Toilet design - national preferences

[djc]

Google 'Washout Toilet'

[Tim Streater]

Completely disgusting IMO.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember MM saying something like:

If you're constipated long enough, the "evils of re-absorption" start to happen, according to the first biology textbook I read that mentioned it. So, we already do it, but it's quite toxic, iirc.

[Dave Liquorice]

The position used is a better one for defacation, you don't get crap on your trousers, you have to be a little more careful with the aim of ones urine though. Ladies can, apparently, suffer splash back.

The squat toilet is commoin in many parts of the world. I spent 6 weeks travelling through China and only saw a western style loo once. In an expensive hotel catering for westerners... And yes one of the ones I used did have the sloping channel, into which one preformed, out through the back wall ending up in a paddy field. Or the rather rusty hole in the floor in a train where you could see the ballast of the tracks rushing by. Or the larger public loo with cubicles made of walls on three sides about 4' high and wide with a 6" wide channel linking them all together with water flowing down it, no door or curtain on the fourth side.

[MM]

There is NO excuse. Parents happily teach their children to wash their hands before meals and after using the toilet. They teach them to cross the road safely, not to bolt their food, treat others politely and so on. Yet when it comes to one of the most important aspects of human life, they're too embarrassed to speak and instead come up with daft explanations like the baby is in mummy's tummy. I think, however, that this is peculiar to Anglo-Saxon countries -- maybe because we, as I have said in uk.legal, are thick beyond measure. I'm sure that one will find the opposition to sex education for children in schools is mainly represented by the chav section of British society, as more educated people will not have such inhibitions. The Scandinavians, the Dutch, even the Germans are much more enlightened, and they are in the main better educated than British people.

MM

[MM]

That used to be the case on British trains, too.

MM

[MM]

Them, too.

MM

[MM]

Why? It's only a style of toilet! You sound typically British, typically insular. Wait until you are invited to participate in the NHS bowel cancel screening programme and you have to smear samples of poo on a test card. Some people chuck the invitation in the bin, preferring not to know, and some of those statistically will die early of bowel cancer.

MM

[Mike Clarke]

Yes but only when you pulled the lever to flush it, not while you were sat on it.

[S Viemeister]

Still is, on some trains.

[Mike Barnes]

The Wikipedia article makes good reading...

[DerbyBoy]

The position used is a better one for defacation, you don't get crap on your trousers, you have to be a little more careful with the aim of ones urine though. Ladies can, apparently, suffer splash back.

The squat toilet is commoin in many parts of the world. I spent 6 weeks travelling through China and only saw a western style loo once. In an expensive hotel catering for westerners... And yes one of the ones I used did have the sloping channel, into which one preformed, out through the back wall ending up in a paddy field. Or the rather rusty hole in the floor in a train where you could see the ballast of the tracks rushing by. Or the larger public loo with cubicles made of walls on three sides about 4' high and wide with a 6" wide channel linking them all together with water flowing down it, no door or curtain on the fourth side.

[Ret.]

I've done two of those so far. Not particularly pleasant - but only a complete idiot would not participate in the test.

[Bob Eager]

Yes, not the most pleasant thing in the world. OTOH, I knew someone who died of bowel cancer; in the final stages she was paralysed from the waist down. So the screening is worth it.

[Huge]

So what? So are fatal diseases, deformed children and sewage running in the streets.

BTDDT.

(Been There, Didn't Do That - when we were in China, we tried only to do #2s in the hotel(s) - upon seeing the strip of concrete littered with turds that had missed the holes that passed for the average Chinese toilet, I suddently lost interest.)

[Steve Walker]

I don't think most parents have any objection to their children receiving sex education, we certianly don't, but some councils seem to want to push sex education (combined with diversity education) at innapropriately young ages. We just want our children to have uncomplicated lives, without too many adult themes, until we consider them are old enough.

My wife's sex education started in the first year of secondary school, whereas mine started in the final year of juniors. As some girls periods start much earlier than others, the final year of juniors seems reasonable, although parents must be ready to answer questions much earlier, if it becomes necessary.

SteveW

[ARWadsworth]

Did you mean SOME parents?

[Mike Barnes]

If you've ever discovered that a crown's come off your tooth, and the only place it could have gone is down your throat, you'll know that things can get less pleasant. (Yes, it's now back in my mouth :-).

[Tim Streater]

I don't have to wait, George, I already did that fairly recently. I also did it while living in California some 20 years ago.

And what does this have to do with the disgusting "Netherlands design", or the equally disgusting French (and apparently Chinese) shit-down-the-wall variety?

Insular my arse.

[Dave Liquorice]

He he, I wonder how many people now have their keyboards in soak after up chucking on 'em?

Not sure which is worse fertelling through your own poo or someone elses. I've done the latter after the lad swallowed a 3/8" dia ball bearing.