Cheer Up Jerks

If it makes them feel good why not? I wonder if pissing into this thing would cheer me up. It looks nice. I don't know if I could go? Maybe they should have a program to loan people money to buy these things in America as well. Can you get toilet financing?

I was going to try to link this to the decline of civilization but that may be incorrect. This could be real progress and I just can't see it. There's a lot of craftmanship involved? I don't have to be cynical about everything. Just because a guy is rich enough to have a crystal toilet doesn't make him a bad person. You'd have to look good sitting on one of these.

I had no idea about this whole toilet God thing either. You can write that in a sentence and some people will know what that means as a REAL God. Come on. Really worth reading this one through. I promise.

Diamonds may be a girl's best friend, but crystals are clearly for asses. That's what Japanese interior-fixtures maker Lixil believes, and it's proving it with this awesomely blinged-out toilet under its Inax brand.

The Satis loo is decked out in 72,000 Swarovski crystals and is valued at $130,000, according to Lixil. It's on display at the company's showroom just outside Tokyo's tony Ginza district.

"2011 was a really tough year for Japan, with the earthquake and tsunami disasters," says Lixil's Shintaro Kaai. "We wanted to do this to cheer everybody up just before Christmas."

Japan's toilets are renowned for high-tech functions such as automatic lid opening, adjustable sprays, and remote controls. Satis models come with standard spray functions and can operate on as little as 1 gallon per flush.

Some toilets have more exotic features such as MP3 playback and urine analysis. Talking, rolling gag toilets have also been unleashed on the population.

Toilet engineering, however, reflects traditional beliefs in a "toilet god," a Shinto deity who lives around loos. Keeping the bathroom clean would not only please the god. It was said to promise beauty and easy childbirth for women.

[cnet.com]