Thailife: Socially distancing whilst taking a piss....BONUS: FREE HOUSE FOR EVERY COMMENT

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I feel I have an obsession with toilets. Not in the way George Michael did, but from a design and architectural point of view. I will be continuing the series I started entitled 'Toilets of Thailand' on 'that other chain' again shortly but until then.......

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Never let it be said that we are not taking this pandemic seriously in Thailand! These rather bland, yet functional urinals are in 'Homepro' at Rangsit where I was shopping for bathtubs recently.

To be honest, it's the first time I've seen socially distanced urinals but it does make complete sense and also has the benefit of making sure there is no inter-urinal splashback. Win-win!

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Rather oddly, washing your hands required you to keep two sinks apart.

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Finally. The last time I was back in the UK, there were adverts in the gents' toilets at the motorway services, usually for things like prostate checking services and postal STD checks, however, in Thailand we have posters that advertise an even more important service; toilet snake blockers! Snakes sneaking up your 'S' bend is a real issue here with a number of highly publicised cases in the last year or so. This problem has now been addressed and you can simply go to the Home Pro service counter and ask about having a 'Snake Block' fitted.

This kind of raised a few issues for me. How can the poo go down if the snake can't get up? There is surely a certain amount of diametrical parity between poo and snakes....

Enough from me. Back to staring at my @dcity expecting something to simply happen if I watch long enough! I love this game. Devils work.

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And finally to the free house. Anyone who has never played @dcity and bought any cards will get a free house in return for a comment. I have about 20 available.

Take care, stay safe, sane and healthy :-)



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This is so strange!! Not only the distance at the urinals but also the advertisments. Thanks for sharing!!

I have never played dcity maybe the free house will make me try it.

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Hi mate, thanks for dropping by. Don't think we've met before so hello!! Go take a look at dcity.io . Its actually a great game that doesn't need constant attention and its a nice community of people on discord. When you've signed in, I will send you a house over :-)

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Hello nice to meet you :) I have signed in already but I don't know what to do :/

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1 Basic Home sent to you my friend, please check your city now :-)

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snake protection, nice :)

I would like to try out dcity, I never bought a card.

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Get over to dcity.io and sign in and then I shall send you a Basic Home .....don't get too excited but at least it's a start on your city map.

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Done and I see my empty city.

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1 Basic Home sent to you my friend! Enjoy the game :-)

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I see the X and think that should be the target

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Hahahaha that was my first thought! If that were in England there'd be pissing contests going on.....literally, unlike the metaphorical ones that happen on Hive all the time lol
1 Basic Home sent, social distancing at your own discretion!

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How can the poo go down if the snake can't get up?

Eat the 'soup' made by the old lady at the side of the road and the problem will be solved :D

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But it needs to be a place at the side of the road that's VERY close to home!!!
Check your city. I sent you a basic home (Snake Block not included!)

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Will snake blocker be built in in your house? :)
I started my dCity few hours ago.

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Welcome to the game...finally lol ;-)
Basic home sent to give you a little boost :-)

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We see the social distance and everyone is careful. But I've never seen this in the toilet. People really take it to the next level. lol...

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Welcome to the game! I saw you'd just joined in recently. 1 Basic Home sent my friend :-)

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Thank you! Yes, I did recently. Glad to see you up there on ranking! :)

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Shot, I never thought about that before. Now I'm going to be worried when I go to the toilet next time I'm in Thailand.

On the topic of toilets in Thailand, dunno if you can answer my question. When I went a toilet in Bangkok last year, might have been at the train market, why are the squat toilets raised, so you (well not you, but females) are stepping on a ledge? Squating toilets are not the easiest to use, but when you have to step about 6 inches above ground on a ledge the width of your feet to do your business, it makes it even more difficult. Any insights from a local would be appreciated.

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I will get back to you on this! I think it's just to keep your feet off the main floor but as I am seeing my architect in the next few days, I will ask him!
Basic Home sent to keep you occupied until I return with an answer!
PS I blew the noodles and bacon. I should have drained off the bacon fat a little before I added the noodles. It was all a bit greasy lol!!

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That would be good to understand as I found it a bit difficult to balance on the ledge and complete the entire process then having to step back on the slippery wet ground without falling. And now of course I have to worry about the other issue that your raised ....

ps woops, hope the noodles was still good though, it should have soaked up more of the grease as their very dry.

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pretty gutsy to do a project photographing toilets ... i guess it's about timing.

Also cool that you're getting people interested in dcity

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