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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 15, 2004 18:52:43 GMT 7
Welcome to China!
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Post by George61 on Aug 15, 2004 19:15:59 GMT 7
OHHH!! What a nasty bastard you are, to be sure!!
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 15, 2004 19:35:18 GMT 7
Hey, at least I didn't make it the main forum picture-of-the week. Besides, a little dose of reality might give a needed hint that this place isn't like the movie Mulan at all. At least smell doesn't travel over the internet yet....
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Post by George61 on Aug 15, 2004 20:08:44 GMT 7
Yeah, we can be thankful for dat!!
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 15, 2004 20:23:21 GMT 7
...plus I think a reverent moment of silence is due the brave, unknown photographer who undoubtedly lost his life documenting this little slice of Chinese life.
Actually, I wish I could say I haven't seen even worse than this here....
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Post by MK on Aug 17, 2004 1:52:54 GMT 7
There seems to be a small green frog in the one on the left, and an enormous spring roll in the one on the right....the thing these Chinese eat, eh?!
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Post by Steiner on Aug 17, 2004 3:02:46 GMT 7
Just a note to you who haven't met Raoul-- He's trying to pass this off as just some picture he found, but really it's the bathroom in his own apartment.
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Post by wOZfromOZ on Aug 17, 2004 12:01:14 GMT 7
Oh come on Steiner
It's undergone significant improvement in the last month. I'm sure Xiao Jiba will send a rep around soon!
wOZfromOZ ;D
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Post by Raoul Duke on Aug 17, 2004 18:44:23 GMT 7
True...I now have a housekeeper who comes in twice a week and keeps everything minty fresh. She hasn't shown up yet tonight, though. Strange... Maybe she knows wOZ is here.
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Post by Ruth on Aug 22, 2004 19:02:15 GMT 7
We stopped at a fairly nice restaurant on the way home from the airport yesterday. Our driver (school provided, along with the car) made the choice after rejecting one other. The bathroom looked like the above picture, except there were doors on the stalls. One stall was for men and one for women, share the sink. We were in a private room on the third floor of the restaurant. To get to the room we had to step through liquid debris in the hallway, and navigate around the piles of dirty dishes stacked on the floor alongside the garbage from other diners' lunches. One the way out, we got to witness a diner on the second floor vomiting onto the floor from his seat at the table. This environment could be beneficial for my diet - which I now need more than ever after eating Western food in clean, health inspected restaurants in the US and Canada!
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Post by xiaoyu on Sept 6, 2004 16:58:20 GMT 7
This is going to sound sad... but I actually miss the atmospheres that have been expressed. Sure, ou might have gone to da restaurant with out a guide/tranlator but what is the good of going to another country if you can't experience your mistakes? go for it. Try everything. So you might mess up. Who cares? Did you learn something from it? I am back in the states right now. I miss learning something new (historical/cultural/edible) everytime I go out. Embrace life, it only has as much to offer as you allow it.
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Post by Dr. Gonzo on Sept 11, 2004 12:26:48 GMT 7
Actually, it was batman who posted a worse picture on The Spoon. It, and he, didn't last long. It was a Western style commode, and people had crapped all over it, as opposed to IN it.
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Post by ilunga on Sept 13, 2004 18:40:25 GMT 7
My favourite outdoor hotpot place has a public crapper a few doors down. It's no better or worse than most, but it would be nice if people didn't put their number twos where the number ones should go
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Post by Ruth on Sept 26, 2004 7:45:20 GMT 7
There's a difference?
Ilunga, we don't all get to pee standing up; some of us have to squat.
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Post by slim on Sept 26, 2004 8:18:24 GMT 7
Yes, I think so, I took it to mean that some people poo in the urinals. No doubt a crapper frequented by the Chinese State Circus.
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Post by con's fly is open on Sept 26, 2004 21:25:52 GMT 7
Yes, I think so, I took it to mean that some people poo in the urinals. No doubt a crapper frequented by the Chinese State Circus. The public clearly need to be educted on this front. I've had the use the Chinese trench exactly twice in my eleven months here. I have to admit there's a certain advantage in terms of trajectory, but I don't have the balancing act down. If only they'd install handicapped bars to each side so I could hold on, I might even come to prefer squatting to sitting.
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Post by Steiner on Sept 28, 2004 10:45:27 GMT 7
I'm pretty good at it. My apartment in China had a western toilet in the real bathroom and a squatter as the drain in the shower, so I got to practice every morning in the shower.
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Post by roaming kiwi on Sept 30, 2004 16:04:09 GMT 7
... and a squatter as the drain in the shower, so I got to practice every morning in the shower. Oh you sick bastard! This reminds of the time I went to Laiyuan County (in Hebei but near Shanxi). The "Great" wall. By golly - there's a mutated eco-system in them thar hills. Why, oh, why did I look!? I agree - at least you boys can stand. You try and squat there with mere inches between your favourite bits and Sammy the squelching beetle! Or is that Beatle? Hmmm...I'm just going to...
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Post by xiaoyu on Oct 9, 2004 16:30:37 GMT 7
i actually didn't mind the squatting that much. guess it comes from camping so much when i was young. you can also look at it as the workout it is. your legs, ass, and abs are getting a better workout squatting than using a western toilet.... the only drawback i found to squatting (outside of the runs :S ) was if the spot was already quite full and you had to perform an elevated squat.... sounds a bit like a tumbling term. xiaoyu
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Post by Newbs on Nov 21, 2004 8:05:59 GMT 7
I've just come back from Xinchang. Total western population 1! That must be so, because no one had ever seen a laowai before, because they didn't know that they had to yell it out when they saw me. I didn't get called that once.
Anyway that is background to my simple, yet illuminating experience. I went to that well known tourist site, the 4th largest Buddhist temple in this province. It's 1600 years old, but it was rebuilt in the late 1960s. Apparently something happened to it just a few years earlier, but they didn't say what. So this place caters for tourists but not too many laowai tourists. I went into the cesuo, to do no. 1, but noticed that the doors were all open. Sure enough, they were all squatters, EXCEPT the one marked disabled. It was a genuine western, let's sit down and take it easy, no more knee tembling, sitter.
Two things to say about this. From now on I'm disabled. Secondly, maybe the Chinese consider anyone who wants to use a sitter is disabled, and therefore to them all laowai are disabled. More research is needed on this, but for now I'm off to the door with the little logo of the guy in the wheelchair on it.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Nov 21, 2004 8:17:25 GMT 7
Hey Newbs, it could be worse. On my old computer I still have a photo I took in a public bathroom in Suzhou...it's a sign reading "Special Toilet for Deformed Person"!
Eventually I'll recover those pictures and I'll post it here.
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Post by Newbs on Nov 23, 2004 17:41:33 GMT 7
Hey Raoul
I've been thinking about your sign about a deformed persons toilet. The next bit is only for those of the human species who stand up when they're in the cesuo. You may have noticed that in the more upmarket urinals each person has an individual porcelain urinal, and the manufacturers have thoughtfully added a little V shaped section that sticks out to make sure that all drips are collected. However, a quick glance, and I mean a very quick glance, at the floor around said urinals will show that the V section hasn't worked, and some of the no 1s has landed on the floor. Maybe there are a whole lot of deformed people out there, maybe they have a hole in the side which causes leakages, or maybe they are not, to quote you on another thread "equipped like Nigerian porn stars". Whatever the reason, I reckon a sign that says Deformed ought to be placed on the doors of all said urinals.
I will not be silenced on this. I reckon that as soon as said signs are placed on the doors, all the problems to do with cesuos in the People's Republic will be solved.
Newbs
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Post by Raoul Duke on Nov 23, 2004 23:07:46 GMT 7
Hear, hear, Newbs. Nice to have you here. I like the idea of the signs. Sadly, I fear thinking this will solve all the problems is terribly optimistic....
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Post by con's fly is open on Nov 26, 2004 14:01:09 GMT 7
Eurika!
Urinals should actually be pipes slanted downward 2 to 3 meters into the wall, leading to a collection point in the basement that they can hose out when the spirit moves them. It would give guys something to do (pee down hit without hitting the sides), prevent splattering, and take the urine out of the room at the speed of gravity.
Alternately: the Xylophone Urinal! Oh, the song contests!
I've gotta get some patents.
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Post by Decurso on Aug 29, 2005 0:42:49 GMT 7
This is my first attempt to post a photo...but taking pictures of chinese bathrooms is a hobby of mine.No wonder nobody wants to visit me! Those are maggotts folks!
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