Torgen

They're suppositories. The rear end is the only place you're supposed to put them.

The ones omutsu.co.jp sells are like $70 at regular price, so if you're in that range or less I wouldn't be too worried about cost. People will figure out that there aren't economies of scale to drive prices down. (Or you could tell them that.) What kind of design are you using? The Japanese-style that goes around the waist then between the legs? Side-fastening like disposables? Some other thing?

Paper towels, shopping bags, and scotch tape.

While true, the content of the ads always seems to be targeted at the user, rather than the buyer, which always struck me as odd.

I did get them to respond, but the answer was that they won't ship overseas.

Oh my god... diapers with dragons on them. That is too awesome for words.

If your location is K-town, which is on Lake Huron... Kincardine?

I'd be surprised if sites like this were blocked in the dorm rooms. It wouldn't surprise me if computer labs had some kind of filtering, but even if they don't, would you want people seeing you reading this page in public? The X-Plus are way more absorbent than the Super, but you pay for it. If you expect to go a long time before being able to change, the X-Plus is the way to go. If you're only wetting the diaper and using a toilet for the messes, the Super is probably better because in my experience the Abenas aren't as refastenable as one might hope. I wouldn't buy a whole package of the smalls unless the store let you try one on to make sure they fit first.

Because they may not pay for international shipping? Or even accept non-Japanese addresses?

The Japanese ones have a single vertical tape at the back so you can tear down the sides, roll it up, and tape it shut. I don't think any North American ones do though.

http://www.peeyourpantsforthebrewers.com Getting people to pledge to pee themselves if/when the Milwaukee Brewers make the playoffs this year. Their methods page doesn't list diapers as an acceptable method, and they'd probably consider it cheating, but still... (This was mentioned on ESPN during Baseball Tonight, so I think it counts as 'in the news'.)

Since they still link to it off their front page, I assume they still own it.

They are made by Proctor and Gamble, and I'm pretty sure it's option #2. They have a clothlike cover and a velcro-y tape zone, no wetness sensor (but they do have a line down the middle so you can get it on straight), odor prevention, and a leak-trapping pocket at the back. I suspect you can get home delivery within Japan (other brands do that), but due to weight and size I doubt you can get them shipped anywhere else for a reasonable price.

I always thought the best wetness indicator was none at all. With a white plastic diaper, you can tell it's wet when the yellow shows through the plastic. Plus, I find the wetness indicators always change due to sweat even if I haven't wet yet.

I'm in Mountain View.

I don't know if I'd want a child trailer per se, but a cargo trailer for my bike would definitely work. That said, it would definitely be cheaper to take a cab a few times than to buy a trailer. (It's a mountain bike, BTW.) Apart from the extremely rare ferrying diapers from the UPS store, I wouldn't really need the trailer for anything else, since I live two blocks from the grocery store and usually just walk there. Of course, if there's somewhere that sells the Secure Care X-Plus that uses FedEx, that would work even better.

Both the UPS store and the UPS depot are further from my apartment than my office, so having them hold for pickup at either place doesn't help me.

I don't know any of my neighbours. UPS doesn't deliver to post office boxes, and the post office is too far away for me to get the diapers from there anyways. UPS isn't giving me the option. They're just proactively redirecting it to my office. I'm not going to abuse my company's generous sick day policy. I don't have one. I think UPS charges a ton for weekend delivery. The landlord would hold it if UPS would deliver it to the rental office. The problem is that UPS isn't getting here during business hours.

UPS has a problem with being unable to deliver things to my apartment complex before 5pm, which is when the Rental Office is open. (I tend to get home around 8pm, which is well after they show up.) This means that deliveries often hit the three attempt limit. Now they've decided that since I asked for one package (a DVD or something from Amazon) to be redirected to my office, that they can redirect all my packages to my office, sometimes before ever attempting to deliver it to my apartment. This is a problem because I don't drive, and it would be impossible for me to get a case of diapers home from work on my bike. On top of this, I have a shared office, so even if I get them shipped discreetly, I would have to deal with questions about what was in the large unmarked box. (Especially if I ask someone to give me a lift home to drop them off.) Now, I'm starting to run out of good diapers, and while I have some bad ones I can use for a while, I want to stock up again. However, with UPS being the way they are, I can't risk ordering anything online that UPS might be delivering. I especially want to try Secure Care X-plus, but they seem to ship with UPS exclusively. Nobody in my area sells them, and more to the point since I live so close to work and don't drive, I don't want to have to go somewhere in person. Anyone have any suggestions?

If they're just being made for disabled children, the economies of scale associated with regular baby diapers won't apply and they'll be as expensive as the youth sized adult diapers, modulo quality differences. If they're priced in line with other baby diapers, that means P&G expects (and/or is trying to encourage) a similar usage rate as their smaller sizes. which means children being potty trained later.

Since I know there's no way these will fit me, I can be all cynical and say this is a crass attempt by P&G to create a market where there didn't used to be one. Remember when there were only 5 diaper sizes? People got along just fine. Size 6 diapers were originally supposed to be for kids who weren't ready for potty training when they outgrew size 5. Now people probably use size 6 instead of even trying to potty train their kid when they pass size 5, and P&G is trying to cash in by making them think they need to wait even longer.

They reran this episode on Adult Swim last night and it had a scene I didn't remember seeing during the original Fox broadcast (they sometimes reinsert cut scenes) where one of Quagmire's replacement jobs is Joe's nurse and he's teasing Joe about his smelly doody during a diaper change.

http://youdontknowjack.com/node/106 "I'm going to read off seven names, and for each one, you have to tell me whether it's a sea on the moon, a brand of adult diapers, or both."

http://homestarrunner.com/sbemail164.html Strong Mad's suggestion for how to make Strong Bad appeal to a younger crowd misses one mark, but hits another. The only question is how they'll react to referrals from this site in their web logs.

My first thought on reading the phrase Baby Hotel was that it would be like a Maid Café, but a hotel instead of a café and the hostesses would be dressed like babies instead of french maids. Then I realized that even if you switched the hotel back to a café, the fact that I (and probably a lot of people on this board) would love that place doesn't mean it would be financially viable, even in Japan. A man can dream, though.