Taiwanese Toilet Humour

Taipei -- Weirdass Sign in the Ladies

Pardon the not-so-sharp picture, there was only that much I could go without giggling and shaking at this bizarre sign in a Taipei toilet. Remember how your primary school Chinese teacher always used to say you’d really appreciate being able to read Chinese at some point in your adult life? This was mine.

The sign was written in the ‘voice’ of a.. toilet bowl (I’m assuming, since it was above a squat toilet). It reads, literally: “I may eat whatever but I do not eat toilet paper” (remember this is the toilet bowl speaking).. “so please don’t feed me with that or I may BARF.”

Taipei -- Funny Sanitary Pad Ad

This one was just in sheer bad taste — an ad for a brand of sanity pad at a pad vending machine in a toilet. Obviously this doesn’t need much explaining; there’s a pad shaped like a chair, and the text reads: “No matter what happens, I’ll prop you up first!”

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  • Dont flush away their paper ?? where does it go ? i feel sick already dont tell me!!!
  • Tony M
    May be it says. Don't squat too low, I bite!!!!
  • @anonymous i DO really appreciate it.. a lot! don't think i ever had the occasion to talk about 衛生紙 (and i definitely write that in many less strokes), so i'm glad i know now :)
  • i knew that was the missing word i couldn't read. :)
  • rhizome
    the toilet bowl isn't talking about pads, but about toilet paper. like in bangkok, taiwanese don't flush their toilet paper down the loo too... never got used to that.
  • anonymous
    http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%9B%E7%94%9F%E7%B4%99

    衛生紙 means kleenex not kotex.

    There is even a "Toilet Paper in the Bowl" campaign going on in Taiwan. Horribly amusing (if not in the bowl, then where?).

    http://blog.kaishao.idv.tw/?p=1014

    Hope you’d really appreciate being able to read Chinese, someday :)
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