British toilets are really badly designed, you can't poo without it ploping in water and splashing

[ethicsgalore]

I think toilets here are a really bad design. Why don't they have the style of toilet where you poo onto a slant without water and the hole is right at the front? I want to import a toilet. Fed up of making a nest out of paper that jams the system.

I don't understand the point of US style low loos. It must be hellish if you've got dodgy knees.

The worst toilets I've pooed in were Dubai airport

Yup. And the queues. And, after having waited for 20 minutes, having to dart back into the queue when you discover the empty cubicle is one of those hole in the floor toilets.

I think people who can't cope with squat toilets (absent disability and provided they are clean) are a bit precious to be honest.

bogs in Crete are v hygienic in the greater scheme of things....

Interesting first post!
Poo troll?
You may well think so, but I couldn't possibly comment!

I have the "plop-up" edition of the mole book.

sallying thanks, but I'm not telling her. The bathroom she's replacing is a wonderful 80's grey suite with pink tiles. You half expect to use the loo and have Duran Duran burst out of the airing cupboard

I thought the reason Germans needed to inspect their poo was because they eat a lot of pork sausage type things and that, in the past, this often caused worms - and they had to check for this?

I hate squat loos - they are always dirty and smelly and now I have arthritic knees can't do it anyway..................

The depths of knowledge on MN re all things poo never ceases to amaze me! Who knew about poo ledges? Not me - and I previously thought I was fairly well travelled!
Incidentally - can I just take this opportunity to highly recommend to you a product called Poo Pourri. Go Google it. You spray the toilet bowl with it then send your offering down - and no smell! Really.
Unless your plop is sitting on a ledge winking at you. Then you've got problems!

I remember back in the 80's my parents took me to Spain and we ended up in some village high in the mountains (I want to say it was called Mijas?)
Anyway, I needed a wee and my 8 year old self was baffled when Mum pointed to a hole in the tiled floor. It stank. Really really stank. I heaved. And heaved. And then my nose bled because I'd heaved. Lots.

My remaining memories of Mijas are blood, smells, lots of frantic locals shoving tissue at my Mum and a goat that stood on the back of a Donkey.

Japanese toilets are the way to go, they open lid automatically, they have loverly warm seats and there's the excitement of the water squinting thing. Very hygienic and entertaining.

yes I think the 'inspection shelf' is primarily found in pork eating countries...
A lot of them in the part of Western Poland that used to be Germany, thinking about it.

I can't believe no one's yet mentioned Greek toilets and their little bins for the used paper. No issues with the actual toilets themselves in this case, just the sewage system that won't take the pooey paper (I think this is the reason?).

oh yes the poo paper bin - then when you move back to the UK you start throwing your shitty loo roll down to the floor just out of habit...doesn't go down well (excuse the pun)

NickAngel What the hell is water squinting?

I wonder if there's a correlation between countries with a poo shelf & higher diagnosis of bowel cancer sorry not at all

SistersOfPercy - that whole scenario really made me laugh!

puts chocolate fudge cake down< Yes,strange 'no paper' system in Greece,just an increasingly smelly bin. And Greek showers that are the height of a toddler. Weird.

The best loo I have ever been in was at the airport in Minneapolis Minnesota. Clean beyond belief...the seat was lovely and comfortable, it was automatic flush, once you stood, down everything went down and the best part, with a little whirring noise, a fresh toilet seat cover popped on. I could have spent my vacation in that airport.

shudder this has reminded me of a hotel in Morocco in the mid 1980's where the designers had ingeniously saved money and space by putting the shower directly above the hole in the floor loo.

You did NOT want to drop the soap.

(Takes greece off her to visit list).

I also love Japanese toilets, more so because I a recent business trip a really stuck up German guy got stuck in one, he pressed the button to get the squirts water and then couldn't find the button to turn it off again, he tried standing up but of course it simply sprayed up the back of his shirt, oh how we laughed, he wasn't quite so arrogant after that! :-)

(And morocco..i always drop the soap)

I think British loos are among the best

You need the water to cover the smell. The toilets (Germany...)where you poop on a shelf absolutely stink .

And American plumbing is very weak.

You need thighs of steel if it takes a little time for things to get moving with the squat and pop toilets.