Gadling

Heh ... I hope that's not a shot of YOUR loo at home.

Anyway, considering much of the world does not have access to plumbing, I'm certain they include pit latrines or "squatties" in their definition of "toilets."

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reinventing the pot. what an adventure

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I have seen worst in the Philippines. Booths are set up along side of the road for men to use.

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I sure hope my tax dollars aren't paying for any of this.

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INDIA... PERFECT LOCATION, SHOW THEM HOW TO USE THE DAMN THING WHILE YOUR AT IT. THEY USUALLY JUST TAKE A DUMP ON THE RAILROAD TRACKS SO THE PASSING TRAINS CAN MOVE THE SMELL DOWN THE LINE... AS AN AMERICAN, I LOVE THE SIGHT OF SIX INDIANS, SANDALS OFF STANDING IN THE BATHROOM SINKS AT WORK WASHING THEIR FEET... DISGUSTING BUT THESE ARE THE ENLIGHTENED PEOPLE, YEAH RIGHT

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I drove a bus for 12 years and had people from India for a charter. My bus was a mess because they peed on the floor. They are the most filthy people I ever had on a charter.

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Dang!.......This mean I gotta git rid of my outhouse?.....and I was just gonna move it closer so the walk wouldn't be so bad in the bad weather!

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Ever used a "Pissitorium" in the streets of Amsterdam? You go into this 'see thru' spiral thing to a latrine trough. Nowadays, they have different ones that you go right up to and piss - right in public as the public passes right by you standing there, pissing! Shocking. You see their entire body, head to toe, just like they were standing in front of a latrine in this country. The only difference is that it wraps only slightly around your front side.
Pissitorium: http://travelpete.com/gfx/lifestyle/bathrooms/dutch-public-urinal-toilet.jpg

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Seen them all, used them (emergency)-----they are unbelievable. Worst? Inside the Hermitage in Russia. I still gag thinking about the experience. A folded up head scarf held over my face didn't quite cut the odor.

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I was in India 1991, on buisness,my friend requested toilet paper, purchased a case [48]rolls cost me 250.00 dollars for shipping.best gift he ever recieved.

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How about we get the world access to proper sanitation and plumbing ? Re-inventing the toilet is like re-inventing the wheel. I think the world has bigger issues that need to be taken care of at this point. Sit or stand and then doing what comes natural followed by a flush is a concept that cant get less complex.


Hooray for the commode brain trust
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

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Surely they mean chemical toilets and not the middle-eastern squat-type toilet... with all the people who would be using these toilets, I think the 'squatter' (forgive the pun) would fill up quicker... and anyways, about M.E. Indian people being nasty and smelly and peeing and defecating in public- I know many M.E. Indians who are NOT like that (even though I have met a few who are unsanitary) but I think that it is offensive to "stereotype" the entire country based on the people you and I have encountered. We weren't raised like these people were. We have no idea what it is like to scavenge the dump for our families scraps of food, or what it is like to build our ramshackle home with bits of plywood and cinderblocks... it's a shame we don't do more than just give them toilets.

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Shame on you all passing judgment on people- not everyone lives the way people do in the US, using up all of our natural resources without a blink of an eye- do you have any idea how wasteful the standard toilet is? We will run use up all of the earth's water if we continue using the flushing toilet, not to mention we are eliminating into drinking water. I agree that sanitation is a must, but you could still OPEN YOUR HEARTS TO THOSE WHO HAVE LESS THAN YOU...

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Yah know ~ the wisest of man informed the world what should be done with the dung. Dung should be buried. If everyone world wide took that advice and actually did what was told for us to do with dung, there would be less problems with disease. Designated areas for dung should be an absolute must in the world, to which the area is only for dung. Period. Let nature do its thing. Unfortunetly we do not listen and we allow dung to run and flow into places, such as water, where dung should not be.

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i'd never...........!!!
i'd hold it and hold it and hold it till i blew up into millions of pieces!

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Toilets in Japan rule, kind of strange at first but in the end...way cool. They rinse and blow you dry, no kidding.
As for cleanliness, in my travels Japan very clean as was Thailand, VN and Singapore... China very Nasty, even big cities were nasty, way into spitting everywhere...
Once had to use public restroom in Paris subway, with my daughter... OMG had to return to hotel it was so nasty. Aussies are clean and Germans too.
Never been to India, but have heard you have to have a strong stomach to enjoy. However I have many Indian friends that are very clean.
Best public toilets still Japan

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I hope they will learn to save water on the flushes....like a one flush and two flush....we need to conserve water and this would help.

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This is a joke ? India whos idea of a sewer system is moth balls, or an hole in the floor in there trucks so they don't have to stop. Oh yes I forgot we American people can put in sewer systems with all the money we are saving by paying them to do the work that should be going to American workers. I do believe that every country should have a sewer system but lets get real.

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Oh crap. It's filthy bastards like these that are mutating and spreading diseases more around the world. The gov should crack down on atrocities like this.

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Indians are undoubetedly the dirtiest humans on the planet more by choice than necessity. I smell them every time one passes in public. Shit, sour persperation, dirty clothes and feet. The women are the worst, usually smelling like they never wash their private parts.

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