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  1. PoodleGroomer says:

    So, I presume that yours are made of jade and smell like fields of wildflowers.

  2. itsinmypants says:

    Oh crap,this is going to be a long ride

  3. lexan D says:

    Hey you! Put that sh!t away. You know that’s not allowed here.

  4. jayesjay says:

    It’s a touring (road) coach (bus).
    The driver doesn’t like to empty the loo receptacle of solids at stops. Passengers are often asked to pass liquids only on the road!

    • bluejade says:

      Hey, it’s not like we have a choice!

      • JohnB says:

        Sure we do! We can just cr@p our pants instead. I’m sure that would make the ride much more pleasant for all involved.

        • Droll not Troll says:

          Makes me wonder how they’re going to enforce the new “No bathroom visits in the hour before landing” rule on American flights.
          Have they forgotten that sh!t happens? Prohibition is futile.

          • bluejade says:

            Adult diapers, no longer just for crazed lady astronauts.

          • dr handle says:

            What I don’t understand is: how exactly is a no-bathroom-visiting-the-hour-before-landing policy supposed to inconvenience would-be undies-detonators, anyway? Do the airlines think that everybody on board is so keen to get their hands on those laughable collections of pieces of moulded inedible plastic offcuts that is referred to as “food” in cattle class that the potential jock-bomber will think to himself “Right, I’m ready to send all these ham-sandwich-loving face-barers to Gehenna! I’ll just go to the bathroom to prime my pants… oh noes! If I do that now, I’ll miss my Chicken Salad with Salmonella Dressing and Moh’s Scale 10 Bread Roll! Curses! But if I stay in my seat for my meal, I’ll miss the no-bathroom-use deadline… drat those sneaky-weaky image-capturing kite-flying infidels! I’ll have to postpone my martyrdom. Maybe I’ll wait until we land, then blow up one of those ludicrously expensive air terminal cafes instead. Hey, I’ll be a hero to *everybody* if I do that, why didn’t I think of it before?…”

  5. la conejita says:

    This toilet has the same philosophy that I have. I don’t like to take cr@p from people.

  6. _ says:

    They actually meant to say “Excretion Prohibited”. What’s more bizarre is the red text above it, reading: “Toilet”.

    So it’s essentialy “no excretion in toilet”. Strange.

    • dr handle says:

      This isn’t some sort of Zen, is it?

    • Cha Cha says:

      Close, but no cigar. What it literally says is that BIG (poop) excretion is prohibited. IE, this toilet is for small (urination) excretion only. Probably behind this door is a urinal.

      It’s not uncommon for mens rooms to have signs that simply say:

      to indicate where the standing and sitting toilets are. It makes a lot more sense in Japanese, (and perhaps Chinese, though I can’t speak from experience there) since each of those is a single character, so it’s EXTREMELY SHORT:
      ← 小 | 大 →

      Still, it doesn’t quite get the message across, and so is interesting engrish.

      • _ says:

        … What? It’s kind of…. common sense. It still bewilders me if they mean to say no solid in urinals.

        • _ says:

          …That reminds me of the “no semen in residential hall bathroom” thing. Seriously, I think they need to fix their plumbing than to post things like that.

        • Cha Cha says:

          Stranger things have happened. South Park had a whole episode about the mystery of the urinal deuce, so it’s definitely not unheard of.

          Alternatively, it could be a full toilet, but one they don’t want people to poop in for whatever reason. The sign literally just says “It’s forbidden to poop in this toilet”, I can only speculate as to WHY.

          • Droll not Troll says:

            South Park episode FTW! I was going to mention that one.
            Certain of our sporting “stars” don’t even bother to poop in the urinal. We need these signs in hotel corridors!

  7. Exiled says:

    Maybe it’s the laid back surfer style authorities:

    - what should we do today?

    - dunno, let’s just prohibit sh!t.

    …or maybe they’re just tired of sh!t happening so they prohibited it

  8. naleta says:

    No sh!t, Sherlock!

    “The devil made me do it.”

  9. dr handle says:

    It may not actually be a toilet door, it may be a door to that part of a McMansion known as the “parents’ retreat”. This is where parents go after bellowing at their offspring “I AM SICK OF PUTTING UP WITH YOUR SH!T!!!!!” The sign is merely to remind the children that they are in deep doodoo with mum and/or dad and they’d better behave if they ever want to eat again.

  10. hondje in de tuin says:

    Can anyone think of a rather more polite way to say this?

    • Gorgon Medusa says:

      Put a cork in it.

    • Droll not Troll says:

      If there are 2 separate facilities, they could label this one “URINAL” and the other one “ARSENAL”. :P

    • Cha Cha says:

      It’s forbidden to use this toilet for #2. (Translating ‘Large’ to #2, otherwise literal – probably the most understandable to foreigners)

      It’s forbidden to use this toilet for large business! (Closest to the original, but may not be understandable to everyone, as ‘Large’ isn’t generally used for poop, but probably most people will get it)

  11. jayesjay says:

    I say it again – it looks like a tour bus, and in my experience, the drivers/tour guides always discourage use of the on board toilet for solids. They have to empty it at appropriate stops, and they prefer only to handle liquids. They hope you can hold your solids until the next stop!
    Our last tour guide, on a Western States tour – Grand Canyon, etc, used to say there will be a “dewatering stop” in half an hour, whatever.

    • Cha Cha says:

      Makes sense to me. In my experience, I would never want to poop in one of these anyway… they’re generally not up to my sanitary standards of wanting to touch anything in the room.

      • dr handle says:

        Trains, buses, similar problem:

        It’s even funnier if you’re familiar with the already-hilarious work of Flanders & Swann (whom these two are parodying brilliantly).

        • Droll not Troll says:

          That’s a winner! I must have missed that episode.

        • bluejade says:

          OMG, funny… but not so funny… the closest I’ve ever come to dying from a disease was contracted from the raw sewage running across the floor of a third class train in Mexico. Ohohoh, even after I was on my feet again I had the runs for months…it made for interesting times while traveling.

  12. JOHN BEERINHEIMER says:

    Dose this mean I can’t use this if I ate chinese?

  13. Superkitteh says:

    this is freakin awesome


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