Is the top 3 not due to the use of bidets and those shower things? Not sure what they are called.
Greek toilets were absolutely abysmal back in the 80s and 90s so sounds like they haven’t improved. Indian and Sri Lankan experiences were horrific. I used to feel physically sick having to go in both countries.
Never forget being on a train in India and needing a shit with really bad Delhi belly. Tried to hold off for hours until the inevitable. I’m still scarred from it now.

Would love to know how or who measure this ‘study’. 🤢

    Do they use bidets in Japan? I don’t know but it wouldn’t surprise me. I’ve never been there. My interactions with Japanese come from living in Wangjing for a while, which is the Japanese and Korean area of Beijing (and they are by far the two largest groups of migrants/expats in Beijing).

    They have these crazy toilets that do everything. Like fucking mental tech and in a bog. Never seen anything like it anywhere else either. Some had up to 5 or 6 different buttons. No idea what any of them did either.

    Ah yes, these things. I have seen/used these in hotels here, like the Intercontinental and Shangri-la have them. To be honest, it didn’t really hit me that they were some Nip technology thing, I just thought it was a ‘posh hotel’ thing. Though it shouldn’t surprise me that they are Japanese technology, everything good here is, which I continually mock the Chinese for, because obviously they hate the Japanese.

    When I was living in an apartment block here, we had some new Mitsubishi lifts installed. Some 60 year old neighbour bloke got in the lift and pressed a higher floor when it was on the way down, then started going ‘gan ma?’ (what’s it doing?) because it wouldn’t go up. I said to him “Japanese technology. Too advanced for you Chinese to operate.” He got really angry and started hitting the buttons and swearing. So I did the ‘Chinky eyes’ thing to him as I got off at the ground floor and watched as he fumed.

      Homegrove I give these cunts no quarter now, living in a country like this where people are totally shut off from and ignorant about the rest of the world will do that to you.

      My other favourite local interaction of recent years was when I was stood in the supermarket queue with a basket, and I only had Pringles, a Snickers and some sparkling mineral water, and the two brillo-haired aunties behind me in the queue started gossiping, one saying to the other “That’s all foreigners have to eat for lunch.”

      I turned around and peered in her basket, which only had various detergents in it and said “Yeah, but that’s what you eat for lunch.” They were utterly dumbfounded by the surrealism of the suggestion and I went on my way, happy with myself for hours.

          lol.

          Garbage insight from Dermo.

          The East use water.
          The West use a mother load of toilet paper that they smear all over their bunghole and gooch.

          Do the math.

            Cankles-McJeggings Never forget being on a train in India and needing a shit with really bad Delhi belly.

            If similar to my experiences of travelling around India by train, I assume it was a shit encrusted Western style toilet, through which the train tracks were clearly visible?

                rhouses It doesn’t count if you have one of your many man servants on hand to go in with a pressure washer and a chisel every time you lay down once of your behemoth cables.

                Shut up, Rhouses.

                • C_J replied to this.

                    rhouses Smear is a term which doesn’t quite fit with arse wiping, you can smear cream, but not paper.

                    I think the reason we use paper is to ensure ones hand doesn’t get covered in shite and it does quite a good job of removing any excess without leaving a trace.

                      Cankles-McJeggings remember crashing at the Park Hyatt in Tokyo after a marathon flight in and sitting on a toilet just like that in the night. Scared me stiff the noises it made. Like having a shit on R2D2

                        There are a few things about Western bathroom habits that are unsavoury. One is the habit of some older generation Brits to have carpet in their bathrooms 🤮 or those bits of carpet that fit around the bottom of the bog, perfectly placed to catch any stray piss 🤮

                        Another is, as Rhouses correctly points out, smearing shite all over your arsehole with toilet paper. However, I won’t be lectured to on this by an Indian, of all people 😆 Unfortunately, needs must if you’re not in your own home and need a shite. Although personally, after laying a massive cable, I prefer to use a wet wipe or two. Or ‘winning’ as I like to call it.

                          I somehow have an image of Dave trying to wipe his arse with a wet wipe after a quarter bottle of merlot, falling and smearing shite all over the wall and floor resulting in the building having to be burned down.

                            seanc80 Just think of me as a lightweight Bobby Sands with shite all over my lavender-coloured Filas.