Whats up with the public urination and even worse… folks doing #2 out in the open for all to see? I used to witness this on occasion but now it seems as if there is some kind of hightech/fecal conspiracy where a group of Taiwanese public pissers/sh*tters phone each other when they see me approach then start their “business” just to freak me out - next to my car, near a building where I work, even outside a McDonalds when there is a god-damn restroom inside!
Yes Mr He I have to agree with you that public toilets in Morocco and China are much worse than Taiwan. I remember using a public toilet somewhere in small town Morocco, can’t remember the location I think it was somewhere south of Fez but it was just this small smelly room where you just walked over to the corner and crapped all over the floor. After you finished this old lady comes over and sweeps it up. That was a rather strange experience. Even some of the public toilets in rural France were more disgusting than the public toilets I encountered in Taiwan. Also the concept of putting toilet paper into bins next to the toilet is certainly not only practised in Taiwan. I have been to few countries before that do not have suitable plumbing for toilet paper. I think the first I encountered was Greece where I recall quite vividly our hotel toilet overflowing after my forgetful friend tried to flush the paper down the toilet. The last time I was in Taiwan staying with my girlfriend we always flushed the paper and didn’t seem to have any problems. She uses that single sheet stuff which is very thin and I would imagine would break up very easily in water. Erick
I just got chastized by my wife for locking the door to a unisex restroom in Taipei. There was one stall and one urinal. Apparently I was supposed to leave it unlocked because there was a woman outside waiting to use it.
My argument was that if it was open to all then they shouldn’t have put a lock on it.
The strange thing is that I’ve been visiting Taiwan three weeks of every year for the past 5 years. This is the first time I saw a unisex restroom. Over the next 4 days I came across two more. How could I have tuned it out this entire time?
Could be worse; compare it to Japan’s portapottieshere. A must see. NSFW
Finally the answer to the long lines for the woman’s bathroom :bravo: :roflmao: :roflmao:
The worst one I ever when to was at the Dali Lama’s house, in Tibet. All you could see was 2 floors down nothing but human exceretment. EWWWWWW. I’m sure that he could say that in his book Art of Happiness there’s chapter applying to how to deal with it.
We have Dragonbabe to thank for that one. NOT! 
:bravo:
There is something seriously wrong with the Japanese sense of humor.
I can’t disagree with you there.
And there’s something wrong with their toliets, they look more like a bidet than a toilet imho…
Saying that, this is supposedly a japanese toilet seat with a built in bidet - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bide … t_seat.jpg
Actually I would seriously disagree.They are tight wads but have a really good sense of humor. I’ve lived there and I would say it’s more healthier than the US. But that just IMO. 
I didn’t say that they lack a sense of humor… I said that their sense of humor is fucked up… I don’t think flinging open the doors to toilets while people are shitting is funny. I have no interest in watching people shit. Moreover, the stunts they pulled in that video were clearly dangerous. The last guy fell on his head.
The Japanese are fucked up, at least in terms of what they regard as funny.
[quote]And there’s something wrong with their toliets, they look more like a bidet than a toilet imho…
Saying that, this is supposedly a Japanese toilet seat with a built in bidet - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bide … t_seat.jpg[/quote]
There is indeed, I used to have one at my place in Yong He. They’re quite popular in Taiwan - warmed seat, smell suppressing spray and a bidet with a warmed jet of water to wash the nether regions. I miss it dearly.
HG
If thats so then I prefer Taiwan where nobody cares if I “have it out”. :loco: Sounds really odd what you say, do you have any website or whatsoever which mentions about that? (I mean I don’t believe you).
I think the worst thing are the “japanese toilets” here where you have to aim for that hole under you. They come in many variants where you might break your ass.
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”][quote]And there’s something wrong with their toliets, they look more like a bidet than a toilet imho…
Saying that, this is supposedly a Japanese toilet seat with a built in bidet - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bide … t_seat.jpg[/quote]
There is indeed, I used to have one at my place in Yonghe. They’re quite popular in Taiwan - warmed seat, smell suppressing spray and a bidet with a warmed jet of water to wash the nether regions. I miss it dearly.
HG[/quote]
As an American, I’m pleading total ignorance on this one…
I read the Wikipedia entry, but I’m still unsure how a bidet can be used in a public restroom without transferring germs. Please enlighten me.
office toilet observations:
guy taking a leek, while talking on his cell phone with a cigarette in his mouth…
guy smoking in the toilet despite 5 no-smoking signs on doors and walls…
guy putting newspaper into the toilet-paper bin…
Everything comes down to the point that lots of Taiwanese have a farming background and therefor still the manners of a farming community, same goes for Belgium a peasant stays a peasant even if they have money … no manners at all … they don’t care … education can do wonders, not always tho …
you certainly expect to read about all the negative aspects of toilets in Taiwan in this thread, but there are also positives.
For example the number of public toilets in Taipei, in parks, dept. stores, MRT stations, etc. is quite high and you don’t have to pay for the service. In Germany for example you have almost always to pay for using toilets, even in department stores. Also, most of the public toilets are fairly clean (especially in the MRT) and you seldomly encounter dubious people there such as drug addicts, prostitutes, bums, etc.
I’ve heard, in China, there are people occupying toilets who only come out if you pay them… oh boy…
[quote=“Huang Guang Chen”]There is indeed, I used to have one at my place in Yonghe. They’re quite popular in Taiwan - warmed seat, smell suppressing spray and a bidet with a warmed jet of water to wash the nether regions. I miss it dearly.
HG[/quote]
You’d miss it a lot less if it had caught fire while you were sitting on it:
[quote]Japan’s leading toilet manufacturer Toto is offering free repairs to 180,000 toilets after some of them caught fire.
There have been three incidents of the electric bidet accessory in Toto’s Z series catching fire.
“Fortunately nobody was using the toilets when the fire broke out and there were no injuries,” a company spokesman said.
“The fire would have been just under your buttocks,” she added. [/quote] http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6559373.stm
The thing is that a warm toilet seat would be beneficial to germs. Germs multiply in warm places. The mysophobic in me has seizures.
I am 23 and I use public restrooms, even here in the US, ad infrequently as possible. I think I have only taken a dump like 3 times in my life at one, and I sure as hell didn’t sit on the seat. Maybe I am paranoid about it but it just seems really gross, I can hold it till I get home, thanks.