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.

The Goan loos I used had fabric cubicles round them much like camping loos can so no shitting in public.

That's China off my 'to do' list down to it's shitters. I.Just.Couldn't.
I've not been to Greece before but have been to Turkey - is the loo situation similar? where you have the bum jet wash in the toilet? That's not so bad, unless you go off the beaten track there's normally always bog roll to dry off with.
It's always made me a bit when I've heard people say how disgusting it is to have to put used shitty loo roll in the bin...... that would be because you DON'T - you clean your ass first with the bum washer, any loo roll going into the bin should be clean.

Eeeek, the German shelf toilets! I remember going on a German exchange when I was about 12, and entering the toilet and being horrified by the shelf. I thought, 'no surely itnis some kind of super clever design and my poo won't just sit on the shelf' but sure enough when I got up, there it was, staring up at me. Then when I flushed, it literally stuck like shit to the shelf and the water simply cascaded past it. In the end I got a huge wad of paper and tentatively pushed it lver the precipice, obviously leaving a huge mark which j then had to clean as well.

This was 20 years ago and evidently I still remember it like it was yesterday!

the trick with the shelf toilets is to put a sheet of loo roll down as 'sled' for the deposit.

Yanbu, I hate putting paper I'm public loos , then panicking about a blockage.

I know a bloke who sat on a portaloo in the dark and his ball bag touched the mound of poo

This has just made me leak wee.

oh, and I forgot, when sister & I visited our relatives who had a farm, we had to use a pit latrine outside the house. I was always dead scared of what may linger in the big black hole, and my sister once lost balance and fell into it. In didn't touch her for at least a year!

I am in the 'your shits are huge ' camp

I know a bloke who sat on a portaloo and flushed it while still sitting down. His ball bag was dyed blue for a week. I cried laughing when he told me what happened all hangdog style.

Dsis and I were on a packed boiling hot night boat in Thailand with a few hundred others and one toilet cubicle - more like a stinking hut with a door and no loo roll- which used the bucket, sand and hose method of disposal when she developed a spectacular d & v bug. She locked herself in there for hours, opening the door occasionally for the very desperate with an apologetic face and arm tired from bucket swilling. When we eventually got off, she was half crying and half laughing when she vomited on the harbour side. A passing dog decided to make a tasty meal of it. To her relief, she then spotted a cafe with a loo and locked herself in there for 20 mins. Unfortunately, it was another bucket and hose job which was absolutely no match for my sister's d & v bug as the owner clearly appreciated as she stood outside gesticulating wildly. My Dsis tried her best to clean up and eventually emerged and jumped into the tuk tuk which we were waiting in. As we moved away all we could see was the furious looking cafe owner holding the bucket and waving at us shouting "Scooooop! Scooooop" and a pack of dogs finishing off the last of the vomit as Dsis intermittently laughed and cried.

I've travelled through Holland and Germany lots of times and have used public loo's (like McDonalds/ service stations) Also stayed in German B&B's and feel very lucky to never have experienced the shitty shelf.
I've lived in and extensively travelled Poland and I've never ever saw even one with the shelf, except for Dr's surgeries or hospitals.

I think it could be quite a good idea though - in general we, in poo sinking countries, don't really get a chance to 'inspect' do we? If they could re-jig the design and there was no stink or risk of poop not being easily washed away then I don't think I'd mind.

YABU - My 22 month old wouldn't do a poo if it wasn't for making a plop and splash!!!

" I've lived in and extensively travelled Poland and I've never ever saw even one with the shelf, "

I suspect that it may just be older loos in the part of Poland that used to be Germany. I do not think the Polish are natural poo inspectors, a bit like us. Imagine prodding at it with a special stick kept for the purpose? How German can you get?

Maybe Sunny :) and NO! I really don't want to imagine the poo poking stick.

I remember discussing the poo shelves with my Polish ex and he was horrified :) so certainly something he'd never experienced neither.