The world needs to use squat toilets

Benefits GALORE!!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squat_toilet

I think they also can prevent hip problems later in life.

Japanese people live forever. I'm sure this is why... and eating lots o fish.

i support this only because it makes it easier to play with your balls while you're shitting

Totally. I'm motivated right now to start a serious campaign to get this "movement" under way... no pun intended.

Check this "shit" out...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Nature%27s_Platform_toilet_converter.gif

i feel like this would just add more variables to something that's already complicated enough

They are a pain in the ass.

i can't imagine trying to manage this drunk.

  On 5/29/2011 at 10:06 AM, hahathhat said:

i can't imagine trying to manage this drunk.

Is entertaining, to say the least.

seems like things could get messy very quickly. also reading or watmming looks like it would be much more difficult.

Waits for the backlash from the sit-down pissers

Have you actually tried it?? It's uncomfortable as hell.

  On 5/29/2011 at 11:22 AM, spratters said:

Waits for the backsplash from the sit-down pissers

Sorry, I'm drunk.

While using the proper in-floor ones would be okay, that conversion thing looks like an awful idea; imagine a gigantic plume of shitty, piss-infused water erupting upwards towards your ass

then again I do have some really gigantic bowel movements sometimes, you know

I didn't even think of the whole drunk element while using the apparatus.

Could be bad.

The in-floor ones are the way to go though. Personally, I prefer a good plop in the water and having the smell minimized by instant submersion.

However, it's better for your health in many ways to squat in the long run. I used a couple of the in-floor ones in Japan and it was strange, but it was also kinda fun to see yer bizness get zipped away, sideways.

not just japan, pretty much all of asia uses these. also you have to pull your pants down all the way

which is annoying.

  On 5/29/2011 at 3:01 PM, Al Hounos said:

also you have to pull your pants down all the way

which is annoying.

ive seen something similar in Italy in the dolommites. i just peed standing up

I thought the "japanese people live forever thing" was just because families were pretending their elderly relatives had never died, in order to continue picking up their pension checks.

i'd be afraid of slipping and getting my foot in the shithole

what if you have diarrhea that shoots out in all directions

and when you're sick and barfing you can't gently rest your cheek against the seat

I used to do this since i was little cause my dad did. Took until my twenties, before i just gave up and sat down. Knowing both ways, sitting down is more convenient and squatting isn't any more efficient.

i feel like this should be posted for some reason:

still trying to figure out why though, tbh

Ahh, cause you like looking at young men pissing ??

Squatting is definitely more beneficial for your health - we evolved to shit either standing up or squatting like that.

But I've used those things many a time, and they are a pain in the ass. I basically have to get almost completely naked in order to use the things.

That conversion thing looks hilarious.