July 26, 2006

• increasingly large numbers of Japanese children, especially little boys, don't know how to pee properly I attribute this to the lack of a proper rite-of-passage ceremony where the young males are required to endure extreme hardships and the threat of death in order to become a man. Or maybe I'm just reflecting on my own childhood.
• I didn't read that article due to hot Japanese girl in pink dress.
• "Some kids don't like urinals because they feel exposed, but I really do get the feeling that most of these boys simply have no idea how men are supposed to dispose of their bodily wastes." So, not into a shoe, then, they're saying?
• At end of article, fishtick: "Some children deliberately urinate all over the place or defecate in their parents' shoes," I've been to parties like that. Thank Gawd I don't drink.
• I don't know about the Japanese, but the Norwegians have a damn good reason to be nervous. Thanks klue!
• This won't be a problem once WiiWii, the friendly bathroom robot that specializes on teaching children how to use the bathroom, appears on the market!
• "Women who've got their kids toilet trained quickly all boast about their success. That leaves me feeling like a failure because my kid still can't use the toilet properly," the mom says. "I realize everybody's different and some kids take more time than others, but I still feel under enormous pressure." I have no idea whether or not that link is SFW.
• 1. Japan really IS becoming more like America! 2. Heated toilet seats? 3. Sure, blame the successful parents for your own perceived shortcoming, ya fruitwit. 4. "Living in a land where parenthood is still largely left in the hands of women" is causing problems with "increasingly large numbers of Japanese children?" Doesn't the increase mean that it's probably due to something that's changing rather than something that's staying the same? 5. Why don't they just stay in diapers 'til they're 6 like here in the U.S.? 6. Don't they take their shoes off inside? Are the boys going over to the row of shoes by the door and peeing in them? 7. One of the best things about England was that the flush handle was on the other side of the toilet. I'm right-handed, so no longer did I have to reach across the bowl like I do at home! And the seats were rounder, too. 8. The author already made all the toilet puns for us! What fun is that?!? 9. There is no number 9.
• One of the best things about England was that the flush handle was on the other side of the toilet. And they use, like, fifty gallons of water in one flush. I never backed-up a British loo.
• Ach, well - ye just haven't tried hard enough. Let 40 small boys have their way with a facility and I guarantee drains can be clogged before ye'll draw breath to say Summon the plumber! O grotesque memories of Unseemly Things floating past ankles, begone!
• 1. Japan really IS becoming more like America! - It is? 2. Heated toilet seats? - Many houses and offices have had these for years. The modern Japanese toilet is a high-tech thing of beauty. Heated seats, a range of bidet functions, options for half or full flush, and the nifty sink over the tank so you wash your hands with the water that will then be recycled into your next flush! 3. Sure, blame the successful parents for your own perceived shortcoming, ya fruitwit. - In some "mother" circles there is actually huge pressure on both the mother and the kid. It has been suggested that this pressure has lead to some of the child killings here over the last couple of years. The competition of who can go potty first, talk, get into that exclusive kindergarten takes its toll on lots of mothers. Of course if they were sensible they would just tell mothers like this to piss off - but then they'd be excluded from the "group". 4. "Living in a land where parenthood is still largely left in the hands of women" is causing problems with "increasingly large numbers of Japanese children?" Doesn't the increase mean that it's probably due to something that's changing rather than something that's staying the same? - This sentence is a mess. The Japanese birth rate has been steadily decreasing for many years. Also it is only recently that fathers have been encouraged to take a bigger part in home life rather than staying at the office all the time. 5. Why don't they just stay in diapers 'til they're 6 like here in the U.S.? - wha? 6. Don't they take their shoes off inside? Are the boys going over to the row of shoes by the door and peeing in them? - Depends on the inside. In houses and so on yes shoes are taken off. But there are lots of public places they aren't. At school kids take their shoes off and wear special inside shoes. 7. One of the best things about England was that the flush handle was on the other side of the toilet. I'm right-handed, so no longer did I have to reach across the bowl like I do at home! And the seats were rounder, too. - The flush lever is usually on the right side. Although a lot of public toilets have an infrared panel to wave across to flush set into the wall. 8. The author already made all the toilet puns for us! What fun is that?!? - The dude has to do something to amuse himself during the day. 9. There is no number 9. - OK.
• I think it's because kids are getting dumber. In my day, boys learned to use the john without a problem, and moms did it with no backup! You wouldn't have to wait till urinate year old to figger out how to pee standing up. There's a breakdown in our society due to decadance and laxitivity--heated toilet seats indeed! Pah! I remember when we would hold our crotch and dance eight miles through the snow, up-hill both ways, to an unheated outhouse with a splintered seat--AND WE LIKED IT. TUM: I'm sorry this thread is such a downer for you. Maybe it would be better if you left in a hurry and took your kitchenware with you. Yes, I'm telling you to go and evacuate your bowls.
• Monkeyfilter: hold our crotch and dance
• eated toilet seats indeed Pansies! They should be forced to go camping out in the middle of nowhere, where there are no toilets, let alone toilet seats. I go out in the wilderness every chance I get. Which is to say, often.
• What is there to learn about a urinal? 'See that? Wee in it.' Perhaps these boys are sitzpinklers on principle, like the Germans. Speaking of outhouses, my grandparents' houses had outside loos even though they were an integral part of the house. It would have been just as easy for the builders to have put in an interior door through to the rest of the house as one that led outside: but in those days the idea of having a lavatory inside the house seemed dirty.
• monkeyfilter: sitzpinklers on principle, like the Germans
• In some "mother" circles there is actually huge pressure on both the mother and the kid. Perhaps this is why little ones are refusing to learn, like the daughter of the woman quoted in the article.
• Believe I've read Japanese youngsters are under unrelenting pressure to do well scholastically - and think I tend to interpret this as a child's way of expressing frustration. This can hardly be regarded as accidental -- at least I think it must be a matter of some calculation on the kid's part to manage to poo in someone's shoe.
• Not so much so for sitzpooplers.
• But hasn't that scholastic pressure been going on for generations now? Has it gotten worse in the last few years?
• The pressure is really only within a much smaller group. Not the general populace.