I was thinking yesterday about how it would be interesting to have a large warehouse-sized bathroom with a lone toilet in the middle that's surrounded by nothing else, so that whoever is using the toilet experiences extreme feelings of isolation and exposure.

I figure you all have much better ideas on how to make the most awkward bathroom in existence, so how would you design a bathroom if the goal was to inflict the maximum amount of psychological harm on the person using it?

  • Woly [any]
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    4 years ago

    All toilets are arranged in a circle facing each other, and there is one large roll of toilet paper in the center of the room.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      4 years ago

      this is how the Romans pooped, except with a communal sponge instead of toilet paper

      EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium

      • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
        hexagon
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        4 years ago

        That actually seems like it would be kind of fun, assuming social shame/fear was taken out of the equation, as it was for the Romans. Imagine hanging out with friends and sharing your deepest bathroom thoughts in a giant communal gender-neutral bathroom.

        • emizeko [they/them]
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          4 years ago

          apparently it had huge social implications, because there were certain topics you could only raise while you were both taking a shit. people would wait and try to go to the bathroom at the same time as people they wanted to ask certain favors of

          can't find the article I read about this, will update

          EDIT: not having much luck. I must not be remembering the right search terms

          • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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            4 years ago

            Imagining some new roman senator having to take a shit real bad but he's waiting for the consul to go first so he can ask a favor, but the consul never goes and this sad senator just ends up shitting his toga on the senate floor

          • Mexidude93 [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            people would wait and try to go to the bathroom at the same time as people they wanted to ask certain favors of

            You definitely read that on Chapo . Unfortunately I think @Katieushka fessed up and said she made it up lol