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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by technothrasher »

madaxe_again wrote: post #489
trhway wrote: post #327

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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…

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On a trip I took with my father-in-law, the first morning he waltzed right into the little hotel room bathroom while I was showering (in a glass shower) and proceeded to sit on the throne and take a crap. I was confused at his lack of basic respect for privacy, and then remembered he'd been a US Navy guy for many years. Military folks just get used to no privacy in such matters.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by seszett »

dangus wrote: post #508
system2 wrote: post #222

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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.

I don't have a rigorous study to back my feelings, but I am pretty sure most people actually prefer to avoid their partner's farts and toilet smells.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by bregma »

Symbiote wrote: post #207
potato3732842 wrote: post #120

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Well that explains why I've never seen this trend. I stick to rooms with two digits in front of the decimal.

In London that will get you a different set of problems. Like gaps in the window frame, and a damp smell in the bathroom without ventilation.

Ah, just like home.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by ralnivar »

noduerme wrote: post #570
KineticLensman wrote: post #555

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In London's Shard, the gent's toilets of the observation deck (on approx the 70th floor) have glass walls behind the urinals so if you look straight ahead while using them it is as if you are peeing on the city of London from a great height.

Pretty sure I went to a bar in NYC that still had a urinal trough running directly below the bar as you were standing there... so one wouldn't need to leave the bar to take a leak. This was 30 years ago. McSorleys maybe?

It could be a spittoon, which is designed for chewing tobacco. https://www.kegworks.com/blog/a-lesson-in-tavern-history-the...

But it seems like they also where used as urinals

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by drowsspa »

eru wrote: post #501
drowsspa wrote: post #493

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You don't close the door when doing number two in your own home either?

If you are alone at home, why would you?

If you don't feel disgusted by the idea of your poop particles being ejected and spreading around, I don't think anyone can instill it in you

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Post by nasmorn »

Rastonbury wrote: post #537
hotep99 wrote: post #453

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That bathroom layout has become extremely common in normal hotels in parts of Asia and the Middle East.

Where is Asia? I travel there often for work and have never come across such a layout

It is the large landmass covering about half of the northern hemisphere.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by alexfoo »

KineticLensman wrote: post #555
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.

In London's Shard, the gent's toilets of the observation deck (on approx the 70th floor) have glass walls behind the urinals so if you look straight ahead while using them it is as if you are peeing on the city of London from a great height.

The old Warner stand at Lord's cricket ground used to be where the press watched from (before the new Media Centre was built). The urinals in old stand used to have windows above them looking out over the pitch so that the journalists wouldn't miss anything whilst they urinated.

Image: https://d3rcx32iafnn0o.cloudfront.net/Pictures/980x653fitpad...

The three square windows under the second tier, just below where the sportingbet.com and Jaguar advertising boards meet.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by kitku »

grugagag wrote: post #93
stavros wrote: post #39

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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 (…

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