News article brought to my attention

[GeneChing]

Ever try the public squatters in Beijing? I had to change in one of those once before taking a lesson from some master in some Bejing alley. It took all my Shaolin skill to balance my bag of gear, hold my nose, stand on my shoes and change. People who talk about Shaolin applications, they just don't know...

[johngreenhow]

You get used to anything after a while. Even when it's 5:30am and dark and you're trying very hard NOT to touch the floor... All part of the game.

http://ready-to-pour.custard.org/pictures/toilets.jpg

[SimonM]

I've seen worse than that. I just didn't have the heart to take a picture.

[GeneChing]

Picture a huge walled off pit with these two cement gang planks that bridged from one side to the other. It was huge, longer than your average house. Wow, that was nasty. I also remember the building that was half built next to the Wushuguan - it was just bricks, no roof, no fixtures whatsoever, except for a functioning sqautter, which was really just a pit.

Never touch anything in those. Never. And you thought walking on rice paper was tough, just you try not slipping inthe dark.

[SimonM]

Picture a huge walled off pit with these two cement gang planks that bridged from one side to the other. It was huge, longer than your average house. Wow, that was nasty.

Every single bus station in Shanxi... And the train station in Luoyang.

I also remember the building that was half built next to the Wushuguan - it was just bricks, no roof, no fixtures whatsoever, except for a functioning sqautter, which was really just a pit.

Now THAT is a farm squatter... But the pit in a hardcore farm squatter is very very shallow... Like mabey 15 centemeters from the top of the sewage.

Never touch anything in those. Never. And you thought walking on rice paper was tough, just you try not slipping inthe dark.

True dat.