The Neverendingly SERIOUS IndiaMike Toilet Thread

Wildhorse · Jul 5th, 2009, 18:28

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Originally Posted by capt_mahajan

Then I won't tell you about 250 of us guys sharing 8 or so toilet cubicles (which didn't really flush) for ten months- and that the cubicles had no doors or curtains.

In China, not so very long ago, I came across a toilet with 18 holes next to each other. No cubicles, no flush. It could have been mistaken for a golf course if it hadn't been for the concrete walls (but no roof) enclosing the whole thing. Very communication-oriented...

(Couldn't find the OT smiley... where is it?)

nikhilsegel · Jul 5th, 2009, 18:43

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Originally Posted by Wildhorse

(Couldn't find the OT smiley... where is it?)

: you click more and then a new window pops up and in that

Nick-H · Jul 5th, 2009, 19:03

I wash my hands of this whole thing.

With, of course, plenty of soap and hot water!

Kingstonian · Jul 5th, 2009, 20:11

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Originally Posted by theyyamdancer

OK, since we are into 'worst toilets I have ever seen' - my personal best, I mean worst, experience was while taking the Tragic Bus (I mean the Magic Bus) from Athens to Paris in 1980 and the motorway toilets in former Yuogoslavia had to be seen to be believed. I have still not recovered from the trauma.

TD - you must have visited the same places I did in 1977. My memory of the Yugoslavian motorway experience still heads (ahhem) my "worst toilets" list.

As you walked from the bus to the concrete shack, when you reached a point about 20 feet from the door of said shack, it felt like you had physically hit a solid wall of stench. Unbelieveable.

nikhilsegel · Jul 5th, 2009, 21:47

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Originally Posted by Nick-H

I wash my hands of this whole thing.

With, of course, plenty of soap and hot water!

Pontius Pilate, God will not let thee wash your hands of this monster you have created (Very badly paraphrased)

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Originally Posted by Kingstonian

TD - you must have visited the same places I did in 1977. My memory of the Yugoslavian motorway experience still heads (ahhem) my "worst toilets" list.

As you walked from the bus to the concrete shack, when you reached a point about 20 feet from the door of said shack, it felt like you had physically hit a solid wall of stench. Unbelieveable.

OMG there are loo's worse than in India .. Is feeling soo good all of a sudden!

(smiling seriously though .. not smirking.. its a happy smile not a flippant smile)

palerider · Jul 6th, 2009, 05:05

I took a train from Amsterdam to Athens in 1987, we stopped in Yugoslavia, they were checking for people trying to escape.
Maybe it was the ablutions carnage?.
One thing I've never been able to find is a place that has the stench penetration larger than the public open air urinals in Rajasthan in Summer.
We're talking several metres.
I couldn't believe how people could work next to them all day, and not smell them.
It's like thirty years of stagnant urine, cooked slowly in the heat.
A bit like trying to breathe in pure vinegar.

Hal · Jul 6th, 2009, 09:20

Ah yeah, there was an open-air urinal in Jaipur that was noticeable from across the road. I couldn't resist taking a peek. It was like "On Golden Pond" behind the wall.

Aishah · Jul 6th, 2009, 10:15

Palerider - those ones near the Fort Wall(Jaisalmer) and directly adjacent to the vegetable market and fruit barrows take some beating. In more recent times they have now put a caravan type of portaloo - about three toilets altogether. But unfortunately the habit of using the ones near the Wall which are just behind this vehicle, can't be stopped. Not a great odour to have wafting around as you choose your fruit and veg!

And giving your comment re washing your hands, Nick, serious consideration no, you can't do this - you will have to stay with this beastie that you created.

palerider · Jul 6th, 2009, 13:13

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Originally Posted by Hal

Ah yeah, there was an open-air urinal in Jaipur that was noticeable from across the road. I couldn't resist taking a peek. It was like "On Golden Pond" behind the wall.

Oh God, I'll never see Lillian Gish in the same light again, or old Katie Hepburn.!!

DrHeckleAndMrSnide · Jul 6th, 2009, 14:30

When my mother was transferred to a small town in her government job and we kids moved there with her.... enrolled in a government school.... I remember that every day during the lunch break, after lunch, all boys in the class were marched down from our 3rd standard classroom to the edge of the playground, where everyone stood in line and peed.... and then were marched back to the classroom.

brishti · Jul 6th, 2009, 15:35

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Originally Posted by palerider

Oh God, I'll never see Lillian Gish in the same light again, or old Katie Hepburn.!!

... umm - janeaerobic fonda actually

:brishti
brad is growin up just perfect palerider - you're doin sumthin right

palerider · Jul 6th, 2009, 16:16

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Originally Posted by brishti

... umm - janeaerobic fonda actually

:brishti
brad is growin up just perfect palerider - you're doin sumthin right

Brad's good, he's having feelings now, like a teenager, and he's doubled his weight.
Ummm, but it was Lilllian in On golden pond, Lillian , Katherine, henry Fonda, and some other old coot.

iwanttogoback · Jul 6th, 2009, 17:07

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Ummm, but it was Lilllian in On golden pond, Lillian , Katherine, henry Fonda, and some other old coot.

umm, i think that brishti is correct...or so my good friend google tells me.

Wildhorse · Jul 6th, 2009, 18:19

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Originally Posted by palerider

it was Lilllian in On golden pond, Lillian , Katherine, henry Fonda, and some other old coot.

Lillian Gish was in "Whales of August".

alouise · Jul 6th, 2009, 18:39

The number of OT posts already starting to proliferate in this thread would seem to indicate an inability, somewhat characteristic of this popular IM genre, to separate shit and piss from perception and cognition.

Jul 6th, 2009, 05:05	#126
palerider this is Brad. He's cute Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Armidale, N.S.W., Australia Posts: 2,226	I took a train from Amsterdam to Athens in 1987, we stopped in Yugoslavia, they were checking for people trying to escape. Maybe it was the ablutions carnage?. One thing I've never been able to find is a place that has the stench penetration larger than the public open air urinals in Rajasthan in Summer. We're talking several metres. I couldn't believe how people could work next to them all day, and not smell them. It's like thirty years of stagnant urine, cooked slowly in the heat. A bit like trying to breathe in pure vinegar. __________________ I always wanted to be someone when I grew up, I realise now that I should have been more specific.

Jul 6th, 2009, 10:15	#128
Aishah She-who-must-be-obeyed! Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jaisalmer Posts: 7,624	Palerider - those ones near the Fort Wall(Jaisalmer) and directly adjacent to the vegetable market and fruit barrows take some beating. In more recent times they have now put a caravan type of portaloo - about three toilets altogether. But unfortunately the habit of using the ones near the Wall which are just behind this vehicle, can't be stopped. Not a great odour to have wafting around as you choose your fruit and veg! And giving your comment re washing your hands, Nick, serious consideration no, you can't do this - you will have to stay with this beastie that you created. __________________ "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards."

Jul 6th, 2009, 14:30	#130
DrHeckleAndMrSnide We am what we am Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: India Posts: 153	When my mother was transferred to a small town in her government job and we kids moved there with her.... enrolled in a government school.... I remember that every day during the lunch break, after lunch, all boys in the class were marched down from our 3rd standard classroom to the edge of the playground, where everyone stood in line and peed.... and then were marched back to the classroom. __________________ If at first you don't succeed, try management

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