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topum ([personal profile] topum) wrote2016-10-20 09:31 pm

Restroom

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.

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

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

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-20 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
We did wonder too.
Especially about the one on the left with the magnifying glass ).
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[identity profile] bunn.livejournal.com 2016-10-21 10:34 am (UTC)(link)
I feel putting a couple of foot-shapes on the floor would be more subtle. But maybe they have already tried subtle!

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-21 11:05 am (UTC)(link)
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:

[identity profile] found-world.livejournal.com 2016-10-20 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-20 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-20 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-20 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
This is a much more visual way to do it and I think it delivers the message a bit more boldly.
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[personal profile] meowmensteen 2016-10-20 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Jeez. Did it make you feel sexually harassed to use that thing?

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-20 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
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 ).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


Athena

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-21 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
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.

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

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-21 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
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 ).

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

[identity profile] topum.livejournal.com 2016-10-21 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
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.