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?
this is how the Romans pooped, except with a communal sponge instead of toilet paper
EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylospongium
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.
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
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
You definitely read that on Chapo . Unfortunately I think @Katieushka fessed up and said she made it up lol
dammit Katie! i'm not owned. im not 🌽
No i copied it from someone who later revealed they made it up
But you still bamboozled and lied to us. I'll never forget your betrayal comrade
:deeper-sadness: