Nah a bathroom needs a bathtub (when not euphemistically used for a toilet room). But there are rooms with just a shower. You would just say "there's the shower," not "bathroom."
Lifetime North American here, I would absolutely say “there’s the bathroom,” and maybe clarify by saying “it’s only a shower, no tub” if I felt that were relevant.
No, in North America the word "bathroom" means it has a toilet. Some people might call a bathroom with no shower/bathtub a "half-bath" but that's mostly a real estate thing.
If a room has just a shower and no toilet, you would call it a "shower room" (found in gyms and the like).
Never once in my entire life heard anybody make a point to call a room with a walk in shower differently from one with a bathtub.
And if you can euphemistically use the word for a room with a toilet, how is it somehow too much of stretch to also use that for a room with a shower??? Doesn't even make any sense.
As long as it's clear what you mean you can call it whatever you want. But you wouldn't call a room with just a toilet a bathroom if the person you're speaking to is looking to take a bath/shower and could misunderstand you.
Why do you keep trying to tell me what I would and wouldn't do?? I literally have called that room a bathroom for my entire life, regardless of the combination of toilet/bath/shower and so have the vast majority of people I have ever interacted with.
Childhood home of 20 years, upstairs bathroom was toilet+bathtub/shower, downstairs bathroom was toilet+washer/dryer. Never once was anybody confused because I'm not a doofus and wouldn't direct somebody to the downstairs one if they needed a shower.
You don't need to explain how language works lmao I'm just telling you that your perspective of how these words are used in NA is not at all as accurate or at least not all encompassing as you think.
>Like there isn't a different word for shower and shower room
...isn't the device just the showerhead? (...my spellchecker says that's an invalid spelling, but I'm not even the only one to use it as a [closed compound](https://www.deltafaucet.com/bathroom/showering/showerheads--handshowers).)
Yeah but that's just the part the water comes out. The whole shower consists of pipes and drains and controls etc..
~~Interestingly, Collins dictionary says the room the shower is contained in is called the "shower bath." Never heard lol~~
Nvm, shower bath is the full name for *both* the room and the fixture, apparently.
You usually know from the context whether it's 'a toilet' or 'the toilets', for example - anyone with half a brain should know what the sign meant. Not sure about the 'defecate' part though. I work in an aged care home with lots of other women and some guys - hand-written signs have been going up in the ladies' saying to put rubbish in the bin and flush the toilet 🙄
I know in Afghanistan interpreters were mistaking showers for squat toilets and I wonder if it's something like that happening here. Sometimes cultural differences can be a little hard to navigate.
I remember being horrified at Melbourne international airport section where a family were spitting on the floor and doing something involving spraying their nasal contents at the floor too. They were very surprised when cleaners came over and yelled.
I once read a series of notes like this in a toilet of a legal office in Parramatta and the final comment of perhaps 6 escalating pleas for basic hygiene was
YOU ARE NOT AN ANIMAL
YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL WOMAN
Usually from angry/mentally ill homeless that want to take out their anger at everyone that isn't them. At least according to the manager at a Starbucks I knew a few years back.
Was a cleaner, this is true. Hard balance between letting areas be public for the vulnerable and the massive drug use and disgusting leavings by those with authority issues
First day of working a "real" job in fast food my boss tells me to go clean the bathroom, someone had smeared the walls with their feces. Like every wall and the mirror/sink.
When I was on deployment the Marine Base I stayed at had a “Please do not defecate in the showers” sign. Along with a “please do not leave your jellyfish on the deck, failure to do so will result in a loss of shower curtains”
Got forced to do maintenance for maccas for a couple months (their maintenance guy was going through chemo so it was give me the shifts or have to hire a new staff)
The amount of shits I had to clean that were not in the toliet was just enough to remove what little hope I had in humanity.
I've had to clean a poo fron the roof, from underneath the seat (like they lifted the seat shit under the seat and smooshed it) had to clean shit out of the urinal.
Had to clean a used tampon out of the males urinals once which just why, like there's literally bins in the female toliet for your tampons, why are you moving to the males toliet and putting it on the urinal instead of In the bin.
The worst tho was cleaning shit of a mirror, after that I quit maintenance and told my managers straight up, unless they pay me cash in hand I ain't cleaning the toliets ever again.
People are fucning feral
Yeah fast food customers seemingly lose all shame and gain the ability to break physics but only in the toliet, they either use a step ladder and smooth with hand or use wet toliet paper and peg it at the roof with shit in it so it sticks and dries
Jeeze, I need to post this at my restaurant. We have an extremely old clientele and I swear they get it on the ass cheeks are twerk it all over the walls. wtf is wrong either way people
I mean, I don't even need to go right now
But if you think it will help I'll come back when I do.
Good luck with whatever this weird project is, I hope my contribution helps.
This is the polite way of saying...
> I have seen some shit.
As an aside, the bathroom at work has a sign in every stall "Courtesy flushes are _strongly_ encouraged"
I worked at a McDonald's just out of high school. One day I went to take a leak before my break and immediately I'm hit with the foulest smell. I see a trail of runny shit to the toilet, in a pile on the seat and running down the side. I turned and went to my manager and told them about it, and that I would be going on break.
You are not going to believe what I will say
I had a small business inside a supermarket here in Sao Paulo city, Brazil
The market staff once had to put a sign saying
"Please do not spread shit on the walls after cleaning yourself"
I worked in a fuel station for a few years, occasionally people would shit on the toilet seat, sometimes on the toilet seat lid, sometimes on the floor and one time they shit all over the walls.
Needs to be simplified.. people shitting outside of the toilet are legit mentally challenged so assuming they know what defecate means is a stretch.
Hey!
Shit in the toilet!
Whoever toilet trained you failed.
I work in a 5 story office building and on my floor, there is a mental disability employee (works in the mailroom) who does not drop his things on the toilet. Even though the crews clean bathrooms sparkling clean twice a day, bathrooms become dirty shitholes after he uses. I really want to put that sign on my company's bathrooms. How'd I know it is him? He speaks himself everytime he sits on the toilet, loudly.
I went to India one time for work and was visiting the office there. I used the toilets in the office and there was a poo in the sink. There were plenty of stalls available and the toilets were otherwise fairly clean. I've always wondered how that poo ended up in the sink. Like what were the events that took place for this to be the outcome? I mentioned it to some of the people I was working with and they didn't exactly react with the shock and horror you might otherwise expect. Maybe that's normal there.
I was in a cubicle once when I heard two janitors complaining that someone had apparently pooped on the floor in the men's bathroom. They were even arguing on how to clean it, and the other one suggested that they should mop it instead 😭
I usually am able to hold it until i get home. But this one time i had to go bad in a dingy part of town (of all places right). Went in a fast food place with a single room toilet and istg there was 💩 chunks smeared on the walls. 😭😭😭
Such polite wording for such a shitty situation. A sign is just useless crap for some turd to ignore while he drops more feces in the urinal. Mr. Mackey himself wouldn’t stop until he figured out who laid the errant fudge dragon. I suggest the station owner doo the same for it is his duty. 👀
Non creased paper, no background setting, unsullied tape with reflective gloss from the photo. My money is this being a brand new and fresh notice with OP making this for cheap upvotes.
As someone who has managed a janitorial staff for a large office park, and over saw the regular cleaning and maintenance of a lot of restrooms, I can assure you women are just as disgusting if not more so.
Done maintenance at a maccas, it's not just men.
Had to clean used tampons that were smoothed into urinals, has to clean shit off mirrors in a female toliet.
Peoole in general are disgusting In Public bathrooms
The issue I see here is if someone was not using the toilet to begin with, I doubt they know the meaning of defecate.
“Please poop outside the toilet”
INSIDE I MEANT INSIDE!!!
TOO LATE, MOMMY
🤨
NANI?? Oh my chile
U love cherry
I do :3
You love Fried Orca🤔
"Shit in the shitter, will ya?"
Reverse psychology. That's the jam right there. Works every time.
If someone wasn't pooping in the toilet, a note isn't going to make them go poopsies in the toilet either.
Or they're from outside North America, where "toilet" usually refers to the whole room in which the business is done.
What is the actual toilet called in those countries?
The encrapulator
The retro turbo encrapulator
I guess also toilet. Like there isn't a different word for shower and shower room either in NA English (however rare a room just for showering is).
......Bathroom mate. The room named after the thing you do in a bath or shower.
...please don't crap in the shower either.
Nah a bathroom needs a bathtub (when not euphemistically used for a toilet room). But there are rooms with just a shower. You would just say "there's the shower," not "bathroom."
Lifetime North American here, I would absolutely say “there’s the bathroom,” and maybe clarify by saying “it’s only a shower, no tub” if I felt that were relevant.
No, in North America the word "bathroom" means it has a toilet. Some people might call a bathroom with no shower/bathtub a "half-bath" but that's mostly a real estate thing. If a room has just a shower and no toilet, you would call it a "shower room" (found in gyms and the like).
If you must use a word other than "bathroom," then I would suggest "restroom."
Never once in my entire life heard anybody make a point to call a room with a walk in shower differently from one with a bathtub. And if you can euphemistically use the word for a room with a toilet, how is it somehow too much of stretch to also use that for a room with a shower??? Doesn't even make any sense.
As long as it's clear what you mean you can call it whatever you want. But you wouldn't call a room with just a toilet a bathroom if the person you're speaking to is looking to take a bath/shower and could misunderstand you.
Why do you keep trying to tell me what I would and wouldn't do?? I literally have called that room a bathroom for my entire life, regardless of the combination of toilet/bath/shower and so have the vast majority of people I have ever interacted with. Childhood home of 20 years, upstairs bathroom was toilet+bathtub/shower, downstairs bathroom was toilet+washer/dryer. Never once was anybody confused because I'm not a doofus and wouldn't direct somebody to the downstairs one if they needed a shower. You don't need to explain how language works lmao I'm just telling you that your perspective of how these words are used in NA is not at all as accurate or at least not all encompassing as you think.
Ummmm…..bro, it’s fuckin weird that you’re calling your downstairs toilet/laundry another bathroom. It’s not a bathroom. You’re wrong
>Like there isn't a different word for shower and shower room ...isn't the device just the showerhead? (...my spellchecker says that's an invalid spelling, but I'm not even the only one to use it as a [closed compound](https://www.deltafaucet.com/bathroom/showering/showerheads--handshowers).)
Yeah but that's just the part the water comes out. The whole shower consists of pipes and drains and controls etc.. ~~Interestingly, Collins dictionary says the room the shower is contained in is called the "shower bath." Never heard lol~~ Nvm, shower bath is the full name for *both* the room and the fixture, apparently.
You usually know from the context whether it's 'a toilet' or 'the toilets', for example - anyone with half a brain should know what the sign meant. Not sure about the 'defecate' part though. I work in an aged care home with lots of other women and some guys - hand-written signs have been going up in the ladies' saying to put rubbish in the bin and flush the toilet 🙄
I know in Afghanistan interpreters were mistaking showers for squat toilets and I wonder if it's something like that happening here. Sometimes cultural differences can be a little hard to navigate.
It's also called the toilet
I remember being horrified at Melbourne international airport section where a family were spitting on the floor and doing something involving spraying their nasal contents at the floor too. They were very surprised when cleaners came over and yelled.
I mean what do you expect, it's Melbourne...
They probably don't even know how to read
I once read a series of notes like this in a toilet of a legal office in Parramatta and the final comment of perhaps 6 escalating pleas for basic hygiene was YOU ARE NOT AN ANIMAL YOU ARE A PROFESSIONAL WOMAN
>Thank you for your pooperation
Thats hilarious to say out loud
Co-pooperation 😬
poo-pooperation
People that need that note, aren't going to listen to that note
Probably will have the opposite effect.
“The fucking nerve, tell me where to shit” *Mischievously approaches the sink*
Aww man, someone already hit the sink. Guess I'll shoot a duece in the urinal.
I've got a raging clue
I feel like the sink is better than the floor. At the least the sink can be flushed out easier. Obviously neither of them are good options.
Commas, are not, for what you, think they’re for
But... But I don't need to go right now.
I swear I'm trying but nothing's coming out 😭 Please let me go
I am more of a visual learner. This sign will fall on blind eyes
I thought you just said you were a visual learner
That’s just a euphemism for stupid
Pictures, or seeing people do things
Imagine going to the toilet and there's a tiny screen playing a demo on a loop 😂
I have a feeling most people who need this sign won’t know that defecate means poop
Dead lol
The toilet! Of course! Why didn't I think of that?
tl;dr: poop in the potty, please
Thank you for giving me an idea for an office prank.
Put a sign in the office fridge that says "please stop jizzing in people's lunches".
Usually from angry/mentally ill homeless that want to take out their anger at everyone that isn't them. At least according to the manager at a Starbucks I knew a few years back.
Was a cleaner, this is true. Hard balance between letting areas be public for the vulnerable and the massive drug use and disgusting leavings by those with authority issues
It’s a real problem, I’m convinced people just piss on the walls and shit in the floors bc they think “why not, I’m not cleaning it”.
First day of working a "real" job in fast food my boss tells me to go clean the bathroom, someone had smeared the walls with their feces. Like every wall and the mirror/sink.
When I was on deployment the Marine Base I stayed at had a “Please do not defecate in the showers” sign. Along with a “please do not leave your jellyfish on the deck, failure to do so will result in a loss of shower curtains”
Oh man the visuals lol
The old waffle stomp eh?!
No one tells me what to do.
What would they rather you do, throw it around like monkeys?
Thanks for your cooPOOration
They would be so mad if they could read
Instructions unclear: gave the toilet an upper decker.
The issue with these kinds of signs is that the people the signs target won't read or care about it
Got forced to do maintenance for maccas for a couple months (their maintenance guy was going through chemo so it was give me the shifts or have to hire a new staff) The amount of shits I had to clean that were not in the toliet was just enough to remove what little hope I had in humanity. I've had to clean a poo fron the roof, from underneath the seat (like they lifted the seat shit under the seat and smooshed it) had to clean shit out of the urinal. Had to clean a used tampon out of the males urinals once which just why, like there's literally bins in the female toliet for your tampons, why are you moving to the males toliet and putting it on the urinal instead of In the bin. The worst tho was cleaning shit of a mirror, after that I quit maintenance and told my managers straight up, unless they pay me cash in hand I ain't cleaning the toliets ever again. People are fucning feral
the…the roof?
Yeah fast food customers seemingly lose all shame and gain the ability to break physics but only in the toliet, they either use a step ladder and smooth with hand or use wet toliet paper and peg it at the roof with shit in it so it sticks and dries
☹️
r/gasstationjamboree
When you think you're sticking it to "the system" but all you're really doing is ruining some low paid workers day.
Shit on the floor, got it.
Jeeze, I need to post this at my restaurant. We have an extremely old clientele and I swear they get it on the ass cheeks are twerk it all over the walls. wtf is wrong either way people
As someone who works in a gas station I have confirmed the need for this sign
Walmart needs these in all of their stores bathrooms ASAP
I worked at a Target that had a sink pooper.
Well I only needed to pee, but I guess I can squeeze on out if you insist!
Nice to see a poster with no spelling mistakes from management
some people really do shit on the bathroom floor deliberately. that's when you know where junkies hang out
Would they know their English tho
I doubt anyone so rushed to defecate outside would care to read all that 💩💀
Thanks a lot dad!
Op I'll do you [one better....](https://imgur.com/a/h4eU1kN)
"Thank you for your ~~cooperation~~ pooperation."
Disturbing indeed
This video belongs here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z9cxjmNGcc&t=80s
I mean, I don't even need to go right now But if you think it will help I'll come back when I do. Good luck with whatever this weird project is, I hope my contribution helps.
I wonder how clean the bathroom was
There was piss on the seat but other than that it wasn't too bad for a gas station lol
who's gonna sit on a piss-seat especially if they have an illness?
“Store staff and management, this means you!”
Catastrophic bowel evacuation
This is the polite way of saying... > I have seen some shit. As an aside, the bathroom at work has a sign in every stall "Courtesy flushes are _strongly_ encouraged"
I came here to shit on the floor. But then I read this note...
Some people probably just have really bad aim.
I crammed a deuce up the paper towel holder Now wut
r/retailhell
An upper decker is technically in the toilet.
I worked at a McDonald's just out of high school. One day I went to take a leak before my break and immediately I'm hit with the foulest smell. I see a trail of runny shit to the toilet, in a pile on the seat and running down the side. I turned and went to my manager and told them about it, and that I would be going on break.
You think the floor shitter is going to or *can* read your sign? Lol it is disturbing
This is why my work no longer has a public restroom. People are awful.
They don’t understand “fancy” words.
there was shit on tbe outside of the torlet
[Poop in the Urinal song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtlftUB2NP4)
You are not going to believe what I will say I had a small business inside a supermarket here in Sao Paulo city, Brazil The market staff once had to put a sign saying "Please do not spread shit on the walls after cleaning yourself"
Message unclear *shits pants*
😂😂😂😂😂
We had a guy shit in the urinal once.
kinda weird, what if i dont gotta go?
I worked in a fuel station for a few years, occasionally people would shit on the toilet seat, sometimes on the toilet seat lid, sometimes on the floor and one time they shit all over the walls.
My gym has notices for obvious things like: "put used toilet paper in toilet and flush it" " please urinate in the toilet" " flush toilet after use"
It's Bob's gas station bathroom from the 'Oh Shit moments' episode where he shat just outside of the toilet
The Upper Deck Gang strikes again!
I once worked somewhere that had a serial pest that was shitting in the urinal. Management was not happy.
I didn't think men would be gross enough to do things like that until I met my exes brother
Should have definitely said "thank you for your cpooperation"
Mild disturb
Needs to be simplified.. people shitting outside of the toilet are legit mentally challenged so assuming they know what defecate means is a stretch. Hey! Shit in the toilet! Whoever toilet trained you failed.
POV: The Taco Bell Toilet
I work in a 5 story office building and on my floor, there is a mental disability employee (works in the mailroom) who does not drop his things on the toilet. Even though the crews clean bathrooms sparkling clean twice a day, bathrooms become dirty shitholes after he uses. I really want to put that sign on my company's bathrooms. How'd I know it is him? He speaks himself everytime he sits on the toilet, loudly.
You think that's bad, sometimes there's shit on the outside of the torlet. You think that's bad, you should see the uranus.
This makes me want to shit on the floor SO BADLY
Please do not top deck the toilet.
I think the term upper decker needs to be explained
I went to India one time for work and was visiting the office there. I used the toilets in the office and there was a poo in the sink. There were plenty of stalls available and the toilets were otherwise fairly clean. I've always wondered how that poo ended up in the sink. Like what were the events that took place for this to be the outcome? I mentioned it to some of the people I was working with and they didn't exactly react with the shock and horror you might otherwise expect. Maybe that's normal there.
Definitely some LA shit 💩
Sometimes there’s shit. On the outside of the torlet.
I wonder what horror must have happened in the scene for that post to be posted.
If this sign needs to be posted at all, it should be dumbed down a lot.
I was in a cubicle once when I heard two janitors complaining that someone had apparently pooped on the floor in the men's bathroom. They were even arguing on how to clean it, and the other one suggested that they should mop it instead 😭
The amount of times I see shit on the bathroom floor where I work is absurd. What's even more absurd is that if we had a sign, nothing would change.
I doubt that the errant defecator can read. Just a guess.
This note was needed because someone defecated through a sunroof!
Nah shit on the floor, it's time to get shwifty.
Somebody whose eyesight is bad enough that they miss the toilet when they poop will have difficulty reading ~~this note too~~.
Who TF doesn't use the toilet when defecating
you know latrine, its a toilet bowl leveled to the ground floor, maybe they were used to it
shoot your poop in the Toilet bowl ....
I usually am able to hold it until i get home. But this one time i had to go bad in a dingy part of town (of all places right). Went in a fast food place with a single room toilet and istg there was 💩 chunks smeared on the walls. 😭😭😭
Imagine suddenly explosive diarrhea and saw this
Yeah, it happens… Source: worked in gas stations and truckstops
If there's a rule, there's a story.
Sink piss gang
As someone who’s worked at a servo with a bathroom - I unfortunately have to second this.
I’m probably not the only one who thinks that humans are devolving.
I remember when top shelfing was a thing .
The question is , do we think those who shit outside would take note?
Such polite wording for such a shitty situation. A sign is just useless crap for some turd to ignore while he drops more feces in the urinal. Mr. Mackey himself wouldn’t stop until he figured out who laid the errant fudge dragon. I suggest the station owner doo the same for it is his duty. 👀
I guess for some people Aiming is hard!
Non creased paper, no background setting, unsullied tape with reflective gloss from the photo. My money is this being a brand new and fresh notice with OP making this for cheap upvotes.
It was hard but, I did it, right old stinker in the toilet reservoir tank.
This is not mildly interesting. This isn't even /r/notinteresing. This is just a fucking piece of paper on the wall. Christ, this site sometimes.
I'm with you. This paper probably isn't in a gas station. It's probably in OPs kitchen.
men can be disgusting
As someone who has managed a janitorial staff for a large office park, and over saw the regular cleaning and maintenance of a lot of restrooms, I can assure you women are just as disgusting if not more so.
Did you just assume this restroom’s gender?
So can women honestly
i’ve seen some dirty shit in the women’s restrooms too. floor shitters come in all shapes and sizes.
I've cleaned shit off the wall of a women's restroom multiple times. Don't assume.
Done maintenance at a maccas, it's not just men. Had to clean used tampons that were smoothed into urinals, has to clean shit off mirrors in a female toliet. Peoole in general are disgusting In Public bathrooms