American public bathrooms are barbaric

[Anonymous]

Huh? I've worked around the world and have rarely seen single stall bathrooms. Hell my bathroom in Asia had squat toilets too.

[Anonymous]

Poop at home, not in a public bathroom and certainly not at work!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Poland's are generally pretty great too, and they're available at every metro station in Warsaw.

[Anonymous]

Wow, OP has not traveled the world much. Actually, anywhere. There is a reason why it was called “American Standard” - there WERE no standards in Europe -it was always a cheaply constructed make-do operation. And more than half the world has Turkish squat toilets which apparently has never even seen

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is actually much easier on the entire solid waste system and a better way to do things.

Why not do it here?

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is actually much easier on the entire solid waste system and a better way to do things.

Why not do it here?

Poopy trash? Someone has to clean/empty the poopy trash? You need bin liners for the trash can? How is solid waste different than TP made for sewers?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Clearly you need to travel more. Spend some time in India, and you will be grateful for US public bathrooms.

No thanks. I’ll stay home. Will “enjoy” India via take-out and Bollywood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poop at home, not in a public bathroom and certainly not at work!!

Not everyone can hold it in 12 hours every day.

[Anonymous]

Unpredictable, dirty, and restrooms lacking privacy are a huge reason to spend most of my time at home. I suspect many others, particularly women, feel the same way.
I’m pretty sure my IBS started when I was a kid going to school and not feeling fully safe in the bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

I’m with you, OP.
It is horrible.
What’s worse is that even some new buildings have this problem. The door gaps, the big space at the floor. And I’m moderately tall and hate it when my head pokes out the top.
It doesn’t bother me as much in a place like a rest stop or an airport full of background noise and strangers.
But at my office, with my boss and coworkers? Yep, barbaric and traumatic.
And WTF is up with people using it to make personal phone calls???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, OP has not traveled the world much. Actually, anywhere. There is a reason why it was called “American Standard” - there WERE no standards in Europe -it was always a cheaply constructed make-do operation. And more than half the world has Turkish squat toilets which apparently has never even seen

Just because it’s worse in other places doesn’t make it okay the way it is in the US. There is no reason for having awful stalls with see through spaces, especially in a workplace.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This is actually much easier on the entire solid waste system and a better way to do things.

Why not do it here?

Uh... disease and pestilence.

Fecal born illness is a thing.

This doesn't even consider the horrific smell.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, OP has not traveled the world much. Actually, anywhere. There is a reason why it was called “American Standard” - there WERE no standards in Europe -it was always a cheaply constructed make-do operation. And more than half the world has Turkish squat toilets which apparently has never even seen

Just because it’s worse in other places doesn’t make it okay the way it is in the US. There is no reason for having awful stalls with see through spaces, especially in a workplace.

Um... the USA has some of the best public toilets in the world.

Most places, including England, are fairly uncivilized when it comes to public toulets

[Anonymous]

Americans are too fat to fit in European bathrooms.

That’s why people are attacking you and calling them “coffins”

[Anonymous]

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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.

Not everyone is comfortable using cubicles in public toilets, which is why I suggested the alternative. Phobias affect people in different ways, and this was something that I developed during school.