Sergeant Wilson Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 1 minute ago, Hillonearth said: Ditto Germany. I've no idea what purpose it serves other than if you've done an absolute beauty and want to call people in to admire your handiwork. Unnecessary these days, you can take a photo and circulate it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 10 minutes ago, Sergeant Wilson said: Unnecessary these days, you can take a photo and circulate it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 2 hours ago, Hillonearth said: Ditto Germany. I've no idea what purpose it serves other than if you've done an absolute beauty and want to call people in to admire your handiwork. I was told that it was to save water which may or may not be true. A German word for the bog is "Der Klo" which is short for Wasserkloset. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 8 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: On a tangent, has anyone here mustered up the courage to use a bidet? I have not as I don't trust myself not to get water all over my clothes, unless taking your clothes off from below the waistline is standard procedure, which is obviously OFTW territory. My dad's house used to have one and I had many a 'Crocodile Dundee moment' wondering wtf the wee sink was for. Eta: for avoidance of doubt, nobody should be leaving skids in the bidet. I think bidets are actually a jolly good idea but the last time I tried to use one I got the water too hot and burnt my arse I had to use a "squatter" in a French train station once. They must be deadly to folk with balance problems. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 (edited) 33 minutes ago, tamthebam said: I think bidets are actually a jolly good idea but the last time I tried to use one I got the water too hot and burnt my arse I had to use a "squatter" in a French train station once. They must be deadly to folk with balance problems. I spent 3 weeks in China / Vietnam and using the squat toilet is a skill you need to learn rather quickly. That's not to say that I did. FWIW, I ended up training a guy who had come over from China (his first time abroad) and questions were quickly raised around the office when staff discovered that somebody had been putting their dirty shitter paper in the bin rather than flushing it away. Dealing with that was certainly one of the more awkward conversations I've had in my professional career. Edited March 13, 2021 by Hedgecutter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 (edited) 16 minutes ago, Hedgecutter said: I spent 3 weeks in China / Vietnam and using the squat toilet is a skill you need to learn rather quickly. That's not to say that I did. FWIW, I ended up training a guy who had come over from China (his first time abroad) and questions were quickly raised around the office when staff discovered that somebody had been putting their dirty shitter paper in the bin rather than flushing it away. Dealing with that was certainly one of the more awkward conversations I've had in my professional career. Continuing the "Foreign Toilets I Have Shat In" theme, I was always deeply uncomfortable doing that sticking your bog paper in the bin thing that seems to be endemic in North Africa...I get that water's at a premium there, but having some poor wee maid come in to remove your used shit tickets just seems a bit off. Edited March 13, 2021 by Hillonearth 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 Continuing the "Foreign Toilets I Have Shat In" theme, I was always deeply uncomfortable doing that sticking your bog paper in the bin thing that seems to be endemic in North Africa...I get that water's at a premium there, but having some poor wee maid come in to remove your used shit tickets just seems a bit off.It's because the plumbing can't deal with it. There are parts of Europe like that too. I've stayed in places where tourists have ignored that and then sewage begins coming up the drain and into the courtyard. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 3 hours ago, tamthebam said: I think bidets are actually a jolly good idea but the last time I tried to use one I got the water too hot and burnt my arse I had to use a "squatter" in a French train station once. They must be deadly to folk with balance problems. 2 hours ago, Hedgecutter said: I spent 3 weeks in China / Vietnam and using the squat toilet is a skill you need to learn rather quickly. That's not to say that I did. FWIW, I ended up training a guy who had come over from China (his first time abroad) and questions were quickly raised around the office when staff discovered that somebody had been putting their dirty shitter paper in the bin rather than flushing it away. Dealing with that was certainly one of the more awkward conversations I've had in my professional career. I feel slightly bad that I cannot stop laughing at both these stories 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eednud Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Japanese hotel toilets are something else. Warm seats, various arse watering selections, although not skidmark proof. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) 13 hours ago, BFTD said: Surely it would be covered in toilet paper by the time you stand up? Only if you're intentionally aiming the toilet paper to land on the jobby and not in the water, which is deviant behaviour. Having lived in the flat, cheese-eating land, I can confirm that the flush mechanism sweeps away the toilet paper first and then leaves your turd as the encore piece in the show. Edited March 14, 2021 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raidernation Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 ^^^ surprised Tracy Emmin hasn’t had this displayed at the Tate yet 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melanius Mullarkey Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 All this reminds me of 10 years of trotting back and forth to India and the toilet horrors witnessed therein. I still give a “sensible chuckle” to myself when the wife complains theirs a 1mm sq skid left on the bowl. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 I once spent some time in Dubai for work. I say work, I spent some time in Dubai getting roaring drunk every night and having to turn up at work and go through the motions the next day. As is the way with these things, my bowels were a fucking shambles. Air con is every where in Dubai, except the tiny, stinking, festering cubicle in which I had to evacuate the sins of the previous evening each day. The smell of a hangover shite filling a tiny box room thats running at a steady 50 degrees celcius is not one i'll forget soon. Nor is the feeling during this ordeal. Thats really all I have for shitting abroad. I have only once shat on a plane, which was immediately after take off following 10 extreemely drunken days in Mexico. This also was a harrowing experience. To the best of my recollection I have never shat on a train. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 47 minutes ago, Bairnardo said: I once spent some time in Dubai for work. I say work, I spent some time in Dubai getting roaring drunk every night and having to turn up at work and go through the motions the next day. As is the way with these things, my bowels were a fucking shambles. Air con is every where in Dubai, except the tiny, stinking, festering cubicle in which I had to evacuate the sins of the previous evening each day. The smell of a hangover shite filling a tiny box room thats running at a steady 50 degrees celcius is not one i'll forget soon. Nor is the feeling during this ordeal. Thats really all I have for shitting abroad. I have only once shat on a plane, which was immediately after take off following 10 extreemely drunken days in Mexico. This also was a harrowing experience. To the best of my recollection I have never shat on a train. Lucky you didn't find yourself in one of the 'Squat' toilets that are all over the Middle East. They are not pleasant. Eg... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bairnardo Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Just now, johnnydun said: Lucky you didn't find yourself in one of the 'Squat' toilets that are all over the Middle East. They are not pleasant. Eg... In the stat eI was in, and the size/temperature of that room, definling myself would have been the least worst option.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 2 hours ago, Bairnardo said: I once spent some time in Dubai for work. I say work, I spent some time in Dubai getting roaring drunk every night and having to turn up at work and go through the motions the next day. As is the way with these things, my bowels were a fucking shambles. Air con is every where in Dubai, except the tiny, stinking, festering cubicle in which I had to evacuate the sins of the previous evening each day. The smell of a hangover shite filling a tiny box room thats running at a steady 50 degrees celcius is not one i'll forget soon. Nor is the feeling during this ordeal. Thats really all I have for shitting abroad. I have only once shat on a plane, which was immediately after take off following 10 extreemely drunken days in Mexico. This also was a harrowing experience. To the best of my recollection I have never shat on a train. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, johnnydun said: Lucky you didn't find yourself in one of the 'Squat' toilets that are all over the Middle East. They are not pleasant. Eg... For a brief moment there, I just relived the incredibly distinctive smell of one of these places, which is heightened by the temperatures over there. A smell that you don't get on our shores and one I can only describe as 'the smell of Cairo amplified'. Tempted to go over to the PTTGOYN thread for a good rant about Cairo, but my utter disdain for the place is a number of levels above petty. Let's just say that I would accept the pyramids being collateral damage. (Reported for racism etc etc) Edited March 14, 2021 by Hedgecutter 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 Which is the best GoApe! to go to out of Aberfoyle and Aberdeen? Taking my mate for her 30th. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellaboz Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 When I went to Thailand a couple of years back the first night I emptied what was probably the largest log I have ever dropped. Absolutely incredible thing that took two flushes. An hour or two later I woke up again and it was probably what Hiroshima looked like after being nuked. Slightly flooded the bathroom, was a nightmare waiting for it to all disappear and mopping up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 54 minutes ago, Stellaboz said: Absolutely incredible thing that took two flushes. Two? My bog would think it had the day off. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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