You’ll have days where you look in the mirror and not recognize the person you see staring back at you, days when your identity feels like a puzzle that’s missing half its pieces. Today is not that day. Today, you know exactly who you are. You’re Academy Award winner Frances McDormand and you’re drinking wine on a…
Remember when your mom told you that a snake would come up and bite you if you sat on the toilet too long? If that's not a cautionary tale you grew up with, try this one on for size: Employees at a San Diego PR firm were terrorized by a snake that slithered out of their toilet this week.
Sharing a fun story is a great way to break the ice in social situations, but it's unlikely that Livia Davis will be sharing the story of her birth with friends any time soon. First, because she can't yet talk; and second because she was delivered right into a toilet.
The answer is prostaglandins. These are the chemical signals girls' and women's bodies make and send to the uterus to tell it to contract, thus expelling the uterine lining at the end of the menstrual cycle. Prostaglandins aren't super picky about whom they talk to, however. If the body sends enough of them to the…
Asswipes are all the rage right now. All the big toilet paper companies — from Charmin to Cotonelle to Scott — are manufacturing moist wipes, in an effort to clean up shit-smeared American heinies and keep skidmarks at a minimum. The problem? Sewer systems are getting completely jacked up.
Imagine, for a sweet, fleeting moment, that you're a Very Important Person at Coachella. Maybe you're Lindsay Lohan or Audrina Patridge and you've had one Luna bar too many. Now you feel an urgency, which, since you're a VERY IMPORTANT PERSON, should mean that you get to stroll off to a quiet little water closet…
Don't you just love modern conveniences? Drunken nights and certain New York neighborhoods aside, for the most part, we have progressed past pissing and shitting in the street. The toilet and the sewer system! A thing of beauty. Neat, quick, clean disposal of the excrement and detritus human existence is plagued by.…
Much unlike many a magazine editor who recommends you buy all sorts of crap that they most likely got for free, your Jezebel staff doesn't get jack shit (other than books, unsolicited). And that's how it should be. But on our own time, in our personal lives, we still buy stuff. So this is Worth It, our recommendation…
So, you've got to blow some noisy stuff out of your butt, but you're in a public restroom—or worse, you're at a date's house and he or she is within earshot of the bathroom door. What do you do? Well, now you jut pull out the Eco-Otome, press the button, and you have 25 seconds in which you can make all the noise…
This Yorkie has developed an pronounced flushing toilet phobia and I think it's best if we don't ask why...but since we're here anyway, watching this poor, deranged creature bark into the echoing chasm that modern plumbing has opened in its otherwise serene home, what do you think upsets poor puppy so much about the…
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?"
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…
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…
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.
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…
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.
[New York, September 17. Image via Getty.]
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.The ratio of female to male cubicles in public toilets will be…
