Squat toilets.
Ah...

Actually it is really damn comfortable on the bowels (but not on the legs) using a squat toilet. Somehow squatting spreads you out a bit more, and it just eases out beautifully. Also, no part of your body touches the toilet, also good. Two issues:
- Finding somewhere to put your pants when they are lowered. Don't want to shit in them, do we?
- Knowing that if suddenly your knees stop working you will be sitting in your own shit.

This is when I went to Japan on exchange. Fun fun. Didn't learn much Japanese, but I did get a good insight on stuff. On a similar note, the dorm we stayed in at shared bathing facilities. Everyone was naked. Except for the 5 gaijin clutching tiny towel thingies to their groin areas. After the first time we waited until everyone was gone. Wasn't so bad then. Large space between washing areas, and afterwards we had the giant HOT onsen all to ourselves. To you fools thats a hot japanese bath. We could only stay in for about 5 mins before we literally overheated and had to get out to avoid heatstroke. For hours afterwards you could do whatever you wanted to and still stay toasty. Including wearing nothing but a t-shirt and sweatpants in the middle of winter in a cheap freezing school dorm room. But toasty.

On that first night, the worst part was when one of the Japanese students yelled out "A! CHISAI CHIMPO" ("AH! SMALL PENIS!" or therabouts). Everyone knew that this was just a joke, but it was uncalled for.

PS: Japanese people have small penises.

ahhh. so many memories... actually i took a cool photo of instructions on how to use a squat toilet for foreigners in a tourist hotspot. hilarious.

Apologies for length of writing.
(riedacher_bertram, Tue 6 Sep 2005, 15:29, Reply)