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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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 Posted - 11/06/2010 : 12:10:52
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Those are "comfort rooms" or CR's here, actually.
First, please read this wonderful, and necessarily somewhat scatological (in the literal Latin sense of the word) blog posting by an American woman living in the Philippines. It's too well written for me to just steal and rewrite.
Read it, now? Okay, here's how I see this cultural problem, and my plan to tackle it:
I have already had an electric shower water heater installed in the downstairs CR, and in a couple of weeks will buy one for the other. (These have ground fault interrupter circuits, by the way.) Otherwise, both CRs are still the basic Philippine design, except each has a good flush toilet. Basically, the toilet paper I have in the CRs are used for everything but ass-wiping by Filipinos. My CRs have floor drains not just in the shower portion, but also in the commode area, with no shower curtains between the two zones. Filipinos typically don't use, or feel the need for, shower curtains, as drainage is everywhere in a CR.
Butt-cleaning after taking a dump is typically accomplished by the use of a bucket of unheated water and a tabo dipper. This makes for an arguably cleaner ass, and a definitely filthier bathroom floor, even after additional loads of tabo water are thrown on the floor to flush debris down the drain. Water, and that which it washes away, flies everywhere. Either the whole CR floor is built slightly lower than the rest of the floor (as here), or a raised sill keeps the water and waste inside the CR entry door.
This whole procedure is disgusting to Americans, but American "dry-wiping" with toilet paper is equally revolting to Filipinos.
My plan is to install shower curtains, and bidets, while leaving the toilet paper available for wherever use people wish to make of it. I will have available no buckets of questionable water, and no tabos. Doing all this, I hope to avoid both the filthy floor problem of the Filipino method, and the filthy butt problem of the American way.
Now, think about another subject, and go eat your dinner.
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 11/06/2010 19:26:34
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Bathrooms in the Philippines
