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The toilet that Toto recalled was their high tech number, complete "with bidets that have blow-drying, air purification and seat-warming functions".
Apparently some of the hot seats started to smoke, and three actually caught fire.
No one was injured, but what a way to go.
Imagine, sitting there calming reading the newspaper, when flames start - quite literally - licking your but.
Fortunately, there's water available to help put the fire out, but you have to worry about just how flammable toilet paper might be - something that up to now I have never thought about.
Bidets I get, since I'm at least familiar with them from French hotel rooms.
Air purification?
Well, it is sometimes necessary, but isn't that what a spritz of Lysol, an open window, or a match are for?
And a heated toilet seat?
I hadn't realized that toilet seats were all that cold. Yes, the rim of the toilet bowl sure is if you get up in the middle of the night, in the dead of winter, and the man who last used said toilet had neglected to put the seat back down. But a heated toilet seat wouldn't handle this problem at all.
In my experience, toilet seats actually heat up pretty fast on their very own once they come in contact with human flesh, which, in my experience, is not so apt to spontaneously combust. (I do, however, heartily endorse heated car seats.)
I do not have to worry about my plain vanilla toilet going up in flames. I can just keep to my plain vanilla toilet fear - that a rat will come up through it. Yes, we have a special valve that is supposed to prevent back-wash (and rat appearances), but every once in a while I hear something about a rat torpedoing up through the toilet of some unsfortunate urban dweller. Sounds like an urban legend, but apparently it's not - when my friend was a librarian at a Public Library years ago, they had rats coming up through the toilets.
All this to say, where are the plain vanilla toilet clogs located? Toto may be going belly up soon from the fallout of our litigious society.
Apparently some of the hot seats started to smoke, and three actually caught fire.
No one was injured, but what a way to go.
Imagine, sitting there calming reading the newspaper, when flames start - quite literally - licking your but.
Fortunately, there's water available to help put the fire out, but you have to worry about just how flammable toilet paper might be - something that up to now I have never thought about.
Bidets I get, since I'm at least familiar with them from French hotel rooms.
Air purification?
Well, it is sometimes necessary, but isn't that what a spritz of Lysol, an open window, or a match are for?
And a heated toilet seat?
I hadn't realized that toilet seats were all that cold. Yes, the rim of the toilet bowl sure is if you get up in the middle of the night, in the dead of winter, and the man who last used said toilet had neglected to put the seat back down. But a heated toilet seat wouldn't handle this problem at all.
In my experience, toilet seats actually heat up pretty fast on their very own once they come in contact with human flesh, which, in my experience, is not so apt to spontaneously combust. (I do, however, heartily endorse heated car seats.)
I do not have to worry about my plain vanilla toilet going up in flames. I can just keep to my plain vanilla toilet fear - that a rat will come up through it. Yes, we have a special valve that is supposed to prevent back-wash (and rat appearances), but every once in a while I hear something about a rat torpedoing up through the toilet of some unsfortunate urban dweller. Sounds like an urban legend, but apparently it's not - when my friend was a librarian at a Public Library years ago, they had rats coming up through the toilets.
All this to say, where are the plain vanilla toilet clogs located? Toto may be going belly up soon from the fallout of our litigious society.