I wanna hear YOUR crazy bathroom stories! 😅👇 Have you ever felt completely lost in the bathroom when traveling to another country? Or even just at a friend's place?
@CamiWuzHere2 жыл бұрын
I wasted a bunch of hot water because in Mexico the hot water takes a lot longer to heat up but in the States the water takes like 30 seconds to heat up
@harrypotterzoup38862 жыл бұрын
When I worked at a mall in California the Asian’s would always 💩 on top the 🚽 ….because in Asia people 💩 in a hole in the ground usually
@FelifromGermany2 жыл бұрын
@@CamiWuzHere Hahahaa oh gosh! I would say it depends, it can take a few minutes to heat up in the US sometimes too but that's usually in older homes
@kosmoman542 жыл бұрын
I heard the toilets referred to as "trophy shelves". And it was explained to me to create a "flying carpet" (use toilet paper on top of the shelf) to keep them clean.
@californiahiker96162 жыл бұрын
I am female. In a Paris Restaurant : After using the toilet I went over to the sink to wash my hands. I couldn’t figure out how to turn on the faucet. Surprise #1: A male patron showed up (! Mixed bathrooms almost never happens in the USA) . He showed me a contraption below the sink that you push with your knee. That thing turns on the water. Makes complete sense. Once you know about it!
@redfive5856 Жыл бұрын
Hold the bathroom door open, push button in, test outer door knob, close the door.
@linda1lee2Ай бұрын
Beat me to it!
@rdwright6708Ай бұрын
@@redfive5856 pain in the ass. Better to have twist locks on doors.
@WelaybareourscarsАй бұрын
😂
@rdwright6708Ай бұрын
@@redfive5856 yeah. Works really well with a house full of kids. 😂
@LE64SAM-IAMАй бұрын
As I recall, while that was the way that you could test whether the lock worked, once you pushed OR PULLED the door closed, the lock would pop back out, so that you'd have to push it in again. I think it was supposed to be a safety feature, since it was impossible to lock yourself out of the room... OR THE HOUSE, WITHOUT YOUR KEY.
@chiplacey256 Жыл бұрын
I, like lots of Americans, like hot water for hand washing. Modern building codes limit the hot temperature for safety reasons, so I never mix in cold water to wash hands or face. By the way, until the 1940s, most bathroom sinks had two faucets, and you mixed the water in the bowl. Very rare now, but if you ever get to visit a 100% accurately restored Victorian house in your new city, you will see sinks like that.
@jonc44032 ай бұрын
The Brits did that separate faucet silliness until fairly recently, they still have a lot of them. I've only seen it one place in the US, my great aunt's house had separate faucets. When replacing one of my bathroom sinks I had a brief thought of using those, because it would be historically appropriate for my house. That thought lasted about 30 seconds until I realized how stupid it was. I did go with separate hot & cold handles because it looks better.
@linda1lee2Ай бұрын
It's easy to get home faucets with separate handles for hot and cold.
@Suezee-wf2vzАй бұрын
In most public toilets in Australia only cold water is available for hand washing
@mrfancypants29Ай бұрын
In my mind, using warm/hot water killed the germs and therefore, sanitized my hands. In practice though, you would need to get the water so hot that it is hardly bearable to the user for an extent of time that is hardly bearable, if at all. Also, to do such a thing as mixing the water in the sink, I would hope that cleaning is done regularly. Especially in a public restroom.
@jojo1234aАй бұрын
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything but separate taps for hot and cold. They are kind of awkward I must admit 😂
@genxrants Жыл бұрын
17:33 - The good news is that some chain companies (Buc-ee's comes to mind) are paying attention and make their stalls more like rooms with vacant/occupied locks.
@familyjeffrey9183Ай бұрын
Buc-ee's is a super gas station and convenience store built around idealized public bathrooms.
@WesB1972 Жыл бұрын
The swirling action in toilets is a design feature to promote a cleansing action on the side of the bowl as as the flush progresses.
@RobertAmes-z1xАй бұрын
🤔The poop shelf might be there is just in case you swallowed her engagement ring😳 you can dig through the poo to retrieve it!🙄🤨😆😄
@SaltMinerOU812Ай бұрын
Fun fact it swirls in the opposite direction, down under!
@joejosker1171Ай бұрын
@SaltMinerOU812 that's an old wives tale.
@christineperez756229 күн бұрын
But that's not what happens. That water splashes all over your toilet, and bathroom.
@bW9taeH428 күн бұрын
@@SaltMinerOU812 Even more fun fact. They don't. It's a myth. It depends on the toilet design. If it does happen, it's coincidence, and plenty of toilets in the Southern hemisphere have water swirling in the same direction as in the Northern hemisphere.
@ginnyhogan6386 Жыл бұрын
In Vienna, my 90 year old Dad said about the poop shelf. , “ it is so you can admire your work”. Love it!
@Nama-MontanaАй бұрын
😂😂😂❤❤❤
@JeffY-y3zАй бұрын
don't flush with a shelf toilet.....you're very likely to get a really chunky bidet experience.
@karlschulte9231Ай бұрын
At early times poop shelf gave access to free garden fertilizer.
@gijoecam Жыл бұрын
The dual shower curtain serves a functional purpose as well: with a single curtain, the water moving downward causes the air to move as well, which tends to draw the curtain towards the water stream. With a second curtain outside, it tends to greatly reduce that venturi effect.
@CaritasGothKaraoke Жыл бұрын
*bernoulli effect
@HuskyMama347Ай бұрын
Yep. Gotta use 2 curtains or your single curtain stick to you.
@beenaplumber8379Ай бұрын
That never used to be the case when shower curtains were more substantial (thick and heavier). Some had weights and even magnets on the bottom (for those cast iron claw-foot tubs). Next time you're in a hotel, compare that shower curtain to the one you have at home. Modern shower curtains are super-thin in comparison, so that effect happens. They also tear through the loops much more easily. They created one product in such a crappy way they got to create another product to sell you to partly compensate for it. Only in America.
@Washington-DreamingАй бұрын
Bill Nye, is that you?
@mikemackenzie1035Ай бұрын
I never thought of that! But I think you're right. Another advantage is that if you run a vent fan while showering like we do, it does a better job of blocking the breeze the fan creates which is especially important in the cooler months.
@gingerninjawhinger99862 жыл бұрын
On a trip to the Netherlands, back in the '90s, I stayed overnight at someone's house; eventually, I needed to use the loo and was surprised to see a 'poop shelf' staring up at me. I seriously believed that the toilet had been installed back-to-front!
@xsc1000 Жыл бұрын
It was standard type of toilet i many european countries till 60s but maybe they are still made.
@MichelleLM88 Жыл бұрын
Really some of the most awkward moments in a bathroom, was the last couple of years when apparently people decided knocking wasn’t necessary. Also apparently me saying occupied didn’t seem to discourage some people from rattling and mess with the stall door in order to get it to open. Note I’m still saying/nearly screaming occupied, but still had at least one woman one time who didn’t get the message. Which I had to slam the stall door (she forced unlocked)in her face. To which she said “ oh I didn’t know anyone was in there, I didn’t see your shoes. You could’ve said something like someone is in here”. I was left beyond confused as to how she didn’t hear me or questioned why it was locked
@YeshuaKingMessiahАй бұрын
I would say ur screams are not screams Hit the door back with ur fist or foot That’s unmistakable
@AnonYmous-jp8uu4 күн бұрын
I holler Get the F---out! I'm in here! and it only gets more rude if they keep knockin. hoo flung pu?
@EdwardIglesias2 жыл бұрын
I had a friend who was an exchange student in Germany in High School in the 80s. Obviously many things have changed since then but he was most impressed by the water pressure "you could flush a watermelon down those things".
@heiner712 жыл бұрын
For sure. When I lived in Germany for half of my life, I never even once clogged a toilet. Here in the US, this happens all the time. Here you don't have a brush next to every toilet but a plunger.
@bgrimlan2 жыл бұрын
From the video, it seems like you are wasting more water from that volume/pressure than a toilet bowl of water.
@jody68512 жыл бұрын
@@heiner71 I lived in Kochel am See for three months as an American learning German there and being in Germany for the first time in my life and I had to deal with a Flachspüler toilet also for the first time in my life. I don't know about yours, but mine hardly ever did the job the first time around -- I don't care what your water pressure is -- and having to use the toilet brush afterward is a big understatement. And as far as clogged toilets in the US? What are you flushing down? Towels? The last time I had a clogged toilet requiring a plunger once back in the US was at least six years ago.
@christianwww2 жыл бұрын
If it was in the 80s your friend had probably seen a "Druckspüler" (pressure flush valve). These were common in old houses back then. Nowadays they are quite rare. And yeah, if you're not expecting it, the water pressure of 6 bar (87 psi) streaming into the toilet with the loud noise it makes can be pretty astonishing.
@greg_2162 жыл бұрын
On the flip side, I met a German who did a high school exchange program. His host family greeted him with cookies, which he just couldn't stomach. So, when the family left on a shopping trip, he tried to flush the cookies down the toilet. Instead of going down like a watermelon, they did a lazy spin, and kept on floating. He had to fish them out of the bowl and throw them into the woods behind the house.
@rdwright67082 жыл бұрын
The best idea I saw in a German hotel bathroom was a full wet room with the shower drain in the floor - no need for a shower curtain at all. LOVE it - perfect for aging in place and easier to clean the bathroom.
@joemartin8645 ай бұрын
yeah but if your toilet overflows with a healthy chunka poo and the drain is clogged at the same time...Ooh yeah that could be nice. Also the mold in your shower may noe spread through out the room instead of just the stall.
@maddkatter79483 ай бұрын
We have that in the USA. Open floor with drain no shower door
@blessedbeJesusАй бұрын
I do not like wet baths which is common in the Philippines. I prefer a shower foot tub or a bathtub for showers.
@Suezee-wf2vzАй бұрын
Don't you have floor drains where you come from?
@rdwright6708Ай бұрын
@Suezee-wf2vz they are very rare in American homes. I never saw one until I noticed them in the locker room in my university's gym. I had been helping my mother with the housework by that time and hated how long it took to clean the tile floors because of having to mop up the rinse water.
@markholm70502 жыл бұрын
There is a practical advantage to the two layer shower curtain. The spray of water from the shower entrains a flow of air with it. That moving air will do the whole Bernoulli principal thing, just like an airplane wing. It sucks the curtain into the tub or stall. That can be annoying, especially if the bathroom is cold, because it also causes a flow of cold air onto your feet as well as the cold curtain getting friendly with your legs and body. An outside curtain in addition to the inside one is usually enough to block airflow, preventing both the draft and the overly companionable inner curtain.
@alysoffoxdale2 жыл бұрын
Much depends on the thickness of the plastic liner there! My mother-in-law purchased a particularly cheap one (about as thin and flimsy as a produce bag) that nothing short of preheating the bathroom to about 80° could prevent from attacking the unhappy bather.
@themourningstar3382 жыл бұрын
Another bonus is if your shower curtain has an innermost curtain or inner liner that is machine washable, it is really nice to be able to take that off and throw it in the washing machine with your towel load. Keeps the shower curtain clean and mildew free easily, without having to try to clean it by hand.
@ayesha362 жыл бұрын
Yes the single curtain annoys me a lot with this.
@MrAronymous2 жыл бұрын
Honestly had never heard of it until now.
@juliar12252 жыл бұрын
@@themourningstar338 while I understand, that a second outer curtain can be beautyful the single curtain in Germany normally can go into the washingmachine
@gribble2979 Жыл бұрын
Having lived in Germany, the worst part of the poop shelf was that the water doesn't move all the poop off the shelf, resulting in the need to clean the shelf with a brush, which then got disgustingly poopy no matter how much you tried to rinse it off.
@thebewitchinghour831 Жыл бұрын
That's what I was picturing happening in my head while she was talking. Even though it's your own......Bluck! What if someone leaves theirs behind? LOL
@Einwetok Жыл бұрын
Use a little vinegar, works on the mess, and the scale too.
@JenniePrice892 ай бұрын
What!?!?!😮 I’ve never seen a whole handle push in and twist to lock! Or…maybe I have, I just had no idea!
@carpediemkath2 ай бұрын
I lived there for over ten years and figured out a trick: drop a wad of TP onto the poop shelf, then use the brush to push the paper around and rub the poop off! Brush stays poop-free and the poopy paper just flushes away.
@JacqueScherrer2 ай бұрын
@@JenniePrice89I haven’t seen this either. I think it’s an old style feature. I live in Arizona where most of the buildings are fairly new. I think this lock style is very interesting though.
@annrogers81292 жыл бұрын
I went to Austria on a skiing trip with my school many, many years ago. We saw the shelf and my friend said “ Wow look! you can see whatcha done, how much you done and why you done it! I’ve never forgotten that remark. We laughed ourselves silly 🙃
@ramona1462 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂
@ErnestThurston2 жыл бұрын
I had a bad experience using the "poop shelf" toilet when I was first stationed in Bad Kreuznach back in '77. One time the facilities engineers serviced the water system in our apartment building. They turned all the water of and then turned it back on. If you have ever turned of your home water system you may have experience that when you turn the tap on water spurts outbecause the is air in the pipes. Well, I used the toilet and as I was getting up I reached back to flush the toilet and the water came out in a strong gush. The water hit the "poop shelf" and threw all the poop all up and down my back side. Luckily this was at home and I cleaned up and changed clothes. Ever since the make sure I'm a safe distance from public toilets before I flush.
@barbarafrings92312 жыл бұрын
Hello Ernest! 🙂 Grüße (greetings) from Bad Kreuznach. 🙋🏻♀️
@wayne00k2 жыл бұрын
When I was stationed in Germany, shortly after you, I rented a wonderful little apartment and, with my landlord, converted the old tub into a shower. Conversation eventually turned to the toilet shelf. He told me that this feature eliminated splash-back. I took his word for it.
@dennisg10452 жыл бұрын
Yeah, stationed in Garmish 74-75, poop shelf in the barraks, Just got used to it, luckily no issues.
@rridderbusch5182 жыл бұрын
My first "poop shelf" was in USSR 1981 with the same horrible result as yours. I thought it was only a Russian thing!
@seanconnors99122 жыл бұрын
What a great story! Thanks for sharing
@bobsmalser83042 жыл бұрын
The shelf toilets are holdovers from when pin worms in children were very common, being spread in the schools like head lice. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinworm_infection
@jeanjacques99802 жыл бұрын
Some U.K. hospitals had “hospital shelf toilets” for samples imported from Germany! Interesting explanation for German toilet design.
@BnORailFan2 жыл бұрын
The first time I saw the shelf toilet and asked about it I was told it was so a person can check for worms. I guess this was the reasoning.
@natashaw4012 жыл бұрын
oh wow ok
@DesertRat3322 жыл бұрын
Yup, I grew up on a farm in the midwest, and had pin worms as a kid in the early 60s.
@Lucien862 жыл бұрын
Oo! The truth is always worse.. 🤢
@wallykramer7566Ай бұрын
How did I miss this episode two years ago?! The craziest experience for me was in Italy in Tuscany in a place that was beautiful! It had horses for horseback riding, gardens for food, a full cooking crew, and beautiful hills all around. It was set up like a motel except meals were served communally-like for a big family where all guests ate together. The room for my wife and I seemed quite standard, but was a little odd for the shower. It was just a fixed shower head above the middle of the fully tiled bathroom with controls on one wall. And a conventional toilet kind of in the way of the shower. There wasn't a way for one of us to, say brush our teeth while the other showered. At dinner we asked the other guests (16ish people in double person rooms) how they did it. After a lot of confusion and very careful language clarity, it turned out that our room was the only one like that! All the other rooms had actual shower stalls. One couple from Italy looked in our bathroom and shook their heads saying ours "was just plain weird!"
@CR32712 жыл бұрын
I'm so glad you made this video. I went to Germany in 1993. The poop shelf definitely freaked me out more than anything else. On my return to the US, my family and friends had a hard time believing it. Now, 30 years later, I can show them I wasn't making it up! 😂
@hughjorg4008 Жыл бұрын
The poop shelves freaked me out too when I first saw them in Dutch hotels in 1999 (it is just too gross). Good for me, the apartments I rented in the Netherlands and Belgium had standard toilet designs (like in the U.S.)
@marshalldonaghy4542 Жыл бұрын
I've visited Germany, but the only place I've seen a poop shelf was in a New York hotel.
@superdave8248 Жыл бұрын
I have no idea why it is, but I do have a suggestion. The German monarchy. Back in the day it wasn't uncommon for a monarch to have his stool examined to verify health. So it wouldn't surprise me if the "shelf" wasn't put in place to make for the poop inspection easier and it just became a standard feature. However, the water usage in toilets differ and I believe the German design used less water, so that in itself may have played a role too. Less water in the bowl so less water waste.
@jaquanbiggums1019 Жыл бұрын
because you guys just love poseidons kiss (water containing bacteria of thousands of people that used the toilet splashing back on your ass), or you want to waste toiletpaper by first throwing toiletpaper there before shitting, increasing the chance of getting stuck@@hughjorg4008
@KathrynTanner-t8f Жыл бұрын
Lived in Germany for a few years and had a poop shelf in my apartment. I thought surely there would be a sensible German explanation for this. Guess not! I loved the windows in Germany and when I got back to the US I took the screens off my windows. After the access to the outside I experienced in Germany the screens looked ugly and made me feel claustrophobic.
@tomstech-gear-gadgetreview58272 жыл бұрын
Feli, great content. I want to address the commercial restroom divider issue though. There are a number of building codes, fire codes, ADA codes, venting codes, and general ease of cleaning issues that determine the toilet partition divider gaps at the bottom and top you have referenced in the USA. The gap at the bottom of the door is generally 12 inches or greater for three reasons. First ADA code says that doors must be solid to the floor below 12 inches or be above the 12-inch mark, we generally go above the 12 inches. The 12" or greater gap promotes ease of cleaning, and airflow from the HVAC system more effectively, and makes the doors themselves a little lighter so that the door hinges can last longer. Also, some toilet partitions are ceiling-mounted where weight is a huge issue. The larger gap at the top is driven by factors such as the Fire Code that needs 24" of gap to allow the fire sprinklers to reach inside the stalls. We also have to provide the visual/audio fire annunciator in each room. The large top and bottom gaps allow us to use one fire annunciator for the entire restroom. If the walls go full height, then each toilet compartment is considered an individual room requiring a dedicated fire sprinkler, annunciator device, and HVAC supply and return which gets very expensive. Higher-end public restrooms such as those in airline lounges, casinos, and hotels will do the full height walls and take the hit on the expense for the customer experience. I visited Germany in 2019 as I was inspired by your channel and was surprised to see what can be done building code-wise vs. the USA. In the USA we have extremely strict fire and life safety codes that dictate design that those not in the architectural industry may find baffling, but there is usually a valid code reason behind it.
@Trifler5002 жыл бұрын
Great details. I've also read that some states have codes that require a gap underneath the door large enough for someone to crawl under.
@tjblues012 жыл бұрын
@@Trifler500 Having installed a "dog's door" made of lighter and flexible material would do the same.
@LucasFernandez-fk8se2 жыл бұрын
@@Trifler500 I think that’s all the states. That gap is for safe escapes
@Trifler5002 жыл бұрын
@@LucasFernandez-fk8se Yeah, it's for safe escapes. I didn't know it was all states.
@bilyonarelifestile22262 жыл бұрын
Handy box
@phoebus0072 жыл бұрын
For the luxury effect, some people in the UK are now installing Japanese style toilets in their homes. You need a degree to use them but you get a full service of your undercarriage on completion, including a wash and blow-dry. (You might also get a coffee while you wait.)
@rogink2 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! Clearly made up but it made me chortle.
@medicalwei2 жыл бұрын
I've been to a Japanese-ran Hotel next to Frankfurt Hbf, and they actually have the kind of robotoilet as well as pre-fabricated toilet room.
@777rogerf2 жыл бұрын
@@rogink The coffee part is humorous; : otherwise it is accurate..
@VenomHalos2 жыл бұрын
@@rogink mostly true, actually 😂
@ZepG2 жыл бұрын
That's a great idea, if the water tank doubled as a Keurig it would autofill and I could have my first cup of coffee whilst taking my morning dump.
@gabrielwatson7721Ай бұрын
My Great Aunt Sandy lived in an old Victorian home, which had a ceiling handle you pulled down to flush the toilet. Also, because the home was built before electricity was introduced into homes, the electric cords were on the outside of the walls.😊
@alliecat834815 күн бұрын
Lol! The houses in Greece back in the seventies and earlier like at my aunt's house, had those chains that you pulled from the ceiling too.
@MIKEMAKESTHINGS2 жыл бұрын
I notice the poop shelf when I first went into the bathroom in a relatives house in Essen Germany. I immediately thought It was a bad idea. It caused the bathroom to get really stinky since the poop did not go in the water. Also bad splatter if you had diarrhea. Sometimes the water flow was not strong enough to wash the poop off the shelf. All in all a terrible experience.
@beckypetersen26802 жыл бұрын
I really disliked it - thankfully our newer toilets in Poland don't have them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@onrr17262 жыл бұрын
Many toilets in Ukraine have poop shelves. Between takeing a shit and not trying to puke in your pants from the smell is a challenge with in it's self.
@mharrye2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely - my first hotel in Germany had me staring at that poop shelf wondering how to directly poop into the water. Fortunately toilets got more like I was used to over the years. Then there is the no stool at all toilets found some places in France and a lot in Asia. My elder daughter went into one of those in France, came right out and said she was going to find a spot in the trees instead.
@Milesco2 жыл бұрын
Yuck! 🤢💩
@williamevans94262 жыл бұрын
Ugh! Enough said.
@tankboy2adfwd2 жыл бұрын
I was always told that the "inspection shelf" was to check for intestinal parasites. Makes sense in older homes as they were likely more common many decades ago, assuming meat inspection has improved since the 1950s.
@gordonb5571 Жыл бұрын
That's what I was told. The Germans like(d) to eat a lot of pork. In the old days, these could contain tapeworms which would be visible on the German toilet. Nowadays pork is tapeworm-free. But, after flushing there would be scrape marks left, so I always lined the shelf with toilet paper before starting.
@IGangsterOfLove Жыл бұрын
Its not about parasites it is about general health.
@brt5273Ай бұрын
I mean... is water opaque to you???
@Notron-ku6dtАй бұрын
@@gordonb5571 Es gibt Toilettenbuersten
@andrewthomas71092 жыл бұрын
I was very surprised by the floor-to-ceiling tiles in my dorm's bathroom when I studied abroad in Austria. It seemed stark and utilitarian at first, but I quickly came to appreciate how easy it was to clean and how it was basically impossible to get water on something that wasn't waterproof.
@RedHeadedTsunami Жыл бұрын
That makes so much more sense to me than the 3/4s of the way up is tiled in the bathtub/shower.
@dimestorephilosopher33082 жыл бұрын
My first visit to Germany was when I was young teen with my grandparents (my grandmother was from Germany) and as a 13 year old dealing with a "poop shelf" toilet might have been one of my most confusing and traumatic things. I was a kid. I was ridiculously embarrassed to ask anyone about how to use it. In an otherwise awesome summer in Germany, it freaked me out.
@mirandahotspring40192 жыл бұрын
I was told by an Austrian guy, where they still have a lot of "traditional' toilets, that style was so people could check their poop before flushing as a check on their health. Parasites, blood, colour, etc. What I did find out very quickly is that you must lay down some toilet paper first so a mess isn't left on the shelf when you do flush!
@williamevans94262 жыл бұрын
YES! A common-sense answer.
@lloydtxw Жыл бұрын
That’s disgusting. I think I’ll just go to the doctor like a normal person, not try to diagnose my own stool. It’s not really worth the pungent smell of feces and having to scrub shit every time I use the restroom 🤢
@mirandahotspring4019 Жыл бұрын
@@lloydtxw If you read my post I said you lay down toilet paper first so no scrubbing.
@samojanezic8186 Жыл бұрын
@@lloydtxw It was also meant for little ampules that you get at the doctor so it was easier to collect a sample. Especially for old people.
@lloydtxw Жыл бұрын
@@mirandahotspring4019 if it drops into water and is sucked down, there’s no wasted paper. I use a bidet, there’s no need for paper and no need to touch or smell feces. The shelf is unnecessary and gross. And before you comment on wasted water, US toilets use siphon flushing to suction the water down and clean the bowl. Europe uses wash down flushing that leaves residue requiring scrubbing and extra flushing, wasting more water. Yuck.
@pjreads5014 Жыл бұрын
After my first trip to Europe in my twenties, I immediately bought a shower head with a handheld adjustable shower head - I love them! I get lots of comments on them - and you nailed it on how great they are for cleaning the shower!
@MarciaMatthews Жыл бұрын
Same here! We’ve had a handheld spray in our shower ever since.
@conlon4332 Жыл бұрын
I once used a toilet in a fancy restaurant in England that had a living room-sized room that the toilet stalls were off, that had a fancy rug and sofa-chairs in the middle. The stalls also had stone walls and very sturdy, heavy, nice-looking doors that didn't even show any light at the bottom to my memory. This is the most luxury bathroom I have ever been to... and it was very hidden away, I believe it may have even been upstairs, but it was sign-posted and clearly for the use of customers. I have lived in England all my life and only once or maybe twice experienced anything like this, so definitely don't expect it, but I wanted to share because it was pretty amazing!
@karencarriere8104 Жыл бұрын
In America I've been impressed with two bathrooms. One was an expensive gym in a rich part of town. It had a living room in it too. The other was my favorite restaurant, Cantino Laredo. Each bathroom toilet was a room. Like full drywall floor to ceiling with a real door (It was slated, but still -- not see through at all). Very fancy tile too. Excellent bathroom.
@PhilLesh69 Жыл бұрын
There is (or was) a department store in Pearl Ridge, outside of Honolulu that had a ladies room lounge like that. It was almost nice enough to serve afternoon tea in.
@robertcrabtree88352 жыл бұрын
4:55 you can very much still confirm that the lock works. With door still open, press the button. Then check if the knob/handle on the outside is able to be turned/pushed down or not.
@lonniemcclure4538 Жыл бұрын
Regarding faucets, I find dual handle faucets (the ones that have levers that turn from 0 closed to 90 degrees full open) far easier to use to set the expected temperature than a mixer tap. They are also easier to turn on without touching the handle with "dirty" fingers, as one can more easily bump them into the desired open position with the back of the hand.
@thebewitchinghour831 Жыл бұрын
I'm 100% a double handle kind of girl.
@phydeux Жыл бұрын
@@thebewitchinghour831 - Oh this invites SOOOO many jokes.
@MatthewDouglas-n5wАй бұрын
Especially in bathrooms, I much prefer the separate faucet handles. Absolutely hate mixers in the shower.
@YeshuaKingMessiahАй бұрын
Easy to push over or up the one handle I do it often with raw meat on my hands or mud.
@kioku1192 жыл бұрын
I'm in the US and in my wildest dreams I never imagined people scrunch their toilet paper (I fold it a bunch). That said on a Reddit post not too long ago I learned basically everyone whipes differently, sits differently, etc. so as a whole I guess bathroom experiences is one of those things that varies wildly without people realizing.
@Whisperwomaneq22 жыл бұрын
Yes, I am American and I fold and do so accordion style. I have always found scrunching is wasteful.
@victord8175 Жыл бұрын
Agreed! Lol, that kinda makes me shudder to imagine!
@brianspeck3568 Жыл бұрын
I fold my toilet paper in fairly long folds. I'm less likely to get my hands dirty.
@brianspeck3568 Жыл бұрын
@@matthewnienkirchen8083 😂😂
@FabienneSP Жыл бұрын
I am in SEA toilet paper certainly is used for cooking (whipping of the grease) but only foreigners use it in the bathroom.
@bethgramkow522525 күн бұрын
When i was a kid i remember change boxes on the public toilets . In the 70s they started to be replaced
@BOBZS1 Жыл бұрын
This gal is so sweet. I love her opinions on how we are so uncomfortable outside our own comfort zone. Different cultures make us feel uneasy .
@thehoneybadger80892 жыл бұрын
Up to the 70's, most men's public restrooms in America had pay toilets. The standard charge was a 10 cent coin put in the mechanism to open the stall door. There was a little poem that was popular at the time: "Here I sit all brokenhearted; paid my dime and only farted."
@hydrolito2 жыл бұрын
No, they did not pay toilet were only used by a minority of businesses, and I was surprised the first time I saw one. What city had mostly pay toilets in businesses in 1960's I didn't know any.
@alysoffoxdale2 жыл бұрын
It wasn't just the men's rooms. I remember needing a _quarter_ for coin-lock doors in public restrooms all the way into the early '80s!
@jameskirchner2 жыл бұрын
That's a very, very ancient poem, but the more common version is, "Here I sit, brokenhearted, come to shit but only farted."
@BifMcAwesome2 жыл бұрын
You would find them in bus stations and were probably discontinued because people would mess up the stall in resentment because they had a no-dime experience in the past.
@salbuda69572 жыл бұрын
Wrong. Public pay toilets have not been the norm in NJ during my lifetime. I’m 66. The exception to this are on boardwalks, which often include showers and lockers.
@furleyforever2 жыл бұрын
Funny how you brought up the push-button locking doors. At my last workplace we had a bathroom door that was notorious for the lock not working on all occasions. You always had to check the door by locking it while it was still open and checking the outside handle before closing the door behind you as you enter the bathroom.
@ginaschubert497722 күн бұрын
Taking a big dump is a problem with toilet shelves! I quickly learned growing up and visiting my family’s home in Germany every Summer to first put a little toilet paper on the toilet shelf to make the poop go down. “A spoonful of toilet paper helps the poop go down!”😂
@tylerdowdy30382 жыл бұрын
I’m a plumber and a 2 handle faucet usually last longer without needing repaired and is usually easier to repair
@tomstech-gear-gadgetreview58272 жыл бұрын
I moved away from single handle faucets in bathrooms as a design choice as they look more balanced. Single handle faucets tend to open the hot side more often even when not needed increasing hot water usage not even intended by the user.
@Truesy14 ай бұрын
Same reason you don’t put a toilet behind dry wall lol
@lukastembergerАй бұрын
There are higher quality ceramic mixer faucets that last a very long time... They're more expensive of course. But if you get a basic one, it's super cheap to replace if it fails in 5-10 years or so. Americans are just generally extremely resistant to change.
@noproblem4260Ай бұрын
Are you talking about rubber stopper or modern ceramic ?
@kymerwin8870Ай бұрын
And a more modern idea. The single handle seems cheap, ugly and quite honestly, it's stupid. It didn't need to happen. It's a dumb fad.
@rafaelshumaker1883 Жыл бұрын
As a truck driver, I access bathroom faucets all over the country. To get the perfect temperature on most double knob faucets, I open the cold to a slow trickle, and then open the hot until I have a flow that is not too fast or too slow. This works most of the time. I don't even have to wait for the hot water to reach the tap. By the time it does, my hands are already fully wet and I'm rubbing them with soap. I get to enjoy the perfect temperature when it's time to rinse them off. But on mixer taps, it takes a lot of guessing and adjusting to get the right temperature. So I prefer the separate knobs.
@garygibbs57322 жыл бұрын
I have a few crazy-ish stories. I am a yank and went on an senior year of undergrad exchange program with université de technologie de compiègne). I stayed in a dorm room which had a bidet. I also did not have a refrigerator. This was during the fall semester. I kept my "cold" stuff setting on the sill outside of my window. The bidet was used to trickle cool my beer. Basically just crack the faucet to allow a small amount of water to continuously run. Beer got as cold as the water was. Further several bars I went to only had a ceramic "hole in the ground" with two foot pads for you to go #2. I was quite surprised at this concept.
@cherylmillard2067Ай бұрын
4:57 you can test the lock by locking the door while it's open and checking the knob that will be on the outside of the bathroom, when you close the door, it will remain locked until you exit the bathroom.
@EduardQualls2 жыл бұрын
*If there is a single outflow of water, it is a "mixer tap" no matter how many handles it has: you don't have to turn on only one faucet at a time.* Non-mixer taps have separate outflows for hot and for cold and, while common until recently in the UK, have not been used in new construction in the US since the late 1950's.
@emjayay2 жыл бұрын
Exactly right.
@rdwright67082 жыл бұрын
I hate non-mixer taps; you can't wash your hands with warm water in the winter - only hot or cold.
@thehoneybadger80892 жыл бұрын
My introduction to German shelf toilets was almost 60 years ago. Another feature then was the tank high up on the wall that was flushed by pulling down on a handle connected to a chain going up to the tank. And you had to make sure the toilet lid was closed or there was the possibility of a little something splashing out of the bowl.
@jc3drums9162 жыл бұрын
Something always splashes out of the bowl. It's just not a large enough volume for us to be able to see it.
@ichselbst8802 жыл бұрын
Oh yeah, I remember, in the aerly 60s this was the standard. Good ol' times....
@emjayay2 жыл бұрын
The tank high up on the wall was how all toilets in the US were until at least the early 1900's.
@ladyelainefairchild35462 жыл бұрын
Have you never watched The Godfather? US toilets had the tank and chain also.
@thehoneybadger80892 жыл бұрын
@@ladyelainefairchild3546 Yes, but they went away in the US long before they did in Europe.
@richardhildreth44712 жыл бұрын
I lived off post when I was stationed in Germany while in the Army. Yeah, that shelf was really weird. It's really embarrassing when a house mate informs you you forgot to flush. The toilet paper was weird too. It was wax paper, thick and smooth. Fortunately I heard my grandmother explain how they used pages from the Sears Roebuck catalogue. You hold an edge in both fists and crinkle it. There ya go. I'm 67 and will never forget my experiences in Germany. I was stationed in Heilbronn, by the way.
@williamevans94262 жыл бұрын
Perhaps the 'paper stock' was the true origin of 'scrunching', versus 'folding' for those more affluent (as opposed to 'effluent'!).
@kirbyculp3449Ай бұрын
I encountered the wax paper tp at a Gasthaus. Yuck. I was about 14 or 15 years old. The water reservoir was high on the wall with a pull chain. The poop kinda slowly ambled off of the shelf. The refill water sprinkled over the top of the reservoir onto your hair when you pulled the chain. The setup seemed to be designed to discourage use. The landlady had a face set in a permanent scorn. When I die I will go to Heaven coz I've spent my time Hell.
@richardhildreth4471Ай бұрын
@kirbyculp3449 I lived in an apartment off post. We purchased our toilet paper from the px. But we had that nasty shelf toilet.
@seanseoltoir Жыл бұрын
I absolutely HATE the "mixer taps", especially on showers... They do not allow a fine control of water flow rate or temperature...
@dex1lsp2 жыл бұрын
I'm from San Francisco and many of our older houses, especially the Victorian-style ones, do have some of these European features, like light switches on the outside and turning bolt locks. It's also common for those houses to have the toilet and the sink in separate adjacent rooms, which is very uncommon in the US in general. Fully tiled bathrooms are also common here. I currently live in a very modern building, but I did grow up in an old one. As someone with a physical disability, I also really like those versatile handheld showerheads. Getting one was one of the best decisions I ever made. I highly recommend it!
@YeshuaKingMessiahАй бұрын
So u have water closets? I love those! Total privacy yet ppl can still use rest of bath I like shower being in a room alone too but that’s very rare. It prevents alot mildew n u can have a linen closet in bath as the steam stays in the shower room
@mccarterw2 жыл бұрын
I lived in Germany for 9 years. I could never understand the lack of a shower curtain. I did though learn to love the hand-held shower. My house, in Georgia USA, has 3 showers. All have hand-held shower heads. I also have one for traveling. I don't travel much, but when I stay in a hotel, I literally remove the shower head and install my hand-held one. I also have Teflon tape and tools so I can install the hotel's shower head back on properly. Really people, if you've never showered with a hand-held shower head then you don't know what you are missing. And those shelf toilets, ack, the bad smells. You have to poo and then instantly flush or you get to smell your work of art.
@tiffanymims86912 жыл бұрын
The two things that made me think, 'oh wow, that is different' in Germany (1996-97), was some of the public toilets and how they kept them sanitary. The first one was the toilet seat wrapped in plastic sheeting, and when you flushed, a new plastic sheet was reeled out, and the old one was reeled in. The really neat one was when you flushed, the toilet seat would have a small arm that came out the back of the toilet, and the seat would spin around, sanitizing the seat with a solution, and there was a tiny little squeegee on the arm that wiped the liquid off the seat!
@melindar.fischer51062 жыл бұрын
The Kansas City, Missouri, airport had the toilet seats wrapped in plastic sheeting for a while, some time from 2000 - 2020. (I don't remember exactly which years I used the restroom at MCI while picking up friends who flew in). It's possible the moving plastic sheeting on the toilet seats was there earlier, in the 90s, but I wasn't living in the KC area then.
@WSupernatural772 жыл бұрын
This was a Swiss Enigeneered System, BTW
@fancydeer2 жыл бұрын
God I'd hate to be the person who has to maintain/clean that
@sfuterfas2 жыл бұрын
We need that for the US. So many women squat when they pee and leave the toilet seat a mess and don't bother to clean it off.
@TheRootedWordАй бұрын
7:30 COME ON! I'm an American and I can tell you the shelf is to prevent the water from splashing up and hitting your bum. It would be very unhygienic if that happened.
@TDH75Ай бұрын
Good point. But would you rather smell the fresh loaf or get splashed? Getting splashed using a public toilet is just vile though.
@TheRetroGuy20002 жыл бұрын
The strangest toilet experience I had was in Sweden, when I didn't want to pay for a restroom visit while in Stockholm. There was a free men's room, but there were no urinals; the floor was a grate, and you were just supposed to... pee anywhere... *shudders* I had to leave and find a pay toilet.
@silubr12 жыл бұрын
These things used to be relatively common in Germany, too, under the aptly poetic name _Pissrinne._
@TheRetroGuy20002 жыл бұрын
I have seen very primitive men's rooms in the US, which were basically a trough on one wall. But never just "pee anywhere on the floor". The same floor you are walking on. No.
@MrGettinlate2 жыл бұрын
@@TheRetroGuy2000 I agree, the concept is disgusting, but it's a pretty rare day in the USA when one can step up to a urinal without standing in a puddle of someone else's pee. I can't for the life of me, understand how anyone can "miss" when there's like 120 degrees of target area in both the horizontal and vertical directions.
@rwitter53332 жыл бұрын
That's hysterical 😅
@jamesr17032 жыл бұрын
I'm German-American and all of the strange stuff we did in my house as a kid made sense to me only after I moved to Germany as an adult. My grandma said the "poop shelf" was so that you could examine your feces. To see if you were healthy. New Subbie!
@mrdovie472 жыл бұрын
the shelf might save a dropped cell phone.
@steinbockguy2 жыл бұрын
That's what I was told when I first moved to West Germany in 1989 as a junior in college. I found them "horrible" as a male since urinating tended to splash more than the American toilet. It has become an insult for some men to be referred to as a "sitzpinkler," a guy who pees sitting down (often implied at the insistence of his wife who doesn't want to clean his pee that has splashed onto the floor). Her video is funny because it is an actual debated topic in Germany.
@roseg1333 Жыл бұрын
I mean at least it has some valuable reason for the self if I did not know this I might have thought their toilets were absolutely bazaar
@19ghost73 Жыл бұрын
@@roseg1333 Yup, it was designed esp. for taking feces samples more than 100years ago, when public health had LOTS of issues like parasites. However, that design is going away since at least 25+ years...the easier cleaning of the modern version finally won over here, too.
@LarsOfLegends Жыл бұрын
Well, no poseidons kiss is reason enough for me to always go for the poop shelves.
@TheDivayenta2 жыл бұрын
I was at a German traffic stop restroom. No toilet paper. You could buy one paper towel from a machine- so with diarrhea this was a creative challenge! I also remember living in Germany in the 60’s- when toilet paper could double as sandpaper! Explains the crankiness I often encountered.
@YeshuaKingMessiahАй бұрын
I buy very cheap tp U get used to it I’m hustling grateful to have tp!
@mirthiful1 Жыл бұрын
My husband and I went to Austria in 2001 and the poop shelf surprised us. We spent a good half hour coming up with different names for it (log flume got the biggest laugh). It still makes me smile when I think of it. Also, the public bathroom threw me... the bathroom attendant stopped me and I got so flustered, I started speaking Spanish (my second language) which confused her as well as myself.
@Powerstroke98 Жыл бұрын
LOL, I've never had to pay to use a bathroom in my life, there again, I've never travelled to Europe, as there are enough locations I want to see in North America, some more than once! Thanks for the smile this morning!
@dianeledgerwood1091 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for explaining why there are toilet brushes in German public toilets. This was so confusing to me as I didn’t know if I was supposed to clean the whole toilet, the seat (as there was no paper to cover it) or what. And there wasn’t anyone I felt I could ask! One of life’s unanswerable questions is answered.
@janverstraten57302 жыл бұрын
about the two taps at the sink (at 13:00): this originates from the UK, where it was common, and you still see it a lot there. the cold water was 'drinking water quality', but the warm water was in a tank on the attic, and not safe to drink. The building code (or similar) forbid mixing taps, because that could pollute the drinking water.
@imsnezhn8610 Жыл бұрын
It's about cold/hot water handles not tap. Tap is still single and mixing, but there are two handles to regulate hot/cold water independently
@janverstraten5730 Жыл бұрын
@@imsnezhn8610 'tap' is correct for all types. the mixing thing is a 'mixer tap'.
@frostflower5555 Жыл бұрын
I dislike the mixing tap. Prefer hot and cold water handles separate. The single one can be pushed up and forgotten to be pushed down to close or maybe kids or pets can leave the tap running and then before you know it a flood in your bathroom.
@imsnezhn8610 Жыл бұрын
@@janverstraten5730 they are both mixers no matter how much levers they have or is it sink mixer, wall mixer or kitchen mixer. The difference is only in closing mechanism (cartridge or any kind of valves). Because right after the valve(s) two waters are combined to warm water (that's why it is a mixer). And the last pipe (spout) is used by both waters and may be contaminated by hot water. Only two separate taps can provide "drinking water quality" with no questions
@imsnezhn8610 Жыл бұрын
@@frostflower5555 what you should prefer are overflow holes and self-closing taps. And water leak detectors or consumption control system. It's the only way to protect your bathroom from kids, pets or obliviousness. In the picture 13:08 there are two long levers and they can be easily turned left or right by kids or pets
@FreeSpirit472 жыл бұрын
One aspect of European toilets (probably other places, too) I loved was the bidets! "Why wipe it dirty when you can wash it clean" When I experienced a bidet again when I stayed at the Moana Surfrider in Honolulu, I bought the add on type of bidet for my personal bathroom. It washes, dries, feels a lot more sanitary, to me!
@BeckBeckGo2 жыл бұрын
I have a bidet in my home too. It's not a hot water one. It doesn't sing to you like the Japanese ones do (Everything sings to you in Japan...) it just uses cold water. But I don't think I could live without one. I don't understand why this hasn't caught on in North America.
@FreeSpirit472 жыл бұрын
@@BeckBeckGo There are more people that have bidets than it might seem. It's not a subject that would be discussed over lunch or dinner. I only have one bathroom in my home. I keep a couple rolls of toilet paper if a guest doesn't want to use the bidet. I'm glad my bidet doesn't sing! That would become annoying & kinda creepy.
@fabricefauconnier2358 Жыл бұрын
Bidet is a french word and tradition. They were numerous in the old times and houses but now are disappearing for it was mainly designed for the maison closes aka bordels ..
@jonc44032 ай бұрын
@@BeckBeckGo I didn't get a singing one, but there's no way I'm squirting cold water up there. The warm water, heated seat, and blowdryer are absolutely worth it.
@zaram131Ай бұрын
I visited Switzerland a couple years ago and stayed in a house with this kind of poop shelf toilet. I was intrigued by how different it looked, but didn’t realize the reason for it! It also had the tank way up high on the wall, like above your head. That looked so funny to me. 😄 I was fascinated by all the different ways there were to flush a toilet there. Sometimes there were buttons on the wall, sometimes the top of the tank had a rectangular piece that you push down, and more that I’m forgetting! So much fun to go other places and see how they do things! I fell madly in love with Switzerland. But I want to go to Germany too. ❤️
@karlschulte9231Ай бұрын
Wierd thing in Amsterdam airport, was seeing woman janitor mopping inside men's bathroom. She laughed at me when i said this was wrong. Should not see men's privates before the wedding. When i grew up in Norman-American home, No one would speak of what occured in the " bathroom". Toilette is French for fixing up a lady's hair and makeup, and penoir. When culture generally realized what occured there in reality, and that word was used for the porcellin chair, it became a bathroom. Then a rest room, then a powder room. Because mentioning what was really going on was uncouth, gauche, along with words like sweat ( polite society only perspired). Other body functions were also taboo. The purpose of kotex, pads, etc. was a secret, to be kept from unmarried young gentlemen, discussed with ( i suppose) between women only. No commercials. No ads. Woman issues, were only hinted at as headaches, vapors, stomach ache. Especially in my home, with great grandfather ( ret Norwegian sailing/ steamship master) g dad ( same) grandma, aunt, Mom. Social ideas from 1910's persisted into about 1960. Awareness creeped into boy's head at around 17 or so. I am still amazed to see such things as hemeroids, incontinence, periods, on tv ads, which should be private or between daughter and mother or doctor. It all changed when i graduated HS at 16 and went to college. Pre- 1960 and post 1970 are like different universes. Watch "Meet me in St. Louis" movie, Father knows best and Ozzie and Harriet tv shows on youtube to see how life was.
@hartmutbohn2 жыл бұрын
Simple life hack for German shower curtains: buy TWO curtains - a nice one for the outside, and a practical, easy to clean one for the inside, and mount them on the same hooks. Works perfectly, and you avoid moving the one curtain in and out again all the time.
@bengaljam45502 жыл бұрын
Most shower curtains sold here contain a separate liner curtain for that purpose.
@emjayay2 жыл бұрын
American cloth shower curtains intended for the outside do not come with the inside liner. You buy it separately. If you get a plastic one you could leave it outside and flip in inside to take a shower, or get a liner.
@bengaljam45502 жыл бұрын
@@emjayay I see them online with liner included. That is how i bought mine
@MaternalUnit2 жыл бұрын
The first time I flew to outside of the U.S. was into Berlin. After the transatlantic flight, I was anxious for a restroom and did not know I would need to pay. The restroom had an attendant who spoke only German. It was obvious that I was supposed to tip her, but I had nothing but large travelers checks with me. We had not been through customs yet, so we had no opportunity to change currency. I had to leave without tipping. The attendant was angry, and she yelled so loud I could hear as I ran down the airport corridor. I was embarrassed, but why did they have an attendant expecting tips in a restroom inside the international terminal where foreign travelers would not have been through customs yet? Once I was able to get change, I was not allowed to go back into the terminal to tip her. That was thirty years ago and still bothers me!
@trespire2 жыл бұрын
@Kate Held I'm sure the German attendant is still angry !!😡
@orioleadams2 жыл бұрын
OMG, you reminded me of my first trip to Germany...during my first trip to Europe (with a friend), actually. Anyway, we'd taken the train from Brussels, Belgium, to Cologne, Germany. Something I'd eaten the night before wasn't agreeing with me so the minute we arrived at the Cologne train station I made a mad dash for the ladies' room. I was confronted by pay toilets and I had not yet exchanged any money....oh my, I had to run upstairs to the currency exchange and then go back down to the bathroom (in the nick of time). For some reason, though, the bathroom attendant started yelling at me and banging on the stall door and tried to open it with her key. I had to finish "my business" holding the door shut with one foot.
@simonbone2 жыл бұрын
That kind of failure to think about things has been pretty common in Germany. For example, until a decade ago, the duty-free shops at Berlin-Tegel airport were cash only. Who wants to take a bunch of cash from the country you're leaving just in case you might want to buy a bottle of slightly discounted booze? The one time I shopped there, I saw it as a chance to get rid of some change and notes that would be useless once I left - only to get chewed out by the cashier for "too many coins".
@trespire2 жыл бұрын
@@simonbone In Hanover airport, you can pay in cash in Euro, US Dollar & if I recall Polish Zlotti (what ever their called). Cash is king.
@JimmyMon6662 жыл бұрын
LOL, I would have just put a couple quarters in there. So many places in Europe I was at in the Navy accepted American cash iirc. I do remember buying something in Amsterdam airport when I had to fly home for Emergency leave after my dad died, I'm sure I paid in American dollars since I certainly didn't exchange any money. Very few times I actually exchanged money.
@achecase2 жыл бұрын
New Jersey here and every one of your "commen in the USA" bathroom traits are virtually ubiquitous here, you totally nail it.
@yumimbi Жыл бұрын
The gap on the bottom of American stalls, from what I've been told, is to assist emergency professionals accessing people in distress on the floor. So when you think of it that way, I think the rest of the world needs to catch up.
@keithhinke32772 жыл бұрын
The only unusual experience I had in Germany with public bathrooms was when I went in one with my dad and the was an older lady in there [something totally foreign to me]. My dad said she was the cleaning lady and that we had to pay her before we left. She did seem somewhat animated when it looked like we might not pay, she clearly wanted her money. I'm not sure what dad paid for the 2 of us but it seemed to make her happy.
@patwilson25462 жыл бұрын
Ah, childhood memories. My grandmother lived in a (now) 200 year old Gasthaus. The toilet was downstairs near the back, just past the bar. It got pretty ripe with the poop sitting on a shelf instead of dropping into water. That is the only place I have ever seen one of those toilets, and always assumed it was because the house was so old. I have been to many different parts of Germany and therefore pooped in many toilets there, and I don't recall seeing them in other places. I'm quite a but older now so I'm surprised to see a 20 something year old German girl make a video about them. Oh well, thanks for the memories ... 😀
@dvdraymond2 жыл бұрын
My first normal international trip was to Belgium for work. After a very long trip where my brain was mush by the end I got to the hotel. I went to use the bathroom, looked inside, and saw no toilet. Just the shower and sink. And my brain did a complete blue screen of death. As my brain rebooted and got working again I kept saying to myself "no. no. no. This is not a cultural thing. There is no way a hotel room in any country does not have its own toilet." So I walked into the bathroom and looked around, and it turns out the toilet was hidden. The door to the bathroom opened inwards, and the opened door perfectly covered the entrance to a little side alcove where the toilet was, so you had to walk in and shut the door before you could see where the toilet was. If I had been more awake it probably wouldn't have been so bad. But brain dead after a full day of traveling for your first time abroad, where you're all ready to just crash and sleep... and it looks like you got a hotel room without a toilet... just broke my brain.
@mikebarnes22942 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing. I'll be sure to keep that in mind should I ever encounter that situation.
@okaro65952 жыл бұрын
In Finnish houses bathroom and toilet were traditionally completely separate rooms at separate parts of the house. Nowadays on new homes there is a separate toilet with the bathroom also but it is more like backup and not the main toilet. That makes the use of the term "bathroom" to refer to toilet strange to me. The bathroom is here with the sauna. Because it can be used for extended periods it would be inconvenient to have the only toilet there. On apartments they typically are combined.
@arfriedman4577 Жыл бұрын
In usa, there are many home differences, depending on the year it was built, and updates. Newer constructed homes are different
@eljj79682 жыл бұрын
This was such a fun video haha! I'm not from Germany or the US but have spent quite a bit of time in both. The giant gaps around US public bathrooms never fail to confuse and amuse me lol. I must say though, I have just done a huge road trip around the US Southwest, almost 10,000 miles, and found every public bathroom I stopped in (and there were A LOT on that trip) to be immaculate, from gas stations to truck stops. In Germany I didn't think the bathrooms were actually as clean, especially given that you have to pay.
@manuelrentz4728 Жыл бұрын
😂😂
@vickistirkey8572 жыл бұрын
I have been to Germany once. We took a road trip and I was FASCINATED by the self cleaning pay toilets that go around and are sprayed. I wouldn't leave the stall until it was done. Well worth the cost! The hand held showers were interesting but just seemed unwieldy to me. I could have gotten used to it. But those toilets just blew me away.
@mikeohandley19222 жыл бұрын
Hi Feli, I inspected homes for buyers for nearly 23 years. What I discovered is that most consumers don't know that even many cheap 1.6 gallon flush toilets in the US have a dual flush mode even when there aren't two buttons. For flushing urine with less water, just hit the handle once and the stopper will reset inside the tank quickly and you'll use only about 1/3 to 1/2 the amount of water used for a full flush. For fecal matter, hold the handle down all the way for a second or two instead of releasing it immediately and the stopper won't drop inside the tank until the tank has been almost completely emptied of water. The added weight of that extra water is what helps to push fecal matter down the trap built into the toilet. Many users don't know this; and, when their toilet clogs, after they've done No. 2, they get very upset and insist the toilet is defective and needs to be replaced. Showing them the handle trick fixes the issue immediately.
@davewright8206 Жыл бұрын
yes i still think im the only one in my house who knows this ! and weve lived in it for 30 yrs !
@mikeohandley1922 Жыл бұрын
@@davewright8206 - Dave Wright?!! I don't suppose you're the same Dave Wright who was an Army Lineman in February of 1976 and got tangled up with another guy jumping out of a C141 on your third jump while going through Jump School at Ft. Benning?
@mikeohandley1922 Жыл бұрын
Dang! I was hoping someone would know that guy, reach out to him, and have him come on here. I was the guy that landed on his canopy, ran off, fell between his suspension lines, and then we rode those entangled chutes alll the way down. That day, I almost quit without completing the last two jumps I needed for graduation. Been trying to find him for a long time, but There are a helluva lot of Dave Wrights in this country.
@tararenemartin Жыл бұрын
@@mikeohandley1922 Our company commander in basic training at Ft. Jackson told of this happening to him in Airborne training. He said he landed on someone's canopy and had to run to the side to jump off as his own canopy was deflating. I don't remember much else of the story, but he was a Captain at the time. I was in basic training in June/July/August of 1977.
@mikeohandley1922 Жыл бұрын
@@tararenemartin - Yeah, that's what they train you to do. The thing about my situation was that I guess they put me and the other guy out of the two opposing waist doors almost simultaneously, when they're supposed to leave a second between the two doors. So, as I was finishing my count, before reaching up for my risers to check my canopy, the other guy's canopy opened right beneath my feet and it wasn't fully inflated yet either. I tried to run off but his canopy was up around my knees and hips and the edge of his canopy was kind of flattened out. His canopy tried to inflate, allowing me to begin moving toward the outside but then his skirt sort of collapsed under my weight and I fell straight down into the area under his canopy at about the same instance my canopy finally became fully inflated and jerked me upward under the edge of his canopy. Somehow, three of his suspension lines got broken when I fell down between his lines. I spread my arms and legs to stop myself from passing through the other guy's suspension lines, but then realized I was on the inside anyway so spread eagling wasn't going to do me much good - I needed to get down to him. He yelled at me, "Hey man, my chute's collapsing, get down here quick." I reached out and grabbed the nearest suspension line but then realized, that because his canopy was losing air where the thee suspension lines had snapped, he was falling faster than me and to get to him I had to drag myself down by pulling up on his suspension lines hand-over-hand, lifting his whole weight. I was under his canopy, his chute was losing air, he was yelling and swearing at me and I was yelling and swearing back. The training had kicked in and wall we were thinking about was what we'd been taught - we really didn't have time to be scared. He was yelling and me and reaching up, and I was swearing back at him, pulling so hard that the lines were cutting into my hands, but my fully inflated canopy above wasn't cooperating as he got heavier it was trying to drag me back toward his canopy which was starting to droop. Without something to put my feet against and the ability to use my back, I was trying to lift all of that with just my forearms. It was hard and it was too slow. In theory, entangled jumpers are supposed to level up and then lock arms facing each other and agree to roll away in opposite directions the instant their feet touch the ground. In practice, it's a lot harder than it sounds. We'd jumped at about 1,500 ft. and were falling slightly faster than the 26fps we were supposed to be falling. I got to within two feet of his outstretched hands when I heard a bullhorn "Goddammit!!! Entangled jumpers LOOK AT THE FUCKING GROUND!!!!" I said, "Oh shit!" as we looked down. We only had time to get our feet and knees together before we hit the ground. It felt like being run over feet first by a truck. One second I was crumpling into the ground and the next second there was one of the cadre standing over me with an open buck knife slashing at suspension lines to deflate the chute and prevent it from dragging us with the wind. I was surprised to find myself in one piece. I stood up and then the other guy, whose name was Dave Wright stood up and I realized we were both OK. For about the next five minutes we had to stand there at attention listening to the instructor reaming our asses over and over, threatening to wash us out of the course. The guy literally tired himself out yelling at us and finally just said, "Pick up your shit and get the fuck out of my sight." We gathered up our chutes and took off running as fast as we could for the collection point. It wasn't until we were halfway back to Benning that it hit us how close we'd come to becoming part of that DZ. We laughed hysterically for about five minutes. That night I thought real hard about dropping out of the course - I was married and my son was less than two months old. By morning though, I was feeling pretty invulnerable though and I stayed and finished my last jumps. That was the first time the god of jumpers tried to kill me but it wouldn't be the last.
@jimwebb2901 Жыл бұрын
Hi Feli. Planning a European vacation and Munich is on our list to visit. I enjoy learning more about Germany prior to our vacation. As an American, I was traveling on business in the US and had to call the front desk of the hotel to ask how to turn on the shower. You had to pull down on the outlet rim of the faucet which diverted the water from the spigot to the shower head. Just goes to show we can be just as confused in our own country, but that's ok. The front desk attendant was very understanding and kind.
@bronco56442 жыл бұрын
When I lived in Germany, the “shelf toilets” in the houses I lived in were always a topic of discussion among visitors from the US.
@radioflyer689112 жыл бұрын
Sign above toilet said, don't ask. We don't know.
@westerlywinds5684Ай бұрын
They want to save on water, but it takes 3 flushings to clean the toilet.
@TheNudeAmerican2 жыл бұрын
I remember that at one time back in the 70's for a short while there were pay toilets here in the US where you paid some change into a locking mechanism to unlock it and use some public toilets. I was a very young kid back then so I don't remember what they looked like, but I do remember their existence.
@becmer2 жыл бұрын
If there was a group of you you would hold the door open so the next person didn’t have to pay
@TheNudeAmerican2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I remember hearing about that too. If I remember correctly, that's one of the reasons that they quit doing it.
@defenestrationfan2 жыл бұрын
@@TheNudeAmerican Pay toilets were always the standard and you always had to be sure to carry some dimes and later quarters in case you got caught out and needed to use the facilities. I think at some time in the 70's they ruled pay toilets as cruel and unusual punishment.
@emjayay2 жыл бұрын
@@defenestrationfan Yes I remember them in the US when I was a kid, and that was before the 70's.
@mike03a32 жыл бұрын
I'll be 76 next month and have been in all 50 states and lived in many of them thanks to Uncle Sam. While I do remember pay toilets in the US, I can count on the fingers of one hand how many I've actually used.
@jentommyontheroad80892 жыл бұрын
🤣 I always wondered about that shelf when I was growing up and visiting family in Germany! I knew as soon as I read the title that I had to watch immediately to get the answer to that lifelong question!!!
@mariadavila70932 жыл бұрын
Same thing. Was a shocking experience.
@timmartin6410 Жыл бұрын
The "shelf toilet" was an interesting experience when I visited Germany in 1994. I was in Hanover for CeBIT, staying in a home. Which was so much better an experience than a hotel.
@barrellcooper64902 жыл бұрын
IMHO, seperate hot and cold handles on modern faucets is that way primarily for aesthetic reasons. Though there is also a cost difference primarily only at the low cost end of the range. I think a lot of two seperate handle faucets are chosen because a single handle generally looks new and modern and many people are looking for an older look, non -"Jetsons" look.
@nmccw32452 жыл бұрын
In some countries, only the cold water is potable, hence separate taps.
@jameskirchner2 жыл бұрын
When I saw the poop shelf for the first time, I immediately thought of an old German novel I read where someone's grandmother would carefully inspect his feces every time he went. In intercultural training at German companies in the US, I used to use the Flachspüler versus the Tiefspüler as an analogy for the difference between German and American mentalities. American engineers used to complain that in project meetings German engineers would harp on mistakes made three years ago that the Americans had already dealt with and flushed away. This contrasting Flachspüler versus Tiefspüler mentality was one way Germans and Americans drove each other nuts in the workplace.
@Whisperwomaneq22 жыл бұрын
Yes, I have to say that over the years I have found that the German obsession with fecal matter can be extreme and even perverse.
@John-tr5hn Жыл бұрын
You forgot to mention that at gas station bathrooms, you often either have to have the code to enter the bathroom or they give you a key, which is invariably attached to the most unwieldy thing possible like a broomstick, a giant spoon, or a hubcap.
@sexygeek8996 Жыл бұрын
Those places often get drug addicts shooting up in the bathroom or people losing the key.
@karencarriere8104 Жыл бұрын
I have always lived in Alabama, USA and I've never actually seen this. I've seen it in movies and understand the reasoning -- but I can't ever remember having to get a key to use a gas station bathroom.
@philipzullo Жыл бұрын
@5:00 Hey Feli, when you want to check how most any door locks.... hold it open and check the lock routine you believe will lock it by checking the other side after you engage it, since the door is still physically open you can test both sides.
@blakefoster2946 Жыл бұрын
Lock the door before you shut it. So you can check the outside knob to make sure it's locking.
@brandonlaird68762 жыл бұрын
My grandpa was first generation born American, his parents came from Germany. He completely renovated his house so many times (walls, support beams, bathrooms where there were none, etc). I remember, as a kid, my brother and I would ABSOLUTELY LOVE/HATE turning the light in the bathroom off on each other. Yes, he purposefully put the light switch on the outside! I never knew it was because this was how Germans did it. I now have a topic to talk to him about next time I see him in the nursing home. I'm sure he'll love talking about it lol 🤣
@chickenfishhybrid442 жыл бұрын
The light is on the outside of my bathroom as well. I never realized it was a common thing in Germany. I'm going to try and dig up the info on the guy who built the house in the 50s and see if maybe he was German lol. I remember he was a dentist but thats about it.
@munzekonzarupe Жыл бұрын
That's for security reasons. If you splash the switch with water when you are in the tub you could be electrocuted. So to avoid that they put the switch outside the bathroom.
@anthonyrobertson20112 жыл бұрын
In the US pay toilets were around here and there when I was a kid. Never saw an attendant person but these were locks on a door or stall door that you had to put coins in to unlock. This was in the 70s. I don't remember ever seeing those after 1980.
@GrumpyXer2 жыл бұрын
same, mom said crawl under
@rhondaweber56382 жыл бұрын
I saw them once too in am airport. It was the 70's and they made them illegal.
@ryanparker3_2_12 жыл бұрын
Never seen em before myself
@JamesMackin-k9u4 ай бұрын
I remember the coin accessed toilets in the U.S. in the 1950's and 60's I'm glad they fell into disuse. They were however a source of some interesting grafitti. My favorie was " here I sit broken hearted. Paid a dime and only farted."
@jameshitselberger5845Ай бұрын
usually in bus stations
@johncrisp66832 жыл бұрын
This was so funny. We lived in Germany from 87-92. I remember our first apartment with an old poop shelf thinking what on earth would that be for. Just wait until the public WC video for some real fun. Then travel from country to country. In the end I really miss the quality and options of German bathrooms and kitchens. It was Germany we first had a heated tile bathroom floor. Heaven.
@manuel0578 Жыл бұрын
umm it's very easy to test the lock 5:00 you just push the button while the door is open and try to turn the handle on the other side. what's more annoying is that you are easily able to lock yourself out of your own bathroom. for example when the door hits a wall and the button becomes pushed in and you don't notice that and you then close the door you're screwed
@reginakeith81872 жыл бұрын
In my house, built in 1996 in Oklahoma, the master bathroom has one of those toilet rooms with its own door so someone can still use the sink or shower while the toilet is being used. It annoys me to no end that the lightswitch for it is on the outside. And, on the inside wall where the light swtich should be, there is a phone jack! WHY?!?! The people who built this house were crazy!
@themourningstar3382 жыл бұрын
One of my cousin's built a house around 1992-93, and that's how they did their master bath! It had the little 'water closet' with just the toilet, light switch on the outside, and a freaking landline phone on the wall next to the toilet! It was so bizarre (and yuck), and he never had a good explanation as to why they built it that way. He just kind of shrugged and blamed it on the builder.
@lesliesheppard61122 жыл бұрын
Because you wanted to have a good excuse to get off the phone when the telemarketer called you🤣🤣 ☎️ 🚽💩
@emjayay2 жыл бұрын
@@themourningstar338 I think the logic with the switch is that you are already in the bathroom with a light on, so you can see the switch on the outside of the toilet room and won't have to search for it if you go in there and close the door at night.
@braingasim2 жыл бұрын
One thing that really threw me about bathrooms in Germany & Netherlands RE: the water tap. Quite often, I see only cold water and no hot. Especially if there is just a toilet (non-shower), you will almost always see only cold water in the tap.
@claudiakarl27022 жыл бұрын
Because cold water is enough for washing hands. Most people I know only use warm water for rinsing the mouth after brushing the teeth or washing hair at the basin. And of course for showering. But washing hands with warm water is a waste of energy.
@thebestdamager74002 жыл бұрын
@@claudiakarl2702 That depends on where you live. In many places in winter the cold water is so cold you literally can't wash your hands with it.
@caliscribe21202 жыл бұрын
@@claudiakarl2702 I don't know. I use hot water to wash my hands after using the toilet and cold water to rinse my mouth after brushing my teeth.
@leDespicable2 жыл бұрын
It's a thing in guest bathrooms of older houses. My grandparents' place also has a guest bathroom with a sink that only has cold water. It's that way because it's only ever used by guests, and you don't need warm water to wash your hands. The water can be uncomfortably cold in winter, but that's a first-world problem I'd say. Nowadays it's the norm to also have mixer taps in there as well.
@braingasim2 жыл бұрын
I never used warm water for brushing my teeth. I kinda only used it for washing my hands.
@93mica2 жыл бұрын
I live in Serbia and our light switch for the bathroom is also on the outside so maybe it is a European thing and since most of the time the light switch comes with a little light on it to indicate the light in the bathroom is on (it is also the same switch for our boiler and heating in the bathroom) so maybe it is also made this way to indicate that someone is inside.
@toniweston4330Ай бұрын
The shelf as I remember it was so you could remove the turds into the honey pot beside the comode! The honey pot contents were then used to fertilize the home garden. Same in France. I was there until 1969...
@zaram131Ай бұрын
No way.. That is awful!
@gdp3rd2 жыл бұрын
When I lived in Germany, as a military dependent, it wasn't really on my radar. Fast forward to being a new father, and finding (this was in the 1980s) that men's rooms rarely had changing tables -- I remember having to change my son's diaper on a restroom floor. It is better now, but I was wondering what the situation was in Germany.
@alexp37522 жыл бұрын
We are from the US, and one of my friends uses the toilet and often times he fills it almost completely. When visiting Germany, he used the toilet and "blasted" excessively. He could not believe it when getting off the thing! The pot was fully filled and it clogged immediately. Thankfully, he was in a restaurant with many people, so he left it behind and said nothing about it when leaving. Sad.
@juliebarnett98122 жыл бұрын
Women's bathrooms didn't have changing tables either. Lol.
@RichardTheBigBunny Жыл бұрын
I've lived in Germany (briefly), the US, the UK, and Jamaica - but what springs to mind here are seemingly endless types of ways in the USA to turn on the shower. I've had to leave the bathroom and ask several times over the years. The worst [least obvious] 'shower activator' was the ring around the *spout* for filling the tub - 100% hidden - one had to grasp it between one's finger & thumb (around the flowing water) and pull it down! Yes, really. That was in San Francisco in 2017.
@Amycakes711 ай бұрын
I have one of those in my home! The home inspector who looked at the house before we purchased it almost marked that down as an issue with that bathroom, because he couldn't get the shower to work at first. Then he remembered a rarer type of shower diverter he'd seen before, tried that out, and got it to work. 😂
@jonc44032 ай бұрын
I've got one of the ring type. It's fine once you know how to use it.
@samhill6182 жыл бұрын
Ok here is one; we were having problems when we wanted a child, so I went to a fertility doctor in Germany. While at the doc, they needed a ...specimen ...and while in the toilet, an elderly man came down to the toilet, finding it locked, of course turned off the light (and couldn't hear my shouting) so I had to ....finish in the dark which was obviously awkward on many levels.
@jodybogdanovich43332 жыл бұрын
What in Sam Hill are you talking about? Sorry Sam, couldn't resist using that expression. Is that your real name? (PS. I hope the clinic was able to help you and your wife 🙏)
@samhill6182 жыл бұрын
@@jodybogdanovich4333 Yes my daughter is in college now! We faced the challenges of being older parents, everything worked out fine.
@jodybogdanovich43332 жыл бұрын
@@samhill618 That's good to hear 👍
@simonbone2 жыл бұрын
@@samhill618 I hope your daughter knows this story.
@jeromejanisch2500Ай бұрын
at the end i just shake my head back and forth at your knowledge and the humor you infuse in your speech.... you are the gem of the earth, Bless your upbringing and you!!!!! you are wonderful
@ErnestThurston2 жыл бұрын
I was at a bar in Idar-Oberstein once many years ago. It was called the Cave. The entire place was black with black lights. In the men's room, the urinal was a black tile wall with a small trough at the bottom. There were about six guys using it at one time. Well, when the band that was there started turning on their equipment they blew a fuse and everything went dark. Not a good situation in a place where you have a bunch of drunk guys peeing on a wall in a totally black room.
@eifelchinchillas2 жыл бұрын
These are pretty rare nowadays, however the sort of toilet something our grandparents used to have - if they haven't yet modernised. We have just had electrics redone in our property and can confirm that light switches are still commonly on the outside of many rooms, not only the bathroom, however many people are moving over to lights with built-in motion sensors.
@1djtraxx2 жыл бұрын
I think you left out a really important detail that I learned as an American stationed in Germany when I was in the army. Germans (and other Europeans) don’t use the term “restroom,” or “bathroom.” Germans (if I remember correctly) use the term “WC” which I guess is an abbreviation that translates to “Water Closet” in English. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
@ianholloway37782 жыл бұрын
A bathroom in the UK has a bath in it (or at least a shower) and is found in a house. If you are looking for public toilets the room would be signed as 'toilets' or less often 'lavatories' if using words rather than than pictograms and sometimes WC.
@m_mx_05 Жыл бұрын
As a native german speaker, pls note that we would say "Toilette" in a more formal environment (such as asking at a restaurant or in a house where you're invited at). Among family or close friends, you would just say "Klo".. which is derived from "Klosett" or "Wasser Klosett" (i.e. "WC").
@killer6ten Жыл бұрын
@Patriot Medic Here in the Netherlands we also use the term WC plus pretty much all other things she said bout german houses are same here.
@jimonthecoast3234 Жыл бұрын
Stadiums in the US often have just a floor trough, or a wall mounted trough.. squeeze in boys shoulder to shoulder... if you were pee shy like me.. you had to wait for a stall.. that CUTOUT in the seat.. is for WOMEN's toilets.. I've seen what happens to toilets without the cutout.. the paint gets removed from that portion due to wear from every user slightly crossing it with paper which it just get's wet in a mens room.. US law requires all bathrooms to be Accessible to Disabled ( ADA ) which requires that a wheelchair can easily maneuver. it's easy to just make them large
@greengummibear2 жыл бұрын
While visiting the German wife (then girlfriend), I ran into shelf toilets (though I had previously seen these while visiting Austria); she and her roommate in Kiel had one. This time the thing that did catch me off guard was the shower had it's own water heater, basically a tankless system. I've since seen these in the US, electric or gas main system, but when there are satellite locations, distinct heaters for sinks, showers, etc., usually these are electric. But at the time I had not seen these, and theirs was gas. So there was a pilot light in a unit under the showerhead. I still think that was a bit odd, like couldn't water drip into it? But at the time I thought it was really odd, and thought maybe it was turned on each time, like the GF had turned it on as she took a shower just before me, and left it on for me, so I blew it out when I was done. We went back to her parents' for the rest of the week, later found out her roommate was forced to take cold showers, not realizing for days that the light was out. I never admitted it was me...
@lumina99952 жыл бұрын
Blowing out the pilot light does not close the gas valve, so the gas continues streaming out and might easily have caused an explosion.
@formeremokid932 жыл бұрын
YESSSSSSSSS I WAS SO DISAPPOINTED WHEN THIS WASN'T CHOSEN BUT NOW IT IS I CAN'T WAIT
@georgiancrossroads2 жыл бұрын
I found the German toilets weird. Then I arrived in Poland and found some odd toilets inspired by the German model...except they were reversed. So the poop just went straight into the water shelf. And the forlorn poop shelf sat unused at the front of the toilet. Being partly Polish I truly appreciated the Polish desire to continually reinvent the wheel, or in this case the toilet.
@chuzzrocket8 ай бұрын
Feli, I love how you always hit how 'the important' things are different.
@cdnsrt48922 жыл бұрын
I went to Germany (Dusseldorf) for work a few years back. I used the urinals at a public bathroom in a bar. As you say, the urinals did not have any dividers. The arrangement of the urinals was interesting. When you walk into the bathroom, the urinals were on the side wall next to the door. (so, when the door opened, anybody could 'see you' using it). A cleaning lady walked in, while I was using the urinal. As I mentioned, there was no privacy and I was clearly exposed to her. We locked eyes for a second (which was super awkward) and I expected her to turn around and leave, but she just hesitated for a second and then walked right in and started cleaning.
@Dookie_burner Жыл бұрын
I first saw this German style toilet in Holland. I assumed that Europeans like to smell their poop. I left an American sized brown grizller on that shelf and the entire hotel floor stunk
@westerlywinds5684Ай бұрын
@@Dookie_burnerit’s called a Bratwurst.
@scottfineshriber50512 жыл бұрын
My childhood home in the US had bathroom light switches outside. It was built in 1948, I believe. That was customary back then. Ever since handheld shower heads became readily available I’ve installed them in my shower. They really do make a lot more sense than fixed shower heads. American public bathroom stalls are very annoying. Japan’s are also very private like Germany’s-and quite clean.
@zvast Жыл бұрын
Switch outside is only good for pranksters
@snesguy9176 Жыл бұрын
Yeah just on personal experience the house has to be like earlier than 1960 with the original electric to run in to them. Can't say I've ever seen one in a home new than that.
@MarkLada Жыл бұрын
American public bathroom stalls are the way they are because of building codes.. If the stall walls go all the way up to the ceiling.. Every stall would technically be considered its own separate room.. Then every stall would need its own fire sprinkler and HVAC supply and return register.. You would be looking at thousands of extra dollars in cost per stall to have the walls run from the floor to the ceiling..
@gringoviejo19352 жыл бұрын
worst public toilet experience in Germany: 1st solo trip after i became disabled in a car accident - landed at Frankfurt, caught a regional train to the "Main" train station connecting with a train to Berlin for reunification ceremony & needed to go. the men's room at that Frankfurt central station was down a flight of stairs, no ramp! hope this has been changed in the intervening decades for others with disabilities. [was directed to the first aid office which had a toilet without stairs.]
@MichuKaiou2 жыл бұрын
I fear it's still like that. Even after getting renovated around ten years ago.
@gringoviejo19352 жыл бұрын
@@MichuKaiou sad. lucky for me i've made significant strides in recovery. it'd be less of an issue if i can get back.
@gringoviejo19352 жыл бұрын
@@johnp139 they don't have ADA. some well-off Austrians & Germans i know had homes in America where they spend Winters. alas, 2 widowed Austrian sisters sold their digs in Florida to buy a condo outside Johannesburg, South Africa - to have less of a time-zone change to deal with when they traveled for Winter as they got older. they very much regretted that due to high crime against persons rates in South Africa. they weren't able to sell the condo in South Africa at anything close to what they had paid. ☹