Comments for Get Your Kids Addicted To Gambling At An Early Age With The Jack Potty Training Seat

Get Your Kids Addicted To Gambling At An Early Age With The Jack Potty Training Seat

2009-01-30T06:42:15Z

Reader Jay sent us this link to a training potty with a built in slot machine that goes off whenever it detects a "deposit."

]]> It's probably not a good idea to introduce your kids to gambling at such an early age, but what really bothers us is associating the slots with a basic part of life, conditioning kids to want to gamble on the toilet. Do you really want your son spending an hour in the bathroom playing online poker on his iPhone?

Comment from Cameron Malek on 2009-01-31

2009-01-31T09:08:24Z

Every time I use the toilet, it's a gamble. FOLKS! C'mon.

Comment from AtomicPlayboy on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T23:42:47Z

Damn, I'm heading to Vegas in a few hours. I wish I had known about this thing, as it would provide a much better outlet for the slot-machine-pooping activity that gets me arrested every time. Next time.

Comment from ElizabethD on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T22:56:00Z

Well, if that thing could get my granddaughter to use the potty seat for #2, I'd buy it.

Comment from ThickSkinned on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T21:45:40Z

Is this really that bad? It's not like the kid is taught to shoot smack after dropping the kids off at the pool.

Comment from Hamtronix on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T21:18:58Z

This is brilliant!! If I had kids or my cat could crap in the toilet I would be all over this.

Comment from HogwartsAlum on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T21:05:43Z

@Gene Gemperline:

WIN!!!!!

Comment from Alex Chasick on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T20:36:26Z

@BathroomDuck: Well done.

Comment from Baccus83 on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T20:02:40Z

Anybody else worried about the terrible Pavlovian Response this is bound to create as the child matures?

Comment from redskull on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T19:43:26Z

That kid's gonna be in trouble when he grows up and goes to a casino and tries to take a crap on a real slot machine.

Comment from Wormfather is Wormfather on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T19:40:07Z

"to want to gamble on the toilet. Do you really want your son spending an hour in the bathroom playing online poker on his iPhone?"

It's funny you would say that because a Congressman used similar language to pass the "Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act", outlawing transfering of money to and from online poker accounts with one congressman citing the fact that a person could play poker in the bathroom (oh the shame).

What really killed me was that:

1. UIGEA, criminialized poker but legalized Horse betting and lotteries online.
2. The bastards snuck it into the Safe Ports act so that no one would stand up to it. "A vote no, is a vote for terrorism."

Fucking polititions, too stupid to figure out how to tax it so they outlaw it.

Comment from FuryOfFirestorm on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T19:37:25Z

"'Loosest' slots in town"?

I see what you did there...

Comment from NotChoinski on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T19:07:01Z

@BathroomDuck: BAR BAR BAR still trumps everything else.

Comment from boxiom on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T18:49:32Z

If the kids facing the other way, how is he supposed to grab the lever and rip that bitch.

Also, this seems like something Michael Jackson would have had in his closet for the little boys and girls.

Comment from reuvenb on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T18:45:03Z

A slot machine going off while using the toilet? That would scare the crap out of me.

Comment from EBounding on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T17:44:20Z

I think it sends a good message by saying gambling is just like throwing money down the toilet.

Comment from jusooho on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T17:34:16Z

@emptydarkone: haha I get it, you mean like poop

Comment from Warbo on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T16:41:09Z

Atlantic City and Vegas should have this in their bathroom toilets.

Comment from David Markland on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T14:56:25Z

Ironically, the target demographic of slots players wear Depends.

Comment from richcreamerybutter on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T12:49:35Z

This is also great for "runs" of luck.

Comment from richcreamerybutter on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T12:46:25Z

The Golden Nugget (or Kin no Unko if the child is Japanese)!

Comment from Chris Dougher on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T11:40:51Z

@alphafemale:
No I agree with puddle. It is certainly a dumb choice of product integration, but I wouldn't get my underwear in a knot over it. I had a toy slot machine/bank when I was a kid and I saw it as just that: a toy. I didn't grow up with some weird desire to gamble instead of save because of it. Conditioning kids to gamble on the toilet? I hope that's a joke and that my sarcasm alarm is broken.

Comment from christoj879 on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T11:28:07Z

@albear: They make one, it's called Little Green Men.

Comment from Eyebrows McGee (now with more baby!) on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T09:04:42Z

Grossest tag ever!

Comment from Feminist Whore on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T08:53:01Z

@puddleglum411: Typical clueless comment from a consumerist reader. Yawn.

Comment from Ratty on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T08:50:18Z

Wait, you guys better retract anything bad here.

"Adapter seat removes to fit an adult toilet"

That means we can have fun too!

Comment from emptydarkone on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T08:34:16Z

Either way, the odds of winning are pretty shitty...

Comment from albear on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T08:22:54Z

Hey IGT take note of this and make an adult version! :)

Comment from Anonymous on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:56:49Z

Honestly, do you truly believe that a child who just learning to use a potty is going to understand what a slot machine means to larger society? By the time that kid grows up he'll have been exposed to LOTS of things that go "ding" when he does something good, and none of them will turn him into a gambler.

Comment from edebaby on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:54:40Z

Teach them early; when you play the slots, you're money goes down the toilet.

Comment from Ratty on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:51:29Z

This could make for interesting conditioning leading to a very bad 21st in Vegas.

Comment from Shadowfire on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:43:53Z

@dohtem: It's true what they say... when you gamble, even when you win, you lose.

Comment from zark169 on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:36:29Z

@puddleglum411: To be fair, it certainly is an ill-conceived product.

Comment from puddleglum411 on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:25:37Z

Typical Consumerist overreaction. Yawn.

Comment from dohtem on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:18:06Z

@BathroomDuck: And when it backs up, JACKPOT!

Comment from BlondeGrlz on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:06:00Z

Another example of "clever punny name is not the same as good product".

Comment from Coles_Law on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T07:04:41Z

They got the order backwards. Playing slots gets you crapped upon, not the other way around.

Comment from stenk on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T06:59:17Z

@valarmorghulis: Oh! Well said! LOL

Well at least you can be certain it won't be Holdem!!

Comment from sumgai on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T06:55:40Z

I think this is to prepare kids to become adults who sh%t their pants when they blow a month's entire paycheck on the slots.

Comment from valarmorghulis on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T06:52:10Z

@BathroomDuck: That might still be better than the one-armed bandit taking all their shit!

Comment from ovalseven on 2009-01-30

2009-01-30T06:48:09Z

A craps table would've been more appropriate.

Sorry.