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2004-10-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Westerners can't squat
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Posted by tipper 2004-10-27 1:38:58 AM|| || Front Page|| [11131 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 [boggle]
Posted by OldSpook 2004-10-27 1:48:55 AM||   2004-10-27 1:48:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 There are so many things wrong with this.
Posted by beer_me 2004-10-27 2:42:48 AM||   2004-10-27 2:42:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Having lived for years in Asia with a bad knee that prevents me squatting, I have experimented with a number of techniques to use squat toliets None of which solved the problem (and without going into how diarohea and alcohol exacerbate it).

A study on the best way to use a squat toliet, for those who can't squat would be a important advancement in human understanding. Not to mention a valuable public service.
Posted by phil_b 2004-10-27 3:37:16 AM||   2004-10-27 3:37:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 
He said further studies were conducted on 240 school children and this found a person’s ability to squat dropped off about the age of 12, when a "stiffness" set in.


See - that's the problem with education today! By the time kids graduate, a lot of them can't do squat!! ;)
Posted by MrO 2004-10-27 6:56:34 AM||   2004-10-27 6:56:34 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 "Prof Rane, head of obstetrics and gynaecology at James Cook University, has spent years studying the perfect pee to help one million Australians – including 300,000 men – who have a weak bladder."
Aussies can stand (or sit) proudly -- this is far more useful than what we Americans get out of UC Berkeley.
Posted by Tom 2004-10-27 8:02:33 AM||   2004-10-27 8:02:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 If the squatter is called a "bomb sight". How come so many guys miss?
Posted by RN  2004-10-27 8:08:45 AM||   2004-10-27 8:08:45 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 I stand for standing.
Posted by raptor 2004-10-27 8:45:48 AM||   2004-10-27 8:45:48 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Hmmm....new meaning for Squatters Rights.
Posted by Don 2004-10-27 8:48:39 AM||   2004-10-27 8:48:39 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 Lotta time on your hands there, Perfesser?
Posted by tu3031 2004-10-27 8:49:24 AM||   2004-10-27 8:49:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 How are you supposed to do crossword puzzles like that?!
Posted by BH 2004-10-27 10:15:19 AM||   2004-10-27 10:15:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 I guess MooreOn was right, "We don't know squat" after all.
Posted by Jack is Back! 2004-10-27 10:15:52 AM||   2004-10-27 10:15:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Do they think the world will switch over to the perfect method once they find it? Who cares if it's perfect or not? This is insane on so many levels I thought for sure it was scrappleface.
Posted by RJ Schwarz 2004-10-27 10:15:55 AM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com]  2004-10-27 10:15:55 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 Westerners also have an aversion to open pit cess pools.
Posted by ed 2004-10-27 10:27:28 AM||   2004-10-27 10:27:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 Back during the Vietnam War, US troops noticed the "Charlie squatting in the bush" phenomenon. Having been raised from birth to what you might call "deep squatting" or "full squatting", with the buttocks resting on the heels, as adults they were able to do this for extended periods of time, something most westerners couldn't do, or learn to do. It was also noted that this bowed their legs slightly, which meant that they couldn't handle long distance running as well as some straight-legged westerners.
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-10-27 10:38:07 AM||   2004-10-27 10:38:07 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 Unrelated to squatting, aren't Americans wealthy enough to finally afford tall toilets? The typical American Standard, even the illegal big tank Canadian production toilets are still way too low. They seem to be designed for children and people under five feet tall, with really narrow buttocks.
Posted by Anonymoose 2004-10-27 10:42:20 AM||   2004-10-27 10:42:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 God wants every American to have a big tank, a 12 gallon single flusher! It's our birthright and they are made in America by good unionzed workers at where else American standard! Ever Man a King and for every King an American Standard Throne! Long live the easy flusher!
Posted by HHH 2004-10-27 4:23:08 PM||   2004-10-27 4:23:08 PM|| Front Page Top

#17 "People might think this is funny, but there’s much to it than just fun, really."

Actually, what's funny is the fact that someone is willing to waste money on this kind of thing.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-10-27 4:32:48 PM||   2004-10-27 4:32:48 PM|| Front Page Top

#18 Not only do we not know squat, we don't know that we don't know squat. Huh??
Posted by Constitutional Individualist 2004-10-27 5:49:29 PM||   2004-10-27 5:49:29 PM|| Front Page Top

#19 You can keep the squat toilets, thanks. I prefer to relax on the throne, rather than expend energy holding a position. The squat toilet is just nasty, it's the worst thing about living in Asia. Most places have real toilets, but some don't and the realization that you're going to actually have to use a squat toilet is not pleasant.
Posted by gromky 2004-10-28 2:21:54 AM||   2004-10-28 2:21:54 AM|| Front Page Top

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