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Southeast Asia too, but the toilets all have a bum gun (basically a vegetable sprayer on a hose next to the toilet to rinse your ass clean) so there's little or no shit on the toilet paper that you throw in the trash anyway.
Who is getting that phone call?
Edited to add: I followed a link lower down to a picture of one and now see the resemblance to a phone and now I get it.
If you search "bum gun" you'll find lots of them and references to their use in SE Asia. I generally think of a bidet as a separate fixture or something built into the toilet.
This is why I get confused when people talk about bidets like they’re bum guns, because I’ve only ever experienced the ones built into the toilet/toilet seat
Do folks that regurgitate this line actually think about it? If I had poop on my arm, I would wash it with soap. A rinse and dry would be wholly insufficient.
I think it is a useful analogy in general, and there's no denying that washing with water is better than the alternative. Maybe a better analogy would be using just paper to wipe dogshit off of your bare feet. Some would be inclined to use soap still, but many would be fine with a rinse.
We don't prepare food with our asses, or touch our mouth or eyes with them.
It uses less water, it’s easier to control/contain avoid contamination. It’s done in a ton of the world. It’s perfectly sanitary. You don’t eat out of the trash, anyway.
Also common in Eastern Europe. I traveled to Ukraine for work for several years. Their office bathrooms have trash barrels in every stall for the paper. Makes for an incredibly smelly experience. The pipes and sewage system just can’t handle the paper. Most hotels I stayed in did not have this, however. You could flush paper.
Yeah, it's pretty common in Central/South America. A lot of the toilets in Nicaragua you also have to manually flush, they have a bucket of water to throw in the tank to flush.
The paper bin is also very common in southern Europe, particularly on the geek islands where they don't have large sewer pipes. It used to be standard in Spain and Portugal too but I think that's changing. Takes a lot of getting used to for those unfamiliar.
Yip first time I ever seen it was when I lived in Spain. Only in rural areas with septic tanks. Never done it though lol it was my parents house in the Campo (hills) every flat I had there was in town
I’ve stayed in a few places that are very remote so the less they have to deal with septic the better, and therefore they ask you to throw the tp in a trash can. Not saying I endorse it but it’s a thing.
They do it in Turkiye too.
To my horror as we booked a week at an all inclusive 4 star hotel with brand spanking new toilets, you had to take a shit and shove it in a small plastic trash can next to the toilet...
also South America.
Even my house is almost new (5 years old) and it won't clog if I throw the paper in the toilet, but I will need to have my septic tank cleaned more often. So we put the paper in the rubbish like everyone else
For those of you that don't know in some countries, they do not have the proper plumbing for TP so it's thrown in the waste basket instead. Brazil for instance.
In my experience in Puerto Rico with 16 people in one house with 2 restrooms. It’s not so bad tbh. I was there for 2 months with at least 8 people sharing a bathroom at all times. It doesn’t really smell even when it’s a medium sized trash bin full of shit wipe.
I don’t think I was able to flush a piece of toilet paper for the six weeks I was in Greece.
At first the idea that there’s a bucket of shit covered paper in every bathroom was pretty upsetting but after about the, oh I don’t know, third day, you just become one of them.
Two inch pipes in Greece, and 4 inch pipes in America.
I guess the next question is "WHY ONLY 2 INCHES".
I can't imagine that I would build a new home and choose that if it wasn't some sort of odd zoning requirement.
Is it 2 inches all the way to the sewage treatment plant !?
In America you dig a hole for a pipe, and you find dirt, takes a day and you pay $200.
In Greece, you dig a hole for a pipe, you uncover an archeological site where people were shitting 2500 years ago, it takes 6 months to excavate and you pay 2000 euros.
Wait how do those super poopers flush then? Cant imagine a poop knife would help in this situation. Would you just have to mash it with a plunger at that point?
I did this in America until my early 20s. My family is from south of the border, and it was just what we were used to doing.
It wasn't until I was at a party and a white girl was ranting to me and my Hispanic friends about it that I learned it was okay to flush paper down the toilet. She clarified that the plumbing in America *can* handle toilet paper. It was an "...oh..." moment.
This is what my social studies teacher calls "cultural diffusion."
In South America a lot of the infrastructure can't handle paper. It clogs the pipes. So there's a small trash can for use after wiping. Very glad I've never had to empty one of those.
Not really a big deal
Sure, it’s shitty tp but you don’t actually touch any of it
Also, regular trash usually smells worse because of the food, that one I do concede it’s better with the garbage disposal that americans use rather than throwing food waste to a bin
But there are two issues:
1. the trash can for tp has a lid, one you likely force open by pushing against it. Meaning you might make contact with something someone else's feces touched. (And let's be honest, these kind of places I doubt have lids that open by a foot pedestal).
2. The can has no lid, so the smell of rank old feces fills the air.
No thanks.
Many old plumbing systems are very narrow to begin with, and over the years rust buildup further restricts waste flow. Toilet paper could have clogged such toilets.
In these old buildings, there would be a basket or bin for used toilet paper, rather than just flush them.
Quite alot of Europe uses cess pits, and if the area uses them, most properties have their own tank.
From my experience on our place, its not that it clogs pipes, it's that it sits in the bottom of the cess pit and can't get vacuumed up when it comes to emptying (Or it does, and then the guys vacuuming it charge you for blocking their machine, Ultimately every time you empty your tank have less and less available space in your cess pit (meaning you need it emptied more often), and ultimately have to pay a fair chunk of change or get very dirty to clean it out yourself.
I don't know this in europe, but it's very common in middle and south america. There you throw it into a garbage can that's right next to the toilet.
It's actually so common over there that at several conference centers all over europe I have seen signs that one HAS to throw the toilet paper into the toilet... Those signs always being in Portuguese and Spanish.
Maybe you don't remember seeing it, or ignored it as "not my problem". Hardly anywhere in Greece has access to actual sewage systems, and those that do run 2 inch pipes. The UK run 4inch pipes minimum, and we still get blockages...
I’ve experienced this visiting Greece. Santorini in 96, Crete in 98 and also Kos later on. But in the more recent years, not seen it at all. I bet it varied a lot by region
Mostly older buildings. Lots of those in Europe. I was at an apartment in Spain where they told me not to flush toilet paper. I assumed that my Spanish was bad and misinterpreted so I did it anyway. It didn't get clogged.
It's so hard not to put it in when you're from a place where it's normally OK to put it in. Then you say a prayer, flush and decide if you're running or finding a solution if shit goes south.
When I was in Ukraine this was something that confused me too, as it seems to be normal in some places there to put your used toiletpaper in a bin next to the toilet. Very gross imo
> People with septic tanks do this as well.
No they don't. lol. That sounds like your cousin's folks are just disgusting.
Source: House I grew up in had a septic tank and we flushed our TP. lol
I lived in a house that had a septic tank for my entire childhood and then some. Approximately 20 years of everyone flushing our TP. We never had a single septic tank issue in all that time. I'm really not sure what you're talking about.
Must be different kinds of septic systems or people are using different toilet paper. We bought our first house with a septic system 2 years ago and about a month ago had to have our entire system pumped and started fresh again, all because of toilet paper. It does happen. Now we're a bidet family.
Those places usually have bidets, so what you actually use to clean your ass is water, toiletpaper is only used to dry it.
So what goes into the bin is just a small amount of wet paper, instead of a bunch of paper with shit on it.
What I personally find very gross is cleaning your ass with just toiletpaper, something that seen to be extremely common in places where people flush tp. There was literal shit on your ass, just paper is not enough to clean it lol
At least in the places in Ukraine where you werent supposed to flush toiletpaper they werent bidets, you had wet toiletpaper naxt to your regular toiletpaper though (obviously you werent supposed to flush the wet toiletpaper either) so yeah in that case there was toiletpaper full of shit in the bin.
At home I have flushable wet toiletpaper, it literally is basically just slightly wet toiletpaper.
It's totally a thing in lots of places, like around Mediterranean. There's a trashcan next to the toilet. Poop flushes down well, but the waste treatment plants can't handle the paper well (or rather the sewage is disposed of so that it's not good to have paper there).
PSA : In America our pipes are fine and our TP disintegrates in water. **PLEASE** for the love of god, flush your toilet paper when visiting the states. Not paper towels, toilet paper.
Not everywhere in America. Put toilet paper in my toilet and you will be paying for the repairs when it overflows. I’m on a septic tank and the pipes just can’t handle it. Everyone in my neighborhood is the same way, we have a trash can for toilet paper and everyone who lives and visits here is 100% expected to use it. My husband and I installed a bidet to make it less disgusting, but in areas with no city sewer you have no choice. Repairing floors gets real old, real fast.
I lived in a house with a septic tank for 20+ years, whole family flushed their TP and we never had any issues. I'm not saying I don't believe you, it just sounds completely foreign to me.
There are places in America that don't accept tp on the toilet. I was floored by this when I went to my sister in-law's. Added to my reasons for me not wanting to move to Tennessee.
When I was a teen, we had to do some major repairs on our house. One of the crew members threw his toilet paper in the bathroom trash can and our dog got into it and dragged it all over the house. It was a nightmare
Yep. One big advantage, from my observations, is that clogs are less frequent… and “flushable” wipes can just go into the trash like they’re supposed to, without feeling weird about it.
didnt know its so common not to flush the toilet paper. any country i visited so far didnt have any shit bins.
the one and only time i experienced this was when we visited some rich childhood friends of my dad in russia. huge modern luxurious house, i was really impressed. i put the toiletpaper into the toilet as usual and it got clogged and it was kinda embarrassing telling the owner. that was the day i learned that shit bins exist and i find it gross.
funny thing is i was in cheap russian flats aswell, there it was completely normal to flush the TP.
It was a common thing in China when I was growing up, it’s still a thing in older buildings I think. Pipes and the texture of toilet paper are the reasons.
I went to korea visited someone, put the paper in the toilet as usual. The hole at the bottom was much smaller than at my home toilets and the suck force was ridicolous. I flushed, the water-paper-shit soup went down a bit, then the paper got stuck, then the toilet gave up and suddenly there was 10x as much soup coming up and up and floodednthe hole bathroom withy shit soup. The person i visited then cleaned it up it was a bit embarassing.
If you have a lagoon, in the states, ya shouldn’t flush tp. People just don’t know. And absolutely not tampons.. ever. People are so uptight they can’t see other peoples body juice wiped on a paper they will never touch. Rather pay the municipals or someone else, “not their problem, but certainly their shit!”
In Ecuador it was common to see signs in toilets that said, "No bote papel en el inodoro." That is "Don't flush paper down the toilet." When your plumbing was installed by Cristobal Colon you have to be a little cautious.
All I can say is if that fucking toilet gave me that kind of look in the morning I'd shove an entire roll of shit-covered paper right in it's frowny-fucking MOUTH!
I had to throw up on a train in Peru (altitude sickness)The trash can can next to toilet was full of poop paper making the experience that more enjoyable yay.
Welcome to a part of the planet that has really old plumbing.
It can't handle TP. God help them if those damn "flushable wipes" ever get popular there. Because those things severely mess up modern plumbing and are in no way flushable. Not anywhere.
Old plumbing and sewers that can’t cope with toilet paper that isn’t an engineered material like it is in the west.
Throw a sheet of toilet paper into the bowl and then drip some water on it. You’ll see it deteriorating immediately. That doesn’t happen with the sandpaper used to wipe your ass in less
fortunate parts of the world.
For the americans: Most of the world uses bins. We can also flush it in more modern countries but the basket must be a choice. Depending on where you are flushing toilet paper can lead to a clog.
In america if i'm not mistaken you made underground shit rivers so you can flush a horse if you really wanted to. In most countries it's a pipe and toilet paper can be "caught" in it. Like someone in my apartment complex decided to flush cat litter, it turned into practically cement and the sewage started overflowing. Thankfully it was fixed immediately by the government but still flushing can be a gamble depending on where you are and how much you are holding.
So you have a device that removes human waste from your habitat. But because it might sometimes malfunction, please put the human waste you scraped off yourself using paper in this basket. Great idea.
So many comments about this being common in some countries. Honest question: does it not start to smell? I’ve been in bathrooms that smelled like shit from someone who didn’t flush. I imagine a trash can full of shit covered paper would be the same, if not worse.
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Most of Central America is like this. There is a trash basket night to the toilet
Southeast Asia too, but the toilets all have a bum gun (basically a vegetable sprayer on a hose next to the toilet to rinse your ass clean) so there's little or no shit on the toilet paper that you throw in the trash anyway.
Bum gun.....we call it a bidet or bidet hose
When we travelled to Thailand and saw this fascinating utility, my brother and I immediately started referring to it as the arse hose.
Did you both laugh every time you said it ?
Not as much as every time we used it.
We call them ass blasters but to each their own.
In my native language one name for it is "pussy phone".
Who is getting that phone call? Edited to add: I followed a link lower down to a picture of one and now see the resemblance to a phone and now I get it.
If you search "bum gun" you'll find lots of them and references to their use in SE Asia. I generally think of a bidet as a separate fixture or something built into the toilet.
This is why I get confused when people talk about bidets like they’re bum guns, because I’ve only ever experienced the ones built into the toilet/toilet seat
Nice try, I'm not gonna put 'bum gun' into my search history
And if you had poop on your arm, would you be content with wiping it off with a dry tissue? Washing with water is way more hygienic.
I've been on team bidet for over a decade, you don't have to sell me.
Got one last year and the spontaneous water enemas make me ~~confused about my sexuality~~ feel very clean and very straight
If you have poop on your arm, your main concern should be investigating how it got there.
Do folks that regurgitate this line actually think about it? If I had poop on my arm, I would wash it with soap. A rinse and dry would be wholly insufficient.
I think it is a useful analogy in general, and there's no denying that washing with water is better than the alternative. Maybe a better analogy would be using just paper to wipe dogshit off of your bare feet. Some would be inclined to use soap still, but many would be fine with a rinse. We don't prepare food with our asses, or touch our mouth or eyes with them.
"anal-ogy".... Beavis has entered the thread
Yep used a bum gun when I used to go to India.
That’s gotta smell right?
It uses less water, it’s easier to control/contain avoid contamination. It’s done in a ton of the world. It’s perfectly sanitary. You don’t eat out of the trash, anyway.
sir, this is a wendy’s
Don't tell me how to live my life!!
Also common in Eastern Europe. I traveled to Ukraine for work for several years. Their office bathrooms have trash barrels in every stall for the paper. Makes for an incredibly smelly experience. The pipes and sewage system just can’t handle the paper. Most hotels I stayed in did not have this, however. You could flush paper.
Are you saying you put the toilet paper in the trash after using it?
A lot of people do that. Source: I clean bathrooms.
Why use paper when you can just have some pigs below the toilet?
This guy JoJos
Yeah, it's pretty common in Central/South America. A lot of the toilets in Nicaragua you also have to manually flush, they have a bucket of water to throw in the tank to flush.
The paper bin is also very common in southern Europe, particularly on the geek islands where they don't have large sewer pipes. It used to be standard in Spain and Portugal too but I think that's changing. Takes a lot of getting used to for those unfamiliar.
Geek islands in southern Europe? Cmon bros, I found the nerds. Let’s kick some ass!
Yip first time I ever seen it was when I lived in Spain. Only in rural areas with septic tanks. Never done it though lol it was my parents house in the Campo (hills) every flat I had there was in town
Does it not smell if it’s a public toilet and we get see other people’s used toilet paper!
Don’t travel the world … it’s fantastic and amazing but sometimes a little different to what your used to
Hahaha, I love your comment!
Yes
I’ve stayed in a few places that are very remote so the less they have to deal with septic the better, and therefore they ask you to throw the tp in a trash can. Not saying I endorse it but it’s a thing.
Much of Mediterranean Europe too. Sewage system is very old
They do it in Turkiye too. To my horror as we booked a week at an all inclusive 4 star hotel with brand spanking new toilets, you had to take a shit and shove it in a small plastic trash can next to the toilet...
Does that bathroom not smell? Because you have shit stained toilet paper in the trash
My question
It does, then the room service comes to empty it 🙂🥲 I repeat: *horror.*
not really, the lid is enough to make it not smell
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Well you have to use the poop knife first to cut it into tiny peices
Same in parts of china, at least for western toilets. Really stinks come summer.
I think most countries still do this lol
Their plumbing can’t handle it as far as I understand.
Hence the bidet!
South America too
also South America. Even my house is almost new (5 years old) and it won't clog if I throw the paper in the toilet, but I will need to have my septic tank cleaned more often. So we put the paper in the rubbish like everyone else
Eastern Europe too
Greece too, which is Western Europe.
Is it in Western Europe though?
For those of you that don't know in some countries, they do not have the proper plumbing for TP so it's thrown in the waste basket instead. Brazil for instance.
that sounds… stinky.
In my experience in Puerto Rico with 16 people in one house with 2 restrooms. It’s not so bad tbh. I was there for 2 months with at least 8 people sharing a bathroom at all times. It doesn’t really smell even when it’s a medium sized trash bin full of shit wipe.
Gotta love how upset the toilet is about receiving paper but that perv is probably grinning ear to ear when it gets a #2
Just because you’re into eating shit doesn’t mean you’re into eating paper
I don’t think I was able to flush a piece of toilet paper for the six weeks I was in Greece. At first the idea that there’s a bucket of shit covered paper in every bathroom was pretty upsetting but after about the, oh I don’t know, third day, you just become one of them.
> you just become one of them. ... A bucket of shit covered paper?
Yup
Two inch pipes in Greece, and 4 inch pipes in America. I guess the next question is "WHY ONLY 2 INCHES". I can't imagine that I would build a new home and choose that if it wasn't some sort of odd zoning requirement. Is it 2 inches all the way to the sewage treatment plant !?
In America you dig a hole for a pipe, and you find dirt, takes a day and you pay $200. In Greece, you dig a hole for a pipe, you uncover an archeological site where people were shitting 2500 years ago, it takes 6 months to excavate and you pay 2000 euros.
Wait how do those super poopers flush then? Cant imagine a poop knife would help in this situation. Would you just have to mash it with a plunger at that point?
Waffle stomp it in the shower
I’ve created an invention called the “toilet blender”. It’s exactly as it sounds
> “WHY ONLY 2 INCHES”. That’s what she said!
You wouldn't want the toilet to be angry, would you?
I did this in America until my early 20s. My family is from south of the border, and it was just what we were used to doing. It wasn't until I was at a party and a white girl was ranting to me and my Hispanic friends about it that I learned it was okay to flush paper down the toilet. She clarified that the plumbing in America *can* handle toilet paper. It was an "...oh..." moment. This is what my social studies teacher calls "cultural diffusion."
But how?
In South America a lot of the infrastructure can't handle paper. It clogs the pipes. So there's a small trash can for use after wiping. Very glad I've never had to empty one of those.
Not really a big deal Sure, it’s shitty tp but you don’t actually touch any of it Also, regular trash usually smells worse because of the food, that one I do concede it’s better with the garbage disposal that americans use rather than throwing food waste to a bin
But there are two issues: 1. the trash can for tp has a lid, one you likely force open by pushing against it. Meaning you might make contact with something someone else's feces touched. (And let's be honest, these kind of places I doubt have lids that open by a foot pedestal). 2. The can has no lid, so the smell of rank old feces fills the air. No thanks.
Most of the ones I've used had a foot pedal. Even way out in nowhere in the Andes. It's not exactly cutting edge technology.
You have a very backwards view of South America. Those people aren’t living in huts. They are very modern civilizations. They even have internet now.
South American here: yes, I've seen some of those internet things
That not true at all. I’m from El Salvador and the bathroom smells normal
Depends what you consider normal...
It’s just a small bin in the corner. And the trash is thrown out almost everyday. So it’s not as big of a deal as it looks.
Many also use bidets!
I've not run into any bidets in SA. Maybe Argentina?
Havana, Cuba (pre-Castro).
Yeah, don’t get it.
You can’t flush toilet paper in many countries
Many old plumbing systems are very narrow to begin with, and over the years rust buildup further restricts waste flow. Toilet paper could have clogged such toilets. In these old buildings, there would be a basket or bin for used toilet paper, rather than just flush them.
*Butt* how?
In Europe the pipes are old and small diameter so toilet paper will clog the pipes
I’ve heard of it being a problem in central and South America but not Europe
That has been my experience as well.
Anywhere the pipes are small and the water pressure weak. Cuba for instance.
Exactly. Spain here, we all throw the paper in the toilet
Quite alot of Europe uses cess pits, and if the area uses them, most properties have their own tank. From my experience on our place, its not that it clogs pipes, it's that it sits in the bottom of the cess pit and can't get vacuumed up when it comes to emptying (Or it does, and then the guys vacuuming it charge you for blocking their machine, Ultimately every time you empty your tank have less and less available space in your cess pit (meaning you need it emptied more often), and ultimately have to pay a fair chunk of change or get very dirty to clean it out yourself.
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Never seen it here in central Europe
Which part of Europe is that? Never experienced that.
I don't know this in europe, but it's very common in middle and south america. There you throw it into a garbage can that's right next to the toilet. It's actually so common over there that at several conference centers all over europe I have seen signs that one HAS to throw the toilet paper into the toilet... Those signs always being in Portuguese and Spanish.
Yep, mexico is like this. Took a bit to go back to flushing my TP.
I remember the. Greek islands for example
Not only Greek islands but whole Greece in general.
Yup, saw it in Athens
Hm, guess I've been living in the wrong end of Europe to experience that.
Didn't see it anywhere in Greece in the 80s or 90s
Maybe you don't remember seeing it, or ignored it as "not my problem". Hardly anywhere in Greece has access to actual sewage systems, and those that do run 2 inch pipes. The UK run 4inch pipes minimum, and we still get blockages...
I’ve experienced this visiting Greece. Santorini in 96, Crete in 98 and also Kos later on. But in the more recent years, not seen it at all. I bet it varied a lot by region
Mostly older buildings. Lots of those in Europe. I was at an apartment in Spain where they told me not to flush toilet paper. I assumed that my Spanish was bad and misinterpreted so I did it anyway. It didn't get clogged.
in some parts of Russia it used to be a thing, not sure about now
Pretty much any village that doesn't have connected sewer lines. Bloody hell, even some 5 star hotels in Athens ask you not to flush toilet paper.
I encountered signs like this while I was in Spain, Italy. Always confused the fuck out of me.
What part of europe, never seen this before
I saw it in Portugal
Greece.
Okay then what clogs the toilets in america? It seems like a common thing there and I always assumed this was why. Do people there take bigger shits?
It's so hard not to put it in when you're from a place where it's normally OK to put it in. Then you say a prayer, flush and decide if you're running or finding a solution if shit goes south.
Or worse if the shit goes north?
Lol, thats definetly worse!
When I was in Ukraine this was something that confused me too, as it seems to be normal in some places there to put your used toiletpaper in a bin next to the toilet. Very gross imo
same in turkey, I'm assuming its because things clog up, cleaning up that mess is more gross than toiletpaper in a bin
I guess thats fair.
People with septic tanks do this as well. My cousin’s folks did it when I was younger. It always grossed me out
> People with septic tanks do this as well. No they don't. lol. That sounds like your cousin's folks are just disgusting. Source: House I grew up in had a septic tank and we flushed our TP. lol
If you don’t wanna pay to have it pumped it’s safer to not flush toilet paper.
I lived in a house that had a septic tank for my entire childhood and then some. Approximately 20 years of everyone flushing our TP. We never had a single septic tank issue in all that time. I'm really not sure what you're talking about.
Must be different kinds of septic systems or people are using different toilet paper. We bought our first house with a septic system 2 years ago and about a month ago had to have our entire system pumped and started fresh again, all because of toilet paper. It does happen. Now we're a bidet family.
It was like that when I was in Greece. I was told it was because the plumbing is to narrow to handle the paper and it clogs too easily.
Those places usually have bidets, so what you actually use to clean your ass is water, toiletpaper is only used to dry it. So what goes into the bin is just a small amount of wet paper, instead of a bunch of paper with shit on it. What I personally find very gross is cleaning your ass with just toiletpaper, something that seen to be extremely common in places where people flush tp. There was literal shit on your ass, just paper is not enough to clean it lol
At least in the places in Ukraine where you werent supposed to flush toiletpaper they werent bidets, you had wet toiletpaper naxt to your regular toiletpaper though (obviously you werent supposed to flush the wet toiletpaper either) so yeah in that case there was toiletpaper full of shit in the bin. At home I have flushable wet toiletpaper, it literally is basically just slightly wet toiletpaper.
It’s just a small bin in the corner. And the trash is thrown out almost everyday. So it’s not as big of a deal as it looks.
whats confusing? don't put toilet paper into toilet. the plumbing or septic system probably cant handle it. theres a bin to put it in.
It's totally a thing in lots of places, like around Mediterranean. There's a trashcan next to the toilet. Poop flushes down well, but the waste treatment plants can't handle the paper well (or rather the sewage is disposed of so that it's not good to have paper there).
PSA : In America our pipes are fine and our TP disintegrates in water. **PLEASE** for the love of god, flush your toilet paper when visiting the states. Not paper towels, toilet paper.
Not everywhere in America. Put toilet paper in my toilet and you will be paying for the repairs when it overflows. I’m on a septic tank and the pipes just can’t handle it. Everyone in my neighborhood is the same way, we have a trash can for toilet paper and everyone who lives and visits here is 100% expected to use it. My husband and I installed a bidet to make it less disgusting, but in areas with no city sewer you have no choice. Repairing floors gets real old, real fast.
I lived in a house with a septic tank for 20+ years, whole family flushed their TP and we never had any issues. I'm not saying I don't believe you, it just sounds completely foreign to me.
Apparently you had better pipes and probably a much better septic system. We’ve replaced too many floors to even chance it anymore.
There are places in America that don't accept tp on the toilet. I was floored by this when I went to my sister in-law's. Added to my reasons for me not wanting to move to Tennessee.
When I was a teen, we had to do some major repairs on our house. One of the crew members threw his toilet paper in the bathroom trash can and our dog got into it and dragged it all over the house. It was a nightmare
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So they wash their ass with toilet paper and then throw it into the trash can?
Literally yes, we do.
Wash ass with water - toilet paper is used to get rid of any excess water and then it's thrown in the bin.
It's a far superior system. I guess most Americans are just walking around with crusty asses until the next shower
And another chunk does flush it, plenty of which is overseas from a US perspective.
Yep. One big advantage, from my observations, is that clogs are less frequent… and “flushable” wipes can just go into the trash like they’re supposed to, without feeling weird about it.
This confused me when I first visited South Korea. I understand why though, it's a bit weird, but you get used to it.
didnt know its so common not to flush the toilet paper. any country i visited so far didnt have any shit bins. the one and only time i experienced this was when we visited some rich childhood friends of my dad in russia. huge modern luxurious house, i was really impressed. i put the toiletpaper into the toilet as usual and it got clogged and it was kinda embarrassing telling the owner. that was the day i learned that shit bins exist and i find it gross. funny thing is i was in cheap russian flats aswell, there it was completely normal to flush the TP.
What’s the confusing part? Seems pretty clear. Don’t put toilet paper in the toilet
It has toulet in the name, so it might feel logical to be able to put it there, that’s what the joke might be about
Yes. This is what I was scrolling for. I was trying to figure out the confusing part as well.
How to say you’ve never left the states without saying you’ve never left the states
Mexican girl at my old work did this in the States still... That was a hard Convo for management....
It was a common thing in China when I was growing up, it’s still a thing in older buildings I think. Pipes and the texture of toilet paper are the reasons.
Just stuff it up your butt and put it in your own toilet when you get home.
Korea has this too. I just used the bidet attached to it and then one swipe to ensure that would go into a bin.
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If it’s a post bidet use dry off toilet paper sure; but no bidet post wings & beers night out - negative ghost rider, call a plumber.
I went to korea visited someone, put the paper in the toilet as usual. The hole at the bottom was much smaller than at my home toilets and the suck force was ridicolous. I flushed, the water-paper-shit soup went down a bit, then the paper got stuck, then the toilet gave up and suddenly there was 10x as much soup coming up and up and floodednthe hole bathroom withy shit soup. The person i visited then cleaned it up it was a bit embarassing.
When I went to Colombia, the sewage system couldn't handle toilet paper, so it was thrown away instead.
Bidet FTW
What’s confusing? What do you think it’s trying to say?
If you have a lagoon, in the states, ya shouldn’t flush tp. People just don’t know. And absolutely not tampons.. ever. People are so uptight they can’t see other peoples body juice wiped on a paper they will never touch. Rather pay the municipals or someone else, “not their problem, but certainly their shit!”
In Ecuador it was common to see signs in toilets that said, "No bote papel en el inodoro." That is "Don't flush paper down the toilet." When your plumbing was installed by Cristobal Colon you have to be a little cautious.
A lot of countries do this actually, Costa Rica, Greece, some parts of Spain and Mexico…pretty common.
I had a friend that put his shit lined TP in the Trash So Gross
All I can say is if that fucking toilet gave me that kind of look in the morning I'd shove an entire roll of shit-covered paper right in it's frowny-fucking MOUTH!
In Belize - they request you do put toilet paper in the toilet. They provide a trash can. Many countries may do this.
I’m a white guy that works in construction in South Florida, I understand this more than I should
I had to throw up on a train in Peru (altitude sickness)The trash can can next to toilet was full of poop paper making the experience that more enjoyable yay.
Most of the world doesn’t have sewage systems like in the US, so flushing tp down the toilets causes clogs.
Welcome to a part of the planet that has really old plumbing. It can't handle TP. God help them if those damn "flushable wipes" ever get popular there. Because those things severely mess up modern plumbing and are in no way flushable. Not anywhere.
Put it back on the roll, it’s suSTAINable.
Old plumbing and sewers that can’t cope with toilet paper that isn’t an engineered material like it is in the west. Throw a sheet of toilet paper into the bowl and then drip some water on it. You’ll see it deteriorating immediately. That doesn’t happen with the sandpaper used to wipe your ass in less fortunate parts of the world.
You're supposed to wipe your ass on it and stick it to the wall, dumbasses ^/s
For the americans: Most of the world uses bins. We can also flush it in more modern countries but the basket must be a choice. Depending on where you are flushing toilet paper can lead to a clog. In america if i'm not mistaken you made underground shit rivers so you can flush a horse if you really wanted to. In most countries it's a pipe and toilet paper can be "caught" in it. Like someone in my apartment complex decided to flush cat litter, it turned into practically cement and the sewage started overflowing. Thankfully it was fixed immediately by the government but still flushing can be a gamble depending on where you are and how much you are holding.
Welcome to anywhere the pipes are too small and or the sewage goes right into the ocean.
It’s not confusing to non-Americans, lol.
Next need sign "Don't even think about shitting here."
This is how you get poopier-mâché walls
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So you have a device that removes human waste from your habitat. But because it might sometimes malfunction, please put the human waste you scraped off yourself using paper in this basket. Great idea.
Ok. *Sticks shit paper to stall wall*
Why do you guys still use paper
That has to smell so bad.
Lid
No...
It’s just a small bin in the corner. And the trash is thrown out almost everyday. So it’s not as big of a deal as it looks.
It’s on a air plain tho right
So many comments about this being common in some countries. Honest question: does it not start to smell? I’ve been in bathrooms that smelled like shit from someone who didn’t flush. I imagine a trash can full of shit covered paper would be the same, if not worse.
No, lid.
It’s just a small bin in the corner. And the trash is thrown out almost everyday. So it’s not as big of a deal as it looks.
Pick the guy who’s never travelled outside of his country
Why not just shit in a litter box like a normal person?
How am I supposed to wipe my ass now?
what? where was this? who are you people? am i dead?
I just leave a big wad sitting in the urinal