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Q: are you paranoid about using public western toilets in China?

12 years 2 weeks ago in  Lifestyle - China

 
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Well, you are not supposed to actually sit on them, you need to "hover".

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I'm not paranoid, but carrying small (aircraft allowed) bottle of "hand sanitizer" (gel made of some stabilized alcohol) can be a good choice. 

And I'm not talking about using it for hands...

Just take a tissue, and wash toilet seat with that gel. It evaporates in seconds, leaving quite clean and bacteria-free surface. Then You don't need to "use force" to levitate 

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When we first went to UK, my wife always carried disposable toilet seats (made out of thin plastic) for those occasions when she had to use public toilets. I doubt you can get them in china. Even then apparently she preferred to hover!

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I don't like it....but when the deed needs to be done...better there than in my pants like that martian dude.

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  I'll have you know I only did that the one time. Well, ok, it happened twice. Three times, i've only ever shit my pants three times, and no more. Ok, I shit my pants all the time, are you happy? Dammit, gotta go...

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 No, but I am paranoid about using squat holes. How do they not get shit on their pants while squatting there?

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No no..........cause i never do the do outside my crib........You dig?

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