Sit or Squat?

[Lukeee]

I was looking through random Wikipedia articles as you do when I can across this...
Do people really use toilets in that way? It looks so uncomfortable.
Maybe if you were in an unfamiliar place, but at home?

 

[Lawnmowerman]

Thank you! I've had a busy, hectic day, and I nearly spit a glass of water on my keyboard when I saw that pic!

 

[Lukeee]

Yeh I couldn't stop laughing either when I first saw it, she looks like a monkey

 

[JUB]

haha thats great made me laugh

 

[Lukeee]

I feel like trying it but I just know if I do I will probably slip and fall in when reaching for the roll.

 

[biguy732]

I don't know of ANYBODY who could use a toilet like that. But then again, when I was traveling in Europe a few years back, I ran into some interesting toilets - and not in the fun kinky way either.

 

[puka-pride]

based on the clean ups i've had to do at work int he bathrooms... yes.. people do that

 

[versatastic]

The squat toilet is not uncommon in many parts of the world. Squatting is actually better than sitting. When squatting, your thighs put pressure on your abdomen so your bowels move more easily as opposed to having to bare down to produce pressure, which can lead to hemorrhoids and such.

 

[Lukeee]

The squat toilet is not uncommon in many parts of the world. Squatting is actually better than sitting. When squatting, your thighs put pressure on your abdomen so your bowels move more easily as opposed to having to bare down to produce pressure, which can lead to hemorrhoids and such.

Yeh, I have been reading all about the different types of toilets, in Japan there are like 50 types and they all seem crazy to me.

As a young child I went to France and we stopped at a petrol station and I went to the toilet, I thought it was a shower when I saw a hole in the floor and I ended up going to the ladies toilet instead.

 

[fjancsi80]

Squat toilets are still very common in the Balkans. Westernization is going ahead but they are still used in some places (not in Hungary, where Western toilets were always the norm).

 

[star-warrior]

Last year, I was in the far east, and they have squat toilets there. I was in a house with no central heating, and the temperature was 5 degrees everyday during the beginning of January. It was a pain, as during the night, I'd to climb out of the warm bed to go to the squat toilet, in 5 degrees, it was ffffff-fucking freeezzing. My teeth was literally like a pneumatic drill as they chattered whilst I was taking a piss or a shit.

I had said to my other half that the worst thing I feared were the toilets. My fears came true, unfortunately.

BTW, it's easier to miss when you're shivering all over.

 

[Lukeee]

Last year, I was in the far east, and they have squat toilets there. I was in a house with no central heating, and the temperature was 5 degrees everyday during the beginning of January. It was a pain, as during the night, I'd to climb out of the warm bed to go to the squat toilet, in 5 degrees, it was ffffff-fucking freeezzing. My teeth was literally like a pneumatic drill as they chattered whilst I was taking a piss or a shit.

I had said to my other half that the worst thing I feared were the toilets. My fears came true, unfortunately.

BTW, it's easier to miss when you're shivering all over.

On Wikipedia it says "People experiencing diarrhea can spray fecal matter onto the back of the ankles and/or clothing." That is just disgusting.

 

[EwanSF]

Ah, yeah that is fuckin' rotten man. I've read that wiki artical before. Must say, it does put me off traveling slightly.

 

[gmoney]

From the looks of that illustration, it seems if you have to do more than tinkle, you might have a clean up job after taking care of business.

 

[Lukeee]

I don't think I could do it Reaching for the toilet paper would be too hard.

 

[star-warrior]

On Wikipedia it says "People experiencing diarrhea can spray fecal matter onto the back of the ankles and/or clothing." That is just disgusting.

Erm, whilst I've never had diarrheoa squatting over a toilet, I can't fault the logic of someone else's experience Especially a wikipedian.

Anyway, my sister told me a funny story about her visit to Tibet some years ago. She went into a loo there, and there was shit on the floor, shit on the walls, and when she looked up, there was shit above on the ceiling.

Now either someone threw it up there, or there was an occasional toilet explosion upwards. Imagine being the recipient...

 

[Lukeee]

^ Oh my, the ceiling? She didn't use the toilet, did she?

 

[CHUCK905]

I was born and raised here in the US but sometime in my 20s I was into vegetarianism and yoga and other alternative health practices. Somewhere I read that squatting was the most healthful way of defecating for reasons that have been noted here. I began doing it that way and I still do, years later. I also travel to other parts of the world and even here occasionally go to some sketchy clubs where I wouldn't want to touch down. But usually I just squat at home.

(Oh, if I feel like loose bowels might be coming, I do sit.)

I was looking through random Wikipedia articles as you do when I can across this...
Do people really use toilets in that way? It looks so uncomfortable.
Maybe if you were in an unfamiliar place, but at home?

 

[star-warrior]

^ Oh my, the ceiling? She didn't use the toilet, did she?

She said she wasn't able to, and had to squelch out gingerly...

 

[Ethanjames2]

I was complaining to a female friend about guys that are too lazy to raise the toilet seat, and piss all over it. She said females are worse because they squat over it and the piss sprays everywhere.