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French Toilets; Yuk!
Topic Started: May 5 2004, 09:46 AM (270 Views)
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Toilets at last, what a relief
Just when you think you've finally found the toilets, there's only a black hole in the white floor. Welcome to French toilets (or Turkish toilets, as the French call them), probably the most reviled piece of French furniture. Men can use the hole as an urinal, but for the rest it remains a problem.
How to use French toilets

1. Close the door and look for a dry place to put your toilet paper.
2. Drop your pants just far enough, keep them up as high as possible. The floor is mostly filthy and wet.
3. Take a seat with your face towards the door. In the floor you'll find two steps to put your feets on.
4. Squat! That means: knees and upper body to the front, and put your bottom backwards. Sometimes there are 'stirrups' to grab with your hands, to help keep your balance.
5. just for the gentlemen: use a hand to point Percy at the porcelain. Let's not be too shy to talk about this - you don't want to wet your trousers and shoes.
6. Do what you have to do and clean your bottom.
7. Put on your clothes again and take your time to let that fade grimace from your face.
8. Don't flush just yet. These toilets have the habit of spraying lots of water over a much larger area than just the toilet to make it clean (mm, clean, anyway, the floor is getting wet). You risk wet feet. So, open the door and flush while you step out.

It has to be acknowledged, you lack any kind of comfort in these toilets. However, I suppose this is how nature meant it to be. It's much more hygienic than normal toilets where everyone has peed all round it. Another advantage: you'll spend less time here than you do in the toilets at home. You can use this time very well, for instance to recover from the hard work you've just done.

By the way, these toilets aren't the only kind of toilets in France. You will find these toilets mostly as public toilets and on camp-sites, even the more luxury camp-sites. On these luxury camp-sites you most likely find both French and normal toilets. Be there early, you might have to wait for the normal toilets.
On the other hand, some larger cities provide really luxury public toilets. They have automatic cleaning. Just put in a coin and you've got 10 to 15 minutes to do your businnes. You could almost go there for the fun of it....
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heh...this is pretty funny....but im never going to france now!!
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Strange, i never saw anything like that when i went to France.
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Rofl yeah, my family call them 'elephants feet' roilets :lol: I go to france almost every year.
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i dont think that they use this type of toilets in France v_v ,i there anything like that in france?
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They do use this type in france though now they are extemely rare ;)
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Yeah I go to France every year camping for three weeks. On most of the sites I have been on there have been normal toilets but some do have those. I have never had the pleasure of using one though.

You often see them in motorway service stations.
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I'm not a fan of France, or at least the leader of the country.
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Same. That is disgusting!
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May 5 2004, 01:46 PM
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Toilets at last, what a relief
Just when you think you've finally found the toilets, there's only a black hole in the white floor. Welcome to French toilets (or Turkish toilets, as the French call them), probably the most reviled piece of French furniture. Men can use the hole as an urinal, but for the rest it remains a problem.
How to use French toilets

1. Close the door and look for a dry place to put your toilet paper.
2. Drop your pants just far enough, keep them up as high as possible. The floor is mostly filthy and wet.
3. Take a seat with your face towards the door. In the floor you'll find two steps to put your feets on.
4. Squat! That means: knees and upper body to the front, and put your bottom backwards. Sometimes there are 'stirrups' to grab with your hands, to help keep your balance.
5. just for the gentlemen: use a hand to point Percy at the porcelain. Let's not be too shy to talk about this - you don't want to wet your trousers and shoes.
6. Do what you have to do and clean your bottom.
7. Put on your clothes again and take your time to let that fade grimace from your face.
8. Don't flush just yet. These toilets have the habit of spraying lots of water over a much larger area than just the toilet to make it clean (mm, clean, anyway, the floor is getting wet). You risk wet feet. So, open the door and flush while you step out.

It has to be acknowledged, you lack any kind of comfort in these toilets. However, I suppose this is how nature meant it to be. It's much more hygienic than normal toilets where everyone has peed all round it. Another advantage: you'll spend less time here than you do in the toilets at home. You can use this time very well, for instance to recover from the hard work you've just done.

By the way, these toilets aren't the only kind of toilets in France. You will find these toilets mostly as public toilets and on camp-sites, even the more luxury camp-sites. On these luxury camp-sites you most likely find both French and normal toilets. Be there early, you might have to wait for the normal toilets.
On the other hand, some larger cities provide really luxury public toilets. They have automatic cleaning. Just put in a coin and you've got 10 to 15 minutes to do your businnes. You could almost go there for the fun of it....

Thats a shower.
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Well, that's weird :D And it does look a lot like a shower...
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May 5 2004, 11:07 PM
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May 5 2004, 01:46 PM
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Toilets at last, what a relief
Just when you think you've finally found the toilets, there's only a black hole in the white floor. Welcome to French toilets (or Turkish toilets, as the French call them), probably the most reviled piece of French furniture. Men can use the hole as an urinal, but for the rest it remains a problem.
How to use French toilets

1. Close the door and look for a dry place to put your toilet paper.
2. Drop your pants just far enough, keep them up as high as possible. The floor is mostly filthy and wet.
3. Take a seat with your face towards the door. In the floor you'll find two steps to put your feets on.
4. Squat! That means: knees and upper body to the front, and put your bottom backwards. Sometimes there are 'stirrups' to grab with your hands, to help keep your balance.
5. just for the gentlemen: use a hand to point Percy at the porcelain. Let's not be too shy to talk about this - you don't want to wet your trousers and shoes.
6. Do what you have to do and clean your bottom.
7. Put on your clothes again and take your time to let that fade grimace from your face.
8. Don't flush just yet. These toilets have the habit of spraying lots of water over a much larger area than just the toilet to make it clean (mm, clean, anyway, the floor is getting wet). You risk wet feet. So, open the door and flush while you step out.

It has to be acknowledged, you lack any kind of comfort in these toilets. However, I suppose this is how nature meant it to be. It's much more hygienic than normal toilets where everyone has peed all round it. Another advantage: you'll spend less time here than you do in the toilets at home. You can use this time very well, for instance to recover from the hard work you've just done.

By the way, these toilets aren't the only kind of toilets in France. You will find these toilets mostly as public toilets and on camp-sites, even the more luxury camp-sites. On these luxury camp-sites you most likely find both French and normal toilets. Be there early, you might have to wait for the normal toilets.
On the other hand, some larger cities provide really luxury public toilets. They have automatic cleaning. Just put in a coin and you've got 10 to 15 minutes to do your businnes. You could almost go there for the fun of it....

Thats a shower.

Nope that is a French to toilet! :D
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If and when you ever get in trouble and go crazy on some pigs that picture looks way better than a rubber room in america. I punched two cops in the face and got put in a rubber room for two hours. It was all green with one black hole in the cornor. That france toilet looks way better than what I seen.
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France is a backwards country sometimes..
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May 6 2004, 02:12 PM
France is a backwards country sometimes..

But they have good food! :D
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