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Does it spark joy?!? I don't have a toliet brush because I find it joyful...it's a utility...

• rs23296008n1 7y ago
  Because I own a toilet brush I feel a tiny amount of joy each time I don't have to use my bare hands to clean the toilet. Your preference may be different and that's ok.
  • drak0n1c 7y ago
    Interesting digression: In Japan there was a recent fad of cleaning toilets with bare hands. A sort of hyper-stoic discipline exercise. It's not as big as western media makes it out to be, the story mainly revolved around a volunteer group that cleans public toilets with their hands. https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/the-tao-of-toilet-cleaning https://japantoday.com/category/features/lifestyle/the-tao-o...
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• Tomte 7y ago
  And, surprise, she discusses this exact retort to a simplistic summary of her method in the book. It's fascinating how many people in this thread have never read anything she wrote, take a pithy sentence some other non-reader put forward as an accurate representation of what she stands for, and then "rebuts" her with the most glaringly obvious counter-example.
  • danharaj 7y ago
    I read her books.