07-26-2017, 12:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Fairbanks, Alaska
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Originally Posted by Joe Wooten
My maternal granddad believed indoor toilets were unsanitary and refused to put one in his house for decades. They had a 3 holer outhouse about 40 yards from the house tht everyone used. Finally in 1970 when Granny got really sick and could no longer make the trek to it, he relented and he got all the grandsons and the two uncles still living at home and we dug a cesspool laid in the piping and put in a flusher.
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In fairness to him, had I not grown up with indoor toilets, and then later I had heard about them, I too would likely have considered them unsanitary, just based on the concept. (Bill Gates has--through his and his wife's foundation, I think--worked to install thousands of indoor toilets in India, but the common reaction to them--by people who have never seen or used them--is: "Why should I have a room in my house that contains filth, when I can go out into the bushes far from my house to excrete it instead?") Also:
I have read that in Indonesia, many people (mostly men) use indoor toilets, but in a different way than is intended. Americans who have lived and worked there chuckle knowingly at the mention of "footprints on the toilet seat." The "Indonesian way" is to *stand up* on the seat to urinate down into the bowl. (Hopefully they ^don't^ do that for ridding themselves of solid waste [or its 'occasionally liquefied' form]--those splashes would not be pleasant to be hit by, and I couldn't blame janitors who quit after finding them on the floor...)
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