• @[email protected]
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    121 hours ago

    If toilet paper can cause scratches on that hard material, it must also be causing damage to the skin. Does it really need to be that tough a material to do its job?

  • Nate Cox
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    1146 days ago

    Do these designers not have children? Wiping pee off the seat is like an every time thing; seems silly not to just use a bit of toilet paper.

    Even I have to clean up when I miss; which happens max, max, 95% of the time.

    • @danekrae
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      665 days ago

      And if paper that immediately dissolves when wet scratches the seat; maybe use better materials.

      • @[email protected]
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        04 days ago

        You don’t clean plastic lens spectacles with paper as paper will scratch the lenses, though glass lenses can be wiped with paper. Wood is harder than plastic.

      • @[email protected]
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        -15 days ago

        Toilet paper is wood, while the seats are plastic. Wood is a 2.5-ish on the mohs scale, and plastics tend to be too. So they scratch at a 2.5 with deeper grooves at a level 3, even on a micro scale. The alternative is to use ceramics for the seat, but the fragility means one rough drop of the seat and it could shatter. Metals are generally no better.

    • @DocMcStuffin
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      275 days ago

      Do these designers not have children?

      Their children are furry and meow. But in all seriousness, I would consider it an engineering oversight for not considering how their product is being used in real households.

      Even I have to clean up when I miss; which happens max, max, 95% of the time.

      You miss a max of 95% of the time? 🙃 On a related note, most people are bad with percentages.

      • @[email protected]
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        13 days ago

        Their children are furry and meow.

        Cat claws are infinitely sharper than toilet paper, and cats like to explore. Checkmate against Toto?

        • @A7thStone
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          135 days ago

          I’d say a max of 95% of the time.

      • @trolololol
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        34 days ago

        furry

        Ah that’s what they use to keep it dry, just do a victory dance while sitting on it

    • sircac
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      -35 days ago

      Pee sit down, like when you shit, give it a try, not reason to not do it and saves a loooooooooot of burden, including time.

      • @[email protected]
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        34 days ago

        People equipped with a penis standing to pee should really have the toilet seat raised out of the way

      • @Soggy
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        65 days ago

        Joke’s on you, the geometry of my toilet means that sit-and-pissers splash into the bottom of the seat so I have to clean the rim way more often than I used to!

    • metaStatic
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      the only thing I’ve ever had to wipe off the seat is condensation. I’ve no doubt children find a way to get pee on it but anyone with two braincells to rub together knows the seat moves out of the way

      • CheezyWeezle
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        65 days ago

        I work in an extremely high level professional environment for a multi trillion dollar company.

        I gotta wipe piss off the seat every damn time I go into the bathrooms here.

        It doesn’t matter how smart or dumb people are, piss will end up in, on, and around the places where people piss.

  • r00ty
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    635 days ago

    You should instead use Toto brand toilet wipes. 39.99 for a value pack of 15!

    • @[email protected]
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      185 days ago

      (un)expected factorial? 1,30767e12 wipes seems like a lot. I guess you never specified currency, but at an average cost of 3,0581e-11 per wipe, I’ll assume that that’s a pretty decent deal.

      • r00ty
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        105 days ago

        Well, that would be good value! (there’s also an Excel joke just there but now I’ve ruined it). In this case, I was using the symbol to denote emphasis in linguistic terms and not embiggen a number.

        • @[email protected]
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          15 days ago

          Yeah I figured you meant the linguistic rather than the mathematical sense of the !, but I chose to intentionally misinterpret that for comedic effect.

          Would you mind explaining the excel joke? I’ve spent very little time using that program (I’ll leave it up to you to decide how fortunate I’ve been), so I don’t really get it

          • r00ty
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            55 days ago

            Well I cannot check, I’m in Linux right now. But I’m fairly sure when there’s an invalid value for conversion or other function the cell shows the text “VALUE!” in it.

      • @[email protected]
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        35 days ago

        Now you run into the problems of minimum order quanitities that make it impractical for an end user to acquire the product. The costs of transporting, warehousing, and eventually disposing the vast majority of 1,30767e12 wipes will far exceed the initial purchase price.

  • @[email protected]
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    525 days ago

    Every public bathroom I’ve used has pee all over the toilet seat. I don’t understand why guys don’t either use the urinal or sit on the toilet, why piss on the seat?

    • @[email protected]
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      74 days ago

      Probably because the last guy pissed all over the seat, and they didn’t want to sit in piss

    • southsamurai
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      195 days ago

      It isn’t necessarily intentional.

      A lot of dudes have no idea how to actually aim their junk. Other times, you might get an unexpected spray. They might be in a hurry and just not aim beyond facing the toilet. And you’ve got splashes from usually forceful urination. There’s probably people that do it intentionally.

      The real question is why the fuck they don’t clean up after themselves.

    • @chonglibloodsport
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      115 days ago

      It’s not always pee. One of the public restrooms I’ve had the displeasure of using repeatedly (it’s on campus in a building I frequent) has toilets and urinals with extremely high pressure flush action. Every time you flush the pressure is so violent that they spray water all over the place, including on the seat and all over the floor. They’ve been like that for years and never fixed.

      What’s especially rich is that there’s sign above the urinals which says “your aim is appreciated” which makes me laugh every time. I’m so careful using the urinal not to spill even a single drop on the floor, then I flush the damn thing and it makes a huge mess!

    • Nightwatch Admin
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      65 days ago

      I always wondered why too; maybe they think it’s “gay”? Or possibly playing Fireman Sam or something?

    • @Lumisal
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      55 days ago

      Probably also kids. The urinals tend to be to tall for them to use and they don’t have great aim.

    • esa
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      45 days ago

      Or at the very least lift the seat.

      Guessing they also don’t close the lid so they get to spray themselves with whatever’s in the bowl when they flush. And then don’t wash their hands before leaving.

      • @[email protected]
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        45 days ago

        The amount of public toilets with lids is not 0, but it’s approaching that limit in the percentages… It’s one of the reasons I don’t leave home without my 10-foot pole.

        • @shalafi
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          25 days ago

          Just lift it with your shoe.

          • @[email protected]
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            45 days ago

            It’s not about the lifting, it’s about the flushing from a safe distance. Gotta set off those traps while out of range.

    • Caveman
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      25 days ago

      I’ve seen evidence of people doing long range pee with the seat down in the UK when I went to visit.

    • Optional
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      Because men are disgusting horrible creatures who should be shot into the sun without trial. In the men’s room, that is.

      At home they’re probably fine. Maybe. It depends.

    • Skeezix
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      Urine is sterile. And by washing the seat with piss, you’re performing an antibacterial favor for the next guy.

  • @[email protected]
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    255 days ago

    The Washlet, Toto’s flagship bidet toilet, includes features like an automatic lid, an air dryer and pressure controls for the bidet’s water stream.

    For some reason I read “Hair dryer” and started picturing people putting their head in the toilet to dry their hairs

  • Emptiness
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    265 days ago

    Wait, what are they using to wipe their asses that can damage a toilet seat?

  • Optional
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    165 days ago

    Toto management: By replacing customer service with AI, we’ll save millions!

    Also Toto management: How could this PR disaster have happened??

  • Blackout
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    165 days ago

    I personally love the sensation of sitting in cooled yellow liquid when I crap. Its the only reason I eat at McDonald’s.

    • @PunnyName
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      Taste buds might cause scratches. They are raised bumps, after all.

  • @Coreidan
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    -75 days ago

    Man these people always do the weirdest shit.