7 RESTROOM DIFFERENCES! 🚽 (Germany vs USA - Toilets, Behavior, Locations)
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2024
- Time to talk about toilets and all things bathroom related! We are from the USA and Germany and there are some differences regarding restroom culture, toilet styles and bathroom locations! In this video we discuss some of the differences between the USA and Germany. Let us know if these are similar or different to your country!
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Bathroom Culture (USA vs Germany)
00:28 - Thing #1
02:28 - Thing #2 (hehe)
03:53 - Do you pay before or after in Europe?
04:08 -Thing #3
06:48 - Thing #4
09:14 - Thing #5
10:39 - Like, Sub, Support :)
11:06 - Thing #6
14:16 - Thing #7
15:59 - Sumo says Hi
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Do you pee sitting or standing at home? 🤔
Sitting at home
ummm, as a woman, i pee sitting down everywhere i pee!!! i HATE paying to use a toilet, and do anything to avoid doing so! but then again, i am also afflicted as Deana w/having to pee often... (when there's an attendant, i pay beforehand) thumbs up of course, #89
I don't do the "wee pee Herrmann" i do the "wee pee german". If you think standing makes you a man, you have much bigger issues than the pee splash around the throne!!
But what makes a modern man today is a topic for an own looooong video.
Ciao
American. Sitting at home Standing in public..
I’m 50/50. With smart phones,I can watch Deana& Phil,whilst sitting. 🙈
Usually you should pay afterwards, the amount should reflect the cleanliness of the toilet.
American here and I seriously cannot with public restrooms here. I have always felt so uncomfortable with the lack of privacy. 🤣 😭
Did you have some eye contact moments as well?
@@DeanaandPhil Honestly, yes, but more often I just see them walk by and you know if you can see them, they must be able to see you. 😭
@@DeanaandPhil eye contact? I have had conversations.
Agree; hate that side gap; it's way too large.
I am pretty sure in the US, as long as you go off behind a tree, no one cares. I have seen one case where an adult allowed a child to pee in public and both the adult and child were charged with crimes
I’ve seen signs in several US bars and restaurants “Our aim is to keep the restroom clean. Your aim will help.”
🤣😂🤣
@@rureal7742 Another variation I've heard of but not actually seen myself is a sign posted above the men's urinals "Come closer. It's not as big as you think!" 😜
We aim to please, Please aim!!
I've been told by a janitor, that American public bathrooms are designed to be easier to clean. For example, it is common to see a floor drain in the middle of the room and waterproof paneling on the walls. For a major cleaning, the janitor can use a sprayer to spray cleaning solution on the walls and floors then spray them down with a hose that connects to one of the sink spouts. The water then flows down the central floor drain. For a quick clean, they concentrate on scrubbing the commodes and cleaning the floors. As for the privacy panels, the gaps are there to discourage "naughty business,. A person inside the stall can get a better view of the outside but those outside the stall cannot fully see inside; it's a matter of perspective.
In the UK we have individual stalls, sometimes separate rooms even, but we have gaps under the doors but it isn’t so big. They are like tiny gaps, you can’t see the person’s feet even.
The smartphone has achieved what women have fought for years: That men sit down when they pee!
It all depends where you come from, upbringing-wise. Usually, upper class ppl do sit, do do lower class ppl btw. To my observations (I conducted a survey a few years back) it is a middle class thing.
@@KevinJohnBusche must be nice. Most men in America rather get pee on the side of the toilet and then expect someone else to clean it up🙄
Also I think it's pretty rare to do a Num 2 in public bathrooms. So it's not such a big problem. But when I do, I try to find the stall that doesn't have anyone sitting next to me. Of course, when I do that, almost every time, some woman does pass all the empty stalls and comes to sit right next to me. Every. Time.
I'm a U.S.A. citizen (near Cleveland Ohio), 69 years old, and I've been a sitzpinkler most of my life. It's just cleaner and more hygenic.
Agreed! And nothing to be ashamed of, right?! :)
I fear the squatting toilet! I've skipped a lifetime of leg days, I can't have my butt hanging out there like that. Give me a handbar or something, like peeing in the woods, and I'll be ok!
you guys are amazing, love your videos, don't stop :)
9:10 diese dinger hatten wir in den 70er jahren in der schule
The gap in public toliets in the US is for saftey. If someone was to have a medical emergency it's easier to see it. I was stung by a wasp and I went into a store. I thought I was going to be fine. I went to the bathroom and my breathing was getting more and more difficult. I thought it was my asthma so I was hitting my inhaler. I realized I was in trouble and tried to get up. I ended up getting so dizzy that I fell to the ground. A staff member saw I was having an issue and slid under the door and opened the door and pulled me out. She called 911 also. I'm wondering if I was in a bathroom like Europe if I would have died. Another example a friend had a seizure on the toliet and a customer saw something was wrong and got help. The gap on the bottom also makes it easier to clean the stalls.
Ohhh good to know! Also, we are glad you are ok now and were able to get help! 🤗💜 It looks like the cracks between the doors do have other benefits!
It may be a more positive side effect, but I don't think that restrooms are built the way they are because of that. Money seems like the most logical reason.
You must be the only person who knows that. Living in the USA for twelve years, no one else has ever come up with that reason. Makes me a little doubtful.
I have heard a student from the USA tell a similar story, but she fainted in a school toilet stall in Germany, and her teacher and classmates didn't know where she was (why she was gone so long). She was unconscious in a toilet stall and no one could see her!
@@melindar.fischer5106 OMG.....is she ok now?
My husband always sits to pee. We are from Australia. We found the toilets in the USA to have big gaps like you said, high water level in toilet generally, and yes had the shelf toilet in Austria also. So interesting different toilets around the world. Shower heads next to toilet in UAE.
Does the water really flush the other way around down under? :D
@@DeanaandPhil 😆😆
Great topic guys! I remember seeing the shelf toilets in Germany when I went there on a school trip in the 1980's. I remember the attendants and having to pee.
I've always wondered about this!
It's usually not aim as much as splashback. That being said, after getting tired of my bathroom smelling like piss, I started just sitting down. The nice warm washlet seat also doesn't hurt!
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We have button toilets (usually in houses) in the UK
Interesting information heheh
When I was a kid, the men's urinals at sporting arenas were just a long trough, with room for 4 or 5 at a time.
Having moved from the States to Leipzig, Germany last summer, there's so many things I can comment on in this video! (But first - standing up. It's just easier.) I love the floating toilets, I feel like they're so much easier to keep clean. Having four kids, the lack of public toilets (and the cost) can be frustrating sometimes. I don't mind paying for the bathrooms when they're clean, but if I have to pay and they're dirty, I get annoyed. So unless there is an exact cost required before using the public toilet, I'll pay afterwards based on how nice the bathroom was.
I remember the pull chain at my grandmothers. She also had a cord to pull to turn the light on.
Thanks!
Thank you so much Christina! :) Hope you enjoyed the video!
@@DeanaandPhil You are welcome.
We had a chain pull toilet when I was growing up in the UK. It was outside our back door and we kept a large coat over it in the winter to stop it from freezing.
The clear space below toilet partitions are required by code to be a minimum of 9" clear; this is to allow toe space for people in wheelchairs, when they are turning. Also, it reduces the number of corners that have to be cleaned.
My high school that was built in the 19th century had a high tank with a chain and wood handle. The school has been renovated and the bathrooms replaced. In Japan the squatting toilet was basically a hole in the floor. This was at a Texaco station.
As a man in
My youth I usually stood to pee unless I felt a poop might be coming.
As I got older and health issues made my sessions in the bathroom longer sitting became more frequent and longer. I do often stand at a urinal if I feel a quick pee will suffice.
Otherwise it’s a matter of convenience that governs the position of relief
The Poo Shelf is literally the funniest thing about toilets in Germany.
It’s for medical reasons hence mostly used in hospitals and care homes. Stool sample and inspection stool prior to flushing.
Deana- I like that you call the “standing for peeing attitude “ toxic make behaviour but I feel it is fuelled by women in NA. I’m a German Expat living in Vancouver and was laughed at by a Canadian woman for sitting to pee- I’m 6’-4” and built so I’m certainly not girly in any way so I don’t care if that is considered as masculine or not. Also, there is enough scientific proof that the male bladder gets better emptied by sitting down.
@@rloehnertwolfgang2617 most American women i know would love to not have to clean someone's pee from the side of the toilet. In fact, where im from most encourage men to sit.
@ Elle Marie
If my man peed outside the toilet then the toilet cleaning would be relegated to his section of household duties and the frequency of cleaning increased to daily.
I had to use a squatting toilet when I was in a restaurant in a small village in southern France (and the restroom was down a flight of stairs - not accessible to everyone). That was NOT a pleasant experience!
When I was visiting Milan as a university student, I wanted to use the restroom in a restaurant, but my Italian hosts insisted that I wait until we could go to another location (that did NOT have the squatting toilets).
The shelf toilet would be useful for when you have to do a stool sample. The instructions state to use the tiny want to get a sample before the light paper that the poop goes on hits wet from the toilet water. But how would you know if your poop floats or not?
I like a little eye contact from a stranger and maybe some encouraging words 😂
Omg my husband and I just live watching you guys!! You're so funny!! It's crazy how people can be so comfortable to #1 outside. Lol 💩 thanks so much for sharing! 👍👍👍
As a Californian I can attest that it is 100% legal to pee and poo on the sidewalk in San Francisco. And anyone complains about it they don’t care and no action is taken
Interesting! When we looked up about the "pee proof paint" San Francisco was the other city that was testing out the paint on buildings.
Just want to clarify this it’s not technically legal; what has happened is that the DA has publicly announced that they will not prosecute these crimes that they term quality of life crimes. It’s in direct response to the high level of homelessness in San Francisco. These crimes and the prosecution of said crimes is seen as victimizing people for being poor and homeless.
It's not legal. It's just not enforced in the hobo neighborhoods.
Hello, fellow Californian! It's not a proper trip to SF if you aren't playing the "Dog poop or human poop?" game on the sidewalks!
Deana you might see one of those toilets with a chain to pull down in a home from the early 1900 or even possibly a home from the late 1800s.
Some areas in Italy have a squatting toliet. I was in Milano with my mom and we went to the bathroom at the church. The church had a squatting toliet. I asked my mom what the hell was I supposed to do. I was 10 and didn't realize people squat to pee. I also injured my knee really bad so I couldn't squat.
I had a hard time in Italy with my knee issue. There was a lot of stair everywhere. That's something I hated while living in Germany and Switzerland. Being handicapped accessible isn't just for handicapped people. It's for people with small kids in a stroller. I never could bring my daughter into the stall when she was really young. When I was alone I had to rely on strangers to watch my daughter.
Tbf, making everything accesible for handicapped people and parents with kids in strollers requires a lot of space, space that just isn't available in some places.
@@leDespicable lol. This is complete and utter bullshit. What you said is a cheap cop-out. You can build a small ramp on the stairs like they do for bicycles. I've seen apartments, restaurants, stores and the city do this. It doesn't really take up more space. You don't need stairs so wide in the city that 4 people can pass each other. In apartments, stores, and restaurants you don't need the stairs so wide that 2 people can get down the stairs at the same time. Put steps in the middle of the ramp so people can walk up the steps with a stroller or wheelchair. If people who don't have a stroller or wheelchair really can't take an extra 2 seconds it takes to stay behind someone they can take the stairs by the ramp.
Phil, looking good as always. The hat fits you well.
Maybe you could revisit this topic in the future. Do a update on it, I don't know. But, I would like to address the idea of sharing the bathroom. You mentioned in Germany it is common to have a bathroom upstairs or downstairs. My mind went to the idea that that's probably the only bathroom in the building. Which suggests the public are sharing the bathroom with employees. That isn't very common in the US I don't think.
You guys are so funny!
Sit down pee crew represent ✊
At least in Oregon I see the 2 button toilets more than I do regular ones. Even my parents house has it. Altho a lot are levers, pull up for #1 and push down for #2.
My very first experience in Europe was the restroom after getting off the plane at de Galle international airport. The women’s restroom stall was SO TINY that my knees hit the stall door & what does a traveler do with their bags if they’re traveling solo? Then it took me several minutes to find the flush mechanism which was conveniently placed on the floor at the backside of the toilet. Mind blown! ( or maybe Jetlag) I too was fearful of the floating toilet falling when I sat, I’m glad I’m not the only one. And finally, public restrooms are marked by WC signs throughout the city (relief) & you have to pay… if it helps keep them cleaner, it’s worth it!
8:39 as I was 8 and my family in France I hated these... we specificly only went to gas stations who had normal toilets after my first weird experience. So basicly it looked like a shower-cabine but with no seetrought walls and so after maybe 2 minutes the light turned off, I saw NOTHING and some weird music was playing from some speakers and I feared to pee onto my pants ... yeah never will I do that ever again ... and so my mom decided to allways stop near a gas station instead of some other places when we were on the highway in France o.o worst thing I remember from my trip in France tho (besides cutting my lip open while swimming)
I had to use a squatting toilet when I was in a restaurant in southern France. It was NOT a pleasant experience!
But technically it's the natural way of doing big and small business, at least as a woman. They are often even healthier. How else do you pee if there is no toilet? Maybe that's mainly a problem for people with penises.
@@p.r.6628 The "toilet" I used in southern France was basically a hole in the floor -- a drain. I honestly don't know if people can defecate into the hole and "flush" it away. I don't even remember if there was toilet paper in that room! I just remember squatting over the hole in the floor and hoping that nothing splashed back onto me or my clothing.🤢
In France we call that " toilettes turcs". It was very common in old school, easy to clean, only need to use the garden hose. It seams that the position you have to do your things is better to do it naturally. But I also didn't like it !
Now is rare to see them.
I have an early memory of using a squat toilet at a German campsite (edit: although, thinking about it further, it could have also been in France, since we camped in a few places around that time - that might be more likely 🤷♀️), but I don’t think I saw them too often in other places (if at all) because I remember being pretty fascinated by it and asking how the heck I was supposed to use it. I think this would have been in the late 80s, as I was probably about 4 years old? Not sure where it was, though.
The squat toilet were quite common all over France in older public buildings, not in homes. I do believe that they are more sanitary because your butt never comes in contact with any surface, but it is tough for people with bad knees or hips.
Als ich 2000 nach Kanada und in die USA gereist bin und ich in Toronto, nachdem ich aus dem Flugzeug gestiegen bin, auf die Toilette wollte war ich entsetzt.
In allen Toiletten stand Wasser und ich dachte die seien alle verstopft.
Also habe ich eingehalten bis zum ersten Ziel der Reise und auch dort stand Wasser in der Toilette. Dann hat man mich aufgeklärt wie diese Toiletten funktionieren. Ich fand es schon lustig bzw. interessant wie sich dann ein Strudel bildet und alles in einem Rutsch weg ist.
Der Vorteil ist. Alles bleibt sauber und man braucht keine Bürste.
When I traveled to Canada and the US in 2000 and I went to the toilet in Toronto after getting off the plane, I was horrified.
There was water in all the toilets and I thought they were all clogged.
So I stayed until the first destination of the trip and there too there was water in the toilet. Then they explained to me how these toilets work. I found it funny and interesting how a whirlpool forms and everything is gone in one go.
The advantage is. Everything stays clean and you don't need a brush.
The pulling wire toilets also have the option to regulate how much water you use by the amount of force you pull on the string and that's pretty neat for old school tech if you think about it. I love the shelf toilet in my house bc it flush silent and has no splash what so ever, I just love it and won't throw it away bc it's kinda cool but also useful when becoming older stuff like that, and no it's not the main toilet in my house ;) meaning my guests as an example are using the modern toilet instead which ofc is great to 🌀
The thing I couldn't get used to in Switzerland is not every store had a toliet. Most parks had a toliet you could use for free. When I was potty training my daughter we had to make some mad dashes to a restaurant or park. There was a few times my daughter peed in an empty parking spot. Police were never happy with me. I'm like hey you gotta go you gotta go.
In the 80s, the toilets with the long cords were all over public places. I never saw one in a home.
Never ever seen a squat toilet in the UK
In the 1970s "sitzpiddler" was an insult in Gemany equivalent to "girlie man".
Interesting! Did you ever hear anyone use that as an insult?
@@DeanaandPhil Fellow soldiers when on NATO maneuvers near East Grrman border.
If you ever peed into a low-ish urinal wearing shorts, you know how much splatter there is. :D
Hello!
Eastern Shore of Maryland here.
Standing up to pee at home.
I'm 70 now and this how we did it since we were little boys. I was taught this way. Just thought it was a difference between men and women. Anatomical. Nothing political intended.
I have German relatives and used to go often. Not so much anymore.
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If I was younger if I wouldn't move to Germany myself.
The good work!
My very first week in NYC--I was standing on a subway platform and heard running water. I looked around to see where the sound was coming from, and just a few yards from me, some guy was peeing off the subway platform and into the tunnel :(
I have no eggplant so I always sit jajaja
Regarding the lack of privacy in American restrooms I read about the intention of not providing people any space for (hoping not to to cause any demonetization) „intimate experiences“.
This also would align with my observation in a very conservative region, where the stalls even did not have any device for keeping them shut. Anyone could enter each of the stalls at any time by just pushing it’s door open. You had to peek into the stall in order to find out whether it was occupied or the door was just accidentally in the closed position.
It's mostly for medical emergencies. I worked in a store and we had to go through the bathroom often to see if anyone was dying in there. Also it does cut down on intimate experiences. The gap at the floor also makes it easier to clean the floor. You can just go under the door with a mop. In Europe you have to open the door.
I went to a school built in the 60s and some boys rooms had stalls with walls but no doors. At the time I thought it was to keep people from trying to smoke.
I have rarely seen partitions between the urinals in the states.
I was in the Army in Germany in 1971/75 and in public restrooms, it was common to pee on a ceramic wall with a trough on the bottom. You flushed them with a knob and water would run down the wall. (In Kitzingen am Main.)
We’ll be driving quite a bit from city to city & im not sure where to find bathrooms along the way. Such as from Innsbruck to Baden Baden
As someone with Crohn’s disease- traveling in Europe is stress inducing. Finding a public WC, then finding coins to pay is cruel for those who “can’t wait”. The most beautiful, luxurious public restroom I visited was at an old Monastery museum in DK (Borglum Kloster)
I came across that the squaring toilet in France in many areas.
Hi guys. A couple of other points. One, the paper toilet seat covers - everywhere in the US, not in Europe. 2nd, self cleaning toilet seats. The first time I saw one of these in Leipzig (14 years ago) I thought I was hallucinating!
Yep. The shelf toilets are a pain in the ass. So glad there aren't so many now. You have to clean them immediately. I never understood that as a student in Germany in the 80s.
We always called the shelf toilets, 'shoilets' 😁
I'm definitely sitting down to pee at home! Unless you have a pissoir! :D
One thing I noticed is that in homes in the U.S., toilets are usually lower (closer to the floor) than in German homes - which makes it more difficult to sit on and thereby encourages peeing in standing position. I suppose the lower toilets are designed to make it easier for small children to get on and off.
Interesting! And true! Also urinals seem to be way lower as well! 🤔
People in the US are shorter than most (not all) Europeans. The average German man is 5'11 (180.34 cm) where the average American man is 5'9 (175.26 cm). 2 inches is a giant deal. You need to sit comfortably with 2 feet on the floor. My brother went to Germany and his feet didn't touch the floor. My brother is the average US man height.
yeah the disability access thing I noticed big time in Germany. Like our apartment isn't even accessible if you can't use the stairs > was a hazard when I broke my foot and my partner had to help me hop up the stairs or scoot on my butt @.@ < and obviously the same about restroom placements.
Squat toilet: have seen this on a mountain hut ("refuge") in the French Alps.
I'm Asian and my school building was so old that they only had the squat toilet😂
I hated it but when I was in the senior they had renovation and all squat toilets were gone
That was Fascinating!
I taught my 2 boys to pee sitting down. I have no idea if they still do. My oldest is 33 and my youngest is 25.
Ich schließe mich da Phil an... daheim sitzen, außer Haus, abhängig vom Grad der Sauberkeit.
I agree with Phil in this point.. At home sitting down, in public places depending on the tidyness
As an American born Commercial Truck Driver, that includes my significant other husband, we generally try our best to use the bathroom facilities at Truck Stops, Rest Areas, but unfortunately due to our daily lives living in a moving Semi Tractor Trailer transporting commodities intrastate 365 days per year... there isn't always a bathroom available out over the road so we use much discretion as possible to relieve ourselves while enroute. However I see bottles of pee alongside many roadways from other truckers that just throw their body fluids out the window without stopping. Grotesque for sure, just don't look at okay, ignore please cuz sooner or later some state paid employee will clean these yucky pee things away. Actually we carry our own portapotty in truck and dispose of more properly. We been running as husband/wife team for over twenty years together and appreciate those who take thoughtful time and actions to keep our America clean and our beautiful Oregon green. Danke schon
They had squat toilets in the rest stop toilets in Belgium.
Payment for restrooms is a rather modern development. It began in relation to a rise in people not regarding proper procedure in public toilets. As to the people who sit in front of the toilets, you don’t have to pay them. You tip them. It is not mandatory except there is a sign stating differently. I always pay after doing my thing and only if I have coins. If I don’t I smile regretfully and murmur a “sorry I don’t have coins” and that’s that. There has been discussion as to rather pay those people or not because of the precarious circumstances a lot of them work(ed?) in. Some were forced into working these positions their employers operating outside German laws. I honestly don’t know if this is still the case. The discussion I remember was many years ago.
I'd say shelf toilets are more from the 60s and 70s, they started to become uncommon in the 80s and have basically vanished from the market now. I think they can still be bought, but most people just don't.
Squatting-style toilets used to be the norm in many Mediterranean countries, they used to be a lot more common in Croatia as well until relatively recently. I once saw them at a rest stop along the highway there.
Toilets with a visible water tank are definitely a thing from the 70s and earlier, after that they became uncommon here. Also, my grandparents' apartment used to have one of those toilets where you had to pull a cord attached to the water tank above before the building was renovated in the 2000s, it was fun to flush there :D
I have to laugh at this blog! I was an ARMY brat in West Berlin 86-89, the toilets were fascinating you often had to look for the flushing mechanism a few times it was on the ceiling across the stall. And if in a public WC Al the Americans would make a line and hold open the stall for the next person avoiding paying the toll in the box on the door. I still talk about German bathrooms and would like floating toilet and tiled walls with the drain in the floor to easily cleaning the bathroom.
In Europe they are more types of toilets and urinals One off my favorite types of toilets and urinals is that toilets and urinals then flush all together because there’s only one flush valve in the middle of the toilets and urinals for me that It’s cool
I hated bathrooms in Germany. Some toilets does not have floating water which I find disgusting, most public bathrooms don’t have hot water. I hated it the whole time I was there. No Air condition No cloth dryer, kitchen sinks are fricken small. Taking the trash is a big chore and the way it’s recycled you end up having more trash in your home than food in your fridge. The shower faucet is in middle of the tub I almost ruined my knee every time I took a shower. I hated it.
I never thought of peeing standing up as more masculine. I pee standing up, and I am gay (One could describe me as incredibly flamboyant) I just feel more comfortable standing, I don’t know why. Maybe that’s just how I feel about it.
The standing position allows gravity to assist the hydraulic flow.
I expierenced squat toilets in Italian train stations.
I have a great German bathroom story. I actually left for Germany in January 1980 so 42 exact years now. Things have changed much different since then, and BTW can you do a segment on German tp (toilet paper) ? In 1980 it was heavy brown paper almost like paper towels from a dispenser so we always carried our own USA made tp because it was much softer. Anyway when I first arrived in Germany we had lots of down time filling paperwork and waiting for our assignmet so we all went to a gasthaus and had a few beers and Jagermeister (which was still new in USA) we had to pee and didn't know much German yet. on the bathroom doors were Heren and Damen. We thought Heren meant her so Damen had to be men. We pounded on the locked door and a lady yelled. That's how we knew Damen was lady. For the bathroom facilities, they just had a big wall and a drain for the pee to go and one stall if you had to crap with no door. I didn't look to see how ladies when pee I really don't remember many other times I used the German facilities I remember going to a German rest stop on the Autobahn. and they didn't have any building to pee or crap. people just found a somewhat private place and squat or behind a tree. You had to be careful not to step on the tp. Like I say this was 42 years ago. I am sure Germany is much more modern. I always pee standing up just comes natural to me. I am seeing products for hiker ladies who want to pee standing because they don't have the room for much privacy or don't want to bare too much skin if they don't have to. In the Army we used a former German WW2 training camp so we used what the German soldiers used as far as peeing or pooping. It was just one big room with not much privacy. You just didn't your thing and moved on.
I remember the times, when there were only gas stations along the Autobahn which had a tiny filthy toilet. A private company bought the right to built truck stops and bathrooms and since then it really is enjoyable to do buissnes. You have to pay and get the voucher like Phil described. The facilities have been clean since.
We aim to please, so you aim too, please! Wrote the school janitor on our washroom wall!
During the first week in Germany, I saw someone pee in public. I had just stepped out of a Bakery, and this older man was peeing into the gutter finished and walked on. The thing was, there was a German Police standing 20 feet away. I realized this was normal. Yes, I adapted the practice, but I would find someplace a little more discreet.
I saw a few squat toilets in Italy many years ago. It was surprising, especially because ladies were in fancy dress.... seemed odd to use that toilet.
Did you try japanese toilets? It is the pure luxury, after the business you feel really clean and comfort. Btw. Flachspüler will be changed more and more to Tiefspüler to reduce bad odour.
I’m a Sitzpinkler at home because it does make less of a mess. In public restrooms I use the urinal. It’s hard to be a Sitzpinkler using a urinal, however, I imagine a very motivated individual could do so. 😃
Hey Ihr 2! Ich habe in mehreren Reportagen gehört, dass Amerikaner und Deutsche auch das Toilettenpapier anders handhaben. Amerikaner machen angeblich ein Knäuel und Deutsche falten das Papier ordentlich zusammen. Stimmt das?
I don't put "tips" on this plate at all, because I learned, that the person sitting there will not get anything of it anyway. They are just guilt tripping you into giving.
My favorite German word for the "can" is "Pisort", loosely translated "Piss Place".
The urinals are the same at certain places there is a stall between other times there isnt
I always have to go as well, probably because I either have coffee or tea with me all day long, so you're not alone in that Deanna! My daughter finds it so annoying anytime we go anywhere, lol. Also, I've seen/heard of the squat toilets in other countries but wonder how the handicapped manage with that? 🤷♀️
I think people pay before or after going to the toilet depending on their emergency :)))
I hate using public toilets because of the gapes in the stalls.
Something not mentioned is the American tendency to avoid the actual word TOILET* to describe the room (*considered too on the nose vulgar I've heard...). They come up with all kinds of misleading substitute words for public toilets such as restroom, washroom etc. One story I heard is that of a young Swedish girl who was hired as an au pair for the children of an American family. The family picked her up at the airport and since it was a several hour drive to their home they asked her if she needed to use the restroom before they departed. The girl knew from her school English that rest is what you do when you're tired so she replied cheerfully "Oh no. It's alright. I'll do it in the car."
We should have those shelf toilets in the U.S. it would save a lot of water
Yess lets go Sitzpinkler
Everybody hates squat toilets. Except me. Pardon my language, but in that position the stool just slides right out as if on a water slide. plus your butt doesn't touch anything.
They are common in buildings like schools, campings, army dorms, etc.
In addition to the common "raised bottom toilet" have also seen a different variation of them, where the higher part is at the front. And you have to tip-toe with one leg and lift one butt cheek while leaning on the other cheek, or else your .....head touches the porcelain, and that's just disgusting.
As for peeing standing/sitting... when not at my own or a friend's house, i always stand. come on.
At home i almost always sit. And that's because i'm either half-asleep, or i think about the hygiene of the toilet which other people will also use.
Accessibility? Ha. Yeah, kind of.
I find it so funny when i enter buildings and they have a ramp outside.... then inside there's like 3 steps up, then three steps down, then the elevator.
Trying to troll people in a wheelchair XD
Very nicely done, I’d rather sit unless I’m in a hurry I’ll stand especially in a public bath room, but the again your A….e is pretty smart and it just might decide it needs to go too, you may think it’s gas but no!!! It kinda fooled you if you know what I mean!! 🤣. I still feel uncomfortable here in the US going #2 where it’s not private, I niw find a little way around that by having my Kopfhörer and listening to my favorite jams so I hear nothing else so I just let it rip!!! 🤣 A bear got to do what a best got to do!!!
Tremendously informative video.
The standing/sitting debate summed up perfectly by Deanna. Well done. That’s a reason which allows Germans to have carpeted bathrooms. It’s also a reason why Americans have stained floors around the toilet.
USA prudery has always been ambiguous - you can’t pee in public, but people can see you poop in bathrooms. You can’t drink alcohol till you’re 21, but you can go to a brothel before that. You can’t vote till you’re 21, but you can get married at18, or 16, or 12 or even younger (e.g. here in Nevada - along with other states - there is no minimum age (but sex with a minor is illegal!)).
The squating toilets are common in the balkans
I pee sitting down at home and when I go out I pee standing up.