Yeah, most people in china already bring their own. The only time I’ve ever seen it offered for free was in a crazy high end shopping mall.
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hddsx@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
Bring your own toilet paper?
Also China public bathrooms smell like absolute crap I have no idea why. I had to pee in China and walked into a public bathroom on the side of the road. I almost puked
CubitOom@infosec.pub 15 hours ago
perishthethought@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Many are just ‘squatty potties’ - is a hole in the floor and a tank below.
And yah, tourists are told to bring TP already since some bathrooms don’t have any.
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hddsx@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
What do you mean by a tank below? For flushing or…?
All the squatty potties I encountered in Asia were plumbed the way a toilet in the US would be plumbed so the poop gets flushed elsewhere.
I hope the ones in China weren’t basically permanent porta potties….
perishthethought@piefed.social 12 hours ago
It really varies. I just did a big tour of China in June and we saw many fancy, futuristic toilets in malls and hotels. We saw somewhat stinky but otherwise clean public toilets at parks and such. And we came across a couple of holes in the floor with a septic tank below ground, exposed to the air - and no TP provided. Those are rare now, from what I saw. (Septic tank was the word I couldn’t think of before) I’m no plumber though so I may be getting that word wrong still.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Septic tanks are a bit more specific, you appear to be referring to a pit latrine which most commonly will have a cesspit.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 hours ago
People kept stealing the toilet paper rolls. Poor elderly are notorious for this from what I heard
perishthethought@piefed.social 11 hours ago
Ha! :) I never heard that before but that does make sense. I remember my American grandma hoarded supplies like this her whole life, long after the lean depression-era years she lived through. Every single pencil was used down to the nub. We got a serious talking-to if we tossed a milk bottle with more than a drop left in it.