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Thanks very much for the advice and the warning about pooping in unfamiliar places! And yeah, it will be my first cross-ocean flight. The longest flight I've ever been on thus far in my life was a flight to Puerto Vallarta.
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Just poo poo when you need to man. There will be a toilet nearby, no matter where you are. Or find a corner and pretend you're just practicing your Asian squat.
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Chances are, stress and dehydration will make sky pooping a non-issue. Enjoy Thailand! It's a great choice for your first visit to a new continent. Smoke a hookah and get a watermelon shake for me 
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poo poo, and poo poo well.
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Math Debater posted:One thing I'm feeling kinda anxious about is the probability of needing to poo poo while traveling from the U.S. to Thailand via airplanes. Does anyone have any tips or strategies for making GBS threads while engaged in long airplane journeys that they'd like to share?
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Pilsner posted:Doing it on an airplane is actually preferable. You can leave your stuff in your seat so you don't have to mess around with a bag and jackets/blouses, and the airplane toilets are usually well-equipped with tissue, TP, seat cover, soap, even moisturizer, etc. It's guaranteed to flush with massive force, and the sink is right there besides it for comfort. I'd say it's even preferably to an airport. Yeah, this sounds pretty nice. I just worry about the possibility of someone going through my backpack and stealing stuff while I'm making GBS threads and wiping my rear end in the airplane lavatory. I suppose I'll use one of my locks to keep my backpack's laptop compartment locked shut. Thanks so much for all of the posts, public toilet travel buddies!
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Lol are you sure you're ready for SE Asia if you're afraid of laptop theft on the airplane? If it's a business trip, don't leave your hotel. If you're a tourist, leave the laptop at home and enjoy the sunshine. If you don't have a smartphone now is the time to upgrade.
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Math Debater posted:Yeah, this sounds pretty nice. I just worry about the possibility of someone going through my backpack and stealing stuff while I'm making GBS threads and wiping my rear end in the airplane lavatory. I suppose I'll use one of my locks to keep my backpack's laptop compartment locked shut. Nobody is going to steal your poo poo on the plane. If it does happen (it's not going to happen) you can raise a fuss and they'll probably start searching peoples bags. I'd be more concerned about people planting drugs in your bag. Then all of a sudden you have an appointment for a full cavity search. And you just hope you did a good job wiping back on the plane cos skidmarks are embarrassing when you're an adult. The airplane toilet was tiny and that did nothing to help your maneuverability.
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your layovers are like ~3 hours and you're worried you won't have time to poo poo 
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appropriatemetaphor posted:your layovers are like ~3 hours and you're worried you won't have time to poo poo Plus, planning your shits in advance and asking the internet for advice. Dude, I get that you're anxious, but relax. Your bowels will empty themselves just fine.
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appropriatemetaphor posted:Why would a hotel make you pay Needed to tinkle while walking around Monte Carlo earlier today, and popped into one of the fancier hotels by the casino wearing flip flops and a t-shirt. Reception didn't think twice about pointing me towards their bathrooms - seriously, it's pretty much always the way to go.
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I knew a girl in Asia who was shocked people could just stroll into hotels and go to the bathroom. Coincidentally, she's a black South African.
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Well, uh, I'm pleased to report that I was able to take a nice and unstressful poo poo in the Hong Kong airport before my final flight to Bangkok. And none of my belongings have been stolen thus far. Now that I'm in Thailand, there's plenty of other stuff for me to feel stressed out about!
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Congrats dude. Wat Arun is hella chill hth
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What I never got was how Tokyo had Western toilets everywhere - fancy ones that spray water up your butt and play showtunes. EXCEPT this one toilet in the bowels in Shinjuku station. This was especially bad since the only time I tried to use the bathroom in Shinjuku station was very late at night while very drunk. It's almost like they planned it out to troll drunk tourists.
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Mike Maddux posted:
Real talk (probably TMI): How do you use these things properly? I tried my best when I was in India for 3 months to get used to squatter toilets, but I have no idea how you squat to avoid making GBS threads into your pants without having to take my pants completely off.  Am I just that derpy of a Westerner or do other people have trouble with this stuff being used to sit-down toilets?
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TheRamblingSoul posted:Real talk (probably TMI): Squat kinda horizontally instead of vertically. Do not push your pants beyond your knees. It takes a bit of balance and some getting used to the position. A lot of the US people I knew in Okinawa tended to brace themselves on the stall walls for balance when they first started using them. Ultimately you want your knees against your stomach instead of pointing outward. Or just take your pants off and sprawl comfortably.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:Squat kinda horizontally instead of vertically. Do not push your pants beyond your knees. It takes a bit of balance and some getting used to the position. A lot of the US people I knew in Okinawa tended to brace themselves on the stall walls for balance when they first started using them. Ultimately you want your knees against your stomach instead of pointing outward. Yup, there was my problem. 
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Visit beautiful Grasse, southern France, home of perfume. Make use of the public restrooms, open from 8am until 6pm every day. Try not to get tetanus. Seriously Grasse was one of the filthiest and worst looking cities I've ever been in, I thought I'd stepped through a wormhole to Aleppo. 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koUWaAr-itY Peace Corps... Poop in a hole for two years (probably with diarrhea the whole time)! As you can imagine, "public" toilets in such settings just means "poop in the bushes." I saw a 10 year old boy I knew just took a poo poo naked in the open like a dog before swimming in the river. Thesaurus fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Sep 19, 2014 |
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 This was one of the nicer ones in the Philippines (everywhere that's not Manila).
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 Just look how goddam happy that mofo on the right is, now he's learnt to poo poo like a pro.
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I can only imagine the 1st one is how one gets poo on the toilet seat. What the hell, people? Speaking of poop in the wrong places, the Auckland library toilet once had a poo trail all the way to the door. Nope, didn't go in there. Didn't need to piss that bad anyway.
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When I taught in China near one of my classrooms was a boy's toilet. It absolutely filled the hall with a eye burning piss stench and I avoided it for as long as I could, however a side effect of living in China is that the poor food handling knowledge/attitude there results in you not always choosing when you need to poo poo. So it was inevitable that I would have to go in there and see what I saw. Imagine a long narrow room, white rectangular tile running its length, about shoulder high on either side. But not exactly white any more, more spiderwebbed and yellow. And with many busted sections of tile having fallen off revealing cut rate concrete underneath. On the small distal wall about three meters up hangs a white porcelain tank that you could bathe a buffalo in. A tin rain gutter descends from the tank to a trough. The trough is tiled but it is unmistakably a trough, running the length of the room and canting ninety degrees down into the floor just below your right hand as you stand there. The trough is decorated at irregular intervals by piles of mostly soft boystool of varying colors. Nobody touches the porcelain tank but it flushes anyway, probably at regular intervals, and a bathtub's worth of water comes rushing down the trough, treating you to an incremental close up display of the piles of poo poo before they plummet down the drain. Up until now you've managed to not really see the particulars of anything inbetween the drain and the tank. The detail you're presented of everybody's poo poo breaks the spell, however, and your eyes focus on a middle distance. Scattered around the trough as though a bomb has gone off are at least a dozen Chinese boys. There are absolutely no dividers. If this were Germany or Canada or some other orderly and sane pace a civic agreement would have long ago been brokered and the correct approach and posture to use when addressing the trough would have been fixed. But this isn't those places, this is goddamn China. Some boys straddle the tough and look you in the face while pissing out of their weiners, others face the cistern, some face the right wall, others the left. One has broken even these constraints and straddles the trough while facing the right, reaching behind himself to pull his pants behind with one hand so that he can piss straight down. Likewise with the making GBS threads. One boy squats and shits while talking to his friend who has decided to just sit against the wall and not use the bathroom -- their faces are maybe a foot and a half apart, their knees almost intercross. Like some anatomy textbook of squatting shits every teachable angle of the bony human rear end is displayed, but since this is the modern era these are video slides, not stills. Do you stay and poo poo yourself? Or do you work on another area of cultural assimilation and decide instead to develop sphincter endurance and tone against what feels like a water balloon being repeatedly shoved through your guts against your rear end in a top hat?
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Sheep-Goats posted:Do you stay and poo poo yourself? Or do you work on another area of cultural assimilation and decide instead to develop sphincter endurance and tone against what feels like a water balloon being repeatedly shoved through your guts against your rear end in a top hat? I think this is the second time I've ever rated a thread. 5555555 would rate again.
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An extremely popular prank among those boys in China was to shove a fat kid into the trough and then call him a dirty pig for the rest of the day.
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I really had to poo poo at a bus stop in Turkey once and it cost me a dollar to get in the bathroom, only to find out that all the toilets were squats and none of the stall doors locked. I walked out and held it in for an 8 hour bus ride
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How about soaps ? Anyone here seen Korean public toilet soaps?
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Think soap on a rope except it's a metal pole at the exact same angle as a flacid knob.
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There's nothing wrong with jerking off the soap.
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caberham posted:How about soaps ? Anyone here seen Korean public toilet soaps? That's a really weird and specific thing to make a soap opera about.
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Saladman posted:Ever since reading this comic I feel like I now understand the Asian toilet features. You've just got to use the right technique.
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The worst toilets I've seen were in Morocco, they looked a lot like the ones from India posted here, but generally worse. How do people deal with that? Why not just get a sitting down toilet? Why not build some other kind of contraption, out of brick and mortar if need be, other than a filthy, impossible to truly clean hole in the floor? In Spain they have sitting down toilets... without seats. You're supposed to hover awkwardly over the bowl. I'm sure this is some kind of sadism.
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I paid to use this in rural Bolivia I was desperate I had no idea what lurked within To "flush" you threw sawdust down the "KAKA" hole 
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unless you do a poo in the pee pee hole then what
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Tomato Soup posted:I paid to use this in rural Bolivia I was desperate I had no idea what lurked within That actually looks pretty clean and OK, though why they bother having a "pipi" hole I can't imagine. It looks like peeing in that will just cause splash and make a mess everywhere, while not having it at all would be cleaner.
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What you guys are looking at/describing is actually an ingenious toilet: a composting latrine. Some Peace Corps volunteer or NGO is probably responsible for that Bolivian one. Peace Corps Volunteers were making them in the Dominican Republic while I was there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composting_toilet The pee and poop are separated because they are then later used as organic fertilizers 
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Thesaurus posted:What you guys are looking at/describing is actually an ingenious toilet: a composting latrine. Some Peace Corps volunteer or NGO is probably responsible for that Bolivian one. Peace Corps Volunteers were making them in the Dominican Republic while I was there. That makes more sense. I kind of had the impression that the pee was just going directly into the same spot as the poo poo. But seriously whoever designed that seat has no concern for splashback; what an awful design. I guess it didn't go through CAD simulations and wasn't milled out of metamaterials in a high-tech Taiwanese factory. E: Hey, wait... literally none of the compositing toilets in the page you link have a separation for pee and poop.
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