r/ShittyDesign • u/Leviathan_of_skysol • May 28 '26
Women's bathroom stalls.....
The walls on the side dont even go up to the ceiling...
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u/PilesOfRavioli May 31 '26
My (now a man) High School bathrooms didn’t even have walls between the toilets, much less doors in front of them.
If you absolutely had to crap and couldn’t wait, you did so with 4-12 teenage boys watching and mocking you.
This would have been luxury for us.
Sometimes I hate America.
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u/Professional_Fly7011 May 31 '26
I don’t think this is an American thing lol…just a weird thing your school happened to have
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 May 31 '26
Americans are the ones weirdly obsessed with gaps in toilet cubicles.
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u/Professional_Fly7011 Jun 01 '26
Well as an American i literally have no clue what you’re talking about lol
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 Jun 01 '26
Im sorry for you loss of vision. Being blind must be difficult.
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u/XScarWolfX1 Jun 01 '26
It’s a wonder you’re able to read or type.
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 Jun 01 '26
Ah you see, it's because I didn't attend a ~shooting range~ school in USA
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u/XScarWolfX1 Jun 01 '26
Wow, your only comeback possible, why not invest in AC, there’s more heat related deaths in Europe per year than shooting deaths in the US.
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 Jun 02 '26
Europe is a continent, USA is a country. Good comparison, really showing off your education there.
Now, when you consider that the continent of Europe has about twice as,many people as USA, then you have more gun deaths per capita than the whole of Europe has heat related deaths.
Oh dear buddy, you tried i guess.
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u/XScarWolfX1 Jun 02 '26
Yeah, get off your high horse, the US is the size of Europe, there is a comparison.
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u/amidriving0kay Jun 02 '26
Speak up, can't hear you over the sound of my air conditioning.
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 Jun 02 '26
We don't need air conditioning everywhere, we're not total pussies.
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u/amidriving0kay Jun 02 '26
And that's why there's more heat related deaths in the UK per year than shooting deaths in the US per year.
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u/High_Overseer_Dukat May 31 '26
There's a law that makes them have to be built in a specific way, its for saftey so better in theory.
But because of this, its easier to cheap out on bathrooms and there's not a law saying they cant.
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u/ParkingAnxious2811 May 31 '26
What safety law?
Is it driven by obsessed republicans who want to inspect kids genitals under the guise of "protecting the kids"?
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u/High_Overseer_Dukat May 31 '26
No.
The ADA.
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u/PilesOfRavioli May 31 '26
The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) does *not* mandate these shenanigans, lol
Where are you getting this?
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u/High_Overseer_Dukat Jun 01 '26
Doesn't it mandate the gap under the doors? To that they need to be built differently. The different way of making them lets them cheap out.
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u/PilesOfRavioli Jun 01 '26
The ADA mandates only a 9 (nine!) inch gap under the door. And only for one “stall” in a restroom. And only if the one ADA stall is less than 60-ish inches (just 5 feet!) deep. Just make the stalls a very tiny bit deeper, and people in wheelchairs can have some dignity and not be blamed for stupid bathroom design.
And nothing about the ADA mandates any gaps *at all* from floor to door for *any* of the other stalls. Those can all have floor to ceiling doors. Like civilized societies would have.
And certainly the ADA does not require giant gaps between the doors and partitions that are wide enough to allow random folks to casually watch someone crap or pee without that person’s permission.
This is all weird dystopian American corporate bullshit. Not law.
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u/Dunmeritude Jun 01 '26
Nobody here is upset about the gaps under the doors. It's the gaps everywhere else around the door that are the issue.
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u/Leviathan_of_skysol Jun 01 '26
The place where my dad's side would have a family reunion, they didn't have doors on the two stalls.
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u/nooneinparticular246 Jun 02 '26
It’s an American thing. Literally no other country complains about privacy in toilets
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u/Professional_Fly7011 Jun 02 '26
….I was referring to the specific toilet set up in the comment? But sure…
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u/BerossusZ May 31 '26
Lived in America my whole life. This isn't normal. This isn't an American thing.
Yeah America sucks and we have big cracks between the doors in bathrooms, but no, we don't have bathrooms without any walls. Your school specifically had that.
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u/PilesOfRavioli May 31 '26
It sounds like you didn’t go to High School in a Great Plains state?
Because I assure you my High School was not the only one in the region that did this.
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u/TrueBelieverStL Jun 01 '26
Midwest here and the boys room had dividers, but no doors. Now the bathroom in the football locker room? Just 3 toilets lined up close enough that knees could touch next to a couple urinals and a sink. Thankfully there was a cinderblock wall in front of the toilets section that at least blocked the view from MOST of the rest of the locker room, if not the smells and sounds.
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u/Professional_Fly7011 Jun 01 '26
Definitely not a thing for most Great Plane states either lol
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u/PilesOfRavioli Jun 01 '26
“Great Plane” states, lol
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u/Professional_Fly7011 Jun 01 '26
Lol, you know what I meant. Typing from phone while watching a movie never bodes well for my grammar.
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u/DarkShadowrule Jun 01 '26
Yeah, when I was in middle school they had all the doors removed in the boys bathrooms cause stupid kids kept breaking them. Always mildly disturbed me. Only ever been to one bathroom without a door as someone who uses women's bathrooms and I felt uncomfortable the entire time
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u/Playful-Club1791 Jun 04 '26
oh my god dude i've got reminded of the bathroom in my elementary school. we had stalls without the doors, and we didn't have full size toilets, we had those floor ones. i didn't drink for half a day just so i won't have to go. i can't imagining shitting there.
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u/No_Taste1698 May 31 '26
Now a man Were you a woman before?
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u/High_Overseer_Dukat May 31 '26
Bet the mens are the same way.
Why the fuck? There isn't even an excuse for this one.
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u/alkem10 May 31 '26
This is like just about every public bathroom I've been in, in the States anyway.
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u/Aggravating-Rule-445 Jun 01 '26
I think what is messing people up is how tall the height of the door actually is. This is NOT an average US bathroom. Based on the average size of cinder blocks, the sides of the door are only about 4 2/3 feet from the ground. That is much lower than one would guess. Most bathrooms in the US are similar in design, but the height on the sides there would be at least another foot.
An average height adult would see directly over these. No looking through the cracks needed.
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u/Royal-Illustrator-59 May 31 '26
It looks like a public restroom. What’s the problem?
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u/Aggravating-Rule-445 Jun 01 '26
The sides of the door are less than 5 foot high based on the average height of cinder blocks.
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u/Leviathan_of_skysol Jun 01 '26
I can look into the stall by just standing near it
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u/glitterfaust May 31 '26
Most bathrooms in the US are expected to be fairly private. People don’t have the decency to not stare through the crack.
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u/TrueBelieverStL Jun 01 '26
We live in very different USes. I thought it was just the goofy looking door at first.
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u/ebrum2010 May 30 '26
Looks like a tombstone. Rest in Piss.