Spyke
lemmy.world

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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Sergioreply
slrpnk.net

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

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reddthat.com

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

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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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chickenreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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lemmy.ca

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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Auxreply
feddit.uk

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

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lemmy.world

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

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cRazi_manreply
lemm.ee

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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oxysisreply
lemm.ee

No no no, you just piss in the sink instead

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

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

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jballsreply
sh.itjust.works

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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lemmy.world

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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jballsreply
sh.itjust.works

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

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That’s entirely fair, I think my medication kicked in partway through that comment, lol.

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absGeekNZreply
lemmy.nz

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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BreadOvenreply
lemmy.world

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

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Num10ckreply
lemmy.world

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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Haha nice. I do know of #3 you referred to. I just like that song, and think their #3 is hilarious.

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sh.itjust.works

When you're Nonbinary every bathroom feels like this, not because you don't know which is which but because you don't know which choice is more wrong or will get you in more trouble.

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Dragonreply
lemmy.ml

Out of curiosity, what do you usually choose? I would imagine men tend to be less likely to care, but also maybe more dangerous if they do happen to care.

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I usually go in the women's room because people clock me more feminine than masc. Men's room is very risky because they might not care but they might also be violent. If the bathroom is busy I pee sitting down so no one sees my feet facing the wrong way, I don't really like it and it feels awkward to do which is why I pee standing up when it's not busy or no one else is in there. I have been caught a few times and the women gave me shit for it, though it was always yelling, chastising, or slurs, they never got violent with me. Most violent one got was grabbing my ear and escorting me out of the bathroom. I don't know if I could trust the men to do the same. I heard a story of a trans woman who was physically and sexually assaulted and murdered in a men's room. That story is very much burned into my mind.

I usually try to avoid public bathrooms in general but lately that's been harder.

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I usually end up holding it in so the one at my house ;(

(If it's bad I go to the bathroom which matches my agab though but it's not been necessary often)

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sh.itjust.works

I'd go w/ the female bathroom, because I think men are more likely to get pointlessly violent about stuff like this.

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Kitreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

Men don't give a shit about who is in their bathroom, in my experience. Women, on the other hand, often stopped and harassed me when I was presenting female but cut my hair short (AFAB).

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I've been harassed, yelled at, and insulted by women in the women's room, but at least they never physically assaulted me. I don't know if I could count on the men in the men's room not to do the same and I'd rather not take the chance. I remember a story about a trans woman who was killed in the men's room and it still gives me chills thinking about it.

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That's what I usually do. Some people get mad or annoyed with me but I imagine it could be physically dangerous to go into the men's room.

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I think I'd disagree there, unless youra woman walking in half undressed i doubt you'd get more than a questioning glance if that, on top of the fact that it seems like a much lower bar to pass as male.

Honestly, short of the Karen type who is looking around for things to get pissed about you probably won't hear much of a fuss in the restrooms themselves on either side, really seems like the butt hurt people are men worried about who's going into the women's room, or women worried about the potential rather than anything that's actually happening in the moment.

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Auxreply
feddit.uk

Not how it works at all.

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Hey pal, FYI not all NonBinary experiences are the same. I commented sharing my experience. If your experience is different, you could've just said that instead of being rude or trying to say I'm wrong for feeling the way I do.

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lemmy.world

It's a test to determine your gender, you just walk into whichever one you're naturally compelled to and then when you get out you find out your gender. If you don't want to go into either then you're either nonbinary or agender

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[deleted]reply
lemmy.world

What if one is taken but you really need to go?

Guess I'm whatever three circles is!

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I feel like one is a set of boobs. The other is a man, fully erect as seen from the front at a direct angle (business end pointed towards your mouth as you approach the door).

Places with gendered bathrooms should stick to icons that make sense. The place can do something cutesy too, but have a real bathroom sign.

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Boobs are two circles. Penis head with two balls underneath is the three circles. It's not a good representation, whoever decided that

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- Ducks is heads because ducks have heads.

- What kind of scary ass clowns came to your birthday?

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I came here to pee but I'll hold it in to spend some time in the head-in-some-boobs room.

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lemmy.world

It could be interpreted as number of major orifices a person has not including eurethra.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

possibly, but that would be way too complicated for signage like this, it seems like this is actually just stall numbering inside of a gendered bathroom as per another post in the thread though.

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Well the fact that you thought it necessary to qualify whether the urethra counted as 'major' kind of highlights how non-obvious that terminology is in this case.

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lemmy.world

Two is for couples, three is for threesomes.

Not pictured is the single circle which has a glory hole.

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Men, who have 2 testes go left, while women who have 3 testes go right. Wait...

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Very self explanatory its for how many CANS OF BEANS YOU HAVE.

PISS EVERYWHERE WITH BEANS

MWHAHAHAHHA

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T00l_shedreply
lemmy.world

Ok so the pilodonal sinus count too? Cause then they need to increase the amount of circles lol

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lemmy.world

One. One is the answer, so we're all fucked. Unless you're including cavities. (Isn't topology fun?)

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lemmy.world

Google says: A hole in a mathematical object is a topological structure which prevents the object from being continuously shrunk to a point

Which is as clear as dirt. My understanding of it is to take every point on an object and make it as minimally convex when compared to its neighbors (ie, try to make a sphere) and the holes are the spaces inside of the object where the object isn't (fuck that's also unclear). Like a mug is topologically the same as a donut.

Anyways, both the urethra and vagina are just concave spaces (divots) whereas the anus is a hole that connects to the face holes (mouth, nostrils, tear ducts). Assuming you define a hole as anything greater than 60 microns. Any smaller than that and the human body is basically Swiss cheese.

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VitoRoblesreply
lemmy.today

I think it's one of those places where the sink is outside, and the mystery hole is behind the doors.

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They are just numeric decorations on the individual stalls. I'd bet money there is another door just to the left with a single circle on it.

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feddit.org

3 coins is more than 2, so it's for men.
Cause they earn more.

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lemmynsfw.com

Wait until they learn about the urethra... And nostrils... And ears... And the millions of pores on our skin...

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BigDictionreply
lemmy.world

Oh man I thought left was boobs and right was dick and balls.

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that's what I thought. which is why the whole thing is dumb. just have the fucking stick figures you don't need to be cute with the restrooms.

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Hux
lemmy.ml

Maybe it’s points of contact?

Two feet for the urinal.

Two feet and a seat for the toilet?

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Im_oldreply
lemmy.world

spoken as someone who never used an urinal while drunk and so resting your head on the wall to steady up

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One of the student pubs I used to go to during uni had padding on the wall for this exact purpose 😁

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THE THREE SEASHELLS

Yeah that was my thought as well when I saw that

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lemmy.world

I have 0 respect for gendered toilets and will just go in one if it's not a super active place like a mall or an airport.

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lemm.ee

i tried this once and oh man the womans restroom smelled so rancid i could never go back. it was traumatic

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lemmy.world

When I was in high school I walked into the girls restroom. I was a total idiot. I was like, “oh wow, they took out the urinals and painted the walls. Gee, that was fast.”

As I was pissing it occurred to me, “oh no. What if this is the girl’s room.”

As I walked out a girl was walking in and called me a pervert.

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i used to nearly do that at planet fitness all the time it was embarassing how often i turn to go in then realise its the wrong room. never actually went in but still

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Only real confrontation I had was a "wrong bathroom" and I mumbled back "mens is full" went into a stall and did my business. Past that I've never been bothered. Maybe a few dirty looks. Idk.

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VitoRoblesreply
lemmy.today

I accidentally walked into a woman's bathroom. Immediately was hit by the blood smell. Confused, I did my business and washed my hands.

Then a woman walked in and I realized where I was.

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shalafireply
lemmy.world

I've wandered in the wrong room a time or two, but blood smell?! I can't even smell that when I'm down on the muffin. (Not that I do that, but near misses have happened.)

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No idea what you're alluding to but that other one was probably just the room us enbies hide the corpses of those trying to impose gender norm (yes we sort them by gender but the men's room probably smells just as bloody)

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lemmy.zip

IMO:

They're gender-neutral. The two and three on the door are so that people can be told which one needs work.

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fff45667reply
lemm.ee

This is the obvious answer to me. And door "one" just isn't pictured.

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Also of interest, door 3 has no handle, but maybe an occupied medallion.

the close faucet is casting two shadows, while the far sink is casting one.

The 3 is well to the right fo the door while the 2 is mostly centered.

While not conclusive, these are red flags for AI.

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feddit.nl

There’s a bar on the beach town near me that uses “lobsters” and “crabs” as it’s bathroom door identifiers.

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My immediate assumption is that lobsters are for dudes, but I'm not sure why. I guess because they look taller and less curvy?

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Everybody knows that women transmit crabs, and guys are grabby like a lobster. /s

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Crabs is women lobsters is men. I don’t know why. I saw a stand up bit that was similar to that and often wondered if they got it from there or if it’s like a franchise thing. The bartender said he had no idea.

The crab had a skirt on and the lobster had a suit and bow tie on. So that tipped you off I guess haha

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On first visit, I'd secretly try to check where the urinals are. In second visit, I would do that process again because who the fuck is meant to remember what that circles want to express??

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lemmy.world

The left one is easy, it's boobs. Which means you're allowed if you have man boobs.

The other one is for people with 3 nipples.

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lemmy.ca

If it's biology based, women have 3 and men 2, but straight line would make more sense. But that is only a guess and who knows what the symbols are actually based on.

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holes... ok.

I was gonna say the 3 balls is below view of penis and balls. While 2 balls are boobies.

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dnickreply
sh.itjust.works

You don't consider the vagina? Because it doesn't go all the way through or something?

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dnickreply
sh.itjust.works

So you suggest we have only one hole? If you're getting to the topological realm then you might consider the nostrils to be a second 'through' hole as one leads to the other.... Tear ducts, etc?

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Yeah, maybe? When deciding what qualifies, you need to set some limits. Everything funnels one direction, from the general face area (mouth, nostrils, tear ducts, ear ducts) down to one outlet. The mouth is much larger than the others, so if you say a hole must be larger than, say, 5mm (something you could reasonably probe), you eliminate all the feeder tubes in the face and are left with one hole.

VSauce goes w/ 60 microns, and I think that's just a bit too small. To each their own though.

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don
lemm.ee

If some circles on a door prevent you from opening one and peeking inside to check for urinals, you should never have left your house to begin with.

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lemmy.zip

Which ever one has the couches man, we need the couches.

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This stuff is frustrating when you're drunk at some hipster bar, and gotta go real bad but first you've got to decipher the hieroglyphics. I wish they had standards like emergency exits so you don't piss yourself looking for the right toilet.

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My cousin's husband is pissing in the sink then, after his operation for testicular cancer left him in the "none of the above" category.

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I'm guessing just rooms 1 (not pictured), 2, and 3, purely for administrative purposes, because as gendering options this doesn't make sense.

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feddit.org

The three circle door doesn't have a handle, whatever that means.

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It means we are still in phase 2. We are not ready to open that door.

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lemmy.world

Why is the sink outside the bathroom? Are these just stalls in one bathroom?

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rabberreply
lemmy.ca

That's how it is mostly across Europe. Individual stalls, proper ones where you cant see people's feet. Sink outside the stalls. Europe solved the washroom gender problem before it ever existed

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I've been to a few countries where they had stalls like that, but they still had Men/Women bathrooms. The US also has some airports like that. Plus any place small enough to just have 1 or 2 unisex bathrooms.

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lemmy.world

would have made a lot more sense to have XX and XY. now I'm assuming one restroom is for people with down syndrome.

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Korhakareply
sopuli.xyz

Plenty of exceptions make that difficult for some people

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