What is the fuss about the Russian twin toilets?

[Al B. Sure!]

I'm pretty much just your everyday, average, garden-variety bible thumper, Albie. You could register your own brand of crazy. You're in a whole different universe.

Not really. Everything I listed is actually growing in popularity and the communities overlap. They're all part of the primal movement.

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[Ben Kenobi]

They're all part of the primal movement.

It's rare that I get the opportunity to be the sane polytubby and the voice of reason in a thread.

Look, Albie, if a person who created a DL solely for the intent of mocking me is saying that you're even crazier, does that not even give you pause?

[Kropotkin]

Having walked into the Apolyton OT almost by accident I can see that little have changed. Although I do find the thread-starters lame implies about "Europeans" tiresome I do agree with his rhetorical question - what is the big deal? Now, I have never been to a toilet in a former soviet republic and now very little about their traditional sitting and/or squatting routines. However, I do find the implications this has been given around the internet lacking in even a basic understanding about the toilet-culture in a historical perspective. I many cases the need for privacy of #2 is quite a recent, bourgeois, phenomenon. Many outhouses and privies in western societies had more than one hole. Perhaps this is, in its specific cultural and geographical context, just similar to the trend of replacing stainless steel trough-style urinals with individual porcelain bowls at public toilets.

[MRT144]

Having walked into the Apolyton OT almost by accident I can see that little have changed. Although I do find the thread-starters lame implies about "Europeans" tiresome I do agree with his rhetorical question - what is the big deal? Now, I have never been to a toilet in a former soviet republic and now very little about their traditional sitting and/or squatting routines. However, I do find the implications this has been given around the internet lacking in even a basic understanding about the toilet-culture in a historical perspective. I many cases the need for privacy of #2 is quite a recent, bourgeois, phenomenon. Many outhouses and privies in western societies had more than one hole. Perhaps this is, in its specific cultural and geographical context, just similar to the trend of replacing stainless steel trough-style urinals with individual porcelain bowls at public toilets.

Proudly Bourgeois here.

[Hauldren Collider]

Proudly Bourgeois here.

ditto

[Kidlicious]

ditto

You're the poster boy.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Having walked into the Apolyton OT almost by accident I can see that little have changed. Although I do find the thread-starters lame implies about "Europeans" tiresome I do agree with his rhetorical question - what is the big deal? Now, I have never been to a toilet in a former soviet republic and now very little about their traditional sitting and/or squatting routines. However, I do find the implications this has been given around the internet lacking in even a basic understanding about the toilet-culture in a historical perspective. I many cases the need for privacy of #2 is quite a recent, bourgeois, phenomenon. Many outhouses and privies in western societies had more than one hole. Perhaps this is, in its specific cultural and geographical context, just similar to the trend of replacing stainless steel trough-style urinals with individual porcelain bowls at public toilets.

You can thank for this useful post now, but I have already used my thanks for today

[Kropotkin]

For the record I would like to point out that I also live according to a bourgeois toilet-lifestyle. At least up to a point. I'm no fan of the modern, single user urinals. If find them to be a individualism on the road to solipsism. For example, I remember a few years back. Me and a couple of hundred others had hired a train for a football-trip. Most of us where downing cheap lagers at an alarming rate and that there was only one working toilet on the train. We worked it in groups of four. Two for the toilet, two for the sink. And still there was a line. This is the things that build community, a porcalin-foundation for a civil society. The only fault was that women where not really included in this community. They also created a long line and disturbances in the flow of the process, so to speak.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Women are the problem... as usual

[Kidlicious]

For the record I would like to point out that I also live according to a bourgeois toilet-lifestyle. At least up to a point. I'm no fan of the modern, single user urinals. If find them to be a individualism on the road to solipsism. For example, I remember a few years back. Me and a couple of hundred others had hired a train for a football-trip. Most of us where downing cheap lagers at an alarming rate and that there was only one working toilet on the train. We worked it in groups of four. Two for the toilet, two for the sink. And still there was a line. This is the things that build community, a porcalin-foundation for a civil society. The only fault was that women where not really included in this community. They also created a long line and disturbances in the flow of the process, so to speak.

That's why I always have a handy container with me.

[MRT144]

For the record I would like to point out that I also live according to a bourgeois toilet-lifestyle. At least up to a point. I'm no fan of the modern, single user urinals. If find them to be a individualism on the road to solipsism. For example, I remember a few years back. Me and a couple of hundred others had hired a train for a football-trip. Most of us where downing cheap lagers at an alarming rate and that there was only one working toilet on the train. We worked it in groups of four. Two for the toilet, two for the sink. And still there was a line. This is the things that build community, a porcalin-foundation for a civil society. The only fault was that women where not really included in this community. They also created a long line and disturbances in the flow of the process, so to speak.

What is it with drunkards and sink urinating.

[DaShi]

Do they keep the wipes in their pocket or is there a special bag or fannypack they carry with them when they go out?

Some acquire them before entering. Others simply don't wipe.

[pchang]

Contractor shortcuts and graft.

[snrjefe]

I thought it was illegal to promote homosexuality there...

[Ban Kenobi]

Just because men get naked together and have sex doesn't mean they're gay.