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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
Anyways, after coming to live in China I've gotten used to very different standards in terms of public washrooms. I'm happy to accept things that I wouldn't have considered before. I remember when I first arrived in Shanghai to do a homestay and the bathroom in my homestay's apartment wasn't working so I had to go use a public one. I walked in and not only were the toilets all squatters, but the stalls were only about 3&1/2 feet high, had no doors and seemed to be made so that your head would be poking out of the stall into the rest of the bathroom. I had never before thought of a 'public toilet' in such a literal sense.
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How true. After being in China, I'll take a shat in just about anything. Some parts of China I went to, it was just as small chute water (and pooh/piss) would run through, and you would just squat and go in that; while your doing your business, you'd see someone else's business go floating right by you. I could never understand how some people would take newspaper in with them to go do their thing.
Though not as disgusting, in the past couple years, I've gotten used to digging a hole and taking a dump out in nature. It actually feels kind of nice and free, and somewhat enjoyable to admire the big dump you just took.