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Can anyone recommend any good public toilets? By good I mean like interesting, safe, clean, etc. The ones in my city are OK but nothing special really, and a lot are really unsafe, especially at night I saw one I thought was cool but haven't ever come across one, anyone know where I can find this?  The old ones in France are pretty cool also i guess, but France is a little far for me  What are they like where you're from?
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Apr 8, 2014 23:34
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The public toilets where I live are usually littered with cooked aluminum foil, bloody toilet paper/paper towels, spent syringes, and the remnants of point baggies. I always show tourists when they visit, but don't think I have any photos. ~*~*Heroin*~*. The bathrooms surrounded by junkies with shaggy dogs too.
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Apr 9, 2014 09:13
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Where I live, people pee on "DO NOT URINATE HERE" signs plastered across the town. Trees or walls or just nothingness. Everything is fair game when you gotta pee.
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Apr 9, 2014 09:56
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What an odd thread. Anyway, here is a cool toilet.  
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Apr 9, 2014 10:52
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I always wanted to find one of those, figure out where people would be sitting, wait until someone goes in and then stare at them and point like I can see what's going on.
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Apr 9, 2014 11:16
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    very comfy
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Apr 9, 2014 18:42
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The Coeur D'Alene casino has really comfy and clean bathrooms. If you are ever in Idaho theres a sketchy truck stop right when the hills turn green instead of desert (heading north out of Boise) and it looks really gross but somehow the restroom there is really nice. and I didn't get stabbed
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Apr 9, 2014 18:46
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Cowabanga posted:
A squatter is actually better and more ergonomic than a western-style toilet
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Apr 10, 2014 23:28
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Until you realize how awkward it is having to hold your pants away from everything going on. I like Squatters in theory but in practice it's a rather involved affair.
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Apr 11, 2014 05:06
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appropriatemetaphor posted:A squatter is actually better and more ergonomic than a western-style toilet There's nothing ergonomic about the way I use a squatter: I look like a disabled octopus trying to carefully defuse a bomb without pissing on its own shoes.
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Apr 11, 2014 05:18
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Eifert Posting posted:Until you realize how awkward it is having to hold your pants away from everything going on. I like Squatters in theory but in practice it's a rather involved affair. It doesn't seem like it would be that hard, does it just have your legs too close together?
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Apr 11, 2014 05:40
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It's sort of how you have to pull your pants up so they don't slide back down towards your butt. If you just bunch them around your ankles like you would on a normal toilet, your jeans and shoes are uncomfortably close to the action. When I was staying in China and the hotel rooms would sometimes only have squatters, I would just take my pants off. And boy does that feel dignified.
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Apr 11, 2014 06:05
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You ain't never squatted if you ain't squatted on an L train during Spring Festival: forty miles an hour adds about fifteen degrees of wind chill to the already sub freezing temperatures outside and all of that gets funneled upwards towards your tender cheeks and rapidly shriveling scrotum.
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Apr 11, 2014 06:19
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appropriatemetaphor posted:A squatter is actually better and more ergonomic than a western-style toilet I often see people say this, but only from people who went on a church trip to Haiti/~*Africa*~ once and were so enlightened by how the natives do it and they must be right because they're closer to nature. Also it's only men who say this because women realize how awful squatters are for peeing. Unless you spend hours a day on the shitter I can't imagine ergonomics really matter. Anyway, they're also way easier to clean, so since people, usually men, are disgusting animals, many public toilets here in Switzerland are squatters. Much easier to clean up with a hose when someone shits everywhere, which is basically all the time.
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Apr 11, 2014 09:06
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Saladman posted:Anyway, they're also way easier to clean, so since people, usually men, are disgusting animals, many public toilets here in Switzerland are squatters. Much easier to clean up with a hose when someone shits everywhere, which is basically all the time. This... This is not how I picture the Swiss.
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Apr 11, 2014 11:08
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Centripetal Horse posted:This... This is not how I picture the Swiss. Don't worry, I'm sure it's because of those filthy immigrants. And by filthy immigrants I mean drunk teenagers.
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Apr 11, 2014 11:46
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Saladman posted:Anyway, they're also way easier to clean... This argument doesn't hold for public toilets in Asia.
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Apr 11, 2014 16:32
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appropriatemetaphor posted:A squatter is actually better and more ergonomic than a western-style toilet Better, you say
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Apr 11, 2014 16:55
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Saladman posted:Anyway, they're also way easier to clean, so since people, usually men, are disgusting animals, many public toilets here in Switzerland are squatters. Much easier to clean up with a hose when someone shits everywhere, which is basically all the time. No way, really? Is that the French/Italian influence? Wow.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:12
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Yes. The French tradition of making GBS threads everywhere is slowly creeping east.
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Apr 13, 2014 19:41
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elbkaida posted:No way, really? Is that the French/Italian influence? Wow. Oh, I only really know about the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Maybe the Swiss Germans are cleaner drunks. VVV: There are squatter toilets everywhere, in that case. It's probably 20/80 or 30/70 in favor of toilets, but still quite common to see the squatters. Saladman fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Apr 13, 2014 |
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Apr 13, 2014 20:46
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I actually meant the squatting toilet part, did not expect that in Switzerland. I only saw those in Italy a long time ago.
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Apr 13, 2014 22:04
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This helps explain the bizarre Thai obsession with Switzerland. In related news, Suan Nai Dam isn't exactly public, but it's become almost a quasi-public rest stop: http://superenglishsurat.blog.com/?p=1543
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Apr 14, 2014 11:03
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Cowabanga posted:
Bare feet on a public squatter? ARHGHHGHHHHHHH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooo. If I had to poo poo in public, I'd rather use a squatter - at least you don't have your rear end and dick in contact with God knows what. You don't have to position your feet on the pads, you can do as wide as you like. Just don't slip.
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Apr 14, 2014 14:05
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Squatters beat western toilets for making GBS threads. Pissing is another matter though. Tucking your Wang between your legs, gently caress that. Urinals for number ones, squatters for number twos. One major drawback of the squatter though is the lack of flush to clean the bowl, you can end up with a right old mess to clean.
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Apr 16, 2014 18:32
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High tech squatters do have proper flushing, e.g. ones in Dubai airport. But if you only have some old can with some water it can be a bit annoying, yeah. One more reason why everywhere should have a toilet brush (looking at you, America - the whole continent that is)!
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Apr 16, 2014 23:56
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the goofiest toilets are those german ones where you sit backwards and poo poo right on the shelf
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Apr 17, 2014 06:05
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The line in Forrest Gump is "Life is like a box of chocolates..." It should be "Life is like an Asian bathroom..." Unlike chocolates, where you always get something inside chocolate, Asian bathrooms really are that unpredictable.
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Apr 17, 2014 08:20
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Eifert Posting posted:The line in Forrest Gump is "Life is like a box of chocolates..." Ever since reading this comic I feel like I now understand the Asian toilet features. 
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Apr 17, 2014 09:59
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appropriatemetaphor posted:the goofiest toilets are those german ones where you sit backwards and poo poo right on the shelf There are no toilets where you sit backwards in Germany... Best kind of toilet imo are in middle east or SEA, where you can get european kind of sitting toilet with attached bum gun for cleaning.
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Apr 17, 2014 10:14
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elbkaida posted:There are no toilets where you sit backwards in Germany... Test before using - some fire like a super soaker.
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Apr 17, 2014 11:50
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Saladman posted:Ever since reading this comic I feel like I now understand the Asian toilet features. The only thing that I can conclude from that comic is that Kris Straub goes around touching everything and everyone he meets with his bare asscheeks, and then uses them to eat his food.
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Apr 19, 2014 07:40
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cent0r posted:Test before using - some fire like a super soaker. I was once held hostage for like six minutes on a Japanese style toilet seat in Ulsan, Korea because it started and malfunctioned. I had a pretty strong jet of water shooting at my butt and none of the buttons on the control panel would shut it off. I ended up taking off one sock and shoe and unplugging the seat with my toes. It was just far enough away that I couldn't reach it with my hands. Was... An experience.
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Apr 19, 2014 15:48
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The closest one to me has this on it, which is all you need to see. Trust me.
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Apr 30, 2014 23:39
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What the poo poo e: I see fluffy sheep prancing out of the toilet bowl
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May 1, 2014 18:48
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A lot of countries had dozens of years where putting TP into the bowl would back up the plumbing hopelessly. There'd be a little dust bin that you'd put "used" TP in. As you can imagine, upgrading the plumbing happened eventually. However, a lot of old people will see a sign saying "Nah it's cool, dawg, just toss that poo poo right in" and think "The fools~ The plumbing couldn't possibly move TP!"  And, so, that TP is going somewhere, but not in the bowl. No dustbin? The floor works just fine. Or the sink! Or the seat of the toilet! Or stuck to the wall like post its!* *I have observed the end result of all of those brilliant ideas. And more. So much more. Life is like an Asian restroom...
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May 2, 2014 08:17
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Eifert Posting posted:A lot of countries had dozens of years where putting TP into the bowl would back up the plumbing hopelessly. There'd be a little dust bin that you'd put "used" TP in. As you can imagine, upgrading the plumbing happened eventually. However, a lot of old people will see a sign saying "Nah it's cool, dawg, just toss that poo poo right in" and think "The fools~ The plumbing couldn't possibly move TP!" It was still like that in west coast Mexico when I went there recently. All I can say is I'm glad it's not as humid there as here, the idea of putting dirty TP in a bin was much more horrific in theory than it actually smelled. Plus you're so dehydrated that there isn't much moisture/smell to begin with. I found a video of a toilet they put in the ghetto area near me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MrhOTqKp4g
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May 2, 2014 09:28
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I haven't been in a while, but last time I was in Portland, OR my friend had to use the restroom, but the one public loo we found had a crackhead or tweaker doing either a drug or some tweaking in the loo, with the door unlocked and everything. We ended up using a Starbucks nearby, but I was curious where the good restrooms were at.
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May 8, 2014 11:06
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My public toilet secrets: Starbucks for shits, McDonalds for piss. Why? Because Starbucks are generally cleaner so you don't have to worry about wiping piss off the seat.
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May 8, 2014 17:07
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Japanese urinals appear to pre-flush upon approaching them. Like they're really excited to see you or something.
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