Adult Diapers Sales in China are up, way upIn that meme a couple of posts back, I listed diapers under the category "five things you would never wear again. " Good thing I don't live in China. It turns out that, next to food and firecrackers, the most popular commodity being purchased during the holiday season is adult diapers!
Apparently, many people have to travel such long distances in overcrowded trains, where even the bathrooms are jammed with people, that they feel they need an alternative to a bathroom. Added to that is the fact that people are forced to wait in queues for hours to purchase tickets. So, some people have decided to buy adult diapers rather than loose their place in line or struggle through a crowded train to do #2 in front of strangers. Given the choice of soiling myself or doing my business in front of crowd, I'd choose the latter.
Who knows, this could lead to the spreading of infantilism throughout China.
I'd still like to visit China, but only if I never have to take the train.
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15 comments:
DUDEEEEEE!
I did that as a bit in my show yesterday! Wow. We must have a vulcan mind meld. Or else, you're totally listening to my show and ripping me off.
Hosebag.
WOW. That's nuts
MK: Believe me, I wish I could hear your show. When are your going to get it online?
that is really disgusting, when you stop and think about it. You'd think the people would rise up and demand more johns and ticket booths!
Hey, gwb, do the words Tiananmen Square ring a bell? After seeing some of the "facilities" in photos I might pee my pants with NO DIAPER...but then I'm kind of weird..
Indoor plumbing, most places in China, is a floor drain and hose.
It's good to know that we're exporting SOMETHING to China.
Please, I don't want to imagine the sight and let me not laugh at my Chinese friends.
Big boys and big girls in diapers?!
They should be on the Daily Show!
Oh goodness! I emailed a friend yesterday an email with the title: "Something I'm grateful for..."
And the body of the email was:
"That I don't travel on the Chinese railway..."
And attached a link to that story.
PS: Regarding the infantilism, see, I'd expect that kind of thing out of the Japanese. Why? Take a look at their game shows. VERY BIZARRO... too much ass, and too much fixation on bodily fluids and noises.
Not that I'm adverse to such things; however, it is shocking, when you measure how demure their culture is on the surface.
PS: With the possibility of Orlistat a.k.a. Xenical going to be available over the counter in America, I speculate the adult diaper industry will see a jump in sales, too.
weird b/c chinese people - in china at least - don't believe in putting diapers on babies. when i lived there, i saw plenty o' babies with open slit pants, through which their parents would have them, um, let go, wherever and whenever. (if you're ever in china and think you see dog poop on the street, it is not dog poop [chinese people in china rarely keep dogs as pets; they keep them as, you guessed it, dinner], it is baby poop.)
i agree that bathrooms, or rather holes in the ground (you say tomato, i say tomahto), in china are horrendous, but at least no part of you actually touches anything. sitting in your own filth doesn't seem like an appealing alternative.
wanna know how to use a squat toilet? click here. this is about japanese toilets but a squat toilet's a squat toilet.
That is a very unpleasant thought.
Thank You.
Very disturbing thought to start my day with. Makes me extremely grateful for the FACILITIES with take for granted. I've got a neighbour who's bathroom cost more than my house, no hardships there!
There is no Way I will ever wear diapers!!! I rather soak through my cloth ones!
I prefer the term "Turkish Toilet" since it sounds so much more exotic and appealing than "squat pot." I hope to always have control over my bodily functioning, although I'm probably doing some damage by not using the bathroom for hours and hours and hours at a time because I can't leave my students alone.
I'm just lazy enough not to be too offended by the idea of adult diapers.
You know, I would have to agree with you on that. I would rather drop trou and drop whatever else in front of whomever else than soil myself.
But hey, those Chinamen might be on to something... you never know.
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