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.

at the Glastonbury ghostly 'glow poo'

I think poo fascination v privacy must be a family thing. DH definitely doesn't share my family's interest in poos, he refuses to come and see particularly good ones when invited and doesn't consider it a source of pride to block a toilet with one's own poo.

I love the Glastonbury poo story too. Am highly tempted to try it when we next camp at horse trials with portaloos!!

My American loo is a low flush jobby, with only a little water in the pan, unlike American public toilets where if you fell in you would have to swim for it. My home one has the disadvantage that no loo plunger currently on the market can fit properly or work, so we have to resort to pouring boiling water into the loo in hopes of dissolving offending turds if there's a blockage. I also had to spend an hour googling the cistern innards when something went wrong in there recently and I refused to call a plumber.

MadAngryGnome, maybe my DS belongs in your family? I have been sent photos of memorable poos from university..

In A McDonalds in Hong Kong, there was a normal European loo, but foot prints on the loo seat!

I've just googled Chinese toilets.

If there are no walls or doors, do people bring their own toilet paper as there's nowhere to hang it?

No one's raised the ultimate question:

What are the three seashells for?

Chinese toilets are the worst. I got so constipated there because I just can't poo in front of anyone else.

I do t travel much. Now I know why! Honestly I don't think I could cope with some of these toilets. I have always avoided Greece because of the toilet paper in the bin thing.

The toilet paper in the bin thing is only for older sewage systems. Not for newer properties. I don't know how you can avoid one of the most beautiful countries in the world because you have to pop a bit of paper in a bin once a day. Jesus. Thank Goodness that's the most of your worries!

Gnome I must be a distant relative of yours. We just had a drain repair. Dh saw workers kind of wearing our poo. Gross but fascinating.

I went to France for a week as a teen on an exchange. I didn't poop once. Holes in the ground. I just couldn't do it.

Greek drains were some of the first in the world but are narrow so that's why no paper allowed. Greek island holiday when I saw the cleaner empty the loo roll bill by picking contents out with her bare hand, that was gross.

Worst loo ever on a boat. Also in Greece. I had food poisoning.

I need a Japanese toilet.

If there are no walls or doors, do people bring their own toilet paper

Frankly I'm not convinced many bother with toilet paper - at least not in the "one long trough" public loos. Certainly I've never seen any floating in the fetid stream (not that I make extensive studies of these things, you understand )

Here's the best way to clean/unblock a toilet;

No don't do that, Skoda - it's an absolutely fascinating place and the people are wonderful

It's just that it's worth contributing anything ... err, significant ... when still in your hotel

Loving Neptunes kiss

A top tip for using toilets in Morocco is to go with a Vicks sinus stick up each nostril.

" I have always avoided Greece because of the toilet paper in the bin thing."

oh yes never mind the birthplace of democracy, the philosophers, the Parthenon, the stunning beaches, amazing people, fascinating crumbly buildings ....
you have to put loo paper into a bin - how dreadful!

Omg at some of the toilets on that toilet Guru website. I'd honestly rather shit my pants!

I'm never going abroad again!

I second the glasto toilet experience - once you've done the long drops on Monday morning after it's been warm the whole weekend you can face anything :)

The portaloos are generally worse than the long drops, though. They sort of ... marinate.

LaLaLaaaa you mean you DONT know what the three seashells are for?! (giggles behind hand)

Storm I heard they're for scraping poo off the poo inspection shelf

I have never felt so uneducated and ignorant I never knew about shelf loos, or Japanese control panel loos either! What have I done with my life?
Did know that sometimes you have to throw loo paper in a bin though learnt that in Venice, unfortunately also learned that if you don't lock the door but then try to put your foot against it (so everyone in the cafe dosent see you if someone tries to get in) if the door opens outwards it is bad .
Loving this thread though!!