Practical uses for Twitter

[evwhore]

When you need TP for your bunghole. Fortunately someone was able to spare a square:

Last week, he found himself stranded in the third floor toilet of an electronics store in Akihabara with a soiled ass and no toilet paper. So he sent out this tweet: "[Urgently needed] toilet paper in the 3rd floor toilet of Akiba Yodobashi." Five minutes later,

Comments

[gunga_galunga]

Because using the phone to call the store and have them send someone would have been too 1999.

[el_jefe_rey]

This is a bad case of TMI, from the description to the situation. Did the article author really need to specify the man had a "soiled ass" in order for us to imagine why he needed toilet paper? The would-be wiper would prefer hundreds/thousands of people to know he needed TP instead of just one- (how about just the next person to come into the bathroom?) Perverse.

[evwhore]

Heh, this may not be the blog for you, then, but welcome anyway :-)

[el_jefe_rey]

Well, to clarify, it's not wrong that we know or pass it on. It's possible the guy could have just thought Twitter was the quickest way. I guess for me the 'public' tradeoff would have been too expensive (I don't even have a cell phone, so the argument is moot, really).

I was icked out by the "soiled ass" image somehow but I'm better now...

[el_jefe_rey]

Oh, and I love the screen capture from the Cornholio episode- I'm curious if you watched it 'when it was on,' reruns, DVD, or other?

[caged_ape]

Yay for Shitter! (erm....Twitter)