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Toilets of the Far East. in 1955
written by Alan Lavercombe
 Hardly a subject for Mastermind, but who can forget those banjo-like floor level toilets they had in Japan with the footprints either side to give the uninitiated a clue. Better suited to R.A.F. bomb-aimer types than somebody with a pocketful of loose change, they did a least have sanitation in Japan.
The sixteen seat 'thunderbox' was not a very private affair. There used to be double decker versions even, and on the lower deck you had to watch out for somebody wiping his boots on your shoulders. There was always plenty of newspaper about, but when it ran low you could always read the one the bloke next to you was reading. By the time I arrived in Korea it was no longer considered funny to drop a grenade down into the pit it was built over.
They managed without sanitation and the hole in the ground at Sek Kong in the New Territories, and 'honeybuckets' were used. (By the way, don't EVER call a girl 'Honeybucket' however flattering it may sound or you'll have serious problems when she finds out what they are.) These were taken away by the locals for recycling, which is why you need to boil rice for twenty minutes and cooking with a Wok requires something like a jet engine afterburner underneath it. |
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