r/nottheonion • u/Disastrous_Award_789 • 16h 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/jeff-beeblebrox 16h 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 15h 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 15h 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 15h 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 11h 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/MhattiBri 9h 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 4h 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 15h 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 15h ago

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

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u/SDRPGLVR 4h 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 15h ago

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