Taking a dump in a non-western style toilet: C or D

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Travelling can be a bitch sometimes... especially when you got to take a dump and the only thing available is a hole in the floor that flushes.

― true pretenders, Friday, 26 November 2004 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I do it all the time. It has its advantages:

1. Cleaner
2. More sanitary
3. Faster
4. Builds flexibility and certain leg muscles.

Classic.

― supercub, Friday, 26 November 2004 01:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Supposed to be better for your insides too, I hear.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:13 (twenty-one years ago)

although sit-down style is nice too. I can read or sit and just think.

But it's easy to spend way too much time on the crapper. Sometimes I hide from work there.

― supercub, Friday, 26 November 2004 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

...a hole in the floor that flushes.

flushes?! now that's almost verging on the "western style", dude!
"non-western" holes-in-the-floor dunno flush nohow, by definition.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:22 (twenty-one years ago)

how can a hole flush?

― scout (scout), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

heh, ask them true pretenders.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not just, like, a dirt hole in the floor.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.voreshule.dk/toilet/pics/2002_02_thai2.jpg

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

but what if you need to pee at the same time?

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:42 (twenty-one years ago)

You manage.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i hope so!

― Slump Man (Slump Man), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Otherwise, you hire a freaky little Thai girl, and pee on her.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Now, see, I would just figure out some way to sit down on that. That looks like Hemorrhoid Central. (the photo, not the Thai girl)

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, like you're not supposed to sit on that? I don't get it. Don't people splash everywhere?

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

You manage.

you might even manage two-directionally: spurting yer pee at a tangent to yer poo. (a contra: wet floor to walk over afterwards)

(gross-post)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:50 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost There are these little foot pads on either side.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

ihttp://www.cybercentric1.com/Images/Thailand_Taipei_images/Standard%20Thai%20toilet.JPG

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I've made up my mind. DUD.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:52 (twenty-one years ago)

eww

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"foot pads" my arse

(gross-post)

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm having real trouble buying the proposition that these are more sanitary. It looks like you might accidentally shit on your feet.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:56 (twenty-one years ago)

GOD HELP THE MAN WHO DRANK A LOT OF WHISKY LAST NIGHT!

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Obviously nobody who uses those things has ever had the aerosol shits.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 November 2004 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Correction: whoever designed those things has never had the aerosol shits.

― I Am Curious (George) (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

perhaps they have better diets than those who do.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

GOD HELP THE MAN WHO DRANK A LOT OF WHISKY LAST NIGHT!

god 'elp to stitch up the bladder of teh man who drank a lot of whisky last night... (oi-oi-oi, perish the thought)!

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I am never leaving home again.

― Apparently now known as (o )( o) (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:10 (twenty-one years ago)

wherever one taketh one's dump is one's home. apparently.

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You might not miss your target, but the guy that used it before you could have.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Friday, 26 November 2004 02:56 (twenty-one years ago)

like THAT never happens with sit down ones. show me a gents with no piss on the seat and i'll bet you're the guy who cleaned it.

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

there's a bag there to collect the TP (from yer bunghole)!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The toilet in that picture looks very clean.

You might think that a loose bowel movement would spray wide and far, but actually it still lands in a pretty contained area.

I've used this kind of toilet many many times, and I've never 'missed'.

― supercub, Friday, 26 November 2004 04:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to work for the passport office and so we had people of every imagineable nationality coming to our office and thus, using the facilities (before we locked them to be staff only anyway). Seems some presumably thai or other asian people used to these kinds of loos went to use the normal throne ones we had - and , well, perched their feet on the seat, as they would with the floor level loo.

We had footprints on the seat you see. More than once.I still cant work out how the person didnt fall off.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:05 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AD8Y-HYS/kitanai_e.htm

― J (Jay), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i read somewhere that when the USA took in lots of vietnamese refugees during the late 70s/early 80s, the government had to train them how to properly use an american-style toilet. as in, SITTING not STANDING on the seat.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~AD8Y-HYS/movie.htm

― J (Jay), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:10 (twenty-one years ago)

the government had to train them how to properly use an american-style toilet. as in, SITTING not STANDING on the seat.

well of course. I mean I would've sat on the toilet up there. maybe.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 26 November 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

my wife claims to have seen an indonesian woman crouching and shitting DOWN THE SHOWER plughole at a confusing western toilet in Java.

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:39 (twenty-one years ago)

and i've been to toilets where people would rather shit outside the toilet cubicle than dare its horrors.

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

also go to somewhere like dehli and you can witness the open air gents which invoves a common enough western style trough...with NO building housing it.

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 07:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I would be so massively constipated while touring these countries. . .

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 26 November 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

a slight mistake in hygene and you wouldn't!

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i like squat toilets tho'. i've been in ones where theres a beautiful frsh mandi to scoop out cleaning water and clean yourself with fish swimming in it.

(no one has mentioned the absense of toilet paper yet)

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 09:03 (twenty-one years ago)

what's a mandi? poor fish.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 26 November 2004 09:18 (twenty-one years ago)

a much more complet evacuation is possible.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

great. i'm about to go to southeast asia and now you're making me weary of bowel movements.

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 26 November 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

a mandi is like a big tub sometimes made of concrete that has a shit load of water in it for you to scoop out and wash yer bum with.

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

rob don't worry go with the flow.

― bulbs (bulbs), Friday, 26 November 2004 11:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Clean your ass with a fish!

― Apparently now known as (o )( o) (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

You guys have not been to the non-western style *women's* toilet because WOMEN CANNOT AIM and there is piss everywhere. God I hate the train stations.

DUD DUD DUD

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 26 November 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

AND THEY NEVER PUT THE SEAT BACK UP!

― Apparently now known as (o )( o) (Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 26 November 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Egyptian newspaper : office from hell : no toilet paper, just a battered metal bowl hanging from a chain : you scoop water from a bowl and pour it on your ass to clean.

Or you wait till you scurry back to your lovely western hotel.

― stet (stet), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

no wonder those muslim fundamentalists are so pissed off ... they have no decent toilets and NO TP!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

OH YEAH, the other great thing about many non-Western Japanese public bathrooms is that there is no toilet paper in the stalls and NO SOAP by the sinks. I can deal with BYOTP but for the love of God LET ME WASH MY HANDS.

― Laura H. (laurah), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

shit load of water

Nice.

So is everybody walking around over there with either wet asses or faint stences of shit following them around? lovely.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Friday, 26 November 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

most everywhere in china outside the major cities, the ladies toilets i have to use are just one big trough in the ground, with little partitions, but NO DOOR. so everyone walking past to use a partition further down can see you squatting down. oh the indignity!

so i tend to use the very last partition if poss, though that one is bad for another reason (the sewage is often kinda stuck at that last one).

― lydia, Saturday, 27 November 2004 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

someone who had mentioned china to me mentioned pigs too...?

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

thing is...people who use non western toilets are not savages. i'm pretty sure they care about hygene, people pissing on areas they have to use, having a wet arse etc. it works for them. they have always used it.

go to any public toilet, western or otherwise...it can be disgusting.

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:17 (twenty-one years ago)

at least with trough/hole in the grounds, my bum doesnt have to go near any dirty toilet seat.

anyway.. pigs?

― lydia, Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:38 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah a friend returning from china claimed to have used a toilet where there were pigs snapping at the runoff

― bulbs (bulbs), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:41 (twenty-one years ago)

For two days now, every time I have looked at the New Answers board, this thread has been at number two.

― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Poo sells, man.

― Pears can just fuck right off. (kenan), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:46 (twenty-one years ago)

How do you keep from shitting on your pants in one of these things? Even if they're around your ankles, it still seems like they're in the "field of play".

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 27 November 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

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