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funplanet
Joined: 20 Jun 2003
Location: The new Bucheon!
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 Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:42 am Post subject: No TP in Thailand |
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Just got back from 2 wonderful weeks in Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand....!
Anyway, when I was at Incheon the morining I left there was a tour group of K's going to Thailand all dutifully lined up and listening intently to their tour guides. Most had enough baggage for a 3 month trip around the world but the funniest thing was a family; mom, dad, and 2 rugrats with 2 trolleys full of suitcases and on top of one trolley was a 24-roll package of toilet paper....
all that for a 4 day trip (i snooped and got a look at the itinerary)! I guess their tour company told them to come prepared!!! |
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yangban
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The Great Green Pacific Northwest
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 6:22 am Post subject: |
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| There is no TP in China AND parts of Korea. Indonesia has no TP, toilet lids or flushing mechanisms. In Indonesia you have a bucket of water under a spicket with a ladel that sits next to a toilet. You grab the ladel full of water and throw it into the toilet, flushing it. Never saw anything so unusual. |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:34 am Post subject: |
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| yangban wrote: |
| There is no TP in China AND parts of Korea. Indonesia has no TP. |
Yeah, maybe a 10 day hike into the jungle. Outside that, anywhere were people AREN��T wearing loin-cloths you��ll find toilet paper. That��s a promise. |
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yangban
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The Great Green Pacific Northwest
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:50 am Post subject: |
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| trevorcollins wrote: |
Yeah, maybe a 10 day hike into the jungle. Outside that, anywhere were people AREN��T wearing loin-cloths you��ll find toilet paper. That��s a promise. |
I assumed when the OP said no TP, he meant, not a lot of TP. That's what I meant. And a lot of times, there is no toilet paper in the bathroom of these countries. Of course you will find it in stores! In China, they go so far as to sell it outside of the bathrooms for people caught unprepared. Same in Malaysia, where sometimes you have to pay just to use the bathroom. You have to be prepared for it, that is the moral of this thread. I have actually been to these countries and have seen this phenomenom, especially China. I don't know how you made the jump from a lack of toilet paper to naked people, but if that is the jump you want to make, so be it. |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| yangban wrote: |
| I don't know how you made the jump from a lack of toilet paper to naked people, but if that is the jump you want to make, so be it. |
Who said ANYTHING about naked people ?
That��s your statement not mine.
In any case I��m glad you managed to work out how to wipe your ass  |
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yangban
Joined: 29 Mar 2004
Location: The Great Green Pacific Northwest
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 8:19 am Post subject: |
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Ha ha, very funny Castro. After your nice statements, I now have more to wipe than my ass. 
By the way, have you ever been to Cuba? Heard its nice, but Uncle Sam won't let me go there. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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yangban
There is no TP in China AND parts of Korea. Indonesia has no TP, toilet lids or flushing mechanisms. In Indonesia you have a bucket of water under a spicket with a ladel that sits next to a toilet. You grab the ladel full of water and throw it into the toilet, flushing it. Never saw anything so unusual. |
This is the norm in public bathrooms in Viet Nam and Cambodia. I have seen this in Mexico, and in Korea, also. Its quite a simple concept. Anyone who has grown up in a tropical climate should know about it, because it can be necessary even with a new flush toilet, if water pressure is lost due to a storm, or whatever. The mechanics of it are simple.
Argh! We Westerners are such a spoilt bunch. |
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trevorcollins
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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| yangban wrote: |
Ha ha, very funny Castro. After your nice statements, I now have more to wipe than my ass.
By the way, have you ever been to Cuba? Heard its nice, but Uncle Sam won't let me go there. |
That's okay, apology accepted 
Nah I get screwed by the treasury department also.
Would love to go though. I heard it's groovy |
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just because
Joined: 01 Aug 2003
Location: Changwon - 4964
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Did you know that you can squirt your bum in Outback Steakhouse.
just gotta figure out what it means first.  |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Okay, speaking of squirting your bum, I do have a question. In countries like Indonesia that have hoses instead of T.P.- how do you dry your bum? Seriously. I haven't figured that one out yet. |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:37 am Post subject: |
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When I took the fairy to fuckuoka I saw many old Korean ladies with tons of rool of TP.  |
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Kwangjuchicken
Joined: 01 Sep 2003
Location: I was abducted by aliens on my way to Korea and forced to be an EFL teacher on this crazy planet.
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| Kwangjuchicken wrote: |
| When I took the fairy to *beep* to get my visa I saw many old Korean ladies with tons of rolls of TP. |
The bleep is the "F" word city in Japan.  |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
Location: Yap
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:09 am Post subject: |
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Fukuoka comes through ok. Check your spelling.
Speaking of spelling, is this the chicken's coming-out post? |
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Manner of Speaking
Joined: 09 Jan 2003
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No he means that new town in the suburbs. "*beep* -uoka"  |
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OiGirl
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: Hoke-y-gun
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| Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:17 am Post subject: |
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yangban
There is no TP in China AND parts of Korea. Indonesia has no TP, toilet lids or flushing mechanisms. In Indonesia you have a bucket of water under a spicket with a ladel that sits next to a toilet. You grab the ladel full of water and throw it into the toilet, flushing it. Never saw anything so unusual. |
This is the norm in public bathrooms in Viet Nam and Cambodia. I have seen this in Mexico, and in Korea, also. Its quite a simple concept. Anyone who has grown up in a tropical climate should know about it, because it can be necessary even with a new flush toilet, if water pressure is lost due to a storm, or whatever. The mechanics of it are simple.
Argh! We Westerners are such a spoilt bunch. |
This was the norm for us growing up whenever the power went out. We lived in the woods and had our own electric pump. The first thing we did when the power went out was go fill buckets from the stream. |
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