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I mean I also have a morbid curiosity, but is there anything that could have been there that would have made it ok? This isn't lock picks were a lot of people b

I mean I also have a morbid curiosity, but is there anything that could have been there that would have made it ok? This isn't lock picks were a lot of people buy them to mess around with and to get back into their own property

fckgw 3y ago
Maybe some dude who likes to watch themselves shit?
- rhqq2 3y ago
  Or possibly watch others take care of their private business? Either way, facilitating maximum perv is not a great look for Amazon.
- BobaFloutist 3y ago
  It's pretty common for people taking a sport seriously to record themselves to improve their technique. So maybe competitive shitting?
  - DonHopkins 3y ago
    That's why German toilets have a Hermeneutic stool inschpektion shelf: So they have something to analyze then talk about all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs According to Slavoj Žižek, Germans love Hermeneutic stool diagnostics. >Žižek on toilets. Slavoj Žižek during an architecture congress in Pamplona, Spain. >The German toilets, the old kind -- now they are disappearing, but you still find them. It's the opposite. The hole is in front, so that when you produce excrement, they are displayed in the back, they don't disappear in water. This is the German ritual, you know? Use it every morning. Sniff, inspect your shits for traces of illness. It's high Hermeneutic. I think the original meaning of Hermeneutic may be this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics >Hermeneutics (/ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/)[1] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretive principles or methods we resort to when immediate comprehension fails. Rather, hermeneutics is the art of understanding and of making oneself understood. >“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.” -Slavoj Žižek An in-toilet shelf-cam paired with a mobile xitter app would be the shit: a Hermeneutic tool for "the art of understanding and of making oneself understood"!
  - 72deluxe 3y ago
    I can't even fathom the rules for that - is it mass, texture, ease of departure? The mind boggles.
    - BobaFloutist 3y ago
      Like many Olympic sports, I would assume there would be multiple categories: 1. Weight participants, feed them equally. Whomever has the shortest time time from start to end of defecation wins. 2. Highest weight of of single, uninterrupted mass. 3. Best form.
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mamurphy 3y ago
Another commenter posted the archive page. No comment on whether this "made it ok," but some of the other photos show the hooks being used in a different context, more like a nanny cam. This one (https://web.archive.org/web/20231204210803/https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tTQ9tSrPL._AC_SL1200_.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20231204210803/https://m.media-a...) shows hooks in what looks like a mudroom catching an image of a person in black clothing in a ski-mask, indicating a use case of the hook would be to surreptitiously record a thief. On the archive, it is advertised as a "Hidden Clothes Hook Camera, Mini Spy Camera HD 1080P, Nanny Cam with Motion Detection, Wireless Security Camera for Home/Office/Pet Monitor, Video Recorder No WiFi Needed, No Audio" with no mention of it being a "bathroom spycam."
- space_fountain 3y ago
  Yeah, but I mean I assume the people selling date rape drugs do a bit of wink, wink, nod, nod, thing too. Do you think literally a single person bought this and used it as a nanny cam? I think I can imagine, maybe it got used outside of a bathroom, or got used by people play acting hidden cameras, aka used with everyone's consent, but I don't think it gets much worse than this, except maybe for this other product amazon still sells https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-Shower-Security-Cameras-Outdoor/dp/B0CMWSZG6N/ref=sr_1_4?crid=WK1AEHNZLNQE&keywords=%22bathroom+spy+camera%22&qid=1701724421&sprefix=bathroom+spy+camera+%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.ac2169a1-b668-44b9-8bd0-5ec63b24bcb5 https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-Shower-Security-Cameras-Outd...
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
    > Do you think literally a single person bought this and used it as a nanny cam? There is actually one person who left a review and seems to have bought it with a less nefarious purpose than spying on someone in the bathroom: > I set this up on my back window to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity in the area behind our house. We share a communal back yard area and people tend to walk through quite often. I love how this camera is disguised and I can place it anywhere! However, it does appear to be marketed for the nefarious purposes despite the comical "bad guy with ski mask" you need to hide the camera from for some reason.
huytersd 3y ago
Absolutely. Making sure the help is not stealing. Spying on a spouse you suspect is cheating in your home. Filming contractors while they work in a room to make sure they’re not cutting corners etc.
- webmaven 3y ago
  In theory, you could use a bathroom spy cam for a non-nefarious purpose, such as checking whether someone is flushing their meds instead of taking them, but it's a fairly contrived scenario.
  - huytersd 3y ago
    I mean one of the examples above is a regular hook. Those can go in any room and there are plenty of non contrived scenarios for those, check my comment above.

fckgw 3y ago

Maybe some dude who likes to watch themselves shit?

rhqq2 3y ago
Or possibly watch others take care of their private business? Either way, facilitating maximum perv is not a great look for Amazon.
BobaFloutist 3y ago
It's pretty common for people taking a sport seriously to record themselves to improve their technique. So maybe competitive shitting?
- DonHopkins 3y ago
  That's why German toilets have a Hermeneutic stool inschpektion shelf: So they have something to analyze then talk about all day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzXPyCY7jbs According to Slavoj Žižek, Germans love Hermeneutic stool diagnostics. >Žižek on toilets. Slavoj Žižek during an architecture congress in Pamplona, Spain. >The German toilets, the old kind -- now they are disappearing, but you still find them. It's the opposite. The hole is in front, so that when you produce excrement, they are displayed in the back, they don't disappear in water. This is the German ritual, you know? Use it every morning. Sniff, inspect your shits for traces of illness. It's high Hermeneutic. I think the original meaning of Hermeneutic may be this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeneutics >Hermeneutics (/ˌhɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/)[1] is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. Hermeneutics is more than interpretive principles or methods we resort to when immediate comprehension fails. Rather, hermeneutics is the art of understanding and of making oneself understood. >“In a traditional German toilet, the hole into which shit disappears after we flush is right at the front, so that shit is first laid out for us to sniff and inspect for traces of illness. In the typical French toilet, on the contrary, the hole is at the back, i.e. shit is supposed to disappear as quickly as possible. Finally, the American (Anglo-Saxon) toilet presents a synthesis, a mediation between these opposites: the toilet basin is full of water, so that the shit floats in it, visible, but not to be inspected. [...] It is clear that none of these versions can be accounted for in purely utilitarian terms: each involves a certain ideological perception of how the subject should relate to excrement. Hegel was among the first to see in the geographical triad of Germany, France and England an expression of three different existential attitudes: reflective thoroughness (German), revolutionary hastiness (French), utilitarian pragmatism (English). In political terms, this triad can be read as German conservatism, French revolutionary radicalism and English liberalism. [...] The point about toilets is that they enable us not only to discern this triad in the most intimate domain, but also to identify its underlying mechanism in the three different attitudes towards excremental excess: an ambiguous contemplative fascination; a wish to get rid of it as fast as possible; a pragmatic decision to treat it as ordinary and dispose of it in an appropriate way. It is easy for an academic at a round table to claim that we live in a post-ideological universe, but the moment he visits the lavatory after the heated discussion, he is again knee-deep in ideology.” -Slavoj Žižek An in-toilet shelf-cam paired with a mobile xitter app would be the shit: a Hermeneutic tool for "the art of understanding and of making oneself understood"!
- 72deluxe 3y ago
  I can't even fathom the rules for that - is it mass, texture, ease of departure? The mind boggles.
  - BobaFloutist 3y ago
    Like many Olympic sports, I would assume there would be multiple categories: 1. Weight participants, feed them equally. Whomever has the shortest time time from start to end of defecation wins. 2. Highest weight of of single, uninterrupted mass. 3. Best form.
  - deleted 3y ago
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mamurphy 3y ago

Another commenter posted the archive page. No comment on whether this "made it ok," but some of the other photos show the hooks being used in a different context, more like a nanny cam. This one (https://web.archive.org/web/20231204210803/https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61tTQ9tSrPL._AC_SL1200_.jpg https://web.archive.org/web/20231204210803/https://m.media-a...) shows hooks in what looks like a mudroom catching an image of a person in black clothing in a ski-mask, indicating a use case of the hook would be to surreptitiously record a thief. On the archive, it is advertised as a "Hidden Clothes Hook Camera, Mini Spy Camera HD 1080P, Nanny Cam with Motion Detection, Wireless Security Camera for Home/Office/Pet Monitor, Video Recorder No WiFi Needed, No Audio" with no mention of it being a "bathroom spycam."

space_fountain 3y ago
Yeah, but I mean I assume the people selling date rape drugs do a bit of wink, wink, nod, nod, thing too. Do you think literally a single person bought this and used it as a nanny cam? I think I can imagine, maybe it got used outside of a bathroom, or got used by people play acting hidden cameras, aka used with everyone's consent, but I don't think it gets much worse than this, except maybe for this other product amazon still sells https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-Shower-Security-Cameras-Outdoor/dp/B0CMWSZG6N/ref=sr_1_4?crid=WK1AEHNZLNQE&keywords=%22bathroom+spy+camera%22&qid=1701724421&sprefix=bathroom+spy+camera+%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-4&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.ac2169a1-b668-44b9-8bd0-5ec63b24bcb5 https://www.amazon.com/Bathroom-Shower-Security-Cameras-Outd...
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  > Do you think literally a single person bought this and used it as a nanny cam? There is actually one person who left a review and seems to have bought it with a less nefarious purpose than spying on someone in the bathroom: > I set this up on my back window to keep an eye out for any suspicious activity in the area behind our house. We share a communal back yard area and people tend to walk through quite often. I love how this camera is disguised and I can place it anywhere! However, it does appear to be marketed for the nefarious purposes despite the comical "bad guy with ski mask" you need to hide the camera from for some reason.

huytersd 3y ago

Absolutely. Making sure the help is not stealing. Spying on a spouse you suspect is cheating in your home. Filming contractors while they work in a room to make sure they’re not cutting corners etc.

webmaven 3y ago
In theory, you could use a bathroom spy cam for a non-nefarious purpose, such as checking whether someone is flushing their meds instead of taking them, but it's a fairly contrived scenario.
- huytersd 3y ago
  I mean one of the examples above is a regular hook. Those can go in any room and there are plenty of non contrived scenarios for those, check my comment above.