American public bathrooms are barbaric

[Anonymous]

They are designed with safety in mind and also there are a lot of ADA rules that need to be followed too. Also, the floor design with gaps under the doors and drains are to prevent accidental flooding and make cleaning easier.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Ohio rest stops have very nice and clean bathrooms. So do Buckees and Quik Trip

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in london until late 20s and I cannot get used to the office/ public bathrooms here. Basically one large room with flimsy dividers where you are meant to pee and poop with colleagues in what is essentially a shared space? Insane. Why is this tolerated? So gross and awkward

I fully agree - also grew up in the UK. The toilets here are disgusting. I don't want to see my colleagues' pants bunched around their ankles when they poop, I don't want to see their heads when they stand up in the stalls, and I certainly don't want to make eye contact with them when they are on the shitter through the huge gap in the cubicle. It is beyond revolting. This is the richest country in the world - splash out on a few more inches of board for the walls and doors!

If you are making eye contact with someone in a stall, that is entirely on you. You are the problem, PP.

I must agree.

Why is the british person peering through the tiny cracks in the stalls to make eye contact with strangers?

They used to arrest people for that.

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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.

Wait, what??? How disgusting!

You can't flush toilet paper in Taiwan.

You have to put it in the trashcan.

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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.

Dont they still not have doors at public high schools?

Yes, until the feral 9th graders stole them during the tiktok challenge of 2023.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They are designed with safety in mind and also there are a lot of ADA rules that need to be followed too. Also, the floor design with gaps under the doors and drains are to prevent accidental flooding and make cleaning easier.

Thank you for giving an actual reason as opposed to just whining about it! I say this in all seriousness. I did not know the safety/ada portion of it.

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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?

They poop in their pants and then walk around thinking it’s fine because they are wearing black pants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've encountered the squat toilets with the hole in the ground in France at several places with blobs of someone's feces sitting on the porcelain on the ground.

American toilets and bathrooms are luxurious.

I stayed with a friend in Paris and this was her bathroom, in the hallway, shared by the entire floor!

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Anonymous wrote:I've encountered the squat toilets with the hole in the ground in France at several places with blobs of someone's feces sitting on the porcelain on the ground.

American toilets and bathrooms are luxurious.

I stayed with a friend in Paris and this was her bathroom, in the hallway, shared by the entire floor!

They want this in the US. Converting commercial buildings into apartments, i.e., "co-living."

[Anonymous]

Most beautiful public toilet in the world title belongs to ...the Aussies!

Google the Maryborough public toilet in Queensland. They even have a golden throne there! Have been to other small towns in Australia that have incredible high-tech public toilets which are self-contained, fully automated and clean as a whistle - almost like they landed from a futuristic outer space.

The worst? China. I was on a factory tour once and was desperate to go. With great reluctance, my guide showed me to the facilities. It was an open-air (only a metal roof) long concrete platform with a deep foot-wide trench in the middle. You squatted over the channel and let 'er rip, hoping you didn't misstep and fall in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most beautiful public toilet in the world title belongs to ...the Aussies!

Google the Maryborough public toilet in Queensland. They even have a golden throne there! Have been to other small towns in Australia that have incredible high-tech public toilets which are self-contained, fully automated and clean as a whistle - almost like they landed from a futuristic outer space.

The worst? China. I was on a factory tour once and was desperate to go. With great reluctance, my guide showed me to the facilities. It was an open-air (only a metal roof) long concrete platform with a deep foot-wide trench in the middle. You squatted over the channel and let 'er rip, hoping you didn't misstep and fall in.

DC had six of of these magnificent toilets at $490,000. Six should be enough for 700,000 people.

https://dcpublicrestrooms.org/public-restroom-initiatives/new-dc-public-restroom-initiatives/

[Anonymous]

The reason American stalls don’t go all the way to the floor & have gaps that allow u to peek in is otherwise the homeless & perverts would simply move in and establish residences in the stalls. And if you bothered them, some dipstick civil rights lawyer would sue you into oblivion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The reason American stalls don’t go all the way to the floor & have gaps that allow u to peek in is otherwise the homeless & perverts would simply move in and establish residences in the stalls. And if you bothered them, some dipstick civil rights lawyer would sue you into oblivion.

Thanks for the word salad. It means nothing since it's absolutely not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The reason American stalls don’t go all the way to the floor & have gaps that allow u to peek in is otherwise the homeless & perverts would simply move in and establish residences in the stalls. And if you bothered them, some dipstick civil rights lawyer would sue you into oblivion.

You’re a fool.

Thanks for the word salad. It means nothing since it's absolutely not true.

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Anonymous wrote:I've encountered the squat toilets with the hole in the ground in France at several places with blobs of someone's feces sitting on the porcelain on the ground.

American toilets and bathrooms are luxurious.

I stayed with a friend in Paris and this was her bathroom, in the hallway, shared by the entire floor!

This was literally my hall bathroom in Paris! Squat toilet I used to poop (alternatively, I could go to the floor below and use the sit down unit in the hall). Luckily, I had a chambre de Bonne and didn't share the floor with anyone, except the owners who worked for an airline and had their own private toilet. I (grossly) used to pee in the shower in my room, which was weirdly raised a foot off of the floor. Maybe to accommodate the drain? I had a similar situation in my apartment in Edinburgh.