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Welcome to Kevin's English Room Podcast.
Hey guys.
Hello.
How's it going?
I did this on TikTok.
So someday I think you'll see it, audience.
But I want to show it to you as well.
I'd love to see that.
But we have to... Let's be respectful.
This person, okay?
Look.
A foreign tourist was spotted on a Japanesetelevision drinking めんつゆ as if it was a drink.
What?
Look.
めんつゆ.ストレートめんつゆ.
This lady is drinking it.
Oh no.
Like it's coke.
No.
I mean...
I understand that in different countries, you don't know what the fuck's going on.
You don't know if this is a drink or not.
But as someone who understands if this is a drinkor not, this is pretty funny.
That is pretty funny.
I mean, everyone makes mistakes, I understand.
But it's like, if you're drinking めんつゆ like adrink, man, was she okay?
I mean, isn't it too salty?
I know, right?
You notice it like instantly.
I mean, I thought... You probably thought it's acultural thing.
Wow.
This was a screen shot from スッキリなのかな?ジップなのかな?
One of those TV shows, isn't it?
Yeah, 情報番組 in the morning.
It was meant to be that, right? The show wasn'tmeant to be this.
No, no, no. It was meant to be...
It was actually なぜ岐阜が人気なのか特集
They were taking a footage of all the touriststhere.
And then some random guy on the internet spottedit and was like,
Yo, she's drinking めんつゆ!
Wow.
But actually, this surfaced...
The first time this surfaced was around, I think2019.
But only in some area of the internet in Japan.
But right now, globally, it surfaced recently.
And I'm like, yeah, it's pretty funny.
But like, I have to...
But, you know...
Well, yeah, I understand.
Shit happens, right?
I mean, mistakes happen, right?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we can't blame her, right?
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You can't read what's written on the bottle.
It's written in hiragana.
I can see some drink-looking picture.
That's true.
That's true.
The dip sauce, right?
Right, right, right.
It does look like it's in a drinkable cup.
Some mugicha or things like that.
I wonder if she drank the whole thing.
No, I mean, it's too salty.
Yeah.
But from the picture, it looks like she justbegan.
So like...
I wonder when she realized it.
We wanna know the experience.
Yeah, right.
Like, the whole story.
The whole story, right?
She may be claiming that drinks in Japan is toosalty.
Oh, yeah, she could be, right?
We never know.
She could still, you know, to this day, thought itwas a normal drink.
Yeah.
Or she just maybe finished it.
Yeah, without ever even questioning, right?
Yeah.
Wow.
Man.
And she looks casual.
Right.
She looks comfortable drinking it.
Yeah.
As if she's doing what she's meant to be doing,right?
She's all chill.
Right.
Yeah.
You know what?
In general, like those mentsuyu bottles, it'sdifferent from pet bottle.
You pull up and you need to pull the...
You gotta pop it open.
...thing.
Yeah.
So that's one of the hint, right?
That you could catch.
This could maybe not be a drink.
But, you know, maybe that's a cultural thing, too,maybe.
Right.
You know?
You won't...
Yeah.
You don't know that's the sign.
Right?
It's completely different.
You could think that, oh, in Japan, normal drinksare like this, too.
It's possible.
So.
Yeah.
I hope she's healthy.
I hope she's healthy.
Absolutely.
Because drinking one of those like shoyu and likethose things are very dangerous.
Oh, yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
Drinking the whole bottle, that's disastrous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Have you ever done something like this?
You know, you were in France.
You know, you didn't know.
You know?
I don't...
I think I didn't.
Or still, this is the idea.
I just don't...
Oh, yeah.
I noticed it.
Right.
I didn't notice it.
Right.
But...
Oh, yeah.
I was very confused when I first get inside of thebathroom.
Where...
In France, basically, they don't have the cover.
OK.
Of the benkei.
Yeah.
You know, the U-shaped, you know, the cover.
The U-shaped one?
And then, like, on the top of that, you have thelid?
On top...
The lid, obviously, you don't have that.
And the U-shape, you don't have that.
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Oh.
So, what you have is just the...
I don't know, the hontai, like a...
Yeah, the glass part.
That's it.
Oh.
That's it.
How do you use it?
I don't know.
Oh, it's still a mystery?
Yeah.
So, what I did was I wiped carefully and just satdown.
You sat on it.
The very thin, narrow rim.
But I don't know how...
What's the right way?
Well, first of all, like, they should have the lidand U-shaped cover, I think.
Were all toilets like that in France, or...?
Yeah.
Oh.
Well, it's stolen by people.
It's...
Yeah.
What, people steal that stuff?
Yeah.
Don't know why.
That's crazy.
So, I think first few days, they have them.
Just steal it first?
Yeah, yeah.
That's outrageous.
I don't know how they're going to use that.
Maybe they need it because somebody else stoletheir shit?
I don't know.
Maybe.
It's like an umbrella in Japan, you know?
Yeah.
Somebody else stole it, so I'm going to steal it,you know?
Yeah.
Because my house, like, host family, they have thelid, they have U-shaped ones.
Like, nobody...
Right.
The private homes, they all had it, but, like,public ones...
In high school, or, like, public places, they didn't have that.
It's stolen?
That's crazy.
It's very...
Yeah.
Yeah.
And they don't fix it as well?
Mm.
My gosh.
They don't.
Oh.
Okay.
So maybe I'm doing something, like, worth laughingat, maybe.
Yeah, maybe they have their way of dealing withthe problem?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
But, yeah.
Still, this day, I don't know what's the right wayto deal with it.
The toilet's tricky, I understand, because you don't get to see people doing it, right?
Yeah.
It's just, you don't know the right answer.
Right.
I'm still confused on the washiki toire.
Like, if I were to, let's say, take a shit, shouldI face this way or the other side?
You know, should I be facing the door or should I,you know, face the other side?
Yeah.
I still don't know.
I still don't know.
What's the correct one?
Do I face the dome or...
Dome, yes.
Oh, I face the dome.
Yeah.
But it doesn't really make a difference, no?
But, yeah.
When you pee at the same time, you need dome, no?
You don't?
You can just bend your dongle downwards, right?
Yeah, you can do that.
Right?
You can do that way, yes.
Like, if you're, even like the yoshiki toilets,when you sit down and pee, you gotta bend that dongle down.
Yes, yes.
Right? And then do it.
That's the same thing, true.
Same logic.
True, that's the same logic.
Right? It's just...
True.
Yeah, I don't, yeah.
So I'm like, either way, it really doesn't change.
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But you have the handle on the dome side, no?
Yes, you do have the...
You turn and you do that?
Right, but like, wait, so that means you're sayingthat you flush it while you're still bending down?
Yeah, I do sometimes.
But like, if you do that, it splashes onto you.
Isn't that a little dirty?
Not that much.
Okay.
What I wanna do is I wanna wipe it and then get itstraight.
And then right after I go out, I flush it.
So it's like, you know, the splash isn't comingonto me.
Okay.
True.
I see, I see.
Yeah, I sometimes do that.
Okay.
If it takes a long time and I want to, like, flushonce.
Okay, okay.
Reset everything.
Okay, I see.
And like, second half, like...
You know, plus, I think the demerit of facing thedome...
Facing the dome side, yeah.
Is that when you poop, the poop is further downthe road.
Yeah.
You know?
If I face away from the dome, it lands closer tothe downpipe.
True.
So you don't have to worry about the strength ofthe water pushing it down the sink, you know?
True.
Because it's closer.
Yeah.
True.
So, one thing to keep in mind.
Yeah, yeah, right.
I don't see Washiki Benjo recently.
I don't see them.
True, true.
Only in, like, the public bathrooms in, like, thepark and stuff like that, you know?
Yeah, true.
Park sometimes.
When I went to Shanghai Disney, went there twoweeks ago, half of the bathrooms were Washiki.
Oh, really?
Yeah, half was Washiki and half was Yoshiki.
At Disney, I was surprised.
I thought places like that, they all have, like,Yoshiki.
Yeah, true.
So it's not Washiki anymore.
True.
It's Chinese.
Oh, I didn't know they have that.
I thought it was Washiki.
We call it Washiki, so I thought it was a Japanesething, but...
It's like...
China has them, too.
Yeah.
Chuka.
Chu...
Chushiki as well.
I didn't know that.
Yeah.
I think the Chushiki didn't have a dome.
Yeah.
So now you really don't know which one to face.
So what do you have?
You have...
You have the exact same as the Japanese Washiki,but, like, without the dome.
Without the dome.
It's all flat.
And you have just the handle?
Yes.
Oh, so you...
I think there wasn't any handle.
I think it was just, like, a...
You'd sort of...
You put your hand in front of the sensor.
They have a sensor, but they didn't make itWestern style.
That's interesting.
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Oh, wow.
Yeah.
That was unpopular to the locals as well.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
If they find out that only the Washiki was open,they'd wait for the Yoshiki.
Yeah.
Makes sense.
Makes sense.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
Oh, I didn't know they have, like...
It was a surprise.
They have Washiki in China.
Yeah.
Right.
What they also had was in Shanghai.
If you go to departments, they have a lot ofdepartments.
Yeah.
They have very clean toilets.
So I used the departments in there.
And then one of the stalls...
Like, let's say they have six bathroom stalls,right?
One of them is a baby stall for babies.
Wow.
For, like, toddlers or kids.
So it's, like, very tiny.
Wow.
It's very tiny.
And that was interesting.
You know, only the kids' one was open one time.
And I used it.
And it was like...
It was like you're playing darts, you know?
Wow.
You gotta make it in the hole.
It was a little bit, like...
It was a little bit scary, you know?
Like, am I gonna make it in there?
Right.
What if I, you know, miss it?
Yeah.
They have the baby first.
I've never seen baby toilet.
Right. It's an experience, man. It's anexperience.
Wow.
I don't know if...
By locals, I should be using it.
But that was one thing that was open.
So I used it.
It was empty, right?
It was empty.
There was nobody to...
Right, right.
Yeah.
Wow.
It was an experience, man.
We've seen the binkies for, like, kids.
Yes.
Urinals, right?
Yeah.
You've seen it in Japan, but...
It's, like, lower.
Yeah.
We've seen the...
The toilets.
Yeah, baby toilets.
The baby toilets.
Wow.
Wow. Funny.
You didn't have, like, little ahiru...
ahiru san on...
Oh, no.
No, no, no.
Nothing like that.
It's a smaller version.
It was just smaller.
It's smaller to begin with.
So, like, you don't even need the ahiru supporter.
Yeah.
Everything was lower.
The toilet...
You know, the toilet paper position was lower.
Wow.
Yeah.
The squatting position, I had to go, like, muchdeeper.
Yeah.
Right.
That's funny.
And...
So at that time, I had to pee as well.
Wow.
You have to bend your dongle even more, like...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Even behind you, like, sort of.
Yeah.
So that was an experience.
That's funny.
That's funny.
Yeah.
I will be careful on the title on this one aswell, guys.
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah.
All right. Thanks for listening, guys.
Thank you.
Bye-bye.