"Woman-Inside" sign for shared public restrooms!

Nothing complex or expensive just a small sign saying "Woman-Inside" or something to that effect. Similar to existing signs posted outside public restrooms. Some places such as small restaurants or cafes offer single restroom space for both men and women to share which is extremely annoying to women due to men's habit of leaving the place in bad hygiene. I propose women carry the sign in their bags and post it before they get in so that men waiting outside to use the restroom don't impatiently knock on the door or keep trying the door handle. When the woman comes out, she grabs her sign and enjoys the sight of men wandering around in distracted confusion.

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W.C. Feng Shui

Public toilets in most places are crap but there's an easy way to make some things in them more functional. You will receive the opposite of your iQ, a positive Qi as they call it in Feng Sui, if you place toilet paper in the door handle right in front of you rather than have it on the side or in the back. If Feng Shui is about arranging objects to help people achieve their goals, this is a master arrangement. Just make sure there's enough space between the door and the handle so that the toilet paper rolls smoothly. It's also handy if someone calls you and you need to take notes in a piece of paper :D

For better results also practice these ancient words of wisdom. Speak them loud as the crap sinks below.

Ba Zhai Crap Wu Xing Shit Baqua Flash Zuan Kong Fei Sink King Kong

These proven words will guarantee you more crap, better toilet paper use and they'll make your experience in the shit hole a mystery to others!

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Where would it be more appropriate?

That's a catchy idea but the picture shows a man's hand. I think this soap dispenser would be better in a woman's bathroom. What do you think?

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Toilet paper money

It's been suggested before only as a joke, now let me reiterate it as a half-joke. If printing money is the answer to massive debts and global deflation could we ask that central banks print money on toilet paper so that it's rendered useful if zimbabwe-style inflation sets in? If the quality of paper is smooth and rectum-friendly we won't need foreign exchange markets either. We can just barter, trade, swap, insure or invest in each country's toilet paper comparative advantage. And unlike forex markets, almost every single person in the world uses toilet paper. We're talking of a potential 7-billion-people-essentially-single-currency economy here. Keep it in mind please!

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toilet paper thoughts here

do you ever think of toilet paper? we use it so much it's a necessity. we love to abuse, scratch, stain, scrub and tarnish it, don't we? we molest rile and rag its lovely white color on a rolling basis every single day...if products had rights, toilet paper rights would by definition of use be absolutely shitty and toxic! perhaps if we could reverse the effects of use by coming up with a new kind of toilet paper that comes in crap color and switches to clean white after use. you know, it goes from maculate to immaculate and from molested black to extra virgin white. imagine swiping your... black with it and the paper comes out white instead. that would be The revolution in toilet paper rights!

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print media are suckers

they whine about losing business to GOOGLE and online media. NOBODY wants to buy your papers any more. if you want to stay in the paper business, print your news on toilet paper and distribute it daily to every public and private bathroom for a large discount to regular clean-ass paper. when i don't like what i read i can just wipe my ass with your crap and put it into good use. that's how i like to consume the tons of crap you're selling. i might consider using it to blow my nose too but that's only when you sell me something paperworthy.

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Premium toilet paper sales. What drives them?

I propose the following research topic. Do anal-sex lovers buy more of premium quality toilet paper or not? One could imagine that if someone derives pleasure from something, that something will be treated gently and with great care. Sales data might show, however, that sexual pleasure and care for its source are not related. But what if they are??

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Embarrassing noises in public restrooms

Everyone knows of the embarrassment of which I speak. You have gingerly walked into a public restroom with an uncontrollable urge to liberate that which can no longer be left in bondage. You take your place among the many seats which are given, however, just as you are about to give in, an innocent bystander walks in. He himself feeling the same urges for liberation unknowingly takes a seat within a distance that both of you are uncomfortable with. Now the pain of silence sets in, who is first to fire? Solution:

Although some public restrooms attempt to get around this problem by playing music, etc. the music which they play may drown out the noise to some degree but it is not enough to ease the situation. Therefore, I suggest a different kind of music for public restrooms...let's call it bathroom break music.

Imagine a recording of all the great noises that come from bathrooms played over the loud speaker--the beautiful harmony of flatulence, urine and defecation pouring forth. The users are suddenly at ease, no longer can they distinguish their own noises from that of the music.

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Wash-lock restroom logic

Invent a system that would not unlock single restroom doors for employees working in restaurants until water has been run and soap dispensed. This innovation might prove more effective than those 'please wash your hands before returning to work' signs. Sure people could work around the system but it would take just as much time and wouldn't be worth the effort.

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Squat Teams

According to Ayatollah Khomeiny's Political Philosophical, Social and Religious principles: "When defecating or urinating, one must squat in such a way as neither to face Mecca nor to turn one's back upon it." How serious are they about it? How do we know? Do toilets have chalk drawings showing proper squat? What if they don't?

Does the devout muslim carry a compass that beeps when facing the wrong direction? Do Squat Teams sweep and clean each and every WC? How do they contact the raid? Must they face Mecca or turn their back upon it? And just how do they reprimand the sinner?

Say he's stuck in the toilet seat facing Mecca, does he get rescued immediately? Or left in the seat for hours and days as punishment? Does sainthood require an impeccable squat record? Are sins of squat squashed, washed away or flushed down the pipe following confession?

A torrent of very important political, philosophical, social and religious questions springs to mind as one takes a deep squat into the teachings of the Ayatollah...you know in a way that neither faces nor turns away from Mecca :)

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The spiritual interpretation of toilet time in the West

I am responding to JackSparrow's earlier post here about squat principles in Islam. The text in Greek on top of this door reads: "Room for free expression and self-concentration". As you can see, what people in the West do in the toilet Can have spiritual significance. The spiritual dimension of one's toilet activity here seems equally important to the physical aspect of it. It be no surprise if some people behind this door practice the insignia with religious fervor. That the Pope didn't include the principles behind this form of spirituality in his teachings could have been, after all, a grave omission :)

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Girls like to go to the bathroom together because...

gossiping..maybe having lesbian sex ?:)
because we like it! :)
and you like it because...?? :)
because you guys will never understand :)
what's there to understand? :)
haha, I don't mind when girls go to the bathroom together, I just wish they were less shy to do more things together.. :P
to flush :)
to talk :)

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louis vuitton trash bags??

if you look closely at the bag, it's not the real lv logo but it looks a lot like it. it's a knockoff. what will lv sell next to survive the recession...toilet paper?? maybe the people who use it want to make a statement that their garbage is a luxury they can no longer afford so they throw it away. if you buy two packs of the trash bags, do you get lv toilet paper for free? worse, do people who use them put the trash in a normal bag first and then cover it with the lv bag so that lv doesn't get spoiled from the inside?? that seems a more appropriate, pretentious use of an expensive designer trash bag. how tacky! lol

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more efficient use of toilet paper

every time we leave the task of rolling toilet paper to manual, we use more than we need. an automatic toilet paper dispenser that locks in the amount of paper to be rolled and cut would be a good product idea for savings on the paper's use by adults and children alike. each family member inputs in memory the desired length of toilet paper that they think is right/optimal for them. the gadget should be designed and marketed for use by everyone and not be seen as an aid for disabled folks only.

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allow sex in public toilets?

like sex, a visit to the toilet requires that you unzip, undress, pull down, anyway expose private parts. like a visit to the toilet, sex is about discharge of body fluids so we call sex-in-toilet 'assisted discharge of body fluids'. that means new design for sex-allowed toilets. men and women sections are directly opposite and separate by door. in every toilet restroom there will be two doors, one to go in n out and one behind toilet seat to connect to opposite-sex section of the toilet building. if you want sex knock up the door behind toilet seat and ask 'may I assist with the discharge?' :lol)

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Height - Adjustable! Ramen Tables

This thought was posted on Thinkaloo on 28 March 2008 by member james85

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Ramen is a type of noodle dish that is very popular in Japan and Asia. In Japan there are many noodle shops where people eat standing. Everyone has to bend up and down all the time in order to eat, those who are tall obviously have to bend more. Since the Japanese are so proud and good about designing every day products that make life more comfortable (eg super-toilet seats) why don't they design height-adjustable ramen tables or benches so people don't have to bend all the time while they eat?

Just to give you an idea of how easy it is for Japanese industry and engineers to come up with such a patent let me tell you what a Japanese super-toilet seat has been designed to do.

Sometimes dubbed "super-thrones," these top-of-the-line high-tech toilet seats come with wall-mounted control panels as sleek and complex as those of stereo systems. Their manifold buttons allow adjustment of the nozzle position, water pressure and type of spray, plus blow-drying, air purification and seat warming for those cold winter mornings. Water and seat temperatures are also adjustable. Did I mention you can even choose the sound the water makes flushing down?

It then strikes me that a society and a culture who is so advanced in the design of super-toilets will allow people to eat in the most inconvenient posture! What an amazing contradiction, don't you think?

Maybe the intake of the food is supposed to be a little inconvenient so that it balances out with the comfortable outtake process later! I wouldn't be surprised if some of these ramen shops which are very small and narrow actually had super-toilet seats in the bathroom. But after I finished eating my very delicious ramen, I was too tired to go check it...