Restroom

Oct. 20th, 2016 09:31 pm
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I went to the restroom at a cafe in Benderi (a town in Transnistria), remembered [livejournal.com profile] badrobot68's last public post and took this photo with my phone. I hope that using my camera in public restrooms was not the new frontier which I now have crossed.

Date: 2016-10-20 07:10 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
Good grief.

I have to wonder who thought that was a good idea. And *why*

Date: 2016-10-20 08:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
We did wonder too.
Especially about the one on the left with the magnifying glass ).

Date: 2016-10-21 10:34 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com
I feel putting a couple of foot-shapes on the floor would be more subtle. But maybe they have already tried subtle!

Date: 2016-10-21 11:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
Oh subtlety is definitely not in vogue in Transnistria. We met with a bunch of locals guys for a beer and one of our volunteers was like this after it:

Date: 2016-10-20 08:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] found-world.livejournal.com
Is this a unisex restroom? If it is for males only, I wonder what the restroom for females is like? (That was not an implicit request you go find out, not that I thought you would.)

Also, this picture is interesting to me because for a moment, with my focus on the center figure, I couldn't tell they were not real women in the restroom. I noticed the other two figures being skewed
and recognized them as simply prints of photos.

Date: 2016-10-20 08:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
No it's men's room. And oh I did find out about the ladies'. I just asked one of the women in our group. The ladies' has nothing of this sort, just clean walls.

Date: 2016-10-20 08:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] found-world.livejournal.com
I guess that is the most likely result for their room. Thank you for the information.

Date: 2016-10-20 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
You are welcome, man. LJ is a wonderful place indeed I guess. Where else can you get information about how the walls in the ladies' restroom in Transnistria look, ha ha.

Date: 2016-10-20 08:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] apel.livejournal.com
LOL They could have just written "It's shorter than you think, stand closer." but this works too.

Date: 2016-10-20 09:20 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
This is a much more visual way to do it and I think it delivers the message a bit more boldly.

Date: 2016-10-20 09:55 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] meowmensteen
Jeez. Did it make you feel sexually harassed to use that thing?

Date: 2016-10-20 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
Of course not. Some funny pictures (however bad taste or not actually funny) on toilet walls can never make me feel harassed, different opinions however distastefully expressed do not offend me, I do not get triggered, I do not get microaggressed, etc. I am thick-skinned ).

Date: 2016-10-20 10:34 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wanderipity.livejournal.com
Reminded me of a bathroom I went to.. except it has Hello Kitty and Ryan Reynolds all over the walls.

Date: 2016-10-20 10:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
Hello Kitty and Ryan Reynolds? That's hardcore ).

Date: 2016-10-20 11:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beautesauvage13.livejournal.com

Why do they have pictures of women on the walls in the men's washroom?  They like pretending they have an audience while using the toilet?  Jeeze just adopt a few cats they love watching humans use the toilet or mine are just weird. 


Athena

Date: 2016-10-20 11:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
I think they use this as a more visual way of saying "It is not that big, come closer".

Date: 2016-10-21 12:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beautesauvage13.livejournal.com

Ha! Now I see the measuring tape and magnifying glass in the pictures.  Bit demasculating though isn't it? 


Athena

Date: 2016-10-21 12:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
I don't find it emasculating ). Well, maybe the magnifying glass a bit ). I am pretty sure many SJWs could write books and show us all step-by-step how wall decals like these eventually can result in human race extension in agony of endless pain. But I am just simple guy, I laugh (or don't) and move on without thinking about it twice. Whenever I am after food for thought, toilet walls are not my first go to place usually, ha ha.

Date: 2016-10-21 12:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rockingthemike.livejournal.com
haha, omg, this is tooooooo funny!

Date: 2016-10-21 01:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
I interpreted the look on the the girl's in the middle face as "awe" (I know it isn't) so I looked at her after I unzipped ).

Date: 2016-10-21 06:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com
A designer with castration complex...

Date: 2016-10-21 07:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] topum.livejournal.com
I don't think designers were involved. I think the owners had a couple of drinks and bought these wall decals on amazon thinking it would be fun.

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