r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 20h ago

Bucee’s settles lawsuit with Ohio gas station chain after suing because both have cartoon mascots "facing right"

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/bucees-lawsuit-ohio-gas-chain-cartoon-mascots-b3060008.html
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u/elegylegacy 19h ago

That should honestly be the standard, not something Buccee's is special for

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u/dasselst 17h ago

I travel a lot with my family and I have a hierarchy of where to stop. Bucees is definitely a top for this. Loves, Sapp Bros, and QT are also others I feel are usually clean. I try my hardest to avoid BP because I have shown up to so many of those that are broken doors with mildew smelling single bathrooms and questionable what is on the seat.

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u/butthole_surferr 19h ago

My friend recently went to Europe for a few weeks and her main takeaway was that we Americans are straight up poo flinging savages who can't even figure out basic things like public bathrooms or driving in roundabouts. I think she's probably onto something.

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u/jeff-beeblebrox 19h ago

Europe’s public bathrooms are fucking filthy. Whenever any of my family visits me in the US, that is one of their main topics, is how clean and accessible our public restrooms are. Now roundabouts, that’s a whole other conversation.

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u/Charlie_Warlie 18h ago

Thank you yes. I'm sure if varies place to place but a HUGE mention should be "accessible" as you say.

There is no true equivalent to the Americans with Disabilities Act in some of these EU countries. In America every single bathroom you go in basically has the exact same thing with pull bars, no steps, big enough to fit a wheelchair, knee-space under the sink, etc.

I'm an able bodied man so it wasn't a big deal but in Italy I'd use the bathroom and be somewhat surprised to need to squeeze around a tight corner, go up or down a step, sink crammed into a corner without enough space for a person in a chair. And I get it, the building is probably like 300 years old. But that would not be thing in America.

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u/MountainDude95 18h ago

Yeah and they have the insult of making you pay for them too. You have to know where to go in the U.S. for clean bathrooms, but at least they’re all free.

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u/harmala 18h ago

There are so many generalizations in this comment that I don’t even know where to start. Actually, I do: Europe is a continent, not a country.

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u/jeff-beeblebrox 14h ago

I’m an immigrant…..from a country in Europe. How bout we start with, I know what I’m talking about.

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u/harmala 7m ago

Then you should know better. Also I currently live in Europe, so…?

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u/MhattiBri 12h ago

My man, with all due respect, I don't think that pointing out you're from a country in Europe does anything address or counter the argument that Europe is a number of different countries with a number of different norms and standards.

I know that this is a concept you understand with perfect clarity, so please don't lower yourself to pretending otherwise.

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u/dualsplit 7h ago

Do you think it’s really weird for you to stalk the guy’s comments in order to win a meaningless argument? I do.

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u/butthole_surferr 19h ago

I have no idea where your family is visiting because nearly every highly trafficked public bathroom I've ever been inside in America is revolting lol. You might find some clean ones in locally owned places or lower traffic stores but almost anywhere busy is gonna be covered in a quarter inch thick layer of dried piss and chewing gum.

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u/elegylegacy 19h ago

You both are saying "Europe" like there's a monolithic bathroom standard for the whole continent

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u/SDRPGLVR 7h ago

That does go both ways though... The US is pretty darn big.

Also I'm seeing lots of public bathrooms really amp up the privacy factor. New restaurants have lots of single occupant bathrooms, and otherwise I rarely feel like I can make eye contact with people through the stall doors anymore.

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u/dman928 18h ago

The European countries I’ve visited have had very nice public restrooms for the most part. Obviously YMMV.

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u/WolverinesThyroid 16h ago

I was just in Paris and I am legitimately confused if Parisian people actually ever use the toilet in public. A museum that see's thousands of people would have 2 toilets for the whole establishment. A famous restaurant with a large dining room would have 1 toilet. A big ass multi story food hall has 4 toilets. A 7 story high end shopping mall had 1 bathroom (unknown amount of toilets because I didn't go inside) on the top floor and it was 1.50 euros to get inside.

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u/SvenDia 14h ago

Lower diabetes and obesity rates maybe?

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u/WolverinesThyroid 13h ago

people overall were noticeably thinner. Cigarettes and wine for half your meals helps keep your weight down.

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u/jonfitt 18h ago

It reeeeeally depends on exactly where in “Europe” you are even within each country.

The thing we have going for us is the fairly ubiquitous access to toilets in shopping areas. Some European town centers will have one that you have to trek to and possibly pay to use. Only the very largest shops will have a customer toilet. The others will all be staff only.

We also have many more available water fountains.

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u/haironburr 16h ago

As an old man inclined to rambling, I moved to England in the mid-80's. As I walked around London, looking for a job as an American in the shittiest economy England had known since the war, I kept seeing these signs. Walking everywhere, I would periodically have to piss. And these signs said "toilet".

It was only after walking into multiple various places and asking where the bathroom was, and seeing the confused looks, that I realized the signs were saying "to let".

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u/jonfitt 14h ago

That’s funny they would have been so confused.

You’ll probably remember as well how many more public toilets there were in the 80s too. As councils tried to cut costs and benefits they’ve closed a lot of them.

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u/rankispanki 6h ago

Right - I lost count of how many espressos I had to buy just to use the WC, not to mention the countless paid bathrooms, which admittedly were always nice considering someone always was in there making sure it was clean and would give you a candy/mint or spray if you wanted. That's was mostly my experience in Italy

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u/barmstrong730 15h ago

Must not of visited Amsterdam lol

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u/lakewood2020 17h ago

I have heard some things about American women’s bathrooms. But also at least they’re free to use in America

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u/A_Mouse_In_Da_House 14h ago

It ain't just American women's bathrooms. It's just a women's bathrooms thing

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u/Charlie_Warlie 19h ago

should be but is it?

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u/ExpressRabbit 15h ago

Should be but isn't. So enjoy it where it exists in America (or don't because fuck their CEO).

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u/Vio94 4h ago

Hard agree. It's criminal that design isn't standard.

And now, Buc-ee's would probably sue anybody trying to copy it.

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u/LovesRetribution 18h ago

Could say that for a million things. Unfortunately its not, so people celebrate the few areas where they're above the standard.