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    L'Etranger Senior Member Banquo's Ghost's Avatar
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    Default Electric bidet menace

    I recently caught wind of this problem. The authorities have tried to paper over the cracks, but you just can't keep the lid on it.

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    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
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    Default Re: Electric bidet menace

    Gregoshi will be electrified.
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    Default Re: Electric bidet menace

    too much sambal.

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    Just read this. Brings a whole new meaning to 'fire in the hole'.
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    Mmmm. Hot-cross buns.

    With a control panel like this, even a Japanese-challanged Yank could figure out what the buttons were for:
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    Default Re: Electric bidet menace

    OK, so which is the button for "set posterior on fire"? I don't speak or read ^___^...

    Quote Originally Posted by KukriKhan
    Mmmm. Hot-cross buns.

    With a control panel like this, even a Japanese-challanged Yank could figure out what the buttons were for:

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    Quote Originally Posted by InsaneApache
    Just read this. Brings a whole new meaning to 'fire in the hole'.
    Classic!!

    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.

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    Default Re: Electric bidet menace

    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 ***.

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