Comments on: Paper is cheap

By: Lyra

Lyra — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:19:22 +0000

Uhm, can’t speak for there, but I know plenty of girls that put one foot on the toilet seat when putting a tampon in.

By: shane

shane — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:14:18 +0000

This may be for people from India. My roommate works for a company and they had to train the new people from India on how to use the toilet properly.

By: octavius

octavius — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:44:41 +0000

Yes but in the UK you can get colored tissue to match your bathoom decor, well worth the extra cost.

I’d missed this PAN and would like to mention my English female visitor of a few years ago. She was supposed to stay for 3 days which turned into 30.

Shortly after her arrival I started noticing occasional sprinkle effects on my toilet lid, notably when I sat on it. At first I blamed my young son for not lifting the seat when doing his number 1s. But then it still happened after he went to summer camp. My girlfriend, a doctor, then explained to me that some women are so obsessed with toilet seat germs that they squat on or stand over it to avoid contact. This is actually a mental condition which also results in their being unable to even look back at the seat to check for friendly fire and clean up the collateral damage. I don’t like to seem naiive but this was quite a revelation!

Anyway I couldn’t face a direct confrontation so I started doing things like leaving wet wipes and disinfectant on the lid as a little hint. Still no luck so I chucked her out and have never, thank God, heard from her again.

By: stephizzal

stephizzal — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 18:45:05 +0000

tissue is cheap? not in the UK its not! its like £5 (approx $10) a pack, its unauthorised use causes almost as many arguments between roomates as the dirty dishes!

By: i_secrately_stalk_you

i_secrately_stalk_you — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:20:26 +0000

but you have to step on the toilet to use it as a portal to the pipe dimension.

By: freddy

freddy — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:06:44 +0000

That’s way more gross. After all, you’re far more likely to have trodden in shit, than to have gotten it on your hand before you touch the handle.

By: some girl

some girl — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:46:35 +0000

I just spent 2 months in Ukraine… We called their toilets “squatty potties”. Only McDonalds had the fancy SITTING kind… They told us at my job that there was a story of a village family who had been given a nice, new, western-style toilet, and that the family — very confused — solved the confusion by burying the toilet to rim-level, and building an outhouse around it in the yard! By the time I left the country, I came to think that squatting is a lot more natural than sitting, a lot cleaner (no worrying about trying to hover-poop so you don’t touch the seat), and, overall, no big deal.

By: pink_orchid

pink_orchid — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:36:15 +0000

richmond, canada

By: pink_orchid

pink_orchid — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 08:31:07 +0000

@ oana hahaha! i live in richmond and i was going to say that is a VERY common sign here b/c of the high asain population. apparently it is a common practice… i dont get it!

By: d

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:16:15 +0000

I lived in Ecuador for some time, and it was the norm to see, as lovecarrots puts it, “sitters but no seats.” toilets were frequently REVOLTING, and the local method was to stand on the seat, facing the wall (this is KEY to, um . . . hitting your target. also easier to balance this way – the wall above the toilet is often clean enough you can put your hand there.

believe me, in Ecuador, it didn’t have a thing to do with not realizing you’re expected to sit on the toilet; it had to do with the total disgustingness of the act. I adopted the custom because I’ve never been able to hold a hover and relax enough to take care of business at the same time.

By: jane

jane — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:02:56 +0000

Haha! I am currently living in South Korea. I teach at a private academy, and our school shares its bathroom with a bank’s corporate accounts office. I don’t know if it’s the bankers or the students… but quite a few people who use our bathroom could learn something by reading that sign! People definitely try to use our sitters as squatters.

By: Siu

Siu — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:25:43 +0000

Being a North American born Asian, and having traveled to China, I see why some Asians will actually stand on the toilet seat, and then squat. It’s just that they don’t realize you’re expected to sit on the toilet.

But let me tell you something, after catching a stomach bug during a visit to China, after awhile, I was glad for the squatters toilets and preferred them to the sitters. You don’t realize the muscles you use squatting. You know you’re out of shape if you’re sore from squatting after a few days.

By: Lovecarrots

Lovecarrots — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 16:33:28 +0000

I have to confess to having squatted on a sitter on numerous occasions where the seat is too gross to touch and my dodgy knee too crook to make hovvering an issue.

In France, at motorway service stations, they often have sitters but with no seats. Somehow I balk at putting my chubby thighs on the lip of actual pan so I always squat and wipe my shoe prints off the edges with bog roll when I’ve finished.

As someone else points out, you do have to be careful about positioning though or it does, indeed, get messy.

By: c

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:21:15 +0000

I’m Filipino and still have no idea how to use the hole in teh floor type of toilet. Whenever I have a stopover in Japan, there is always a long line of fellow Filipinos waiting for the western-style toilet despite the availability of porcelain holes in the ground.

On another note, hovering is an excellent thigh workout. Thanks to a year of a dirty college dorm bathroom, I can crush walnuts with my knees.