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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      This picture clearly shows him throwing bucket water directly onto his pants.

      how-to-use-a-squat-toilet7.jpg

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller
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        Even that article mentions the need to hang up your pants across the room!

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
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          This one leads off with "find a place for your pants" as well. But there being no clean place to put pants is a pretty standard problem.

          http://www.wikihow.com/Use-a-Squat-Toilet

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          • scottalanmillerS
            scottalanmiller
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            not only are they delusional that there is a place to put your pants, they expect you to be BAREFOOT in these nasty places?

            aid253056-v4-728px-Use-a-Squat-Toilet-Step-3-Version-2.jpg

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            • DashrenderD
              Dashrender
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              yeah - I'm totally lost. it's almost like they are there for show.

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller
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                All of these sites seem to have access to luxury squat toilets that are nothing like what I've found even around Milan.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @Dashrender
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                  @Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:

                  yeah - I'm totally lost. it's almost like they are there for show.

                  Except they tend to be in places where that doesn't make sense. Like a train station.

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                  • DashrenderD
                    Dashrender @scottalanmiller
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                    @scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:

                    @Dashrender said in Toilets of the World:

                    yeah - I'm totally lost. it's almost like they are there for show.

                    Except they tend to be in places where that doesn't make sense. Like a train station.

                    i was kidding.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller
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                      There is no kidding with squat shitters.

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                      • JaredBuschJ
                        JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                        @scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:

                        There is no kidding with squat shitters.

                        Been there, did not do that, in Japan.

                        Held it until I found a modern shitter.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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                          @JaredBusch said in Toilets of the World:

                          @scottalanmiller said in Toilets of the World:

                          There is no kidding with squat shitters.

                          Been there, did not do that, in Japan.

                          Held it until I found a modern shitter.

                          That's what I've done.

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                          • matteo nunziatiM
                            matteo nunziati
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                            to put a bit of context, what @scottalanmiller found here, in Italy we call it "turca", litterally "turkish" (toilet).

                            This was (is?) the default in Turkey. In 38 years in Italy I've met them less then 10 times. never in a house, mostly in the 80s in public places close to highways.

                            main rational for them: you have not to touch anything to pee or poo just hang on your feet. anyway never pooed in... don't know how to manage it!

                            other rational: you just need to throw acid or similar on the floor to clean. nothing else.

                            don't know how turkish people manage it with childern. Also don't know what GPS navigator @scottalanmiller uses to hit them all! 😄

                            definitively a strange kind of toilet.

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                            • Emad RE
                              Emad R @scottalanmiller
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                              @scottalanmiller

                              When I went to Canada I got the nastiest surprise ever, its you people (US and Canada and near that area) that are never clean, you expect to keep using toilet paper for everything, well that NEVER WORKS.

                              And no where I live in Middle east we do not squat or use any of those stuff, we use shattaf/Bidet

                              It looks like this:

                              0_1498636819302_ShattafToilet.gif

                              https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=shattaf&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiuj42dieDUAhWG7xQKHW1oBasQ_AUICigB&biw=1396&bih=697

                              It just water faucet that you use manually, when you finish and you get clean. I was very surprised that this invention was not found in Canada... think this is how the MENA region and Europe works, some have this instead:
                              170px-Bidet_side.jpg
                              But its more costly and takes more room, thus in MENA we like cheap workarounds so we use the Shattaf.

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                              • matteo nunziatiM
                                matteo nunziati @Emad R
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                                @msff-amman-Itofficer bidet is somethig used mostly in mediterranean/middle east countries. even center europe has not bidet wide spread.

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                                • Emad RE
                                  Emad R @matteo nunziati
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                                  @matteo-nunziati said in Toilets of the World:

                                  @msff-amman-Itofficer bidet is somethig used mostly in mediterranean/middle east countries. even center europe has not bidet wide spread.

                                  What do they use then, just TP ? I think I googled the reason why no bidet or shattafa is used in Canada, and the excuse was that in the 1900 there was no available warm water so they just rolled with it ever since or something.

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                                  • ObsolesceO
                                    Obsolesce @Emad R
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                                    @msff-amman-Itofficer said in Toilets of the World:

                                    @scottalanmiller

                                    When I went to Canada I got the nastiest surprise ever, its you people (US and Canada and near that area) that are never clean, you expect to keep using toilet paper for everything, well that NEVER WORKS.

                                    And no where I live in Middle east we do not squat or use any of those stuff, we use shattaf/Bidet

                                    It looks like this:

                                    0_1498636819302_ShattafToilet.gif

                                    https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=shattaf&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiuj42dieDUAhWG7xQKHW1oBasQ_AUICigB&biw=1396&bih=697
                                    But its more costly and takes more room, thus in MENA we like cheap workarounds so we use the Shattaf.

                                    Yeah, I don't understand how people can live with themselves. For example, I'll be in the bathroom, and the stall next to me sounds like war zone... then when finished, what sounds like a quick wipe or two with toilet paper and out he goes.... so disgusting.

                                    My logic regarding that is this:

                                    If you (for whatever hypothetical reason) get some poop on your arm, what would you do? Would you just take a couple dry pieces of toilet paper, give it a quick wipe, and then be on with your day? Or would you, like most people, wash it off, really good... either with wet paper and/or water?!

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                                    • DashrenderD
                                      Dashrender
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                                      There's no soap in a didet, so how is just using water better than using paper to wipe your ass?

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                                      • Mike DavisM
                                        Mike Davis
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                                        I like the alternative to the Turkish toilet in Paris, the pay toilet. I actually researched it and found out they are illegal in the US.
                                        0_1498655571992_payToilet.png

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                                        • DashrenderD
                                          Dashrender @Mike Davis
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                                          @Mike-Davis said in Toilets of the World:

                                          I like the alternative to the Turkish toilet in Paris, the pay toilet. I actually researched it and found out they are illegal in the US.
                                          0_1498655571992_payToilet.png

                                          Why is that?

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                                          • Mike DavisM
                                            Mike Davis @Dashrender
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                                            @Dashrender Why are they illegal? or why do I like them?
                                            They are illegal because people were worried that if you charged people to use the rest room, they would go in public.

                                            I like the pay toilet in Paris because it actually cleaned it self after each use.

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