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Toilets

I have to say this is a very entertaining thread.
It's amazing how much fun it is to have a nice fairly anonymous conversation about toilet adventures! Keep up the good work guys!
 
I didn't think it would go to 4 pages. I mean, after my "shaving" thread, I thought I would be told never to post a thread in this forum again. :p

Anyway, I can't believe the number of people who don't go in public toilets, even the ones at work. Work ones are pretty good, I think. Just find one that isn't used as often. I don't know why, but I think I'm on some sort of cycle, because I drop 2 or 3 kids off at the pool every day at around 11am. :) I use particular stalls at uni and do a #2 every day. They're almost always clean and I always go to that building to do it, even if I have to leave another building and walk 5 minutes.

I also sit on the seats (most of the time). If there's a sprinkle of pee on the seat, then I'll squat.
 
I too don't mind work or uni toilets, they're usually kept in a pretty reasonable state. High school was a different matter - they were always gross and I avoided them at all cost.
 
Abstract said:
Oh yes.......go figure that I'm the one who starts a thread about toilets. :p


Here's a few questions:

1. Women always tell me that the toilets in women's washrooms aren't clean, but how the heck do women make a toilet messy enough not to sit on? Their accuracy must be 100%, right?

2. Do you sit on public toilet seats, or do you crouch?

3. Do you "create a poo" in public toilets, or do you wait until you get home?

4. Do you make a mental note of all the clean public toilets around your area? I do, and I never go to other toilets if I have to sit on the seat.
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1. I don't know, I'm a guy.
2. See number 3 (I stand for doing #1)
3. Only if it is an ABSOLUTE emergency and with EXTENSIVE EXTENSIVE toilet paper on the seat and even then I usually crouch....
4. There are none. LOL.
 
You run a few marathons and let me tell you, you really start to care less where you take a "____" and whether anyone sees you or not.

If you are 20 miles out, and do not have a place to go, you find a place that is convenient. The NYC marathon always cracked me up. About half way over the Verrazano Narrows Bridge, hundreds of guys would be lined up taking a leak over the side (usually because we tend to drink about a gallon of water before a run like that).

Anyway, unless there is really nasty stuff all over it that I cannot clean, it make little difference to me where I go. Lets put it this way; your ass is not the cleanest of places anyway. if you think your cheeks are sterile..well...
 
Here's another irritating bathroom habit...one of my friends used to occasionally call me (or answer the phone) when he was on the toilet. It wasn't so bad when he was on the landline burt cell phones have more sensitive microphones....he still thinks I'm weird for complaining about it, but I know he's weird.
 
rdowns said:
In that moment of impending projectile vomiting, my attention was diverted from the goings-on at the other end. To put a freeze frame on the situation, I was half crouched down to the toilet, pants pulled
down to my knees, with a load of vomit coming up my esophagus.<SNIP>
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ROFL!!!!! Sorry to hear about it, but a great story.

I was lucky recently. Food poisoning from my flight from Iceland to London, left me in a similar experience (will never eat eggs, chicken, or fish on another flight again). Fortunately I was able to sit down completely first. And second the in-suite facility was small enough to bend over the sink at the same time.
 
rdowns said:
That's just sick.
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Rob just walked in from a 14-hour day and he said he coul dhear me cackling from the parking lot.

That was the funniest damned thing I have read in MONTHS. :D

I loves me some RDowns.
 
I don't use public restrooms period.

I only go to the bathroom like 2 times a day anyways.
 
Not being a germophobe, I guess I have pooed a few places that a lot of people would not. Sometimes there is not a lot of choice when you have driven 200 miles to go to a 3 day concert in the middle of nowhere with little in choice when it comes to where to go potty.

When traveling, it is hard to find toilets that are considered clean by western standards. Apart from San Francisco's self cleaning public toilets, but I didn't like sitting on a cold wet seat, even if it had just been sanitized.

I think the fear of public toilets is probably just another phobia.

But then again, I have a friend who is too embarrassed to do a number 2 at someone else's house. He and his wife think that it is rude and impolite. These are fun, open minded people, most of the time. This discussion came up though, and that revelation was made.

I can't understand why he was embarrassed though, it's a bodily function.

As for the public toilet thing, as long as it looks clean, I am okay with it. It seems to be more a perceived problem than a real one.
 
Jschultz said:
Montrose...You in Chicago?
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No.. Montrose area in Houston.
The "gayborhood" as I've heard it referred to.


My favorite part of town.. so arty, yet semi gritty, with yuppie accents!

Comp User said:
I don't use public restrooms period.

I only go to the bathroom like 2 times a day anyways
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Yeah, I used to avoid public bathrooms doing that

THEN I HAD KIDNEY STONES.
WITH ONE KIDNEY.
OH EM GEE.
Pain, ow, ow, much the triste.

When you realize that doing that may help precipitate a stone you'll drink water like a bad mutha' (chorus: shut your mouth!).

Just scope out the clean ones.
The 2 minutes of disgusting is SO WORTH IT, considering a probable alternative is 3 hospital visits, $10K in bills, and OMG THE PAIN OF PASSING A STONE WITHOUT PAIN KILLERS (and then having to pick it out of the loo to give to the doctors.. who then tell you that they don't need it.)

Ok, I'm a water freak.. but I don't have stones anymore. :D:D
I was the youngest person they'd ever heard of having kidney stones.. I was 13 or 14 at the time, IIRC. Ouch, le pain, OMG.
 
I guess a good way to gross people out on this thread would be to describe what a rest room is like in Bombay.

Let's put it this way, you'll smell it long before you ever see it.

There are so many people that the toilets inevitably become clogged and unusable. At that point, people will start to crap and piss around the toilet. After that, they will just start crapping around the crap, until it gets to the point where people are just crapping and pissing in the general vicinity of the toilets.

The bog of eternal stench comes to mind.
 
I think one guide book I read put it best, (paraphrasing here) - there is a reason in parts of Asia that you never see people eating with their left hands....
 
I'll occasionaly use the grafitti-covered bathrooms in my schools, but I usaully come out with sticky shoes and smokey clothes. :D (well, the smokey clothes are a bit of an exageration, but you get the idea.)
 
It's 11:54 here and this thread is killing me!

Where I work, there's only 6 of us. There's a lot of people upstairs, but only six of us work in the basement. We have 1 toilet. All of us let of some... umm... interesting scents. :p It's disgusting finding "pubes" on the front part of the seat, though.

Oh yeah. I almost forgot. Out of the six people, 4 of us work directly outside the bathroom door. You can hear everything going on in there and sometimes smell it.
 
floriflee said:
I remember really having to go to the bathroom in India at a restaurant in a touristy section of Delhi. However, there was menstrual blood all over the seat. Don't ask me how it got there. It was just disgusting. I think I almost made the whole toilet scene worse by throwing up all over it. I guess, in that sense, the hole-in-the-ground toilets have an advantage. You have to squat and won't come in contact with anything (assuming you have good balance)....

I take note of which toilets are clean. Luckily, working from home I don't have to use public restrooms as much anymore.

Edit: I didn't really throw up, but I wanted to.
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I guess the Asian style toilets do have their benefits.

Sometimes I see an old fart going in to read the paper. I can squat, but can't stay in that position for a long time.

Oh, and yes, I have the good ones around Tokyo that I know and use.

The worst ones, scary to use wise, were in Korea. Just a slit in the floor about 6 inches wide and a couple of feet long. Under the slit was a huge storage place for everything. They would pump them out every couple of months. What worried me was that something important would fall in while using them. Never happened luckily.

The worst one, difficult to use wise, was also was in Korea. I had to go really bad. My GF encouraged me so I went. This was at a fairly major train station. They had holes in the floor. You could squat for pooping or stand to pee. i stood and peed while two old ladies, one on each side, were they were squatting and peeing/pooping. Meanwhile my GF was outside watching giving me the Korean equivalent of the thumbs up sign. So much for modesty.
 
Lord Blackadder said:
A tangential question for everyone...don't you hate it when you are on the pot and somebody walks in and sits down in the stall next to you? Usually they have to take a loud D too. I hate that.
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During Army Basic training, we had open bay barracks and crappers.

Nothing like being able to see 10 guys crapping at the same time. It does make passing reading material easy, however. :D
 
The whole asian squat toilet thing freaks me out. I remember a stop over at KL airport. I went in to use the toilet and saw the squat ones. I had no idea what to do so I just waited until I got back on the plane.
 
max_altitude said:
The whole asian squat toilet thing freaks me out. I remember a stop over at KL airport. I went in to use the toilet and saw the squat ones. I had no idea what to do so I just waited until I got back on the plane.
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Definitely don't want to loose your balance! :D
 
iGary said:
Rob just walked in from a 14-hour day and he said he coul dhear me cackling from the parking lot.

That was the funniest damned thing I have read in MONTHS. :D

I loves me some RDowns.
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The aerial photo rights are still up for grabs. :eek:
 
After working 6 days a week since the beginning of December, I finally took yesterday and today off. Of course, it snowed yesterday and I woke up to an electrical problem in my house. No power in the bathroom. Called a few electricians and couldn't find anyone to come until this morning.

About 11:30, I sat down to a Most Satisfying Bowel Movement™ that was quite ripe. You know it's bad when you can smell your own. Phone rings in the middle of it with an electrician who says he can squeeze me in as he just finished a job 10 minutes away.

He arrives and it still stinks. I tell him and offer a cup of coffee. He laughed and thanked me for my consideration. We had a cup of coffee and I showed him my iBook which he asked about as it was sitting on the table. When he wrote the bill up, he waived the "emergency response" fee of $45. Said the stink warning and Mac consulting were worth the 45 bucks.
 
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