I cannot tell you how many times I’ve made a noise on the toilet and been so embarrassed that I actually end up waiting for anyone who heard it to leave, just so I can stay anonymous

I don’t think there will be anyone who objects to this. There is nothing in a bathroom worth listening to. Nobody socializes in a bathroom. It’s as quiet as a library, and any bodily noise completely gives you away

Please just add background music to bathrooms. Even with quiet background music, you could at least strategically defecate to the tempo to make it sound like it’s part of the song

I hate public bathrooms, please make them bearable

  • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    16 hours ago

    When I go to the bathroom I expect a moment of peace (outside of expected ambient noises) and having a soundtrack to my piss is not my idea of that but to each their own.

    If anyone has a problem with other humans making toilet noises in a toilet there’s something wrong with that person.

    • insanemantis@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Guy who lives in a weird town where every single hotel/apartment wall is thin enough to hear people have sex: We should really have thicker walls so no one can hear me or others have intimacy

      You if you lived there:

      If anyone has a problem with other humans making bed noises in a bedroom there’s something wrong with that person

      That’s how it sounds

      • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        14 hours ago

        I was actually making the comment in defense of/intending to reassure you lol but I can see how it came across otherwise, and I should have phrased it better.

        Also: thicker walls do not make extra noise the way music does? As an autistic person who is highly sensitive to noise overload I don’t see how that would be a reasonable equivalent.

        Bathroom stall walls should be thicker/go all the way to the floor (if you’re also in the US - we’re frickin uncivilized), and with that I could fully agree :) /gen /pos

        • insanemantis@lemmy.worldOP
          3·
          13 hours ago

          Actually I like your thicker stall wall idea better, because I’m also autistic! I don’t have sensitivity to music, but car horns and alarms genuinely make my shoulders touch my neck at lightning speed. Being only medium far away from fireworks is the worst too, I fucking hate fireworks

          I don’t even want bathroom stalls, I just want separate toilet rooms. Like, just make them out of bricks and add real doors

          • Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            Glad we’ve found common ground! The separate rooms idea is even better, since it would help with smell issues too.

            • insanemantis@lemmy.worldOP
              2·
              7 hours ago

              Yeah, like I said I just hate public bathrooms. My first idea is just a more real world-friendly version of what is both your idea and mine