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Only in China

i think this is really good. what with all the wierd flu's and some impending pandemic, the biggest thing we can do to protect ourselves is good hygiene. public wc's are disgusting.
i touch nothing when i use one, paper towel in hand, flush with my foot etc etc. the japanese have the right idea, you touch nothing with their flushes. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2003.html
 
I seem to remember some kind of joke when I was a kid about the reason orientals bow to each other instead of shaking hands was due to the lack of toilet paper.
 
Motokid said:
I seem to remember some kind of joke when I was a kid about the reason orientals bow to each other instead of shaking hands was due to the lack of toilet paper.
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well it is true that in public washrooms, at least in japan, there is 9 times out of 10 no tp. however everywhere you go people pass out free small pkg's of tissue paper with advertising(sp?) on the wrapper and you learn pretty quickly to take them. when i got back to canada i had over pkgs in various bags, jackets, and pockets.
but hygiene is HUGE in japan. just taking a bath or going to a public hotspring is an excercise in sterilization.
 
Well, you might say 'only in China' but you find those primitive holes in the ground with nothing else all over France as well. The rest stops along the major motorways are so disgusting that half the people stopping run off into the surrounding shrubbery. It's really horrible.
 
jenngorham said:
i think this is really good. what with all the wierd flu's and some impending pandemic, the biggest thing we can do to protect ourselves is good hygiene. public wc's are disgusting.
i touch nothing when i use one, paper towel in hand, flush with my foot etc etc. the japanese have the right idea, you touch nothing with their flushes. http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2003.html
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Wow...the chinese women must have rectangle shaped asses to sit on them ;) I was just looking at the pictures of them.
 
Ha. You should have seen our or Ukrainian public toilets, in small cities... In some of them even flies cannot live because of the stench...

"rest stops along the major motorways"... Err... Why should one need such a thing, if there is shrubbery nearby? Quite unnecessary waste of money, if you ask me... Now I understand why USSR had been the first to send a man to cosmos...

No toilet paper? What d'you mean? Is there something wrong with newspapers' distribution in your region?
 
Actually, in Japanese homes they have toilets that play music, get warm or cold, massage the butt, talk to you, take samples (for sugar content), record data, shoot water jets at you, and loads more! I read a really funny novel once about a gaijin girl who used the toilet in a Japanese house and it started making all this noise and moving around and scents were coming out and she was scared to go.


You can have the sound of wind chimes, chirping birds, or your mommy giving words of encouragement. Also, you can keep track of all kinds of medical information based on samples. Most have very involved control panels and are plugged in. I have a rice maker that looks a little like a Japanese toilet, but it doesn't have a soundtrack.

Apparently the massage feature is very popular, and also the toilet that can warm up the entire room. See link below for a funny article on the Toilet Wars between manufacturers.



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http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/toilet.htm
 
Sergo said:
Ha. You should have seen our or Ukrainian public toilets, in small cities... In some of them even flies cannot live because of the stench...
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Having visited the Ukraine myself I can confirm this. In fact when I got home, I got in my car, went to the nearest McDonalds Drive-In and told a rather confused employee on the Intercom "Thank you for your clean toilet policy, it saved my life in Kiev'. Travellers also be warned, the luggage claim lounge at Odessa Airport has the decore and atmosphere of a fully operating slaughter-house.
Sergo said:
"rest stops along the major motorways"... Err... Why should one need such a thing, if there is shrubbery nearby? Quite unnecessary waste of money, if you ask me... Now I understand why USSR had been the first to send a man to cosmos...
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Yuri Gagarin's place in history was secured by people sh#tting at the side of the road? I find that rather difficult to beleive. :confused:
 
[ Yuri Gagarin's place in history was secured by people sh#tting at the side of the road? I find that rather difficult to beleive. :confused:[/QUOTE]

Yep, sure. All these money that could be wasted on public toilets (do you know HOW HUGELY VAST USSSR had been, and HOW MANY toilets should have been built along all the roads of the late USSSSSSR?
So we had not build all these unnecessary luxuries, and spent all the money directly on space technologies. Oooops - and USA with all their comforts limps somewhere behind, where they belong!

(For those without any sense of humor I state that all above by me is pure rubbish, and I never minded that as my own opinion).
 
novella said:
Actually, in Japanese homes they have toilets that play music, get warm or cold, massage the butt, talk to you, take samples (for sugar content), record data, shoot water jets at you, and loads more! I read a really funny novel once about a gaijin girl who used the toilet in a Japanese house and it started making all this noise and moving around and scents were coming out and she was scared to go.



toilet21.jpg


http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/toilet.htm
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one of the biggest features is a fake flush noise, this you find in restaurant and bar toilets. it covers up any sounds you might be making which are considered really rude. :p
 
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