It has always seemed bizarre to me that we're supposed to shit next to where we brush our teeth. It's always seemed similarly bizarre that the tub - the place we relax, hang out, bathe our children and get clean - is inches away from a device that spends its existence coated in fecal coliform.
I've long admired Japanese bathing arrangements - the "bathroom" is a communal room where everybody gets clean and there's another "pooping room" somewhere else. But Americans just don't roll that way.
I'm buyin' Kira's book. I don't care what it takes.
PS. One of the subreddits I moderate is /r/foodforthought. Have done for like 5 years now. I notice there's a bunch of stuff that tends to drift from there to here. So I'm just gonna call it. Behold a new tag. Subscribe and use with reckless abandon.