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  1. velvet says:

    That is just SO wrong!

  2. killerham90 says:

    i know ewwww

  3. Mookie says:

    It obviates the need for a plunger.

  4. Admiral Apparent says:

    Doesn’t the Pope have one of these?

  5. killerham90 says:

    i know, ewwww

    authough for france this is a huge hygene step up

  6. kabelis says:

    so damn elegant

  7. hoody the blueberry says:

    toilet to go!

  8. 56k says:

    I’m sorry to say this but I’m FIRST !!!!

  9. Sammy says:

    Don’t forget to wrap your ankles in toilet paper.

  10. paulie3sticks says:

    That’s a lot of fail for such a small space.

  11. sid1138 says:

    Having had to use these things before – this is actually a WIN

  12. Koubi says:

    Actually, having had to deal with living in a country with lots of squat toilets, this is actually pretty damned ingenious. My guess is that some Westerner made this when he moved into an Eastern apartment. I probably would have done the same if my apartment had a squat toilet too.

    • velvet says:

      Interesting. I personally would’ve opted for a trash can or a bukkit over a paint tray, but that’s just me.

    • Kit says:

      Ha, glad someone thought the same thing as me!

    • DrB says:

      Hey Koubi. Yup. I would have killed for a set up like this on several of my travels!

    • SJ says:

      No they are an South Asian invention. Since most people prefer the squat types many homes don’t have a western style toilet this makes it difficult for invalids (and the nurses taking care of them). The fail is in the pathetic state of the place.

    • Myana says:

      Yup! This is definitely a WIN!!!

      I went to rural Laos last year and trust me, I would have swooned with delight to see this contraption in a bathroom. Normally all you get is the hole in the ground. Guys can handle that okay, but it’s really rough on us women. And hell, it even looks like this place has a hose to spray yourself with after you go (since you can’t use toilet paper with this type of toilet). That’s totally high-tech. Most of the toilets I used just had a bucket of water nearby, with a plastic cup floating in it.

      • M. says:

        You don’t even have to go to *rural Laos* for a hole and a bucket of water nearby with a plastic cup floating in it. Nextime save yourself the trouble and go to any urban South East Asian country to experience the same cultural delights.

      • M. says:

        You don’t even have to be in *rural Laos* for a hole in the ground and a bucket of water nearby with a plastic cup floating in it. Next time just go to any *urban South East Asian* country to experience the same cultural delights.

    • Captain Fail says:

      Dammit, would’ve needed this thing fifteen years ago when I went to India. Definitely a win!

    • berg says:

      you mean you had no toilets at all???

  13. loufail says:

    Is this the hotel where weekly rapes are available?

  14. Mookie says:

    I’m liking the mouthwash and toothpaste on the sink. Would you brush your teeth in there?

  15. Kit says:

    Looks like someone moved in somewhere with a squat toilet, and couldn’t get their heads round it :) It’s not a ‘tray’ – have none of you ever seen a squat toilet before?

  16. GladIwokeUp says:

    Just hope you never get invited over for dinner andd someone pulls this chair out for you to sit on.

    • fluffy the fish says:

      Didn’t someone already make that movie? I remember a scene where everyone is sitting around the table on toilets.. dang I can’t remember what movie that was from.

  17. soho says:

    Koubi is right, that’s not a tray under the chair, it’s a squat toilet. It’s disgusting nonetheless.

  18. Will says:

    He’s actually right. That’s a squat style toilet. Common all over France and Southern Europe. Adding the chair is actually a huge WIN. So much for “cultural-knowledge” on your part.

    • loufail says:

      Not sure about your claims on “cultural-knowledge”.
      I have visited France and several Southern Europe countries (I live in one of these) and I would not say these are “common”. I only saw one of these (without chair), and this happened about 15 years ago.

    • X says:

      I don’t know about it being common in France… I lived there for six years and traveled a lot around the country without ever encountering such a thing. From whence does your “cultural knowledge” come?

  19. Pausest says:

    Someone help me I don’t see a fail.

  20. Chinamerican says:

    So true.

    I went to these beautiful hotels and restaurants while I was in China and no matter how “classy” it looked on the outside, the toilets were always these giant, ever-flushing holes and there was NEVER any toilet paper.

    • DrB says:

      *Enter bukkit of water*

    • Lactose-Intolerant Dachshund says:

      I have poopsed in some of these in India. Normally there is not toilet paper, just a bucket of water with which you use your hand to splash your bunghole to clean the poopsies off. (I poops now).

      • Cloral says:

        Somehow I knew you’d show up in this thread. :)

      • DeFlora says:

        ‘69 in Israel, I was 10 years old, on some Kibbutz, had to pee. Couldn’t read the Hebrew signs, wound up in the men’s room. Definitely a squat toilet, but I’d never seen one before then. I peed in a shower drain, much to the amusement of a guy or two walking through. A hole in the ground was a hole in the ground to me. If one looked big enough to poop in and was all gross, I figured the other must be for pee. And the lovely bucket, that’s why the Koran says you eat with your right hand, the left hand’s for the butt-bucket.

  21. wait a minute.... says:

    First fail….

  22. gothchiq says:

    WHAT THE F*CK X______@

    That’s so vile. Didn’t people invent toilets so they *didn’t* have to squat over the ground any more? And then someone decided, hey, let’s make a toilet that makes you squat over the ground? And some poor guy with bad knees then had to put a chair over it.

    oh gods I would puke everywhere. Preferably out the window, though. Fresher.

    • Jenni says:

      this is probably from a country where they dont have toilets. I went to China recently, and this (minus the chair) was common.

  23. DrB says:

    Okay, I’ll say it. Truth is, it’s actually a more effective posture to evacuate the bowel…(of course, I’m not sure one has to worry about that with McD’s and KFC?).

    • berg says:

      tks doc!

      finally an expert opinion we can trust (no really…)

      some women in africa also give birth that way… for the same reasons…

      • Nuffnuff says:

        lol @ “some women in africa”. Squat position option is offered as a matter of course in most birthing suites here in Australia. My ex extruded my younger son that way and said afterwards that it was entirely most satisfactory as there’s less pressure on the spine. Less complicated = win. Squat to shit is how we’re built.

      • whiplasher says:

        …and the rest are hung by the ankles while giving birth, for entirely different reasons.

    • berg says:

      i need to add that the word bowel always makes me chuckle…

  24. BennyHarassi says:

    Welcome to Extreme Makeover 4: We no longer give a F***..

  25. skipjack says:

    Actually, that would be a 3rd world country WIN!

    • jonas says:

      i agree. The hole-in-the-floor “toilet” is an epic fail to begin with, so to modify it in this way to make it more like a real toilet is mos def a WIN!

  26. grond says:

    You people don’t travel a lot, right? That’s a typical toilet in southern European countries and in the Middle East, the chair was probably added for an elderly person that cannot hunker down anymore. In the middle of the toilet there is a hole with a plug. Even though this toilet is quite a filthy example (the elderly person living there probably cannot clean either), the kind of toilet usually is much more hygienic than the western counterpart because you don’t touch any part of it except for the places on the left and right where you put your feet. I feel sorry for the person who had to live in this place and is now ridiculed by a bunch of ignorant people (even though anonymously on both sides).

    • k in kansas says:

      I agree, squatty potties (properly called a Turkish Toilet) are MUCH more sanitary than a dirty disgusting toilet seat.
      When I lived in Eastern Europe I thanked God when I walked into a public restroom and saw one of these. The only part of your body that touches the toilet is the bottom of your shoes which last time I checked are not technically a part of your body so NO part of your body has to come in contact with the toilet! Which by virtue of being a public toilet is dirty. Yay, for sanitary ways to use a public restroom!

      This is a serious squatty potty fail, get rid of that grimy chair and use the thing right! (now if this is an elderly person who can’t squat anymore, I feel sorry for him/her, but if this is an accommodation for us Americans then we fail.

  27. Guyledeuche says:

    i like how the bathmat is even moving away from it…

  28. kiko says:

    That’s disgusting. I don’t care if that is France or Japan or wherever. That entire room should be burned to the ground. Squat toilets are fine, whatever makes you happy, but there is no excuse for all the grunge on the wall and the state of that room in general. Anyone who defends this BS is INSANE.

  29. Kath says:

    I think I’d probably do that if I had to live with a squat toilet.

  30. Wormulon says:

    it amazes me reading through all the posts how people can be so ignorant of other cultures, customs, practices, etc, etc.
    This is not necessarily a culture thing, but it is at the same time. In a lot of places in Asia for example, only the hole-in-the-floor toilet is available, with the appropriate plumbing attached…as mentioned by a previous poster. Any college or university I visited or frequented while on my travels around China, Korea and Japan, I discovered this style of toilet.

    Is it just the Americans on this site that are *ahem* so up their own ass that they know NOTHING of the REAL world?? Or are there other offenders? Seriously, if you hadn’t heard of the hole-in-the-floor style toilet before, then you should REALLY ask somebody to remove that rock and start looking around you.

  31. Monique says:

    lmao u cant even flush so i guess u have to use a stick for the solids

  32. Tini says:

    Gotta love those dirty frogs…

  33. Tom says:

    Please support PETA!

  34. Smaus says:

    Having had to use one of those holes before, I can assure you that the seat addition is EPIC win.

  35. Guyledeuche says:

    i dont even think the little bubbles will do the work for you on this one

  36. Mrs. D says:

    I’ve been to China, and I call this a big win!

    And it’s no more “culturally insensitive” than the fact that some Asians stand on the rim of Western toilets rather than use them in the intended fashion.

    • Mikey D says:

      Are you my wife?

      • Ryannon says:

        You told me you weren’t married! You philandering Pootle you! *sniffle*

        • Mikey D says:

          I wasn’t then. I must have got married at some point in the mean-time?
          And I’ve just realised the perfect Scrubs quote to use on the Dairy fail, I was going to put it here as an excuse.
          You’re an inspiration. Gotta dash and try be funny.
          Love you, byebye.
          *pootles off*

    • Kakert says:

      true……!!!! & how some foreigners in China insist on flushing down the loo paper & wonder why they get poo poo regurgatated all through the bathroom..put da paper in da bucket…pleeeze!

  37. Marsha says:

    Squatty potty WIN! I would’ve killed for one of these in China! The only thing “fail” about this picture is that someone seriously needs to clean the wall and floor. It may be, though, that whoever lives here needs the chair because they are disabled and therefore they are also unable to get down there to clean it properly. Unfortunately there are a great many elderly and disabled people in the world who live in squalor because they are unable to clean after themselves properly and have no money to hire someone and no family or friends to help out. Very sad.

  38. hm says:

    hmm its not a fail actually, if you ever had been in a remote/old city in italy, you’d recon that its normal there to have such a basin in the floor.
    only the chair fails, thats unusual.

  39. blackiechan says:

    apple pie anyone?

  40. Mike says:

    That’s a win !!!

  41. blackiechan says:

    no one for apple pie? :( *throws apple pie at the toilet*

  42. Suncloud says:

    What purpose does the green bucket device in the
    lower right corner serve? Wait, maybe I don’t
    really want to know.
    .
    Is it just a bucket or is something attached to it?

  43. Dan Jones says:

    I wouldn’t call that a toilet fail; I’d call it an innovation win!

  44. beantown says:

    Pic of Gitmo or Abu Ghrab?

  45. norm says:

    I accidentally my hole in the floor.

  46. Chris says:

    I would call that a WIN. ever tried using one of those squat toilets the right way? I think the chair is brilliant

  47. Jeremy Heinzmann says:

    I think it’s hilarious how every single comment thread, even in totally irrelevant Youtube videos, always somehow lead to racism.

  48. qaz says:

    россия, *ля

  49. sam i am says:

    that is one shitty toilet

  50. Dragonwriter says:

    *gets on the loudspeaker*

  51. otowi says:

    What’s the big deal? It is an ‘eastern’ toilet with an improvised seat. In much of the floor into the plumbing system that you squat over – no flushing to do – and you rinse with water (I think you can see the hose on the left there)- hence the mold on the back wall. Yes, this particular one is not very sanitary – but is a real working bathroom. The improvised seats are often made for the elderly because the squatting can be hard if you’re sick or old.

  52. weinerbagel says:

    aren’t you?

  53. duck says:

    Better than anything I’ve seen in China. There was shit on the walls, crap covered sticks nearby and rolls of dirty toilet paper. If you looked down far enough, you can see the remnants of other people’s “business”. Oh yeah, it stank worse than anything in the world.

    I had to pay to go to that shit hole.


    Where are the magazines? :D

  54. dilettante says:

    FEMALE SCIENTIST: Now that the, uh, garbage ball is in space, Doctor, perhaps you can help me with my sexual inhibitions?
    MALE SCIENTIST: With gusto.