Would Productivity Increase If Toilets Were Replaced with Squat Toilets?

Didn't somebody post a thread talking about the health benefits of squatting during #2?

 

Can you imagine the mess after the morning **** fest that occurs in corporate America every day?

 

What are the consequences of pooping from an unnatural position?

 

Can't you see the person squatting in the stall next to you and isn't it more open to splatter when you have explosive diarrhea? Never liked the concept.

 

You will def have more productivity if you have a smelly outhouse with lots of flies I'm it

 

AIDS.

 

Just drink a lot of coffee and eat tons of fibers and you're good to go... No need for this squat crap

 

I was in Japan once, my first day there. Department store. I just HAD to go. The train was chugging toward the light at the end of the tunnel; there was no time to lose.

So I go to the bathroom and find one of those squat toilets. Very clean and all---the Japanese are sticklers for cleanliness. But I thought, Uh, no.

So I go to the next stall. Literally, a Japanese astronaut couldn't have figured this thing out. There was a toilet but it had so many buttons and gizmos and instructions (all written in Japanese) that I could just picture myself accidentally pushing "power wash" on the "bidet" option and having my booty-hole flayed, and me shot across the room:

*THUD*

And the Japanese dudes washing their hands at the sinks outside my stall: "Sounds like we lost another gai-jin."

So I went back to the hole-in-the-floor. Thank God there was a counter for placing your stuff. Which I did. But I also had to grab the edge of it to hold me up while I leaned back and squatted, lest I fall in. I also took off my pants and put them on that shelf, lest I, uh, mess them up with my shaky, inaccurate squatting.

TMI? Hey: I'll take the toilet seat. That squatting position and me are not, as Forrest Gump would say, "like peas and carrots".

 

Having used the squat kind in Asia I agree they have some advantages. Clean up in the case of explosive diarrhea isn't that bad and actually seems better than a throne toilet as you don't get splashback.

They do take good knees that a lot of Westerners don't have. I remember the first few times using one I was glad I had did Judo so my knees and thighs were strong enough to maintain a squat.

 

Squatting? Everyone will have some strong thighs and tight butts. Can you imagine the guy in the next stall that doesn't workout his legs shaking as he is squatting?

 

I'd done years of those moving stairs-machines at the gym and had relatively strong legs but I guess I just wasn't ready for the sumo-wrestler dump.

 

I don't understand why you're admitting it....

 

what are acceptable pooping positions beside squatting? Can I do it while running/jogging/swimming? How about while curled up in a ball in the bath tub?

 

This is how Jeremy Lin takes his morning glory, standing on two logs.

 

More time wasted cleaning pants.

 

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