Friday, September 08, 2006

Russian toilets


Suck.

Host country Russia's economy also is robust, but its toilets are another matter. Public restrooms are generally few and discouraging once found: often dark, eye-wateringly smelly, frequently lacking paper, soap and even seats for the commodes. That's if there are commodes at all; many Russian restrooms use the Asian-style squat toilets rather than European sit-downs.

Any conjectures as to why?

2 comments:

Mr roT said...

Good piece by VDH. I usually don't think much of him, as you know. Often he belongs in a Russian toilet.

My Frontier Thesis said...

I don't know. I have a hard time reading VDH, though I agree with some of his points. Whenever I read VDH, his voice is whining in my head (eg. this is so wrong with the world; this is so wrong with America; this is so wrong with them; this is so wrong and nothing is ever going to get better and we should all just give up and die and wait for Revelation).

Maybe I just have a bad attitude right now. At least we don't have to squat over a pit when it comes time to do the deed.