Squatting toilets?

[zerocool84]

With the high percentage of obese/fat people in the US, I don't think the squat toilets will work here.

I saw these toilets in Japan, S. Korea and other developing countries in Asia. Did not see them in Australia and haven't been to Europe and Africa yet so I do not know.

We're not the fattest country anymore, that distinction belongs to Mexico now.

 

[rga]

I visited Japan last Christmas for the first time, and I was amazed at the toilet disparity.

At the airport, luxury restaurants, my father-in-law's house, were all these "high-tech" toilets. I call them high-tech because they have heated seats, odour control, amount of water when flushed control.

But then again, at some train and subway stations, some izakayas, even some maid cafes and arcades, there were squat toilets. I never had to use one, and I'm glad I didn't; I can't squat without proper form unless I have at least 100 lbs. on my back.

My wife old me about how she used to squat and shit and smoke cigarettes at the same time with her friends in junior high/high school. Talk about a voyeur video I'd really like to see.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

My first encounter with one of these was in Hong Kong at the Kau Sai Chau Golf Course. Shortly before my tee time I had a sudden bout of serious intestinal distress, walked into the bathroom stall, and there was nothing but a hole in the floor and a hose hanging nearby. It was an emergency situation though so I did what had to be done. I felt a bit guilty for a couple of days until I learned it wasn't actually a shower stall.

A little later on my wife came to visit me in Hong Kong. We ended up taking a trip to Stanley Market and during that trip she decided she had to go to the Lady's room. She went, and I waited. And waited. And waited. About 30 minutes later she finally reappeared with a decidedly unhappy look on her face. It suddenly hit me that I completely forgot to tell her the story about the hole in the floor.

 

[cavemanmoron]

Most Americans don't have the thigh muscles necessary to squat and dump at the same time.

I have bad knees; No Way........

 

[Thebobo]

Where is the splash guard?

 

[mmntech]

Any toilet you can accidentally step in half asleep/drunk at 3am is a bad idea in my books.

 

[Fern]

Yeah, I have seen these around Europe, mostly in cafes. I don't like them, but you just have to make do.

Fern