Re:What comes up when you flush
by brigandish on Thursday December 08, 2022 @08:58PM
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Also apparently, the toe clearance (the gap) isn't a requirement if the stalls are wide enough. Maybe that's why?
> (BTW, in the 1990s a Boston-area radio station used to broadcast bits where they would sit in a stall and strike up a conversation with whoever sat next to them.)
I'm British and I think we have just found the most important, deepest cultural difference between the UK and the US there is!
As a Brit, you should tell them about your carpeted (private) bathrooms.
When I was a kid, we had a carpeted bathroom toilet area.
What lunacy. Mold grows easily (carpet was always damp in high humidity summers, due to condensation, near the toilet), and worse, one bad flush and your carpet is now literally encrusted with human shit.
How do you feel comfortable keeping it clean?!
I've always understood the difference to be cultural and economics driven: US stall partitions are cheaper than walls and floor-to-ceiling doors; so the (cough) pooping closets really are only in upscale bathrooms.
(BTW, in the 1990s a Boston-area radio station used to broadcast bits where they would sit in a stall and strike up a conversation with whoever sat next to them.)