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[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Wait...You don't all also have this setup?

How else is anyone supposed to know how things are going while they're going?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is exactly how NASA built the Space Shuttle Toilet Simulator.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

That was necessary because for that toilet if you were misaligned, things could go very wrong. I don't know if the newer toilets require the same training.

Astronauts have one of the weirdest jobs. How many prestigious jobs require you to watch a video of your own asshole?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

All of them. The asshole is just called "CEO"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I assumed the comment you replied to was a joke. They really had to do that? That is weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Oh they really did. Except because it was the 90s it was real analog closed circuit television, and nothing was wireless.

It was the one piece of NASA training that you just graded yourself on.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

I like to be surprised.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

You have four other major senses that are all applicable.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

That makes sense. But then I would feel like I was wasting all this cool media equipment I already have set up.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yes, I'm familiar with German culture.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

And their toilets with dry surfaces that you poop on. That threw me for a loop when I visited Berlin.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

As a German, it seems that I am not

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Just referencing common jokes some nations have about other nations, the french all surrender, the Japanese are horny for school girls, the british have bad teeth, Americans are all loud... that sort of thing.

For Germans it's that you invented scat tables (glass tables) to watch your sex partner shit on you.

This is pre-internet lore, so probably formulated from German inclinations towards rationality and self-examination, sprinkled with some WW2 stuff, and some actual stuff about porn/bondage communities.

It's probably better left in the past, even if it's still a cultural reference that can be used.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

I mean 2 girls 1 cup was a German film.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I love Noddy Holders (lead singer of Slade) anecdote on on Graham Nortons show saying he was paid money in Germany multiple times to shit on a glass table while a dude was underneath.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Zizek has commented on the nature of ideology in Western European societies in relation to how their toilets deal with shit.

https://wwe.youtube.com/watch?v=8mtZmBvat4k

It suggests a fetish for examination.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

My dentist has a setup where you can watch the dental work he's doing on your mouth, assuming you don't need glasses and can see the monitor in the corner.

I'm not sure why anyone would want that. But he has it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

How many people get to satisfy their fetishes with that one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago

I appreciate how chill the handyman is about the whole situation

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

"They should have sent a poet."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

Aw crap. Another smudge on the lens. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago