Some toilets in Sochi will not accept toilet paper. Will need to put it in a bin on the floor.

a lot of countries do that...

Serious question: have other Olympic-hosting facilities in the past had such an arrangement?

having been in Moscow last year for the world champs I can say that Russia is not to far from being a 3rd world country. Went once will never go back

like China

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT687iteDbs

Yeah, this is common all over the world.

Lots of places have septic for each house or biz and don't connnect to a city sewer. They don't like you putting lots of paper down the toilet 'cuz it can gum up the septic and force them to have it cleaned out ($$$) more often.

What's funny is that people from these countries often toss toilet paper on the floor in American bathrooms because they don't want to put it in the toilet, and there's no bin in the stall.

Sort of like when Americans tried to get Iraqi soldiers to use portolets and they would crap on the outside walls instead of inside because they couldn't figure it out.

Thanks Obama!

Toilet paper is overrated.

And they took reservations for the unfinished rooms

I visited Moscow in 1965, stayed in a major hotel and toilet paper was the newspaper, Pravda, which in Russian means truth. Unlike in Sochi, apparently, it flushed.

The line on Billie Jean v Putin is BJ by 13.

I was in Moscow and St. Petersburg this past summer. Toilet paper wasn't flushed there either. You put it in the trash can next to the toilet.

Saw that in all rural parts of Argentina. You get used to it; really not a big deal.

Do yourself a favor, and go travel a bit, man.

In Japan they don't even use toilet paper at all, they use bidets

They sometimes have flushing-noise machines too so people can hide the sounds of their defecation and urination without wasting water.

I didn't think it was possible for a bathroom to smell more like ass than they do but there you go.

Exactly how does one make a toilet "not accept" TP?

Do you take a crap through a colander?

SMJO wrote:

I didn't think it was possible for a bathroom to smell more like ass than they do but there you go.

Exactly how does one make a toilet "not accept" TP?

Do you take a crap through a colander?

If you read the thread it was explained. It is about pipes being blocked not necessarily the toilet itself. As mentioned many times this is common in much of the world. Americans need to get out more.

I read the thread. What I meant is that if there is no physical way of preventing TP from being put in a toilet, people will do so. They don't give a crap (pun intended) if the toilet overflows.

Have you never seen a blocked toilet that was at one point capable of handling TP overflowing onto the floor and people still cheerfully add to the mess and keep flushing every time the water percolates down an inch or so?

That's going to be Sochi after the Americans and Canadians get there.

Bad Wigins wrote:

In Japan they don't even use toilet paper at all, they use bidets

I use a bidet, but still have to pat off the water with paper; otherwise the butt remains wet.

tycobb wrote:

If you read the thread it was explained. It is about pipes being blocked not necessarily the toilet itself. As mentioned many times this is common in much of the world. Americans need to get out more.

Why the EFF would americans want to "get out more" when "out" is that. I like my non third world country tyvm. I'll let the snobby world travelers keep their butt-trash bins to themselves.

I see what you were trying to say but you don't want to risking overflowing the toilet in your hotel room, when another one probably isn't available.

Also, the kind of Americans you described probably don't do a ton of traveling to these countries. It is also not that the toilet can't handle any TP but need to take preventative measures against costly repairs.