Strange Bathrooms

World Cup Bathrooms

2011-03-06T09:19:00.001-08:00

These awesome pictures are from Allan and were taken in Germany right after the world cup. In his words: "They had the best toilet accessory that I had ever experienced. Gave everyone a taste of World cup glory while vacating the system of german beer."

With a little bit of practice (actually lets be honest, us men have had a lifetime of practice)....GOOOOOOAAALLLL!!!!!

Art in Bathrooms

2011-03-02T05:04:00.000-08:00

We are all used to seeing contemporary art in bathrooms. Usually its of the style "Call 555-555-5555 for a good time" or "Alex was here," but still. Well, Smith College has taken a different approach with the bathrooms in their art museum.

Raises one good question though....Where are people supposed to put their graffiti?

(Thanks Seguin!)

Subversive Disneyland

2011-02-21T19:13:00.000-08:00

Larry sent me an email about a bathroom-related exhibit at a museum in Tanzania. (The exhibit is "Locus Focus" and the museum "The Museum of Old and New Art.) Ok. Seems innocent enough.

The exhibit is actually a toilet inside a row of cubicles and open to the public. A system of binoculars and mirrors enables you to get an up close and personal look at your anus while you defecate.

Now, two questions....Is this Old or New Art? and What the hell kind of a museum is this?

I found an article in "The Art Newspaper" about the museum. Here is the headline:

A “subversive Disneyland” at the end of the world: The gambling millionaire David Walsh is opening a museum in Tasmania that will be unlike anything you’ve ever seen before.

Here is a link: [WARNING: There is a graphic image in the article. Do not open at work!]

Buddy System

2011-02-15T15:52:00.001-08:00

Remember kids....when you go out into the real world, its always important to have a buddy. You should stay with your buddy at all times.

Even when you go to the bathroom.

(Thanks Price!)

Protest Toilet

2011-02-07T12:32:00.001-08:00

Headling from the New York Times: "Police: Suspicious Toilet With Phone Not Dangerous."

What can I say....I had to know more.

Someone left this outside of a courthouse in Maryland with a bunch of protest propaganda

IS IT SAFE????

Apparently.

Disciplined Bathrooms

2011-01-31T15:05:00.001-08:00

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Inspirational Toilets

2011-01-29T21:44:00.000-08:00

From Youtube:

I think this video speaks for itself.

More Weird Signs

2011-01-24T23:11:00.000-08:00

Using a toilet is a lot like beerpong: There are always funky house rules. Here are a few:

I guess this is one way to stop somebody from hogging the stall. "Door will open automatically." They sure aren't messing around.

Or, if someone is in that stall you can just yell!

Speaking of yelling...

Barbie Doll

2011-01-19T22:58:00.000-08:00

Wow can't believe I missed this product. Where was I in 2007?

Doggy Poo

2011-01-16T21:37:00.000-08:00

There is a Korean animated movie called "Doggy Poo."

This is the movie poster. Its a story about an existential piece of dog shit, an innocent new arrival to this cruel cruel world.

The weirdest part is that I have actually seen this film. It used to be on Netflix instant streaming. Junior year was fun.

Here is one of the reviews from Netflix:

This movie is sappy and ridiculous. Theres a lot of crying. And I think the English dubbing must have been done by the Teletubbies. What am I bringing away from this film? Apparently dog dookie is pretty stupid, doesnt like being alone, cries a lot, perhaps has low self esteem. Dear Dookie, you can not be as pretty as a star or a dandelion. No, not yours. Way to go Koreans. Thank you for taking 30 minutes of my life.

Non Bathroom Related Weirdness

2011-01-11T23:45:00.000-08:00

I check the stats every once in a while to see if anyone actually reads these posts. These are the stats for "today," broken down by country.

Did New Jersey secede from the union? Or did we kick them out? Please say we kicked them out.

PS: About half of those hits are just google images indexing my site from its various country affiliate websites. I like it because it makes me feel popular and internationally relevant.

Oceanside Transit Center

2011-01-08T21:43:00.001-08:00

I did a strange little event today....basically a microbrewery crawl using a light rail system that I didn't even know existed in North County San Diego. The places we were going were about a mile away from the stops so there was a little bit of exercise involved as well. The journey started and ended at the Oceanside Transit Center. Here is a little peek of the bathroom there:

I told my buddy that there weren't any doors. He replied with "Oh, you mean the doors are broken/missing?" There never were doors here. And just in case you get any subversive ideas

Yeah, they thought of that too.

Out Of Town

2011-01-06T00:03:00.000-08:00

So I spent my New Years in Connecticut meeting up with some of my suitemates from last year. Carter brought me the following gift from japan:

It had a bunch of absurd text on it in japanese, giving this little anthropomorphized turd a whole backstory and everything. Here is a picture of him out of the box

Can you guess why this product exists? Here it is in action

Yes, that's right: It's soap.

Portable Toilets

2010-12-28T14:27:00.000-08:00

You know my issue with Port-a-potties? They are just too damn impersonal. Now a Port-a-potty with an attendant: That's more my style. Here is the solution:

Coming soon to a concert/festival near you.

YouTube

2010-12-24T22:35:00.001-08:00

Don't ask me how, but I came across this video on YouTube:

Keep in mind that you have to pay $2 for this app.

Gulliver's Travels

2010-12-21T14:35:00.000-08:00

I don't know the details of this story, but at the same time I emphatize with Gulliver. You see, I went walking with my mom the other day and had a similar experience. Here is my proof:

This world was just like ours, only smaller, as you can see by the tiny toilet I am standing next to. Unfortunately, we had to leave, and fast. I may have accidentally stepped on one of my hosts.

Scared the Shit Out of Me

2010-12-19T16:56:00.000-08:00

Someone in Japan found a way to make their customers use the restroom in a timely, efficient manner.

Pretty hysterical stuff.

[Thanks Rachele!]

Jungle Jim's Restrooms

2010-12-15T12:52:00.000-08:00

I thought this was pretty creative. Check out this store's bathrooms:

Pretty gross, eh?

Well here is what's inside those port-o-potties:

The Worst Bathroom In New York City

2010-12-09T22:02:00.001-08:00

New York Times article caught my eye today: It was written by a journalist that has been covering the worst of New York's housing. This is her description of the worst bathroom she came across.

When he opened the door to his apartment, I was hit with an overpowering smell of moisture. Justin said that a pipe had burst last January, gushing enough scalding water to turn the bathroom into a mold-filled, 24-hour steam room. Water damage had wrecked the floors. They were so rotted that you could dip your arm up to your elbow into the floorboard below the toilet. Meanwhile, huge chunks of the ceiling were missing, and you could see into the rafters above...

That bathroom was the worst I had ever seen in New York. It looked like a hurricane had hit it (I’m from Florida; I’ve seen a water-logged bathroom after a hurricane, and Lorillard was just as bad)...

A few days later, I pulled the building’s violation report. The landlord was supposed to have certified that the bathroom was fixed two days before, but hadn’t bothered. (It would take four more months, until April of this year — April! — for the city to complete the repairs.) I also took a look at its 311 records. Two hundred and sixty two calls had been made by Lorillard residents that year. Daniel, the new father, did in fact register 12 311 complaints on a single day in May; 11 on a single day in June. Justin and his mother, on the other hand, had made only one 311 call — back in January, to report the broken sink pipes and the collapsing ceiling in the bathroom.

I don't think I need a picture of this one.

Here is the full article

Medieval Business

2010-12-08T18:58:00.000-08:00

On my recent trip to Europe, my parents and I went to a medieval reenactment near where we were staying in southern France. Here are a few photos:

Ever wondered where a knight goes to the bathroom? Brooks found the answer in Lisbon:

Of course! They just pee on the side of the castle!

Camouflage

2010-12-08T00:04:00.000-08:00

We've already seen how to camouflage a toilet. Just replace it with a metal hole in the ground! This, however, is an example of a camouflaged sink. If you look closely at the following photo you can see the camo-sink in its natural habitat (a Thai restaurant in New York):

Seguin writes, "5 out of 8 people using this bathroom could not find the sink...kind of defeats the purpose when no one in your restaurant can wash their hands."

Haha, gross.....

(The water comes out of one of the bamboo stalks that has a utility handle on top.)

PS: Look at the second photo, with seemingly two toilets. It took me about 10 seconds to realize that the background was simply a mirror and not a view into the neighboring stall.

Fortune Cookie

2010-11-25T14:15:00.001-08:00

I am not familiar with the ways of feng shui, but I suspect that the author of this letter is on to something.

No Photo :(

2010-11-21T00:14:00.001-08:00

I have a funny story to relate, but unfortunately there is no photo to go along with it.

My parents were in Chula Vista checking out the proposed site of a new marina before they demolish everything. My mom goes to the (public) bathroom and finds a room full of stalls, and no doors. (I guess this is so that people don't do drugs in the stall? I don't know.) At the far end of the row of stalls there was a woman with her five year old son. He was going to the bathroom, and narrating the process to his mother.

"Mommy, I'm trying to go poop."
"Mommy, it burns!"

Upon hearing this, another woman asks, "Did he eat a spicy burrito? That's what happens when you eat a spicy burrito."

That is exactly what he had done.

Yummmmy!

Toilet Signage

2010-11-11T17:01:00.000-08:00

Many people ask me about what inspired me to start this blog. I tell them, "I kept running into crazy bathrooms in Europe and wanted to share." Now that I am back in the states, it is the internet that keeps sending me to absurd bathroom-related content. Here are some weird signs that I found on the internet.

Hey, at least they are upfront about their policies. I am not sure how much 100,000vnd is...would be sort of funny if that were like $1,000. Maybe the sign came from some super exclusive club in Vietnam with egyptian cotton toilet paper and they are just trying to recoup their costs.

This gem comes from Korea. Not sure what the message is..."You are now entering a Voyeur zone?"

100 Year Old Urinals

2010-11-07T16:51:00.000-08:00

A friend just linked me to an article about some 100 year old urinals in a Manhattan bar (thanks Seguin).

Here is a photo:

It is interesting to see that people 100 years ago in New York had nicer bathrooms than some of the gems I have found in present day Europe.

This is the link to the original article.