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It might not compare to the real thing, but there are crocodile-shaped restrooms in Chongqing's new mega -sized public toilet:
They're flush with pride in Chongqing, where a recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 30,000 square feet.
The scatological genius of the city's planners has been taken to a new level — this public bathroom is supposedly the largest in the world, and they will apply to the Guinness folks for the title.
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I've never pissed in crocodile's mouth, but I did get to piss into a tree trunk at the new Ice Bar (got dragged to a wedding party) on Huaihai Road (guestimated lifespan before closure, 11 months).
Who are the brilliant people who dream up thematic urinals? I mean, taking a piss is taking a piss. These aesthetically useless bathroom fixtures--including the bent over ass sink in the kids bathroom you featured from a few weeks--are symbols rapid economic growth run amok.
We always hear that China is afraid of looking backward to the rest of the world. Clearly that's not the case.