WORLD's Worst Toilets
Oct 10, 2009, 5:14 am
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I always find the western aversion to squat toilets a bit strange. I'd much rather use a clean squat toilet than a questionable western-style one.
In the ladies at Dubai airport I have "queue jumped" inside the ladies' loo because I was prepared to use the squat toilet while the other westerners waiting were too squeamish.
On a train from Bankok to Chang-mai I used a squat toilet that dropped straight onto the track. A little disturbing, but still do-able.
In the ladies at Dubai airport I have "queue jumped" inside the ladies' loo because I was prepared to use the squat toilet while the other westerners waiting were too squeamish.
On a train from Bankok to Chang-mai I used a squat toilet that dropped straight onto the track. A little disturbing, but still do-able.
Oct 10, 2009, 8:24 am
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I always find the western aversion to squat toilets a bit strange. I'd much rather use a clean squat toilet than a questionable western-style one.
In the ladies at Dubai airport I have "queue jumped" inside the ladies' loo because I was prepared to use the squat toilet while the other westerners waiting were too squeamish.
On a train from Bankok to Chang-mai I used a squat toilet that dropped straight onto the track. A little disturbing, but still do-able.
In the ladies at Dubai airport I have "queue jumped" inside the ladies' loo because I was prepared to use the squat toilet while the other westerners waiting were too squeamish.
On a train from Bankok to Chang-mai I used a squat toilet that dropped straight onto the track. A little disturbing, but still do-able.
I use to have a squat toilet in one of the 4 bathrooms in my house in KUL. I never used it.
Now, I don;t think I can even use it because at the moment I have a bad knee and ankle. I can't imagine a fat western man/woman going to Japan and trying a squat toilet. It must be so hard.In Japan though, instead of hoses they have the spray - i've used it before many times - but not necessarily to clean myself... it feels a little therepeutic to have hot water sprayed up your arse.
Oct 10, 2009, 8:37 am
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No tp? Did you check for a vending machine? It is not uncommon in a lot of areas to buy your paper from a machine or vendor before going in. My dad has a collection of tp from around the world, along with descriptions of the facilities.
For me, by far the worst was in NO on a Saturday night. I'll take Asian squatters over that any day.
For me, by far the worst was in NO on a Saturday night. I'll take Asian squatters over that any day.
Oct 10, 2009, 9:26 am
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Oct 10, 2009, 1:23 pm
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China.
China had the absolutely smelliest, most disgusting toilets I have ever seen. Worse than Africa, worse than the Middle East...just gross gross gross.
I have never been in a squat toilet in private homes either that didn't smell bad. I don't know if they just don't trap the gases as well or if it is the hygiene standard in most places they are common but I always get nauseated in them due to the stench.
I will take a toilet paper nested throne over squat toilets any day. Last thing I want to do when pooping is try to balance on a bad leg or worry about my trousers dragging on the nasty floor.
China had the absolutely smelliest, most disgusting toilets I have ever seen. Worse than Africa, worse than the Middle East...just gross gross gross.
I have never been in a squat toilet in private homes either that didn't smell bad. I don't know if they just don't trap the gases as well or if it is the hygiene standard in most places they are common but I always get nauseated in them due to the stench.
I will take a toilet paper nested throne over squat toilets any day. Last thing I want to do when pooping is try to balance on a bad leg or worry about my trousers dragging on the nasty floor.
Oct 10, 2009, 3:37 pm
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Hmmm...there may be an advantage for them in the squat toilet though - (and I don't know how to put this delicately) – but the squat toilet position is much more natural for your body, and normally it should leave you ‘cleaner’ so there would be less wiping/washing/spraying needed.
Oct 10, 2009, 4:33 pm
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Best way to use a squat toilet if you're wearing pants is to take them off altogether. Best to take off undies too then there's no risk of anything getting wet, or worse.
If you know you'll be encountering squat toilets and will have no other choice, wear a skirt (assuming you're a woman that is
).
Oct 10, 2009, 6:49 pm
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Have you ever tried a Pit Toilet in Northern Ontario in the middle of the summer with huge blow flies buzzing around you and on your ... from beneath (perspiration pouring off you in the tiny wooden enclosure)? Not quite the therapuetic Japanese spray feeling - more like the Buzzing on your arse - involuntary push reflex feeling - hahahaha!
Oct 11, 2009, 12:43 pm
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Hmmm, ever tried a "throne" placed over a long-drop pit? Infinitely worse than any squat I've ever used!!
Best way to use a squat toilet if you're wearing pants is to take them off altogether. Best to take off undies too then there's no risk of anything getting wet, or worse.
If you know you'll be encountering squat toilets and will have no other choice, wear a skirt (assuming you're a woman that is).
Best way to use a squat toilet if you're wearing pants is to take them off altogether. Best to take off undies too then there's no risk of anything getting wet, or worse.
If you know you'll be encountering squat toilets and will have no other choice, wear a skirt (assuming you're a woman that is
).
Oct 13, 2009, 1:40 pm
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Commode that fell off the wall when I used it. In the Cairo Musem!
Almost every toilet in Egypt has an attendant that hands you a Kleenex and expects baksheesh. At least where tourists go, they keep the place clean.
The Kleenex lady in a resturant in Alexanddria was out of Kleenex. She handed Mrs. Scubadiver a resturant napkin imprinted with a leering male face, and the legend, "I like mine spicy!"
Almost every toilet in Egypt has an attendant that hands you a Kleenex and expects baksheesh. At least where tourists go, they keep the place clean.
The Kleenex lady in a resturant in Alexanddria was out of Kleenex. She handed Mrs. Scubadiver a resturant napkin imprinted with a leering male face, and the legend, "I like mine spicy!"
Oct 13, 2009, 1:44 pm
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Tibet. China squared. The loo at the Everest base camp resthouse could be smelt from 100 yards. Not surprising as it was a mostly filled shallow long drop. Having a crap in the scrub while watching sunrise on Everest - and being watched by a curious yak - was far preferable.
Oct 14, 2009, 1:51 am
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I wonder if the OP has used toilets in China (outside of nicer hotels and such).
The problem there is not so much the fact that they are often holes that you squat over (which I have seen in Switzerland and Italy as well), but that "flushing" is often just a small ineffective trickle of water that makes you wonder why they even bothered to have a water supply to the toilet. The sights and smells can be rather crappy.
The problem there is not so much the fact that they are often holes that you squat over (which I have seen in Switzerland and Italy as well), but that "flushing" is often just a small ineffective trickle of water that makes you wonder why they even bothered to have a water supply to the toilet. The sights and smells can be rather crappy.
Oct 14, 2009, 4:07 pm
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