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Taking some "me time" on the toilet should be a peaceful experience, and usually, it is, in the comfort of your own home, but what happens when you have to use a public restroom? Even the most bathroom shy of people has been caught in that terrifying moment of panic where you have to frantically search for a restroom and pray that you don't find anything too horrific inside.
The following is a list compiled by Bored Panda of the most extreme bathroom design fails that made at least one person if not everyone's' bathroom experience odd, uncomfortable, terrifying and possibly hilarious. From toilettes with no stall to inconveniently placed soap dispensers you won't believe these crappy designs. And remember don't forget to upvote your favs!
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#1
Our Airbnb Had A Translucent Bathroom Door. I’m Used To My Impatient Toddler Stalking Me Through The Bathroom Door, But This Took It To A Much Creepier Level
If you have ever been to a public restroom you will notice that the line for the women's bathroom tends to be longer than the men's. Well researchers have found that men actually spend more time on the toilet than women do - seven hours a year in fact. According to the poll men reported they used their bathroom time to hide from a nagging partner, avoid kids, spend time on their phone or just for some 'me time.'
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#2
My Friend Sent Me This Picture. He Called It The Most Judgmental Bathroom
#3
As If Public Toilets Didn’t Give Me Enough Anxiety
Factoring both men and women, the average person spends at least 92 days in the toilet over the course of their lifetime. We use the toilet around 5 to 7 times a day which adds up to 2500 times a year. If you factor in the minutes spent each time, it could be possible you are spending more than three months or three years of your life in the bathroom!
#4
Taking "Porcelain Throne" To The Extreme
#5
"We Need To Decorate The Toilet For The Disabled." "Say No More"
There is nothing particularly entertaining about going to the bathroom, but that didn't stop South Korea from opening the first (and only) 'Restroom Cultural Park.' This odd toilet themed park opened in 2012 and includes a toiled shaped museum, toilet sculptures and toilet-related artwork.
#6
Toilet In The Meeting Room
#7
Sink Attached To The Toilet, Forming A Perfect Slide
Martti Laurson 5 years ago
This is why you should always pud the lid down. And of course also because when you flush, fecal matter flies around. You would not want that.
If you have ever wondered why someone is taking extra long in the toilet it may not be for the reason that you think. Surveys that 75% of people use their cellphones whilst on the toilet, whether it's texting, emailing or even taking phone calls. With this much cell-related bathroom activity it's no wonder that 7 million phones end up in the toilet each year.
#8
This Bathroom Has A Guitar Urinal That Replays Tunes You Play For Everyone In The Restroom
Hello it Smee 5 years ago
I am not a dude, but if I was... your damn straight I would wait to go pee in that urinal. Also, nice touch with the stage lights.
#9
When You Play The Sims But Forget To Rotate
Wina Jackson 5 years ago
I mean, on the Sims, we can just fix the problem easily by rotating them again. But this?
Going to the bathroom takes up a significant amount of our lives, but using a proper toilet is something many of us take for granted. In 2001, November 19th was named as "U.N World Toilet Day" by the World Toilet Organization, "a global non-profit committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide." The aim of this day is "breaking the silence on the sanitation crisis."
#10
This Bathroom Is Making Me Want To Try Unrealistic Challenges
#11
The Paint In This Public Restroom
Άρης Παπαδόπουλος 5 years ago
Maybe it's not paint but an undercoat that makes smooth surfaces rough. Constructors do that when they want to install tiles to plasterboard walls, for better adhension.
MN Free Spirit 5 years ago
Im literally eating a chocolate chip cookie right now and just about tossed them :P
Julie Janssen 5 years ago
Looks like they hired a bunch of toddlers and told them to provide the medium they needed to smear on the walls!
Marie Oriol-Lavalle 5 years ago
It works if you're going for that "brown, smeared doodoo on the walls" look.
Andrea Delden 5 years ago
So bad! It reminds me of something my daughter did at 9 months of age at Grandma’s house. It wasn’t pretty then and it isn’t now!
Marzena Helena Leino 5 years ago
Aren't you guys too choosy? Most adequate and in place. [LOL]
Oliver Casasola 5 years ago
The designer can add a text like "add toilet paper" to be more decorative
Tom Edwards 5 years ago
I never figure a reason a woman could not see a seat up? I never fell into one!
Grace Skerp 5 years ago
A great artist can made use of any available medium. However, that doesn't mean s/he should.
GABRIEL HICKNER 5 years ago
POOP SMEAR!!!! A toddler had way too much fun taking the poop out of the toilet and smearing it on the walls.
Gemma Lees 5 years ago (edited)
I bet the floor was painted to look like people had dribbled wee all over it and the sani bins were given a decorative red stippling effect.
Kerolos Saleib 5 years ago
I hope this is at a rave.... Cause I have been in one at a rave... And it looks like that... Naturally by 5am. Like how and why?!?! 🤮🤢🤮
Pseudo Puppy 5 years ago
evidence to all alien lifeforms, that humans are indeed, stupid by nature.
For a largely sedentary activity, using the toilet comes with lots of risks. A reportedly 85% of bathroom-related injures occur from someone falling into the toilet after the seat has been left up. Leaving the seat up was listed as one of the top bathroom annoyance for women - hmm looks like there is a correlation there.
#12
Rule #1 In Designing A Wheelchair-Accessible Bathroom...
#13
Bathroom Stall In A D.C. Bathroom
When you are entertaining guests at your house you may not focus too much on how presentable your bathroom is or what's in there but maybe you should. It has been recorded that 70% of house guests snoop through other people's bathroom cabinets and drawers.
#14
Attention
Captain Marvellous ♥️ 5 years ago
Well, I am a disabled, elderly pregnant child and I do not see what is wrong with this. Please excuse me, I need the bathroom and you are standing in the doorway.
#15
Super Awkward Semi-Transparent Bathroom Stall Doors
American Joseph Gayetty invented toilet paper in 1857 and boy is the world thankful. Americans use 433 million miles of toilet paper in a year, which is enough to stretch to the sun and all the way back.
#16
What Is This?! A Sink For Ants?!
#17
This Men's Bathroom
We have all found some unsavory things in public restrooms, but regardless of how many people use these toilets there are actually no more bacteria in public toilet than in a home bathroom. The air in public restrooms is normally cool, dry, and filled with oxygen which is not ideal for supporting fecal matter bacteria. Our of the other germs found in these public bathrooms 68% of them we come into contract with just by being outside.
#18
The Sink In My Hotel Was A Bit... Complicated
Hello it Smee 5 years ago
OMG, I know where this is!!!! It is at McMenamins Olympic Club, in Centralia, WA. Great restaurant & movie theater, very bohemian with eclectic art by local artists.
#19
Not Exactly The Color Pattern You Like To See In A Bathroom
University of Arizona microbiology professor Charles P. Gerba found that soap in public toilets can actually make you dirtier. There’s “so much fecal matter that you’re almost better off washing your hands in the toilet after you flush it,” said Gerba. Airborne bacteria finds its way into open dispensers and the over-dilution of soap mixtures make it less resistant to the germs living there - gross.
#20
My Arms Are About 7 Feet Long, So This Wasn't An Issue For Me
#21
Another Guy And I Both Walked In The Bathroom At The Same Time. After Seeing This, He Said "This Isn't Going To Happen" And He Walked Out
Luis Milian 5 years ago
one goes, the other waits and then goes after the first one is done. the cycle
#22
Thinking Of Becoming A Mum?
#23
Hotel Henri IV. Mosaic Art In The Bathroom
#24
All Toilets Must Be Centered In The Middle Of The Classroom So Kids Eating Their Snacks Three Feet Away Can Bare Witness To Their Classmates Defecating
#25
This Bathroom Window
#26
Just What You Want To See In The Bathroom Of An Ice Cream Shop
#27
My New Apartment's Toilet Is So Narrow That Even My Skinny Ass Doesn't Fit In It
#28
This Bathroom In My Local Cinema. Peek-A-Poo
#29
This Waiting Area For The Toilet
#30
Bathroom Mirror At A Bar In Italy
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Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
For the people who got here after the trim... You're not missing anything.
BusLady 5 years ago
I hate that new trend on BP. Why are they doing this? It's just pissing people off.
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Aila Beatriz 5 years ago
Why did I just spend roughly 10 minutes of my time staring at toilets?
Mary Jaye 5 years ago
WELL IT WAS YOUR CHOICE--AND MINE TOO. I THOUGHT THEY WERE FUNNY!!
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mistouko les 5 years ago (edited)
Ok, I have to make the question: Does anybody in here already used a toilet with someone else, in the same room, watching? Is this a common thing to do?
Lingon 5 years ago
Yes, when I was younger and went partying, women prefer going in pairs. You can chat, one holds your drink, borrow eachothers makeup and it is safer as there are rapists that force themselfes into the toilet with you.
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Jo B. Ventura Gurule 5 years ago
OH MY GOD!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing most of these reading rooms!!!! YUCKY POOP AND PEE!!!
Aleksandra 5 years ago
Most of this stuff is literally like from my nightmares.. Srsly i have awfull dreams of toilets in the middle of the room etc, i have some kind of fear or something?? idk?
R.s. Potter 5 years ago
We stayed at a cabin by a lake where the shelf above the sink would empty onto the floor if you moved ever so slightly off the adjacent toilet.
Hello please don't judge 5 years ago
Some of these are just so dumb I have a hard time believing they were not on purpose, I then proceed to look at the world news and the people the world admires and those in leadership and realise it was not on purpose then I proceed to look at the amazing humans that landed on the moon and then proceed to stop thinking about it!
Bluebell Rizzi 5 years ago
For the people who got here after the trim... You're not missing anything.
BusLady 5 years ago
I hate that new trend on BP. Why are they doing this? It's just pissing people off.
Load More Replies... Aila Beatriz 5 years ago
Why did I just spend roughly 10 minutes of my time staring at toilets?
Mary Jaye 5 years ago
WELL IT WAS YOUR CHOICE--AND MINE TOO. I THOUGHT THEY WERE FUNNY!!
Load More Replies... mistouko les 5 years ago (edited)
Ok, I have to make the question: Does anybody in here already used a toilet with someone else, in the same room, watching? Is this a common thing to do?
Lingon 5 years ago
Yes, when I was younger and went partying, women prefer going in pairs. You can chat, one holds your drink, borrow eachothers makeup and it is safer as there are rapists that force themselfes into the toilet with you.
Load More Replies... Jo B. Ventura Gurule 5 years ago
OH MY GOD!!! I couldn’t believe my eyes seeing most of these reading rooms!!!! YUCKY POOP AND PEE!!!
Aleksandra 5 years ago
Most of this stuff is literally like from my nightmares.. Srsly i have awfull dreams of toilets in the middle of the room etc, i have some kind of fear or something?? idk?
R.s. Potter 5 years ago
We stayed at a cabin by a lake where the shelf above the sink would empty onto the floor if you moved ever so slightly off the adjacent toilet.
Hello please don't judge 5 years ago
Some of these are just so dumb I have a hard time believing they were not on purpose, I then proceed to look at the world news and the people the world admires and those in leadership and realise it was not on purpose then I proceed to look at the amazing humans that landed on the moon and then proceed to stop thinking about it!
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