tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post6347556949531343806..comments2023-07-16T10:55:15.788-05:00Comments on expateek: People actually DO that?expateekhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15491622502934668348noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-60246253435963834302009-12-09T19:16:17.739-06:002009-12-09T19:16:17.739-06:00Kurt -- mimes and violence up next, I guess. I don...Kurt -- mimes and violence up next, I guess. I don't really want to talk about the time I peed and napped at the same time.<br /><br />Eileen -- squatting -- we can do it everywhere! Why I bother to go to the gym, I do not know.<br /><br />SkylersDad -- really, you definitely must concentrate harder. I'm sure all those images of bare bums over toilets got you distracted. Not all the bare bums are those of 20-year-old Greek porn stars, either, you know!<br /><br />Pino -- I think most disgusting Polish toilets are the ones on the trains between Warsaw and Krakow. I could hardly even get out of those -- shall I touch the door handle? Shall I not? Hell, I'm trapped in here!!! Gah. *shudder*<br /><br />Christine -- I don't know what that crap is at the bottom of the bowl either. Ugh. After I posted the photo, I was like, "what the f---?" The cleaning staff at the museum is REALLY takin' the piss (as they say in the EUROZONE.) Apparently no one wants to have anything to do with <i>these,</i> bowls.<br /><br />Truestarr -- Excellent point. Leaving the toilet seat up, indefinitely. We can see how sexism is ingrained in the very fabric of Greek society. I think you should do an academic paper on this.<br /><br />LisaPaul -- no, I disagree. Absolutely the 8th circle of hell? Public loo in Eton High Street. Vile, disgusting, beyond French. Though on a different day, the French can also be totally appalling. So I would say "hold it" at the Louvre. You can do it!<br /><br />Crabby -- "Hoverers". There's a special place in the Inferno for those women, and you've just reminded me all over again to always wipe the seat. Though I did go to college (Wellesley, since you ask) with a woman who <i>sat on her hands</i> to pee, saying that "you can always wash them, after".... I didn't ever touch her, ever again.expateekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15491622502934668348noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-26059997631702967072009-12-09T17:38:39.003-06:002009-12-09T17:38:39.003-06:00I'm not sure which is worse--no toilet seat, o...I'm not sure which is worse--no toilet seat, or a toilet seat that's been peed all over by hoverers who miss and won't clean up after themselves.<br /><br />I would rather sit than squat personally, but judging by the state of the seats I encounter I'm beginning to think I'm in the minority.Crabby McSlackerhttp://www.crankyfitness.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-64542998074781176602009-12-09T07:06:13.760-06:002009-12-09T07:06:13.760-06:00I find this oddity in many ladies toilets in Greec...I find this oddity in many ladies toilets in Greece, but I've come to the conclusion it's not vandalism but possibly rather a bizarre sort of masculine frugalism gone off in an odd direction. <br /><br />As men do much of the designing of kitchens (WHY do they put things there???) and bathrooms (as well as organize grocery stores- yes, that's why you can't find anything...) I am guessing the reasons and logics for the lack of toilet seats are many and unknowable.<br /><br />However, all toilets both men's and ladies have no tops (mens toilets tho a mystery to me are not to the male portion of my family). <br /><br />So re missing toilet seats- I draw my own conclusions: I believe it's because as men pee standing up, and this is just the Greek "macho" way of leaving the seat up - indefinitely.truestarrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00147210730080999426noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-33827519349703311282009-12-08T23:18:31.075-06:002009-12-08T23:18:31.075-06:00Love this. I, too, have a secret (well not so secr...Love this. I, too, have a secret (well not so secret now that I'm blogging) habit of photographing a "bathroom report" when I travel. Saw some pretty scary things in remote parts of Asia. But hands-down, the worst, foulest, most destroyed and unusable toilets in the world (at least that I've encountered): France. Don't even plan on taking a bathroom break at the Louvre.Lisa Paulhttp://leftcoastcowboys.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-27818194011413617372009-12-08T22:45:02.966-06:002009-12-08T22:45:02.966-06:00What is that in the bottom of the bowl? Eeew! Look...What is that in the bottom of the bowl? Eeew! Looks like slugs!Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06516090767487411166noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-17800728087341727792009-12-08T05:24:52.198-06:002009-12-08T05:24:52.198-06:00Didn't you experience this in Poland?
When I c...Didn't you experience this in Poland?<br />When I came home, I had to learn how to pee sitting down again.<br />Oh and in that case, never, ever go to Ukraine...<br /><br />(wv: shneckwa - angry battle cry of the toiletseat-tearing female. etymology thought to be early Japanese. Or Yiddish)pinolonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00473418753213565601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-12374119136420376882009-12-07T11:12:13.403-06:002009-12-07T11:12:13.403-06:00I had a funny comment ready but Kurt had me laughi...I had a funny comment ready but Kurt had me laughing so hard I forgot it!SkylersDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18264164502733912326noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-80938006056324648762009-12-07T07:24:43.209-06:002009-12-07T07:24:43.209-06:00ah, the joys of squatting! This was funny. But I&#...ah, the joys of squatting! This was funny. But I'd always assumed the lack of seat was due to a financial decision. I was at a home once in Costa Rica that didn't have one either, and I'm pretty sure that was the only bathroom "in" the house (it was outside, in a little shack).<br /><br />Good to see you back here!Eileenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05592471325011611637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8663073224655022128.post-63096341914601496142009-12-07T07:23:00.207-06:002009-12-07T07:23:00.207-06:00I always use the Ladies room in case they have a p...I always use the Ladies room in case they have a period couch in there. Peeing and napping go together like mimes and violence.Kurthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01575708700735000787noreply@blogger.com