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Why do a many toilets flush automatically even though there is a working/obvious flush button or lever?
They’re activated by movement, so sometimes they will keep flushing multiple times while I’m there pulling up my skirt/grabbing my bag/adjusting myself in general lol, one flushed three times today... what a waste of water.
That’s my complaint of the day. :D
 
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Juliet said:
Why do a many toilets flush automatically even though there is a working/obvious flush button or lever?
They’re activated by movement, so sometimes they will keep flushing multiple times while I’m there pulling up my skirt/grabbing my bag/adjusting myself in general lol, one flushed three times today... what a waste of water.
That’s my complaint of the day. :D
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Got one better. There's a certain bathroom that I use on repeated occasions that just flushes if you lean forward or backward just a little bit. I got to nearly 10 flushes at one point. :/ I wasn't even really moving...

The no-touch flush is nice for people that are paranoid about touching levers and buttons. The sad part is how many people don't really wash their hands afterwards... just a splash or nothing at all and just walk out. :vomit:
 
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namae said:
I thought the main reason for in-swinging doors was to save space. There also safer - less risk of someone getting hit by the door.
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Also, ever been in one with a broken latch? At least with inward opening you can force it back shut (without leaving the seat) when someone pushes it inwards trying to get in.
Juliet said:
what a waste of water.
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Wasting water isn’t really my first thought... waste water splashing my butthole is what I don’t like. :D:D
 
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Juliet said:
Why do a many toilets flush automatically even though there is a working/obvious flush button or lever?
They’re activated by movement, so sometimes they will keep flushing multiple times while I’m there pulling up my skirt/grabbing my bag/adjusting myself in general lol, one flushed three times today... what a waste of water.
That’s my complaint of the day. :D
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A lot of men's urinals have a little sticker on then saying "the urinal will flush even when no one is using it".

And all I could think was, if no one was using it, how would anyone know it flushed, a la the tree falling in the woods.
 
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Contrary to my recent post I’ve actually been in Japan for going on 2 years now.

I just moved to a new house and the thing that bugs me is when you move to a new house if you use a local real estate person and speak perfectly understandable Japanese they try to romanize everything for me, speaking forms, etc.

It’s helpful but it never makes you feel like you’ll assimilate.

Also I’ll never get used to going to a Denny’s or sit down restaurant that you hit the little bell to ring them to your table. I was at a Denny’s for like 15 minutes last week just waiting for the waitress like a dumbass...
 
HankaFLH said:
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Also I’ll never get used to going to a Denny’s or sit down restaurant that you hit the little bell to ring them to your table. I was at a Denny’s for like 15 minutes last week just waiting for the waitress like a dumbass...
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Or waiting for service at a yakiniku joint not realizing I had to order on the ipad menu I was looking at for 10 min....
 
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MikeH said:
Even after three decades in Japan I never get used to the foreigners who think they speak understandable Japanese.
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I try my best but I know I can't speak Japanese. I tried to explain to one of the escorts I was seeing, a conversation I had with a street vendor who didn't understand my japanese question. I just tried to say, "Kore wa ideska?" The vendor looked at me as if I was speaking Klingon or something. When I said this story to the providor, she gave me the same puzzled look. I just explained I am trying to say, "How much is this?"
She went, "Ohhhh, you mean, "Kore wa ideska?"
Now I had the puzzled look since it was exactly how I said it....
 
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UnicornHunter said:
I try my best but I know I can't speak Japanese.
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Then you are not one of those I can't get used to. :D

You were probably trying to ask "kore ha ikura desu ka" though I don't know how you don't hear those syllables. Though that reminds me of a story back in the days just after the black ships have arrived when I tried to buy a newspaper in a street side kiosk.

The old lady saw my lily white face and when I approached her with the question "sumimasen, kore ha ikura desu ka" she raised her hands to a protective X in front of her face and screamed "Nou ingurisu!". I was young and full of energy so I didn't get baffled but just continued "hai, kedo kono shinbun ha ikura desu ka". She on the other hand was baffled that her English did not get through the thick skull of the white monster so she decided to add more power to her voice and screamed again "Nou ingurisu!".

An older gentleman passing by saw the conflict and came to rescue by asking me "What seems to be the problem?". I told him "kono shinbun wo kaitai desu ga, ikura da to wakarimasen". The gentleman turns to the lady and asks "shinbun ha ikura desu ka". The old lady happy now when she can communicate by her own language goes "150 en desu". The gentleman turns to me again and says "it is 150 yen". I silently hand the money to the lady and she takes the money, ignores me and says to the gentleman "Tasukarimasita! Eigo dekinai mon desu kara ne".
 
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Rusty Trombone said:
If that were true, your Oyaji Gags would be way better.
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I don't need to defend them, they have already gotten the Highest Achievement Award (c) from the young folks I have told them. In Japanese it is called ださい。
 
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MikeH said:
Then you are not one of those I can't get used to. :D

You were probably trying to ask "kore ha ikura desu ka" though I don't know how you don't hear those syllables. Though that reminds me of a story back in the days just after the black ships have arrived when I tried to buy a newspaper in a street side kiosk.

The old lady saw my lily white face and when I approached her with the question "sumimasen, kore ha ikura desu ka" she raised her hands to a protective X in front of her face and screamed "Nou ingurisu!". I was young and full of energy so I didn't get baffled but just continued "hai, kedo kono shinbun ha ikura desu ka". She on the other hand was baffled that her English did not get through the thick skull of the white monster so she decided to add more power to her voice and screamed again "Nou ingurisu!".

An older gentleman passing by saw the conflict and came to rescue by asking me "What seems to be the problem?". I told him "kono shinbun wo kaitai desu ga, ikura da to wakarimasen". The gentleman turns to the lady and asks "shinbun ha ikura desu ka". The old lady happy now when she can communicate by her own language goes "150 en desu". The gentleman turns to me again and says "it is 150 yen". I silently hand the money to the lady and she takes the money, ignores me and says to the gentleman "Tasukarimasita! Eigo dekinai mon desu kara ne".
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Either sentence (most likely what you said) I know I said the phrase correctly. What was frustrating was that the escort a second ago didn't know what I said but proceeded to repeat exactly what I just said. It makes me not want to try if most japanese can't figure out slight variations of accent mistakes. In English if a foreigner butchers a sentence I can at least figure out the intent....
 
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UnicornHunter said:
It makes me not want to try if most japanese can't figure out slight variations of accent mistakes.
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With all due respect I would venture a guess it's not them who couldn't figure it out. :D

It's probably the same than me with Chinese. Back in the day I tried to learn it but whenever I said something every native Chinese would burst out laughing. I ask what was wrong and they go "you said chingchangchong when you are supposed to say chingchangchong". And I would go "you just said the same thing twice in a row!". :eek::ROFLMAO:
 
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UnicornHunter said:
I try my best but I know I can't speak Japanese. I tried to explain to one of the escorts I was seeing, a conversation I had with a street vendor who didn't understand my japanese question. I just tried to say, "Kore wa ideska?" The vendor looked at me as if I was speaking Klingon or something. When I said this story to the providor, she gave me the same puzzled look. I just explained I am trying to say, "How much is this?"
She went, "Ohhhh, you mean, "Kore wa ideska?"
Now I had the puzzled look since it was exactly how I said it....
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Im so confused by this.
 
Durg50 said:
Yeah that sucks. Was wandering around shibuya at 0700 the other day and there was just nothing decent open.
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This idiot govt should just move the clocks back an hour but TEPCO feeds them so much cash it'll never happen.
 
TheScientist said:
I can kick flush most toilets but I'll be damned if I want to touch the door handles of men's rooms for just that reason.
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My office building has the best invention ever to solve this. I've never seen it anywhere else. There is a special handle installed on the bottom of the inside of the bathroom doors place there specially so you can open the door with your foot instead of touching the handle. Brilliant.
 
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Situation at a love hotel:

Staff: ただ今満室何ですが、十分ぐらいお待ち頂ければご案内できます…
Me: はい。じゃあ、待ちます。お願いします。
Staff: Uhh, umm, ten minutes!! Pureezu wait ten minutes!!
Me: …はい、わかりました。

And the same thing happened when we went up to the counter to pay. I was answering in full Japanese sentences (and I don’t have much of an accent either) and they were tripping over themselves to respond in broken English. Wtf? I started to get pretty annoyed
 
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Juliet said:
I was answering in full Japanese sentences (and I don’t have much of an accent either) and they were tripping over themselves to respond in broken English.
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that shit has happened to my girls. They look mostly Japanese, and their language is at native level.
 
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