Flussshhhhhhh!

Did my duty this evening; house & garden check at Mr A's. Everything was fine, apart from needing a good watering.
I returned home to a Skype call from the man himself, who was excitedly showing off the hotel room in Osaka. More to the point, the toilet.
He and his roomy have played many a prank on each other on previous visits to Japan with various functions on the toilets; the legendary tale being Mr A ramping up the heated loo seat to maximum temperature and Noel getting a ring of fire!
What he wanted to show me today was the 'poo privacy' button. The Japanese are so embarrassed by making noises during their ablutions, that the toilets are fitted with an MP3 player which plays the sound of a toilet flushing (without the toilet actually flushing) to drown out the poopy noises.
Seriously?!