American public bathrooms are barbaric

[Anonymous]

Being a guy, I find using public toilets to pee ok but not for pooping. Most cubicles are small, dirty and smelly. It was the same during school, although they were usually clean. Holding it in all day wasn’t very practical, so I started taking nullo tablets and wearing black pants. It’s also important to wear good underwear.

If you don’t like using public toilets, it’s an alternative.

[Anonymous]

I don't know if you know, but most of American culture is barbaric.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know if you know, but most of American culture is barbaric.

Never leave your basement, eh?

As for OP, I remember the first time I saw a public urinal in France. Whoa! And, of course, the common practice of young French boys peeing in public.

[Anonymous]

I am half European and I would rank US public bathrooms solidly in the upper half comparaitively. The minimum standard here is a lot higher than the minimum standard elsewhere.

That is about the nicest thing I'll say about the US these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Being a guy, I find using public toilets to pee ok but not for pooping. Most cubicles are small, dirty and smelly. It was the same during school, although they were usually clean. Holding it in all day wasn’t very practical, so I started taking nullo tablets and wearing black pants. It’s also important to wear good underwear.

If you don’t like using public toilets, it’s an alternative.

What does this even mean?

[Anonymous]

I used a bathroom at a park in rural Japan that consisted of a hole over a mountain ravine. You could look in the hole at th e rushing water hundreds of feet down.
Nicest bathroom I can remember was at a random rest stop in Ohio! It was totally empty and pristine with marble everywhere. I felt like that scene in 2001 where the astronaut wakes up. Very liminal.

[Anonymous]

Guess you’ve never been to military basic training.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My favorite "but why" cultural toilet thing is the poop shelf in Dutch toilets, so you can inspect your poop before flushing. As a result Dutch toilets tend to have skidmarks.

A simple solution is a line of toilet paper on the shelf, so the skids land on the TP and get flushed down.

I live in the EU and don’t mind paying a euro for a clean, functioning bathroom.

I do that with one of the toilets in my house, there's no shelf but the stuff sometimes sticks otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being a guy, I find using public toilets to pee ok but not for pooping. Most cubicles are small, dirty and smelly. It was the same during school, although they were usually clean. Holding it in all day wasn’t very practical, so I started taking nullo tablets and wearing black pants. It’s also important to wear good underwear.

If you don’t like using public toilets, it’s an alternative.

What does this even mean?

I don't know what Nullo is but I understand what he is saying, although I can't imagine risking an accident over preventing one even if the facilities are gross. But then, my grandparents had outhouses when I was a kid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being a guy, I find using public toilets to pee ok but not for pooping. Most cubicles are small, dirty and smelly. It was the same during school, although they were usually clean. Holding it in all day wasn’t very practical, so I started taking nullo tablets and wearing black pants. It’s also important to wear good underwear.

If you don’t like using public toilets, it’s an alternative.

What does this even mean?

It means that if you take nullo tablets and wear black pants you can do it in your underwear rather than have to use a gross public toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being a guy, I find using public toilets to pee ok but not for pooping. Most cubicles are small, dirty and smelly. It was the same during school, although they were usually clean. Holding it in all day wasn’t very practical, so I started taking nullo tablets and wearing black pants. It’s also important to wear good underwear.

If you don’t like using public toilets, it’s an alternative.

What does this even mean?

It means that if you take nullo tablets and wear black pants you can do it in your underwear rather than have to use a gross public toilet.

lol yeah that’s a great solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Being a guy, I find using public toilets to pee ok but not for pooping. Most cubicles are small, dirty and smelly. It was the same during school, although they were usually clean. Holding it in all day wasn’t very practical, so I started taking nullo tablets and wearing black pants. It’s also important to wear good underwear.

If you don’t like using public toilets, it’s an alternative.

What does this even mean?

It means that if you take nullo tablets and wear black pants you can do it in your underwear rather than have to use a gross public toilet.

lol yeah that’s a great solution.

Seriously. "Public bathrooms are sooo gross! I prefer to shit myself and walk around with a big load in my pants all day."

Wut?!

[Anonymous]

How has no one said what most Americans do: find a safe poop bathroom. It’s usually the bathroom in the lobby, or the family restroom that is a single room with a sink inside. I’m my college dorm we had one in the lobby. Same with various offices. No one can see or hear you poop.

And on the subject of the poop shelf- I was an exchange student in the Netherlands for a year in hs and this was a frequent topic of discussion amongst the foreign students. We all thought it was because of the low flow toilets and never heard it was for inspection! Not enough water pressure to fully flush. On the upside, Every toilet has its own brush. Use it. Duh!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wish we had single stall bathrooms with a sink in them in professional settings. I also agree that European bathrooms are claustrophobic and can rarely be found. Your toilet paper sucks too.

As a kid our bathrooms didn't have actually doors in middle and high school. I feel like I've been constipated now for 20 years and it stems from that trauma. I think kids still often don't get doors because they were performing sex acts or doing drugs or smoking in bathrooms.

What??!! So just a row of potties?!

[Anonymous]

I don’t know what Europe you all went to but the best bathrooms ever are in Portugal. Full bathroom stalls or rather rooms that are in a row of three in a diagonal and it was spotless and it had a sink in the stall. It was at a little outdoor mall so not a fancy area either. Belgium had beautiful restrooms and in London, we were in fancy areas but the toilets were clean, spacious, free and we never experienced any toilet anxiety. The worst place ever was Mexico. No toilet seats and you had to pay 2 pesos for a grimy toilet.