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chronicpride · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

This isn't a thread for 'have you ever used squat toilets', but for those that have used squats before and/or for those that have no issues with using them, now and then.

Are you brave and squat-savvy enough to keep your pants on and around ankles while you aim, or do you sometimes keep one leg in your pants and move the rest away from the splash zone, or, in the case of frantic emergency, do you say to hell with the pants, and everything's gotta come off.

And don't even think about pretending to not know what I'm talking about.

the eye · Joined: 29 Jan 2004

hah!

yeah, i don't like it when my pants touch the nasty floor of a regular toilet stall. when you squat, there's more contact, never mind the splash factor.

if i was ever forced to use a squat, i would surely have to hang my pants on the doorknob or something.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

I try to avoid the squat but usually I try to position it just below my knees.

weatherman · Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Location: Korea

squats are great! What takes 10 minutes on the throne takes 3 with the squats. Pants a little bit up from the ankle.

uberscheisse · Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Location: japan is better than korea.

i avoid squats, but when i do, i jettison everything.

one day i had to go in a porta potty on a construction site i was working on. it was a post-beer morning.

someone had left something on the seat i didn't want touching my lily white skin, so i climbed up on the seat. at that point i had never been to asia. i was a squat virgin, and my aim was terrible.

i had to change my pants.

perhaps this will help explain my fixation with the non-word "uberscheisse".

peppermint · Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 11:13 pm Post subject:

Skirts make life so much easier.

just because · Joined: 01 Aug 2003 Location: Changwon - 4964

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

I can't believe I've been so lucky as to go 2 1/2 months without having to use one. There's a sit-down in the gym I'm a member of, right by my howgan, thank goodness. From my memories in Turkey I could just never figure out how the locals do it. You drop your drawers and you're perfectly positioned to shit in your pants. Just taking everything off (not an appealing thought, given some places' temperatures) makes the most sense, I suppose.

[thank-you, mister health club owner, for installing a sit-down!]

peppermint · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:10 am Post subject:

trevorcollins · Joined: 02 Jul 2004

ideally take them off.
things can fall out of your pockets easily if they're around your knees.
if it's like a public bus station squatter....i.e really gross i just won't use it.
actually in 3 years in korea I've never taken a crap in a public toilet anyhow, so moot point I guess.

Pligganease · Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Location: The deep south...

It always makes me wonder....

If you're going to go through all the trouble of putting a porcelain hole in the floor, why not make a place to sit?

My school has a squat, and occasionally I have to use it...

I am racking my brain to think of a more disgusting concept in fecal disposal, and the only thing I can come up with is a vacuum device...

Daechidong Waygookin · Posted: Sat Jan 22, 2005 1:28 am Post subject:

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

In 5 & 1/2 years I only had to use them 1/2 dozen times- they were all emergencies and everything came off.

J.B. Clamence · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

If I absolutely have to use the squat, I usually sit facing the white protruding thing, and tuck my pants in front of it to keep them out of the way. You gotta make sure it's clean first, though.

matthewwoodford · Joined: 01 Oct 2003 Location: Location, location, location.

You lower your trousers to just a third of the way down your thighs and shit with your arse hanging over the end opposite the bulge, like JB Clamence said. That way, there's no water for splashing and no chance anything's going to drop near your trousers either.

And you squat with heels flat on the floor too.