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I've been in the European Union for some time now and life here is definitely different from Ukraine. I should probably start with the basics. Toilets. In the European Union toilets are pretty and clean and have lots of useless decorations like the toilet bowl. Why do you need this big thing to sit on? It's not like you spend hours on it. Maybe if you eat Indian food or something but otherwise you go in and a minute later you are done.

Therefor I think it's a big waste of resources. Why don't we keep it simple like it was in the good old Soviet Union?  Hole-in-the-ground-toilet is completely green. Some eco friendly businesses in Ukraine still use them. We don't need these fancy city toilets where they play relaxing music and soap comes automatically on your hands and in some places a robot wipes your ass after you are done. How lazy can you be? It's not that hard to squat for a few minutes and afterwards use your homemade soap and collected rainwater to wash your hands.

Besides saving the earth there is another great benefit. These eco toilets usually don't have walls. Some have small walls to keep people from splashing things on each other. So it's a great way to meet people and start conversations. Imagine doing number two while someone else is doing the same thing in front of you. It's a very intimate situation that wouldn't happen on the street. So metaphorically and literally the walls are down and you can communicate freely. Who needs social networks? Beside perverts I mean.

I have an idea to build a hole-in-the-ground-toilet network all over Europe! Maybe one day it could be launched in America as well. Benefits will be enormous. Please give me some constructive feedback!