[gortusbig]

What countries can you not flush toilet paper in?!

[Gulauur]

Thailand

[DaleJrGirl]

What countries can you not flush toilet paper in?!

Greece. Egypt.

[Galsteinbok]

In a lot of Muslim countries a water hose is used instead of toilet paper, so your dichotomy is flawed.

In Egypt, toilet paper is offered at the hotel but there are explicit instructions telling you not to flush.

So there is a 3rd tier then: Where toilet paper isn't used.

Bidets are nice but I refuse to use it as my only means of cleaning after taking a crap. Even the nice toilet integrated with drying action that I had at Hotel Niko in SF left me wanting.

[insoneeri]

You can't flush in Peru. The plumbing won't take it. Every bathroom has a lidded trash can right next to the toilet, and honestly it doesn't smell any worse than any equivalent bathroom (i.e., public restrooms in Peru smell as bad as public restrooms at similar facilities in NYC, due to people peeing on the seat/floor, etc.).

[eCw56dzY]

You can't flush in Peru. The plumbing won't take it. Every bathroom has a lidded trash can right next to the toilet, and honestly it doesn't smell any worse than any equivalent bathroom (i.e., public restrooms in Peru smell as bad as public restrooms at similar facilities in NYC, due to people peeing on the seat/floor, etc.).

Do people fold the used scrap so the stained side is inside before they throw it into the bin?

[Opening-auto]

I believe it was first coined to describe Philly.

That would make sense. Philadelphia is probably some Native American word that means "no one wants to ****ing live here."

[SueveDobe]

Do people fold the used scrap so the stained side is inside before they throw it into the bin?

Er, I don't know. I generally do so. Should I go digging through trash cans in public bathrooms to find out, or just ask folks, "how do you, personally, wipe your ass?"

[CHEAPCIALISFORYOU]

That would make sense. Philadelphia is probably some Native American word that means "no one wants to ****ing live here."

Greek for "Brotherly Love". Philos is love, adelphos is brother. The Lenape village located here before William Penn (or the Swedes before him) arrived was called Shakamaxon. Don't know what that meant.

[Hamucevasiop]

x-santabot'd

It meant "Waiting to be mugged by Philadelphians"

[johnbeller]

1999, Marriot Cairo

What were you like 14?

[seekfrieddy]

What do you do with the toilet paper if you can't flush it?

I suggest you get out more, MikeH. There' a whole world out there and even mundane things get done differently in different parts of the world. It's not like England everywhere.

[dafodilkemmy]

Personally my worst hatred is having to sh*t in those holes in the ground that they call toilets in backward hellholes. I'm looking at you France!

[Lorionasodi]

Thread should be titled "Two plies of countries".

ACK!

[Wsjltrhe]

1999, Marriot Cairo

They probably pulled your legs since they're all American-haters

Seriously, I was on the Red Sea coast first, then had some days in Cairo too, and never encountered the prob. Also not in hotels in Jordan a year before, though I there I saw smaller hotels (that were usually not used by "westerners" though) did have lavatories you wouldn't want to use if you could avoid it.

[RastusuadegeFrimoum]

Touché.

You'll note though that I merely asked the question, I didn't condemn the country as inferior.

But I've only craped in 14 countries.

FTFY

[Khurlxgq]

I have crêped in 3 countries.

[Cricequorie]

crapped shirley.

No wonder she dumped you.

[Prererularl]

In Egypt, toilet paper is offered at the hotel but there are explicit instructions telling you not to flush.

So there is a 3rd tier then: Where toilet paper isn't used.

Bidets are nice but I refuse to use it as my only means of cleaning after taking a crap. Even the nice toilet integrated with drying action that I had at Hotel Niko in SF left me wanting.

They probably pulled your legs since they're all American-haters

Seriously, I was on the Red Sea coast first, then had some days in Cairo too, and never encountered the prob. Also not in hotels in Jordan a year before, though I there I saw smaller hotels (that were usually not used by "westerners" though) did have lavatories you wouldn't want to use if you could avoid it.

Ah, you did the luxury tour. Toilet paper is sold in the Middle-East, but not in the vast quantities like in the western world. I've backpacked Egypt, Jordan and Syria, staying in shabby hotels with lavatories you wouldn't want to use if you could avoid it. Incidentally, that's how most of the sanitation out there looks like.

I'm pretty sure the water hose is standard option for common people out there. That and the left hand, but that goes without saying of course

[jurnalkduo]

I wouldn't have found no toilet paper surprising. Having it and not being able to flush it I find surprising.