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Signspotting: Please Sit on the Sitting Toilet, Malaysia

by Nora Dunn

Signspotting: Please Sit on Sitting Toilet
© Nora Dunn

Only in Asia (Malaysia to be exact), would they have to tell you to SIT on a sitting toilet …

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Nora Dunn is a Professional Hobo and Freelance Writer, having given up the daily grind to search the world for the greatest adventures and best stories. She can be reached through her blog, The Professional Hobo.

malaysian
March 23rd, 2009

There are squatting toilets here too … strangely, there has never been signs telling you not to sit in those …

Ed
March 24th, 2009

…I’ve seen footprints on an asian loo seat before – so it really must happen!

(it’s still pretty funny though. haha)

arnika
March 24th, 2009

Strangely enough we have these same signs in our university bathrooms in Christchurch NZ, so perhaps not just in Asia … I laughed out loud (in the toilet) when I first saw them!

nishant
March 27th, 2009

It doesn’t happen in Malayasia alone. Happens in India as well. As for NZ, I think the sign was put up for the Asians

emma
March 28th, 2009

Ahaha, not only in Malaysia!! Similar to arnika, we have them in some university bathrooms. They’re a pretty recent (and loltastic) addition.

no
December 20th, 2011

it’s not because they are stupid, but they are just too hygienist, they don’t want to sit in that thing where all people’s naked butt have been sit in that.
gross.