Restroom

[topum]

I went to the restroom at a cafe in Benderi (a town in Transnistria), remembered 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.

Comments

[bunn.livejournal.com]

Good grief.

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

[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.

[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.

[topum.livejournal.com]

We did wonder too.
Especially about the one on the left with the magnifying glass ).

[found-world.livejournal.com]

I guess that is the most likely result for their room. Thank you for the information.

[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.

[apel.livejournal.com]

LOL They could have just written "It's shorter than you think, stand closer." but this works too.

[topum.livejournal.com]

This is a much more visual way to do it and I think it delivers the message a bit more boldly.

[meowmensteen]

Jeez. Did it make you feel sexually harassed to use that thing?

[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 ).

[wanderipity.livejournal.com]

Reminded me of a bathroom I went to.. except it has Hello Kitty and Ryan Reynolds all over the walls.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Hello Kitty and Ryan Reynolds? That's hardcore ).

[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

[topum.livejournal.com]

I think they use this as a more visual way of saying "It is not that big, come closer".

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

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

Athena

[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.

[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!

[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:

[rockingthemike.livejournal.com]

haha, omg, this is tooooooo funny!

[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 ).

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

A designer with castration complex...

[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.