Re: Any service guys Dijibouti bathroom habits - WTF?
In both Arabia and the Indian subcontinent, the most modest toilet facilities I have seen feature a water spigot with a tin cup chained to it next to the squat hole. On the regular Indian passenger trains (as opposed to the luxury tourist trains), there is no holding tank. The refuse falls right through onto the railroad bed. The ones that are a little more luxurious might have a sit-down toilet, or a spray nozzle like on an American kitchen sink, or both. The really <span style="font-style: italic">nee-plus-ultra</span> shitters, usually in better hotels, have a flush toilet <span style="text-decoration: underline">and</span> a bidet.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Force_Multiplier</div><div class="ubbcode-body">they're actually being cleaner than "refined" dry toilet paper users </div></div>
I think it's wonderful their ass is so clean, but I'm not in the habit of shaking someone's anus when I greet them, and I doubt they're in the habit of preparing meals with their buttocks.
This is exactly why tourists to places like India always tend to get "the traveler's disease," known in medical circles as fecal-oral transmission. Because someone's shit, or the E. coli bacteria from it, has found its way into their mouth. It happens because the peons in those places, the exact class of people who carry your luggage, clean your hotel room and cook your meals, aren't likely to have the world's most scrupulous hygiene habits.
This is like kosher or halal dietary habits, religious rules with a practical purpose, intended to preserve the physical well-being of the adherents, and written with the location (and its resources) and the relative sophistication of the practitioner in mind. If Muhammad had been born in 20th Century Chicago rather than 6th Century Arabia, and if his followers hadn't been illiterate, migratory goat herders, the rule might as easily have been three squares of double-ply Charmin.
I've had the traveler's disease in more countries than I'd care to remember. For my money, I'd prefer they devoted more attention to keeping the shit off their hands to start with. And if I feel an irresistible urge to fondle someone's ass, I'll just ask them to do me the favor of washing it off first.