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Old Mar 7th, 2007, 10:09   #16
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train station at the height of maha kumbh 2001.
staggering.
you gotta see it to believe it. . I was stranded at kanpur station and trains were delayed due to fog. so all the platforms were full of passengers waiting for the trains. first all the toilets became big pile of *&^%. then people started using rail tracks (under the cover of heavy fog).
thank god it wasn't summer
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Old Mar 10th, 2007, 03:15   #17
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We were on a bus journey somewhere in Himachal. My boyfriend had an old lady sat on his knee who threw up all over him and didn;t seem to even notice. I then followed her into the loos at a stop and she stopped in the middle of the floor and peed there - despite there being cubicles....... I was a little confused about that one.
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We were on a bus journey somewhere in Himachal. My boyfriend had an old lady sat on his knee who threw up all over him and didn;t seem to even notice. I then followed her into the loos at a stop and she stopped in the middle of the floor and peed there - despite there being cubicles....... I was a little confused about that one.
Many rural Indians on their first trip in a bus may react this way. The assumption that this lady had probably never seen the inside of a constructed loo seems to hold good here. In the villages, they go to the fields and just pee on the ground....
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Old Mar 10th, 2007, 18:15   #19
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These toilet threads still make me smile,,,,,,,
And what an ice-breaker they are when meeting other travellers.

But for me the Pig toilets in Goa take some beating, especially when a big fat momma of a pig pokes her snorting snout through the bottom of the hole looking for her breakfast.

Incidently there used to be an occasional magazine sold along the beaches in the 70's called "The Stoned Pig" and boy that was truely an apt name for some of those pigs after having eaten their second hand breakfasts,,,,,,,,,,,,
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Old Mar 10th, 2007, 23:53   #20
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My 2 boys (12 and 9) who had never been to Indian public toilets could not believe what they saw. The memory and smell has stuck with them. They now carry 2 bog rolls with them in their bags whenever we travel to india.

But they did find the experience extremely funny.
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Old Mar 10th, 2007, 23:56   #21
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The memory and smell has stuck with them.
You mean they still smell of those toilets?

Jeezzz.... that's tough on them
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Old Mar 11th, 2007, 00:44   #22
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Might have been in the Brindavan Gardens, Mysore. I almost stepped on a dead snake on the way to the toilet, which didn't have water, running, walkning or standing... (even though there was much much water in the gardens!) Yuck. You can imagine the smell, the rubbish, the decay... The worst toilets have been the ones without water but when ploink has to go ploink has to go...
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Old Mar 11th, 2007, 01:13   #23
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I still think the public toilets in France leave a lot to be desired. I only bring this up because they consider themselves to be civilised!
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Ummm... India considers itself to be civilised.
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Old Mar 11th, 2007, 01:35   #25
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Ummm... India considers itself to be civilised.
context, my dear fellow One would expect France, etc., to have decent sanitation.... But it falls well short of India (and the rest of the world) in its attitude towards public sh!tters. QED.
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has anyone else been struck by the irony of the toilets at the taj mahal - beautiful materials, nicely laid out and stinking like a public urinal?
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Haven't france's public conveniences been famous for decades?

Infamous, that is!
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Old Mar 11th, 2007, 20:43   #28
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My 2 cents worth:

In one of my bus trips, invariably we stopped at a dhaba near Mt. Abu. Ofcourse, I had mild case of diarrhea (surprise?) The dhaba boy showed me the public facility, behind kitchen. I took one look and found me a nice big bush and some newspapers.

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My 2 cents worth:

In one of my bus trips, invariably we stopped at a dhaba near Mt. Abu. Ofcourse, I had mild case of diarrhea (surprise?) The dhaba boy showed me the public facility, behind kitchen. I took one look and found me a nice big bush and some newspapers.

Do any IMer have any photos of me? Please do not publish!!!
if its more than 5-6 hours bus journey, i stop eating well in advance to avoid participating in the Crusade.
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Old Mar 30th, 2007, 17:28   #30
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I know I know

I never ever even try to go to a public toilet

but now a days there are "Sulabh" public paid toilets which are a lil better cuz they are gen. paid [Rs. 1 & 2] [but no guarantees]
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