I couldn't give a flying shit.

Finally getting around to posting yesterday's photos that illustrate Japan's culture of mollycoddling its citizens was in fact just to pave the way for this... the holy grail of the Japanese Nanny State.

What follows is a picture of a poster up in the toilet at the office... that tells you how to take a shit. Really.



The Japanese reads, in creepily familiar, friendly language, "Line up your body with the water properly, okay?"

And the diagrams show... well... the diagram on the left shows a little shitman doing a backflip dive into the bowl, getting it wrong and splurging his little shithead on the pan. And the diagram on the right shows the same little shitman attempting the same backflip dive and scoring full points for accuracy as he then goes potholing up the u-bend.

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UPDATE

Aargh, I knew it was too good to be true. Apparently the poster was made by one of my non-Japanese colleagues, who wasn't impressed with the frequent occurences of collateral splatter left on the toilet. Still, it makes me feel like making my own signs and posting them up around Tokyo.