How come you can see into the cubicle easily in US public restrooms? It’s very disconcerting. I mean they tend to be kept better than their Irish equivalents but I like a bit of privacy.
And in Scotland there are whisky-flavoured McCondoms.
Am I the only one who doesn’t want to be shoulder to shoulder to two guys pissing with their eyes closed?
No idea, but I agree wholeheartedly. The first time I stepped into a bathroom in Ireland I almost squealed with glee. See also: locks that indicate when they’re locked, so you don’t have to play guessing games about whether or not a stall is occupied.
Personally, I was amused by the fact that it was the men, in the men’s bathroom, with their penises exposed, who were being instructed to close their eyes.
This. But hey, what do I know? :dubious:
Just to assure you a bit: we’ve been conditioned not to look. It’s not that easy unless you are specifically trying.
I don’t know why they build the way they do unless it’s cheaper. In school, I used to think it was for supervisory purposes (as you could be doing something you’re not supposed to by hiding), but that doesn’t hold for anywhere else.
Hmmm, I dunno, seemed like quite a salient gap to me.
I was in a store recently, I think it was a Sams Club, that had three bathrooms. They were labeled Men, Women and Family.
The family that shits together, fits together.
Better ventilation?
I think the less than completely closed in stalls are to discourage people from gay sex, homeless people from squatting, etc in the stalls in places where that is a problem.
When I cleaned the bathrooms at a fast food restaurant off the interstate, the Mens room generally had more piss on the floor but not normally trash of any kind, while the womens room always seems to have trash on the floor -bits of toilet paper, tampon and gum wrappers, etc. We did have garbage cans in each stall for tampons/pads, and air hand dryers instead of paper towels.
No, not that men were being instructed not to look at each other–that they were instructed to close their eyes because women were coming in to use the stalls in the men’s bathroom.
“Family” bathrooms are generally designed for parents of any gender with babies or young children who need to be accompanied. They’re usually roomier, to accommodate one or more people standing around, and include a changing table.
Not most, but from what I’m gleaning from these Google search results, it’s certainly a lot.
Here’s a poll with a lot of women responding “hover”.
THERE’S YOUR CITE. BOOYAH!
1.) Informal polls like that are notoriously unreliable. There are also a number of people who (I hope) are answering facetiously, e.g. “I hover over public toilet seats. I’ve heard the horror stories about catching things like herpes and crabs and pregnancy!” (Poe’s Law and all that.)
2.) Your SaniSeat quote is from a company that markets seat covers. Not exactly an impartial source, and their stat is completely unsourced. (Just “experts say.”)
3.) In the anecdata department, I know a lot of women, and to the best of my knowledge none of them hover. When seeing feet in a stall next to me, or looking under doors to see which stalls are occupied, I’ve also never spotted anyone whose feet suggest they’re squatting instead of sitting.
4.) Regardless, this is hilarious.
For some reasons the toilet stalls in the boys’ lockerroom (& only the ones in the lockerroom) lacked doors :eek:. Every other set of toilet stalls had doors, including the ones in the girls’ lockerroom (or at least that’s what the girls said, I never saw for myself). It wasn’t that the doors were removed, by looking at the dividers you could tell they never had doors attached in the first place. I’ve been in other mens’ restrooms that lacked toilet stall doors. Usually at places like public parks, beachs, and the odd rest stop.
Lesbian politicans with a wide stance might be throwing off your observations 