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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Pooping & Peeing in the streets? NO Public Restrooms?
Seriously? Is this really an issue in China? How bad is it? I'd be mortified if I was walking down the street and someone yanked down their pants and did their business in front of me. And then, while they squatted, I'd probably blow chunks on their shoes because of the smell.
In all the research I've been doing, this is really the first mention of it I've seen. Is it more in the small villages/countryside, or in the bigger cities like Chengdu, Beijing, Shanghi, etc.
Peeing is one thing, that never bothered me. I'd see guys pee in tree stands on the main drag. They don't show anything, too little to hang anything. What bothered me was that there was an entrance to my building that only pedistrians or scooters could use. Along this path was a garden wall. As soon as it got warm people started crapping there and you had to walk by it going to the corner store. P.U.That was gross. Either that was people or really really really big rats were out later at night.
snowballeffect:
They were probably just trying to be nice and provide free fertilizer for the garden. Helps the veggies really bloom.
TedDBayer:
Not even funny. Human feces is not an acceptable fertilizer. Humans and cattle do not share the same diseases. Its why worms, tapeworms, cholera, typhus, and host of less famous pathogens are now uncommon.Just too many bad pathogens in human excrement. After sterilization it would be high in nitrogen, but it would still be high in steroids, hormones, prozac and other drugs. To remove the many tons of various medicines people are swallowing and mainly excreted unchanged each day, would require incinerating the feces. This is why we don't eat our offspring or elders. Plus carnivor feces really stinks. Human shit smells discusting. Remind me to come crap in your garden.
lokethebloke:
Have you not heard of the 'Dry Crapper', human shit is dried and composted for at least a year and the resulting dry matter is used as ferilizer. Ypu're right about all the drugs though they're still present along with certain viruses but some argue much safer than what Monsanto are doing with Genetic Modification.
As for dog shit, you'll find that every ten yards in any park in Britain, haven't seen much in China PS the reason why men are develping mammary glands is because of the oestrogen from the 'pill' getting into the drinking water.
TedDBayer:
I actually don't mind the smell of cattle or horses until it is processed into liguid fertilizer, then it smells like sewage. I can't imagine wanting to use human crap just for the stink alone. I saw lots of dog crap on sidewalks because I always see where I'm walking. I saw dogs crap, even my Gfs dog, she wouldn't pick it up. I think the reason you don't see as much of it is because it does get stepped in. We pickup our dog crap in Canada, in a park for sure. I pick up around the house but not the entire 4 acres cause I never walk there.
TedDBayer:
Well the Chinese shit along my China walkway sure did. How often do you smell dry human shit?
snowballeffect:
Your welcome Ted. It was semi serious, as far as I'm aware human excrement (1 and 2) is definitely used by some people as fertilizer.......not sure how prevalent, probably very very minimal and maybe only for their own homegrown vegetables. You seem to know more about what the various shit's consists of, lol, so I'm sure you are right about the pathogens or whatever. For everybody else, remember to wash your vegetables (several times) !
TedDBayer:
Washing wouldn't do anything for the pathogens that vegetables take in. I think Loke knows more about shit than I do, he even sniffs it.
lokethebloke:
Yes, I've been working in the field of human excrement for 35 years, most of them were murderers, rapists and psychopaths of various ilks, including a merchant banker, probably the most dangerous of them all..
After I retired I lived on the odd commune in France and Germany where I came across dry human shit which I used to spread bare handed on the soil as fertiliser and I can assure you , it did not smell. The piss, a good source of ammonia, was poured over dried leaves, left to compost and after a year was referred to as 'gardener's gold'.
From a health point of view, I'd be more concerned about the dog shit in the grass. By the way, kids eating chicken shit is probably doing them more good than harm, and that really does stink!!!
TedDBayer:
I'm sarcastic. But I honestly believe you are a shit disturber. You post negative to almost any post.
lokethebloke:
A shit distributor please. It seems that we can't recognise each other's sarcasm.
The only times I post anything negative is when people start knocking, belittling and nit picking at China just for the fun of it, so yes inevitably, there have been a lot of negative posts. I like to think that this is not one of them.
I am not a China lover, I am fully aware of it's major faults, as I am of my own and certainly those of the United States of America. I'm not a hater of the United States of America. As I have said over and over again most of the culprits appear to me to come from that country, so I use that country in the mirror. I apologise to anybody who's been hit by the shit by mistake. Let it dry and it will make fantastic fertiliser in about a year from now.(banter)
I'm also aware that constant negativity is very damaging and it's been going on here for years. It shows how tolerant the chinese are compared to our cousins, who've only had to put up with it for a few weeks. It's not fair and it's not pretty, it demeans those who write it and depresses some of those who read it. As I keep saying, and will do so until the cows and their shit come home, I am just holding up a mirror. If people don't like what they see then so be it, that is their problem.
Watch where you're putting your feet!!GuilinRaf:
I am so happy this "lokethejoke" is gone, or at least that particular personality, though i think part of it lives in Frank3...
TedDBayer:
There is another thread talking about crapping in my walkway, Loke and Noballs both argued that it was a good thing, I google enough to win that one, but they wouldn't give up.
Usually it's kids, I tihnk it's pretty weird but you get use to it. Just watch where you walk.
I also dislike how people let their dogs piss/shit literally anywhere. This morning in the lobby of my apartment complex I noticed a dried up yellow puddle/stain on the corner of the wall. Obviously dog piss.
What's disturbing is the entrance/exit door was like 10feet away. Could that personally really not make their dog wait an exta 5 seconds and just pee outside. So gross and inconsiderate.
Once I was sitting on the steps outside a bank. As I was sitting there I saw a stream of water start coming towards my feet. I thought "hmm what's that from". When I looked up it was someone holding their infant baby right next to me pissing.
Didn't even have the curiosity to move over a bit or say hey watch out you're bout to get pissed on.
Even worse though is later that week I was in the same area smoking a cig (keep in mind this is outdoors). And the same lady walked over to me and ask me to put my cig out because their grandchild was in the area....... really???
I am teaching rich kindergarten kids that have the famous crotchless pants on. The parents are on the mega bucks list of earning and they still encourage their children to just squat down anywhere and take a dump in full public view. So far I have witnessed it three times since arriving here. Not the kids I teach thankfully, I don't think I would be able to look at them the same if it were.
DaveP84:
Nice of you to notice Ted. Would you rather I start a new a new thread on the same topic instead, just so you can point out that someone has previously talked about it before? I think it makes more sense to just reignite an old thread don't you?
Do I get down votes for that?
?? Good luck with that one....you are probably living in the poorest place in China if you cannot find a single public bathroom. It's not like that in the richer cities like Beijing and SHanghai. You need to get out more and stop staying where you are staying....LOL!!! HAHAHA!!!
It's a common practice here in the second-tier city of Rizhao, especially among children 0-10. Haha, I remember walking down a sidewalk once one evening. It took me about ten seconds to realize that the sight several paces in front of me was an approximately 10 year-old girl, standing up, torso bent over, taking a dump on one of the trees along the sidewalk, while two women, presumably her mother and grandmother, helped her. The sight was soooo foreign to me that my brain needed extra time to accept what it was seeing and tell my legs to stop walking in its direction. *shudders*
just put a bullet in the parents and the child and put it on television, the streets will be clean from now on. Public flogging or caning like Singapore might work also.