Posted on 07/06/2007 10:57:05 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
BEIJING - They're flush with pride in a southwestern Chinese city where a recently-opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 32,290 square feet.
Officials in Chongqing are preparing to submit an application to Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world's largest, the state-run China Central Television reported Friday.
"We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV," said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the Yangrenjie, or "Foreigners Street," tourist area where the bathroom is located. "After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy."
Footage aired on CCTV showed people milling about the sprawling facility and washing their hands at trough sinks. For open-aired relief, there is a cluster of stalls without a roof.
Some urinals are uniquely shaped, including ones inside open crocodile mouths and several that are topped by the bust of a woman resembling the Virgin Mary.
"Other bathrooms are all the same. This one is very special, I've never seen anything like it," one visitor to the tourist area told CCTV.
There are also plans to build a supermarket nearby, which will sell toilet-related items, CCTV reported.
Now, if everyone flushed simultaneously in this joint, what would happen to the water pressure in the rest of the city?
Beijing Ping!
Wow, 1000 stalls- that’s impressive! I wonder where they are draining the discharge (catfish farms?)
There’s still a line at half time.
What, no magazines?
so you can pee into a resemblance of the virgin mary? what will those cooky commies think of next?!?
Certainly not a piss-poor operation...
Wow, toilets instead using the gutter. They really are superior to the west!!
But the article failed to mention, no ventilation. Chinese always cut corners whenever profitable.
Chinese kids can still use the street.
San Franfreakshow needs one of these!
“There are also plans to build a supermarket nearby”
well, I suppose this explains the directions to please flush twice..
We are spreading toilet culture.What a noble mission.
“We aim to please. You please aim, too.”
As long as it has the world's biggest exhaust fan.
This just in: The senior class of Beijing High School just flushed all 1000 toilets at the same time causing massive strain the plumbing and causing a huge drop in water pressure in the area . . .
Don’t strike a match.
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