french crouching toilets

[orangeshoebox]

just wondering as in a brico (don't ask) in france and they sell those toilets...

do private households have those sometimes?

First encountered them in the Middle East, then Asia. They are fine if you’re not wearing tight jeans.

Top tip at the aires - usually the disabled toilet has an ordinary loo if the others are crouching ones.

Used one in France that had a big thick piece of rope nailed to the door that you could hang on to.

I was just amazed that you
could buy such a thing in a diy store.
and that they were a lot more expensive than a cheap standard bog.

I've only encountered public use ones when travelling, so never going to be the cleanest. I like the angle, and I love the hose pipe, very refreshing, but yes a bar needs to be provided to help me back up!

The queef, what's your step like?

We live in France and I've never seen one!

@TheQueef is it a stool

Fine for a wee but however do you get your poo in the tiny hole? Think my aim is bad

Looks like a toddler step Duds but it's to put your feet up during.
Got it from Amazon, happy poo or summat

Just a tip, don’t use them whilst drunk. Oh the horror

They’re known in our house as a squatty potty.

I don't understand either why in France there is quite often only one horrible toilet for the whole of a bar or restaurant.

Worst is when they’re in ski resorts. Ski boots and salopettes make it a whole new challenge!!!

I like a squat toilet in a service station especially the aires with no other services - they are quieter - you can actually park even in high summer. Because you don’t need to get anywhere near the actual toilet it they aren’t that clean it’s not a horrific thing.

I was somewhat shocked when I 1st met them in France ages 11, but when I met them in India travelling as a student again I was pleased. Not so pleased by the filthy “ English style with ears “ toilets in Indian “ service stations “. You wouldn’t want to sit on them and standing and squatting as the locals do was bloody precarious to say the least

The public toilet in the town where we stay in France has one. It also has about a 15cm gap under the door. It’s not pretty.

I once used a squat loo in a mosque in Woking.

Thanks queen, have ordered one!

You have to have thighs of steel if a week of eating holiday food begins to slow things down a bit.

DS tells me they have them at his uni in London

I hate them because no matter how deeply I squat, I always end up pissing on my bum cheeks. It's the same if I have to wee al fresco when hiking - must be a quirk of anatomy, but I'm incapable of just weeing straight down, it always wants to run over my bum and thighs :(

Although it’s true it’s healthier to squat, I’d much prefer a squatty potty to actual squatting!

I can’t squat with my feet flat on the floor either - how do you balance? Apparently that’s common in Westerners whereas Asians (who customarily squat) don’t have tight tendons. It’s known as the Asian squat, apparently!

The only bad experience I have had with one was on a mountain in full ski gear.

It was a challenge.

hiking in the french alpes - so now after a week of going up and down have thighs of steel
and now that I have discovered that I used it the wrong way round before - no more wet shoes

The wrong way round ?? What were you doing ?