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
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.
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.
A duodecimal system would have been so much nicer.
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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.
Am I too non-USA to understand this?
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.
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.
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
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?
It’s an invasion of people’s privacy when they feel most vulnerable. It’s no mystery why folk find it upsetting.
Why not just not have gaps and have overlaps instead? Works in civilised countries. It’s not like the technology doesn’t exist.
It seems like folks are either fine with shitting in the streets or can’t handle being seen.
A combination of saving money and keeping people out of the bathroom.
Man, reminds me of the old WWII barracks, open shitters.
Fucking put it back weirdo
