Asia . . . the World's Home of Teh Bizarre (some images might keep you up at night).

[HughBeaumont]

From men who celebrate the Olympics by turning themselves into a miniature rainbow cemetery via self-acupuncture:


To Toad invasions:


Breast-enhancing pudding:


Questionable facilities:


Biscuit Sculpture:


Doctor Fish Spas:


Wasp Crackers:


Weird restaurants:


Even the "paranormal" presents itself off the chain:


But have a seat, nonetheless:


Mind you, these are the tame, DU-friendly ones.

[sasquatch]

1. How the fuck do you use this thing?

[HughBeaumont]

2. I suspect squatting would be a sketchy, if not messy prospect.

The floor cannot possibly be hygenic . . .

[LynzM]

3. You don't have to touch the floor to squat...

This reminds me of some weird bathrooms in France and Greece that I've seen. Wish I'd taken pics to share now, lol.

[mockmonkey]

4. Directions.....here

http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~ad8y-hys/movie.htm

[trof]

6. My BEST Japanese squat toilet story:

We were pilots for Nippon Cargo Airlines and in Tokyo for simulator training.
We had a day off and decided to hit the Ginza shopping district.
We ate some street food.
Barbecued eels.
My buddy came down with the explosive runs.

We tried to find a 'western' crapper.
Found none.

In an office building we found a public restroom.
A squatter.

My friend: "This ain't gonna work."
Me: "Take off your pants and shorts and I'll hold them."
(I'm a REAL friend.)

He did.
There was no grab bar, so he held on to my hands while he...well...it was truly EXPLOSIVE.
Eeuuuwww.
There was no 'toilet' paper as we know it. Got him cleaned up with wet paper towels as best we could.
Put him in a cab back to the hotel.
:eyes:

[madeline_con]

8. It's not all that difficult.

Squat. I'm not sure how the infirm and super old deal with them, though. They're all over Asia. I used on in my host's home in Bahrain, also in the homes of locals in Saudi. No big deal. :)

[Fleshdancer]

9. there should be a squat handle above the TP

oddly enough, I posted recently my bitter and horrifying experience of using a squat toilet in Tokyo while I was 8 mos pregnant. Stupid squat toilets for women at a time when we usually wear pants instead of kimonos...AND I WAS A PREGNANT BLIMP!!!! I could barely reach the damn handle! So one hand is grasping to hold on while the other arm is trying to figure out how to deal with the pants and everything else down south. I hate that toilet! I'm still shocked that I didn't fall...or give birth.

x(

[philosophie_en_rose]

5. Of course, this is from someone from a country that spawned Free Republic.

lol!Americans and your abandoned sewer houses.

:eyes::eyes::eyes:

[XemaSab]

7. Fresno is to the United States

as Chechnya is to Russia, as East TImor was to Indonesia, as Okinawa is to Japan.... Fresnans are only tangentially "American."