Beijing sets 'two-flies only' rule in public toilet guidelines
Published May 25 2012, 11:10 BST | By Alice Stewart
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A commentary by Beijing News recalls that plans were made for the standardisation of washroom facilities back in 2008 for the Olympics, but hygiene and sanitation still varied from toilet to toilet.
Four years on, the authorities are still wanting the change. The plans include new rules for cleaning, the training of attendants and use of equipment.
These guidelines will need to be installed in the toilets in both Chinese and English in order for them to get maximum adherence. The toilets that are being targeted are ones located in parks, railway stations, hospitals and shopping malls.
One rule regards flies being present in the toilet. They are considered as 'discarded items', of which you are only allowed two in the facility at a time. It is unclear at present whether there will be penalties for failing facilities.
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Basically, the rule means that if a fly gets in while you're opening the door to get out, you have to go back inside to get it and can't come out until you do - and if another fly gets in once you try to open the door, back in you go to do some more fly catching. The toilets will be filled full of prisoners real fast.
May 29th 2012 at 4:55am
how can you stop flies going in?? stupid
May 25th 2012 at 9:35pm
Did anyone else see Karl Pilkington's take on Chinese public toilets on An Idiot Abroad? The one where he goes in and they're all just squatting their doing their poos with no doors etc. He saw the chef from the Chinese restaurant he'd just eaten in on the phone while doing the toilet (Karl thought probably taking an order) and then when he finished he just walked right out - no wiping and no washing and went straight back to work. Yuck!
May 25th 2012 at 4:58pm
'Two flies' means the number of fly insects. The point of this rule is about keep public toilet clean.
May 25th 2012 at 4:51pm
One said "In case there is a male fly find out female fly got an affair, three flies to play together, scuffles, just chased into the toilet, happens while supervisor check time, it is unfair to the toilet administrator. "
May 25th 2012 at 5:03pm
what??
May 25th 2012 at 9:35pm
Oh!! Just a story tells about no one can stop flies going in, just what you said.
May 29th 2012 at 10:58am
What is this story saying? Flies? Like the insects, or flies as in on trousers? I can't figure this out.
May 25th 2012 at 3:52pm(+1 like)