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How to Use a Horse Bucket

Posted on May 4, 2015May 4, 2015 by Jo

I ran across this photo on Flickr recently, and had a good chuckle. It’s a sign posted in a public toilet giving instructions on how to/not to use a “sit down” toilet. The direct translation of the characters over the picture is “how to use the horse bucket.” For some reason, the Chinese word for…

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Is it a Castle? A Church? A Public Toilet?

Posted on December 13, 2012December 13, 2012 by Jo

If you can’t imagine being able to tell the difference between a building that is a castle, a building that is a church, or a building that is a public toilet, than you obviously haven’t been to China! The Shanghaiist reports on a recently-built public toilet facility in Wuhan that looks like a castle:  Wuhan…

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