Oh man,i was in Asia for that whole fiasco. I had to quarantine myself when I came home because people were scared about it, even though I was completely asymptomatic. I think the smog was more dangerous than SARS!

I'm sorry, i can't bring myself to click on the video... everything i've seen so far just leads me to believe it's going to be as bad as the Les Miz movie. It may be my cyncial Gen X'r coming through :(

*whew* i mean, oh darn!

This is really cute Mark, it made my evening, which given how i started out my day was a nice change. :) But i'm sure that just around the corner you're going to cover this story and creep/scare us all out at -_-

I'm now going to have to find that and watch it!

See you understand my need for a seat!!

Years of practice my friends, years of practice!!

When i was there i had moments when i wished i'd brought one of those... but then i'd worry about the splashing o_O

Doood that was nice compared to some of the ones i've seen in less developed parts of Asia!

lol.. i see what you did there! And yes, toilets in China are always an adventure! I mastered the art of making sure my bits were blocked while using a trough model. A couple of friends of mine took pictures of a squatty potty that was over a cliff that they found on their way to tibet! It was similar to this one but…

Oh man the troughs... I think I have pictures of those somewhere in storage...

Someday, I'll tell the tale on a kinja sub blog...

Not if you're trying to not shit on yourself!

That and the relative lack of clean places to hold on to while doing your business!

Sure if you're having a normal bm it's not bad. But when you're sick and dealing with diarrhea, you want a seat to sit on!

I totally would've used such a device if it had been available when I was overseas... someday I'll tell the tale of using the facilities in a Chinese train. *shudder*

I showed this video to my hubs whose all sad cuz sprotsball. It cheered him up immensely, but now he wants to move out of our tiny apt. to a house with a big backyard, cuz puppy. So now he's all mopey again. Yeah, that backfired. :(

As someone who's lived in Asia and used her share of squatty potties/toilettes à la turque I'm gonna hafta disagree with you here. There's nothing worse than not being able to sit when the place you ate at the night before is having it's way with your digestive tract! I've never been so happy to have a western toilet…

Well if they're Korean they'll love them, if they're not Korean, good luck!

Ooops! I didn't see it or I was so excited by seeing it referenced the link didn't compute!