Toilets of the World
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@NashBrydges said in Toilets of the World:
@scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:
@travisdh1 said in Toilets of the World:
@scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:
@travisdh1 said in Toilets of the World:
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@Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:
are those squat style? how do you keep your pants clean?
I literally have no idea. There are never hooks to hang up your pants, either. I've really checked. I truly cannot figure out how to use them.
You have to be bendy, or use the handicapped stall, I'd probably have to at this point, yeah, bad joints. I've never experienced one myself, but wouldn't you're pants hide the things from view and be out of the way?
There are never stalls when you find these. They are normally in the middle of a giant room, nothing to grab onto anywhere.
Well, that doesn't make sense then.
I know, right? I've spent some time trying to figure this out.
Looks like this is the SFW how-to.
Looks reasonable until they show this...
http://www.thailandclimbing.com/media/how-to-use-a-squat-toilet5.jpg
Um, that's not at all what squatting on one of those is like. Not only do normal adults not bend like that, but his center of gravity is WAY behind his feet. This only works if his ass cheeks are resting on the foot rests!
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This picture clearly shows him throwing bucket water directly onto his pants.
http://www.thailandclimbing.com/media/how-to-use-a-squat-toilet7.jpg
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Even that article mentions the need to hang up your pants across the room!
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This one leads off with "find a place for your pants" as well. But there being no clean place to put pants is a pretty standard problem.
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not only are they delusional that there is a place to put your pants, they expect you to be BAREFOOT in these nasty places?
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yeah - I'm totally lost. it's almost like they are there for show.
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All of these sites seem to have access to luxury squat toilets that are nothing like what I've found even around Milan.
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@Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:
yeah - I'm totally lost. it's almost like they are there for show.
Except they tend to be in places where that doesn't make sense. Like a train station.
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@scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:
@Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:
yeah - I'm totally lost. it's almost like they are there for show.
Except they tend to be in places where that doesn't make sense. Like a train station.
i was kidding.
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There is no kidding with squat shitters.
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@scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:
There is no kidding with squat shitters.
Been there, did not do that, in Japan.
Held it until I found a modern shitter.
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@JaredBusch said in Toilets of the World:
@scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:
There is no kidding with squat shitters.
Been there, did not do that, in Japan.
Held it until I found a modern shitter.
That's what I've done.
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to put a bit of context, what @scottalanmiller found here, in Italy we call it "turca", litterally "turkish" (toilet).
This was (is?) the default in Turkey. In 38 years in Italy I've met them less then 10 times. never in a house, mostly in the 80s in public places close to highways.
main rational for them: you have not to touch anything to pee or poo just hang on your feet. anyway never pooed in... don't know how to manage it!
other rational: you just need to throw acid or similar on the floor to clean. nothing else.
don't know how turkish people manage it with childern. Also don't know what GPS navigator @scottalanmiller uses to hit them all!
definitively a strange kind of toilet.
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When I went to Canada I got the nastiest surprise ever, its you people (US and Canada and near that area) that are never clean, you expect to keep using toilet paper for everything, well that NEVER WORKS.
And no where I live in Middle east we do not squat or use any of those stuff, we use shattaf/Bidet
It looks like this:
It just water faucet that you use manually, when you finish and you get clean. I was very surprised that this invention was not found in Canada... think this is how the MENA region and Europe works, some have this instead:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bidet_side.jpg/170px-Bidet_side.jpg
But its more costly and takes more room, thus in MENA we like cheap workarounds so we use the Shattaf. -
@msff-amman-Itofficer bidet is somethig used mostly in mediterranean/middle east countries. even center europe has not bidet wide spread.
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@matteo-nunziati said in Toilets of the World:
@msff-amman-Itofficer bidet is somethig used mostly in mediterranean/middle east countries. even center europe has not bidet wide spread.
What do they use then, just TP ? I think I googled the reason why no bidet or shattafa is used in Canada, and the excuse was that in the 1900 there was no available warm water so they just rolled with it ever since or something.
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@msff-amman-Itofficer said in Toilets of the World:
When I went to Canada I got the nastiest surprise ever, its you people (US and Canada and near that area) that are never clean, you expect to keep using toilet paper for everything, well that NEVER WORKS.
And no where I live in Middle east we do not squat or use any of those stuff, we use shattaf/Bidet
It looks like this:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=shattaf&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiuj42dieDUAhWG7xQKHW1oBasQ_AUICigB&biw=1396&bih=697
But its more costly and takes more room, thus in MENA we like cheap workarounds so we use the Shattaf.Yeah, I don't understand how people can live with themselves. For example, I'll be in the bathroom, and the stall next to me sounds like war zone... then when finished, what sounds like a quick wipe or two with toilet paper and out he goes.... so disgusting.
My logic regarding that is this:
If you (for whatever hypothetical reason) get some poop on your arm, what would you do? Would you just take a couple dry pieces of toilet paper, give it a quick wipe, and then be on with your day? Or would you, like most people, wash it off, really good... either with wet paper and/or water?!
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There's no soap in a didet, so how is just using water better than using paper to wipe your ass?
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I like the alternative to the Turkish toilet in Paris, the pay toilet. I actually researched it and found out they are illegal in the US.
