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[-] Technoworcester@lemm.ee 117 points 3 months ago

You know outside of the US most countries bathrooms stalls actually work / fit / don't have peekaboo gaps?

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 73 points 3 months ago

Yes, and we're incredibly envious of it every time it comes up :(

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Al I thought this was a reference to the Greenland MP (I think?) I heard on NPR this morning. He was asked if he thinks the US Government is fascist and he said "if you see a piece of wood with hinges on it, you start to ask if its a door" or something like that

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 7 points 3 months ago

Every time what comes up? Your peekaboo?

[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

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[-] Halosheep@lemm.ee 5 points 3 months ago
[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

In a lot of public stalls in Japan, the outer end of the door is rounded. And the wall it connects to when closed is concaved. So even though there’s a gap to allow the door to open and close freely, there no direct line of sight.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago

That sounds like it would cost 5¢ more to manufacture and install. Won’t someone think of the shareholders?

[-] prole 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's crazy how so many things like this just add up to a shitty life experience in general... Like every single product we use regularly has had its features and design strengths pared down year after year until we're left with a thing that barely does the things it originally did, and it somehow costs more than ever.

If it's just one or two things, it's annoying. But when it's literally everything, it just makes life shit. Capitalism has ruined this planet.

[-] Technoworcester@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

That sounds awesome. Love cool designs like that.

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[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Peekaboo gaps exist outside the states don't gaslight our readers. Urinals in Heathrow are just a fucking trough you're supposed to piss in like you're at a Red Sox game.

Public restrooms in Britain at least aren't any more enlightened than those in the States

[-] Technoworcester@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago

Apologies if you feel I was gaslighting.

I've never experienced Heathrow so can't comment.

I would argue from 'my' experience UK bathroom's seem more enlightened but your own experience may vary.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Haha you're fine I was being playful

Other than the urinals (and that's a common thing, just a big trough with no dividers instead of multiple urinals) it's not that different.

[-] Technoworcester@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago
[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Please tell me they dump huge buckets of ice into the troughs at Heathrow.

[-] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2 points 3 months ago

At least the door overlaps the gap.

What’s up with a trough?

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[-] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 99 points 3 months ago

America? America.

The rest of the world somehow manages to make doors the size of the frame that go pretty much to the floor.

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 3 months ago

In America, the reason is basically “religion”. There are architectural standards which designers refer to for guidance, and the dude who did the architectural standard for restrooms was super hardcore religious. His standard called for big gaps in all the seams, to prevent people from masturbating in the stalls. Basically, he wanted people to be able to peek into stalls, as a sort of modesty check. And eventually, it just became accepted as normal, even though everyone (including Americans who were born and raised with them as the standard) hates the huge gaps.

In modern day, they’re mostly done to deter drug use. I guess the reasoning is similar, with the large gaps intended to allow people to peek into the stalls and see if someone is doing drugs.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

If the goal is to allow observation, what's the point in having doors and cubicles at all?

[-] vfsh 7 points 3 months ago

For what it's worth regardless of how it started, it's now enforced by ADA as an accessibility compliance issue, so that a wheelchair users feet can get under the stall door so they can get close enough to reach the latch. Seems like a stretch to me but I'm not a wheelchair user

[-] silasmariner@programming.dev 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm not sure what kinda gymnastics the wheelchair user's got to be doing to get on the shitter once they've rolled themselves into a stall backwards... Or why it's only after a shit that they can't use doors

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[-] arrow74@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Sure that explains the bottom gap, but the side gaps are the issue. I've never made eye contact with a grown man that's crawled under my stall. I have made eye contact with someone walking by the stall door through the door crack.

[-] prole 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’ve never made eye contact with a grown man that’s crawled under my stall.

Oh god, for some reason I just pictured this but in the style of the artwork of Junji Ito. Nightmare fuel.

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[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

source?

I think it's because it's a modular system that is cost effective, durable and repairable.

[-] CiderApplenTea@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

You can do the same with dimensions that fit together without gaps

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[-] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 19 points 3 months ago

Just the USA, not all of America

[-] prole 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think it's meant to stop people from shooting up and/or fucking and/or falling asleep and/or dying in stalls.

It is fucking annoying though.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago

Just put anti-homeless spikes on the toilet seats

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[-] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, here in Germany we usually have kinda big (30cm or so) openings at the bottom and at the top, but it's impossible to accidentally look through those due to their position.

The side openings of the doors are usually completely closed or it's a very small slit, you definetly cannot look through them.

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago

This is absolutely by design, and it is so users can be provided the absolute minimum of Privacy-ish^tm^, but also explicitly so that management can easily verify if a stall is occupied in case any poors/junkies are camping out in there.

It's also so that public bathroom facilities can be spray-down, and you can wedge a brush in the gaps easily without there being crevices for mold/mildew and other... substances... to remain in.

[-] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

... except the recently renovated bathrooms at the Denver Public Library have individual locking shit-shacks with communal sinks. It's not like junkies avoid the DPL, they have a box of Narcan bolted to the outside of the building.

[-] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yes that makes sense

You seem to be misattributing the causes of homelessness with public restroom design, though, which are two different things. It's an arms race if anything.

Idk maybe you live somewhere where there are a lot more problems with public toilets than I do

Edit: who's mad in this thread lol

[-] dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I'm not attributing anything to anything, I am just stating an established fact as to why public bathroom stalls are designed that way. If you want to stick motives on people, find their original designers.

[-] match@pawb.social 4 points 3 months ago

and besides, the purpose of a system is what it does

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago

Does anyone else remember that very brief window where places like highway oases were putting in stalls where the door and walls only went up about halfway to the ceiling, making it so that if you were taking a dump, everyone could just watch you from the chest up?

[-] saltnotsugar@lemm.ee 8 points 3 months ago

Did people just slowly turn to the other people to make eye contact while blastin a dook?

[-] Nougat@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

It was a long time ago, my memory is hazy, but I walked in and walked right back out.

[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Verses Mode, Free-For-All pooping.

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[-] Brotha_Jaufrey@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

It’s for surprise genital examinations to ensure you’re not trans /s

[-] Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago
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