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What you’re seeing here is numbered doors of toilet stalls.

This picture is from the inside of a restroom area, so any gender icons would be the outside of any door in here anyway.

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ytf do they number their stalls? is it like: “help, my zipper’s stuck! I’m in stall oo. Whatever you do, don’t go into stall o!”

“where did you say you were?”

(sighs) “stall oo, toilet |||, co-sharing toilet roll ~~~. Hurry!”

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“Hey Randy, grab the bucket, someone’s had explosive diarrhea all over stall three again.”

Putting in a support ticket. “Flushing problem in stall two of the toilets on the second floor.”

So Randy doesn’t need to go through all the flushes to find the broken one.

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I read “stall oo” in my head pronounced like in “food” which is hilariously useless information for those needs

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1 point

Stalloo! Stalloo! A-hunting we shall go!

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3 points

Some people take a long time - why would a restaurant leave that market untapped? Everyone gets snacky sometimes

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8 points

Legitimate question… Why?

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Easy identification by cleanup or maintenance crew, I’d gather

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5 points

I fuckin knew it! I immediately assumed it was a stupid numbing scheme, I’ve been in way too many restaurants/bars/pubs…

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This is confusing as I’ve never seen a toilet stall that is just a regular room, rather than a cubicle divider thing

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10 points

The airport near Stockholm. Private little rooms. Everyone has a loo and a sink and room to change. It’s so humane.

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I mean if the sink was in the same room as the toilet, I would understand, separate rooms is very strange though

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I use the handicapped stall at work for that privacy. Need to do a little song and dance to get my clothes and tool belt arranged, and I get my own sink.

For any haters, as the handicapped say, it’s accessible, not reserved. (And not many handicapped folks in a hardware store.)

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Most hotels, restaurants, and cafés in Europe have singular private stalls like this.

Gas stations, clubs, airports and schools might have a big restroom with dividers, but if they are fancy enough they might still have private rooms.

Public toilets and campsites rarely have private rooms.

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That’s how most public toilets are. Who the fuck wants to be in cubicle to do their private business?

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1 point

Don’t kink shame.

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101 points

2 circles is if you need to #2, 3 of you need to take a #3.

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1+2=3

There’s no place for a number 1. If you’re not going to shit, then you’re not allowed to pee either.

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13 points

No no no, you just piss in the sink instead

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12 points

Better to piss in the sink, than to sink in the piss

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I gotta go, I gotta take a number three.
That’s a piss and a shit and a wank in a tree

https://youtu.be/sLLQFLXz6VE

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That’s the only reason I suggested a #3. Thanks for spreading the good word.

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4 points

classic

a man of culture

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4 points

The place for number 1 is to the right.

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Is it possible to #2 and not #1? I don’t think my plumbing works that way.

Actually now that I think about it, back in highschool one of my friends took a shit in someone’s vegetable crisper and I don’t recall him pissing all over the place when he did. So it must be possible.

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It’s technically possible for everyone, barring some specific quirk or injury, but men generally find it easier to only shit. I looked it up a while ago and the research was American, so I do wonder if it’s because American men tend to pee standing up and they therefore have a bigger mental barrier between #1 and #2.

I’d like to see the study repeated with men who sit to pee or women who stand (it’s possible and not inherently more difficult than for men, but clothing and culture make it a lot less common than the other way around), because I suspect that the mental barrier is the key here.

I suspect there’s a difference because of other culture-related urination urges. I grew up doing a lot of swimming in lakes, and I was never really discouraged from peeing in the lake, as long as I wasn’t right next to someone (probably pretty gross for some people, but I honestly can’t bring myself to find it very gross). That’s my main experience with rapid, immersive temperature changes, and I still feel an almost overwhelming urge to pee when getting into or out of the shower or any body of water. I can pee immediately before getting into the shower, but that doesn’t make a difference. Infants have the temperature response too, which is why you need to be careful changing a diaper in the cold, lest you get peed on. It can be trained out of you though: a friend of mine grew up swimming competitively and had a lot of experience jumping into and out of pools, where she was discouraged from peeing (thankfully). She no longer feels any temperature related urge to pee that she notices.

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Honestly, this is a much more thoughtful and thorough response than I was expecting.

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You don’t do a #3, a #3 is when your kid does a massive high pressure shit, it squirts up out the back of the nappy and into their clothes. Just hope it doesn’t happen indoors, or in the car or really anywhere.

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Had that happen in a restaurant. I was at the opposite end of the packed restaurant from the restrooms. I got a lot knowing nods from a lot of folks as I walked through holding the very smelly child at arms length due to the amount of soilage at play

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Ooof. Been there. But I was going off of the video by the “Northern Boys” that EisFrei posted.

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#3 is puke.

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I was going off of the video by the “Northern Boys” EisFrei posted.

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no worries. i was going off the original: janitors in the los angeles unified school district in like the 1960s, radio reporting bathroom incidents without making kids giggle. #4 was blood.

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He doesn’t know how to use the three rings.

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I had to scroll down this far?.. What is this nation coming to?

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Mellow greetings

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66 points

My instinct would be to use the one that seems to have a functioning door handle.

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