China scrambling to build western style toilet for Olympic after complaints by US and Europeans

Americans are uncivilzed monkeys with stinky BUTTS. Using only toilet paper is for apes and chimps, which fits the U.S. personality perfectly. Squat toilets and bidets make you clean up all the excrement that Americans love to smell all day on your bodies. That's why you always see Americans scratching their butt and smelling their fingers. They love the smell of their own excrement.

Off the Grid wrote:

You get used to it....its cleaner (your body doesn't touch any part of the toilet)

There are more germs on your cell phone than a toliet seat. Sucks to be wrong doesn't it?

face the facts wrote:

There are more germs on your cell phone than a toliet seat. Sucks to be wrong doesn't it?

Makes me wonder where you store your cell phone.

Southern Man wrote:

I've only used one of these toilets in the Middle East (Jordan) but we always referred to them as "Turkish toilets." Apparently that is not a universal designation.

The Chinese could just add plumb bobs to the Athlete's welcome kits. That might be cheaper than installing Western toilets.

It's really tough holding the string to the plumb bob in your sphincter while you aim. Surely American's will come up with a high tech solution like shoving a laser pointer up your ass.

I do my daily reading on the throne. How would I accomplish this in a squatter?

No wonder the Dark Ages produced so many illiterates.

The pride of Glen Dirty wrote:

It seemed pretty ridiculous to have a bunch of dudes rocking deuces right next to each other into a long steel trough.

I'm pretty sure I saw that on a Japanese game show once.

As a Beijing resident for the last 6 years, I can tell you that there is no issue with finding western style toilets here. Many public community toilets (that tourists and athletes are unlikely to enter anyway) only have one, but otherwise you will only have an issue if you are traveling outside of Beijing. The concerns on this matter are 'crap' (ha).

I'm sure China will be passing the new pamphlets:

"How to use squat toilets for Massive Fatbody Americans".

Awesome reference to the wiki article....Defecographic!

Rad, Saeed, "Impact of Ethnic Habits on Defecographic Measurements", Archives of Iranian Medicine, Vol 5, No. 2, April 2002, p.115-117.

I was there last year on my job with Nissho Iwai. Beijing looks like Tokyo now. Modern ameneties. Very nice. It's a very lively city. Wonderful. Kind people.

with some of the poops I've seen in the Department of Homeland Security, they wouldn't fit down the hole.

When I was a grad student we had a sudden rash of incidents where #2 was splashed all over the stalls in the men's bathroom. After serious sanitary alarms were raised they began surveillance of the men's room. Apparently a Chinese student, new to the university straight from China, arrived without understanding the workings of the Western toilet. He would stand on top of the seat and go, causing a very widespread mess.

I tried to find one to install in one of my bathrooms, but apparently they're not available in the U.S. They are difficult to install in slab floors, unless a raised platform is built up around them. I am willing to do that but still was not able to find out. Another reason is that disabled people are not able to use them, so they are against the ADA for installation in public places. However, I see no reason why they are not available to people who want them in their homes.

As has been mentioned, squatting is much healthier. Diseases such as appendicitis, Chron's disease, and prostrate problems were unknown before invention of the sitting toilet, which was originally only for royalty and disabled people, and still unused by two-thirds of the world.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uq9R9HGrWE&NR=1

What an opportunity to gain the upper hand on China. We sell them American toilets, then add the cost of the toilet seats (they've got to be sold separately), and be sure to use our military pricing scale (it's only fair since our dollar is in the toilet). Once we regain our economic throne with the millions of toilets we'll sell, we boycott their games beccause of their treament of Tibet. They'll have a nation of toilets their population can't use.

not a squater wrote:

Who cleans these things and how do they do it?

Can you put this things, like in a dining room and move right from the dinner chair and pinch a loaf?

I’m irresistibly reminded of the classic Homer Simpson episode:

A recliner chair with a built-in toilet was invented by Homer Simpson in September 1998. The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace episode found poor Homer shocked to find that half his life expectancy was already over at the age of 38. In order to ease his depression, he decided to follow in Thomas Edison’s footsteps and become an inventor, thus leading to the invention of the aforementioned recliner chair.

Called the Lazy Man Reclining Toilet Chair, Homer’s recliner chair was meant to make life easier while watching TV, so that instead of having to get up and walk to the loo when nature called, one could ‘ just lean back and let 'er rip!’

It even seemed that the plumbing in his recliner chair actually worked when he flushed it.

However, Lisa showed incredulity that people would in fact go to the bathroom in their lounge, and Marge was overly critical, dooming his career as an inventor to failure. The scene ends with Bart sitting on the recliner chair toilet, reading a newspaper.

I came across the ‘squat’ toilet donkey’s years ago in France.

I was there to run in a race and the unusual French food had constipated me.

By the time I finally finished - I found I was virtually immobilised in the squatting position!

It must be great exercise for the thighs and one assumes it’s nature’s ‘natural’ position for defecating.