I read about that...disgusting.

Why disgusting? People were paying their credit line down - not their fault if Chase decided to withdraw from Canada...

It is disgusting what Chase is doing.

My surprise with toilets was in Leningrad (now St Petersburg again), back in the mid-1970s. We were in a very fancy conference centre in one of the old palaces.

Toilet cubicles just like I was used to

Toilet just as normal

Except there was a basket or box by the side of the toilet where you put the used toilet paper.

Paper wasn't supposed to be flushed down.


You can imagine what it smelled like towards the end of the day.


Toilets in the hotel were "western".

One of the 'joys' of travelling, we never know what sort of loo we'll get

I found that doing one's business in private isn't really a thing in Vietnam. Lots of examples, such as our bus driver stopping next to a rice paddy, hoiking his willy out and peeing directly onto the rice plants. Have never felt quite the same about rice since.

The other memorable one was in a bar and restaurant complex in Hanoi. I'd found that a lot of toilets were not only unisex there, but also had no walls around each loo. I asked a Vietnamese girl if there was a loo close by where I could have some privacy. She directed me up 3 flights of stairs, she said the toilets were for both female and male use but they had doors and walls between each loo. Sure enough there were two stalls, one vacant and one occupied with the door closed. I went into the vacant one, shut the door (bliss!), started taking the knickers down and looked to the left - there was a wall alright but it was clear glass and I had the lovely view of a bloke sitting on the toilet. By that time I was desperate, so I just got on with it.

Down in Salina Cruz in '75 the big cantina was La Salon California, and the pissoir was an 8' or 10' tiled section of wall in the main bar, with a tin trough at the bottom channeling the recycled beer and tequila from several hundred men outside, across the sidewalk and into the street.

Hopefully you weren't raped.

Oh no worries, even though I was devilishly cute at 21 it wasn't that sort of bar. Although it wasn't on the street of brothels it was the sort of bar with an immense brothel on the upper floor. Salina Cruz was like seaports the world over in that respect.

As long as you consented and used lube it sounds very innocent.

Innocent but careful, so all I did was drink, even in the "entertainment district". I realised the potential for getting injured or killed increased with the degree of adventure taken.

Many are like that in North America. I heard someone on TV once saying it had something to do with blocking the drains.

I’ve seen guys doing that many times in the US, although not in rice fields.

This is still thee norm in some of the Greek islands where all water has to be brought in or is desalinated.

I think this is great; Garth Brooks is playing Mosaic Stadium about a kilometre away from me tonight, it's probably sold out, and the thunder started booming overhead about 5 minutes ago. I have no inside information, and I'm not a huge fan, but if he doesn't open with The Thunder Rolls there's something wrong.
Edit: On radar it looks small so should blow over before the show starts. Still booming though..
https://weather.gc.ca/radar/index_e.html?id=xbe
https://leaderpost.com/entertainment...-stick-at-home

1959 car vs 2009 car in crash test.