Monday 26 August 2013

toilet misuse

I recently saw this article in the BBC

Wayward China toilet users face fine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23766837

It says that people who misuse public toilets could face fines, but was a little shady about what misuse of a public toilet actually is.

"New laws that come into force next month in the southern city do not specify what amount of spilled urine would be classed as a violation."

"The regulations were designed to curb the "uncouth use of a public toilet""

I know what it is, I have seen it first hand, a thousand times.  Urinals are Kryptonite for Chinese men, or at least that's what it seems like they are, as they will not get close to one.  I don't know why but they never seem able to stand close and actually urinate in one.

See!


But they seem to have a funny attitude towards toilets, "it's a toilet, so of course it smells".  Even in people's homes they wont put an s bend in the toilet plumbing, so that a lot of homes smell like toilets as the smell reeks out through the drains.

There is also an aversion to using chemicals to clean.  What most cleaners do is use a wet mop and wipe it around.  So of course there is a horrible smell as all the pee water evaporates.

I remember when I went to Nanjing, I went up the coolest building I had ever seen.  A 450 meter top ten in the world sky scraper.  After we got the elevator down I started to need a pee.  And a couple of minutes down the road a ran in to a hospital.  The toilet has horrible, piss everywhere, overflowing bins of used toilet paper and then nowhere to wash your hands.  2 minutes away from one of the most advanced  and highest buildings in the world has a hospital where you couldn't even wash your hands after visiting a stinky disgusting toilet.  They should have saved the money they spent on the tower and bought some handwash!  but that's China.


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