The Chaser Report - Extra - Transparent Toilets?

Episode Date: August 23, 2020

Public toilets with transparent glass have been installed in a park in Tokyo. Dogs must be walked twice per day according to new German law, and a small town in Switzerland has experienced a very strange phenomena called chocolate snow, in the middle of summer. Plus all the latest headlines you can't trust from Rebecca De Unamuno. 
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The Chaser Report, Global World International News Headlines Update with Rebecca Dayunamuno. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has been praised by News Corp columnists today after announcing he will be taking a three-week holiday to Hawaii in the midst of a national crisis. A representative of News Corp said that after he returns, Andrews should go and do a photo-op in regional Victoria and force everyone he meets to shake his hand. Former President Barack Obama has addressed the Democratic Party's National Convention, launching a verbal drone strike on Donald Trump, decimating him like he was an Afghan farmer and two of his brothers standing by a well.

Pauline Hansen has called for foreign-acquired cases of COVID-19 to be limited in favour of Australian-made cases. Ms Hansen called on scientists to develop an Aussie-made strain of the disease and said locally acquired cases should take precedence in any increase in the numbers. Hansen is pushing for a cap on so-called foreign COVID in favour of dramatically increasing homegrown infections. That's the latest Chaser News. Now here's a roundup of news around the world with Dom, Charles and Nina.

Thanks, Beck. Now it's time for... International Global News World Roundup. Now, Charles and Dom, I don't know if you know this, but Japan has recently installed several public toilets with a transparent glass in a park in Tokyo. At last, that is absolutely my fetish, looking at people, we. That's what I want to do, yeah. Only we, not number two's.

But just sorry, Dom, to disappoint you, but the toilets aren't completely see-through. They actually have smart glass that turns opaque when you're inside. Hang on, what if there's a power outage or something? Does it then just become transparent? I don't know. They didn't write about that in the article, but that's a good point to bring up.

And everything in public toilets are always broken. So I feel like this is a terrible, terrible idea. Because, you know, they can't even get the soap dispensers right. How are they going to get the transparent glass, opaque, thingy-making to work? Sorry, Charles, but we're talking about Japan here. We're not talking about Australian public toilets. We are talking about Japanese, which are superior, as we've all established.

I went to a change room, actually, in Tokyo. that has the same sort of thing where there's like some fancy boutique and the walls are glass of the change rooms and you go in and press a button and they turn opaque. Wow, how does it happen? Well, it ionises the glass or something and it just somehow changes the glass when you run electricity through it. But anyway, the point of the story is I found it incredibly exciting and arousing.

So I think people are going to love this. Yeah, and you're right, Nina. Japan is famed for its absolute perfection in everything. I mean, you know, they make great cars, they make great electronics, great nuclear power plants right next to the ocean. But that worked really well, didn't it? I was going to say, they're also giant perves, so this feels very in line with them.

It's an upskirt toilet, right? Great. But the toilets, they actually are made by an award-winning artist, and they serve two functions. So the first thing is they help people know whether the toilet they're using is clean inside, because you know how many times you've used a public toilet and gone in just been like, yuck.

Yeah, we're men. Yeah. Every time. And the other thing is, the smart glass, with the smart glass, people can tell if there's someone already inside the toilet. So, you know, and sometimes you're in, you go into a toilet and there's someone like hiding in there, trying to do some weird stuff. I mean, I understand why that would be very concerning for women, potentially, but there are people who very much enjoy going into public toilets and meeting other people. Let's just put it in those terms, including some prominent broadcasters. Yes, yes.

Who I can't go into detail about. No. Who have recently left their job. Let's just say that some people make social visits and they'll be very disappointed by this new technology. Well, they don't just serve the purpose of being toilets, though. They also light up at night in different colours, the glass panels. And it looks like a beautiful lantern.

So it's like vivid. You go around and you look at all the different toilets. There are a lot of works vivid that I've wanted to do a dump on, actually. That makes all the same. It's vivid, shitty. Does that work? I don't know. I would.

It's Japan. It probably works fine, isn't it? Unless there's an earthquake or something that takes the power out. Would there be earthquake proof? I think, earth cake. Sorry, earthquake is what I'm doing? Do you know when I was in Japan, I experienced an earthquake, and I was on the toilet. And I thought I was going to, I was like, this is it.

I'm going to die taking a shit. Like this is. Oh, wow. This is the way I go out. But at least you got to go, you got to go doing what you loved. Yeah. Is Australia not doing enough for the public toilets as art sector, do you reckon? How can we make Australian public toilets more beautiful?

Cleaning them occasionally? Fair enough. Anyway, now let's head to Germany where dog owners all over the country will be forced to walk their dogs twice a day thanks to a new law called the Dogs Act. Who wrote this law? A dog? No.

Surprisingly, it was the country's agricultural minister, Julie Klochner, who was introducing the law based on studies that indicate Germany's 9.4 million dogs are not getting the exercise or stimulus they need. Look, I'm very supportive of this law. I think dogs should be walked, you know, as much as they need to be. Like, you know, like if you're going to own a pet, you should look after them nicely. Oh, absolutely. I do think this...

But what if it's raining? Like, I sort of feel like there needs to be exhibitions in this legislation. Well, easy solve for that. Dog umbrella. I mean, I was going to say, when it's raining and the kids have to do exercise, we just put on Just Dance. Could you have that for sort of dogs? Like a Nintendo Switch game where they shat on the carpet.

Like a dog dance revolution. Yeah, exactly. I think what we need, don't use the stick. Use the carrot. What we need everywhere is beautiful, transparent glass doggy toilets to change color and you press a button in it and it's translate. And I would love to take my dog to that. But having heard this story, though, like I walk the dog usually

and pretty much religiously twice a day. I wouldn't know how you get out of doing this. Like, the people who are preking, I'm not making any sense. Yeah, no, I agree. Like, don't all dogs get walked twice a day anyway because they've got a poo? No, apparently not. Apparently there's a lot of bad German dog owners. And they eat German food, so they only go to the toilet about once a week anyway.

Yeah, I guess so. Don't have any fiber. Yeah, that's true. A lot of potatoes. But apparently people say, like, they don't have time to walk the dog or, like... Don't get a damn dog. Well, I mean, now it'll be a law.

I also really think it's funny, like, is the dogs act a good title? That's a dog of an act. Because it sounds like dog act to me, which is a bad thing. Maybe it should just be the doggie style act or something. I think it should be called the law for good boys. I think it is funny, though, to me,

Like because Germany, it really is indicative of how well Germany's handle the coronavirus that they are making this law instead of having to deal with COVID stuff. Yeah, although I'll tell you what, if this law was brought in into Melbourne, it would actually, it would be illegal. To follow the law, it would actually be illegal. Because you're only allowed to go out once a day in Melbourne. So you'd have to break the law in order to follow the law. Well, did you know when France was in lockdown with police and stuff,

one of the reasons, like a legitimate reason, if you were out walking your dog, police wouldn't stop you to ask what you were doing because they could clearly see that you were taking your dog out for a walk. So in some cases, the only way people could get out of the house was to bring their dogs out. And then they had a friend that wanted to go for a walk

but didn't have a dog. They'd bring the dog to their friend's place. Well, it's definitely true that when I was in ISO wedding on my test results for COVID, I took the dog for a very, very long walk because it says, oh, you can take the dog for a walk. That's the only thing you can do to leave the house. So you can borrow my dog Charles next time you'll

So that's why you became a super spreader Thanks Dom Cause the outbreak And that's what I call a dog act Anyway now let's head to a little town called Alton in Switzerland Who have experienced a very strange phenomena Called chocolate snow

In the middle of summer And I realise it kind of sounds like the phrase Yellow Snow Which is what happens when an animal Pees in the snow Yeah he had animal Let's call it that When Dom pees in the snow

But there is that phrase right never eat yellow snow. So with that in mind, can you guess what chocolate snow is? It's not poo snow, is it? Is it? No, it's not. Okay. Well, it's Switzerland.

It's clearly some amazing lint chocolate factory or something. It literally is. Is it really? Hang on. Yes, chocolate snow is literal chocolate snow. So it was because there was a malfunction at the Lint factory, and it caused the cocoa to become airborne. There was some problem with the ventilation.

So all these bits of cocoa became airborne. They travelled on the wind and they fell in a nearby town. Are you kidding me? I was actually right about it being lint. Yeah. It was literally the lint chocolate. Now, there are pictures.

This feels like a completely non-2020 story. I know. There's no... I'm in chocolate snowed from the sky. I mean, I've had dreams for years where I got to eat chocolate snow, although that was the other kind. Well, but would you eat this snow?

There are pictures of it, and you can see it looks. like real snow. Keep in mind, it is the middle of summer, so it's not, it's not mixed in with actual snow. But it does have that thin kind of snow layer, like a brown, a layer of brown on cars and trees and stuff. Except that being that it's in the middle of Europe, it would have snow, chocolate and acid rain, wouldn't it? And unfortunately, I live right near Dom, which means that anything brown is usually his dog's poo that he hasn't picked up. So I think I'd steer clear. Yeah, well, that's, that's the right choice. The answer is you actually shouldn't

eat it because the snow has brought environmental and health dangers to the town of Alton. So chocolate snow, though it sounds like a utopian, Willy Wonka, beautiful time, it is actually part of the 2020 narrative and is destroying the environment. We can't even have

nice things that are chocolate snow. No. Anyway, that's all we have time for today. But thanks for listening. Check out more episodes at chaser.com.com You slash podcast. And give us five stars on iTunes. Thank you.