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Engine09 · 12-20-2006, 10:17 PM

Hahahhaa! Reminds me of some destruction I left in Holland. You know how when you're travelling that things don't happen when they're supposed to? Well, 3 days later I unleased the fury and laid waste to the porcelain. 40 mins later I stood up and gazed in amazement at my own personal Mount Everest right on that inspection pedestal. Half a week of bad English food and destroyed Dutch cusine is not a pretty site.

Still a better experience than the stand-up crappers in France.

Give me a good ol' Ferguson any day.

troutman · 12-21-2006, 09:38 AM

Germany does have some strange bathroom habits. At rest stops on the autobahn, there are people sitting outside the door who expect tips. Their only job seems to be to hand you a few squares of toilet paper.

My mother-in-law has signs on the toilets "Mann sitzt!"

Did Thomas Crapper invent the flush toilet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Crapper

Burninator · 12-21-2006, 10:09 AM

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The only conceivable explanation is that Germans love to inspect their stool, so the German toilet of necessity features a built-in stool inspection shelf.

I guess this gives insight as to why the Germans have those bizzare German crapping videos...

Table 5 · 12-21-2006, 10:10 AM

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Originally Posted by troutman

Germany does have some strange bathroom habits. At rest stops on the autobahn, there are people sitting outside the door who expects tips. Their only job seems to be to hand you a few squares of toilet paper.

well in many european countries, you have to pay to use a public toilet. So those people aren't there to accept tips for giving you toilet paper....they are there to collect the fee.

GoinAllTheWay · 12-21-2006, 10:25 AM

I noticed that as well when I was travelling in Germany and surrounding areas. I refered to it as "the staging area" though.

troutman · 12-21-2006, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Table 5

well in many european countries, you have to pay to use a public toilet. So those people aren't there to accept tips for giving you toilet paper....they are there to collect the fee.

I will not pay to pee!

Bill Bumface · 12-21-2006, 12:20 PM

These things produce one of the most horrific smells... They offer good incentive to be effecient in the washroom however.

simmer2 · 12-21-2006, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by troutman

I will not pay to pee!

I tried to get away with that once. I was in the main train station in Zurich, it was midnight, and I was a little drunk. Well, I didn't feel like waiting for the train, but had no change so I jumped the turnstile and went into the bathroom. Some woman in the bathroom started yelling at me, I yelled at her because we should have the right to pee. She kept yelling, and so I decided to start undoing my pants right in front of her. She decided to call the cops. I ran and got on my train. Stupid European bathroom nazi's.

Sylvanfan · 12-21-2006, 02:41 PM

Yeah Europeans seem to cling to a lot of early 1900's ideals when it comes to things like plumbing, electricty, and HVAC systems.

But those shelf toilets that they love so much in the Netherlands and Germany are something else. Very seldom you don't hear someone screaming "COBRA" from the can over there.

Looger · 12-21-2006, 02:47 PM

hence the quick exit left of walmart's expansion to germany

moncton golden flames · 12-21-2006, 05:09 PM

I used the same kind of toilet while in Hungary playing hockey. Kind of scary after some Hungarian goulash!

rockstar · 12-21-2006, 06:51 PM

Such a strange concept. I remember seeing it most in Austria. It was so bizarre and disgusting.

"Observation deck" is a great way to describe it, but when you trek through Europe eating crappy cheap food and drinking every day, your body is wasting away. You really don't need to see what you're getting rid of!

My guess at the time as to the reasoning was different. I thought, maybe the Germans sit on the toilet the other way (straddling the tank or whatever), and pretend they're riding a motorcycle while they go BM.

Table 5 · 12-21-2006, 06:57 PM

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Originally Posted by rockstar

My guess at the time as to the reasoning was different. I thought, maybe the Germans sit on the toilet the other way (straddling the tank or whatever), and pretend they're riding a motorcycle while they go BM.

haha, if they didn't consider it before, they might as well now! Hell, I think I might give that one a whirl myself...

Table 5 · 12-21-2006, 06:59 PM

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Originally Posted by troutman

I will not pay to pee!

Believe me, I've been trying to fight for that right myself....I find it absolutely ridiculous to have to pay to do something that is naturally required. No wonder you come across way more urine stained walls in Europe.

Vulcan · 12-21-2006, 07:23 PM

We use to have to pay a nickle in Canada. As a kid, I remember crawling under the door the odd time.

The urinal was free though.

Flames_Gimp · 12-21-2006, 08:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan

Yeah Europeans seem to cling to a lot of early 1900's ideals when it comes to things like plumbing, electricty, and HVAC systems.

except they are ahead of us as far as hot water heating...

DuffMan · 12-22-2006, 10:06 AM

I visited a friend in Vienna and that is the kind of toilet he had. I thought it was really weird, but he was pretty much used to it after living there for 15 years.
Also the term Water Closet, really describes, where the toilet is. It literally in a closet, and the bath sink was in a seperate room across the hallway. The washer and dryer were also in the room with the tub.