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Another lovely Chinese Toilet
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Hypiereon
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Registered: Aug 2005
Nationality: American
Posts: 139
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Sat 28-Jan-06 12:59am
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Rating: 10.00
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This is far more likely what you're liable to run into in a less-than-well-managed toilet area. This one has been trashed and not kept up, but even if it had been kept clean you can still see the near-total lack of privacy. The wall only comes up to about "waist" high.
Here you can also see the porcelain "bowl" I mentioned in the other thread, and the plumbing that you might have to wrangle with if you ever wanted to get out of the squatted position because your legs had gone numb.
In womens bathrooms these type facilites actually face each other lined up on the two parallel walls!!
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Hypiereon's Maxim:
"The best teacher cannot help a student who absolutely refuses to learn; the worst teacher cannot refuse the one who will not be denied." 
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gfell
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Registered: May 2005
Nationality: American
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Hypiereon
ESL Addict
Registered: Aug 2005
Nationality: American
Posts: 139
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I guess it really depends on the "gotta go" factor, though I must confess in at least one instance I actually considered just "going" outside beside the building. No privacy there either, but would have been much cleaner, and the stench would not have been half as bad!
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Hypiereon's Maxim:
"The best teacher cannot help a student who absolutely refuses to learn; the worst teacher cannot refuse the one who will not be denied."
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jessican
ESL Newbie
Registered: Aug 2005
Nationality: UK
Posts: 3
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I did some voluntary teaching in India when I was 18 - one of those gap year projects so beloved by the British. The public loos were very much of this style, and they've been one of the few things i've never missed. I haven't been anywhere similar since and now, at 25, I'm really not looking forward to it when I go travelling again. I'm sure I'll get used to it (as much as you can), as I did before, but it in my more conservative older years I would probably go to greater lengths to avoid it/delay it. The hotel method is good, and in fact I did use it once or twice in India. It's one of those "because I'm English I can and will" things that makes me feel guilty. Using facilities I shouldn't, knowing I won't be questioned because of the colour of my skin, does that make me a bad person? Its not very 'equal rights' is it? But then again, those toilets...
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eric_canada
Junior Member
Registered: Dec 2006
Nationality: Canadian
Posts: 10
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Oh my. I'd rather walk around in a diaper.
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