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u/buak
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My friend has a phone stand integrated in his toilet-paper holder
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u/SemiAwkwardFella Jan 22 '22
So the door opens outwards?
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u/buak Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
Yes, most bathroom doors here open outwards.
edit: Also, every front door here in every house opens outwards.
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u/Rokee44 Jan 22 '22
Front doors!? Commerical exits here are required to be outward swinging for fire/emergency egress, but there are a bunch of protocols and maintenance that goes along with that.
Residential it seems kind of whack, but definitely can see how it could offer space savings. Do these places typically have enclosed/covered porches? Here in Canada it would be a terrible idea. There would need to be a daily town service in the winter to dig out all the people stuck in their homes after every minor snowfall and a bit of freezing.
That said... I like it. Built in social conditioning. Keeps nosey neighbors and pushy people a step back. Don't respect my space or invitation when coming up to my home? Get clonked with a solid oak door. Lol that'll learn 'em. Here it's just rude to crowd a doorway, whereever you are it must be like personal health and safety thing haha
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
In Finland the front doors must open outwards because of safety: in case of fire or other emergency the door must open so that it’s easy to exit the building.
In the 1700s and 1800s there were several fires in the churches and people got stuck because the doors opened inwards. That caused that the regulations were given that the doors in the churches must open outwards. That regulation was later taken in practice in all buildings.
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u/pittstop33 Jan 22 '22
I visited Finland several years back for a work trip. Our office in Espoo (you can probably guess where I work) was constantly confusing me because every door I approached I expected to open the opposite direction than how it actually opened. There aren't the same hints we're used to (In the US at least) like the push bar on the push side and handle on the pull side.
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u/Rokee44 Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 22 '22
Yeah we have the same codes for commerical. Makes sense when an emergency might result in a large number of people heading toward a doorway. It also just makes more sense the way a business operates to have outward swinging doors. But there are other building codes and commerical operation requirements that makes it work. Things like barrier free design, transparent doors, high quality hardware, building upkeep etc. Residential doesn't have as much of this, which I'd have to think would result in a lot more safety hazards than the one fire egress scenario. A few family members exiting their home and a large mass (pun intended) of people in a public building are entirely different situations with different hazards.
What happens after a heavy snowfall, ya just climb out the windows? Lol sounds fun but hardly practical. I know Scandinavians are courteous and all, but I can't help but picture couriers leaving packages at the door, then getting knocked over or wedged in the door when you go to open it.
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u/AquaWolfGuy Jan 23 '22
The outer doors usually have a roof over them if they're not connected to a sidewalk, and the door is usually a bit higher than the ground. Home delivery for packages isn't so common, but they'll usually ring the doorbell and see if you're home, otherwise leave it next to the door. Of course you don't stand or put things right in front of it.
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u/Beta_Ray_Bill Jan 22 '22
Was just thinking this. Every bathroom I can remember opens inward. But maybe the little radiator has something to do with this?
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u/xclame Jan 22 '22 edited Jan 23 '22
If the door opens inward you limit what can be put in it or the bathroom needs to be bigger. Here for example we have a sink in the tiny bathroom, if the doors opened inward there would be no way the sink could fit.
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u/GrimGrimGrimGrim Jan 22 '22
I've never really seen a bathroom door open inwards, I guess the standard is different where you live
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u/i_got_the_quay Jan 22 '22
I saw you comment and thought “that’s weird” then looked over at my bathroom door and realised it also opens outwards.
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u/Vitekr2 Jan 22 '22
Little far
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u/GrrRooRoo Jan 22 '22
That's what I thought. Maybe it's just a perspective issue?
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
That's it. This was taken with wide angle. The stand/holder is easily reachable.
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u/DingusTaargus Jan 22 '22
I'm claustrophobic, so tiny bathrooms make me shit myself.
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u/MyFiveC3nts Jan 22 '22
Your friend jerks off there
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u/Realistic_Truck Jan 22 '22
And aims directly for the toilet paper like a pro.
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u/Not-Clark-Kent Jan 22 '22
Literally the only purpose for this. How would you be able to scroll through your phone?
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u/Fishschtick Jan 22 '22
It's the most efficient way
poop, pee, violently shake your cock
Wipe, and move on with your day
Now there's extra time on the clock
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Jan 22 '22
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u/sarcazm Jan 22 '22
Nah. Sometimes when I'm wiping, I wish there was a phone holder. I don't like placing it on the ground.
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u/Ro0Okus Jan 22 '22
You must realize that we can't take you seriously with that username, u/sarcazm
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u/_ALH_ Jan 22 '22
The problem this solves does not involve scrolling. And both hands might be busy.
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u/Myballsitch36 Jan 22 '22
Thanks for taking a picture while you poop
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
No problem my man!
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u/SarsCovie2 Jan 22 '22
You need new underwear.
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
The "hole" you're seeing is actually a picture of a little lemon slice. The fabric has lemons on it.
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u/jennyt00ls Jan 22 '22
But why are you sitting on the toilet that way? Don't you sit the other way so you can put your milk and your comic books?
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u/Holociraptor Jan 22 '22
What the fuck is this picture
You took a picture of yourself shitting
The tp holder is on the other side of the room (and on the door?)
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
I thought it was a nice picture though. The wide angle distorts the distances. Tp is easily reachable.
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u/Brightredroof Jan 22 '22
I feel like you maybe could have taken the picture after you'd pulled your pants up bro
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
I was practicing multi-tasking and didn't think a pair of bare human legs would be a problem
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u/TryonB Jan 22 '22
You clearly held the camera back and away enough to include your legs in the frame. You wanted the world to see them! LOL
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
That's true on the camera part. I wanted to show the whole picture. Not the legs part that much. I tried to use google pixel's magic eraser to remove them from the image but that didn't work very well, so I thought fuck it, who cares.
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u/TryonB Jan 22 '22
LOL, it's all good. I mean, you didn't need to go all Google magic, a simple crop would have shown just the TP holder. But the original, legs and all, tells a more complete story because it shows it's meant to face you while you masturb...I mean do your business.
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u/Rdubya44 Jan 22 '22
Taking a picture straight on wouldn’t have really showed us what the contraption looks like.
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u/TheBoarsEye Jan 22 '22
I can smell this picture.
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u/Alarming-Tea-7826 Jan 22 '22
Wow you can beat the shit outta your knee AND get 2nd degree burns from the baseboard heater. Double your pleasure, double your fun!
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u/americanbeaver Jan 22 '22
Could easily take a picture of this that doesn't include you with your pants down. . .
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u/sketchy_advice_77 Jan 22 '22
There's no way that door can open all the way, that bathroom is making me claustrophobic, and you're posting this while taking a shit...quality post👍
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u/GrapesThemInTheMouth Jan 22 '22
That looks like it'd wreak havoc with getting into and out of the toilet. The roll holder is fucking huge and positioned right next to the hinges. How far does the door actually open?
Edit: I take it back, for some bizarre reason the toilet door appears to open outwards. So I guess just try not to bean anyone as you exit the toilet?
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u/TheLaGrangianMethod Jan 22 '22
Fuck that, wait for someone to walk past and Sparta kick the door.
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u/drewbles82 Jan 22 '22
for those who do use your phone in the bathroom, I hope you have a rule, once you start wiping, you no longer touch your phone till you've washed your hands...freaks me out how unclean some people and how people don't care. Public toilets are clearly the worse, you have someone who wipes but doesn't care how clean they are, gets any of it their hands, gotta pull their trousers back up with that dirty hand, flush, open the door, might not even wash their hands.
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u/northern_dan Jan 22 '22
Hope you took that photo - looks like someone else took it over your shoulder.
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u/Aggravating_Sky_6457 Jan 22 '22
No one is asking what the white stuff on his underwear is?
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u/EternamD Jan 22 '22
It's too far away to manipulate but it's vertical so you can't just put something to watch
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u/77kloklo77 Jan 22 '22
Is your friend Inspector Gadget? That looks like a really long reach.
Edit - I saw your comment that it’s a perspective issue and not that far away but sim pleased with my joke, so it stays.
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u/stueh Jan 23 '22
A mate of mine lives in a share house which the owner was demolishing as soon as the 12 month lease was up (knew this when signing). Deal was they could do whatever the fuck they wanted as long as it was still livable and they didn't complain about something they broke.
Toilet had 2 x toilet role holders, one on the left wall and one on the right wall. Written on the door in big sharpie was "PRESS X TO DUAL WIELD".
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u/Orange_comfort
Jan 22 '22
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You didn't actually need to sit there and take a shit for the photo, dude.
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u/buak Jan 22 '22
Yeah, I really needed to sit there and take a shit. The photo part was just a sudden whim
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u/cryptkeeper89 Jan 22 '22
Yet your still not using it. And who put the toilet paper just out of arms reach?
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u/HandsomeSquidward59 Jan 22 '22
Someone with this in their house has had parties, and after enough parties someone with poopy hands has touched that platform.
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u/xclame Jan 22 '22
The faucet knob has certainly had poop on it, so after you were done and went to wash your hands you got poop on it, then you washed your hands and then put your clean hands back on the poopy knob and got your hands poppy again.
The door handle is also covered in poop because of all the poopy hands after turning the knob to shut the water off.
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u/BigPandaCloud Jan 22 '22
Im guessing the door stopper is at the top of the door?
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u/OttoOnTheFlippside Jan 22 '22
Door stopper? Those things on the walls that go boingoingoing
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u/DiggyComer Jan 22 '22
My brother always seems to kick that thing when he goes for his 4am piss. I hate that fucking thing.
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u/MoksMarx Jan 22 '22
I don't know why you would need a vertical holder so far from you, if it was horizontal you could at least watch a video, but what can you do on vertical
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u/SnooMachines7176 Jan 22 '22
You know, as soon as you start to down load the damn phone rings. Smart!
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u/PoppyCoLink987 Jan 22 '22
My toilet paper holder has a shelf for my phone, or whatever, to sit on. It's not angled though and I kept it on the wall like a sane person.
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u/Nervous-Water-6714 Jan 22 '22
Damn. All this time I've been holding the phone when rubbing one out. Genius.
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u/Pitiful_Mixture7099 Jan 22 '22
Did they:
1) Need to be taking a shit to show this? 2) need to frame their legs in the shot so you.knew they were taking a shit?
Effort seems to have been put into making sure it was obvious they were taking a shit at the time since the angle is weird.
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u/spieler_42 Jan 22 '22
I knew it! I am not the only one wearing boxer shorts with holes in it (gonna immediately show to my wife. No reason to throw mine away anymore)
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u/DuchessofMarin Jan 22 '22
So people sit on the toilet, use their phones while they’re doing toilet activities, clean themselves, carry their phone (now rife with toilet germs) to the sink, set it on the counter, wash their hands, pick up toilet germ phone, go to the kitchen and get a snack. 🤮
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u/NutCase11 Jan 22 '22
He’s going to have back problems later in life if he is hunched over watching videos with that contraption
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u/ZippoS Jan 22 '22
For a moment, I thought it was a trapdoor for delivering toilet paper if someone runs out while on the can. And I thought that’s a fucking genus idea. Someone do that.
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u/jwill602 Jan 22 '22
The toilet paper is mounted on the door??? Whaaaaaat??