Surely this sign is unnecessary - Indonesia

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On a very small (but quite well-known) islsnd, but lots if tourists. Not much going on today, as you can probably tell, so I'm posting this sign in the hotel room bathroom.

Obviously crouching loos are common in some areas, but who really needs to be told not to crouch on a hotel loo seat?

Yeah, the dog-whistles are blowing again.

That's why the sign is there.

People are damaging property on a regular basis and probably leaving a mess too.

Gatwick airport has them due to so much damage to toilet seats.

These signs were in the toilets of my UK university 30 years ago. Surprised you’ve never come across them before and son’t understand the need in a multicultural, global society.

I would say if they have put up these signs, there is obviously a reason for it…

A friend worked somewhere where they gave up with these signs and installed squat toilets because so many toilet seats were being broken by people standing on them.

I have travelled extensively in Asia, lived in India for a while, and I am part Middle Eastern myself. Of course I have used squat loos in all sorts of situations - hotels, hostels, trains, you name it, in China, Vietnam, Thailand, Korea and the Philippines. This is no judgement about types of loos or cultural differences. I have just never seen such a sign before, when it is clearly not a squat loo. But if people say they are quite common because people do actually try to balance while squatting on toilet bowls, I believe you and I guess they must do it or there would be no sign.

My parents had this sign in their bathroom - Dad saw it in a weird discount shop and it appealed to his sense of humour!

If you used to using a squatting toilet western toilets will feel strange and the same if you are used to using a western toilet then using a squat toilet

we all like to be comfortable when we go to the loo

I have seen these signs in the UK.. they are clearly necessary if they are being put up.

I found out why this sign makes sense in Thailand. The squat toilets are not they type that I used to see in France as a child - they were ground level, with a hole in the ground. The Thai ones are a toilet bowl raised a few inches off the ground with foot rests on the rim. Like a very short western toilet in fact.

My 3 year old needs this sign!

Edit: wrong thread.

We had a sign like this in our toilets at the last place I worked...in Media City, Manchester, due to the number of times the seat had to be replaced.

Amount of times we had to wipe the seats free from grit and dirt

Definitely necessary

I have seen these signs in various countries including in UK

Someone has come up with a compromise solution 😀

You obviously haven't travelled much if this is a surprise ?

You can definitely see them in the UK

Well they obviously put them up for a lark OP 🙄

I've seen dirty footprints, so people obviously do try it.

I never sit down on public toilets but squat. I'm 5'7 so I imagine someone very short who wants to do the same thing might get that idea. But they can just put toilet paper on the siege which is what I do for my children when they had to use public restrooms.

It is everywhere in Japan
In airline toilets
In the loos at Heathrow

I first saw signs like this in St James House, Pendleton in 2013.

You don't know what you are talking about. If those signed are there it's because obviously there have been incidents in the past. Do you honestly think that someone would say " oh yes let's put a sign here that nobody needs just because I want to spend my time and money in useless stuff"?

It's nothing to do with being short - it's a mish mash of reasons eg type of clothing and experience of other types of toilet.