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Only if everybody is closing the door. If I use a hotel room alone, I never close the bathroom door.
You don't close the door when doing number two in your own home either?
If you are alone at home, why would you?
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The steady state of my toilet is closed. As my mother used to say: 'This ain't an open plan toilet.' (Of course, she said it in German, so she complained about 'Wohnklo' in analogy with a 'Wohnküche' which is the German word for an open-plan kitchen.)
So, would you state that you generally advocate for hinged surfaces in bathrooms, and being able to use them to adequately close/shield a larger space from a smaller space? ;)
Doors are great. I never doubted that. I'd want a proper door on my bathroom.
But I'm under no illusion that it would help with health or hygiene. Perhaps with mental health; the door is mostly there for social reasons.
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I've both opened windows and ran aircons. (Though I try to avoid doing both at the same time.) Nothing bad happened.
> Nothing bad happened. Keep at it, you're almost there. You just forgot about one important variable: time
If done both for a long time over many years.
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#504I've recently stayed at a new Holiday Inn Express near NYC. It had a proper bathroom, nothing to complain about. But there was no ventilation at all. There was this American-style air conditioner under the window and some small outlet in the bathroom, but I couldn't force the air conditioner to force-intake air. It's either super-noisy with compressor running or completely off. I absolutely don't understand how it is even possible that room has no ventilation.
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That bathroom layout has become extremely common in normal hotels in parts of Asia and the Middle East.
But what's the logic? I have never seen it but it doesn't sound good even aesthetically (which is usually the justification for all kinds of violations of common sense). So what are they thinking?
It also sounds like a plumbing nightmare to build.
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Was it made of glass? I've stayed in a hotel where the toilet door was made of glass, and had big gaps. I was staying with an acquaintance, so things were really awkward. It didn't help that the shower was right in front of this frosted glass, so the person's entire silhouette was very visible when showering. Another time, in Amsterdam, I stayed at an AirBnB where the toilet was on the balcony, and had a glass door (…
In Hyperion , the character Martin Silenus is rich enough that he lives in a novelty palace where all the rooms are connected by teleporters. As a joke, the bathroom is a wallless raft on an ocean world. Outside of the realm of science fiction, my sister followed a TV show for a while that was basically a set of advertisements for a modular home company. One episode featured the installation of a small home on a remo…
I wasn't expecting to read a Hyperion reference in this thread, such a great book.
(And if you haven't read the book you can guess what could possibly go wrong with this setup.)
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#507In my view, a hotel's primary function is to provide a comfortable bathroom and a comfortable night's sleep. Both should be simple. If is has failed in either, it has failed as a hotel altogether.
I now need extra wide space in the bathroom, so before booking I always check images on hotel-booking web sites, read reviews and look up video reviews of the hotel on YouTube.
There are surprisingly many video reviews of hotel rooms out there. Videos can also sometimes reveal whether a hotel bathroom has a particularly noisy fan, which is important to avoid for sleep.
The weirdest hotel bathroom I've encountered was in a top-floor suite. It had a door, but... multiple toilet seats and showers with no individual doors in-between them, nor to the multiple washbasins. There was no shortage of space for doors or partitions.
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Did you ever get married or did your relationships always end when they complained that you weren’t giving them your full self?
I had 4yr+ relationships. I am a shy pooper; I can't poop when someone watches me, while I fart or potentially destroy the toilet bowl. And also, there is the smell. Is "giving them full self" going full ape? Not judging, I am just curious, I don't talk about this with my other friends usually. Most guys don't share these weird details; it does not come up.
There was meant to be a layer of humor in my comments…
Maybe not everyone literally poops with the door open with their significant other but I’d personally have a hard time marrying someone who couldn’t exchange farts for a laugh.
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No it isn't. You can slurp noodles without being rude but they do not consider 'loud mouth noises' respectful.
https://ali.mk/posts/the-role-of-noises-in-chinese-dining-et... https://www.reddit.com/r/China/comments/6w5hux/slurping_nood... + personal questions to real Chinese people.
First link: That is a Swedish robotics blog and the sources linked are just landing pages for Chinese tours or language lessons.
Second link: Where do they say that 'making loud mouth noises is a sign of respect'? They say 'people slurp noodles' which is exactly what I said.
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The world makes full circle. A 4-toilet (2 facing the other 2 for lively conversation) bathroom per floor, no walls whatsoever between the toilets, "open layout" so to speak, in our dormitory in high school (regional school for advanced science studies) in USSR in 80-ies come to mind. Looks like we were living the boutiquey avant-garde way of the future :)
Sounds like the various RAF bases I did stints at as a cadet - the ablutions were just a great big room full of loos, showers, and bathtubs, all with dark brown water, and absolutely zero privacy of any variety. The exposed loos were a novelty for me, at school we at least had shoulder height partitions - but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap. I also spent a year or so living in a studio wher…
Kitchen-loo must be illegal these days - I think rentals need to have 2 doors between the two. Did it seem reasonable at the time?!