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[Gwangjuboy]

If you take a dump, and flush it down while wiping your backside you can then drop the soiled toilet paper down the toilet seperately. The paper always goes down as long as it isn't flushed with the tirds at the same time. Remember; Turds first, tissue second.

[ubum]

Thanks Gwangjuboy, now all the manufactures of plungers are going to go out of business.

[hojucandy]

none of this sage advice is necessary. modern toilet paper, as used in korea these days will not block toilets under any circumstances. just treat the toilets as yu would any back home...

[Flossie]

IMHO people who perpetuate the belief that all crappers are created equal are those in the plumbing business.

Our hagwon has the worst toilets I've seen in Korea. For a start the bathrooms are totally disgusting, (the building is really old and dirty) and the bogs backup at least once every couple of weeks.

I reckon it's a combination of low water pressure, fuckin small piping and a nasty S-bend with an evil sense of humor.

I agree...multiple flushes generally work. As does holding the (what do you call the little handle thingy that you use when you flush???) a little longer than usual.

Paper does disintegrate quickly here, but some people seem to need half a tree's worth of paper to wipe their tush. I think the combination of half a tree and turds is simply more than the average crapper can handle.

[Hwajangsil Ajumma]

You filthy fat foreigners with your big hamburger-induced faeces are always making my job more difficult. Imagine my horror the other day when I stumbled out of the hostess bar to my place of employ and found THIS dirty blighter befouling my pristine porcelain:

[Alan_Partridge]

this is going to make a wonderful thread for all reading with their breakfast....(go easy on the bran kids...)

[Bulsajo]

This thread makes me all weepy for South America where newspapers were the closest one ever got to toilet paper, and 'flushing' involved walking out to the backyard tap to fill a bucket of water.
good times, good times.

and the giant spiders that hid behind the toilet at night...
[shudders]

[fidel]

I remember when I lived deep in the forests of Siberia, all we had were pinecones...

[OiGirl]

Really, I don't know what kind of spoiled people you are. This is no big deal! Growing up in urban and suburban New York, I visited in several homes where there was a discreet sign indicating that the plumbing was elderly/delicate, and asking you to put your used tissue in the basket. Just fold the dirty parts inside, and it's not unbearably filthy. You do take the garbage out on a regular basis, don't you? Even at home, when living and paying the bills alone, I'd always save my flushes for the big ones and put the only damp tissue in the basket.

[numazawa]

[hojucandy]

this topic gets discussed every few months or so.

the point is simple - putting the paper in the basket is simply not necessary any more. it used to be in the old days but not now. no matter how poor the plumbing is, if it can take human faeces it can take toilet paper. the only exception may be if yu use a phenomenal amount of paper, which in itself is unnecessary.

the disgusting nature or not of the basket is irrelevant. the practice is no longer necessary and it is very silly that it is still done.

a 500g turd offers far more resistance to flow than a few grams of disintegrating paper.

flush without guilt my pretties

end of story.

what shall we talk about next eh? fan death? the four seasons?

[dogbert]

I'd say we should all count our blessings considering that there are some people who even have apartments filled with cat crap.

[Lao Wai]

I lived in Korea two years. First time was in an old apartment building. Lived with a roomate. We both flushed our toilet paper each and every time. The toilet NEVER backed up.

Second year, lived by myself in a newer building...flushed all the time, toilet NEVER backed up. Hmmm....I notice a trend here.....

[alicat_blue]

I'm usually entirely willing, even eager to give myself over to the customs of whatever country I'm living in at the time, simply out of respect. But the used toilet paper in the trash bin is one thing that I simply refuse to do and I admit, I feel a little guilty about it. But seriously! A trash bin overflowing with shit paper, I can't contribute to that, it's like a virtual landmine of terrible diseases. And they wonder why hepatitis is such a problem here? In Thailand, where they also have a problem with old plumbing, they simply don't use tiolet paper, they do it the french way with a beday or however the hell that's spelled, a refreshing, pressurized spray of water which leaves you feeling scrubbed clean. It also eliminates the waste of using paper products. Anyways, the tiolets I use here are westernized with flushes like high-powered vacuums, both at school and home and I've never had a problem with them stopping up.

[little mixed girl]

if one fears of stopping up the toilet with poo, then don't let it all out at once...do it in stages, and flush between each one.
and all is right with the world.