Somehow I neglected to put up this photo of the rather remarkable toilet from the other day. So here you go! And for those of you who don’t understand who would use a cuboidal toilet, I present the following illustration:
(Apologies to my mom, who raised me better than this.)
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Poor fellow appears to need more fiber in his diet.
Agreed! He has a strained look.
That second picture is SOOO shopped. I can tell from the pixels.
The necessary accoutrement to a life that involved three square meals a day, no doubt.
Perfect comment!
Oh, and I thought it was designed for Spongebob Squarepants.
Me, too.
Yeah, but he’s Spongebob Square Pants, not Spongebob Square Bottom. When he drops his kecks he’s all rounded out. Did you miss that episode?
I stayed in a hotel attached to a hospital, in a handicapped accessible room. They had a phone in the bathroom, I presume in case someone needed to call for help. But they also had grab bars all over the bathroom and a shower seat.
Still, I’d guess that’s what the phone is for: someone in the house might have reduced mobility.
I did a search and found that there are more of these than I ever suspected. Someone’s excellent comment: Is the toilet paper for this a series of little circles?
Not in Mother Russia! Curves are for the weak!
In Russia, you eat the Borscht, drink the Vodka, sneer at corrupt government officials, go for a barefoot run in the snow, before returning to crap out building blocks of a new, democratic society.
That or this is a direct offshoot of improperly disposed of nuclear weapons. I can’t decide.
In Soviet Russia, toilet flushes you!
Oh, seventies socialist design…
The seller’s description states that three men and a baby lived here, right?
Joey, don’t ever call me from that phone.
Ok. I won’t do it again.
At the tres expensive Hotel Meurice in Paris the off-the-lobby toilets feature square seats.
No one I have told about this believes me and now I have proof that such exists.
Thanks ever so!
My landlord calls me while on his crapper. nothings grosser than hearing that.
actually it looks more comfortable, chairs are square, most of them.
Good point. Why is it normal to have square kitchen chairs, and weird to have a square toilet?
Why ARE toilet seats round? If you count the thighs into the part of the human anatomy that sits, we’re more rectangular than circular.
“Hi, Amie, just CALLINGTOLETYOUKNOW that I’ll be by on Thursday TOFIXTHESINKYOUTOLDMEWASCLOGGED.”
There ought to be an eleventh Commandment. “Thou shalt not telephone others while engaging in significant bodily functions.”
First Crayola showers, and now Lego toilets… what’ next?
Square traffic roundabouts? (Combourg, France, It’s Google-map-abble)
wombats. do square poos. actually cuboidal. true.
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Oh god, my local health store sells those as rolls! No wonder they were so fiber-y
*hurk* *hurk* *huck*
Yo dawg, I heard you liked phones….
Who would use this toilet? Why, someone who s**ts bricks, of course.
Sara, you make me giggle maniacally. Which probably explains why I don’t get invited out to lunch by my coworkers so much any more…
if your coworkers are anything like mine, that’s not a problem, that’s a benefit!
Zis is only place vere KGB can’t hear you. Subversive conversation gets drowned out by other sounds.
I’m hung up on the practical side of this, where in the hello does one buy a square toilet seat? Am I shopping the wrong hardware stores? Is it all one piece, so you have to replace the whole crapper if the seat cracks?
As I recall, when I stayed at an expensive resort in Scottsdale AZ, there was a telephone in the bathroom. It was one of those bathrooms where the toilet had its own little cubicle. I stayed there for about 5 days during a conference. IN AUGUST. and they only time the phone rang was when i was, you know, otherwise engaged. i remember looking at it and wondering if i was actually expected to answer it. i did. and it was surreal. Like, did they know i was there? it was the hotel front desk. LOL
“Guests in cubicles next door to yours are complaining about the noise. Could you please ask your guests to keep it down?”
I didn’t know they made Lego Village People.
Hmmm. I was thinking the ‘stache made him look kinda Soviet, but I see what you mean.
This photo is hilarious! You win!
It’s cuz the Russians shit Tetris pieces.
And my grandparents had a phone in their bathroom. As a kid I thought it was the funniest thing. It actually makes sense because it never fails, the second you sit down for some business, the phone rings. Now instead of having to run out w/your pants around your ankles to not miss the call, you got a phone conveniently next to you. Nowadays with caller ID and voicemail you can let it ring and call the person back, but back in the 90s when my grandparents had that illustrious toilet-phone it was a requirement in case the person didn’t leave a message. If you’re that hung up on talking to someone while nature is on the other line you can at least see who it is and tell them you’re indisposed and call them back.
I don’t get the phone in the bathroom – This is a feature of every hotel I have ever stayed at in Mexico. Gotta be dirtier than even a public payphone. Stop ranking on the square toilet. It’s super stylish!