China-exclusive things you'd like to take an Uzi to

Oh, great! Now we jump from the sweeping use of "The Chinese..." to "The Americans..." 

Hey, it was only american beer I slagged off, not the people!

(Before anyone says it, I know you have great microbreweries in the US, but Millers and Bud are utter swill, I'd rather drink the higher-end Chinese beers than that stuff!)

Kids, don't make me turn this car around...

Squat toilets are for apes and savages. They're the high-tech equivalent of a trench scraped into jungle soil. They're holes in the floor; lining them with porcelain and connecting them to pipes does not change this fact.

I may get lucky and live in China for many more years to come. But I don't do my business in a hole in the floor unless I am camping.
Maybe not even then.

I must agree with RD here. I managed to live in China for a year and never used a squatter once. I was afraid of losing my balance...

Public toilets, I much rather use a squatter. I like the set up in my house. I have one of each. Squatter is also much easier to clean.

Public toilets in China the smell alone from those things  

Quote from: ericthered on August 31, 2007, 02:25:29 AM

I must agree with RD here. I managed to live in China for a year and never used a squatter once. I was afraid of losing my balance...

What a wuss!  Come travelling with me some day ETR.  I'll show you REAL toilets!

Effete westerners. Go back to the pink glasses.

Effete, vain, skittish, cowardly, oh they all apply to me. I saw REAL toilets in Nanchang, have no need to see nor smell them again. I don't need to see REAL toilets when I go travelling, I prefer shelling out that much extra for decent facilities.

Public toilets, I much rather use a squatter. I like the set up in my house. I have one of each. Squatter is also much easier to clean.

I never use a public toilet. The smell is just 
Ands I never tried a squatter. I am to frightend to either loose my balance or to "hit" my pants

But in several companies I have seen lots of them in a row - no doors or walls between. So, communication is quite easy then

Places I go to are lucky if they have walls.  Roof is extra, door - wow - real luxury!

Well, LE, you like roughing it. I am a creature of luxury. And squatters are just foul.

Places I go to are lucky if they have walls.  Roof is extra, door - wow - real luxury!

Well, in general I go outdoor only if I have no toilet in range 

Thanks, contemporarydog,

Actually it wasn't your comments I was making reference to, it was Eagle's.

By the way, folks, I've learned to keep my balance while squatting, but at my advanced age, why should I have to? I've earned the right to plop from a seated position.   

The topic is China-exclusive, not Chinese.  I do know how to read. 

Perhaps... But do you know how to not make sweeping statements about Americans?

Well, what did you expect, westerners are the most armed people in the human universe, especially the Americans amongst us. 

Birddog

Sorry I don't see anything negative or anti-American in that statement.  Eagle said westerners - (which includes Canada) - are the most armed people ... especially the Americans.  That is true.  The Americans take pride in their ability to own and have guns.  The Americans have in their constitution the right to allow them to 'bear arms'.  So where in this statement do you find Eagle is being anti-American? 

And if I state that anyone who is not Danish should be very sad indeed, everything is honky-dory, yes?