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I also wonder in what state some leave their own toilets at home after they have done their business. I was also puzzled by those diagrams showing how you are
by cm2187 4y ago
I also wonder in what state some leave their own toilets at home after they have done their business.
I was also puzzled by those diagrams showing how you are supposed to sit on a western toilet seat. But then I watched some bits of one of those crual japanese tv show where their collapsed all the walls of some public toilets when a poor guy was at it (I hope it was an act). To my own surprise the japanese are sitting facing the flusher/wall, not facing the door. Plus you have countries where squat toilets are the norm.
Sex is another area where there are few social norms since you never learn by imitating peers (other than porn which is a terrible model).
- googlryas 4y agoOf course you're supposed to sit how the Japanese guy sits. The top of the bowl is there so you can rest your book in it. Butters knows.
- scombridae 4y agoButters knows You won the internet today, sir.
- Arnavion 4y ago>To my own surprise the japanese are sitting facing the flusher/wall, not facing the door. Yeah no, that is not a "Japanese" thing. I have no idea what show you were watching but it was probably just a gag, or a way to avoid having to show his genitals, or something that one person did for whatever reason. There are some people who sit that way. For example, British comedian Bob Mortimer said on an episode of Taskmaster that he does it because his anus is unusually high.
- metadat 4y agoHow would an unusually high anus benefit from facing away from the flusher / wall? I can only envision it being more likely to end up with the "mud" landing outside of the bowl. Is it to avoid "mud" ejecting into / against the toilet seat?
- eloisant 4y agoThat's how you're supposed to use a traditional Japanese toilet, facing the flush. Now granted, traditional Japanese toilets are getting rare in Japan, it's mostly western style toilets now.