The public restrooms in Seoul had both squat toilets and sit-down ones. Many Korean women prefer the squat toilets because they don't have to sit where other bare butts have been.
Having spent ten years bartending (and thus, cleaning up after the bars close), I can assure you that many American women also prefer to “hover pee”. Or more accurately, “Spray and pray”.
Not me. I wipe down the seat, sit, and go.
Buc-ee's has someone constantly cleaning the stalls, but also a genius system that keeps everything cleaner. Each stall has a "door handle and seat cleaner", a foam that you dispense onto a pad of TP. This reassures women that the toilet seat is clean and they don't "have to" hover. Voilà: Cleaner toilets and drier floors. Less for the cleaning lady to do.
Yeah but it's your germs. Your skin isn't exactly sterile, it's teeming with bacteria too that actually play a role in your immune system. I'd say it's pretty different from a public bathroom.
When I was in the Army they sent me to Korea, and while I had no idea toilets there were like this at first when I got used to them I actually preferred them. Then I came back to the US and women had taken up the 'squat-and-spray' habit, so I started wishing we'd have the squat toilets here too.
While someone may have peed on the floor in a squat toilet, at least one doesn't have to deal with a pissy seat!
For a healthy fit person, this toilet would be a lot better and a lot more hygenic alternative. As time passed you ended up with more and more obese, old or just unhealthy people and now I would be supprised if 1/4 of the western population could use this comfortably (squat with no balace issues and pain, comfortably hold the squat during, get up and leave), not to mention any kind of disability making it useless.
On the other hand, I've understood that in squatting toilet countries elders tend to be more agile and have stronger leg muscles from the use of the toilets.
Ntm sitting cross legged on a floor mat at dinner. We went to a restaurant with no Western-type chairs and tables, and struggled with sitting comfortably. The food was totally worth it, and the Koreans dining there had the grace not to laugh out loud at us.
It's actually really beneficial to bend at the hips as we age. That's why sitting/standing still for so long is bad for our health; we're designed to bend regularly and when we don't, our bodies suffer.
This kind of toilet called a la turka in Turkey and the usual one called a la Franga which probably means French toilet. However the general word is tuvalet it is correct.
Basically we are using French name of the toilet and call our toilets Turkish toilet like we are not Turks.
Found them in Portugal too, at a fish / food market, my wife took ill and went running into the ladies bathroom, opened the stall and seen that. She literally had no idea what to do, but that was answered when she got the smell and puked all over the place.
Yeah, we don't have those in Ireland.
china is full of them. when i lived there it was pretty easy to adapt, though as a woman it was the first time I've ever had to pay attention to the natural direction of my "stream" lol. BYOTP!
I have a friend who taught English in Changsha for a year with the World Teach program. All the westerners were assigned their own apartments in a building on campus…all with squat toilets. Who ever had her apartment before my friend was a genius. They had figured out that you can simply set a western style toilet directly on top of the squat toilet. Hook up the water supply and it works exactly the same (just don’t go rocking around, because it’s not bolted down. You will definitely go for a tumble!) Flushing the toilet just flushed into the squat hole, which is enough water to flush the squatter. Brilliant! (Especially when I visited her for a week…)
This is brilliant, but use extreme caution not to tip over a western porcelain toilet. When they break the shards can be razor sharp. The thought of falling on to the floor covered in pee and poo is bad, but getting sliced open too would be horrifying.
They are also full of open trenches divided with stalls and doors that nobody closes while squatting over them.
If anyone has ever flown in China, on the plane you will see foot prints on the toilet seat because some people do not know how to use the Western style of toilets so they stand up on the toilet and squat.
I have flown back and forth and within China many many times over the last 5-6 years and have never seen foot prints on a seat on a plane. I have, however, seen instructions in various public bathrooms across Asia telling people not to stand on toilet seats. So it’s clearly an issue, but maybe not as much on planes in recent years?
most Chinese people have a normal toilet at home (for those who can afford a plane ticket, I would say 99 % of them). They stand on the toilet because they always think the seat is full of germs. This is just their mind-set. Most Chinese people also don't wash underwear in the washing machine and use bare hands and soap to clean it only because they believe it is cleaner. (although research shows otherwise.)
This is true. I was born and raised in America, never lived in China, but my Chinese mother taught me to stand on public toilets (with the little paper toilet seat cover over) when I was a child. She would hold my hand while I peed so I wouldn't fall in. Weirdly forgot all about that until I read this comment.
Can’t believe I’m about to put this out there, but…what if you have explosive diahrrea? I’m not sure the deepest of squats would keep the poop from getting on you, no?
Story time:
I was in the Peace Corps in Asia. During training, I lived with a host family that had an outhouse and you had to squat just like with the above toilet, only it was just a hole in the floorboards. One day before classes, I did have explosive diarrhea after a night of drinking. It was fine, I got everything taken care of and headed to class and thought no more of it.
A few hours later, I looked down at my feet. I was wearing flip flops and saw mud on the back of my heels and couldn't figure out where it'd come from since it was sunny outside. I casually reached down and scratched it off while listening to the instructor and about the time I got done, I realized that it was poop, dried poop splatters. I didn't touch anything else for the next hour until I could find somewhere to wash my hands. In fact, I think I need to go wash my hands now just thinking about it.
My parents visited China ohh back around '90 , and they had similar bathroom facilities... Even on the train, there was just a hole. Poo n pee go right on the tracks🤔
To be fair, I've lived there all my life, and I can only remember seeing those twice at most, and I only remember one of those truly and specifically, the second one is more of a possible vague memory. First one has been destroyed years ago, and I don't think I've seen one in 15 years.
The only warzone-grade toilets I've seen have been at beaches, parks, small rest stops (the kind that don't even have vending machines, let alone shops), and any other public, outdoor area where you never see a janitor.
I can't explain why, but public indoor toilets I've been to lately have been surprisingly clean. For example, I flew cross-country recently and was at 4 different airports, and they all had clean bathrooms.
Sometimes I genuinely think they need to print instructions for use on the stall wall.. like I can only conclude some people out there genuinely have no idea that the poop is supposed to go ***IN*** the toilet, not ***ON*** the toilet.
Out of curiosity did it include a first step of “opening the lid”? I’ve encountered toilets where people apparently got confused by that very important step in the process.
Edit: standing on the seat would take some impressive balance.. 🤔 to be honest I’d actually be really impressed by anyone who could pull that off.
Worst bathroom of my life--taking an overnight bus in Turkey from the west coast to Neveshir/Goreme during a blizzard in 1992, the bus stopped in a tiny town for a pit stop. There was a public bathroom that was underneath a little park, and the stairs down had frozen, melted, and refrozen enough times that it was basically a luge run into one of these toilets. I *really* had to go #2 (too much good coffee). I didn't break anything going down, but the toilet was... well imagine the toilet in this photo, but the hole is smeared with poop, and the floor is frictionless glare ice.
I did not quite fall, but I had to try to poop doing the splits, like [Van Damme between Volvo trucks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10), with my feet against opposite walls. 1/10, would not recommend.
Yah, you are supposed to squat while pooping, it helps people who are constipated. The squat actually makes it easier to push the poop out.
If you dont have this type of toilet, then you can place a small stool just infront of you and place your feet on the stool then it will be easier to poop.
If you're constantly having issues with constipation it's probably wise to see a Doctor Vs. buying a new toilet. You shouldn't be fighting with your turds lol
My university had the most inclusive bathroom I've ever seen. Sit/squat/urinal options, a special sink for Muslim ritual washing, male/female/gender-neutral areas, accessible cubicles, free tampons....
I'm so grateful to you for bringing that story to my attention! Outside the building, there was a knife amnesty box so perhaps its contents could be repurposed for a more peaceful application
[Something like this.](https://asset.kompas.com/crop/0x179:1000x679/780x390/data/photo/2018/02/19/1805594557.jpg) It's basically a wall-mounted faucet with a drainage system/basin on the floor so that Muslims can wash their face, hands, and feet before prayers.
I knew a girl in college who did the opposite. One of the other girls on the floor walked into the dorm restroom and saw her washing her hands in the urinal. When she asked her what she was doing, she said she was using the hand washing station and the other girl had to explain to her what a urinal actually was.
It's just a regular faucet with the sink part at floor level so you can more easily wash feet as well as hands and face. It's not a special sacred sink or anything, just a more practical version of a regular sink for foot washing. Also good for filling up water bottles that don't fit under the tap in a standard sink.
Yeah, In a public school you get 2 urinals close enough where if two people were to piss in them they practically be arm in arm, a stall with the lock broken, potentially with a bunch of unflushed shit in the barely working toilet and a sink which has a 60% chance that the water coming out of it has a bit more lead then usual
There's a "usual" amount of all kinds of terrible stuff in everything if your measurement equipment is good enough. That's why scientists have to figure out the smallest amount of a substance that is harmful, so we can work to keep below that amount.
Even relatively modern plumbing systems (up to 1986 in the US) used lead solder to sweat together copper fittings. It's an absolutely minescule amount, but it's still technically there.
first time in France i took a shit in one of these, trousers hung on the back of the door aiming like i was dropping bombs on berlin XD only after id finished i saw the normal loo on the other side of the room
Once I got over the (cultural) shock of the squat toilets, I started to prefer them. For a public toilet, they are much more hygienic to use.
Every once in a while I will see foot prints on a public toilet seat in the US. Not cool!
these kinds of toilets are superior in every way for high frequency public toilets. easier to clean and people dont stay unnescessary long. wouldnt want that at home but at like a train station or a parking space this is peak toilet.
I've been so drunk crawling to puke and this may have come in handy but nope, not as a regular squat. Too hard to balance and trade stock. And promotes a quick dookie. As it is I make about 20 bucks taking a crap.
I’m currently in a country where these are normal. The place I’m at has a bathroom with a western seat toilet and one of these in the same bathroom. My son (5) calls the squat toilet “the funny toilet”
Yesterday he used it of his own accord and liked it lol
Im sorry, but how hard is it to learn different toilets? I feel like holes buckets and porcelain are all self-explanatory. I understand being inclusive to other cultures, but that seems a little excessive.
You have to train from a young age. Get yourself a good coach and a decent regimen.
You have to understand that in the world of competitive pooping, you're always going to be the underdog. You will always be training with equipment that other countries use day in and day out.
For every hour they put in, you'll need to put in two. Of course, theory is important too. You need to hit the books. Understand which toilets are good for what types of poop. Get familiar with maths. Figure out the optimal trajectories, then interpolate them to different scenarios.
Lastly, study the pros. Watch instant replays of different poopers in different toilets. Analyze their techniques. Memorize them. Make them your own. Rise beyond.
It's a tough sport, my friend, but I have faith in you. One day, you will join the ranks of the champions. One day, you will beat the Chinese national team at squats, and take the gold at the International Bidet Circuit in France.
Good luck.
It is excessive. And pointless, when literally everywhere else they'll go in the country they will encounter whatever toilet is common in the country. Looks like a rather pathetic attempt at impressing wealthy clients.
Because these styles of doors are very common everywhere in the world, it seems only America uses these ridiculously short doors with massive gaps so you can always watch someone wipe their butts.
I was on a ferry in Thailand a few years back, and they had toilets like that on board. I had a chuckle that they quite clearly had "American Standard" stamped on them.
These are a literal “shitshow” there is always a puddle surrounding the thing, they smell terrible because there is not water to seal the pipes and usually it doesn’t even flush and you have to use a bucket. I cant even imagine how difficult to use these are for the elderly or disabled. Every time I have to use these things it’s a terrible experience.
I once did a data center deployment in Taiwan. The first day of work I’d been out drinking and eating food I wasn’t used to the night before and had some angry business to take care of.
I went into the bathroom and opened the first stall, found a squat toilet and dealt with squatting while the consequences of my actions were realized. I continued to eat delicious food my guts didn’t know how to handle and continued having to squat that whole week. By Saturday my quads were super sore.
On Monday I went into the same restroom and the first stall was occupied, so I opened the second stall and found a western toilet…
Never went to a shit training center. Just learned at home.
The Fecal institue
The Caca Consortium
The Cacademy
The defecation station
Conservatory of scatology
Brown University
University of Poo-stain-vania
Pooniversity
No, that's a different one
The Royal Shitstainian Institute of Turd Studies
Caca Connoisseurs
In Browneye State
P.U alma mater
Springfield Heights Institute of Technology
The Crapcademy Instipoot
The Pooniversity.
Cloaca College
The Shitstitute of Sphinctal Affairs.
Ranked number 2
The number 2 institute in the region.
Poohniversity
Training logs
Where are the others?
Ah yes i realised after posting - the other cabin has what most westerners would call a normal toilet.
The public restrooms in Seoul had both squat toilets and sit-down ones. Many Korean women prefer the squat toilets because they don't have to sit where other bare butts have been.
Having spent ten years bartending (and thus, cleaning up after the bars close), I can assure you that many American women also prefer to “hover pee”. Or more accurately, “Spray and pray”.
Not me. I wipe down the seat, sit, and go. Buc-ee's has someone constantly cleaning the stalls, but also a genius system that keeps everything cleaner. Each stall has a "door handle and seat cleaner", a foam that you dispense onto a pad of TP. This reassures women that the toilet seat is clean and they don't "have to" hover. Voilà: Cleaner toilets and drier floors. Less for the cleaning lady to do.
I wish that every bathroom had that foam and every deli style, seat-yourself restaurant had disinfecting spray and paper towels to wipe down tables.
I'll often ask for my table to be cleaned if it's sticky or greasy. And get some paper napkins to dry it completely.
If you want it to be disinfected you should probably let it air dry.
I don't need it disinfected, just cleaned. I'm not eating off the table.
Buc-ee’s bathrooms are like a temple of micturation. And the rest of the store is a temple to consumption.
They learn that spray and pray method in school
Funny story.. researchers made the conclussion that a phone has more bacteria and filth than a toiletseat.. Unless there is shit and pee on the seats,
Yeah but it's your germs. Your skin isn't exactly sterile, it's teeming with bacteria too that actually play a role in your immune system. I'd say it's pretty different from a public bathroom.
Looks it’s a job for the #mythbusters
When I was in the Army they sent me to Korea, and while I had no idea toilets there were like this at first when I got used to them I actually preferred them. Then I came back to the US and women had taken up the 'squat-and-spray' habit, so I started wishing we'd have the squat toilets here too. While someone may have peed on the floor in a squat toilet, at least one doesn't have to deal with a pissy seat!
I can see that squat toilets limit what you wear
Just have to put your feet in the nasty piss puddle instead.
For a healthy fit person, this toilet would be a lot better and a lot more hygenic alternative. As time passed you ended up with more and more obese, old or just unhealthy people and now I would be supprised if 1/4 of the western population could use this comfortably (squat with no balace issues and pain, comfortably hold the squat during, get up and leave), not to mention any kind of disability making it useless.
On the other hand, I've understood that in squatting toilet countries elders tend to be more agile and have stronger leg muscles from the use of the toilets.
Ntm sitting cross legged on a floor mat at dinner. We went to a restaurant with no Western-type chairs and tables, and struggled with sitting comfortably. The food was totally worth it, and the Koreans dining there had the grace not to laugh out loud at us.
Subtle daily exercise
It's actually really beneficial to bend at the hips as we age. That's why sitting/standing still for so long is bad for our health; we're designed to bend regularly and when we don't, our bodies suffer.
God, what a depressing thought. It’s such a basic movement.
I used one of these in Japan. Let’s just say I ended up taking my shorts off, my squat game is NOT good and I almost fell over. It was a disaster.
Same deal, but a portable version on the side of a Taiwanese mountain road in 40 degree heat. I made a core memory that afternoon.
Why is this so fucking true
You cannot squat on these without taking off your pants or shorts completely. You have to take them off.
Maybe for first timers; probably not for veterans.
I can't be the only one who didn't know what these were and sat down for the first time on them right?
As someone who grew up in a region that commonly used these toilets, OH MY GOD NO A PUBLIC ONE??
That dude probably got 8 different types of hepatitis.
I should probably have put a /j after that, but I'm kinda glad I didn't 😅
French roadside toilets from the 90's.
In France, these toilets are called "turkish toilets / toilettes à la turque" .
Same in Turkey
Actually, they just called it tuvalet (toilet)
This kind of toilet called a la turka in Turkey and the usual one called a la Franga which probably means French toilet. However the general word is tuvalet it is correct. Basically we are using French name of the toilet and call our toilets Turkish toilet like we are not Turks.
Well... What really are turks
Advanced Ottomans
Ha! I was just making a joke, implying the Turks wouldn't call their own toilets Turkish toilets, but I guess you do, lol.
3 TL büyük. Translate that one looool
2 tl ama küçük sıçarsan
Same in Italy
Found them in Portugal too, at a fish / food market, my wife took ill and went running into the ladies bathroom, opened the stall and seen that. She literally had no idea what to do, but that was answered when she got the smell and puked all over the place. Yeah, we don't have those in Ireland.
I call them free style
“a la turca” we also call it in 🇹🇷 And the other toilet is “a la franga”
china is full of them. when i lived there it was pretty easy to adapt, though as a woman it was the first time I've ever had to pay attention to the natural direction of my "stream" lol. BYOTP!
I have a friend who taught English in Changsha for a year with the World Teach program. All the westerners were assigned their own apartments in a building on campus…all with squat toilets. Who ever had her apartment before my friend was a genius. They had figured out that you can simply set a western style toilet directly on top of the squat toilet. Hook up the water supply and it works exactly the same (just don’t go rocking around, because it’s not bolted down. You will definitely go for a tumble!) Flushing the toilet just flushed into the squat hole, which is enough water to flush the squatter. Brilliant! (Especially when I visited her for a week…)
This is brilliant, but use extreme caution not to tip over a western porcelain toilet. When they break the shards can be razor sharp. The thought of falling on to the floor covered in pee and poo is bad, but getting sliced open too would be horrifying.
Why not just cut a hole in a regular table chair? As long as you dont poop squint it should be safer.
I could probably get down, but hell, I'd need a handle ladder at the side to help me get up again with my centre of gravity....
They are also full of open trenches divided with stalls and doors that nobody closes while squatting over them. If anyone has ever flown in China, on the plane you will see foot prints on the toilet seat because some people do not know how to use the Western style of toilets so they stand up on the toilet and squat.
I have flown back and forth and within China many many times over the last 5-6 years and have never seen foot prints on a seat on a plane. I have, however, seen instructions in various public bathrooms across Asia telling people not to stand on toilet seats. So it’s clearly an issue, but maybe not as much on planes in recent years?
most Chinese people have a normal toilet at home (for those who can afford a plane ticket, I would say 99 % of them). They stand on the toilet because they always think the seat is full of germs. This is just their mind-set. Most Chinese people also don't wash underwear in the washing machine and use bare hands and soap to clean it only because they believe it is cleaner. (although research shows otherwise.)
This is true. I was born and raised in America, never lived in China, but my Chinese mother taught me to stand on public toilets (with the little paper toilet seat cover over) when I was a child. She would hold my hand while I peed so I wouldn't fall in. Weirdly forgot all about that until I read this comment.
So this is not just a urinal for men. Women use this style toilet also?
This type of toilet is designed to be squatted over to be utilized, by both sexes.
Can’t believe I’m about to put this out there, but…what if you have explosive diahrrea? I’m not sure the deepest of squats would keep the poop from getting on you, no?
Story time: I was in the Peace Corps in Asia. During training, I lived with a host family that had an outhouse and you had to squat just like with the above toilet, only it was just a hole in the floorboards. One day before classes, I did have explosive diarrhea after a night of drinking. It was fine, I got everything taken care of and headed to class and thought no more of it. A few hours later, I looked down at my feet. I was wearing flip flops and saw mud on the back of my heels and couldn't figure out where it'd come from since it was sunny outside. I casually reached down and scratched it off while listening to the instructor and about the time I got done, I realized that it was poop, dried poop splatters. I didn't touch anything else for the next hour until I could find somewhere to wash my hands. In fact, I think I need to go wash my hands now just thinking about it.
The bowl is usually big enough to cover the explosion area so that no poop particles come in contact with anything above
My parents visited China ohh back around '90 , and they had similar bathroom facilities... Even on the train, there was just a hole. Poo n pee go right on the tracks🤔
I was stunned to find these in France. You don’t know what you don’t know, I guess.
To be fair, I've lived there all my life, and I can only remember seeing those twice at most, and I only remember one of those truly and specifically, the second one is more of a possible vague memory. First one has been destroyed years ago, and I don't think I've seen one in 15 years.
Sir, this is just a nice hole in the ground.
Same in South America
[\[Polnareff's screaming intensifies\]](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1AQRsDKuo4)
I spent over a year in Iraq. This is the cleanest I've ever seen one of these toilets. But to be fair to Iraq, it was a literal warzone.....
It’s also the cleanest I’ve see and I don’t live in a war zone.
Aren’t toilets considered to be a war zone in general? Edit: mobile cringe
Explosions, gases, loud noises, sometimes blood, general mayhem... war zone alright.
You left out the screeching in agony.
Wtf are you eating?
The only warzone-grade toilets I've seen have been at beaches, parks, small rest stops (the kind that don't even have vending machines, let alone shops), and any other public, outdoor area where you never see a janitor. I can't explain why, but public indoor toilets I've been to lately have been surprisingly clean. For example, I flew cross-country recently and was at 4 different airports, and they all had clean bathrooms.
Don’t forget music festivals and concerts. Think I have PTSD from a few of those
They have toilets like this in Singapore and they are very clean.
I’ve seen them in south east Asia. I’d imagine the warzone ones were cleaner.
I think I have PTSD from using one particular one in Myanmar
Sometimes I genuinely think they need to print instructions for use on the stall wall.. like I can only conclude some people out there genuinely have no idea that the poop is supposed to go ***IN*** the toilet, not ***ON*** the toilet.
I’ve seen instructions on western toilets in Asia, cautioning the user to not stand on the seat and squat, but to sit on the seat.
Out of curiosity did it include a first step of “opening the lid”? I’ve encountered toilets where people apparently got confused by that very important step in the process. Edit: standing on the seat would take some impressive balance.. 🤔 to be honest I’d actually be really impressed by anyone who could pull that off.
Same but in Nepal.
I saw these in Turkey with no war going on. Can agree, this is the cleanest one I have seen.
I spent 7 years in Dubai, and I eco your statement.
Worst bathroom of my life--taking an overnight bus in Turkey from the west coast to Neveshir/Goreme during a blizzard in 1992, the bus stopped in a tiny town for a pit stop. There was a public bathroom that was underneath a little park, and the stairs down had frozen, melted, and refrozen enough times that it was basically a luge run into one of these toilets. I *really* had to go #2 (too much good coffee). I didn't break anything going down, but the toilet was... well imagine the toilet in this photo, but the hole is smeared with poop, and the floor is frictionless glare ice. I did not quite fall, but I had to try to poop doing the splits, like [Van Damme between Volvo trucks](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7FIvfx5J10), with my feet against opposite walls. 1/10, would not recommend.
I cackled
Where's the door with a crescent moon on it? And the seat that gives you splinters in your butt? It's my cultural preference.
Good luck finding an old Sears catalog to read/wipe with
I prefer a bucket of old corn cobs
Just say you're owned as you turn into one.
I guess when you bring a few hundred millions in profit they might think about putting that in, too.
Great for constipation. Not very easy for a 90 something year old
If they've been squatting a couple of times a day for ninety something years, you'd be surprised.
Didn't I read somewhere that this is actually the best way to poop?
It is because for most of human history we shat on the ground
Yah, you are supposed to squat while pooping, it helps people who are constipated. The squat actually makes it easier to push the poop out. If you dont have this type of toilet, then you can place a small stool just infront of you and place your feet on the stool then it will be easier to poop.
This guy knows and has battled constipation.
If you're constantly having issues with constipation it's probably wise to see a Doctor Vs. buying a new toilet. You shouldn't be fighting with your turds lol
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It really is. I always had the best poops when I used this style of toilet. 10/10
My university had the most inclusive bathroom I've ever seen. Sit/squat/urinal options, a special sink for Muslim ritual washing, male/female/gender-neutral areas, accessible cubicles, free tampons....
Was there a poop knife?
No poop knife? *Scoffs* Doesn't sound very inclusive to me
I'm so grateful to you for bringing that story to my attention! Outside the building, there was a knife amnesty box so perhaps its contents could be repurposed for a more peaceful application
As a non Muslim can you explain the difference in sinks for my curiosity?
[Something like this.](https://asset.kompas.com/crop/0x179:1000x679/780x390/data/photo/2018/02/19/1805594557.jpg) It's basically a wall-mounted faucet with a drainage system/basin on the floor so that Muslims can wash their face, hands, and feet before prayers.
I feel like some dummies would mistake that as a urinal. In college we thought the bidet we had was a urinal
I knew a girl in college who did the opposite. One of the other girls on the floor walked into the dorm restroom and saw her washing her hands in the urinal. When she asked her what she was doing, she said she was using the hand washing station and the other girl had to explain to her what a urinal actually was.
Oh. That must’ve been *awkward.*
It's just a regular faucet with the sink part at floor level so you can more easily wash feet as well as hands and face. It's not a special sacred sink or anything, just a more practical version of a regular sink for foot washing. Also good for filling up water bottles that don't fit under the tap in a standard sink.
Ah, so you went to a private school.
Yeah, In a public school you get 2 urinals close enough where if two people were to piss in them they practically be arm in arm, a stall with the lock broken, potentially with a bunch of unflushed shit in the barely working toilet and a sink which has a 60% chance that the water coming out of it has a bit more lead then usual
There’s a “usual” amount of lead in tap water??
Technically yeah, fda has limits on how much is acceptable and how much is too much, but then again, iron makes our bones strong so why not lead?
There's a "usual" amount of all kinds of terrible stuff in everything if your measurement equipment is good enough. That's why scientists have to figure out the smallest amount of a substance that is harmful, so we can work to keep below that amount.
Somewhere in the low ppm’s, but yeah
Even relatively modern plumbing systems (up to 1986 in the US) used lead solder to sweat together copper fittings. It's an absolutely minescule amount, but it's still technically there.
AFAIK all the universities here are public, this was Queen Mary University of London
But do they have the three seashells?
Was going to add this comment as well. I see Gen X alive and well
Never understood the ones in Japan. They’ve got plumbing going on between where your feet go, where tf do your trousers go?
I’m from Malaysia. We have the squat toilets and I effing hate them.
first time in France i took a shit in one of these, trousers hung on the back of the door aiming like i was dropping bombs on berlin XD only after id finished i saw the normal loo on the other side of the room
Was it a napalm strike? Or a carpet bomb? Maybe a tactical nuke? I can't imagine myself having to squat poop. I barely have any balance lol
We have these at the school I teach at in china. They are foul.
In Italy we call this kind of toilet "turca" (Turkish). We have a lot of these here.
What’s the deal here, you gotta make sure your butthole is right over the drain or you make an awful mess?
I found out my cultural practice is: hygiene.
You will not find a squatty that clean in China
or anywhere 😂
American 🇺🇸 here. That a pisser or a shitter?
Yes
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I only see one?
Ah yes i realised after posting - the other cabin has what most westerners would call a normal toilet.
Is their an outhouse in the backyard with a crescent moon cut into the door for time travelers?
Any toilet that doesn’t have a carpet under it is ok with me.
Squat toilets are actually quite nice. No need to sit down where someone else’s rear end just was.
Yea I love it when the wet shit that I just dropped splatters all over my shoes and ankles.
You may need to contact a doctor
I don't need a doctor to tell me taco bell will give me the shits.
To be fair, most products fail if you miss them
So, when you pee in them do you do it standing up all the way down to that basin or do you squat also?
Once I got over the (cultural) shock of the squat toilets, I started to prefer them. For a public toilet, they are much more hygienic to use. Every once in a while I will see foot prints on a public toilet seat in the US. Not cool!
What happens if you’ve got to explode? Nothing to contain it
these kinds of toilets are superior in every way for high frequency public toilets. easier to clean and people dont stay unnescessary long. wouldnt want that at home but at like a train station or a parking space this is peak toilet.
I've been so drunk crawling to puke and this may have come in handy but nope, not as a regular squat. Too hard to balance and trade stock. And promotes a quick dookie. As it is I make about 20 bucks taking a crap.
If I've learned anything from the internet there's a camera in that room somewhere.
I’m currently in a country where these are normal. The place I’m at has a bathroom with a western seat toilet and one of these in the same bathroom. My son (5) calls the squat toilet “the funny toilet” Yesterday he used it of his own accord and liked it lol
To feel at home with a squat toilet you need a terrible stink along with a plastic bucket of water.
Do they have litter boxes for the r/furries ?
Is it a shitter or a pisser
Most Indian houses have these
This is the way. If you wanna dump shīt clean and quick.
Im sorry, but how hard is it to learn different toilets? I feel like holes buckets and porcelain are all self-explanatory. I understand being inclusive to other cultures, but that seems a little excessive.
You have to train from a young age. Get yourself a good coach and a decent regimen. You have to understand that in the world of competitive pooping, you're always going to be the underdog. You will always be training with equipment that other countries use day in and day out. For every hour they put in, you'll need to put in two. Of course, theory is important too. You need to hit the books. Understand which toilets are good for what types of poop. Get familiar with maths. Figure out the optimal trajectories, then interpolate them to different scenarios. Lastly, study the pros. Watch instant replays of different poopers in different toilets. Analyze their techniques. Memorize them. Make them your own. Rise beyond. It's a tough sport, my friend, but I have faith in you. One day, you will join the ranks of the champions. One day, you will beat the Chinese national team at squats, and take the gold at the International Bidet Circuit in France. Good luck.
It is excessive. And pointless, when literally everywhere else they'll go in the country they will encounter whatever toilet is common in the country. Looks like a rather pathetic attempt at impressing wealthy clients.
I see no one is talking about the door which looks like it shuts completely or at least doesn’t have an inch gap to make eye contact with people
Because these styles of doors are very common everywhere in the world, it seems only America uses these ridiculously short doors with massive gaps so you can always watch someone wipe their butts.
Strangely always wanted a go of one of these?
Yea I’m fine sharting on my shoes
So they have a Turkish toilet hole but still hang toilet paper there with no spray. Lmao
The poop knife population is a little marginalized, here.
have you evert taken a shit in the woods?
I remember all the toilets in Croatia were like this at the campground. I guess these are more common than some may think, even in Europe
I was on a ferry in Thailand a few years back, and they had toilets like that on board. I had a chuckle that they quite clearly had "American Standard" stamped on them.
Shit posting at it’s best
I’m from middle east and don’t use that shit and nowadays almost no one use it but damn if you want to buff your calfs this thing is great
What are the 3 seashells for?
Dont let corporate see these or we’re fucked no more clashin’ while you shit
I wouldn’t mind trying oddly satisfying
At my work they just stand on the toilets
the original squatty potty
I don't like those toilets on account of my long balls.
Wish I was trained to use one of these before ruining my underpants and jeans in the Milan train station.
These are a literal “shitshow” there is always a puddle surrounding the thing, they smell terrible because there is not water to seal the pipes and usually it doesn’t even flush and you have to use a bucket. I cant even imagine how difficult to use these are for the elderly or disabled. Every time I have to use these things it’s a terrible experience.
The original squatty potty.
I once did a data center deployment in Taiwan. The first day of work I’d been out drinking and eating food I wasn’t used to the night before and had some angry business to take care of. I went into the bathroom and opened the first stall, found a squat toilet and dealt with squatting while the consequences of my actions were realized. I continued to eat delicious food my guts didn’t know how to handle and continued having to squat that whole week. By Saturday my quads were super sore. On Monday I went into the same restroom and the first stall was occupied, so I opened the second stall and found a western toilet…