Don’t do this please. We already have open office plans at work, next they’ll think it’s a swell idea to replicate this.
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People in glass bathrooms shouldn’t throw kidney stones?
Because some folks obviously don’t get it: /s
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I have known guys who were renovating a property they bought, and lived in the property (illegally in some cases) while they were doing it, so for periods they too had completely open concept homes, with toilets like this (but not as nice, obviously.)
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If you want to do something like that, do it well.
Why should you be exposed, but so alone?
Just make it a convivial opportunity!
(Buñuel, Le Fantôme de la liberté)
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in that film, wasn’t eating in public subject to the kind of taboo that shitting in public has in reality?
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I do sometimes wonder on these virtual conference calls how many people might be on the toilet at any given time.
Hopefully not also eating, though. Can’t stand the sound of chewing on those calls. 
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But it’s BAAAAASTON…
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So no hope then, is that what you’re saying?
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You know what?
I thought it was a completely different film, (La Grande Bouffe, M. Ferreri), but Google told me differently.
So, I have not seen it.
@teknocholer
Crap (seems the most appropriate expletive)!
I was even born in Rome and have been to Ostia Antica a number of times, how could I forget!
To my partial excuse, that was quite before my time.
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I’ve been there. It’s a fascinating place and, when we were there, had very few visitors.
You aren’t allowed to use the public toilets, though. Apparently.
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You don’t have to go back to an earlier millenium for this; when I was in school the bathrooms didn’t have walls between the stalls. Perhaps in a few decades people will think that urinals without walls, or open showers in gyms, are equally shocking. Our standards change over time.
Having the toilet in a different room (“water closet”) from the sink (“bathroom”) is not an uncommon design.
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I never understood how people could think they are acceptable, even when I was a child. You know, if we had bathrooms with fully private stalls and open sink areas, maybe the whole stupid gendered bathroom concept could be jettisoned for good too.
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i lived in a male dorm at a college in east texas from 1979-1983. the bathroom area had four unshielded urinals, five doorless stalls with toilets, and an open shower room with 10 shower heads. one summer i stayed in what was normally a women’s dorm and was startled to see a row of stalls with doors and a shower area with eight individual showers, each with its own shower curtain.
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Yeah, it’s a weird cultural thing. My dad ran a sports club/bar restaurant when I was in Highschool, and we lived there. As a teenager, it was pretty cool, and I remember when I had friends over when the parents were away, it was always most fun to use the sauna (fully clothed, of course. It was still New England…) in the men’s locker room, because the adjoining shower area was a big open room where we could turn all the spigots on full cold and run around under them. The women’s locker room had a line of individual stalls.
Later when I traveled around Turkey and Tunisia, though, I enjoyed going to the bath houses in the small-ish towns where it wasn’t some touristy thing. Multi-generational, non-sexual nudity with a bunch of random women and kids was pretty chill, and better than any book for teaching about all the different shapes and sizes we come in.
But defecating is still its own thing, and should be done in a separate place from where we’re trying to clean ourselves, if I have my druthers.
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Whenever company was expected, my grandparents would hang a framed 8x10 photo of themselves on the inside of the guest bathroom door. It wasn’t a very big bathroom, so when you sat down, they were grinning at you from about two feet away.
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Does “open concept” include the plumbing? If so, I wouldn’t want to live in the condo below.
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There’s not a single towel bar or place to store them anywhere in sight. This is just stupid! For that kind of money, they should have finished the job.
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