Re: asking for the bathroom

We still have squattie potties here in Taiwan.  They're flush squatties, but
they're squatties.  Mind you, private residences have Western-style toilets
but most older public places have squatties.  And toilet paper is NOT
provided.  Cary your own!

Adam


>From: Weiben Wang <wwang@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: Re: asking for the bathroom
>Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2001 14:25:59 -0700
>
>And I still have vivid memories from age seven in 1973 of using the (squat)
>privies on a commune in China that emptied into a giant vat where the
>nightsoil was supposed to compost for some time.  That and the chamber pot.
>  <Shudder>
>
>-Weiben
>
>On Fri, 01 June 2001, "H. S. Teoh" wrote:
>
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 03:07:26PM -0400, Douglas Koller, Latin & French
>wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > When I lived in mainland China (albeit twelve years ago), "nightsoil"
> > > carts were a common sight, carrying waste from downtown into the
> > > surrounding countryside where the crudit?s were grown. This is also
> > > why most mainlanders recoil in horror at the mere soup?on of a hint
> > > of a suggestion of eating vegetables raw (you can claim you've washed
> > > them thoroughly until the cows come home). "Salad, anyone?"
> > > "Waaaaaaaa~~~~!" "Okay, okay. Come in off the ledge."
> > [snip]
> >
> > LOL!! Although I've grown up in a family that, not surprisingly,
> > emphasized that all vegetables must be cooked, I've never really known
>why
> > (beyond the usual hygienic reasons) this was so. Now I know :-P
> >
> >
> > T
> >
> > --
> > The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day
>they
> > start making vacuum cleaners... -- Slashdotter
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