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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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 Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:54 am Post subject: Absolutely sickening and disgusting |
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At my school, in the restroom, they do not have paper towels to dry your hands. They don't have a blowdryer either. They have one towel hanging from a towel bar that everyone shares.
I was a little grossed out about it and normally I never use it. But today I was in a hurry and feeling really disorganized. So I took a leak, washed my hands and quickly dried them on this towel without thinking.
Then I went to eat some snacks. As I was eating I thought to themself, what is that terrible smell? Is this food bad? But soon I realized that it was the foul smell of urine on my hands from rubbing them on that towel.
It was intense, there must have been a LOT of urine on that towel for it to have left such an intense stench on my hands. I thought I was going to puke.
Now I ask, does this make sense? Is it sanitary? Might it even spread diseases and pestilence? We are supposed to be some kind of high class educational operation, yet we have piss-soaked towels that everyone shares. Put a freakin blowdryer or paper towel dispenser in there so everyone isn't washing thier hands with soap, and then rubbing them in a piss-soaked towel afterwards!
This goes to show how dirty the kids really must be. From now on I am not gonna let them touch me. I always see my director rubbing his hands in this towel too.
What the hell? |
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losing_touch
Joined: 26 Jun 2008
Location: Ulsan - I think!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:26 am Post subject: |
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| At least you have a sink ... quit complaining =) |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: Re: Absolutely sickening and disgusting |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
At my school, in the restroom, they do not have paper towels to dry your hands. They don't have a blowdryer either. They have one towel hanging from a towel bar that everyone shares.
I was a little grossed out about it and normally I never use it. But today I was in a hurry and feeling really disorganized. So I took a leak, washed my hands and quickly dried them on this towel without thinking.
Then I went to eat some snacks. As I was eating I thought to themself, what is that terrible smell? Is this food bad? But soon I realized that it was the foul smell of urine on my hands from rubbing them on that towel.
It was intense, there must have been a LOT of urine on that towel for it to have left such an intense stench on my hands. I thought I was going to puke.
Now I ask, does this make sense? Is it sanitary? Might it even spread diseases and pestilence? We are supposed to be some kind of high class educational operation, yet we have piss-soaked towels that everyone shares. Put a freakin blowdryer or paper towel dispenser in there so everyone isn't washing thier hands with soap, and then rubbing them in a piss-soaked towel afterwards!
This goes to show how dirty the kids really must be. From now on I am not gonna let them touch me. I always see my director rubbing his hands in this towel too.
What the hell? |
Koreans are absolute animals when it comes to bathroom hygeine. |
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cheeseface
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
Location: Ssyangnyeon Shi
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:25 am Post subject: |
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Try India.......   |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: Re: Absolutely sickening and disgusting |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
At my school, in the restroom, they do not have paper towels to dry your hands. They don't have a blowdryer either. They have one towel hanging from a towel bar that everyone shares.
I was a little grossed out about it and normally I never use it. But today I was in a hurry and feeling really disorganized. So I took a leak, washed my hands and quickly dried them on this towel without thinking.
Then I went to eat some snacks. As I was eating I thought to themself, what is that terrible smell? Is this food bad? But soon I realized that it was the foul smell of urine on my hands from rubbing them on that towel.
It was intense, there must have been a LOT of urine on that towel for it to have left such an intense stench on my hands. I thought I was going to puke.
Now I ask, does this make sense? Is it sanitary? Might it even spread diseases and pestilence? We are supposed to be some kind of high class educational operation, yet we have piss-soaked towels that everyone shares. Put a freakin blowdryer or paper towel dispenser in there so everyone isn't washing thier hands with soap, and then rubbing them in a piss-soaked towel afterwards!
This goes to show how dirty the kids really must be. From now on I am not gonna let them touch me. I always see my director rubbing his hands in this towel too.
What the hell? |
What's the point of this post? |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:46 am Post subject: Re: Absolutely sickening and disgusting |
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| samd wrote: |
| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
At my school, in the restroom, they do not have paper towels to dry your hands. They don't have a blowdryer either. They have one towel hanging from a towel bar that everyone shares.
I was a little grossed out about it and normally I never use it. But today I was in a hurry and feeling really disorganized. So I took a leak, washed my hands and quickly dried them on this towel without thinking.
Then I went to eat some snacks. As I was eating I thought to themself, what is that terrible smell? Is this food bad? But soon I realized that it was the foul smell of urine on my hands from rubbing them on that towel.
It was intense, there must have been a LOT of urine on that towel for it to have left such an intense stench on my hands. I thought I was going to puke.
Now I ask, does this make sense? Is it sanitary? Might it even spread diseases and pestilence? We are supposed to be some kind of high class educational operation, yet we have piss-soaked towels that everyone shares. Put a freakin blowdryer or paper towel dispenser in there so everyone isn't washing thier hands with soap, and then rubbing them in a piss-soaked towel afterwards!
This goes to show how dirty the kids really must be. From now on I am not gonna let them touch me. I always see my director rubbing his hands in this towel too.
What the hell? |
What's the point of this post? |
That it's digusting to share a towel with dozens of people. Even more disgusting to share it with children who almost never wash there hands, especially in Korea (which is the case with adults, too). Even yet, when most children, and many adults, wash their hands, they don't use soap. That's if there is even any soap in the first place, which is too often the case. In Korea.
That is the point. Refuting it is futile. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:51 am Post subject: |
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| cheeseface wrote: |
| Try India....... |
Generally in places like India, the reason for the poor hygiene would be a lack of money and resources. especially in public restrooms. I can totally understand something like that.
The thing about this situation is that it is at a school with lots and lots of money. The students are mostly wealthy or at least affluent middle class. The entire school is very organized and clean. Yet this piss soaked rag is being used in the restroom. They could easily afford a better alternative for sure.
I guess it's just the culture? It just seems like something that's totally senseless to me. It seems to be very, very unsanitary and possibly dangerous, not to mention disgusting. It just seems pointless and unesessarry. There's a better way......
I am not gonna say anything about it though because I can tell it's perfectly normal to them. |
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samd
Joined: 03 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:57 am Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| cheeseface wrote: |
| Try India....... |
Generally in places like India, the reason for the poor hygiene would be a lack of money and resources. especially in public restrooms. I can totally understand something like that.
The thing about this situation is that it is at a school with lots and lots of money. The students are mostly wealthy or at least affluent middle class. The entire school is very organized and clean. Yet this piss soaked rag is being used in the restroom. They could easily afford a better alternative for sure.
I guess it's just the culture? It just seems like something that's totally senseless to me. It seems to be very, very unsanitary and possibly dangerous, not to mention disgusting. It just seems pointless and unesessarry. There's a better way......
I am not gonna say anything about it though because I can tell it's perfectly normal to them. |
Yes, it's the culture. 
I guess the test they did on bar nuts where they found 52 types of urine in a bowl can be explained by our culture.
I agree that a lot of bathrooms in Korea are sub-par, but you are in a school, with kids, who do disgusting things. Maybe some kid pissed on the floor and decided to mop it up with the towel. Culture has nothing to do with it.
By the way, I walked into the boy's toilets at my school one day to find shit smeared all over the walls, floor, urinals and sinks. The communal towel has fat brown chunks squishd into it. The same thing happened at the elemenatry school I attended as a student. Go figure. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:02 am Post subject: |
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Yes. Even at the schools that make a lot, putting soap and disposible towels in the restrooms is more than an afterthought. Among other things such as allowing/not teaching/not enforcing children to put garbage in the garbage can instead of throwing/dropping it on the floor. Or on the streets for that matter.
Well-educated indeed. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:02 am Post subject: |
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| samd wrote: |
| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| cheeseface wrote: |
| Try India....... |
Generally in places like India, the reason for the poor hygiene would be a lack of money and resources. especially in public restrooms. I can totally understand something like that.
The thing about this situation is that it is at a school with lots and lots of money. The students are mostly wealthy or at least affluent middle class. The entire school is very organized and clean. Yet this piss soaked rag is being used in the restroom. They could easily afford a better alternative for sure.
I guess it's just the culture? It just seems like something that's totally senseless to me. It seems to be very, very unsanitary and possibly dangerous, not to mention disgusting. It just seems pointless and unesessarry. There's a better way......
I am not gonna say anything about it though because I can tell it's perfectly normal to them. |
Yes, it's the culture.
I guess the test they did on bar nuts where they found 52 types of urine in a bowl can be explained by our culture.
I agree that a lot of bathrooms in Korea are sub-par, but you are in a school, with kids, who do disgusting things. Maybe some kid pissed on the floor and decided to mop it up with the towel. Culture has nothing to do with it.
By the way, I walked into the boy's toilets at my school one day to find shit smeared all over the walls, floor, urinals and sinks. The communal towel has fat brown chunks squishd into it. The same thing happened at the elemenatry school I attended as a student. Go figure. |
Thank you.
This is exactly the reason why everyone should not be sharing the same towel. Because the restroom is where disgusting things happen. Instead of mopping up piss and then puting the towel back onto the bar for other to use. How about mopping up that piss with paper towels and then throwing them away?
Use it once and throw it away. I'm all about saving the trees but come on. This single towel thing is actually unhealthy. It's called a biohazard. |
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jajdude
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:51 am Post subject: |
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| Gross, but easily resolved. Get your own towel and soap. |
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runlikegump
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| Dawson wept. |
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yingwenlaoshi
Joined: 12 Feb 2007
Location: ... location, location!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: |
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| runlikegump wrote: |
| Dawson wept. |
How many times? |
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VanIslander
Joined: 18 Aug 2003
Location: Geoje, Hadong, Tongyeong,... now in a small coastal island town outside Gyeongsangnamdo!
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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The level of hygiene does take some getting used to. It's part of the culture shock. Many ESLers in Korea comment on it when you chat in person.
How can a culture so obsessively go to public bathhouses and scrub for hours, women carrying their buckets of cleaning supplies with them (I used to think they were all cleaning ladies going to work), and then afterwards they go #2 in a bathroom and not wash their hands? especially cooking and serving food afterwards?
They must look clean and be seen getting clean but actually being clean isn't so important.
Apearance over reality. A theme of life around here it seems. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006
Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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| My uni put in new bathrooms with bidets and hot air blowers; the soap dispensers remain ever empty. |
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