{"id":3167,"date":"2009-07-13T01:45:28","date_gmt":"2009-07-13T00:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2009-07-12T23:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T22:35:08","slug":"japanese-toilet-humour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3167","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Toilet Humour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 5px;\" src=\"\/images\/toto-wash.jpg\" alt=\"Toto toilets\" width=\"257\" height=\"150\" \/>OK, so this isn&#8217;t meant to be humorous but the image embedded in this post really had me tickled. I speak very little Japanese as a recent encounter with a trade delegation demonstrated, just enough to help oil the wheels of international trade. LOL<\/p>\n<p>So I suppose I really shouldn&#8217;t take the piss, but there you go \u2026 I couldn&#8217;t even resist a pun.<\/p>\n<p>To redress the balance might I just say that Japanese toilets (&#8220;Toire&#8221; \u00e3\u0192\u02c6\u00e3\u201a\u00a4\u00e3\u0192\u00ac) are some of the most sophisticated in the world with up to 50% of houses being fitted with Woshuretto (\u00e3\u201a\u00a6\u00e3\u201a\u00a9\u00e3\u201a\u00b7\u00e3\u0192\u00a5\u00e3\u0192\u00ac\u00e3\u0192\u0192\u00e3\u0192\u02c6) by the famous Toto of Japan. These bidet lavatories come with a bewildering array of features on top of the normal bidet cleansing functions.<\/p>\n<p>For Japanese business people visiting the UK we must seem almost medieval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so this isn&#8217;t meant to be humorous but the image embedded in this post really had me tickled. I speak very little Japanese as a recent encounter with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=3167\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[1523,1524,1522],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8046,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions\/8046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}