So true! I rarely shit in US&A, but when I do, I must average close to 3 flushes per shit. I don't usually have to use a plunger (thankfully, since I don't liv

So true! I rarely shit in US&A, but when I do, I must average close to 3 flushes per shit. I don't usually have to use a plunger (thankfully, since I don't live there and only shit there as a guest). But I've learned through hard experience: the Americans basically gave up on the toilet 100+ years ago. Cold as fuck porcelain, rarely a slow-seat-lowering mechanism, no stain-resistant adherence-resistant polymers, no way you're getting any heated seats or odor-suppressing intake fans than vent air through filters, and, for whatever reason (asshole/vagina-squeamish culture?) there are virtually no spraywash/bidet type features...and to add insult to injury they can't even reliably flush a man-size shit down !!! :-O I mean, they usually do, but any failure rate above 0.01% will make you quickly learn that you should just flush, then wipe, and if you feel like you need to wipe a bit extra this time, just flush again mid-wipe, and once more at the end. logfromblammo I am so utterly with you: flush-test the toilets (and fuck it, if we ban toilets that use too much water, we should ban toilets that can't reliably flush a heavy load). P.S. Yes, I live in Japan, the world's only toilet-superpower, and yes, I've ranted on this topic before on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4787587 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4787587).