Most public Chinese bathrooms I visited didn't have toilet paper at all, or there was a communal roll outside the "stall", if there was a stall. It is expected that you bring your own.
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Bring a crowbar. Free the TP!
Think about the cheap mother-fuckers who are going to leave with their shit in their pants because they don't want to watch an ad or pay 7 cents
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Hey, could you watch some ads for me? Mines out.
China still has restrooms where you literally squat then piss and shit onto the floor, with hoses at the exit for you to wash your feet because of the nature of what you’re doing. There’s no toilet paper in them at all, you have to make sure you take your own in there along with a way too dispose of it.
Not knowing this when we first visited China, the women in our group were horrified and unprepared.
What this topic is about is an improvement on that.
I'm surprised it doesn't need a some dubious app.
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I'd just use a sock and slap it on the screen
I don't know what all the hate is about. This is not in every restroom there, but even so, we don't really have a lot of "public" restrooms in the US. All over Europe there are 1 euro turnstiles or other barriers to go to the restroom in the first place. Ideally we live in luxury gay space communism, but in the interim at least having access to a restroom is nice. I'd love it to be free everywhere, but it's not always free in Europe either and at least in this example you can access it for free if you bring your own or are able to watch an ad, and in the US you may not realistically have access to one at all. This also ensures that the people accessing the service are the ones paying for it, so it's not like someone in a small town with less access to government subsidized resources are being taxed so that these people can have free TP. I don't love the idea, but it's not novel or any more dystopian than what we have everywhere else.
Multiple replies in here from people saying they'd wipe their poo on the bathroom fixtures. I don't think reasoning is going to work.
Yea, I didn't address that directly but what an insane take. That's like coming to the US and being upset that tax isn't integrated into the listed price so refusing to pay it and just stealing, but also worse and grosser because now someone has to clean that up or use it after you. Even if it was the norm over there, which to my understanding it is not, that's then what you should follow as a guest in a foreign country. I can only imagine/hope these people are not Americans with passports. We get a bad enough reputation as is.