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bidet seats

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 17:25:52 -0700

I also have the BB-1000 from Bio Bidet. It works great for my wife, kids and I. Much better than the Brondel which went into the trash can. Expensive lesson. The TOTO did not cut it either but glad we could try for free. Buy the Bio Bidet the first time..or another brand. The biffy was nice in Mexico but cold water was not fun.

I finally installed the

Anonymous — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:12:15 -0700

I finally installed the BB-1000 and love it! The wife loves it and can't stop telling her friends. For some reason they don't share the same passion! We found our at www.bidetservices.com. I believe we paid a little over $500 but shipping was free.

Sanitation

brad — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 18:06:25 -0700

Those may be hard to make up to US/UK sanitary codes, due to the nozzle being inside the bowl of the toilet. I know that even the non-toilet bidets that have nozzles inside them need to have special anti-backflow nozzles at the least. That's why not all have the water come up from below.

Bidets

Dianne — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:26:52 -0700

The most simple and effective bidets can be seen all over Turkey... there is simply a nozzle in the correct 'line of fire, as it were', in the body of the toilet pan, just below seat level at the rear of the pan.. it is operated by a tap at the side , water is channeled from the water supply nearest to the toilet/ bidet... I wish I can get one in UK !
Di

Bio Bidet BB1000 Rear Experience Report

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:43:46 -0700

After using the Bio Bidet BB1000 for almost a year, I can assuredly report that it performs all functions as advertised for both myself and my wife. She was a bit confused as to why we would want to buy an expensive toilet seat at first, but it was soon "love at first sit". The 'aim' is perfect for both of us, even though I am much taller than she. The remote control has handy settings to adjust how far the sprayer extends as well as temperature controls from cool to very warm. As a sufferer of several GI maladies, I find its 'whirly' mass of water very effective and comfortable at loosening stubborn constipation. I think that the BB 1000 offers the best combination of features and solid engineering compared with its competitors. It costs about $500 if you shop for it online.

Earth speculation

Anonymous — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 18:42:25 -0800

Love the cyclical history plot Brad mentions - it would be amazing to see the fleet and cylons arrive at a far future Earth where AIs exist. I wonder if the show would go out warm with a harmonious humanAI civilisation like that found in Iain M Bank's Culture novels (not come across them? get hold of them) Somehow I doubt it. What about the possibilty the colonial humans themselves are not quite what they seem? Could the Gods of Kobol actually be AIs sent from Earth to colonise the galaxy with genetically engineered hybrids? After all, how exactly do Viper pilots manage to outperform Raiders which are in essence AI ships?

Keep in mind that Sorkin was

Tom Galloway — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:39:31 -0800

Keep in mind that Sorkin was only associated (OK, wrote every episode) with West Wing through season 4. If you feel the show jumped the shark in season 5, that's not Sorkin's doing or responsibility.

I don't mean to denigrate Sports Night

brad — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:31:41 -0800

It was an excellent show. I classed the West Wing higher because it managed to deal with real and important issues and be entertaining at the same time. It was of course quite preachy, with the great danger of falling into overlong expository dialog stretches to bring the viewers up to speed, but it actually was able to do it. If we're going to have self-absorbed characters, let them be absorbed in the most important things.

I, too, have given up on Studio 60

famdoc — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 10:34:21 -0800

I am in complete agreement. As I watched last evening's ep, I was impressed with Matthew Perry's acting, but with little else. I found that I could care less about these self-absorbed people. The writing on this program is simply not evolving. You've gotta give people more than pretty faces (and, in last night's case, pretty boobs).

I disagree with you about one thing, however: Sports Night was superior to West Wing. West Wing jumped the shark in its fourth or fifth season, when it ran out of causes to wine about. It, too, persisted on the fine ensemble acting. Sports Night was a masterpiece in its brief run: we actually cared about the characters and both writing and acting were strong.

EVIEW AND INQUIRY I did my

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:38:16 -0800

EVIEW AND INQUIRY
I did my research and decided that I was between the Jasmin Toto washlet and the Biobidet 1000.

The only model I was able to test was the Jasmin. I am an average weight taller American woman and I could not get the bidet (fem wash) to hit anywhere near where it should. Sorry to be crude, but the closest it came to the right spot was my taint, which doesn't need the wash. I leaned in all direction and backed up so far I was sitting on the back, but nothing hit right. I was angry and sad when finished testing. I can only imagine is works for a woman if your parts are EXTREMELY close together.

I only recommend the Jasmin Jasmin Toto Washlet to short small bottomed women and less hairy men. The Jasmine perfect for rear cleansing (get a model with rear soft wash though! it is wider cleaning instead of one tiny stream). My husband complained that the pressure was not hard enough to clean the area completely, but it helped him relax, prior to going. He wanted to buy one just for this. It hit the rear spot perfectly for both me and my husband, a memorable pleasure! I felt cleaner than I have ever been, even cleaner than after showering.

In the end we will not be getting the Toto model, because the wand is not aimed correctly for the fem. area at all. It would need a second wand at a different angle and wider spray to hit the area properly. Has anyone tried both a Toto model and the BioBidet 1000? I am wondering if there is hope that Biobidet is designed for a larger woman with parts not so closely arranged. Purchasing something that you have never tried is hard to do....I have not found a place that will take a free return.

I am also now considering a manual model and read about the Biffy. It looks like it would be wide enough and something that I could rig to aim properly--but I loved the warm water and fear cold water!!!

Yes, I have used the

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 05:50:07 -0800

Yes, I have used the biobidet 1000 at my mother n laws home. I live in an apartment and couldn't install electric unit but went out and bought my self a BB-200 from Bidet Services. I love it, wife loves it. Can't wait to move because the bio bidet 1000 is the first thing to be installed!

Does anyone have rear

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:34 -0800

Does anyone have rear experience with the biobidet 1000?

Thanks for the info. I've

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 06:36:56 -0800

Thanks for the info. I've recently gotten into battlestar galactica, And my roomate, who thinks he knows everything, tried to tell me how earth ties into and relates to the whole series. He seemed to think he knew exactly how it all works, but when I looked online, I realized that nobody knows how earth ties into the new galactica, and speculation is rampant. Now I have some arguments to shoot back at my roomie next time we discuss the show!

Star Trek Inconsistency

Mark Niemiec — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:09:58 -0800

I think that the worst thing about the Star Trek shows is that the writers often act like hack writers in an episodic TV show, with no memory from one show to the next and no commitment to realism, rather than creators of a coherent, consistent universe (compare Babylon 5, or the new Battlestar Galactica). There are many other inconsistencies between episodes.

For example, they cannot decide whether the time stream is mutable (which happens in most cases), or a closed circle (which they did in the two-parter where Data's head is found buried in 19th century San Francisco).

They aren't consistent about their own measurement system; in Voyager, it is reavealed that Warp 10 is infinite speed, which is incosistent with the description of warp speed in the original series, and is violated by several episodes in the original series where the Enterprise hits warp 11 (and also the series finale of TNG, where future ships are capable of warp 13).

There ought to be an industry rule that requires writers for science fiction shows to have passed at least high school science courses. Physics (If you're in orbit, you will NOT crash if your engines go out). Biology (Having alien DNA added to your own will NOT make you grow claws overnight). Computer science (Unless everyone is running Windows, bringing a virus-infected PDA onboard will NOT infect every computer on the ship; you can't interface your computer with every million-year-old device built by long-lost civilizations in half an hour). Common sense (The most powerful weapon system ever devised by man or alien is the TRANSPORTER. Why has no body ever realized this? There are only vague hints of this, such as when Scotty beams the Tribbles into the Klingon engine room. How about beaming a grenade onto the enemy's bridge? The possibilities are endless.)

Granted, many B Sci Fi movies make these (and worse) mistakes, but I expect better from long-lasting and respecting series like Star Trek.

Not that debate

brad — Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:08:02 -0800

It is not necessary to get into the creation/evolution debate to answer this question about SF plots. Creationists also believe that Earth is the homeworld of mankind, and that we’ve been here longer than 3,000 years. And old-earth creationists while they might make whatever arguments about things they perceive as missing in evolution, don’t deny that life on Earth has been here a very long time, and primate life for many millions of years, and that it arose here.

DNA shows us we are all related, all the life forms on this planet. Most people think this is because of common ancestry, though some think it’s because of a common divine designer — but either way humanity is not from any planet other than this one.