Poems reduce toilet paper waste
January 28th, 2009 by James
A neat idea to save toilet paper:
Simply pasting a “toilet poem” at the eye level of a person seated in the cubicle can help cut toilet paper use by up to 20 percent, a study by the research center Japan Toilet Labo showed.
“That paper will meet you only for a moment,” reads one poem. “Fold the paper over and over and over again,” says another. Or just: “Love the toilet.”
Now the group is looking to have its posters displayed in 1,000 public toilets.
If you own a restroom and would like to put up some Japanese toilet poems, you can download printable sheets from the Japan Toilet Labo homepage.
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what a dumbass idea; pasting poems all over public toilets is also a fuckin waste of paper and ink
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But think about how much paper you can save by hanging ONE sheet of paper in a highly frequented public restroom for a while.
I’d say the saving largely outweighs the initial cost of the printed paper.
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I’m with Haf here; I think this is a great idea. Just as installing sound machines in women’s toilets has saved many cubic litres of water, this ‘poem in a toilet’ idea may save some trees. And talk about bringing the arts to the masses!
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I’ve just spotted the message — Love to a toilet? To a toilet, love? That one just defies translation. Beautiful.
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I have translated three of the poems. Translations may be incorrect, but they would show how they are like.
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Everyone wipes his ass.
Prime minister wipes his ass.
High school girls wipe their asses.
Wife and her mother-in-law wipe their asses.
Railroad workers wipe their asses.
Flight attendants wipe their asses.
You wipe your ass.
Next one wipes his ass.
Toilet paper is
common property of humanity
—————–
Loneliness of toilet paper
Nice to meet you.
Good bye.
The paper can meet you just for a moment.
It is a meeting for a moment of less than several centimeters.
As if you are reluctant to part,
folding many times, many many times,
Good bye,
Good bye,
Thank you.
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Complete crime
Waste of toilet paper
is accomplished like a locked-room murder.
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Okay, now I want these poems for my house — seriously. My kids can learn Japanese and a useful message, all at the same time.
And God knows, it’s all so true.
Will you please supply the original Japanese text?
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Mary:
The first poem Aki translated can be found at http://www.toilet.or.jp/toilet-6/poem/img/poem1.gif
And the second one is:
http://www.toilet.or.jp/toilet-6/poem/img/poem2.gif
The third one:
http://www.toilet.or.jp/toilet-6/poem/img/poem5.gif
Thank you! Copied and posted in their bathroom now!
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