Be glad for water
Try going for a shit in Thailand and you will be greeted by a hole in the ground you are somehow meant to crap in. I haven't figured how to do this except by taking off my trousers & pants off completely which in a stinking Thai toilet inevitably means navigating piss and shit on the floor. Dropping them around your ankles won't work unless you want to shit into your trousers.

So after tentively shitting into a hole, making sure to squat enough to ensure the turd vacates in an orderly fashion (and not down your legs), but not enough to fall over you are done.

Except now there is no toilet paper. There is a hose. So you have to hose your arse down, working the clingons loose and you're almost home free.

Except now you're soaking from the waste down and you don't have anyway to dry yourself.

So you put your trousers back on which have probably stamped in piss, and then put a nice new wet arse pattern onto them. Your humiliation is complete.

Getting your balls wet just doesn't compare.
(MagicMoose, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 16:53, 1 reply)

The worst loos in the world
They have the same in most parts of Africa and I have had to hold it in for days in the past but eventually after about 6 or 7 years got the hang of it due to nessecity. You have to squat with your keks up round your knees and just dump like that didn't ever shit my pants but pissed all over the back of me jeans a few times. It can get seaty when you're there for a while. I would actively seek out proper bogs but the invariably didn't flush or had no seat. I'm building a house out there and am having a proper chaise anglaise (English Chair) toilet put in. That's what the French call proper sit down shitters.
(Wagane, Sun 5 Sep 2010, 20:53, closed)