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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by simianparrot »

Brian_K_White wrote: post #87
op00to wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People make noise when they piss and shit. It’s not scandalous.

Some people make noise when they eat with their mouth open. It's not scandalous, it's just ignorant and gross. It's always an utter clod that is so unaware of themselves just smucking and squelching away on their open mouth full of gloopy donut muck. It's not a virtue to be so unselfcounscious. It's not about being ashamed or inhibited or in pathological denial of biological realities. It's about being fucking minima…

Tell that to my asshole. I’ve tried training it to be silent on the shitter for near 40 years but it fails more often than not.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by shellfishgene »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #195
pnw wrote: post #167

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Denmark loves their 'wet' bathrooms in hotels, no shower door and a drain in the center of the room. I spent a lot of time in CPH and would stay at the Marriott because it was one of the few with American style bathrooms.

> Denmark loves their 'wet' bathrooms in hotels, no shower door and a drain in the center of the room. If you're renting an apartment in Shanghai, a cheap one will have a door to the bathroom, but the shower won't be a separate fixture. The entire bathroom functions as the shower (the hose or fixed piping is mounted on a wall), and there's a drain in the floor. A more recent apartment will have a shower installation…

This is standard in all of southeast Asia and often the middle east.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by trymas »

danilocesar wrote: post #328
meisel wrote: post #98

While we’re at it, bring back shower doors/curtains. It’s such a pain having this huge puddle outside the shower just because they decided it shouldn’t have one. It’s not so common to be missing one in US hotels, but it’s common internationally. Edit: apparently the virus has spread, and some US hotels now don’t have them

I was talking about this with my wife the other day: Newer hotel showers are "Hostile Architecture" disguised as modern design. They add those little annoying details with the intention of lowering their water bill. They want showering to be slightly discomfort, so you shower faster without noticing. It's a feature, not a bug.

Also they probably save on cleaning costs.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by trymas »

jonstewart wrote: post #206
array_key_first wrote: post #170

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Europeans are good at building a lot of things, but I will never understand the "cosplay a small flood" style bathrooms. It's just... inefficient? Why wouldn't we want to catch the water closest to where it comes out?

See also: washing machines. If you have three pairs of underwear and all day, Europe’s washing machines have you covered. Otherwise, you’re SOL.

What do you mean?

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by atakan_gurkan »

danilocesar wrote: post #328
meisel wrote: post #98

While we’re at it, bring back shower doors/curtains. It’s such a pain having this huge puddle outside the shower just because they decided it shouldn’t have one. It’s not so common to be missing one in US hotels, but it’s common internationally. Edit: apparently the virus has spread, and some US hotels now don’t have them

I was talking about this with my wife the other day: Newer hotel showers are "Hostile Architecture" disguised as modern design. They add those little annoying details with the intention of lowering their water bill. They want showering to be slightly discomfort, so you shower faster without noticing. It's a feature, not a bug.

I first thought this is nonsense, but then it made a lot sense. It might be an exception to the rule "never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity."

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by flowerthoughts »

eru wrote: post #435
d3Xt3r wrote: post #430

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> Viruses don't last long outside the body. SARS-CoV-2 would like to have a word with you (it can last as long as 28 days on smooth surfaces).

You can't get covid from contact infection. Or at least it's really, really hard. We could dig up studies for that, but you can also look at how food delivery which exploded in popularity all over the world during the lockdowns apparently did not transmit Covid.

You're moving the goal posts. Your assertion was that viruses don't last long outside the body. GP shot down that argument. You have not refuted their argument.

Even without being that strict about the discussion, I think GP was making the point that viruses can survive for many days, so stating that "you'd only be exposed to viruses from people you already share a room (or even bed) with." is an argument that requires some elaboration.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by Tor3 »

danilocesar wrote: post #328
meisel wrote: post #98

While we’re at it, bring back shower doors/curtains. It’s such a pain having this huge puddle outside the shower just because they decided it shouldn’t have one. It’s not so common to be missing one in US hotels, but it’s common internationally. Edit: apparently the virus has spread, and some US hotels now don’t have them

I was talking about this with my wife the other day: Newer hotel showers are "Hostile Architecture" disguised as modern design. They add those little annoying details with the intention of lowering their water bill. They want showering to be slightly discomfort, so you shower faster without noticing. It's a feature, not a bug.

Some years ago I stayed in a hotel outside London, and they apparently had a policy of saving as much as possible on soap bars.. so they used some horrible high-pH soap, very cheap looking. But it was nearly impossible to rinse it off.. took me fifteen minutes of hot water usage after I was, or should have been done with the shower. Whatever they saved in soap they lost many times over in water and even more in energy use.

And in a tourist place on an island farther south the room had an information binder which also asked that you shouldn't waste water as there weren't many natural resources for water there. However, the hot water came from the far end of the narrow, rectangular-shaped long hotel, and the pipes were outside and weren't insulated, they were completely bare. Whenever you turned off the hot water for a few minutes it would take some five minutes to get it back, water running, as the pipes got cold right away (there are many other usages for hot water than just using the shower - the rooms had kitchens). So of course all the guests used many times more water than they would have needed, not to mention the wasted heat. Totally baffling.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ThomasMidgley »

kgeist wrote: post #229
eru wrote: post #179

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How are doors important for hygiene?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_plume A door provides at least some kind of physical barrier.

Only if everybody is closing the door. If I use a hotel room alone, I never close the bathroom door.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by bcoates »

tohnjitor wrote: post #148
cammikebrown wrote: post #38

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A lot of them are becoming barn style sliding doors, with large gaps. So if you’re making some noise, everyone will hear you.

The worst aspect of the TWA Hotel at JFK Airport was the sliding bathroom door. Almost everything else about the place was really great but the bathroom door wae 1/2" from the face of the wall and bounced off the end of the slider track.

I think it's an unavoidable consequence of the space constraints they're working with.

On the plus side, when I dayroomed there it was dead silent and the room had blackout curtains.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by tsimionescu »

PessimalDecimal wrote: post #311
decimalenough wrote: post #291

I once stayed at a very boutiquey, avant-garde hotel with a platonic friend. We had booked a twin room with separate beds, but what I did not expect was that the shower cubicle, with clear glass on all three sides, would be placed between the beds.

Not the Platonic ideal of a hotel room

No, but I bet the shower was a decent approximation of a Platonic solid.
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