Asiatic Pooping
Okay.
I love to learn new things about other cultures but last year there was a strange circumstance that I ran into that made me curious about the scatological habits of my neighbors in the Far East.
There's a firm for which I occasionally do consulting work, based in a low-rise tower in Atlanta. While I was in the office some of my friends there began to tell me about this fellow who had started desecrating the men's room. They would find little piles of wet (and soiled) toilet paper beside the rear-most toilet in the common mens' room available to all the businesses on the floor they occupy.
One of my friends, a Mexican national, actually caught the guy who did it at one point. He heard rustling in that stall but didn't see any feet on the ground. As he listened he heard the guy dipping water out of the toilet and finally realized that the guy was perching atop the toilet seat, apparently cleaning himself in a most unusual fashion. My friend hung out in the hallway just to get a glimpse of the guy, and he said that the guy looked Asian....I trust that my friend knows his ethnicities.
I didn't think to post it here back then because it was a) weird and b)super-weird. But today, at a coffeehouse, I passed an Asian guy (when he said "pardon me" it was a really thick accent) about my age who was coming out of the Men's room. When I went to the toilet I saw that there was a wet clump of toilet paper on the raised lid....bringing the other incident back to mind.
So, is there some secret post-pooping technique that is heretofore unknown to most of us Westerners?
Anyone?
I love to learn new things about other cultures but last year there was a strange circumstance that I ran into that made me curious about the scatological habits of my neighbors in the Far East.
There's a firm for which I occasionally do consulting work, based in a low-rise tower in Atlanta. While I was in the office some of my friends there began to tell me about this fellow who had started desecrating the men's room. They would find little piles of wet (and soiled) toilet paper beside the rear-most toilet in the common mens' room available to all the businesses on the floor they occupy.
One of my friends, a Mexican national, actually caught the guy who did it at one point. He heard rustling in that stall but didn't see any feet on the ground. As he listened he heard the guy dipping water out of the toilet and finally realized that the guy was perching atop the toilet seat, apparently cleaning himself in a most unusual fashion. My friend hung out in the hallway just to get a glimpse of the guy, and he said that the guy looked Asian....I trust that my friend knows his ethnicities.
I didn't think to post it here back then because it was a) weird and b)super-weird. But today, at a coffeehouse, I passed an Asian guy (when he said "pardon me" it was a really thick accent) about my age who was coming out of the Men's room. When I went to the toilet I saw that there was a wet clump of toilet paper on the raised lid....bringing the other incident back to mind.
So, is there some secret post-pooping technique that is heretofore unknown to most of us Westerners?
Anyone?
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Also, I know that in many areas without advanced septic systems, used toilet paper is not thrown into the toilet, but is put in the trash (this is common in many parts of Mexico, for example). That still does not explain leaving it on the seat, of course.
Fish
as for the guy at work; perhaps he is squating to keep away from the dirty seat?!?
Because that's the hand you use to wipe your arse. Asian, and even some Middle-Eastern toilets, everywhere but in hotels where Westerners might stay, are typically a hole in the ground, a tap, and a plastic jug. You poop, you fill the jug, you pour while you squat and clean with your left hand. Many find paper positively unhygenic and even rather revolting.
I went through a phase last summer of taking a water bottle to the loo and using that. Whenever we run out of paper I never use the cardboard: I pour. There's no doubt it's cleaner.
I don't know whether the man was using water in the bowl to clean himself or not, or what's with the paper, though.
Hmmmm, I think I'm all finished talking about poop for today.
Originally posted by pfflam
terrible 'American Standard' toilet design
blaspheme! American Standard toilets simply are the best. the rocket of water annihilates any and all defecation.
Originally posted by drewprops
Yes, I'm familiar with the cleaning habits of those from the "Middle East"
Of course. Didn't mean to patronise, dude.
Originally posted by drewprops
....maybe he just didn't have the temerity to ask somebody "hey, how are we supposed to use these things?".
<Demolition Man> He doesn't know how to use the three sea shells! </Demolition Man>
Originally posted by billybobsky
blaspheme! American Standard toilets simply are the best. the rocket of water annihilates any and all defecation.
Originally posted by kneelbeforezod
<Demolition Man> He doesn't know how to use the three sea shells! </Demolition Man>
I remember this one : very funny
Originally posted by billybobsky
blaspheme! American Standard toilets simply are the best. the rocket of water annihilates any and all defecation.
Clearly you have no experience with the world's toilets.
The world has a wide variety of great toilets. . . .
the best being the French deep-hole super flusher (not the French-squatter). . . . no kerplunk-backlash and very fast splashless flush!!!
A pleasant experience for those of us who hate the idea of bacteria laden water weaseling towards our puckered parts . . . .
Originally posted by pfflam
A pleasant experience for those of us who hate the idea of bacteria laden water weaseling towards our puckered parts . . . .
Why are you flushing while still sitting down?
Originally posted by FotNS
Why are you flushing while still sitting down?
Not from the flush silly . . . from the turd splashage!
Originally posted by pfflam
Not from the flush silly . . . from the turd splashage!
Duh! You put toilet paper in the boil to cushion the splash.
I learnt that from Operah. Really. She was explaining how in public toilets she thought weirdos were (maybe only in her imagination) trying to listen to her going for a piss, so she'd fill the bowl with toilet paper.
I dislike the environmental wastage so I don't put too much in. I've become quite adept at putting in just enough so that its not excessive, but so that it is enough not to soak and become useless.
Originally posted by SonOfSylvanus
Duh! You put toilet paper in the boil to cushion the splash.
I learnt that from Operah. Really. She was explaining how in public toilets she thought weirdos were (maybe only in her imagination) trying to listen to her going for a piss, so she'd fill the bowl with toilet paper.
I dislike the environmental wastage so I don't put too much in. I've become quite adept at putting in just enough so that its not excessive, but so that it is enough not to soak and become useless.
Yes, I have resorted to that . . . however, in France one does not NEED to do that . . . their toilets are well designed
a note: Germany also has toilets that don't splash. There is a little shelf that is above the water. The poop piles on that shelf . .
. . but then, -and this sorta ruins the good design factor- there are extreme jets of water that push the pile into the trough at the sides of the toilet . . . these jets splash and are noisy and they often do not work as intended . . .
. . unsightly and unsmellty too . . .
. . . I suppose that it was intended to allow for easy wiping without getting wet . . . of the porcelain that is . . .
Originally posted by tonton
I think the guy who left piles on the floor was either even more rural than that of origin (never even saw a keyhole toilet) or he had a psychological problem.
There's being used to the hole-in-the-ground toilets and there's being completely oblivious to the way sit-down toilets work. I've ventured into some pretty shitty parts of China...Guangdong farther in than Guilin and central/western China like Sichuan.
A person who has the ability to come to this country should be expected to know how to use a sit-down toilet, unless they are retarded like you said.
I've never seen soiled TP placed in a way that would suggest somebody had no idea how to use the facility. I have seen piss all over the floor in plenty of bathrooms, which is nearly as digusting, IMO.