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[zoltanspawn]

Progress, UN report indicates 31 percent reduction in open defecation in India.

http://indianexpress.com/article/in...ces-open-defecation-by-31-per-cent-un-report/

 

[Cormac135]

Damn, i thought Pat was back when ii saw the thread pop back up.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Damn, i thought Pat was back when ii saw the thread pop back up.

I bump this thread every so often in his honor.

Well, and because it's interesting.

 

[rareboy]

^ Yes. When I think of Grimshaw at all...this thread comes to mind.

30% really isn't all that good when you consider it is only since 1990. I'd like to know how the new prime minister is doing with this issue since he took the throne.

 

[pat grimshaw]

63% have a mobile phone; 47% have an internal 'latrine'.

I'm assume Narendra Damodardas Modi is improving the ratios. But look at China!

A Chinese man known only as 'A Duan', from Tong’an, Fujian province, wanted an iPhone so much he sold his 18-day-old baby daughter with a price tag of 23,000 Yuan.


http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/198...to-buy-iphone-and-motorbike-turns-himself-in/

 

[Kabluey]

^ Yes. When I think of Grimshaw at all...this thread comes to mind.

30% really isn't all that good when you consider it is only since 1990. I'd like to know how the new prime minister is doing with this issue since he took the throne.

Meheheh. Throne.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...Throne.

Oh no. No pedestals needed in India.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Oh no. No pedestals needed in India.

I always appreciated that pooping posture. It seems much more conducive to a good shit than sitting.

But that's a mighty crowded toilet. The back right corner especially. I've definitely never seen anything like that in India; as a rule, I think of Indians as modest almost to a point of prudery, not a bunch of convivial defecators.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...I've definitely never seen anything like that in India...

You must have been going to the wrong toilets.

I've seen the argument that women shouldn't use these toilets enclosed in brick walls because too many of the rapes happened there.

 

[jbrown329]

Oh no. No pedestals needed in India.

Yeah, get me squatted down to use one of those.......... I hope there's somebody to help me get back up.

My brother and I spent summers with the grandparents. It wasn't until the early 70s that they had an indoor toilet. It was a hike to the back 40 to the outhouse.

 

[vidarr]

Of all that's holy NOOOO.

Nevermind the shit that someone inevitably left behind in one of those.
Try pulling down long pants with dress shoes, and try not to hit them doing your business..

Don't forget to bring napkins with you, which have to be disposed in a trash can. Oh and soap, cause there aint any.

 

[jbrown329]

I guess if you wish to stand while you pee, you could use the sink.

 

[zoltanspawn]

Of all that's holy NOOOO.

Nevermind the shit that someone inevitably left behind in one of those.
Try pulling down long pants with dress shoes, and try not to hit them doing your business..

Don't forget to bring napkins with you, which have to be disposed in a trash can. Oh and soap, cause there aint any.

It annoys me to answer this, but it would annoy me more not to answer this.

Shit is almost always rinsed down the hole. It's left behind at about the same rate as I've encountered in western toilets.

Shit doesn't get on your pants or dress shoes unless there's something wrong with you. Of course, there probably is.

People don't wipe their butts with napkins. Used toilet paper isn't left in trash cans. People clean themselves with water. Soap is often available.

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I guess if you wish to stand while you pee, you could use the sink.

Been there, done that.

Of course, there is a urinal in the photo, so stand and pee away.

 

[jbrown329]

^^ Oops, missed the urinal but it's one that would make you splash all over your legs/shoes.

 

[zoltanspawn]

^^ Oops, missed the urinal but it's one that would make you splash all over your legs/shoes.

I hate urinals in general. Due to my low station in life, I clean a public bathroom a couple times a week. There's always dried piss crusted on the surrounding partitions and floor. I stopped using the thing because I noticed droplets on my pants. What geometry.

 

[pat grimshaw]

...People don't wipe their butts with napkins. Used toilet paper isn't left in trash cans. People clean themselves with water. Soap is often available....

A recent Turk fatwa mentions this—

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tu...paper.aspx?PageID=238&NID=80671&NewsCatID=341

...I clean a public bathroom a couple times a week. There's always dried piss crusted on the surrounding partitions and floor.....

So do you think its better to have one communal wide wall urinal or the individualised bucket urinals?

 

[zoltanspawn]

A recent Turk fatwa mentions this—

If only the Japanese would issue an imperial fatwa for all the rest of us.

 

[dpnice]

So much for civilisation when it is deemed necessary that a religious body gives instructions on how to clean your arse.

 

[rareboy]

Or what to do with your foreskin.

 

[jbrown329]

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No thanks. I would have to walk to far for the last urinal. I'm pretty well blind in the right eye. So I don't like people standing on my blind side. If there are the little partitions between, I'm ok.