Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm

Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by whiddershins on Monday March 08, 2021 @09:51PM (#26394866)

I believed you that you might be saying accurate things until you wrote ‘even China does pretty decently.’

I spent two weeks traveling around China and, when it comes to toilets, what you said couldn’t be more insanely inaccurate. I decline to go into details, but it’s is in every way the opposite of what you wrote.

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Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by Clewza313 on Monday March 08, 2021 @11:19PM (#26395363)

China is huge and fast-developing, so generalizations are dangerous. The notorious partitionless poop trough is pretty much a thing of the past (although I have no doubt some survive), but these days at eg. major train stations or tourist sites, the average public toilet is just fine.

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Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by HKH2 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @12:15AM (#26395631)

"Parks and urban areas across the country have toilets that are well maintained..." is referring to far more than just major train stations and tourist sites.

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Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by Clewza313 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @01:08AM (#26395932)

On my last trip before COVID happened, I crossed the country and the only truly gruesome toilet I ran into was at a Tibetan monastery. YMMV.

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Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by HKH2 on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @08:47PM (#26406823)

If that was a roadtrip, that's impressive.

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Re:Pay toilets and NYT: a free market microcosm by HKH2 on Monday March 08, 2021 @10:24PM (#26395080)

Exactly. If you go to China (edit: I don't mean just staying in 5 star hotels), expect to see someone else's excrement at some point.

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