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 think it’s because bathrooms are cost, and so they got enshitified early to discourage costumers from using them.
But where are the costumers supposed to change costume if not in a stall?
That’s a great point.
maybe you can’t make the doors fit the stalls properly because you don’t use the metric system.
No man, you don’t get it, I was told that a foot is much better, because that’s 12 inches and then 12 can be easily divided by 2,3,4,6
As if you couldn’t just work with wood sizes of 12 or 24cms…
i would accept that if the rest followed.
it’s 12 inches in a foot, 3 feet in a yard, 1760 yards in a mile.
meanwhile everywhere else in the world we just add and remove zeroes as needed. (or move the decimal point)
To be fair, using the decimal system for everything was the No1 mistake of the french revolution. A duodecimal system would have been so much nicer.
A duodecimal system would have been so much nicer.
Everyone loves a library!
I think that’s the Dewey decimal system, which inspired the Chewy decimal system, which is the next innovation in grocery store layouts.
It’s so hard to even conceptualize if it would be better. A few common divisions would be, but is it easier than a decimal system? Would switching to one ever not feel weird if you previously learnt the decimal system?
As with all systematic changes like that, the point is more about the impact on the future generations.
Thought to be honest, hexadecimal doesn’t feel weird to me as someone who frequently analyzes hexdumps. I’d wager it’s totally something you can learn.
yeah we apparently found our digits easier than knuckles when counting. it probably helped that it’s easier to communicate numbers with full digits than pointing parts of them.
maybe you can’t make the doors fit the stalls properly because you don’t use the metric system.
It would be delightful if this phrase started appearing on affected bathroom walls.
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.
It’s because of the puritanical shame- without those gaps, people might (gasp) have sex in bathroom stalls instead of doing their business as god intended.
I mean, walking by and seeing
How could you not?
ripping basic privacy trumps puritanical values.
It also feels somewhat ironic that US hosts/makes the largest amount of porn
Am I too non-USA to understand this?
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.
This is a typical public restroom
Ah… so yes. And wow.
How much door fitting tolerance do you want?
All of it
The stalls at my work have zero gaps whatsoever and the door/walls (which are made of wood) go almost to the floor. There’s fairly high quality locking handles that indicate whether or not it’s occupied. It’s amazing and I don’t know of any other public restroom in my area like it.
Really? That’s what I’d expect even in a run-down public toilet in a train station over here in Austria.
-over here in insert anywhere but the US.
So trans women can be discovered, I suppose.
(Edit: immediately after posting this, it’s prolly way too dark but I’m leaving it there. Also it me, a trans woman terrified of using the stall for this exact reason.)
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.
It explains why there is the debate about which toilet to use for trans people. They can see the other sex naked. It would not be an issue if the doors didn’t have gaps.
As an American, experiencing European toilet stalls was one of the first tangible experiences where I was like “woah we are definitely doing it wrong”. Thanks, uh…Europe.
Going to Tokyo and every toilet being a sing-along butt rinser made me realized western toilets are barbaric.
Except for the ones where you have to pay, I can do without that.
If it means I’m getting a clean toilet, I’d rather pay a Euro for that
I remember some pretty nasty pay toilets in Germany, but it of course varies.
Hold up… you mean to tell me that there were stalls available for pooping even though as an American I’ve been taught my whole life that those gaps exist so people don’t do sex in them???
I assume it’s because it’s cheap infrastructure.
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.
Even worse are the urinals without dividers.
Ever used a trough?
It’s almost like that
Ugh, the county fair piss trough
They should replace dividers with mirrors so we can look at other men’s dicks while pissing
spotlights
Or magnifying glass then nobody would mind the possibility.
I feel like you don’t need that much intimacy when pissing but maybe that’s just me.
I feel like you don’t need that much intimacy when pissing but maybe that’s just me.
Who can say?
Me and Slim and Frank were just discussing that over a group trough piss, at the stadium, yesterday.
We agreed that it is pretty intimate.
Carl seemed uncomfortable that we were talking so loudly about it, but those hand dryers are pretty loud, so we had to speak up to be heard.
Admission and further gross exaggeration
(And no, this didn’t happen, of course.
Because, at the stadium, most folks stand just inside the bathroom entrance and just piss generally inward from the edge of the floor stickiness zone.
Most people find it difficult to even hit the side of the troughs from outside the sticky floor zone.)
So you don’t suffocate in there.
they explains why everyone in Europe is dead by suffocating in public toilets.
I am, of course, not joking in any way.
I am, of course, an environmental storytelling toilet skeleton in a European bathroom.
Spoopy, literally?
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.
My middle school didn’t even have doors on the stalls. That was f’d up.
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
“Wanna help me wipe bud? This one is particularly sticky, I need to eat some more beans”
A combination of saving money and keeping people out of the bathroom.
Man, reminds me of the old WWII barracks, open shitters.
