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Coming To A Bathroom Near You

Posted 01.11.2008 by Dave (11561)
While going through my inbox in preparation for a long-overdue links roundup, I found a number of emails I'd received from bathroom entrepreneurs eager to capture the attention of the coveted PoopReport market.

Back in June, for instance, Chris Brown (seriously!) wrote: "I stumbled onto your site while doing some research. I invented and patented and am now manufacturing in China a product that will eliminate this problem once and for all! Yes, I took the stink out of shit! Even YOU can't smell it! When you go!

"Check out the attached brochure (work in progress). The product should be available within a year!"

Also in June, Richard Cairns wrote: "Our company has developed a new portable home urinal and we would be grateful for you to let us know what you think of the idea. Here are a couple of pictures to enable your readers to see what the product in question actually is. Of course, we are aware that most men can aim in the right direction -- but there are those that simply don't care and aren't too considerate of their female counterparts, or, when inebriated, aren't able to shoot straight. So we hope that this will be a solution for them also."

In August, Steve Isaacson of aSwipe, Inc. (seriously!) wrote: "Things are moving with my product: The Bidet Spray. We are being tested in a few chains and I recently started to sell my product online. Here's a little copy from our site: 'Why Use The Bidet Spray? Dry Tissue Alone Is Not Enough! Moistened Tissue Cleans Better.'"

In November, Ian wrote in: "I'm not sure if you're a Facebook user or not, but I've created a Facebook application that allows people to poop on their friends (figuratively) and various aspects of their friends lives. It's called Pooply.

"The whole point of the application is to gather money from ad revenue and t-shirts and stuff, which can then be donated to a non-profit research company called OneWorld Health, which is trying to fight diarrhea, the number two cause of death in unindustrialized countries (behind malaria). Apparently the cause doesn't get much support because it's poop-related. However, since people are uncomfortable with poop, it becomes intrinsically funny -- a phenomenon which can be exploited to bring people's attention (and, inadvertently, money) to the diarrhea problem that they would otherwise ignore."

Finally, Pat Kelly from Pet Butler wrote in right before Christmas with this: "Dave -- I am still creating various poop for marketing purposes and having a fun time dooing it. I have included pics from our Christmas parade in Lexington, Kentucky."


Thunderbox (789) -- 01.11.2008

That portable home urinal is going to cause misery for a lot of folk. I`m talking about the retards who will think it`s a urinal while it`s sitting on its floor stand.

What percentage of people do you think will end up with far more piss on the floor because of that than bad aiming?

The resulting piss pool size will be related to the quality of the gene pool. There`s a possible PhD thesis in genetic research up for grabs here.

poopcrayon (69) -- 01.11.2008

a shitmas tree. merry crapmess to you!

hahahahaha


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all aboard the farty train to pooterville..if you can't shit at my house, we aren't friends

When it Shits i... (47) -- 01.11.2008

I think my biggest concern with the portable urinal, is if it is truly portable, isnt urine going to drip all over the floor whenyou lift it off? If someones aim is so bad that they cant hit the bowl, you know they will hit the sides of that thing, and when you pick it up drip drip drip on the floor.

When it Shits i... (47) -- 01.11.2008

Okay granted it says to clean it everytime, but if your so lazy you dotn sit on the pot to piss, are you really going to clean it everytime before returning it to its home pad?

prarie doggin (1708) -- 01.11.2008

Only in Kentucky.

wonderpance (522) -- 01.11.2008

the picture of the portable urinal cracked my ass up! i'm not sure what i expected, but it definitely wasn't that.

and you're supposed to put it on the toilet when you need it, and then put it back when you're done? and we're supposed to believe that a guy who's too lazy to lift the seat (or any guy at all, for that matter) is going to go to that kind of trouble? yeah, i'm sure that'll happen. i think i'd rather have to grab some TP and wipe off the seat than have to return that unwieldy contraption to it's proper storage place.

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i love poop.

prarie doggin (1708) -- 01.11.2008

I think what would be more practical would be a funnel of sorts that the person could hold up against themselves, and the other end (maybe a tube) would dangle in the toilet. This would take up a lot less room, and could possibly be attached by hose clamps to the plunger, thus making a true multi-tasker. I can see Billy Mays hawking it now....."call within the next 30 minutes and we will include the Vidalia Wizard at no extra cost, just pay additional shipping and handling".

DungDaddy (1369) -- 01.11.2008

The home unrinal is no good. I agree with Thunderbox. It's going to get piss inside of it, then the piss will dry and/or run onto the floor when you take it off.

A family has pee-ers of different heights. My youngest boy lays his sack on the rim to pee. The urinal is out for him. My wife and daughter will love it too.

In the middle of the night, you stagger into the bathroom to pee, and that thing is sitting on the floor; you're not going to use it.

The guy who came up with it needs a beating.

prarie doggin (1708) -- 01.11.2008

Some how I thing it was a girl, so maybe just a spanking.

Great comment! +1 point
Logjam (2360) -- 01.11.2008

Rant warning.

First, this is not a “portable urinal.” The trunk of my car better fits the definition of a portable urinal because at least I can move it rather easily to different locations. Try moving that smoke stack around. And, of course, without a toilet it’s just a fun-slide segment. More accurately, this is a “urinal attachment” or, better, a “penis extender.”

This “invention” is one of the most asinine things I've ever seen. Can you imagine sending guests into your urinal-equipped bathroom with no warning? The little demo movie on the company site shows the thing rising up off the toilet and being set into its little lid on the floor. What don’t they show? The hands that would need to grab the gray smoke stack to move it. And who the fuck has that kind of space in the bathroom to store the thing in its lid?

I’m with DungDaddy. Seeing things like this makes me want to slap someone. Gees, if you can’t hit the toilet, then go pee in the tub or the sink, which are even easier to “rinse off after each use.” After all, “It’s all pipes.”

I would have to agree with one product claim -- this would be an ideal thing to puke in (and it comes in three ugly colors).

Great comment! +1 point
Logjam (2360) -- 01.11.2008

Hey Richard, you want to make something useful, make a little disposable seat that I can attach to a urinal so I can more comfortably shit in it.

Postman (278) -- 01.11.2008

I don't know about that "Bowl Breeze" thing. How much would that thing cost? And if you can't stand the smell of shit, would'nt air freshener be cheaper?

Postman (278) -- 01.11.2008

Finally- after being a member for almost a year, I finally hit 100 points.

Great comment! +1 point
daphne (3433) -- 01.11.2008

I had two thoughts when looking at the urinal extender tube on the toilet.

1.) It scared me because I immediately thought of one of those horrid leech things from Peter Jackson's King Kong. There are only a few movie scenes that have truly wigged me out over the years, and the bug scene from King Kong was one of them.

There's one guy who gets eaten alive by these life-sized leech things grouped together at the edge of the water. When the last leech attached to his head so you couldn't hear him screaming anymore but knew he still was, terrified, in the dark, and now having his face eaten? Eek.

And it was so languid, the whole scene of him getting it. I'm creeped out now.

The urinal extender looks like it's going to come to life and SLLLUUUUURP intself onto someone's doinger, slowly pulling the person into the toilet while they scream to be rescued. It's too alien looking, too alive. I wouldn't get one.

No.

2.) What Dungdaddy said. What if a dude is really short? We walked by a guy out in public recently who was shorter than me, and I thought about him when looking at the picture above. If you're a short guy and go to a friend's house who has one of these, what if you're afraid to tell them that you can't toss your wang up in the little tube and don't know where or how to take the tube off?

I can only imagine the scene in my head. Some poor guy sensitive about his height doesn't want to tell his host or hostess that he can't reach the tube opening, so he tries various acrobatic lunges at it, groin first, hoisting himself from sometimes 3 feet away.

The bathroom is on the second floor, so every time he jumps, the light on the ceiling below him swings and little tufts of plaster float down on top of his friends' hair, who look up in confusion.

Back to Little Man. He lunges once more (because the magazine pile he previously tried to stand on slipped to the side and he wiped out) in a vain attempt to get the pee in the tube, and he ends up catching his underwear on the top of it. He falls on his ass, the tube lands on top of him, old pee that had coagulated around the bottom rim of the tube splatters everywhere, and he pisses his pants. He ends up in a neck brace in the emergency room stinking like asparagus with no explanation for his friends other than "it seemed like the only alternative at the time".

It's always fun when Dave does an email grab bag.


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prarie doggin (1708) -- 01.11.2008

Maybe it is the alcohol, but it looks like the cat in the hat fell into a toilet. I'll be alright tomorrow.

The Thunderous ... (656) -- 01.11.2008

Damn prairie you and I must have been drinkin the same shit because that was my first thought also. Frightening isnt it? Ah also you would have to be Kareem Abdul Jabbar to use that damn thing unless they have a platform for the average guy to stand on.
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The Thunderous Crapper 63 Enjoying home toilet advantage since 2004!

shitwit (537) -- 01.12.2008

As a drunken girl who would love to be able to piss standing up I think I'd try to piss in it while perched atop of it. um, yeah, or something like that. I think I'm a little further gone than prairie and the thunder.... it was a long day at work, and I drank way too many beers in a short time. I hope I'll be alright tomorrow. Now I just have to shake the vision of that cat-in-the-hat urinal out of my mind before I have nightmares!

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Rock-n-roll! Poopy-poo!

MSG (516) -- 01.12.2008

The invention that squelches the smell would not be welcome to me; my poop's smell helps to tell me whether my system is normal or not. Normally I don't make much smell when I poop; the odor is mild and recognizable. If I am in for a digestive upset, either the feeling or the smell can verify that. It is a sort of diagnostic tool. Afterwards, the smell dissipates quickly--by opening a window, if need be--so it needn't bother anyone else. The urine stack looks awful; I'll never buy it.

prarie doggin (1708) -- 01.12.2008

As far as the Bidet Spray, if I need to moisten my toilet paper, I'll hock one up into it. Works for me.

prarie doggin (1708) -- 01.12.2008

I do not like it on the can,
I do not like it on the stand,
I do not like that toilet hat,
I do not like it and that is that.

Great comment! +1 point
Logjam (2360) -- 01.12.2008

Prarie -- you nailed it with the Cat-in-the-Hat connection. And I was struggling till then trying to figure out where I'd seen the shape before. How appropriate that the shape is associated with a prankster.

Hey, here's another idea if you're a male have trouble hitting the toilet peeing while standing. Sit the fuck down.

prarie doggin (1708) -- 01.12.2008

I'm sure your subtle hint will be well received.

Hieronymous Bowels (122) -- 01.14.2008

I already own several portable urinals, but I use the more common phrase "empty Gatorade bottles." If your that worried about someone pissing on your bathroom floor just have them go in the backyard. Even more amusing than that, what I used to do when my girlfriend was monopolizing the bathroom, piss in the drainage tube that comes up out of the basement floor beside the washing machine.

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 02.03.2008

I got to this website looking for toilet reviews to help make an intelligent purchase.

It appears I accidently found the website where the human garbage of Society congregates....

prarie doggin (1708) -- 02.03.2008

AC, good luck with your search for a toilet. I'm sure you'll find one that will accomodate both your head and your ass.

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