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So, here in South Korea you don't flush the toilet paper when you go
to the bathroom. Somehow, I never heard about this and managed to
break the toilet twice before I figured it out.

Today, I once again placed the tissue into the bowl. Oops. Force of habit, right?

Fuck. I have to get the toilet paper out of the bowl somehow. There's no way they'll let me get away with breaking the toilet three goddamn times. I look around the bathroom for something I could possibly use. The bright idea would be to go to the kitchen to find a ziplock bag I could use as a makeshift glove, right? But no. My bright idea is to use the toilet brush.

I use the toilet brush to fish out the soggy toilet paper. It is the most arduous task I've faced in my whole life. It is deteriorating at the very touch and falling back into the bowl with a distinctive 'sloppp' sound of defeat. I manage to get feces caught between the bristles of the brush. It is the most disgusting thing in the world.

I get enough of the toilet paper out of the bowl to be safe flushing, I think. I then take more toilet paper into my hands, and pick feces out from between the bristles of the brush. It becomes even more disgusting than I could have possibly imagined before. I use the detachable showerhead to aid me, and I make a valiant effort. There's no way they'll notice there was shit in this. Right? I mean, there's still a little caught in there... but that happens when you use a toilet brush... right? Right? And the bowl is a mess, too, so it looks like I broke it... hell, it probably broke anyway just to spite me. Goddamn. Fuck.

I wash my hands thoroughly enough, but the guilt, shame and fear remains. :|

what a shitty experience.


squeez "someone was going to say it, might as well be me" le

Is this a squatty or a western toilet bowl? I have plenty of nightmare stories from my time over there as well.

I used a squatty and shit in my pants once.... while they were around my ankles. And I lost my balance on more than one occassion.

All that to say I feel your pain, my brother.





P.S. How are the language studies coming along... emnida?

I totally wish I hadn't read this thread.

I totally wish I hadn't read this thread.

me too and it's 7 AM here. yuck



and what ya doing in Korea Chris???? I wondered when you were.

Did anyone else pay attention to Chris this past year?

He's a student over there. Living. Learning. Broadening his horizons. Eating kimchi and fouling his host home.

The fishing-toilet-paper-out-of-murky-water image in my head reminded me of egg drop soup.

Now I can't eat egg drop soup.

- Mere "thanks" 1975

Did anyone else pay attention to Chris this past year?

He's a student over there. Living. Learning. Broadening his horizons. Eating kimchi and fouling his host home.

apparently I did not. sorry chris. that's awesome tho! but please stop break toilets.

um why can't you flush TP down the toilet anyway? that's weird. what sort of crazy system do they use?

so classy it hurts.

To revisit.... with such awesome tiolets, how could this have happened?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKV_qsk9c-A[/youtube]

ass. vagina. ass. vagina.

You'll never need to wipe again.