Although we take great pride in bringing you the latest and greatest home decor items, sometimes there's a product so tragic that we just can't help ourselves. Like a car accident you can't look away from, this bathroom stool is meant to make manly visits to the loo a little quieter. We only wish we were kidding.
So if you can all join us in a chorus of the words, "Seriously? Yeah right?" we can all get it out of our system. It's ok if you have to repeat it a few times — we did.
This $76 stool (plus shipping) is intended to reduce the noise in your bathroom by lessening the height at which the apple juice from lunch hits the megaphone, we mean toilet, below. Though for $76 dollars, you might be able to better insulate your bathroom to eliminate the insult that kneeling creates.
Just in case you'd like to order one today, you can find it in the 2-part polyurethane model (which will run you $20 more), or the 1-piece wooden bench over at the Japan Trend Shop. It's ok, we won't judge you if this is just the item you've been looking for, though we do request you tell us how it worked out. On second thought... scratch that, what happens in the bathroom, stays in the bathroom (no matter how loud it is).
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"...sometimes there's a product so tragic that we just can't help ourselves."
Best line of the week, and it's only Tuesday.
This looks ridiculous, but can I say on behalf of all women who have ever shared a bathroom with a man: standing while you pee not only makes it sound like a racehorse is in the bathroom, but also drips can't help but get everywhere when you pee from that height and that is gross. This is why men and women until the end of time need to have separate bathrooms.
It is a realtor secret that to help keep your house "show ready" you should ask all men in the household to sit while they pee.
But what are those little yellow arrows pointing at? I'm assuming it's his humiliation. The whole thing is hilarious.
why, oh why, can't they just sit all the time? Really.
What you need when you pray at the porcelain altar? Not that I ever have.
The Japanese are very concerned about such things in their culture...
...some of their toilets and public restrooms even have buttons you can push to produce white/ambient noise intended to help mask "unpleasant sounds".
At first I thought it was a kneeler for when you need to throw up!! I could have used one of those a few weeks ago when I had the flu.
The men in my house sit to pee. My husband is very tall and hates splashback, and my son cleans the bathroom. I highly recommend if the men in your house make a mess when they stand to pee that you designate bathroom cleaning to be *their* weekly chore instead of yours. (this might only work if, like in my house, they've designated me to be the boss)
I wish I would get a guy back to my place and be like "Um, I have 2 cats, and by the way, can you kneel when you pee?"
Or even worse, going back to his place and seeing that he had one of these. Either way, I'm pretty sure it would be a dealbreaker.
"why, oh why, can't they just sit all the time? Really."
In older Japanese bathrooms, you CAN'T sit -
You must squat over a porcelain basin embedded in the floor to do your business.
(Or stand)
in parts of Switzerland it is illegal for men not to sit down after 10pm because of the noise it makes for the downstairs neighbors. not joking.
This reminds me how thankful I am that I now live with a man who sits. I do not miss the noise or the messes.
Also, those pictures are hilarious. They look elated to be peeing while kneeling!
LMAO - the things people create! If the resulting noise from the sound of pee hitting water is so offensive - can they not just aim to hit the insides of the bowl? It can't be that difficult. Or perhaps keep a little radio in the bathroom so it can be turned up to cover the sound...if there's, um, drippings at the end I can't see why they wouldn't just wipe it up with a dissinfecting wipe or even toilet paper at the end. Not that difficult.
It had never crossed my mind that a grown man would sit to pee. Really? I dunno, that seems weird to me.
On a related note, here's a fun instructional pee and poo cartoon from Japan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA8wmqPI63M
d4kk1tt3n, there was a kid in my elementary school who always sat to pee. He was tortured mercilessly for it. I hope your son is faring better. It might be cheaper to pay for a housekeeper then to pay for his future therapy and your divorce.
One of the few things I miss from my Ex was that he was a lifelong sitter. Really, I think more men should make the switch.
Really? In my experience, women make plenty of noise when they pee...
Wow, Josh, overreacting much?
My ex-boyfriend was a sitter, so is my brother and from what I heard/read, it's actually better for you. Physiologically we (meaning men AND women) are meant to squat while... hmmm... evacuating...
In my house growing up.."gentlemen sit to pee" except at a urinal. It was always a simple matter of manners. My brother was never tortured, my parents never divorced, and we need therapy for non bathroom related issues. sorry Josh.
I registered, literally, just to comment on this post. Hopefully to shed some light on this thing. One of my best friends from college is Japanese. She told me that when she first arrived here in Canada, she was taken aback by our washrooms (especially public stalls) because the doors usually had a large space between the floor and the bottom of the door. You see, in Japan it is far more common to have toilets that are almost squat to the ground, so that you would be almost totally exposed if you had a door open at the bottom. With that in mind you can totally see why a man might like to be down much lower to pee, but be reticent to actually kneel on the ground, even in one's own bathroom.
This does not excuse the pictures, though. There is no explaining the yellow lines of surprise and delight.
this might be handy for resting between bouts of puking
I have actually been wakened in the middle of the night by my brother urinating loudly, so I can't say I'm against the idea of men getting closer to the toilet...but those things are TACKY.
OMG! Noguchi peeing stool!
I'm shy when peeing at someone else's place and turn on the overhead bathroom fan if they have one and I aim for the side of the bowl inside, so it makes less noise. I wouldn't pay for that thing though, lol. I don't like urinals too, especially if they have no partitions.