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Room with a view: Bathroom privacy losing priority
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls (IA) Courier ^
| April 21, 2006
Posted on 04/21/2006 9:28:24 PM PDT by xjcsa
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To: newzjunkey
I painted a bed/bath for a couple of gays in Ohio- no door to the bath but a roll-down steel fire door between the bedroom and the rest of the house.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:24:42 PM PDT
by
fat city
("Journalists are sloppy, lazy and on expense account")
To: xjcsa
Ideas about privacy are more relaxed. But that does not make it a good thing. I would like larger yard space separating me from my neighbors, so don't be telling me that I have less privacy in the bathroom.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:34:52 PM PDT
by
Ruth A.
(we might as well fight in the first ditch as the last)
To: Suzy Quzy
Joel Sanders must have been raised by WOLVES!Thank you. This made me laugh out loud. When we were children and would do something really stupid or crass, my mother would say the same: "Were you raised by WOLVES?!" in exactly that tone of voice.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:48:28 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: Fairview
And I don't want anybody to watch me moving my bowels or performing certain female functions in the bathroom.You mean women actually move bowels?
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:49:48 PM PDT
by
umgud
(12 gauge, the original pepper spray)
To: newzjunkey
there are no doors between the Master bedroom and the Master bath suite, just an archwayI've seen the same thing, but the commode is usually in a separate room with a door. At least it is in new homes here in Sacramento. I guess we're still old-fashioned enough to not inflict our bodily functions on others.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:50:08 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: hsalaw
I guess we're still old-fashioned enough to not inflict our bodily functions on others.
And that is the key to the whole thing for me...isn't half of the reason for doors and walls to show respect for others as well as to retain one's dignity and privacy?
Respect...dignity...things this society is losing. Sigh. Makes sense to me that this appears in the New York Times...I hear that 'news'paper can be found in many bathrooms. And some people even use it for reading, too.
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posted on
04/21/2006 10:57:12 PM PDT
by
LostInBayport
(Massachusetts liberals refuse to admit we exist...we are the 37% of MA voters who voted for GWB)
To: Lovergirl
"LOL!! I agree. I wish I had one more bathroom with no windows and another door that locks. One should say "women only". LOL!"
I took the area in my new house designed for a large "walk around" master bathroom and designed two, matching "his" and "her" bathrooms with pocket doors from each to a separate whirlpool tub room. Everyones happy.
To: SuziQ
There are some bodily functions that should not be viewed by anyone else.There are some bodily functions that should not be viewed smelled by anyone else.
To: xjcsa
Sounds like a kinky hangup to me. "Hey everybody, let's watch Bob take a dump!"...or..."I love to show off my body while taking a crap. I want everyone to see my turds and the expression on my face and watch while I wipe my butt."...
No wonder the Islam-o-nazis want to blow us up.
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posted on
04/21/2006 11:29:52 PM PDT
by
Dallas59
To: xjcsa
Hah, this guy never served in the old military, where one SS&S in front of 40 other guys in the platoon barracks.
To: xjcsa
You know, I was about to pass this on, er... pass this one up, but I just couldn't let it go without comment. If this isn't the best example I've seen in a while of what we old timers used to call "Fashion Law" I like to hear it.
Imagine. Some clown writes about this totally non-existant "trend" as though it was all a done deal, and, well, just get used to it.
What tripe.
This is plain ridiculous, and presumes so much upon the reader and reveals so much about the writer's stupidity that it sounds like something from the 13th century.
If you're thinking of buying stock in translucent bathroom materials, stick with gypsum drywall and stink pipes, 'cause they are going to be around for a long time yet to come.
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posted on
04/22/2006 1:10:40 AM PDT
by
Prospero
(Ad Astra!)
To: umgud
You mean women actually move bowels?Yes, but when we do the product is peach-pink, fluffy, and smells like a hybrid tea rose. And we don't make gross noises, either.
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posted on
04/22/2006 7:03:21 AM PDT
by
Fairview
To: newzjunkey
I am NOT talking about open bathrooms....I am talking about open and exposed TOILETS....HUGE difference. This article is about exposed TOILETS!!!
To: Suzy Quzy
Well, the toilet wasn't in full view from the main bedroom it was in a separate area OUT of view...but no door, actually, it had a door, but I had French doors...so it might as well have had no doors. Any there really couples who care if their spouses see them on the toilet?
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posted on
04/22/2006 7:50:18 AM PDT
by
Hildy
(Producing a penny now costs the government more than 1.4 cents)
To: Hildy
High end homes often have bathroom suites off the master with no doors between. However, most feature private doored toilets, but leave the sink and bathing features open. I think most of the freepers on this thread are imagining that the toilets are also open to bedroom view, which would be unusual.
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:19:23 PM PDT
by
Katya
(Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
To: xjcsa
...an architect and professor of architecture at Yale...Figgers.
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:20:13 PM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: xjcsa
Every 14-year-old boy who reads this is going to panic.
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posted on
04/22/2006 3:21:16 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
To: Katya
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posted on
04/22/2006 5:21:39 PM PDT
by
Hildy
(Producing a penny now costs the government more than 1.4 cents)
To: xjcsa
We have a blasted window (46"x46") right over the bathtub ... grrr ... we have it covered in window fog stuff, a bamboo shade and a black curtain.
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posted on
04/22/2006 5:24:11 PM PDT
by
zeaal
(SPREAD TRUTH!)
To: xjcsa
I don't want bathroom privacy because I'm ashamed of my body any more than I want financial privacy because I'm ashamed of my bank balance. It's simply noone's business but mine. Why are people unable to grasp this concept?
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posted on
04/24/2006 7:02:21 PM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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