Suspicious magnifying glass placement
Suspicious that you noticed it
People are simply primed to look for the trouser cat in these sorta pictures.
Is there any reasons you guys there over the atlantic prefer those creepy gaps under the stall doors / walls?
We all hate them. Please help.
Indeed.
Sometimes my back gets wet sliding under them.Use the toilet paper. What did you think they put them in all stalls for, decoration?
what
We don’t prefer them. The people that own the buildings do because they are cheaper.
because they are cheaper
Not to give some rich idiot an idea, but so are no locks, no doors, no walls.
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I think maybe it also makes it easier for the cleaners/security to see if there’s someone hiding in the stall at closing time.
They do it because of moral panic about same sex, sex and drug use
One of our airports had a large mixed-gender bathroom with fully-private stalls and it was the best public bathroom I’ve ever used, I assume to appeal to the international crowd.
Amazingly, McDonald’s has pretty consistently provided the best public restroom experience for me. They’re almost always clean and usually provide either a private room or at least a fully protected stall. Wal-Mart would be second best (in terms of consistent acceptability across locations). Though Wal-Mart toilet paper often has little embedded specks that make me uncomfortable (observed before use, not after).
Couple months ago I found myself needing to stop at a McDonald’s in probably one of the worst neighborhoods you can find outside of the inner city. Nature was calling and it seemed like my best option.
It was for paying customers only, fair enough, I made a token purchase of a McChicken and some fries, and got an employee to unlock the door for me.
I was greeted with that eerie blue light that bathrooms in places like this use to deter drug use because it makes it harder to find a vein.
It gave off an all-around really unsettling vibe, but I will admit that, at least as far as I could tell given the lighting, it seemed to be immaculately clean.
As unsettling as that can be, I certainly prefer it to what I’ve seen at some rest stops - mostly in Pennsylvania, but I’m not well traveled - where, to discourage drug use, they have half (at best) stall doors which (by design) provide no privacy at all.
No one prefers them
Users of bathrooms don’t prefer them. Bathroom owners do. Privacy would allow people to feel comfortable, which is the last thing the bathroom owners want.
I’ve seen one interpretation of our fire code result in each enclosed stall requiring their own flashing light and siren. So the expense to build really does add up. Every contractor knows how to do it the cheap way, anything else they charge a much higher rate to make it worth the trouble. Maybe some shit related to sex or drug use in bathrooms as well, I’d imagine the more secure it feels the more likely someone might see that as a safe thing to try, not saying that’s a real thing but shit gets talked about on the news enough for it to be something the decision maker has in their head to be influenced one way.
I didn’t realize how much of a difference it made till I got my new job where the restrooms don’t have any gaps. Never felt more secure in a public restroom.
The gaps on the bottom and the top serve the important purpose of ventilation. It’s a really effective design allowing vertical airflow. So yes, I do prefer air gaps over stinky boxes, and I have personally never seen a creep sticking their head under the gap.
No, none of us do. Well, probably a small amount of us do, but they would be the exception that proves the rule.
Puratins hate anyone having privacy with their own body
Those puritans should have some bodily privacy known as fucking themselves.
Where I’m from doesn’t have the gaps, but they could be useful if the door jams.
Very smooth legs.
The wide stance tho’ 🫣
You gotta lean back, too. Really assert dominance
Who does number two work for?!
Four jobs ago, I worked at a location that had generally inadequate bathroom stalls. One of them entirely lacked the lock on the stall throughout my entire tenure there, meaning that sometimes taking this (metaphorical) position wasn’t optional. Everyone avoided that stall when possible, but there weren’t always other choices.
Fortunately it was a smaller stall, unlike the one pictured, so taller people could brace the door manually, but not everyone had the endurance or reach for that. In fact I once, in a moment of desperation, was convinced no one was in there and burst into it to the mutual surprise of the unexpected occupant and myself. (Totally my fault.)
Leaning into the stall to close the door for their subsequent privacy was one of the more awkward experiences of my life.
You should have stood there, staring them in the eyes. Waiting.
In this case, I was the intruder. Had I been the one who was interrupted, I might have considered that strategy.
As the intruder, that’s what you should have done. Waited your turn
After my last few posts I’m in a sentimental mood. I’m gonna tell a barely related story.
Apparently, when my mother was a kid some seventy to eighty years ago, her sisters had a stalker. As a result, their parents switched the rooms of their daughters. (Probably not the approach I would take, but since I didn’t exist at this point I wasn’t consulted.) My mom got a new room but was understandably worried about the stalker. She talked to her adopted sister - whom she liked much better than her biological ones - about her fears, saying “what if I wake up and he’s at the window, staring at me? What would you do?”
The sister in question said “I’d stare right back at him!”
So, for the third time in my lemmy career, one time very recent: thanks for reminding me of my mom. Most recently I said thanks for doing so in an unconventional manner, but at this point I’m inclined to say thank you for reminding me she was unconventional.
My dude been skipping leg day every day.
Are those not women’s legs?
Sure looks like jeans and black Hanes boxer briefs. Balance of probability to me suggested dude, but obviously I have no inside knowledge.
I was going from the fact that they’re not hairy…
Also logical. Idk I’m not sure we have enough resolution to make an inference.
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And how rigorous are you about leg day?
Fearless… or extrovert?
Or faulty latch, and door opened while seated…
Seems like a good day to make bathroom friends
Nice apartment! I see you even hot parking space. And how’s the rent?
How big are the stalls in the US? That looks absolutely massive compared to any I’ve seen here.
Its probably just a single-person restroom.
There’s been a trend to put those walls around the toilet in those restrooms, despite that you’d be the only one in there.
Smooth legs.
Make sure you’re friendly and provide a warm greeting to anyone who enters after you
Just keep the volume up and we’re cool
Waiting for a John?
American public toilets, you might as well leave the door open, you have the privacy of a crop top
Johnny Sack?
