janky (adj.) of inferior quality; held in low social regard; old and delapidated; refers almost exclusively to inanimate material objects, not to people.
We tried to pick up on these girls waiting for the bus, but I was driving my sister's janky 1989 geo metro so we just got laughed at instead.

10/4/2004

Gadget Helps Women Use Bathroom in Japan

First of all, the fact that anyone needs "help" to go to the bathroom (other than those with a physical impairment of some kind) has its own set of issues, but someone else can cover that topic. Toto, the company that makes the worlds most sophisticated toilets (a dubious honor) has sold, wait for it, a HALF MILLION units of their "Sound Princess" model. While using the bathroom, the sensitive individual activates a sensor which causes "water noises" to mask any other sounds which may be coming out from the stall.

Best part of the article is the quote at the end: '"I still haven't heard of men who say they want [Sound Princess] in men's rooms," said Goto. '

Read more: Yahoo! News

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