VEGANGELICA

This *is* an odd quirk, Conan. Unable to make a 'Halt' hand! You poor thing.

Ha ha! I can relate. I never sit down on a public toilet. I either hover just above the seat or layer the whole surface with toilet paper, only to get frustrated when one part slides into the bowl, dips in the water, and drags the rest of my carefully arranged paper down with it. Then I have to start all over again.

I also always wipe with wet toilet paper. Always. First dry. Then wet. Then dry for the finale. I go through whole forests at every sitting!

Another quirk: when I'm standing in the kitchen while working at the kitchen counter, apparently I never stand with both feet flat on the floor. I always have one heel slightly raised or tilted so that my weight rests almost entirely on the other foot.

Even after I'm reminded of my quirk and consciously try to stand on both feet, within several minutes I forget.

I'm like this horse with her back foot slightly lifted:

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it's not so much the "hygiene" thing for me, as there are usually no "sitting" bowls in a public toilet, they're usually "squatting" toilets and I'm not much of a squatter

Janszoon

I'm actually kind of the same way. As a result, believe it or not, I find it more comfortable to do pushups on my knuckles than on my palms.

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I've done them on my fingers my entire life.
I've not found anybody else with this condition. Both wrists. It's so weird.

VEGANGELICA

Urghhh! Are these the hole-in-the-floor types of toilets? I've confronted some such public toilets in Turkey. Believe me, it *was* a hygiene issue there...especially since there was no toilet paper, just a plastic water jug for common use with water to pour in your hand to clean the unmentionables.

Have you tried slow stretching over several months? Maybe you've just got overly tight tendons! Or maybe you and Janszoon are missing some bones in your wrists? That would be harder to solve.

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Howard the Duck

yup

it's not THAT bad here, problem is only the higher-end places have sitting bowls, most common coffee shops, bus stops, low-rent shoplots use squatting toilets

i use water myself, although again, the higher-end ones usually have a choice between a squirting pipe or paper

heard it's worse in China, all of them are squatting toilets except for airports and shopping malls and international franchise restaurants

crash_override

Imagine my surprise when I went to use the restroom at The Grand Mosque when I first got out here to Bahrain, and where there is normally toilet paper, then is a water bottle with a squirt nozzle in it's place.

I was quite perplexed.

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Howard the Duck

Muslims use water, though they're allowed to use paper, water is considered more "hygienic"

crash_override

They'll have to forgive me if I don't see the joy in pusposely giving my swamp ass every time I have to take a dump. Needless to say, I only poo at Americanized shops/restaurants now. Lesson well learned.

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I just point and shoot the thing until all the swamp is cleared, then I just remove the debris

and you wash with your left hand and eat with your right hand