An article about fancy toilets in the March edition of Wired magazine that talks about fancy new porcelain pots with super efficient plumbing and even features that monitor your health. But my question is, why does even the most serious article resort to ‘poopy’ puns. I know I would, but isn’t it juvenile?
US consumers still describe their ideal toilet as one that appears only when they need it. Every advance - both incremental and excremental - will take years to filter down to the masses’ asses. Consumer acceptance will develop the way things often progress in the bathroom: slowly.
Even an NPR piece on the World Toilet conference in Beijing is filled with the same; My favourite mot describes an upmarket public John as a place where “the affluent meet the effluent”.
On a related note, I’ve always thought that Thomas Crapper never gets the respect he deserves.