Beijing enlists army of toilet trained staff

[Reuters]

BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has dispatched 8,000 toilet maintenance staff, each responsible for a specific public restroom in the city and trained in hygiene standards and techniques, Olympic knowledge and practical English expressions, Xinhua said Friday. </img>
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[karrie]

Man it annoys me that a foreign country would feel pressured to change their toilets out due to ethnocentric grumbling.

 

[lone wolf]

Sounds like toilet training might have been the source of a lot of psychological crap among whiners. At home they probably hold their breath and pee in a trough.

 

[Scott Free]

Man it annoys me that a foreign country would feel pressured to change their toilets out due to ethnocentric grumbling.

I've never been there but I know people who have and two that live there. They tell me the toilets are so disgusting it's impossible to describe. Apparently they don't have traps so a terrible smell comes off of them. One person told me about a ferry trip where there was three inches of piss sloshing around the bathroom floor. He said that was typical because most men just used the wall. So maybe a hygiene lesson isn't such a bad idea?