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Favorite Comment: Fixer Vickie says, “This looks like something from “The Three Stooges”. You go to sit on the standard height toilet, and it drops down a few inches. When you stand back up, it goes up. When you sit down again, it drops “flush” with the floor. When you look at it to figure out what’s going on, you get a huge spray of water in your face. Then you beat on it with your hat.”
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Known as the “squatty potty”
Now your thinking with portals
Why is he thinking with portals now?
This kludge is clearly intended to accomodate Americans who have problems going in a mere “hole in the ground”.
Or to Japanese who feel uncomfortable with Western-style toilets they can’t squat over. (I hear that squat toilets are good for preventing hemorrhoids…)
I tried Japanese toilets, and they’re terrible. You have to squat, with your pants down, over a gap, and you have to pee and poo, avoiding your pants. Given that you have to balance yourself, you will either sit up straight and risk urinating on your pants, or you’ll fold double, in which case you’re pretty likely to poo outside the far end of the designated area.
So you have to make sure you don’t defecate or urinate over your clothes, while remaining balanced in an extremely top-heavy position, with your feet far apart, but bound together by your pants (making you off-balance and restricting your ability to compensate), and making sure you do not land anything outside the bowl. You will find that the chances of either falling in or pooing outside the bowl are pretty high.
So yeah, I prefer toilets where you just sit.
Those that grow up using the squat loos learn to use them without any issues
nothing like coming out of the stall to wash the foot you peed on, while all the Japanese ladies giggle like little girls… there’s a reason old people over there are so limber at 80 and 90 – everyday practice!
I had the same experience in Malaysia once…only toilet available was a ‘starting block’ type in a school. After dropping my pants I quickly realized I was about to drop a log in them. Only solution , if you’re in a stall, is to quickly take off your pants and hang them up on something. I really don’t know what the locals do and it isn’t something you feel like asking, is it? Number one rule of travel in Asia….go before you leave the hotel.
It’s not just Japan, China’s toilets are built into the floor too, and yes, that position is actually MUCH healthier in every way. It’s also the best position for giving birth. Humans are are only animals who act like this.
Only healthier if you have knees, ankles and a back that like this method. Not everyone is blessed with having a great back.
And I will also add, better when you don’t have diarreah.
Kind of a chicken-or-egg problem. If you used your full range of motion every day…
Well, I know that the Japanese (& etc) develop different musculature to deal with this, and e.g. kneeling to eat.
What I want to know is what their disabled or arthritis-ridden folks do. Not everyone can remain that sprightly and some are even born without the ability… a stool-type one is far more adaptable.
i was fearful of the same thing when i studied japan and learned of their toilets. I was relieved when i found out that most of their public restrooms have handicapped stalls which contain western style toilets. So when in Asia, use the handicapped stalls
Or an Asian Indian kludge where a western-style toilet was all that was available at the moment to make a “squatty potty”.
Maybe the kludge is that this is the aftermath of a 2-foot deep concrete spill. they put tile over the spill.
There is a nice little step stool that the camera man uses to ascend his throne.
Not enough context to tell: did they recess the toilet or raise the floor?
Looks like it’s the toilet that’s recessed. Surely it would’ve been easier to simply buy a Japanese toilet, instead of digging a hole to shove a western one in.
Can a squat toilet even be purchased in the States? This might just be the best solution available to someone used to a squat toilet (evidenced by the loo shoes next to it).
Squat toilets (AKA: natural position toilets) can be purchased in the US, but they’re usually a special order. There are two types. One is the traditional style that is set into the floor. This would be appropriate for new construction. Unless you want to tear out your bathroom floor and completely re-plumb it, you’d need to get a raised squatting toilet to fit with existing plumbing. You squat on a raised platform with this second model. Blue Earth Ceramics is one place where you can order both types.
Once the construction on this stall is finished, no woman living there will be able to find fault with her man when he pees in the shower.
Women don’t pee in the shower?!
I assume that for a bidet you just use the hose out back.
The view from the floor below will need an severe aesthetic kludge!
John never was able to find the right diet and stay on it.
This looks more like a Fail than a Kludge.
Aren’t many Kludges also Fails?
Yes, but surrealfarm was pointing out that it was MORE like a fail than a kludge. In other words, it is a kludgish fail instead of a failish kludge. To take it a step further, surrealfarm thinks the picture belongs on the ‘thereifixeditishfailblog.comishorg’ site instead of the ‘failblogishthereifixedit.orgishcom’ site. Make sense…ish?
Dogmeat, thank you. That makes so much more sense now!
Really? I’m just more confused.
[whispering] Me too, but don’t tell anyone! Let’s just keep it between you and me. Okay?
Inspired by his trip to the western world but discouraged by his budget, “John” decided to buy the toilet seat first, and save up for the bowl.
Methinks that the midnight stumbles to go pee will be much more adventurous.
Well, bowl me over!
That’s what Loo said.
Actually, that toilet seat is fake. I think someone’s trying to escape their cell, but digging that hole can take a while. This is one of the most brilliant ways to disguise it ever; I guarentee you any secruity guard will think twice before lifting it out to see what’s underneath.
The crucial difference between your ass and a hole in the ground.
LOL XD
This is for eagle-style def followers.
THIS is why you never let the Hulk use your toilet.
looks like a Turkish toilet they squat, no water jug to wash the butt though, or paper, YUCK
“Dammit, Bubba! When I told you to put in a toilet, I didn’t really mean *IN*!”
This looks like a combination of an Eastern Hammam ( Used in the Middle East) and a Western Toilet. The Eastern one is very similar to Japanese, with the exception of foot placement, it is a little wider too. It is used the same way… Hike up your skirt ( Women AND Men) do your business, hose yourself off ( with your LEFT hand) and that’s it…. I had to drop a deuce in one of those while in Al-Khobar once…. I learned several valuable lessons that day… First of all POOP BEFORE YOU LEAVE!!
Put a mattress next to it for when you’re drunk to avoid all that uncomfortable kneeling and bowl hugging.
Ahh! You have it right. No more porcelain burns in the morning.
Where’s the toilet paper roll? Or, is there a bidet hidden under the tiles?
The answer to your question is the same answer to “Why is it rude to use your left hand in public in Asia?”
My husband is a plumber and he’s actually seen something like this when a floor rotted under a toilet (that’s what happens when you don’t use a wax ring, leaking underneath that eventually rots a plywood subfloor) and then someone heavy then sat on it.
Still, where’s the tank?
Actually, I had a problem something like you are describing — the floor was getting VERY soft! Spent a few days replacing the floor with marine-grade plywood, and made dam sure the wax gasket was there and the toilet bolted down TIGHT!
I think this is either a gag or an attempt to make a simple squat toilet with an old bowl.
Squat potties (which admittedly don’t have the sort of bowl we use) are generally flushed by dumping buckets of water into them. So while they would have had to lower the waste line (which is likely just tile running out to an open sewer at the curb) it’s pretty conceivable that this is for reals.
PS– O what? No-one yet insisting this is a ‘shop?
Shocking, isn’t it? No one yelling “first,” no one claiming Photoshopping, and no one saying they know the person in the picture, or have been to the place pictured.
I’ll be the FIRST to say it is SHOPPED! I know, because I’ve BEEN THERE (after all, it is MY bathroom) and that’s not at all what it looks like!!! BTW, I KNOW EVERY PERSON that is in that picture!!11!!1!!!
That’s meant to go with the sunken bath.
overweight???
Keep it cool
Stay in skool
Pinch a loaf
and drop a stool
Another fine example of truth is stranger than fiction. Easter plumber is handed western toilet, told to install. He sets the operative surface flush to the floor, like anyone with half a brain would. It flushes beatifully with buckets of water, just like his “normal” toilets, so his success is self evident.
I just cannot imagine having to balance squatty style on a sit-down seat, or attempt to sit-down on a floor level model. And yeah, I’ve used both. With and without toilet paper, but that TMI for most folks.
It so simple, a caveman . . . Wait . . . Do I have to pay money to use that phrase?
It’s 2010, of course you do. That is unless you want to be sued by big buisness.
The rare phasing toilet, seen here, has just caught a small mouse. It typically preys on vermin, but will not pass up a mouse that is foolish enough to wander above its territory. In exchange for the vermin, the toilet will occasionally put up with humans attempting to use it for its more base purpose.
well THAT is one way to get a squat toilet
I’ll give you the lowdown — the ground truth is that I’m floored by this one.
I’d love to have this in my house as a gag, and have guests freak out.
But, then somebody would have to clean it…
This looks like something from “The Three Stooges”. You go to sit on the standard height toilet, and it drops down a few inches. When you stand back up, it goes up. When you sit down again, it drops “flush” with the floor. When you look at it to figure out what’s going on, you get a huge spray of water in your face. Then you beat on it with your hat.
WIN!
Then beating it with your hat – oh, Lord, I can *see* it…
Absolutely hilarious!! I can just picture Curly wiping his face off while vocally expressing his frustration: “Oh…wise guy, eh?”
That… sounds just like a Japanese toilet to me. Yep.
These things are called “Turkish Toilets” because from there East almost every body uses them. I only used one once in Thailand but I was nekid with a little help from my paidfor friend of the evening. Actually the position does aid in efficient evacuation.
It’s also said to prevent hemorrhoids.
I think i would rather use a 5 gallon bucket, camping-style.
I’ve been in worse in Europe….you know the foot measurement things at a shoe store…..they had something kind of like those but over-sized and then just a whole…….funny thing was they were in the pubs….I wonder how many people have gotten a little too tipsy;-) No doubt this is Japanese as you can tell by the Japanese traditional removal of the shoes….only in Japan would anyone dare take off their shoes in a public restroom. Although I wouldn’t put money on Japanese as the lack of toilet paper does make me think Ottoman empire or India…..the style of foot wear as well.
I’m pretty sure it’s not a public restroom. Having a pair of toilet slippers for the one in your house is common — where your shoes are already off.
It’s probably an Indian’s toilet, not a Japanese person’s. Look at the size of the shoes.
Well, I took the dare to eat 600 Taco Bell Volcano Tacos in an an hour. I did it, but the aftermath was horrible, as you can see by the toilet that has attempted to hide in the floor.
Actually, the Lino tileing reminds me of my grandparent’s 1/2 bath in Poland…actaully, this could be in Poland…rotted floor, overweight person goes in to use it….
That’s just a normal toilet in France. Looks in every restaurant similar…
Let this be a lesson to you: Don’t ever ask a kludger to flush the toilet.
If you sit on toilet and staring at the wall, and in the next 0.23 seconds you are starring at your knees then ……YES, you have had 5 to many Happy Meal`s.
Somewhere out there is a wife thinking, “And if he misses the bowl, it will all just drain back in…!”
Hey it’s a japanese toilet!
With big grin Asian plumber say “It flush now”!
no. ” It FRUSH now.”
Batting a thousand today; First I broke the futon, now the commode. And I ran out of jacks to fix the commode.
Where the definition of straining to go to the loo came from …
Here’s the same bathroom from a different angle:
http://thereifixedit.com/2010/03/30/epic-kludge-photo-how-ceiling-cat-makes-it-rain
so many missed shots that the floor has eroded. i need to show this to my boys.
FIRE IN ZE HOLE!!!11!!!
reminds me of Europe
I’m glad to be in America where I don’t have to sit awkwardly to take a crap. Just imagine taking big craps, diarrhea, etc. That is a chore in itself.