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Post 8Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:20 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top
Post subject: 'wet' toilet seat

What the hell is that about? It’s the most disgusting thing that I found in my office toilet EVER. I have no idea how a normal human being fails to sit on a toilet seat instead of standing on it or whatever!

Some women look so decent but while it comes to the toilet culture, they just act much worse than the animals. Even my dog knows how to take a piss or dump CORRECTLY.

What a bunch of freaks!!!

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:23 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

one of my ex's stood on the toilet to recreate the squatting position.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:24 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

This is very common in the mens bathroom -- very easy to piss all of the toilet seat!

BTW, Your dog knows how to use a regular toilet? Does it sit or squat? Wink
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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:25 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Ew。。。Some people need to take some "get on the throne" lessons.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:26 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Lemongrass - I am constantly amazed at how dirty the ladies toilets can be here. I mean I understand guys toilets getting messy - they have to stand up, there's further for the piss to travel - more to go wrong. But us girls sit on the toilet! how is it that there is often pee on the seat or around the bowl on the floor???!!!??? And why do they not wipe up after themselves so i have to do it? it's gross gross gross!
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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:26 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Both male and female practice squat stance here

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:30 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

That is why those toilet seats are broken. People standing on it all day.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:36 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

but is it so hard to sit? When i encounter a squat toilet i don't try and sit on it to do my business, so why should people stand on a western toilet? just adapt for goodness sake!
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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:37 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

i don't wish to degenerate the thread, but i would think that squatting is a much more efficient method of going to the loo.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:38 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

All the toilets here are very DIRTY. Male or female toilets its the same. Even at the airport.
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tomnoddy_uk wrote:
i don't wish to degenerate the thread, but i would think that squatting is a much more efficient method of going to the loo.


yes it is, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea to do that on a sitting toilet!
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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:44 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

i think its acceptable if they lift the lid up and clean afterwards. if they don't it becomes a problem.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:46 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I'm in this new office now, and i can't believe how dirty the mens get. I am sure they are squatting on them.

So here's what i'm going to do.

1 - Spray the Seat with WD40

2 - put blue loo in the water.

Result, he who comes out with one leg trouser all blued up is the culprit.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:50 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

How difficult is for women to stand and piss? Find a way out to use restrooms in china Smile

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 10:56 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

tomnoddy_uk wrote:
i don't wish to degenerate the thread, but i would think that squatting is a much more efficient method of going to the loo.


You are probably right on this one. Still it is amazing that the chinese don't find it obvious that the westner style toilet is meant to be sat on, not stood on.

Stuff like that bothers me alot here, and believe it or not, it all seems to fall under the category of misuse of technology. And however frustrating it is, it isn't their fault.

I'm in the automotive business, but seven of the eight engineers in my department have never driven a car. How are you supposed to understand something that you never use? Its like programming software with pencil and paper.
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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 11:10 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Maybe they just find it dirty to sit on a public toilet, so better squat than to get germs on your thighs and buttocks... thats why i never go to any public toilet here... better to find a nice hotel and do your business with ease.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 11:12 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

bellabella wrote:
but is it so hard to sit? When i encounter a squat toilet i don't try and sit on it to do my business, so why should people stand on a western toilet? just adapt for goodness sake!


just be thankful for goodness sake they are including more western toilets in places and don't be presumptious a culture whose toilet habits differ from what you are used to will "adapt" easily - you are in THEIR culture now afterall... and when you encounter messier loos think how nice it is more people are actually using them and not pissing/dumping in the streets (not that there isn't room for greater improvement in this...)
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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 11:13 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

But then again benkloepfer, your engineers do not have to teach people how to drive a car. Wink

But I get your point.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 11:17 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

ship wrote:
bellabella wrote:
but is it so hard to sit? When i encounter a squat toilet i don't try and sit on it to do my business, so why should people stand on a western toilet? just adapt for goodness sake!


just be thankful for goodness sake they are including more western toilets in places and don't be presumptious a culture whose toilet habits differ from what you are used to will "adapt" easily - you are in THEIR culture now afterall... and when you encounter messier loos think how nice it is more people are actually using them and not pissing/dumping in the streets (not that there isn't room for greater improvement in this...)


don't presume to know anything about me Ship. I spent a year traveling in SE Asia so i am well acquainted with squat toilets and with the use of water instead of toilet paper. and I adapted very well to a culture whose toilet habits were very different from mine. If i am able to adapt to using a squat toilet it is surely not hard for someone used to using squats to adapt to using a sit down toilet.
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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 11:22 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I think it's also just a bad cycle. All you need is ONE PERSON who doesn't sit and clean up after him/herself, and leave others with no choice but to squat on a sitting toilet. Afterall, who wants to have their butt touching and sitting on the the wet seat t after someone has soiled it??

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 11:24 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

Let me not get started on staff who always seem to have diarrhea and cannot clean after the act. Those are usually the same staff who commit fraud and are incompetent, in my experience. About 40% of the personnel.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 11:55 AM  Reply with quote  Back to top

streuth, its not a matter of not knowing how to use a western toilet. its a matter of personal preference. how one wishes to use the toilet is non of our concern UNLESS they don't clean it after them. this is the only problem

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 12:10 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

tomnoddy_uk wrote:
streuth, its not a matter of not knowing how to use a western toilet. its a matter of personal preference. how one wishes to use the toilet is non of our concern UNLESS they don't clean it after them. this is the only problem


It is our concern if they break the toilet seat by standing on it.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 12:16 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

When the American wanted to export their toilets, they call them "American Standard". Says it all.

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Post  Posted: Sep 26, 2006 - 12:49 PM  Reply with quote  Back to top

I agree with Lemongrass, everytime before I use the toilet I have to use the toilet paper to wipe the ring clean. Yuck!
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