>>>>>>Since it is usually customary to face the person while speaking to them, that would mean they would be in front of you -- hence "forward"...
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>>>>>Flashback is not automated yet. On each camera it points forward. You can get it only if you buy an external one... and even that you have to turn manually.
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>>>>Due to the phonetics in Japanese, the transliteration of "flash" and "flush" end up being identical ( フラッシュ ) ,,, Obviously this does cause some confusion -- are we talking about a WC or a camera?
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>>>I wouldn't go anywhere near a toilet where flush has a reverse.
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>>Isn't it funny how backups are highly undesirable for toilets and sinks, but a really good (if not essential) thing for computers?
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>>Similarly strange is even for a non-computer literate person, the term "dumping core" sounds bad. Occasionally have been ased if I was a proctologist because I'd mentioned something about examining core dumps to diagnose a problem...
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>A while back I was looking to buy a shop vac. After researching on-line, I ended up getting a unit that everyone said really sucked.

Many years ago back when I was at university, there were a several DEC VAX computers used for the Unix computer labs. Frequently posted on the wall in those labs was a full-page advert from the newspaper (Los Angeles Times) that a department store (IIRC it was Sears) ran when they started carrying a brand of vacuum cleaners from Europe. In large bold type it read "THIS IS VAX. IT REALLY SUCKS." We all got a good chuckle out of that one (mostly the Unix guys -- as they were the ones that posted it. Such a sense of humour was often lost with the "IBMers" that would often get bent out of shape if anything was ever said about their beloved systems.).