My neighbour from over the road stopped me in the street and asked if I was any good at programming remotes. He said that the remote control for his Smart WC was playing up. It transpired that he can flush his lavatory cistern from a range of thirty metres. It could be that he's incredibly well-endowed, but it seemed a step too far technology-wise. I told him that I was useless at driving consumer electronics but I could lend him a big yellow plastic bucket if the flushing crisis became critical.