1. Never use the restroom that has footprints on the seat. It can be most off-putting, not to mention dangerously septic.
2. That tiled hole in the floor? That's the "Turkish Toilet." Squat.
3. Airline toilets after prayer-time ablutions? As a sluice of the face,hands, nostrils, feet, and crural area, is required, I don't think so.
4. It is OK to squat in the gutters of Marseille and other European cities if one is wearing a djellaba or similar robe. Modesty must be preserved.
5. A rule from Quran: never urinate while standing barefoot on a cold tile floor. Muhammed (MPBUH) has spoken. Infidels must obey.
6. Learn to hold it until you're back at the infidel hotel, or your infidel residential compound.
The pause that refreshes PING.
Yep, that's what it is. I was at a rather nice restaurant in Bursa, Turkey, went to the ladies room, found it "closed for repairs," nice muzzie lady pointed me to the OTHER ladies room where another nice muzzie lady pointed to the hole and bent her knees….. When I got back to the table, our tour guide was MORTIFIED that I had to goto the muzzie loo. Me too.