. The only one that isn't totally grotesque is a big family of boys with everyone needing to get out of the house early in the morning. That, or only one of them works and if you pick the wrong one... well, you don't want to know what happens.
“But the great thing is that this toilet will take you from Tokyo to Yokohama in just under an hour.” Laughed out loud at least five times reading this, but none more so than after this line.
I'm reasonably certain that the one with the 4 toilets is from an episode of the Extreme Makeover show. They redid a house for these 7 or 8 kids whose parents had died and what they did for the bathroom was nothing short of criminal. They made a huge gang bathroom. It was in Livermore, CA
Thank you for your service to the nation today 🫡
Thank you for saving me from a day of oral coliform.
This was fun in its own right, and it conjured memories of that day, several decades ago, when I attended a editor's retreat at the Kohler complex in Wisconsin. In between sessions and speeches, we toured the showcase for Kohler products, where a half-dozen of us, middle-class, mid-westerners all, stood in a circle around one particular appliance, trying to understand it. It looked like a toilet but functioned more like a drinking fountain, maybe for dogs. Someone more sophisticated than us finally told us it was a bidet and explained how (though not why) it was used. The experience left me with a mental tableau of the six of us standing around the thing, scratching our heads--it was the perfect definition of what it meant to be a midwesterner in the 80s.
Thank you! This was the content I desperately needed today!
Are we sure the Historical Abomination bathroom doesn't in fact belong to Trump?
I think there should be a law that it must be pronounced "terlet" like Archie Bunker.
I feel like the bathtub in this one deserves a shoutout, even on toilet day (pic 17): https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/156467825#/?channel=RES_BUY
At last, a relief! Pun intended!!
Can't get over the four toilet bathroom lined up one next to the other. I keep trying to imagine the story. The only one that isn't totally grotesque is a big family of boys with everyone needing to get out of the house early in the morning. That, or only one of them works and if you pick the wrong one... well, you don't want to know what happens.
Perfection, as always. Timing, belly-laughs, all of it. Thank you.
The OK Go video bathroom is my favorite! Thanks for contributing to my quest for distractions today.
My husband just encountered a bathroom-themed bathroom in a commercial building in the wild
So funny! Thanks for the laughs. BTW I’m reading this in my bathroom!
“But the great thing is that this toilet will take you from Tokyo to Yokohama in just under an hour.” Laughed out loud at least five times reading this, but none more so than after this line.
Tokyo to Yokohama! That is where I laughsnort-inhaled my tea. Thank you so very much, Rebecca!
I'm reasonably certain that the one with the 4 toilets is from an episode of the Extreme Makeover show. They redid a house for these 7 or 8 kids whose parents had died and what they did for the bathroom was nothing short of criminal. They made a huge gang bathroom. It was in Livermore, CA
it's not - I found the episode on the interwebs. The bathroom they built had 7 sinks in it, though. And 2 water closets.
Amazing!