17 Comments on Gas Station Toilet in the Philippines
I have to admit – not what I expected to see.
Hat tip to the Shell station owner.
I have a phobia about using any toilet butt my own. Is it clean? Am I being watched and recorded?
@Female Commenter — No, it is not clean. Yes, you are being watched and recorded. No, ass gaskets will not help. Yes, the video will be posted to the web.
They have to do that to keep Abu Sayyaf from using it.
LOL
I don’t know if I should be happy that I was pleasantly surprised, or questioning myself in that I expected to see something totally different – and STILL watched! 😉
Aunt Liz, me too! I watched with one eye closed!
Nice as long as Obama isn’t playing through.
If you did that here a dozen Mexicans would move in
And it’s not even a squat toilet!
@mnhawk
I’ve been to Asia and this is what I expected to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4vMYh8LT0g
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The ones in nice hotels and restaurants are usually very nicely decorated, with fancy brass bars to hang from…
Ah yes, I remember the squat toilets from my time in the Philippines when I was in the Navy back in the 70’s. Believe me other than outhouses and a hole in the ground there is nothing more disgusting than a squat toilet. Once I’d been to and seen the Philippines and SE Asia I had a greater appreciation of all the modern comforts like flush toilets etc. we take for granted in this country. And there was a reason the river/drainage ditch between the Navy base in Subic (Pubic) Bay and Olongapo City was called Shit River because all the squat toilets emptied out into the river, it was beyond disgusting.The Shell station in this video looks like a shrine which doesn’t surprise me since everything in the Phillipines was pretty much a Catholic shrine of some sort especially the Jeepneys.
just a hologram covering the poop encrusted hole in the ground.
No shit ??
Yeah right. He never takes video of anything but himself. How about a nice slow pan of the room without YOU in the foreground?Sheesh.
“modern” comforts, Indeed! Many years ago we had an elderly friend, a titled gentleman who had been raised in a castle on a river in Austria in the late 19th century.
As he described his ‘bathroom’, it was most often an open window high above the river. Taking a pee was not too bad but when the work was more serious, it became necessary to sit on the window threshold and wiggle back until sufficient clearance was achieved. Then “bombs away”.
When we thought that was hugely funny he admonished “try it in the dead of winter with the cold wind blowing up from the river on your bare a$$”
Jethro, I once used a squat toilet (not to squat, fortunately), where you filled up a pail hung over a faucet, and poured it into the toilet to flush. That’s what I expect in rural Philippines.
It didn’t smell or anything. The worst toilet I have ever used was in a roadside park, west of Thunder Bay, Canada, so I guess you just never know.
I have to admit – not what I expected to see.
Hat tip to the Shell station owner.
I have a phobia about using any toilet butt my own. Is it clean? Am I being watched and recorded?
@Female Commenter — No, it is not clean. Yes, you are being watched and recorded. No, ass gaskets will not help. Yes, the video will be posted to the web.
They have to do that to keep Abu Sayyaf from using it.
LOL
I don’t know if I should be happy that I was pleasantly surprised, or questioning myself in that I expected to see something totally different – and STILL watched! 😉
Aunt Liz, me too! I watched with one eye closed!
Nice as long as Obama isn’t playing through.
If you did that here a dozen Mexicans would move in
And it’s not even a squat toilet!
@mnhawk
I’ve been to Asia and this is what I expected to see.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4vMYh8LT0g
.
The ones in nice hotels and restaurants are usually very nicely decorated, with fancy brass bars to hang from…
Ah yes, I remember the squat toilets from my time in the Philippines when I was in the Navy back in the 70’s. Believe me other than outhouses and a hole in the ground there is nothing more disgusting than a squat toilet. Once I’d been to and seen the Philippines and SE Asia I had a greater appreciation of all the modern comforts like flush toilets etc. we take for granted in this country. And there was a reason the river/drainage ditch between the Navy base in Subic (Pubic) Bay and Olongapo City was called Shit River because all the squat toilets emptied out into the river, it was beyond disgusting.The Shell station in this video looks like a shrine which doesn’t surprise me since everything in the Phillipines was pretty much a Catholic shrine of some sort especially the Jeepneys.
just a hologram covering the poop encrusted hole in the ground.
No shit ??
Yeah right. He never takes video of anything but himself. How about a nice slow pan of the room without YOU in the foreground?Sheesh.
“modern” comforts, Indeed! Many years ago we had an elderly friend, a titled gentleman who had been raised in a castle on a river in Austria in the late 19th century.
As he described his ‘bathroom’, it was most often an open window high above the river. Taking a pee was not too bad but when the work was more serious, it became necessary to sit on the window threshold and wiggle back until sufficient clearance was achieved. Then “bombs away”.
When we thought that was hugely funny he admonished “try it in the dead of winter with the cold wind blowing up from the river on your bare a$$”
Jethro, I once used a squat toilet (not to squat, fortunately), where you filled up a pail hung over a faucet, and poured it into the toilet to flush. That’s what I expect in rural Philippines.
It didn’t smell or anything. The worst toilet I have ever used was in a roadside park, west of Thunder Bay, Canada, so I guess you just never know.