This little gem is located not in Thailand but in Myitkyina, Kachin State in North Myanmar where I am currently working. The adjoining crapper was a little too disgusting for even the pages of Bedlam.

Can anybody outdo this?

As one that suffers from faeces intolerance, even the thought of looking at that photo again makes me retch.

So, no...I could not outdo that pic because I could not stand to photgraph anything remotely as bad.

I don't know if it's still there, but the urinals on the way to the entrance of what used to be called Spice Club in the car park of the Ambassador Hotel looked similar, and smelled exactly how you would imagine!

E: (It reads, "DON'T EAT THE WHITE MINTS FROM LAVATORY". Photo taken at a Patong bar.)

When i was about 9 years old, my step-father at the time liked to play rugby. I went to the Rugby Club one time and accidentally opened the door to the gents toilets instead of the ladies. That was my first experience of the smell that emits from gents toilets. I legs nearly buckled as i was hit by a wave of putrid aromas..

Im not saying that some ladies public toilets dont smell bad as well, but i have to say that the smell from gents toilets seems to be a million times stronger. Because why? Mens urine smells more? Poor cleaning?

men don't aim so well sometimes, esp after a few drinks.

worst toilet i ever had to deal with wasn't even a toilet. I was on the bus in Malaysia and asked for the toilet, they directed me to a building out back, I walked in and it was a simple drain in the floor. Thinking there must be a mistake, I walked out, and all around the building. No toilet. No other building the toilet could be in. I always wondered if it was some kind of prank to see how desperate the foreigner was.

men don't aim so well sometimes, esp after a few drinks.

Maybe so..but somehow i find it hard to believe that even when women are drinking (even if they had to deal with some kind of urinal) they would not be careful about where their pee goes. Maybe some guys dont really care, and the guys that do end up having to put up with it. Im thankful that the majority of women are considerate public toilet users. Have had some gross-outs in the female loos too! But thankfully not very common.

Anyway, guys, im really sorry that you have to put up with inconsiderate toilet users.

edit: oh and sbk...that Malaysia story is unreal. Not quite as bad, but i do remember thinking along the same lines when i was 12 yrs old in rural France. I was shown a weird semi open cubical outside with a hole in the floor. I couldnt believe that THAT could possibly be a toilet! Thai squat loos seem positively refined after that!

Worst urine-al that I ever had the pleasure of using (whilst completely wasted ), was attached to a wall, however, had no drain pipe, and all the piss was coming out straight onto my shoes.

men don't aim so well sometimes, esp after a few drinks.

Maybe so..but somehow i find it hard to believe that even when women are drinking (even if they had to deal with some kind of urinal) they would not be careful about where their pee goes. Maybe some guys dont really care, and the guys that do end up having to put up with it. Im thankful that the majority of women are considerate public toilet users. Have had some gross-outs in the female loos too! But thankfully not very common.

Anyway, guys, im really sorry that you have to put up with inconsiderate toilet users.

edit: oh and sbk...that Malaysia story is unreal. Not quite as bad, but i do remember thinking along the same lines when i was 12 yrs old in rural France. I was shown a weird semi open cubical outside with a hole in the floor. I couldnt believe that THAT could possibly be a toilet! Thai squat loos seem positively refined after that!

It's not always the man's fault. One reason public urinals stink is that most of them are on automatic flush. The urine can sit there for a while before being washed away because the user has no way of initiating the flush.

The problem with the long, ground-level urinals is that some men step up so that all drips fall in the trough, but other men don't step up, so the drips fall on the step and never get flushed.

Once the step gets a bit wet, nobody steps up....so it gets exponentially worse.

Seeing this makes me wonder...even more than usual....

How some folks can enter their homes with their footwear on

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The problem with the long, ground-level urinals is that some men step up so that all drips fall in the trough, but other men don't step up, so the drips fall on the step and never get flushed.

Once the step gets a bit wet, nobody steps up....so it gets exponentially worse.

Some guys need to stand closer to the urinal than others.

It's not always the man's fault. One reason public urinals stink is that most of them are on automatic flush. The urine can sit there for a while before being washed away because the user has no way of initiating the flush.

The problem with the long, ground-level urinals is that some men step up so that all drips fall in the trough, but other men don't step up, so the drips fall on the step and never get flushed.

Once the step gets a bit wet, nobody steps up....so it gets exponentially worse.

Thanks Harcourt. Now i understand why. They should make a sensor flush or something. Also do something about the design. But obviously its also down to people who dont think about others. I totally get why people wouldnt want to step up after someone dripped all over a step!

I used to work for Forestry, and one of our summer jobs during fire season was to clean the outhouse toilets in the Forestry campsites. There WAS a man's and woman's toilet. Without exception, the women's toilets were ALWAYS the worst. I can only attribute it to one thing... women don't want to sit down on a outhouse toilet, no matter how clean and fresh it is. I believe they just bend over and let fly. Their aim is far worse than a man. Cleaning encrusted shit is not a pleasant task. It took a thorough soaking before you could scrape it off. We had to repaint the woman's toilet at least twice as often as the man's.

I stayed in a village in rural China years ago where the toilet consisted of a large pit with 2 planks across. It flowed into a close by smaller pit/trough which was accessed by the pigs.

Although it was A total dirt construction etc it was pretty clean in the rural sense that the pigs digested everything.

But it was a large pit with not terribly wide planks, so not to be tackled at night!

I spent a lot of my time there extracting bits of pork out of my food - I couldn't handle the thoughts that came with it!

Hey...blood and guts, I have no problem with. Faeces I can't tolerate.....and I'm a sympathetic vomiter.....

Eek (and others)

How about some barbecued prawns - or a shrimp cocktail?

Or other crustacean meals?

What do you think is the (almost) sole diet of these creatures?

The most popular manure for organic gardeners is animal <deleted>, sheep pellets, matured cow patties and horse droppings etc.

Compost most gardeners make consists of rotten decayed food waste amongst much more desirable flavoursome additions.

Eek (and others)

How about some barbecued prawns - or a shrimp cocktail?

Or other crustacean meals?

What do you think is the (almost) sole diet of these creatures?

I havent eaten anything that poops since i was 16 Humphrey Bear, not by choice anyway, so doesnt apply to me.

The most popular manure for organic gardeners is animal <deleted>, sheep pellets, matured cow patties and horse droppings etc.

Compost most gardeners make consists of rotten decayed food waste amongst much more desirable flavoursome additions.

Sure, that part applies to me. However, it was my understanding that fecal matter used for compost etc was from vegetarian animals. I thought that animals that eat meat do not give soil nutrition but rather deteriorate it..?

However, it was my understanding that fecal matter used for compost etc was from vegetarian animals. I thought that animals that eat meat do not give soil nutrition but rather deteriorate it..?

That is the difference between stepping in dog shit and cow shit.

Well i guess if you are bare foot cow shit might be less bad? lol...?

Yeah, omnivore or carnivore droppings are far more disgusting than herbivore pattys.

However, it was my understanding that fecal matter used for compost etc was from vegetarian animals. I thought that animals that eat meat do not give soil nutrition but rather deteriorate it..?

That is the difference between stepping in dog shit and cow shit.

When working in Hong Kong the veggies were imported from Mainland China and the fertiliser contained human excreta. So everything was thoroughly washed in Milton before any other process.

(Can't answer for restaurant and hotel kitchens, however)

Night soil its called. Commonly used across Asia, believe its still widely used in rural China, Vietnam etc.

As for the China story, I've heard about that from a friend of mine, too. She said it was worse when the pig trough was too close to the toilets. You had to watch out for piggie snouts!

Night soil its called. Commonly used across Asia, believe its still widely used in rural China, Vietnam etc.

As for the China story, I've heard about that from a friend of mine, too. She said it was worse when the pig trough was too close to the toilets. You had to watch out for piggie snouts!

That's another story.

In Hong Kong the meat is imported from China, as well as other places.

Pigs came in by train, on the KCR (Kowloon-Canton Railway) and I lived in Kowloon Tong - one of the stops on this line.

The pigs were in layers in the wire-mesh trucks - about five high, five across and a dozen in length on each truck in the train. Maybe thirty trucks in the train. So 10,000 pigs on a train. All busy shitting themselves at the mode of transport.

Now KT Station is on a bend where passengers trains slow and stop, but pig trains do not.

So the first Cantonese words I learnt were "Pig train coming!!" - when everyone ran from the platform and regrouped in the booking hall below.

My apartment - in Village Gardens - a prestgious block - overlooked this rail line about 100m from the station. I never used the balcony.

Worst urine-al that I ever had the pleasure of using (whilst completely wasted ), was attached to a wall, however, had no drain pipe, and all the piss was coming out straight onto my shoes.

It didn't happen to be that new public toilet block in Krabi, perchance? (Same thing happened to me - and I was only wearing thongs/flipflops! My excuse is that it was dark and the electric wasn't yet hooked up.)

India...one giant communal outdoor toilet.

Yup ^^^, sadly Mushy 100% correct, something like 50% of the population do not have access to toilets. India, half a billion outdoor cr@ps a day

We have one near the office in Bangalore, not something I'd want to take photos of though.

It's actually a wall, with "Please do not urinate here", "Do not urinate here" and "Do not urinte here"(sic) stencilled at various points, actually I suspect that the stencilling is used as a target. 'Orrible pong