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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by MPSimmons »

rsynnott wrote: post #547
madaxe_again wrote: post #489

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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…

> but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap. I dunno, I've no problem with communal showers, or nudity in general, but partition-less toilets feels like a bridge too far.

Growing up in West Virginia, I was in a moderately sized city (40k people) but when traveling to smaller high schools for football games, you'd often find a shared latrine as the bathroom, and everyone who needed to pee would just crowd around a long sink thing and just let 'er rip. No idea what it was like in the ladies'

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by Andrex »

MPSimmons wrote: post #681
rsynnott wrote: post #547

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> but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap. I dunno, I've no problem with communal showers, or nudity in general, but partition-less toilets feels like a bridge too far.

Growing up in West Virginia, I was in a moderately sized city (40k people) but when traveling to smaller high schools for football games, you'd often find a shared latrine as the bathroom, and everyone who needed to pee would just crowd around a long sink thing and just let 'er rip. No idea what it was like in the ladies'

Open troughs are fine, toilets facing each other with no partitions is a bit far. I grew up rural but not that rural.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by drowsspa »

tommit wrote: post #583
drowsspa wrote: post #575

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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

tbh if I start worrying about poop particles in my day to day, I fear I'm one step closer to becoming a germaphobe. plus I feel if that's something that truly worries you, you'd start taking showers after each poop because clearly you will bring some poop particles with you when you leave anyway. maybe this thread will end up being some kind of revelation, but I very much agree with the person you replied to. If I'm…

Sure, you can't get rid of everything. But you can mitigate a few things, and closing the door is such an easy fix... There's worrying too much, and there's not worrying enough

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by drowsspa »

vacuity wrote: post #618
drowsspa wrote: post #575

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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

How much does the door help? I think generally people don't follow hygiene to the point that particles anywhere in the bathroom won't get tracked out of the bathroom. Don't get me started on people who touch their phones while eating...

A bit, and it's not like it's too much of a hassle

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by everdev »

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.

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Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by venturecruelty »

shmeeed wrote: post #565
buu700 wrote: post #101

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Hotel bathrooms should just play rainforest sounds[1] whenever the fan is turned on. 1: https://youtu.be/ef_3Wj4T_ts

You're joking, but my wife got us a box emitting bird sounds when the motion sensor is triggered. Suffice to say that it does absolutely nothing to mask the sounds that are produced on a toilet, it's just another ridiculous layer on top of it.

Sounds pretty relaxing for the user, though!

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by shmeeed »

venturecruelty wrote: post #688
shmeeed wrote: post #565

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You're joking, but my wife got us a box emitting bird sounds when the motion sensor is triggered. Suffice to say that it does absolutely nothing to mask the sounds that are produced on a toilet, it's just another ridiculous layer on top of it.

Sounds pretty relaxing for the user, though!

Right, one might suppose so. Alas, the chirps echoing within a tiled 3x3' cell grind my ears. Besides it feels a bit out of place within these plain white confinements. I just can't conjure up the mental image of being out in the woods.

But you have to pick your battles with your partner. I'm turning the volume down, and when the battery's empty I don't exactly hasten to change it.

Re: Bring bathroom doors back to hotels

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Post by iggldiggl »

ryandrake wrote: post #230
array_key_first wrote: post #162

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It's extremely exhausting, welcome to modern America. Where you can't trust shit from anyone. Everyone is lying, everything is a scam, everything is stupid just cuz, and it feels more and more like the world around you is being specifically designed to piss you off as much as possible. I just want to give businesses my money in exchange for goods and services. Is that asking too much?

"Buyer beware! You are responsible for checking for X!" is a lame excuse, and just enables the worst possible behavior from vendors and service providers. I shouldn't have to check 500 things every time I choose to do business with someone! This is madness. Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have…

> Imagine some future hotel service trend where, right after the customer checks in, the checkin agent punches the customer in the face, by policy. I shouldn't have to check beforehand whether this is a "face punch" hotel or a "non face punch" hotel.

Reminds me of that Burkiss Way sketch where somebody wants to book tickets to a West End show, but they all involve the spectators being poked in the eye with a pencil:

https://www.buttercookie.de/The%20Burkiss%20Way/Transcripts/...

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