Comment by madaxe_again
2 months ago
Sounds like the various RAF bases I did stints at as a cadet - the ablutions were just a great big room full of loos, showers, and bathtubs, all with dark brown water, and absolutely zero privacy of any variety.
The exposed loos were a novelty for me, at school we at least had shoulder height partitions - but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap.
I also spent a year or so living in a studio where the loo was in the kitchen area - we at least installed a curtain.
> RAF
On a trip I took with my father-in-law, the first morning he waltzed right into the little hotel room bathroom while I was showering (in a glass shower) and proceeded to sit on the throne and take a crap. I was confused at his lack of basic respect for privacy, and then remembered he'd been a US Navy guy for many years. Military folks just get used to no privacy in such matters.
> but we had communal showers and baths so it wasn’t a huge leap.
I dunno, I've no problem with communal showers, or nudity in general, but partition-less toilets feels like a bridge too far.
Growing up in West Virginia, I was in a moderately sized city (40k people) but when traveling to smaller high schools for football games, you'd often find a shared latrine as the bathroom, and everyone who needed to pee would just crowd around a long sink thing and just let 'er rip. No idea what it was like in the ladies'
Open troughs are fine, toilets facing each other with no partitions is a bit far. I grew up rural but not that rural.
Kitchen-loo must be illegal these days - I think rentals need to have 2 doors between the two. Did it seem reasonable at the time?!
I would suspect that this is highly jurisdiction-dependent. Around here (random EU country), it would instantly make all studio flats unrentable, so I don’t think that’s the case. Most of them have a bathroom door, though.
I just recently(september) saw a sale advertisement for loo/bathroom-kitchen... With only small not full height partition next to seat...