This is an apparatus that allows a homeowner to generate waves in their toilet remotely.
-- vfrackis, Jun 02 2010

do you want to ride the wave?
-- po, Jun 02 2010


Ours does a good job of splashing the seat every other time it flushes.
-- RayfordSteele, Jun 02 2010


// homeowner// What if we are renting the house? Does the landlord get to do this to drive us out?
-- baconbrain, Jun 03 2010


I have a theory that toilet splashback is caused directly by Satan.
-- DrWorm, Jun 03 2010


Similarly, what if you have a mortgage? Presumably the control unit would be held by the bank?
-- pocmloc, Jun 03 2010


UK toilets are a different shape to US ones - the former only contain a little water at the bottom of a reasonably deep "well", while the latter have great shallow "pans", presumably to facilitate arse-splashage and the close inspection of unusual stools.

It would be difficult to even notice a wave in a UK toilet, so I don't see the point. It might serve as an annoyance to someone sitting on a US toilet though, to have their bottoms dampened by an unseen hand.
-- zen_tom, Jun 03 2010


...and then of course there's the strange foreign toilets which have a little shelf for you to deposit your offerings on, to better facilitate their close inspection.

[zen] "to have their bottoms dampened by an unseen hand" - some people pay for that. Apparently.
-- hippo, Jun 03 2010


this would entertain the cat for hours.
-- dentworth, Jun 03 2010


This is really just a remote controlled bidet, right? On the market in Japan for years now, I'm sure.
-- swimswim, Jun 03 2010


US toilets are rather notorious for getting you wet, and not from the flushing. I'm not certain why we've maintained the water-wasting shape we have.
-- RayfordSteele, Jun 03 2010


It's being so far from civilisation that does that, [Rayford].
-- 8th of 7, Jun 03 2010



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