Jezebel: Toilet

Look, It's the Worst Bathroom Sign in the World!

Erin Gloria Ryan — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:45:00 EST

Bored with typical bathroom trope, one DC coffee shop has decided to skirt tradition and go with a mildly rapey bathroom sign that makes customers stop and say, "Wha?" More »

Woman Gets Her Engagement Ring Back 36 Years After It Fell Into A Toilet

Cassie Murdoch — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:30:00 EST

It's not often you hear a romantic story that involves a toilet, but here goes! A couple in Montana, Donna and Terry Claver, recently got the surprise of a lifetime when their engagement ring came back to them — almost by magic — 36 years after it went missing and was presumed dead. The drama began when Donna took her pink sapphire engagement ring off and set it on top of the toilet in their bathroom. The ring slid down into the bowl and somehow got stuck inside a hole at the bottom of the toilet. Donna and Terry tried to rescue the ring, but there was no getting it out of there without destroying the toilet — which they didn't want to do because they couldn't afford to buy a new toilet. More »

Doesn't Your Butt Deserve A $130,000 Crystal-Covered Toilet?

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:44:00 EST

No matter how great your holiday was, we can guarantee you didn't get the one thing you really needed: A $130,000 toilet encrusted with 72,000 Swarovski crystals. The Japanese company Lixil put the luxury toilet on display in its showroom earlier this month, and it isn't for sale. You see, this device is too wonderful to be hidden away in Kanye West's spare bathroom. "2011 was a really tough year for Japan, with the earthquake and tsunami disasters," says a company spokesman. "We wanted to do this to cheer everybody up just before Christmas." More »

The Rorshach Test For Princess Beatrice's Hat

Dodai Stewart — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:40:00 EDT

The royal wedding is over and done with, but Princess Beatrice's hat lives on in infamy! Since everyone has an opinion about her chapeau, and it's fun to play amateur psychiatrist, we present: What What You Think Beatice's Hat Looks Like Says About You. More »

A $6,390 Toilet For Your Precious Ass

Tracie Egan Morrissey — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:30:00 EDT

Kohler's new high-tech (and high-priced) toilet, the Numi, is a throne fit for a queen. Featuring a bidet, deodorizer and dryer, foot-warmer, automatic flush, speakers that allows the user to play pre-programmed music or FM radio, stainless-steal cleansing wand, and an "intuitive" auto open-and-close lid and seat that senses the potty-goer's very presence, it might be the most sophisticated piece of equipment into which anyone could ever expel excrement. More »

Guide To Bathroom Hygiene For Men & Women

Margaret Hartmann — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:56:00 EDT

Why are dudes so fast in public restrooms? They're less preoccupied with bathroom cleanliness — and this chart doesn't even include the time spent recoiling in horror at the state in which the last woman left the seat. Click to enlarge. More »

How To Toilet Train Your Cat

Margaret Hartmann — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:45:00 EST

Judging from this ad for the Litter Kwitter Toilet Training System, getting your cat to give up the litter box is easier than potty training a toddler. More impressive: teaching the cat to flush. [Random Good Stuff] More »

Have A Seat

Anna Holmes — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:10:00 EDT

[New York, September 17. Image via Getty.]

Global Conference On Loos May Lead To More Ladies Rooms

Dodai Stewart — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:30:00 EST

The World Toilet Summit and Expo begins in Macau today, and while a commode conference may sound funny, there are some serious issues on the table: Global sanitation concerns, for one, and the extremely urgent problem we've all experienced: Potty parity. More »

Gotta Go, Gotta Go

Maria — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:40:00 EDT

A court in Sweden rejected a woman's argument that she was forced to drive 53 mph in a 43 mph zone because she had a case of the shits. The court said that speeding was only acceptable in "cases of emergency," such as a danger to someone's life or to prevent a crime. [UPI] More »

Lily Allen's Looking Flushed

Dodai Stewart — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:15:00 EDT

Even Oprah Employees Aren't Immune To Serial Seat-Pissers

mcarpentier — Mon, 12 May 2008 13:00:00 EDT

All is not well in the land of Oprah. As O: The Oprah Magazine editor Lisa Kogan explains, female staffers at the namesake magazine of the daytime doyenne have a habit of pissing on the toilet seats, and one, in particular, is to urine-spraying what Jackson Pollock was to abstract expressionism. Nicknamed "The Tinkler", this indiscriminate urinator has, Kogan says, "turned me from a happy-go-lucky columnist into a bitter, paranoid germaphobe." But it's not just Kogan: Every woman working in an office has encountered a Tinkler, and there seems to be no way to stop her. More »

Expensive Shit

Jennifer — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:20:00 EST

Talk about literal expensive shit! This toilet is encrusted in Swarovski crystals. It costs $75,000. Naturally, it was created by an artist in that mecca of understatedness and sophistication: Hollywood, Florida. [Fashion Week Daily] More »