Electric bidet menace

[Banquo's Ghost]

I recently caught wind of this problem (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6559373.stm). The authorities have tried to paper over the cracks, but you just can't keep the lid on it.

Free repairs to flammable toilets


Japan's leading toilet manufacturer Toto is offering free repairs to 180,000 toilets after some of them caught fire.

There have been three incidents of the electric bidet accessory in Toto's Z series catching fire.

"Fortunately nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were no injuries," a company spokesman said.

"The fire would have been just under your buttocks," she added.

Toto is a pioneer of high-tech toilets with built-in bidets, which are popular in Japan.

The Z series features a pulsating massage spray, a power dryer, a "tornado wash" flush, and a lid that opens and closes automatically.

It is not sold outside Japan.

The offending loos were all manufactured between May 1996 and December 2001

[Adrian II]

Gregoshi will be electrified.

[Fragony]

too much sambal.

[InsaneApache]

Just read this. Brings a whole new meaning to 'fire in the hole'. :laugh4:

[KukriKhan]

Mmmm. Hot-cross buns.

With a control panel like this, even a Japanese-challanged Yank could figure out what the buttons were for:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/JapanToiletWrls.jpg

[Gregoshi]

Just read this. Brings a whole new meaning to 'fire in the hole'. :laugh4:

:laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4: Classic!! :laugh4: :laugh4: :laugh4:

Water and electricity don't play too well together. You just knew somebody was going to get it in the end. Talk about a rump roast...

One wonders what would happen with a little methane thrown into the mix.

:toilet: Pull the chain, I'm done now.

[Crazed Rabbit]

The Z series features a pulsating massage spray,

A what now?

Sounds like this is just another example of technology coming around to bite us in the ***.

Crazed Rabbit

[Husar]

Very interesting topic.
I once saw a documentary about toilet paper and they said that generally germans like to fold it, so they get strong toilet paper with a certain structure while Americans just fumble it together so on the American market they sell cheap toilet paper that is easier to fumble and needs no special structure. The asians however, don't use toilet paper at all, they just use water to clean their behinds. And they also mentioned that if Asians would use toilet paper, that would be devastating for the forests because of the high demand for paper. So yeah, let them use their bidets.:2thumbsup:

On topic, someone almost got a hot ***, no workout needed.:sweatdrop:

[Banquo's Ghost]

C'mon, there no need to go after the US even to the point of accusing them of fumbling with toilet paper. Next we'll have PJ popping up to confirm the superiority of Prussian wiping techniques. :wink:

And isn't America the land that invented the quilted loo roll? Now there's technical superiority - none of your "tornado wash" gone psycho there, just intimate softness where it counts.


I once saw a documentary about toilet paper...

Honestly my friend, you need to get out more... :bounce:

[InsaneApache]

Hazel [TM] Ouch!

:laugh4:

[Hosakawa Tito]

And isn't America the land that invented the quilted loo roll? Now there's technical superiority - none of your "tornado wash" gone psycho there, just intimate softness where it counts.


Sometimes the simplest technology is best. If one makes such a mess that it requires a hosing down, best take a shower afterward. and clean that hairball out of the drain

[Husar]

Honestly my friend, you need to get out more... :bounce:
I know, but those toilet paper documentaries are really fascinating.~D

[Gregoshi]

After watching the toilet paper documentary, I'm sure Husar really knows his sheet.

:toilet: Go ahead, I'm done.

[Whacker]

OK, so which is the button for "set posterior on fire"? I don't speak or read ^___^... :no:


Mmmm. Hot-cross buns.

With a control panel like this, even a Japanese-challanged Yank could figure out what the buttons were for:
https://jimcee.homestead.com/JapanToiletWrls.jpg

[Whacker]

Sometimes the simplest technology is best. If one makes such a mess that it requires a hosing down, best take a shower afterward. and clean that hairball out of the drain

Given this device's definition of "clean", I think hair is going to be an extinct species from your lower back to your upper thighs. :dizzy2: I bet that smells LOVELY.

[Gregoshi]

You may be right about the loss of hair Whacker. The large button with the purple/fusia icon (second from right) looks like the "shoot the stream of water so strong that is lifts me up off the bidet and I'm riding on top of the geyser" button. Fun and pain at the push of a button.

The "buttons" on the top look like those from a tape deck. I'd love to know what most of those buttons do, but most of all I'd love to know how you are supposed to be pressing the (right) buttons with your back to them...

[Whacker]

You may be right about the loss of hair Whacker. The large button with the purple/fusia icon (second from right) looks like the "shoot the stream of water so strong that is lifts me up off the bidet and I'm riding on top of the geyser" button. Fun and pain at the push of a button.

You know, the 2nd and 3rd buttons with the .. "graphic", the image almost looks more like the ol male danglies than a pair of buttocks. I wonder if this is also a male genetalia cleansing machine?!?


The "buttons" on the top look like those from a tape deck. I'd love to know what most of those buttons do, but most of all I'd love to know how you are supposed to be pressing the (right) buttons with your back to them...

Clearly you're supposed to bang your head backwards and hope you hit the right one. Sounds like a design flaw to me, no need to wonder any more about the fire, hair, geysers, etc...

[KukriKhan]

I know, but those toilet paper documentaries are really fascinating.~D

Yeah. In the backroom, we really know how to PAR-TAYYYY!!

:laugh4:

[gunslinger]

Whoa! I hope all those buttons were'nt really on the back of the toilet. How would I be able to lean back, put my feet on the bathtub, and read my newspaper?

[Husar]

After watching the toilet paper documentary, I'm sure Husar really knows his sheet.
:laugh4:
To be honest, the toilet paper was only part of it, the rest was about sewers, a girl that could burp really loud and toilets like this one, etc.


I'd love to know what most of those buttons do, but most of all I'd love to know how you are supposed to be pressing the (right) buttons with your back to them...
I think the console is installed on the wall next to the user, not behind him.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Interestingly enough I've always been a fold the toilet paper kind of guy, maybe it isn't so strange that I ended up in Germany for a year...

[InsaneApache]

That console reminds me of a Nintendo Wii.....I'll get me coat! :help: