Do not puke
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Thai sign over a sink in a restroom, from Alexander Bukh on Facebook:
The Thai part of the sign reads:
ha:m uak! ha:m la:ŋ kon dek! nai a:ŋ la:ŋ mɯː prab 500 ba:t
alternative transliteration:
H̄̂ām x̂wk! H̄̂ām l̂āng k̂n dĕk! Nı x̀āng l̂āngmụ̄x prạb 500 bāth
ห้ามอ้วก! ห้ามล้างก้นเด็ก! ในอ่างล้างมือ ปรับ 500 บาท
Do not vomit or wash a baby's bottom in the sink, (if you do these things) you will be fined 500 Thai baht.
The word over the crossed-out picture of the little girl vomiting (bottom left):
wɛ!!
แหวะ!!
blech / blargh
If you really have to retch / barf / upchuck / puke / regurgitate / toss your cookies / blow your lunch, please do it in the toilet, and clean your baby's butt / bottom elsewhere, not in this sink.
[h.t. Nathan Hopson; thanks to Joyce White, Pattira Thaithosaeng, and Justin McDaniel]
Philip Taylor said,
August 8, 2019 @ 2:47 pm
As one who very rapidly came to recognise the benefits of the ubiquitous "personal hygiene" hose + medium-pressure jet spray in Arabian toilets, I now find that the lack of any analogous facilities in the vast majority of Western toilets a serious and depressing omission. Never mind the baby's bottom — where is one expected to wash one's own ?
Theophylact said,
August 9, 2019 @ 8:40 am
After a trip to Turkey, I really missed that water feature that practically every toilet had. So I bought and installed a Bio Bidet Simplet, and later upgraded to a Toto Washlet. I miss the thing every time I have to use some other toilet.
Bathrobe said,
August 9, 2019 @ 7:26 pm
My proposal for a Toto ad campaign:
"With Toto Washlet, I feel ready for sex at any time."