The Beijing Olypmics Will Be All About The Squat Style

The Chinese have been working around the clock to update their infrastructure for the 2008 Olympic games. They’ve gone out of their way to solve that “pollution problem”, as well as allowing Playboy magazine to hit their racks. Both are an integral part of making foreigners feel at home. Yet, there’s still some, um, faulty logic when it comes to appeasing foreigners. China seems to have neglected that Westerners are lazy bums who like to sit while they poop.

While Beijing has been widely blessed for the excellence of its newly opened National Swimming Center, where the Games’ aquatic events will be held, not everything about the stadium is as world-class as its pools.
Nearly every toilet in the center is a squat style, not the sit-down type of loo most Westerners — and Japanese — are accustomed to.
Squat toilets are the dominant style nearly everywhere throughout China. And though individual cubicles have become the norm on trains and public toilets in smaller cities, doors on the cubicles are still a rarity.

Cubicles? Squat? Are the talking about office exercises? To make matters worse, China doesn’t want you to flush your soiled toilet paper.

Toilet paper is also posing a problem. Outside of classy hotels in the big cities, most toilet paper used in China is a rough, harsh type that doesn’t dissolve well in water, the weekly says. To avoid blockage, it’s more common to dump the dirty paper into a trash can instead of the cistern.

Next problem for China: fly control. Just make sure to hold your breath and keep your mouth shut whenever you’re in the vicinity of a trash bin.

Japan pooh-poohs China’s Olympic crappers [Mainichi, via Fan IQ]
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