I thought this was a joke, but then I found out this is a real thing in the US. They build them like that to discourage people from using public toilets.
Also there could be automatic toilets that just kinda flush whenever so it can be a fun surprise game of "will it flush and spray your butt or won't it?"
@@amandapanda5087 Partly because politicians won't spend money on their people. Another part is people expecting them to only be used by drug addicts or homeless people. So it mostly comes down to ignorance and greed.
Brilliant idea. I heard those were installed because otherwise people will flush to mask sounds --> use of water triples. i'm all in favor of little music boxes. For all that I care, put in little generators that you power every time you push the door open or so.
@Andy Farrell - Really!? You obviously haven’t traveled much. Let me know if you still think that when you’re shitting into a hole in the ground touching elbows with the guy next to you.
@@caerphoto China in many areas still uses squat toilets. Don't know if you think that's sensible. Though I think France with its bidet toilets have a pretty good idea.
An under-appreciated bit Ryan's genius is that he really nails the different personalities of the corporate meeting, every time. There's the enabler ("Those basically mean the same thing"). And there's the guy running the meeting, who keeps giving the wrong person the benefit of the doubt ("Could be good for air circulation"), shutting down the person speaking sense ("Okay, let's keep this meeting rolling"), and positioning sanity and insanity like they're equally valid options ("Yeah, I guess it's between those two ideas").
The cubicle walls are raised off the ground for easy cleaning. The cubicles can be cleaned without going into each one of them and there are fewer corners for filth to accumulate. I thought everyone knew this - it's not really a WTF
@@zig131 ah yes, so we have the gap in order to allow the people whose job it is to clean the bathrooms not to have to clean them very carefully. Got it.
@@pvshka or just stealing some toilet paper from the next stall over if you don't have any and the next stall is empty. Hypothetically speaking, of course. 👀
@@zig131 Honestly, the worst offenders re. "BIG gaps EVERYWHERE" I've seen were all in the US (haven't been to Canada, so I can't say about that one). Which means that cleaners in, for example, Europe, also manage to clean the cubicles somehow, despite a lack of such gaps.
I can one up it... One of the bathrooms in my highschool just had cement block walls with no doors. The walls were also under 3 ft tall. And no, we were not a poor district. It was an active choice to have absolutely no privacy there. And no, it wasn't one of the tucked away ones. It was in about the highest-traffic area of the building. Also, the starewell everyone knew people always smoked in (because it was impossible not to notice the smell) got to keep both its doors. And no, I WISH I was making that up or exaggerating, and again, highschool...this was done to minors.
love ryan's delivery in this one, "just a little lock that doesn't lock, sure!" the way he presents downright delusional statements like this so smoothly and professionally never fails to send me
My high school bathrooms werent tall enough so taller people could just peek in if they wanted to (and I've even seen some doing it) The doors that separate the toilets from the bathroom area were also too high up for the lock, so whenever you would try to lock the bathroom door, it would bump off the lock because it's at the wrong space. So basically, you had to hold onto the door the entire time while pooping/peeing, and tall guys could look at any time they wanted. It was pure horror.
And don’t forget adding “state of the art” motion sensor toilets that flush themselves at least three times while you’re in the middle of doing your business but then won’t flush for the life of you once you actually want to flush them.
@@knyte8706 True, we always have to account for businesses being CHEAP AF when getting their autoflushing toilets and not repairing them. Also that weird phenomenon of every other toilet looking like someone beat the fuck out of it in frustration.
from what I heard it's mostly to prevent people doing questionable things inside. and it is an america only thing. where I live, the gap is ~2mm at some public restrooms and it is already too much.
- Well, we've talked about sight and smell. What do you think we should do about sound in these rooms? - It might be a nice idea to have the sound of running water - say a babbling brook - or some music playing. Or maybe just some white noise. Doesn't have to be loud, just enough to mask those embarrassing noises people make as they do their business so they feel more comfortable... - I disagree. I think the room should be as quiet as an anechoic chamber so we can hear every single sound in perfect detail. I want these rooms to be so quiet that when you walk into a restroom in a library, the space outside seems like a rock concert in comparison. I want to be able to hear EVERYTHING - every single tinkle and plop. When someone is wiping themselves with toilet paper, I want it to sound like a hardwood floor being belt-sanded. And let's cover the walls in sound-reflective tiles to amplify and reverberate the sound. Someone taking a dump in glorious high fidelity 10.1 surround sound. That's what I want to hear! And when someone clears their throat, I want the sound to reverberate for a good ten seconds after they stop. - Really? Could we compromise just a little on this? - OK, how about we install air dryers that sound like you're standing behind a 747 on the runway at LaGuardia? That way, when they're running you can let it rip in the stall for 20 seconds without having to feel embarrassed. - But when they stop, won't that actually heighten the quietness and make you more embarrassed to even breathe? - YES! Wonderful idea.
Damn you made me laugh out loud 😂, thank you sir! Side note - i live in Australia and in one of the shopping centres with me, the music that plays in the centre is on in the bathrooms too 😊
This was a very accurate portrait of my experience with public bathrooms during my internship in the US. Everything is just bigger there, the roads, cars, gaps in public bathroom stalls, everything. Greets from NL!
As an American, when sitting in the middle of a public bathroom, looking around and trying to avoid eye contact through the mile wide crack on either side of the door, with people passing by, you really do find yourself thinking: "I with the British had won the war of 1776. . . . "
Seeing how far cellphones have come since I was a kid, it really is shocking how much bathroom stalls haven't changed especially considering so much improvements can be made.
It's all about money, you pay exactly the same for a swanky toilet as you do for a shitty toilet when you use it i.e. nothing at all so there's not really the incentive to make improvements beyond the most basic.
The walls off the ground to see passed out people and to mop the floors. With the gaps so wide people see a perfect gaps not paper thin. Like he said the " honor system " don't look unless your into that kinda stuff getting kicked in the face
@@hinoakuma6386 Public toilet are objectively terrible. Forget the doors not going down, what about the spaces inbetween the doors. So many have edges that are so wide you can see clearly inside. So little privacy.
@@robrick9361 lol... objectively terrible for the people who don't pay for them... but for the people who pay to install them... the less material and the greater space utilised means the cheaper the cost. That's what I mean by improvements are subjective, because you're thinking of improvement from your pov. Not from the business owners etc.
I've been bringing this up to some of my American friends for years! 🤣 Especially when i hear them complain about the privacy on Facebook or somewhere else online. Them i'm like "dude, why bother about that and not about the fact that people can see you sitting on the toilet while taking a number two? ". I hate US public toilet stalls.
Hey, it's not all bad. Sometimes you get painful small talk. Or phone arguments. If you're lucky, you even get a hummer/singer. In all seriousness, I did have one time where I had to ask for a roll from the stall next to me, as I didn't have time to check to see my own was out. Therefore, I can't say it is 100% negative. Only about 99% bad, kinda like our public transportation!
@@TheReaverOfDarkness Typical dumbass on the internet: complain when they opt to hand away their privacy; don't complain when it is forcefully taken from them.
- and what should we put on the floors and walls? - extremely polished tile. Shine it up like a mirror! You need to be able to make direct eye contact with your neighbor at all times
I am so glad that later that day they decided to take the same design and apply them to dressing rooms to try on clothes. it is so comforting knowing that everyone who walks into the area can see me and know if I am okay. If I should slip and knock myself unconscious stumbling around in such of a small space, people could easily just pull me out from under the door.
Or those ones that automatically lock so if you forget, you have to get an employee to let you back in. Especially embarrassing if you're trying on underwear or something.
@@ladyclassicalwrites Wait, where you live there are _locks_ on public dressing rooms in clothing stores??? Not just a swinging-both-ways door like in old Wild West saloons? With a hand-width gap between the door and frame? And yeah, the gap at the bottom of the door, of course.
"I need to get in there FAST." Brown Shirt Guy is practically asking for his rights to be taken away and put in a room. Pink Shirt Guy might need a therapist after this.
"To save paper towels there should be a loud machine attached to a wall that blows air but doesn't actually dry your hands it just makes them a little less damp"
"We'll slap labels on them insisting they are more environmentally friendly despite that the electricity consumed each time one is activated couldn't possibly have a smaller carbon footprint than using 1 or 2 cheap, biodegradable paper towels."
@@mresturk9336 "And people won't realize how completely unsanitary they are since they just collect bathroom germs and shoot them on your 'clean' hands."
Right! So if someone wants to wipe their mouth or wipe off a stain on their shirt, they have to use toilet paper instead, which rips when it gets wet, so they'll have little tiny white spots all over their now-wet black shirt.
I wish a Roman Ryan had appeared at the end and said “How about this? No walls at all. You may wanna have a quick friendly conversation with people.” 😄
Probably only people who like weird facts about history would know what the heck you're talking about - like me! I have no idea how the Romans were cool with that... * shudders *
I mean, it is possible that any dividers have rotted away over the centuries. But then again, there are cultures where shitting together is seen as a bonding exercise, so you never know.
I have always thought I was the only person on planet earth who had these issues with public toilet designs. Thank you for making me feel less like a crazy person for wanting privacy on the bog.
And someone else should be in charge of locking and unlocking the door to the room, also we could make a little hole that we can feed him through so he doesn't die
"And there should be at least two sinks, but only one soap dispenser. So if you're forced to use the far one, you have to get really close to touching me while I'm using the close one."
I'll accept that, so long as the one with the working soap dispenser is one the opposite side of the one with the working towel dispenser and working sink, if that's automatic.
Ok feels like literally no-one knows how to use these so I’ll explain. First wash your hands under the tap. Then while the tap is off apply soap and vigorously and thoroughly rub your hands with it. Now wash off the soap. You now have clean hands. There’s easily enough water when you use these taps as intended.
@Simon Pryor Yes, because all soap adheres to an international standard and all taps have the same timing, right? Now you have to touch it again after just washing your hands and use alcohol on the spot afterwards.
I lived in America for close to 7 years… In all my time in the USA I avoided public toilets like they were the plague. Each time, before going out, I made sure I’d evacuated everything I could from my bowels. Going to a public toilet (not urinal) would have meant I was truly desperate and about -or in the process of- to shit my pants.
I've lived here my whole 33 years, and I do the same thing. I've had many IBS emergencies in which I've had to deal with the terrors of the worst public bathrooms. These also include gas station ones missing toilet paper completely(don't ask). Now, a lot of businesses have closed all public toilets because people leave them in terrible shape and nobody wants to clean them anymore. So I literally put off my entire day sometimes because I never know where I can stop or how bad of shape things will be in.
I actually partially shit myself in high school because I refused to use public restrooms. Only time I used public restrooms was then, and one other time in a road trip. Long road trip. Diarrhea. It was not fun
Also it should be super quiet, like, the quietest library you've ever experienced quiet, so that absolutely everything you do in there, every motion and breath and unavoidable biological and water-splooshy sound can be CLEARLY heard by everyone else in the room, because that's what creepy guy wants to hear.
@@Nikki_the_G A nice, noisy exhaust fan is fine, and serves another purpose too, but yes, give us some kind of white noise or music noise or really darn near any sort of noise that isn't me doing my business and we're good.
Unfortunately, pretty much the same. I hate the fact that there's the gap in the door frame. If someone is being airheaded or intentionally creepy, it's way too easy to make direct eye contact with someone sitting down in a stall.
What is the "rest of the world," though? Go to any 3rd world and some 2nd world countries, and you'll get a hole in the corner that you have to squat over.
I remember when I was a teenager, about 16, I caught a creepy guy looking at me through the gap in a bathroom stall. I yelled at him and he scurried away. Weird people like the gap.
"But you won't be able to see much through the gap." "Except if you're walking by the gap as you would be doing and get a panoramic view of the entire stall."
@@stephen3164 LOL I love how you managed to twist my words into something even worse Edit: forgot to add the 🤣🤣🤣 so this does not get mistaken for sarcasm
The camp I used to go to didn't even have doors, but had shower currents instead. It was an odd design choice, but honestly wasn't any worse than the traditional stall door.
“Well shouldn't we have some sort of dividers for urinals?” “Yes.” “Okay, go-” “As long as they're half the height of the stalls.” “No, we-” “Okay, fine. We’ll only use them occasionally.”
Urinals without dividers for simultaneous use by multiple people are a thing in some public places, especially some older construction sports halls. It's basically a piss chute for as many people as dare squeeze between each other to pee into.
If they dont add walls then they should add the news or somthing stuck to the wall in front of you that gets updated everyday so youve got somthing to distract you from 60 year old billy joe next to you
As a Brit that surprised me when I went to America. Literally the toilets at the airport I went "I'd heard they were higher at the bottom but that's higher than I thought!"
I always thought our stalls in Ireland showed too much above and below the door. Then I went to New York and was so shocked! This video is crazy accurate in its description of those stalls ^^
I'd like a divider juuuust big enough for people to realize it doesn't block the view at all. You know, kind of like how a picture frame draws your attention to the subject.
I think they just want people to get in and out of there ASAP. If they had total privacy, they might attract the homeless, hookers etc. It's fucking ridiculous how they compromise law-abiding people's privacy because they can't police their own place.
Fun fact: Even the stalls aboard the Titanic had walls and doors that reached the floor. I believe they even had those lock indicators suggested in the video which let people know when one was in use. And this was in 1912 (that being said, the walls didn't quite reach the ceiling, but that's kind of necessary to let out the moisture). EDIT: The ship's stalls also had lights that turned on when the stall doors were shut (this worked basically the same as when your shut/open your fridge door, but in reverse).
Creepily accurate. I never cease to be amazed at expensive restaurants that have urinals with nothing between them, Even went to one where the urinal was on the same wall as the sink and mirror, seriously weird.
Harm reduction is a thing. Just not a thing the money wants. Clean needles, safe injection sites, no fear of being arrested, and feeling no more shame than your average drinker.
@@trippmoore "no more shame than your average drinker" is not something I agree with, particularly for non-opiate addicts. There's a very fine line between "support" and "enabling" and I think that making drug addiction acceptable crosses it.
Honest opinion here....this guy is the most funny UA-camr there is. And he's fricking brilliant. Even has me watching the ads. At 1.5 mil. subs, I'd say he's underrated
He is also a genius at doing political humor! His Social Media Party sketch was brilliant. It made it's point without insulting any belief/stance. If you are a comedian that can make funny jokes, on politics, while not insulting or offending any group of people, than you are on the legendary level of comedian! Ryan is the guy that will bring us together. As a side note I don't believe I have ever seen an argument in his video comments either. Crazy!
This quote is often taken out of context. It is important to remember later in the book, where Sun Tzu also said "sometimes people don't drop stinkers" in order to get a more complete picture to help your military strategy
Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about pooping than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor.
"The doors should also be two feet off the floor!" "What? Why?" "So dipsticks can lock those doors and crawl back out!" "People are really going to crawl over the urine-coated tiles of a public restroom just to mildly inconvenience the next person?" "Yeahyeahyeah!" "Well okay then!"
Good lord. You hop on the throne, then over the stall's wall. Please tell me this is a hypothetical and you're not describing someone's actual decision to crawl (dry heave) across the (not-so-dry heave)...
@@AtlasJotun i haven't done this, but those bathroom walls can barely support a 13 year old leaning on them, so i would think that climbing them would break the wall
You forgot the genius who decides sometimes instead of separate standing stations there's just 1 long metal station across the wall for cooperative pissing.
and you forget to mention that it should let piss splash off it sometimes getting other people splashed with little droplets of piss from anyone who has a strong stream.
I'm tried of turning knobs all the time for water when I wash my hands. Can't we just have a motion sensor that requires you to fling your hands around for 4 minutes using every position imaginable until it finally activates and lasts for all but 3 seconds?
At our school its even worse it only activates for a split second, so you have to wave one hand in front of the sensor, and thenyou can wash the order. Kinda
@@alexanderbrand3041 A lot of the spring-button faucets have the same problem. You have to hold a button - that everyone else has been touching - down in order to wash one hand at a time.
The faucets at my work quit after a few seconds when washing my hands, but without fail they go off when I bend over to pick up my bag. They detect the position of my head better than the hands under them.
At my grocery store, I'd notice MANY times that some butt-heads would CONSTANTLY leave the sinks running. So.... it's those water-runner's faults we got motion sensors
The most awesome public bathroom I've ever been to was basically a hallway with a row of closet doors. Behind each door was a completely private toilet. I thought to myself, "this was clearly made for me." But yeah, I often forget we're only one generation removed from that weirdly aggressive anti-privacy anti-comfort mentality that forced young boys to shower together in school. I was fortunate to not be a part of that. We didn't have to shower if we didn't want to but we still had to change in front of each other. There was that weird backwards mentality that declared you were "gay" if you were noticeably uncomfortable.
I still have never been to a dressing room anywhere that was private. Or a shower either tbh, there might be a glass divider between the two showers but not a stall. A weird thought for me. I live in Finland though where people are maybe a bit more chill about nudity, with sauna culture and all that. I’m a bit sad that it seems to be changing and influenced by foreign media etc. I would hate if people started being super weird and awkward about nudity and sexualizing it to an excessive extent (like being weird about a 3 year old being in the room when their mom showers or something), which I feel is more the case in.. um.. certain countries 😁
Not everyone is so embarrassed by nudity. Maybe sexualizing nudity is what is backwards. I once watched a documentary, about a guy that got reject by his girlfriend in front of an entire stadium. Soon people discovered the reason the girl didn't want to marry him, was because his penis was too small. He went on a journey about the whole penis size stigma. His father said something interesting. The guy asked if his father also had a small penis and if he and his mom were okay with it. The father said that back in the day, boys usually were naked around each other preety often. Not just in showers and bathrooms, but like bathing in rivers and lakes for fun. They were okay with their own bodies and penises, because seeing other people naked in a non-sexual way, made nudity natural. The boys saw each others penises and they realise that there's always someone bigger, thicker, smaller, hairer than them. Nowadays, men don't even see their father or brothers naked, and the only reference for what is normal body or penis is through porn. That doesn't represent the "natural" at all. Which lead to a lot of self-esteem issues. A naked body is just a naked body. The reason people feel self-conscious, is because they project their own insecurities onto others.
@@enenenergp fyi...I can't imagine many countries more arms-length about family nudity than here in the U.S. but, it IS common for toddlers to see their parents naked. It's a safety issue. You can't just lock an awake toddler out.
just imagine... our great great grandchildren will hopefully get public toilet doors that shut completely to give them privacy and maybe, just maybe, they will get 2 ply toilet paper that didn't have just one square left by the time you need to use it and you discover it after you've dropped a big one...
To any and all Europeans who haven't been to the US of A: He isn't joking. There seriously is a gap between the door and walls of the toilet stalls... American toilets are weird enough for Americans to be self-aware about it. That's how weird they are, they decided.
If you want to talk weird. I had an emergency moment while driving in France and pulled into a rest stop. There was an open area with a hole in the floor. I don't remember if there was a door. No I'm not joking and yes it was a real facility with places to wash your hands and urinals however for #2 there was a floor hole with TP off to the side. Can't remember if I took a picture afterwards or not, it was 2010, think I might have for proof that I wasn't just making this up.
@@Parents_of_Twins Thats interesting you only hear about squat toilets in southeast asian countries but apparently they offer better positioning for your body to poop better, thats all I know.
@@MikeClowder Who wants to spend time in a roadside toilet? Who wants to spend time in a toilet period? All I know is I was surprised and not overly happy but from age 8 on I lived in a house without electricity and for several years without running water so am familiar with roughing it. Glad I wasn't wearing baggy pants.
First commandment of the Men's Room: "Thou shalt not peak." Second: "Thou shall not talk" Third: "Thou shall not select the urinal next to another unless that is all that is available."
That would definitely need to be a part of a different video...maybe first guy to have a website or something, that would have more than just...a single joke
I'm glad I live in a country where most of public bathrooms actually have their own tiny rooms for each toilet. And when you find one with just those thin separation walls, there are no gaps at all.
This is my favorite "The Guys Who..." video, by far! Ryan's facial expressions crack me up every time... but is anyone else ruined for using public restrooms now? I can't help but be more aware of every gap, sound and lock nowl. :D
What if the lock was just a hole you could look through, with a metal slidey thing you can manipulate from the outside of the stall just as easily as the inside?
They forgot to cover the giant paper dispensers that looks like it could hold a years supply but is always empty. Not a square to spare as it were. Also to build it so the acoustics favor awesome reverb and echo.
Seinfeld reference? Strange how i only remember that episode and the soup nazi one. Oh and the beeping planer one. Also i haven't seen an episode in like 20 years.
The infamous paper dispensers that when full are a tug-of-war to get one scrap at a time... or the whole frigging thing comes at you like you won the jackpot on a one-armed bandit in Reno.
@@stevedenis8292 oh, and don't forget to put them really low down, so that to get the tp you have to feel around for it first. Not like people's hands would be unsanitary for any reason while doing that, it should be fine. Oh, and make sure to lock them in a way that even employees can't figure out. Wouldn't want anybody running away with our top-quality single-ply-cheapest-possible toilet paper...
The subtle little downcast eyes that accompanied "sneekapeek..." then that quick cut away) absolutely had me spitting up my coffee I laughed so hard. Your characterizations have gotten laser sharp!
The best bathroom I've ever been to is located in a fancy high end outlet mall by my house. Each bathroom stall is completely covered in a little compartment. There are zero open spaces anywhere so it's soundproof and see proof.
Inside the Gold Coast's gourmet room in Vegas (Cornerstone), the bathroom is a single-person that rivals a luxury home's master bath--complete with a crystal chandalier! Enough space to house a Jacuzzi tub. For a single-person facility, the space has to be around 700 sq. ft.--HUGE. By far the best public bathroom I've ever been in.
The Hard Rock restaurant in Atlantic City New Jersey. (before the hotel) Each stall had solid walls of tile and the door was a real door that gave absolute privacy.
I'd like to direct your attention to exhibit A, "what if ghosts stuck around after jumpscares." Kind of a turd, that one. Everyone drops one now and then, even if someone doesn't drop them usually.
This is the best one I have seen outside of the Pitch sketches. Great ideas and I usually stop half way through. The biggest problem is that Bob Newhart did lots of these first person ever sketches over 50 years ago and they are way better,
Ryan please do the first person to skydive: "I'm going to jump out of this aeroplane with nothing but a bit of material to stop me from dying an awful bloody death!" "Why, is the aeroplane crashing?" "No not at all, it would just be fun I decided."
And what do you do if the stopping material breakes while you fall to death? I'll have a second one in my backpack. That sounds reasonable. Which is smaller and can't be steered.
@@epiendless1128 and if there is too much breaking it leads to too few braking which on the otherhand leads to more breaking xD (Thanks for mentioning it, I'll edit my previous comment accordingly)
The walls of the stalls in bathroom of my college locker room were only like 4.5 feet tall at most, so you didn't even have to be especially tall to be able to stand up and feel awkward about being able to see people even two stalls over (or have some fucking dude look down at you while you were as vulnerable as a turtle laying on its back). Also basically every lock was broken, because of course.
The original toilet design was a fully open public pooping bench with absolutely no privacy. After that nation fell it took humanity 1000 years of pooping in holes before we made toilets again and they still have very sus privacy.
- What about cleaning after their business? - We can put single-ply endless toilet paper in the stalls that have no perforation and only rip lengthwise or while you are using them! - That sounds terrible! - Not to worry, we design the dispensers to be mostly empty. - That's not better!
Let’s make it so that they’re like sandpaper, remind people of the old days when toilet paper was a luxury, that’ll bring the nostalgia when you’re taking a dump!
I'm surprised he didn't bring up the trough urinals. "That way it will be impossible to put up any kind of wall and there wont even be the edge of the urinal to block me from peeking. Plus I can get as close to people as I want, much closer than if there were individual urinals". I always thought those were stupid. I haven't seen one in a long time so maybe there has been some progress made.
Last saw them at a ren faire. It seems like its a simple temp bathroom solution that is SLIGHTLY better then portapottys....if just because portapottys are heinous monstrosities.
“And let’s add sinks with sensors that will only clean your hands for about 3 seconds and then won’t turn back on.”
That was clearly the brainchild of a germophobe cheapskate who hated the idea of wasting water and touching the tap after you washed
The universe balances this out with the urinals that never stop flushing.
That you have to keep waving your hands under looking like an idiot.
and then they'll pour out water for 2 seconds after you dont need them, even though it waste TONS of water
@@crispyandspicy6813 Slight ermophobe here, I hate the ones that don't work properly.
“Just a little lock that doesn’t lock, sure”
For safety purposes obviously
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I'm not even sure this isn't how this actually went down...
Fancy seeing you here Clint😆
When you are watching a skit and find a reptile youtuber
Ryan George is my favorite UA-cam documentarian.
I am now legit curious what the history was here.
out of all the channels i subscribed to that would watch ryan, Clint was the last person i would have expected
Don't forget to make sure there is absolutely no ambient noise in the bathroom so you can hear absolutely everything that's happening
I thought this was a joke, but then I found out this is a real thing in the US.
They build them like that to discourage people from using public toilets.
Where people that blast loud music on their smartphone go from disturbing the peace to a public servant
@@thecomposerchanginggames5250 my saviours
Actually ambient music or something wouldn’t be a bad idea 🤔 (no irony here)
western world no privacy at all , glass doors and glass walls a see through house
Far more coherent and focused than whatever committee actually designed them.
The motivation here was pretty clear
Committee? It was probably originally designed by just 1 person. 😅
Probably in the same group lol
Shitty committee
@@bern9642 the person was probably 5
Also there could be automatic toilets that just kinda flush whenever so it can be a fun surprise game of "will it flush and spray your butt or won't it?"
😂😂😂😭😭
Automatic flushing? you sure it's not a ghost that was just there doing ghost poops when you sat in their lap and did yours?
Just came to be that some guys won't be able to relate to this 😂
It rarely sprays my butt but it always gets real loud and startles the hell outta me. Am I the only one?
It.adds excitement
"sometimes people drop stinkers" - truer words were never spoken
"sometimes people DON'T drop stinkers" -boom even truerer words
Counter: sometimes people don't drop stinkers
That might be the funniest line Ryan has ever said.
@@melon9285 Are you referring to when the stinkers are thrown? cos thats just out of line
@@melon9285 I ALWAYS drop a stinker I don't know bout you. Are people going to these public things to NOT drop stinkers???
I feel so bad for American public toilets..
In Korea I even encountered little music boxes to mask the toilet sounds you make THAT'S WHAT WE NEED
Why are everyone else's public bathrooms so much better than ours?
@@amandapanda5087 Partly because politicians won't spend money on their people. Another part is people expecting them to only be used by drug addicts or homeless people. So it mostly comes down to ignorance and greed.
Brilliant idea. I heard those were installed because otherwise people will flush to mask sounds
--> use of water triples.
i'm all in favor of little music boxes. For all that I care, put in little generators that you power every time you push the door open or so.
i live in israel all our public toilets have to be bomb resistant
@@yonatanmonneler1744 You get bombed so often they have to be bomb resistant?
I pretty much know almost all of Ryan's clothes and accessories by now.
Yea it's like Pokémon
I'm gonna make this into horse racing, people betting on what outfits will be in the video
@@lapras2397 This is honestly a pretty fun idea.
🔫Oh really, name them all
Oh, so you like Ryan George? Name every accessory.
I"m convinced most of the world's important decisions are made in that room by those dudes. It would explain a LOT!
The rest of the world has sensible toilet cubicles though.
@Andy Farrell - Really!? You obviously haven’t traveled much. Let me know if you still think that when you’re shitting into a hole in the ground touching elbows with the guy next to you.
@@BigBear-- India doesn't count
@@caerphoto China in many areas still uses squat toilets. Don't know if you think that's sensible.
Though I think France with its bidet toilets have a pretty good idea.
They are the US's current cabinet.
An under-appreciated bit Ryan's genius is that he really nails the different personalities of the corporate meeting, every time. There's the enabler ("Those basically mean the same thing"). And there's the guy running the meeting, who keeps giving the wrong person the benefit of the doubt ("Could be good for air circulation"), shutting down the person speaking sense ("Okay, let's keep this meeting rolling"), and positioning sanity and insanity like they're equally valid options ("Yeah, I guess it's between those two ideas").
THIS SO MUCH
Good point, agreed, well explained, thank you!
@Michael Lochlann Hive-minded thinking like That, sounds amazingly Japanese. In a bad way.
"Oh, he looked through the gap, why did he look through the gap?" Best line in here by far 😄
I love Ryan's videos in general, but every now and then he shines a big WTF light on society and absolutely nails it. This is one of those times.
The cubicle walls are raised off the ground for easy cleaning. The cubicles can be cleaned without going into each one of them and there are fewer corners for filth to accumulate.
I thought everyone knew this - it's not really a WTF
@@zig131 ah yes, so we have the gap in order to allow the people whose job it is to clean the bathrooms not to have to clean them very carefully. Got it.
Everything aside, it's super useful for passing a toilet paper roll.
@@pvshka or just stealing some toilet paper from the next stall over if you don't have any and the next stall is empty.
Hypothetically speaking, of course. 👀
@@zig131 Honestly, the worst offenders re. "BIG gaps EVERYWHERE" I've seen were all in the US (haven't been to Canada, so I can't say about that one). Which means that cleaners in, for example, Europe, also manage to clean the cubicles somehow, despite a lack of such gaps.
The fact that Ryan made this during spooktober instead of "The guy who invented haunted houses" shows just how terrifying public bathroom stalls are
I can one up it...
One of the bathrooms in my highschool just had cement block walls with no doors.
The walls were also under 3 ft tall.
And no, we were not a poor district. It was an active choice to have absolutely no privacy there.
And no, it wasn't one of the tucked away ones. It was in about the highest-traffic area of the building.
Also, the starewell everyone knew people always smoked in (because it was impossible not to notice the smell) got to keep both its doors.
And no, I WISH I was making that up or exaggerating, and again, highschool...this was done to minors.
@@dynamicworlds1 What the #### was your school??????
@@AgentAnime95AUSCHWITZ
@@dynamicworlds1 I think that is to keep people from doing drugs.
I blame these things for paruresis.... -_-
love ryan's delivery in this one, "just a little lock that doesn't lock, sure!" the way he presents downright delusional statements like this so smoothly and professionally never fails to send me
what delusion lol this had to have happened almost all BATHROOMS ARE LIKE THIS XD
you make a valid point
yeah.
“Sometimes they drop stinkers.”
“Sometimes they drop stinkers..?”
the confusion in the second line had the milk i was drinking explode
"so smoothly and professionally never fails to send me" Send you where D: ? Did you ever find a way to get back!?!?!
To send you?
My high school bathrooms werent tall enough so taller people could just peek in if they wanted to (and I've even seen some doing it)
The doors that separate the toilets from the bathroom area were also too high up for the lock, so whenever you would try to lock the bathroom door, it would bump off the lock because it's at the wrong space. So basically, you had to hold onto the door the entire time while pooping/peeing, and tall guys could look at any time they wanted. It was pure horror.
Rip
clearly they were designed by the Creepy guy.
This why I never use the school washrooms no matter how much I need to go.
It's an honor system
D:
And don’t forget adding “state of the art” motion sensor toilets that flush themselves at least three times while you’re in the middle of doing your business but then won’t flush for the life of you once you actually want to flush them.
I mean, they have the buttons right on the side of them to press manually....
@@ultimamage3 not all of them, and even then a lot of them are very faulty with the buttons, at least from my experience.
@@knyte8706 True, we always have to account for businesses being CHEAP AF when getting their autoflushing toilets and not repairing them. Also that weird phenomenon of every other toilet looking like someone beat the fuck out of it in frustration.
@@ultimamage3 lmao facts tho
Nothing like a little pee water spray on your bumbum.
I thought of *safety* initially but… this video has made me reconsider this.
from what I heard it's mostly to prevent people doing questionable things inside. and it is an america only thing. where I live, the gap is ~2mm at some public restrooms and it is already too much.
Hallo OT! How is your day going?
@@jansustar4565 It's not only America but it isn't everywhere.
They're designed that way precisely to make you feel uncomfortable, so you don't stall too much.
In England, it's as if you're in your own ventilated private cubicle and I am so grateful.
- Well, we've talked about sight and smell. What do you think we should do about sound in these rooms?
- It might be a nice idea to have the sound of running water - say a babbling brook - or some music playing. Or maybe just some white noise. Doesn't have to be loud, just enough to mask those embarrassing noises people make as they do their business so they feel more comfortable...
- I disagree. I think the room should be as quiet as an anechoic chamber so we can hear every single sound in perfect detail. I want these rooms to be so quiet that when you walk into a restroom in a library, the space outside seems like a rock concert in comparison. I want to be able to hear EVERYTHING - every single tinkle and plop. When someone is wiping themselves with toilet paper, I want it to sound like a hardwood floor being belt-sanded. And let's cover the walls in sound-reflective tiles to amplify and reverberate the sound. Someone taking a dump in glorious high fidelity 10.1 surround sound. That's what I want to hear! And when someone clears their throat, I want the sound to reverberate for a good ten seconds after they stop.
- Really? Could we compromise just a little on this?
- OK, how about we install air dryers that sound like you're standing behind a 747 on the runway at LaGuardia? That way, when they're running you can let it rip in the stall for 20 seconds without having to feel embarrassed.
- But when they stop, won't that actually heighten the quietness and make you more embarrassed to even breathe?
- YES! Wonderful idea.
Good Lord.. This is absolutely creepy and hilarious at the same time.
😂😂
I loved this, but I will have to be "that guy" and note that an anechoic chamber is basically the opposite of the sound-reflective walls concept.
Damn you made me laugh out loud 😂, thank you sir! Side note - i live in Australia and in one of the shopping centres with me, the music that plays in the centre is on in the bathrooms too 😊
I automatically read this in Ryan George's voice, with his monotone inflections on words and comedic timing... This is awesome and accurate
You just made me laugh almost as much as the video did. You should write for pitch meeting.
This was a very accurate portrait of my experience with public bathrooms during my internship in the US. Everything is just bigger there, the roads, cars, gaps in public bathroom stalls, everything. Greets from NL!
As an American, when sitting in the middle of a public bathroom, looking around and trying to avoid eye contact through the mile wide crack on either side of the door, with people passing by, you really do find yourself thinking: "I with the British had won the war of 1776. . . . "
On this day in history, Brown Jacket Ryan chose chaos.
My man woke up and discomfort amongst himselves XD
*imagining Brown Jacket Ryan as a chaos marine*
@@Mysticleo42 *amongst?* among us
Brown jacket should have authorities pay him a visit tbh
@@quin.tessential grapefruit.
Just imagining Ryan talking normally is scary. Like, imagine he's talking, but not like in the videos.
Imagine he's talking, but he's the only Ryan in the room, there aren't even any other Ryans with him.
And to someone who is not himself
I think he speaks french
I have done this. It's... an experience.
@@quin.tessential that’s a good point
Seeing how far cellphones have come since I was a kid, it really is shocking how much bathroom stalls haven't changed especially considering so much improvements can be made.
It's all about money, you pay exactly the same for a swanky toilet as you do for a shitty toilet when you use it i.e. nothing at all so there's not really the incentive to make improvements beyond the most basic.
The walls off the ground to see passed out people and to mop the floors.
With the gaps so wide people see a perfect gaps not paper thin.
Like he said the " honor system " don't look unless your into that kinda stuff getting kicked in the face
I think the world improvements here is subjective... which is probably why they haven't been made.
@@hinoakuma6386 Public toilet are objectively terrible. Forget the doors not going down, what about the spaces inbetween the doors. So many have edges that are so wide you can see clearly inside. So little privacy.
@@robrick9361 lol... objectively terrible for the people who don't pay for them... but for the people who pay to install them... the less material and the greater space utilised means the cheaper the cost.
That's what I mean by improvements are subjective, because you're thinking of improvement from your pov. Not from the business owners etc.
I've been bringing this up to some of my American friends for years! 🤣 Especially when i hear them complain about the privacy on Facebook or somewhere else online. Them i'm like "dude, why bother about that and not about the fact that people can see you sitting on the toilet while taking a number two? ". I hate US public toilet stalls.
Typical Americans: complain when they opt to hand away their privacy; don't complain when it is forcefully taken from them.
In fairness.... It's just pooping.
Hey, it's not all bad. Sometimes you get painful small talk. Or phone arguments. If you're lucky, you even get a hummer/singer.
In all seriousness, I did have one time where I had to ask for a roll from the stall next to me, as I didn't have time to check to see my own was out. Therefore, I can't say it is 100% negative. Only about 99% bad, kinda like our public transportation!
Pretty sure that's not a good comparison
@@TheReaverOfDarkness Typical dumbass on the internet: complain when they opt to hand away their privacy; don't complain when it is forcefully taken from them.
That one Ryan guy who's calling out the "reasonably obvious creep" Ryan man is very astute and aware by Ryanverse standards, I noticed.
Hey, I.. I think this guy is right, I decided.
I think Ryan did a good job potraying that character; Ryan.
@@diversezebra6754 Giving both of you a like is probably appropriate, I have contemplated.
Yeah..yeah yeah..
Hi there hello
"I don't like how that guy said 'oh' "
Yep, he's already got it
חחחח
שלון. XD.
We said the same thing.
@@TheReaverOfDarkness oh cool! Now I gotta look up your comment lol
Edit: oh wait, I'm dumb, that's just the next line in the video
@@רפאל-ב XD
- and what should we put on the floors and walls?
- extremely polished tile. Shine it up like a mirror! You need to be able to make direct eye contact with your neighbor at all times
Don't forget the actual mirror on the ceiling, just to be sure.
Lastly. Lets also make sure the bathrooms are extremely *BRIGHT.* Leave absolutely nothing to the imagination.
That would be indirect eye contact.
@@tombworld9012 who cares bit**
@@raymok5644 Thanks for caring enough to reply!
3:08 "Sometime people don't drop stinkers" - Ryan George
Wise words
"And the stalls between toilets should include a hole. You know, for peeping in or glory."
XD
"Why would you need a hole seeing into the stall beside yours??"
"In case someone or yourself needs to be handed some extra tissue"
@@dariadaniellemusic r/wooooooosh
@@dariadaniellemusic I'd hope the feck not xD
Missed opportunity, Ryan should have said "honor, or glory system".
I am so glad that later that day they decided to take the same design and apply them to dressing rooms to try on clothes. it is so comforting knowing that everyone who walks into the area can see me and know if I am okay. If I should slip and knock myself unconscious stumbling around in such of a small space, people could easily just pull me out from under the door.
Pull your half dressed, unconscious, body from under the door. Gotta think safety!!
Or those ones that automatically lock so if you forget, you have to get an employee to let you back in. Especially embarrassing if you're trying on underwear or something.
I would prefer death.
@@ladyclassicalwrites Wait, where you live there are _locks_ on public dressing rooms in clothing stores??? Not just a swinging-both-ways door like in old Wild West saloons? With a hand-width gap between the door and frame? And yeah, the gap at the bottom of the door, of course.
@@TF2CrunchyFrog Uh, they do have the gap at the bottom, but they have locks and no gaps on the doors. Isn’t that normal?
*"First guy to admit he was wrong"* would be a good topic for Ryan to tackle
Yeah, that won't happen in the ryanverse for the next few years, I decided
hasn't happened yet because it hasn't happened yet?
I could be wrong -- but i'm not since i'm a guy, so there you go
"First guy to ever juggle something"
I think Ryan could deal quite well with the subject of juggling
There is practically zero target audience for a topic like that. 99.99% of people wouldn't be able to relate.
I might be wrong but I'm pretty sure he kinda did that in a vid of the first person to lie.
The restrooms made by creepy guy make so sense... and it's freaking creepy. Got to love him for making it to where we want change it.
"I need to get in there FAST."
Brown Shirt Guy is practically asking for his rights to be taken away and put in a room. Pink Shirt Guy might need a therapist after this.
Well then the Ryan that is in the room will have a roommate
you mean the guy who talks to people good
@@fhsofdgadji that person is called the rapist, I decided.
I understood the guy reference! And it's Ryan!
Brown jacket*
"To save paper towels there should be a loud machine attached to a wall that blows air but doesn't actually dry your hands it just makes them a little less damp"
"We'll slap labels on them insisting they are more environmentally friendly despite that the electricity consumed each time one is activated couldn't possibly have a smaller carbon footprint than using 1 or 2 cheap, biodegradable paper towels."
@@mresturk9336 "And people won't realize how completely unsanitary they are since they just collect bathroom germs and shoot them on your 'clean' hands."
Right! So if someone wants to wipe their mouth or wipe off a stain on their shirt, they have to use toilet paper instead, which rips when it gets wet, so they'll have little tiny white spots all over their now-wet black shirt.
@@aaronseidl5941 Yeah, since covid those things are mainly not used anymore.. which is interesting since we used it since decades previously.
@@1IGG speak for yourself. where i live it's almost all automatic hand dryers now because environmentally friendly. it sucks
I wish a Roman Ryan had appeared at the end and said
“How about this? No walls at all. You may wanna have a quick friendly conversation with people.” 😄
"These public toilets should also have no toilet paper but a bunch of communally shared buttwipe brush-mop thingies, I've decided."
Probably only people who like weird facts about history would know what the heck you're talking about - like me!
I have no idea how the Romans were cool with that...
* shudders *
I had to look it up to make sure. Didn't think that the Romans could fall lower in my eyes than they already are.
I mean, it is possible that any dividers have rotted away over the centuries.
But then again, there are cultures where shitting together is seen as a bonding exercise, so you never know.
@@libertatemadvocatus1797 I could see that!
(I'm totally not the creepy guy from the video)
I have always thought I was the only person on planet earth who had these issues with public toilet designs. Thank you for making me feel less like a crazy person for wanting privacy on the bog.
If brown jacket Ryan isn’t careful, he may get put into a room, I decided.
a small room with NO walls around the bathroom and a large roommate
@@recoveringsoul755 I think he will like that actually
A locked room that he can't leave for awhile, I decided."
And someone else should be in charge of locking and unlocking the door to the room, also we could make a little hole that we can feed him through so he doesn't die
Also a toilet in that room should not have any walls whatsoever so a large roommate get to see everything.
"And there should be at least two sinks, but only one soap dispenser. So if you're forced to use the far one, you have to get really close to touching me while I'm using the close one."
I'll accept that, so long as the one with the working soap dispenser is one the opposite side of the one with the working towel dispenser and working sink, if that's automatic.
Ok feels like literally no-one knows how to use these so I’ll explain. First wash your hands under the tap. Then while the tap is off apply soap and vigorously and thoroughly rub your hands with it. Now wash off the soap. You now have clean hands. There’s easily enough water when you use these taps as intended.
"And both taps should only dispense cold water, so nobody can ever properly clean their hands."
@lebensraummetal You know you'vê been born in economic when their plubic bathrooms have hot water.
@Simon Pryor Yes, because all soap adheres to an international standard and all taps have the same timing, right?
Now you have to touch it again after just washing your hands and use alcohol on the spot afterwards.
I like how the guy is a pervert and he’s not trying to hide it at all
yeah ;) hehe
towards others of the same gender-
Yeah. He won’t stop bugging the guy with the cap though.
@@virginiafernandez6846 lol 😂
@@betafox4476 people are gay, turtle
I lived in America for close to 7 years…
In all my time in the USA I avoided public toilets like they were the plague.
Each time, before going out, I made sure I’d evacuated everything I could from my bowels.
Going to a public toilet (not urinal) would have meant I was truly desperate and about -or in the process of- to shit my pants.
Same, except I’ve have been living in America for 12 years, and counting.
I've lived here my whole 33 years, and I do the same thing. I've had many IBS emergencies in which I've had to deal with the terrors of the worst public bathrooms. These also include gas station ones missing toilet paper completely(don't ask). Now, a lot of businesses have closed all public toilets because people leave them in terrible shape and nobody wants to clean them anymore. So I literally put off my entire day sometimes because I never know where I can stop or how bad of shape things will be in.
Once I saw doors not even 1.60 m high. There's hat guys everywhere it seems.
Evacuating your bowels before going out is tight!
I actually partially shit myself in high school because I refused to use public restrooms. Only time I used public restrooms was then, and one other time in a road trip. Long road trip. Diarrhea. It was not fun
Also it should be super quiet, like, the quietest library you've ever experienced quiet, so that absolutely everything you do in there, every motion and breath and unavoidable biological and water-splooshy sound can be CLEARLY heard by everyone else in the room, because that's what creepy guy wants to hear.
I actually would approve of a small increase in my taxes to have some music constantly playing in any public bathroom.
Especially when we had those massive dungs. Fucking hard to conceal the sounds they make. I hate it
@@Nikki_the_G A nice, noisy exhaust fan is fine, and serves another purpose too, but yes, give us some kind of white noise or music noise or really darn near any sort of noise that isn't me doing my business and we're good.
Well yeah I guess but then, talking would be more uncomfortable.
I'm proud of my sounds. Only wimps conceal their noises
I hear European bathrooms actually have doors that shut without gaps. Truly, the civilized peoples of the world.
not exactly, alot of restrooms here have the same weird gaps, especially in bars and similar.
Cubicle doors here don’t have weird gaps. Was very uncomfortable in a US public toilet when I was there
@@bryanwang9095 US toilets gotta have that gap so you can stick your gun through and shoot at intruders, its for safety
@@LazGato Why aren't I certain if this is a joke?
Canada also has doors like that
Watching posts of Reddit, it's insane how different public restrooms are in the US compared to the rest of the world. guess it's the same for Canada?
In most public bathrooms yes.
Unfortunately, pretty much the same. I hate the fact that there's the gap in the door frame. If someone is being airheaded or intentionally creepy, it's way too easy to make direct eye contact with someone sitting down in a stall.
We dont have pee troughs anymore in Canada.
What is the "rest of the world," though? Go to any 3rd world and some 2nd world countries, and you'll get a hole in the corner that you have to squat over.
@@woody5476 I think the distinction between lack of infrastructure and really weird infrastructure would be the difference there.
I remember when I was a teenager, about 16, I caught a creepy guy looking at me through the gap in a bathroom stall. I yelled at him and he scurried away. Weird people like the gap.
I'm sorry to hear that
"But you won't be able to see much through the gap."
"Except if you're walking by the gap as you would be doing and get a panoramic view of the entire stall."
I'd just refuse to leave the stall unless/until my family come
By unless i mean unless my family is there, not unless they come😂
Had a retarded kid try and slide under the divider into my stall to ask what I was doing. That's how you get curb stomped, my man.
I love how Ryan wears a fake mustache over top of his real one, lul
It's so you know he is the superior. Bigger moustache = better job
He has a more commanding mustache, therefore he is in charge
What are you talking about
Lul is this new lol
@@arun6582 it means dick in my language
I especially love when the side gap between the door and the stall is so big, you wonder why they even bothered with the door at all.
So your vote is for no door at all. Interesting.
@@stephen3164 🤣
@@stephen3164
LOL
I love how you managed to twist my words into something even worse
Edit: forgot to add the 🤣🤣🤣 so this does not get mistaken for sarcasm
I've seen some that have a foot on both sides wide open, the door is just to block entry, not for privacy.
The camp I used to go to didn't even have doors, but had shower currents instead. It was an odd design choice, but honestly wasn't any worse than the traditional stall door.
“Well shouldn't we have some sort of dividers for urinals?”
“Yes.”
“Okay, go-”
“As long as they're half the height of the stalls.”
“No, we-”
“Okay, fine. We’ll only use them occasionally.”
At my school theres 3 urinals without walls
(All the boys are planning on yelling "BUILD A WALL!")
Urinals without dividers for simultaneous use by multiple people are a thing in some public places, especially some older construction sports halls. It's basically a piss chute for as many people as dare squeeze between each other to pee into.
@@thatisjustwhatisaid That's what I was thinking! What about the urinal troughs at stadiums!?
I was really waiting for more discussion of how terrible urinals are
If they dont add walls then they should add the news or somthing stuck to the wall in front of you that gets updated everyday so youve got somthing to distract you from 60 year old billy joe next to you
As a Brit that surprised me when I went to America. Literally the toilets at the airport I went "I'd heard they were higher at the bottom but that's higher than I thought!"
I always thought our stalls in Ireland showed too much above and below the door. Then I went to New York and was so shocked! This video is crazy accurate in its description of those stalls ^^
As someone who is 6'6", that tall people part is FAAAAR to accurate...
Seriously! I remember making direct eye contact with someone 😫 I didn't see anything but I was like "oh my gosh I'm so sorry, it was an accident!"
This comment makes me wonder uncomfortable things about a friend from school who's also 6'6" 🙃😅
@@NinjaFlibble they probably wouldn't do anything crazy
Hell I'm 5'10 and it's the same thing in my school bathrooms
@@gooquestione im 6.5 and i would
I'd like a divider juuuust big enough for people to realize it doesn't block the view at all. You know, kind of like how a picture frame draws your attention to the subject.
Love how the creepy guy managed to infiltrate the " the place where names decided " for the bug segment to. It shows initiate and vision.
I love that he's saying that public bathrooms were made by a perv.
Who else would even want to be on the project?
I think they just want people to get in and out of there ASAP.
If they had total privacy, they might attract the homeless, hookers etc.
It's fucking ridiculous how they compromise law-abiding people's privacy because they can't police their own place.
@@SovereignStatesman fuck man you're probably right, just like the purposely uncomfortable benches.
People who want to save money
The truth is cheap designers, but being a perv fits the story better.
The fact that he wears a fake mustache on top of his is absolutely hilarious
I guess it is
Joel Haver does this too.
Nce pfp
You must be new around here haha
So it's more commanding therefore establishing dominance over the other Ryans....he decided.
Fun fact: Even the stalls aboard the Titanic had walls and doors that reached the floor. I believe they even had those lock indicators suggested in the video which let people know when one was in use. And this was in 1912 (that being said, the walls didn't quite reach the ceiling, but that's kind of necessary to let out the moisture).
EDIT: The ship's stalls also had lights that turned on when the stall doors were shut (this worked basically the same as when your shut/open your fridge door, but in reverse).
Yep cause the Titanic was built in Ireland, so the toilets were actually good lol
Fun fact : Rome had just a line down a wall with nothing but seats. Very open concept
yeah that’s why it sank - the ship couldn’t handle the extra weight. so nobody puts those bits on toilet doors anymore for safety purposes
@@tickital4464 while on dry land of coarse
Matt Ward: didn't you read Stefan Hughes's comment? The Titanic was built in IRELAND!
Creepily accurate. I never cease to be amazed at expensive restaurants that have urinals with nothing between them, Even went to one where the urinal was on the same wall as the sink and mirror, seriously weird.
"He looked through the gap, why did he look through the gap"
Killed me 😂😂😂
That was great! Ha.
"Mirrored walls, 100% mirrored walls"- who let that guy on the team?
Urinals could have magnifying mirrors to cheer up people with teeny weenies.
Mirrored ceilings ◖⚆ᴥ⚆◗
"If you want privacy, you're not taking a shit, you're doing heroin." - Public services committee or something
Harm reduction is a thing. Just not a thing the money wants. Clean needles, safe injection sites, no fear of being arrested, and feeling no more shame than your average drinker.
@@trippmoore But the US loves shaming and degrading other human beings. Controlling bodies is something of a mainstream fetish for Americans.
@@Krystalmyth as do many other countries, though admittedly the US is a world leader in it.
@@Krystalmyth I love your name. 😂
@@trippmoore "no more shame than your average drinker" is not something I agree with, particularly for non-opiate addicts. There's a very fine line between "support" and "enabling" and I think that making drug addiction acceptable crosses it.
I come to this video anytime I'm in a public restroom and I'm reminded of the most perfect line. "Sometimes people drop stinkers." Peak cinema
“He looked through the gap” 🤣🤣🤣that part had me in stitches👌🏼👌🏼
Honest opinion here....this guy is the most funny UA-camr there is. And he's fricking brilliant. Even has me watching the ads. At 1.5 mil. subs, I'd say he's underrated
He's already at 1.5 million subscribers? Wow. Just seems like recently when he hit one million. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
@@jonathanblanton9446 sadly he’s not at 1.5 mil yet but he’s really close
He is also a genius at doing political humor! His Social Media Party sketch was brilliant. It made it's point without insulting any belief/stance. If you are a comedian that can make funny jokes, on politics, while not insulting or offending any group of people, than you are on the legendary level of comedian! Ryan is the guy that will bring us together.
As a side note I don't believe I have ever seen an argument in his video comments either. Crazy!
He is freggon hilarious!!! He's my new fav!
@@DustinBarlow8P true!
"sometimes people drop stinkers"
-Sun tzu, The Art of war
I love how a war general has became a meme
@@cranklabexplosion-labcentr8245 and mainly became a meme because of a Minecraft pig
This quote is often taken out of context. It is important to remember later in the book, where Sun Tzu also said "sometimes people don't drop stinkers" in order to get a more complete picture to help your military strategy
Sun Tzu said that, and I'd say he knows a little more about pooping than you do, pal, because he invented it, and then he perfected it so that no living man could best him in the ring of honor.
@@DoABarrelRol1l soldier?
The origins of Pervy Guy before people noticed that
"The doors should also be two feet off the floor!"
"What? Why?"
"So dipsticks can lock those doors and crawl back out!"
"People are really going to crawl over the urine-coated tiles of a public restroom just to mildly inconvenience the next person?"
"Yeahyeahyeah!"
"Well okay then!"
Whoops!
Whoopsie
Good lord. You hop on the throne, then over the stall's wall. Please tell me this is a hypothetical and you're not describing someone's actual decision to crawl (dry heave) across the (not-so-dry heave)...
@@AtlasJotun You don't live in America do you...? LOL.
@@AtlasJotun i haven't done this, but those bathroom walls can barely support a 13 year old leaning on them, so i would think that climbing them would break the wall
I spent some time as a janitor to help pay for school and I can confirm that this happens. Public restrooms are the worst.
You forgot the genius who decides sometimes instead of separate standing stations there's just 1 long metal station across the wall for cooperative pissing.
It builds a sense of community.
and you forget to mention that it should let piss splash off it sometimes getting other people splashed with little droplets of piss from anyone who has a strong stream.
Team Building exercise!!
I'm tried of turning knobs all the time for water when I wash my hands. Can't we just have a motion sensor that requires you to fling your hands around for 4 minutes using every position imaginable until it finally activates and lasts for all but 3 seconds?
And tends to get very hot very quickly. Sure hot water is good against germs but I want it to be nearly scalding!
At our school its even worse it only activates for a split second, so you have to wave one hand in front of the sensor, and thenyou can wash the order. Kinda
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A lot of the spring-button faucets have the same problem. You have to hold a button - that everyone else has been touching - down in order to wash one hand at a time.
The faucets at my work quit after a few seconds when washing my hands, but without fail they go off when I bend over to pick up my bag. They detect the position of my head better than the hands under them.
At my grocery store, I'd notice MANY times that some butt-heads would CONSTANTLY leave the sinks running. So.... it's those water-runner's faults we got motion sensors
The most awesome public bathroom I've ever been to was basically a hallway with a row of closet doors. Behind each door was a completely private toilet. I thought to myself, "this was clearly made for me."
But yeah, I often forget we're only one generation removed from that weirdly aggressive anti-privacy anti-comfort mentality that forced young boys to shower together in school. I was fortunate to not be a part of that. We didn't have to shower if we didn't want to but we still had to change in front of each other. There was that weird backwards mentality that declared you were "gay" if you were noticeably uncomfortable.
Sheesh, I'm glad that's not a thing anymore. School are really messed up though
I still have never been to a dressing room anywhere that was private. Or a shower either tbh, there might be a glass divider between the two showers but not a stall. A weird thought for me. I live in Finland though where people are maybe a bit more chill about nudity, with sauna culture and all that. I’m a bit sad that it seems to be changing and influenced by foreign media etc. I would hate if people started being super weird and awkward about nudity and sexualizing it to an excessive extent (like being weird about a 3 year old being in the room when their mom showers or something), which I feel is more the case in.. um.. certain countries 😁
Not everyone is so embarrassed by nudity. Maybe sexualizing nudity is what is backwards.
I once watched a documentary, about a guy that got reject by his girlfriend in front of an entire stadium. Soon people discovered the reason the girl didn't want to marry him, was because his penis was too small.
He went on a journey about the whole penis size stigma. His father said something interesting.
The guy asked if his father also had a small penis and if he and his mom were okay with it. The father said that back in the day, boys usually were naked around each other preety often. Not just in showers and bathrooms, but like bathing in rivers and lakes for fun.
They were okay with their own bodies and penises, because seeing other people naked in a non-sexual way, made nudity natural. The boys saw each others penises and they realise that there's always someone bigger, thicker, smaller, hairer than them.
Nowadays, men don't even see their father or brothers naked, and the only reference for what is normal body or penis is through porn. That doesn't represent the "natural" at all. Which lead to a lot of self-esteem issues.
A naked body is just a naked body. The reason people feel self-conscious, is because they project their own insecurities onto others.
@@enenenergp fyi...I can't imagine many countries more arms-length about family nudity than here in the U.S. but, it IS common for toddlers to see their parents naked. It's a safety issue. You can't just lock an awake toddler out.
just imagine... our great great grandchildren will hopefully get public toilet doors that shut completely to give them privacy and maybe, just maybe, they will get 2 ply toilet paper that didn't have just one square left by the time you need to use it and you discover it after you've dropped a big one...
"SOMETIMES PEOPLE DROP STINKERS."
"Sometimes people drop stinkers..."
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The best line of this video!!!😂😂😂
“SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON’T DROP STINKERS.”
“Sometimes people *don’t* drop stinkers…”
There's always that one super "helpful" guy in every committee
To any and all Europeans who haven't been to the US of A: He isn't joking. There seriously is a gap between the door and walls of the toilet stalls...
American toilets are weird enough for Americans to be self-aware about it. That's how weird they are, they decided.
Someone should put the ones who came up with that idea in a room.
If you want to talk weird. I had an emergency moment while driving in France and pulled into a rest stop. There was an open area with a hole in the floor. I don't remember if there was a door. No I'm not joking and yes it was a real facility with places to wash your hands and urinals however for #2 there was a floor hole with TP off to the side. Can't remember if I took a picture afterwards or not, it was 2010, think I might have for proof that I wasn't just making this up.
@@Parents_of_Twins Thats interesting you only hear about squat toilets in southeast asian countries but apparently they offer better positioning for your body to poop better, thats all I know.
If I remember right it was made that way to make it uncomfortable so that you would spend less time in the bathroom. Which is great.
@@MikeClowder Who wants to spend time in a roadside toilet? Who wants to spend time in a toilet period? All I know is I was surprised and not overly happy but from age 8 on I lived in a house without electricity and for several years without running water so am familiar with roughing it. Glad I wasn't wearing baggy pants.
First commandment of the Men's Room: "Thou shalt not peak."
Second: "Thou shall not talk"
Third: "Thou shall not select the urinal next to another unless that is all that is available."
Amen
Hund's rule.
I’m sure that’s a typo, but guys definitely shouldn’t be “peaking” in public bathrooms.
Fourth: Fast Food restaurants shall never clean the washrooms or stock toilet paper or towels.
4th: Left handed guys should hold it with their right hand while peeing and vice-versa.
Since I first saw this video some years ago, I've kept coming back to it every once in a while, and it never fails to make me laugh.
Same I watch it every few weeks just for a good laugh 😂
Video idea: “The guys who named bits of information websites store as cookies”
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This joke sucks
That would definitely need to be a part of a different video...maybe first guy to have a website or something, that would have more than just...a single joke
I am highly convinced that Ryan wakes up with random thoughts in the morning and that is how he makes these scripts
Same
Well... think if you wrote down everything you were thinking when you were taking a shower..
...or poopin. Eh?
@@MrKodachii hmmmmmmm
I'm glad I live in a country where most of public bathrooms actually have their own tiny rooms for each toilet. And when you find one with just those thin separation walls, there are no gaps at all.
You’d need an extractor fan or window for those, otherwise all your ass moister will mould up the ceiling
This is the dream!
This is my favorite "The Guys Who..." video, by far! Ryan's facial expressions crack me up every time... but is anyone else ruined for using public restrooms now? I can't help but be more aware of every gap, sound and lock nowl. :D
What if the lock was just a hole you could look through, with a metal slidey thing you can manipulate from the outside of the stall just as easily as the inside?
They forgot to cover the giant paper dispensers that looks like it could hold a years supply but is always empty. Not a square to spare as it were. Also to build it so the acoustics favor awesome reverb and echo.
Seinfeld reference? Strange how i only remember that episode and the soup nazi one. Oh and the beeping planer one. Also i haven't seen an episode in like 20 years.
@@rexxus666 come on man you have to re watch them not that there is anything wrong with that
The infamous paper dispensers that when full are a tug-of-war to get one scrap at a time... or the whole frigging thing comes at you like you won the jackpot on a one-armed bandit in Reno.
Not to mention the see through ones that show their contents yet keep the tail end just out of reach
@@stevedenis8292 oh, and don't forget to put them really low down, so that to get the tp you have to feel around for it first. Not like people's hands would be unsanitary for any reason while doing that, it should be fine.
Oh, and make sure to lock them in a way that even employees can't figure out. Wouldn't want anybody running away with our top-quality single-ply-cheapest-possible toilet paper...
The subtle little downcast eyes that accompanied "sneekapeek..." then that quick cut away) absolutely had me spitting up my coffee I laughed so hard. Your characterizations have gotten laser sharp!
the guy who came up with the gap in the stalls idea is the same guy that would go to the stall next to you when every other stall is empty
The best bathroom I've ever been to is located in a fancy high end outlet mall by my house. Each bathroom stall is completely covered in a little compartment. There are zero open spaces anywhere so it's soundproof and see proof.
Inside the Gold Coast's gourmet room in Vegas (Cornerstone), the bathroom is a single-person that rivals a luxury home's master bath--complete with a crystal chandalier! Enough space to house a Jacuzzi tub. For a single-person facility, the space has to be around 700 sq. ft.--HUGE. By far the best public bathroom I've ever been in.
@@LyfaLeeZhure_DavidShawn Is that a restaurant? I just recently came back from Vegas but didn't see that.
The Hard Rock restaurant in Atlantic City New Jersey. (before the hotel)
Each stall had solid walls of tile and the door was a real door that gave absolute privacy.
I love the passion the "sometimes people drop stinkers" guy has
Me too
i love even more the way the head of the team wrote that down as if it was some profound godspell :P
never has this axiom been more applicable, "the world is run by the people who show up."
I agree about the locks. It's hard to have faith in how well they'll actually work in any given instance.
“Sometimes people drop stinkers!”
Unless it’s a Ryan George sketch, then they’re all great!
I'd like to direct your attention to exhibit A, "what if ghosts stuck around after jumpscares." Kind of a turd, that one. Everyone drops one now and then, even if someone doesn't drop them usually.
@@Ruiluth That video is great, I will fight you... in Wii Sports Boxing with the wrist straps on, because we're not barbarians.
This is the best one I have seen outside of the Pitch sketches. Great ideas and I usually stop half way through. The biggest problem is that Bob Newhart did lots of these first person ever sketches over 50 years ago and they are way better,
As someone who feels like the Colossal Titan looking over the Wall in a stall. I appreciate this
how does it feel to *break the wall*
Ryan please do the first person to skydive:
"I'm going to jump out of this aeroplane with nothing but a bit of material to stop me from dying an awful bloody death!"
"Why, is the aeroplane crashing?"
"No not at all, it would just be fun I decided."
Every skydiver I know: jumping out of airplanes is TIGHT!
And what do you do if the stopping material breakes while you fall to death?
I'll have a second one in my backpack.
That sounds reasonable.
Which is smaller and can't be steered.
@@thenamen935 it'll be fine, I'll just bend my knees and roll on impact!
@@thenamen935 Braking is good. Breaking on the other hand..
@@epiendless1128 and if there is too much breaking it leads to too few braking which on the otherhand leads to more breaking xD
(Thanks for mentioning it, I'll edit my previous comment accordingly)
I especially love the design consideration which turns off lights 45 seconds after entering the windowless room. Very convenient.
The walls of the stalls in bathroom of my college locker room were only like 4.5 feet tall at most, so you didn't even have to be especially tall to be able to stand up and feel awkward about being able to see people even two stalls over (or have some fucking dude look down at you while you were as vulnerable as a turtle laying on its back). Also basically every lock was broken, because of course.
Not to mention that even if the locks actually lock they never line up quite right, you always have to force the door into position.
@@Resters52_official Yeah, I think even on the best of the bunch, you had to pull up on the door to get it into alignment.
The original toilet design was a fully open public pooping bench with absolutely no privacy. After that nation fell it took humanity 1000 years of pooping in holes before we made toilets again and they still have very sus privacy.
I suppose if you have to shower in public you may as well also take a dump in public!
I had no idea about the bathroom situation in the US when I came here from Europe. This video sums up all my thoughts when I encountered US bathrooms.
- What about cleaning after their business?
- We can put single-ply endless toilet paper in the stalls that have no perforation and only rip lengthwise or while you are using them!
- That sounds terrible!
- Not to worry, we design the dispensers to be mostly empty.
- That's not better!
Let’s make it so that they’re like sandpaper, remind people of the old days when toilet paper was a luxury, that’ll bring the nostalgia when you’re taking a dump!
At least we've upgraded from the tersorium!
“How should the sinks be?”
"How about the tap be super short and barelly drop water into the sink bowl?"
"Perfect"
Oh, I hate it when they make it super short, so you're practically rubbing your hands against the sink bowl.
That’s a great measuring estimate. Brings new meaning to the term, ‘just eyeball it.’
" ok so basically it's just disgusting, all who agrees says yeah"
" YEAH"
"Ok good job everyone , see you after lunch "
yes
YEAH
“First guy to have an existential crisis” would be funny
And not because I just had one the other day or anything
"but we'll add walls"
"Ok but what kind of door?"
"No doors and the walls have to be too slim and short to cover anything, basically planks"
I have been in one bathroom in my life that didn't have doors and that was at a campground. What are you talking about?
"This is a weird guy to have on this project." - That's when we needed to kick him out. Now we live with this horrible design because he decided.
Please make “The First Guy to Ever Milk a Cow”
He already did
@@losingatthespeedoflight1832 when?
Link to the video about milk
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"Mmm, it's deLeCTabLe!"
@@SidPil That was about milk, but that wasn't exactly what that person was talking about.
I'm surprised he didn't bring up the trough urinals. "That way it will be impossible to put up any kind of wall and there wont even be the edge of the urinal to block me from peeking. Plus I can get as close to people as I want, much closer than if there were individual urinals". I always thought those were stupid. I haven't seen one in a long time so maybe there has been some progress made.
Last saw them at a ren faire. It seems like its a simple temp bathroom solution that is SLIGHTLY better then portapottys....if just because portapottys are heinous monstrosities.
Being a plumber I can surely tell you that they are completely illegal now and they're not even produced anywhere that I know of.
I was wondering the same thing myself. I've never seen one, but I've heard about them.
@@toddlenard7602 still plenty of them here in the UK, I don't really see the issue with them though
Wrigley Field still has em
Ryan is literally one of the funniest guys on earth!