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> Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the closing and locking functions, but not the opening and unlocking functions: it avoids a Denial of Servi
by ajsnigrutin 3y ago
> Of course, there is a reason for the separation of the closing and locking functions, but not the opening and unlocking functions: it avoids a Denial of Service attack where someone can just press “close” and then jump out before the door closes. If the interior “close” button automatically locked the door, this would result in the toilet becoming permanently inaccessible.
This was done in my elementary school (~7-15yo) "back in my times", with analog doors with hand-turned locks. Those door locks usually had a 'screw-like' interface on the outside (similar to this: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51KhCg9ZDFL.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51KhCg9ZDFL.jpg ), so one of the kids would "have to pee" 5 minutes before the end of the lesson, go to the toilets and lock all the doors from outside with a screwdriver/swiss army knife so all of the toilet stalls would seem occupied.
- Metacelsus 3y agoIn elementary school I would lock the stall from inside, and then climb over the top :)
- grishka 3y agoYou guys had stalls with doors and locks in your school toilets? Fancy.
- Loughla 3y agoWe had dividers that went to your chest height and no doors. Like a prison. This was to eliminate smoking in the bathrooms. It did, and nobody used them. We just smoked outside the back of the building.
- ajsnigrutin 3y agoWe had full on stalls with brick/cement walls up to the ceiling (stall sized still, but private), so even the farts were muffled. Communist construction was no joke. Later in college, with some "modernized", capitalist toilets, we got an "open room", thin wooden "walls" that left the botton 20 centimeters open and left a gap on top. In the old part of the buildings, we still had proper stalls, some even with a small sink inside the stall.
- brnt 3y agoI could never do number two in those board separated toilets. This was primary school, fortunately my high school had proper toilets.
- owl57 3y ago> We just smoked outside the back of the building. I don't care if someone smokes, as long as I don't have to inhale the smoke. A lot of campaigns against smoking in public places, from school until today, made life unpleasant and dangerous for people like me: smoke filled the few remaining non-enforced places, from bathrooms to elevators to airport exits. Turns out there's correlation between "smoking ban not enforced" and "I can't avoid going there". Whenever they instead end up with smokers gathering in the corner of the street I can just go around: that's great, hope that no one disturbs smoking in that corner as long as possible!
- fennecbutt 3y agoActually, the modern thinking is that "anybody smoking is bad for all of us because it puts unnecessary pressure on the healthcare system". Same thing with drinking and other harmful things. Well that is for countries that have public healthcare that is.
- razakel 3y agoAt least in the UK, taxation on tobacco more than covers the cost of smoking-related illnesses.
- averageRoyalty 3y agoThe same in Australia, but the line keeps getting hoisted out (as the tax keeps going up, roughly $2 per cigarette currently).
- marssaxman 3y agoThat makes a disturbingly good argument against public healthcare systems, which is awkward.
- fennecbutt 3y agoSure, you keep your system, I'll keep mine. Gladly.
- whyisthesheep 3y agono doors is crazy
- grishka 3y agoNo toilet paper or soap either. You only used those bathrooms if the alternative was shitting your pants, and even then it was a good idea to do it during class to minimize the likelihood of someone walking in on you.
- roydivision 3y agoYou guys had toilets in your schools? Fancy.
- retrochameleon 3y agoI kid you not I went to a bar once, and the toilet was just directly across from the door in plain view of most of the bar when someone opened the door, and it also had urinals. It was not a door that locked.