No but seriously. Why the gaps?
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You're all complaining about the gaps, but I once walked into a bathroom which had 5ft doors. The moment I walked in I locked eyes with a guy taking a dump.
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Let’s not forget the people who attempt to open the stall, notice that it is indeed locked, then proceed to knock on the door
wrote on last edited by [email protected]"Wanna help me wipe bud? This one is particularly sticky, I need to eat some more beans"
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I wish people who posted youtube links would say what they were linking to.
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I'm just not a fan of locking eyes with a dude in the midst of dropping a load
Lock eyes and grunt and push as hard as you can to establish dominance.
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I know everyone hates the gaps but like… I don’t care if you look at me using the bathroom, you might see my thigh, who cares? Also, you’re the creep looking, I’m not doing anything wrong, I’ve got zero reason to feel bad or weird about this interaction. We all go to the bathroom can we just stop being weird about it already?
Why not just not have gaps and have overlaps instead? Works in civilised countries. It's not like the technology doesn't exist.
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For all the puritanical shame Americans have of their sexual organs, we sure are lax when it comes to giving a little privacy when taking a shit and sometimes even just pissing in a trough.
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I assume it's because it's cheap infrastructure.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yeah, being literally as cheap as possible is the main design driver for poop stalls with large gaps. Very forgiving installation, so the cheapest possible labor can put them in to inconsistently built bathrooms with cheap parts using the least amount of materials on the cheapest hinges with the cheapest paint and cheap replacement parts when whatever is in there fails.
Also cheap to repair when it breaks.
Also, some amount of gap at the floor level means the whole room can be sloped down to a single drain when a toilet backs up instead of being contained in a single stall. That is also cheaper.
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I wish people who posted youtube links would say what they were linking to.
"youtube"
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I wish people who posted youtube links would say what they were linking to.
I wish Lemmy pulled previews properly
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Am I too non-USA to understand this?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This is a typical public restroom
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My middle school didn’t even have doors on the stalls. That was f’d up.
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"youtube"
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Am I too non-USA to understand this?
I think they just suck at carpentry, amongst other things. Doors are haaaard.
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I’ve always believed that the whole stall concept was developed by some kind of pervert.
I mean, even when they grant proper visual privacy, that’s just one of our five senses. You can still hear and smell what’s going on next door - and I swear in some cases just about taste it.
To me, “privacy” means all senses.
Not to mention having weirdos peek over the top of the stall, which has happened.
As a man, can I just say that I have never enjoyed peeing shoulder to shoulder with other men.
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Am I too non-USA to understand this?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]All you need to know is that toilet stalls in the USA (and Canada) have huge gaps around the doors, unlike other countries. You have to carefully position your head so you're not making accidental eye contact with people outside, and somehow relax knowing everyone can see you taking a shit.
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I've heard every excuse, from making sure people aren't doing drugs, jerking off, or having sex in there. The assumption being that if people are given total privacy they'll be up to "no good" in the bathroom stall. I don't know if any of that is true, but I once went to the men's room at a big-city library, and discovered the stall walls were only 4 feet tall. (If that was meant to prevent drug use it wasn't working, there were a couple dudes in there doing the fenty lean, but I didn't see anybody fucking, at least.)
So the non-private pooing is actually continuous with American moral puritanism. That makes sense.
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Occasionally I hear people argue it's so you can catch IV drug users without bursting in. Personally I think it's that capitalism cares not for your happiness and it's fractionally cheaper to have shitty doors, and so that's what people do
I have doubts about the IV drug users. It would imply that bathroom stalls used to give privacy before IV drugs were a thing, and after indoor plumbing.
I suspect the posted "cheapness" posted elsewhere, or so managers can check who is "slacking off". (Also so pervs can spy.)
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Fucking put it back weirdo
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Occasionally I hear people argue it's so you can catch IV drug users without bursting in. Personally I think it's that capitalism cares not for your happiness and it's fractionally cheaper to have shitty doors, and so that's what people do
No its not a profit saving thing. It makes no difference cost wise to save a few cms of wood. Its intentionally designed that way. Go to any other capitalist country than America and you won't see gaps.
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No its not a profit saving thing. It makes no difference cost wise to save a few cms of wood. Its intentionally designed that way. Go to any other capitalist country than America and you won't see gaps.
I don't know about you but the vast majority of bathroom stalls I see do not use wood. They are almost all metal, and keeping metal from rubbing on metal in a high humidity environment seems like a cost saving measure to me
