plumbers are expensive... yes. here in Brazil, they wanted to charge me 1200 coins to find a leak at my house. Other plumber spent 2 days searching. And by sealing the water tanks we found the leak route. So I made by myself an aerial route to the water tanks. So 200 coins for the plumber, 200 coins on pvc tubes and connectors and one weekend day with a help of my father in law. Problem solved. Well, it is not pretty, but it worked, lol.

Heh, I remember as a kid in the 90's playing video games on my Super Nintendo, I'd imagine that I was playing against some random person half way around the world. Online gaming existed in small numbers at the time, but I was too young and computer illiterate to be familiar with it. But even if I was, I never would have imagined how common it would become. It's probably more common to play online now than local online gaming. And I actually miss the days of playing Goldeneye 64 with a bunch of friends in the same room. There's a lot more interaction and reactions to what happens are immediate. You don't have to wait for them to type something in the chat window. But with local you could see what was on their screen. I'd always make a note of where they respawn and place proximity mines there so they'd get blown up the second they respawn. lol But personally, I'm not a huge fan of online gaming. I've only played games online literally a few times. These days I play games to get away from people, so it kind of defeats the purpose. I have agoraphobia and my computer area is sort of like my safe space. So having other people interacting with me on the computer (at least in real time) feels like it violates that safe space and just makes me feel uncomfortable. Especially if there's a webcam involved. I actually had an idea for a system where you'd each have your own headset display with headphones, sorta like a VR display, but without the 3D so you could only see and hear what your character experienced and couldn't cheat by looking at the other players' screens. Even if such a product was released, it would have only been useful for 5-10 years until online gaming became popular.

I love this comment

Would expect it more in a German hotel TBH.

Wow

That makes sense as the japanese population is aging massively. Soon it will just be one giant nursing home for the largest number of above a century old people

That was my conclusion too- I saw a similar one in a new facility in my town. I appreciate that focus on an aging population.

True enough. Here in San Diego the city spent $250K on a single "Portland Portable" and installed it on the street downtown... then removed it less than a week later, because it had been totally trashed.

There would be graffiti and scratches on ours in Germany. Normally, there are no public standalone toilets outside because of vandalism. The free toilets on the Autobahn are always a mess. The city relies on restaurants to provide toilets.

I really wish you were wrong.

Those toilets are specifically designed to keep out the homeless and people doing nonsense like shooting up and passing out. The whole reason they go from transparent to opaque is because there is a timer. If you don't finish within the allotted time, it turns transparent and unlocks. Why would there be any other reason to have a transparent to opaque toilet? Why would you want that.

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The from the space station sucks, hehe literally.

That's why I love japan. Who else is going to over engineer stuff for us

space station is a butt gasket attached to a vacuum. anyone with a shopvac and some duct tape has a more sophisticated system.

@@ScreaminMadMurphy that's a bit of a claim to make

@@captaincanuck4576 not at all. the design is a simple vacuum with fittings for #1 and a butt gasket for #2. The complexity people attribute to it have to do with waste storage and treatment. These are not things a toilet does. A toilet receives doodoopeepee to be delivered to waste management. Shopvac and duct tape. That'll be 23 million dollars please.

Same in all over Asia and probably Africa 👍

In rural China you're the flush. Poop and then flush onto the ground below the hut with your urine.

Thanks to Top Gear I've come too see that is the standard. Being 6-4 I'd dread visting those places.

And you need to know how to squat

good thing is it goes opaque if the power goes out instead of clear.

@@kenbrown2808 Wow

@@joeh858 it's cool stuff

Same

I envision the adhesive seal breaking and the flood to follow...

@OneHairyGuy and created as a way to plunge a toilet without having to worry about expelling waste particles into the air.

@@OGDACMAN86 not entirely true Japan has a little more the 1/3 of America's population and is only a little smaller then California

@@OGDACMAN86 what state has 130 million people lmfao

@@MrTehpker Apparently none. Ill admit my ignorance. I def didnt realize 130 mil could fit on that island. Lol

@@OGDACMAN86 which state has a large population than Japan or even population density? Japan's population is over 123 million vs California 4 million Japan is 140 square miles which makes it 20 million square miles smaller than California yet has 3 times the population.

The heated seats alone are to die for.

Yes he did. He very clearly mentioned the heated seats and music.

@@restopesto9448 King me! :)

Nah, you just sprayed poop spatter all over your butt and pants. Little poop particles all over the place.

I'd hate to have it: you fill the toilet tank with filthy water possibly containing fecal material and you let it sit for hours at a time. God forbid tou have a guest with epathitis that uses that toilet;

@@AlessioSangalli 👍🏼

@@AlessioSangalli I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure the water that fills your toilet is clean.

@@AlessioSangalli it's akin to sink water, since it's coming from the water main, to the sink, to the toilet. If there is enough fecal matter that the faucet would be dangerous to use then that's not the sink, that's neglecting to clean your toilet.

@@TheStickyfingers88 yes but if you use it to wash dirty hands it not clean anymore. Also, I assume one uses soap to wash hands after taking a dump. Will the soap residues sitting in the tank for hours at a time not have any effect on the flushimg mechanisms?

🤣🤣 i’m dead

wow cool story bro, not real tho

@@samjanssens1509 and how do you know?

@@lukelegg9915 nobody goes to the bathroom in a clear glass stall, and "forgets" to lock the door so that the glas blurs . that just doesnt happen in real life, only in "cool story sad fantasy land"

@@samjanssens1509 I mean it can happen, if you've got to go badly enough you may forget to hit the button

Don't attack me like that

@Draven Luciano omg lol did u find anything of interest

Or starts playing the National Anthem and you are forced to stand!

Wow! Thank you. I need you to call and talk to me everyday before I get going! Thank you so much!!!

Have you even been to Japan? In Japan all public restrooms have toilet paper. All train stations that have public toilets are stocked with Toilet paper. Even the remote bathrooms in the public park have rolls of Toilet paper. They even have deer gates in the park toilets to keep the deer out from eating the toilet paper if you head to the hiking trails out on Miyajima island in Hiroshima Bay . That is just regular tissue they hand out. It's called Tissue-pack marketing (Tisshukubari) is a type of guerrilla marketing that is a phenomenon in Japan. Companies use small, portable tissue packages to move advertising copy directly into consumers' hands. Because flyers end up tossed out, but a pack of tissue is something that people will use and hold, since it's useful. Or give to friend or relative that needs tissue. I think you are mixing up China. That is the country you have to carry your own roll of toilet paper.

Some don't

I wouldn't say rarely these days. All train restrooms do, subway maybe not. Hotels, shopping malls, etc. definitely.

I was in Japan 25 years ago. We had to use the tissue packs almost everywhere. Especially the malls and train stations. Maybe it is different now.

@@ecospider5 I've come across public toilets without paper, but it seems pretty rare nowdays. There's a horrible, cramped old squat toilet (with a wonky tap on the sink) in a park near me, and someone STILL not only stocks it with toilet paper, but puts the little triangle fold on the end when they do!

there just generic videos for generic viewers...... just a few happen to know some facts and details of witch there is not enuff of us for them to care there selling videos

Those squatty potties in Japan, so it's definitely not Japan. And they don't wipe with their hands either, so definitely not Japan.

Technically you’re always flushing your money down the drain, if you’re on city water

Not if you're rich enough

@@tell-it7649 just like with a vehicle, you can buy a jalopy or a rolls royce and they'll both take you to your destination. Just depends on how much money you want to spend and how much luxury you want. 😆

It gets better. Look at that Toilet agai nand wathc what is on the lower left side of it. An outlet with an Plug in it. Ofc it needs electricity from somewhere. I dont know about you but i dont see alot of Bathrooms with an low outlet like that. Or even an low outlet like that near the "soon to be" Toilet Position. Add to that all the codes surrounding how to do electrical wiring in an Bahtroom ... that Toilet will cost you alot more than 50k.

@@kaitan4160 it should be wired for wet locations like you would for an outdoor outlet with gfci.

It’s the float inside the tank.

Ghost poop

@@moocow6350 if so, easy fix.

whoopsie :(

Pali pali chingu

I was about to say... you beat me to it. Lol

@@cherrysdiy5005 And you beat me to commenting "beat me to it".

@@tabortollefson Haha, just when you are about to make a comment and someone else made it. Been there done that! Have a good night.

I don't know when you went to Japan, or where you went in Japan, but the western style toilets are far more common than the ones that are holes like that. Also, the bathrooms that have the hole ones almost always also have western toilets as well. This could be a more recent trend, though; I was living there for most of 2020 and that's the experience I had.

Here's a tip that might prove useful: If you happen to find yourself in a place with only the traditional Japanese squat toilets, find a McDonald's because they all have western style toilets. Don't worry because it's Japan and the bathrooms are immaculate. This came in handy when I first went to Japan 35 years ago. I was in Himeji and the place I was staying at only had the squat toilets and I am nowhere near that flexible. I would think that this situation is rare these days because the traditional squats seem to be on the way out and anything built in the last 30 years or so will be almost exclusively western style.

@@kurt9395 I have only come across one squat toilet and that was at a Monestery on Mount Olympus on Cyprus and that was 9 years ago.

Yeah, there's no squat toilets in Japan. Sounds like you're full of it.

Better for you, as it puts more pressure on your bowels so you "evacuate" more. Plus, just think is people were forced to squat on a regular basis it would probably help their mobility into old age.

They are actually opaque when not electrified so they would fail safe if the power went out and you wouldn't have to worry (except for the fact that any lighting would also be out).

God I'd rather listen to my dad after superbowl Sunday on the toilet

Or the super potty from The PJ's. lol

Well then you make opaque the default and/or battery backup, though realistically just put some film to hid the bottom half. This is just designers trying to be "kewl". Apart from novelty value no one asked for that toilet.

People misunderstand how these work. Opaque is the default unpowered state, you have to keep a current running through it for it to remain transparent.

Play some ominous music and shouts "Godzilla!!"

I accidentally pressed the wrong button once, and got a blast of water on my balls... 🤣