Re:Japanese Toilets: The Future Called 30 Years Ago
by enscr on Friday April 04, 2014 @12:48AM
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- Plus squatting is a better posture for properly emptying yourself.
Although sitting for longer than 5 minutes is painful and gets worse with age.
Re:Japanese Toilets: The Future Called 30 Years Ago
by rainedin on Friday April 04, 2014 @01:27PM
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I had a good book titled 'Humanure' that stated that the sitting posture is quite unnatural and drop toilets or rather throne-less were better for us.
At university (UK) I couldn't work out why some toilets had shit all over them, like people just evacuated all over the seats. I thought: what animals/dirty tricksters! After reading that book I realised that it was non-uk students who were struggling with the UK style toilets.
Some suggest standing on the throne as a compromise, but it's a bit precarious, and it's not nice if you miss the target.
I prefer squat toilets myself, as long as they are kept clean.
Re:Japanese Toilets: The Future Called 30 Years Ago
by rikacomet on Friday April 04, 2014 @01:23AM
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Yeah, that drawback can be seen as a JUST motivation for not taking your time in the toilet always. Even 5 minutes saved one time, is equal to 10-15 minutes everyday. 70-100 minutes a week and around 60-90 hours a year to put that into perspective.
Re:Japanese Toilets: The Future Called 30 Years Ago
by sjtrny on Friday April 04, 2014 @01:57AM
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I find my time on the toilet quite productive, it's usually when I have Eureka moments.
- True that the English seat occupies less space, but its adoption has not always been based on space savings.
- True that sitting appears more gentleman like, rather than sitting half subtended in air, but hey who is watching?
- True that elderly find the english version easier to use because of the supporting nature of the seat, but its not a hard rule. A hybrid of both (Anglo-Indian) seat is more suited to them, and ailing patients.
- The Indian version is more hygienic, as no part of your body directly touches any part of the seat. Besides superior genital cleanliness over time due to wider leg positions.
- The Indian version is decisively easier to clean/maintain compared to the English version.
- Moreover the Indian version, is more suited to over-weight people than a English version.
- And relatively, due to its production in labor intensive market such as India/China, the Indian version is cost-efficient, suited for developing nations, who still have a fairly large population that needs proper sanitation structures.